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T.D. Jakes Sermons Positioning Yourself to Prosper Part 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: If you consume the tithe, the Bible says, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says you are cursed with the curse. It doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: that God curses you, it just says you are cursed
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  Speaker 1: with the curse. God is not in the business of
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  Speaker 1: cursing his people, but you can curse yourself by your behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our King. I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to share this word with you. We're talking a
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  Speaker 1: thousand generations. That series is impacting lives. As you begin
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  Speaker 1: to understand how you have to position yourself and move
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  Speaker 1: into your destiny and purpose, I believe that God is
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  Speaker 1: going to bless you. You have to be positioned to prosper.
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  Speaker 1: Right relationships, right place, right time, right attitude toward God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just wish your way into things. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just hope, Lord, I shall do. No, no. They're the
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  Speaker 1: right way to plant a garden. They're the right way
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  Speaker 1: to reap a harvest. They're the right way to pick
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  Speaker 1: an apple from a tree. They're the right way to
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  Speaker 1: step into your destiny and purpose. There's a strategy to longevity.
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  Speaker 1: Plan to be a blessing to your family for years
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  Speaker 1: to come so that your great-great-grandchildren will look up and say,
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  Speaker 1: thank God.
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  Speaker 2: I was born in this lineage. Get ready, get ready,
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  Speaker 2: get ready. I'm going to show you how.
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  Speaker 1: You can have two people tithing right beside each other
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  Speaker 1: and get a different response because one person is trying
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  Speaker 1: it because they want to see if this will help
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  Speaker 1: me get the job that I'm being interviewed for next Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: And the other person is saying, I just love you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: with the job, without the job. I just thank you
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  Speaker 1: because all I have belongs to you and I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: to bring this to you. Both of them are waving
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  Speaker 1: the envelope together. Both of them are shouting together. They're
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  Speaker 1: doing the same thing. But they're doing it for different reasons. Footnote,
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  Speaker 1: if you decide to teach this and use this, this
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  Speaker 1: is what the judgment seat of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Is about for the church.
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  Speaker 1: For the judgment seat of Christ is not to weigh
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  Speaker 1: the deeds you did as much as it is to
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  Speaker 1: weigh the reasons you did them. The judgment seat of
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  Speaker 1: Christ is not about whether you're saved or not, but
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  Speaker 1: it's where God gets down into the motives. He said
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  Speaker 1: on this foundation, no greater foundation has any man laid
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  Speaker 1: than that was laid by Jesus Christ. And upon this foundation,
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  Speaker 1: some built wood, stubble and hay, some built gold and silver.
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  Speaker 1: The difference is some of them did the right things,
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  Speaker 1: but they did them for the wrong reasons. And God
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  Speaker 1: who searches the heart, God who searches the heart and
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  Speaker 1: is not impressed by the action, but the attitude behind it,
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  Speaker 1: then evaluates you and blesses or curses you, not by
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  Speaker 1: the size of the gift, but by the size of
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  Speaker 1: the heart that gave the gift. Are you following what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? So one of the hard questions
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  Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself, and don't take the easy way.
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  Speaker 2: And get simpler answers, are you a luster? Or a lover.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that God wants us to live in a
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  Speaker 1: place of love. In a state of love. It's more
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  Speaker 1: than just a geographical location. But in a state of
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  Speaker 1: love and well-being. I believe that because when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the Garden of Eden, you look at God's plan
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  Speaker 1: for man. God's plan for man is revealed in the
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  Speaker 1: Garden of Eden. God's plan for man is for you
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  Speaker 1: to walk in a state of perpetual blessings. God set
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  Speaker 1: up this system. God set up.
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  Speaker 2: The Garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 1: The devil didn't have anything to do with it. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't greedy preachers that did it. It wasn't any carnal
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  Speaker 1: manipulation of men. God set up the Garden of Eden
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  Speaker 1: so that you would have a picture of what he
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  Speaker 1: would do in your life if you would obey his word.
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  Speaker 1: And in Eden, they had all of their needs met
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  Speaker 1: without sweat.
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  Speaker 2: All of their needs met without sweat.
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  Speaker 1: If every blessing you get is a blessing you work for,
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  Speaker 1: you're still not hearing what I'm saying. God wants to
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  Speaker 1: bring you into a place where blessings come to you.
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  Speaker 2: It just grows up all around you.
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  Speaker 1: You're just dwelling in a place of love. Abundance comes
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  Speaker 1: to you and you're not just eating what you work for.
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  Speaker 1: You are getting blessings from unexpected places. God just touches people.
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  Speaker 1: God just opens doors. You've got passive and aggressive streams
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  Speaker 1: of income. They're coming from all directions. While Adam was asleep,
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  Speaker 1: fresh vegetation, fresh crops, fresh fruit was growing up all
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  Speaker 1: around him so that when he woke up in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: he was never too far from what he was hungry for.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about flamboyance. It's not about excess. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about opulence. It's about God supplying all of your
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  Speaker 1: needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want my children to be in one. How
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  Speaker 1: many people got children in here? Do you know how
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  Speaker 1: it bothers you when your children have a need or
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  Speaker 1: they're in trouble? I mean really in trouble. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about an extra Nintendo. But I mean when there's
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  Speaker 1: something real. Don't you think that it bothers the heart
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  Speaker 1: of God when you don't have your needs met? God
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  Speaker 1: wants you to dwell in a perpetual state of Eden
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  Speaker 1: because he designed, God designed Adam's environment. What environment has
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  Speaker 1: God designed for you that you're not living in? Now
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  Speaker 1: in order to receive this, you have to understand, you
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  Speaker 1: need a certain spirit. Now this might challenge you a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but just flow with me. Flow with me.
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  Speaker 1: You need a certain spirit of entitlement. Adam had to
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  Speaker 1: think himself special. In order to dwell in this special place.
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  Speaker 1: He had to feel like he had a right to
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  Speaker 1: be there. He couldn't be walking around, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I go.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even need all this, but since the.
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  Speaker 1: Lord did give it, I guess I go on in.
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  Speaker 1: He had to feel like this is where I live.
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  Speaker 1: The fish live in the water. The birds live in
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  Speaker 1: the air. This is where I live. I dwell in
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  Speaker 1: the place of abundance.
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  Speaker 2: Glory to God. I said, glory to God. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: See, if you don't go in head first, we got
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of stinking thinking so that you're ready
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  Speaker 1: to receive what God has for you. And people who
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're supposed to have it either don't get
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  Speaker 1: it or they sabotage it when they.
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  Speaker 2: Do get it.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be surprised at the people who sabotage their finances
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  Speaker 1: through excesses, through gluttony, through spending too much. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same way people sabotage their marriages. Some people are not
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  Speaker 1: satisfied until they've driven you away. Now, if you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling the truth, hold your hand up. Everything started
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  Speaker 1: out fine. You didn't even have nothing to argue about.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't satisfied until.
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  Speaker 2: They pushed you away.
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  Speaker 1: Some people sabotage themselves because they don't give themselves permission
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  Speaker 1: to receive what God.
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  Speaker 2: Is bringing into their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that gets into some deep stuff and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to go that deep in that stuff. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the way we were raised, the way we were taught,
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  Speaker 1: early things that happened in our childhood, that we have
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  Speaker 1: a predisposition to misery. And we're not satisfied until everybody's
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  Speaker 1: fighting in the house. We're not satisfied until there's conflict
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  Speaker 1: because that is your normal. And so you need to
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  Speaker 1: be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Lay your
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  Speaker 1: hands on your head and say, give me a new mind.
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  Speaker 2: God is a lover.
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  Speaker 1: He said, now the earth is the lowest of fullness.
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  Speaker 1: They're of the world and they that dwell therein. And Adam,
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  Speaker 1: you're free to move all over the world. But this
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  Speaker 1: special little garden, I fixed it just for you. And
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  Speaker 1: every tree around there, you can have whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: in the garden. Just eat as much as you want.
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  Speaker 1: No limitations. All your needs are met. Adam didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to go to work. Adam didn't have to labor. Because
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  Speaker 1: when God really begins to bless you, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't work. But many of the blessings come without sweat.
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  Speaker 1: There are some folk in here right now. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that you don't work every day, but some of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest blessings that you have experienced in your life are
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  Speaker 1: things that you didn't deserve.
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  Speaker 2: You don't earn. When Pastor Twiggs was.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about what we owe God, I said, if I
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  Speaker 1: gave God everything I owe him, I'd go home naked.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I wouldn't have a house. I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: give him a house. Everything I own belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things that God did for me. I
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  Speaker 1: know God did it. Can I give you a little testimony?
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  Speaker 1: The house I own right now, the house I bought
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  Speaker 1: right now, we closed on the house, we bought the house,
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  Speaker 1: we moved in the house. 60 days, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was about 60 days after we moved in the house,
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  Speaker 1: we found out that they found gas up under the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're going to have to pay all the
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  Speaker 1: homeowners checks based on whoever owns the most land gets
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  Speaker 1: the biggest check. I didn't know anything about it. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea about it. I just happened to be
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  Speaker 1: attracted to that piece of property. If the people who
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  Speaker 1: were selling the house had known 60 days earlier that
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  Speaker 1: there was gas up under that land, they would have
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  Speaker 1: never sold me the house or they wouldn't have given
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  Speaker 1: me the mineral rights, but I own the house and
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  Speaker 1: the rights to everything up under it.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, hey, hey, it's birthday. I'm mad. I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, God will open up the windows of
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  Speaker 1: heaven and pour you out blessings. You won't have room
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  Speaker 1: enough to receive. Tell somebody, say, no sweat. Didn't work
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  Speaker 1: for it. Didn't earn it. Can't even take credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say, oh, you know that Jakes is a
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  Speaker 1: smart businessman. Jakes didn't even know it. Jason just stumbled
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  Speaker 1: up into it. When you walk in divine favor with God, you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Just stumble up into stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even know how you got there yourself. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, it is the father's good pleasure to give
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  Speaker 1: unto you the kingdom. And if you just line up
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  Speaker 1: with his word, you'll start stumbling in the supernatural blessings.
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  Speaker 2: Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 2 and 9, when you have it, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now God is setting up the system. He's explaining the system,
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  Speaker 1: how the blessings are going to work. And out of
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  Speaker 1: the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree
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  Speaker 1: that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.
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  Speaker 1: The tree of life also is in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the garden, where we get eternal life. And the tree
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge of good and evil. Verse 17. But of
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  Speaker 1: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
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  Speaker 1: shall not eat of it. For in the day that
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  Speaker 1: thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. If you read
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  Speaker 1: from verse 9 down to verse 17, you'll find out
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  Speaker 1: God said you can eat anything else you want. But
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  Speaker 1: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God
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  Speaker 1: says don't eat that. That's divine portions. God says, I
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  Speaker 1: will never curse you. But if you eat of this tree,
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  Speaker 1: you will curse yourself. Because eating of this tree will
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  Speaker 1: push you out of the place of blessings. That's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good deal. You can eat all the other trees
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  Speaker 1: you want. Except this one tree. This one tree is
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  Speaker 1: your discipline over this one tree is how you show
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  Speaker 1: your love to me. Divine portion. You can have anything else,
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  Speaker 1: but the day you eat of this tree, thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: surely die. Doesn't this all sound kind of familiar? The tree,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing that God is saying about tithes. If
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  Speaker 1: you eat the tithe, If you consume the tithe, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says you are cursed with a curse. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: say that God curses you. It just says you are
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  Speaker 1: cursed with a curse. God is not in the business
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  Speaker 1: of cursing his people, but you can curse yourself.
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  Speaker 2: By your behavior. Doctrine of Balaam.
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  Speaker 1: The doctrine of Balaam teaches that your actions can bring
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  Speaker 1: curses on you that you shouldn't even have because you
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  Speaker 1: violated a principle of divine portion. God says, I will
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  Speaker 1: stay in business with you so long as you give
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  Speaker 1: me my part.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Tithing is a system of circulation. Seed to the sower.
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  Speaker 1: He gives seed to the sower. He gives seed to
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  Speaker 1: the sower.
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  Speaker 2: It's reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: It's God playing catch ball with you. You toss it
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  Speaker 1: to him. He tosses it back to you. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that the ball he tosses back is always bigger than the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball you toss.
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  Speaker 3: God longs not just to provide all you need, but
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  Speaker 3: for your whole family and for 1,000 generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: You will live and die and not spend up all
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that God's going to release upon you and
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  Speaker 1: upon your children and upon your children's children.
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  Speaker 3: He supplied more than enough in the Garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 3: And that is still God's desire for you today. For
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  Speaker 3: helping us reach others with your best gift of any size,
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  Speaker 3: you will receive a Beyond the Blessing DVD. Just visit
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  Speaker 3: our website or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 1: Adam had to think himself special. He had to feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is where I live. I dwell in the
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  Speaker 1: place of abundance.
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  Speaker 3: When your gift is $ 75 or more, we will include
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Jake's many book, 1,000 Generations of Blessing. However, when
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  Speaker 3: your gift is $ 150 or more, we will also add
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Jake's four message DVD, 1,000 Generations of Blessing, along
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  Speaker 3: with an inspirational coaster set. Let us help change the
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  Speaker 3: direction of your legacy for 1,000 generations.
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  Speaker 1: I got a literary agent. A literary agent that sells
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  Speaker 1: my book rights. And the literary agent gets a certain
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  Speaker 1: percent out of my book rights.
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  Speaker 2: And you negotiate that percent. Do I pay the literary agent? Yes. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because they have the ability to get the deal I want.
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  Speaker 2: And if I don't think that the literary.
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  Speaker 1: Agent is good at what they do, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: signed the contract.
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  Speaker 2: I am more than happy to.
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  Speaker 1: Give you your 10 or your 15 or your 20%
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is because you are able to take
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  Speaker 1: me into offices that I couldn't get in myself. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to have your 10% because now I
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  Speaker 1: get the 90 that I wouldn't have got without you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: true enough, I can write the book without you, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: I can knock on doors without you, but you can
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  Speaker 1: take me places that I couldn't go on my own,
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  Speaker 1: and it is worth it to me to retain your
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  Speaker 1: services and give you your cut because you can take
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  Speaker 1: me places.
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  Speaker 2: That I couldn't go on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you think the literary agent is something, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you about your God who can take you
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  Speaker 1: in places that you couldn't go yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And he only wants.
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  Speaker 1: God says, I'll do it for a dime. I'll bless
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  Speaker 1: you for a dime. I'll bless you for a dime. Adam,
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  Speaker 1: you can have the whole garden, but of the tree
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  Speaker 1: of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  Speaker 2: You shall not eat. For the day you eat of
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  Speaker 2: that tree, you shall surely die.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing the devil does when he comes in
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  Speaker 1: the garden, the very first thing he seduces them to do,
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  Speaker 1: if not any kind of crazy incest, he doesn't worry
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  Speaker 1: about bestiality. He's not trying to hook Eve up with
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  Speaker 1: some horse out in the field. He is trying to
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  Speaker 1: get her to eat God's portion. Because the devil knows
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  Speaker 1: that the day they eat the portion, they have to
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  Speaker 1: leave the place. And he wants the place. God said it.
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  Speaker 1: Look Adam, you can have anything but this. Why did God,
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  Speaker 1: is it something about the tree of the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: good and evil that God particularly wants for himself? No,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean he created it, he created another one.
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  Speaker 1: Does God need your 10%? Absolutely not. He had the 100%.
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  Speaker 1: What does God get out of the 10%? He gets
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  Speaker 1: your love. God must want to bring me into a place,
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  Speaker 1: an Eden-like environment of supernatural blessing where my latter days
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  Speaker 1: should be greater than my former days. Somebody say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help me not to curse myself. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. Half of the messes, more than half,
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  Speaker 1: of the messes that I got into in my life,
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  Speaker 1: I brought it on my full self with the dumb
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  Speaker 1: things and the dumb choices I made. I'm not worried
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  Speaker 1: about the enemy out there. I'm worried about the.
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  Speaker 2: Enemy in me.
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  Speaker 1: If you can relate to that, say amen. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go deeper. Can we go a little bit deeper? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is good.
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  Speaker 2: This is good. This is good. This is good.
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  Speaker 1: See, tithing is not an emotional explosion where somebody preaches
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  Speaker 1: you into a fit and you forget about everything and
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  Speaker 1: run up there and dump out your pocketbook. You might
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  Speaker 1: do that for a minute, but you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do that every week. Tithing is a system of circulation.
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  Speaker 1: Seed to the sower. He gives seed to the sower.
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  Speaker 1: He gives seed to the sower. It's reciprocity. It's God
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  Speaker 1: playing catch ball with you. You toss it to him.
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  Speaker 1: He tosses it back to you. It's just that the
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  Speaker 1: ball he tosses back is always bigger than the ball
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  Speaker 1: you toss back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to bring you.
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  Speaker 1: Into a cycle and a system of supernatural blessings instead
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  Speaker 1: of getting favor on January and losing it until August.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to bring you into a cycle of blessings
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  Speaker 1: where God sustains you because you are faithful even as
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  Speaker 1: he is faithful. Why do you take time to teach
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  Speaker 1: on this? Because a lot of you have been taught
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  Speaker 1: that A lot of you haven't been taught. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been taught right. Most preachers, when they teach
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  Speaker 1: about tithing, they fuss.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: I just hate that because I'm not an idiot. Don't
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  Speaker 1: yell at me. Don't fuss at me. Explain it to me.
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  Speaker 1: Make it make sense to me. Teach me. Teach me
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll make a decision.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be, y'all ain't coming up in here.
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  Speaker 1: Then a lot of you come from churches, tithing, you
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  Speaker 1: pay dues. How many folks know what about church dues?
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  Speaker 1: You got the little box with the cards in it
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  Speaker 1: when you join the church?
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  Speaker 2: Dues are not in here. Tabs are all over the book.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get into some stuff. Is this good?
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  Speaker 2: Is this good?
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  Speaker 1: When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, food,
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  Speaker 1: good for food, the lust of the flesh, and that
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  Speaker 1: it was pleasant to the eyes, oh, you're with me,
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the eye, and a tree to be
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  Speaker 1: desired to make one wise, the pride of life. The
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  Speaker 1: lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and
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  Speaker 1: the pride.
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  Speaker 2: Of life, the Bible says she ate it.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the only three reasons that'll make you eat
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  Speaker 1: your tithe. I've shown you every reason not to eat it,
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  Speaker 1: and the only three reasons you have left to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and eat it up is the lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the eye, And the pride of life.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why God says, love, this is about to love.
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  Speaker 2: Love, not the world.
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  Speaker 1: This is about love. Neither the things that are of
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  Speaker 1: the world. For he that loveth the world, the love
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  Speaker 1: of the Father is not in him. God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to prove your love by your discipline. How many people
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  Speaker 1: this is making great sense to you? The lust of
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life.
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  Speaker 1: The woman ate the whole thing and messed her up
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to her husband and he did eat.
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  Speaker 2: And he went down. And when he went down, we
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  Speaker 2: all went down with him. And we all went.
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  Speaker 1: Down into a state of sin over eating God's portions.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder in Malachi God is angry and said, you've
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  Speaker 1: robbed me. Even this whole nation, you are cursed with
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  Speaker 1: the curse. God is angry. He's got an attitude. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: God had all kinds of things to be angry about.
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  Speaker 1: If you read through the Bible, they did all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of mess. They were polygamous and bigamous. They got tied
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  Speaker 1: up in all kinds of stuff. And God forgave them.
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  Speaker 1: They were idolaters. And God forgave them over again. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you are cursed with the curse over this time.
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  Speaker 2: Why? Because what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Happen in Malachi is a reflection of what happened in Genesis.
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  Speaker 2: And it may be what's happening in your life.
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  Speaker 1: You may be eating God's portion because of the lust
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the
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  Speaker 1: pride of life, and ignoring how good God has been
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  Speaker 1: to give you everything else. How many of you would
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  Speaker 1: do business with a partner that robbed you? If you
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  Speaker 1: were in business with somebody who robbed you, what would
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  Speaker 1: you do?
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  Speaker 2: Get out. You might be fending for.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself because God doesn't want to do business with you
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  Speaker 1: because he can't trust you with his part. I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to kill you, Joy. I don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I see blessings coming down from every direction.
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  Speaker 2: I do see them, but are you going to get them? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've got more for you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: God longs not just to provide all you need, but
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  Speaker 3: for your whole family and for 1,000 generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: You will live and die and not spend up all
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that God's going to release upon you and
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  Speaker 1: upon your children and upon your children's children.
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  Speaker 3: He supplied more than enough in the Garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 3: And that is still God's desire for you today. For
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  Speaker 1: Adam had to think himself special. He had to feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is where I live. I dwell in the
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  Speaker 1: place of abundance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out of time.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to stop here. This is a passionate subject
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  Speaker 1: that I see so many people liking. They love the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: They praise, they dance, they beat the world, shout and
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  Speaker 1: they sing and all of that, but can't pay the bills.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be positioned to prosper. There is a mentality,
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  Speaker 1: a discipline, a structure. God can't keep giving more and
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  Speaker 1: more into dysfunction. There's some things that have to be functional.
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  Speaker 1: And once they're functional, he can open up the windows
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  Speaker 1: of heaven and pour you out a blessing. You won't
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  Speaker 1: have room enough to receive. I pray that the oil
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  Speaker 1: would fall from the head onto the beard, onto the skirts.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you bring yourself into alignment to be blessed
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  Speaker 1: Let me hear from you. Sow a seed if you can.
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  Speaker 1: Let's touch and agree for a harvest. You cannot have
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  Speaker 1: a harvest if you do not sow a seed.
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  Speaker 2: I love you. I'm praying for you. I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you. Take care.