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The Grace to Make Changes- Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Now go to the book of Genesis chapter number six,
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  Speaker 1: verse one through nine. Yeah. God has given me something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to labor intensely with the text today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to teach a while and then I may preach
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  Speaker 1: a while, but I want to get some foundation in
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  Speaker 1: you and some perspective. In Genesis six and one, this
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  Speaker 1: is a scripture that few touch. They touch around it.
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  Speaker 1: They touch after it. They touch before it. But they
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  Speaker 1: don't like to touch it because it gets into some
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  Speaker 1: difficult concepts. But we're going to pick at it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit today. Genesis 6 and 1. When you have it,
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  Speaker 1: say amen. And it came to pass when men began
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  Speaker 1: to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters
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  Speaker 1: were born unto them that the sons of God saw
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of men that they were fair and they
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  Speaker 1: took them wives of all which they chose and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man
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  Speaker 1: for that he also is flesh yet his days shall
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  Speaker 1: be a hundred and twenty years somebody say a hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty There were giants in the earth in those days.
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  Speaker 1: And also after that, when the sons of God came
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  Speaker 1: in unto the daughters of men and they bear children
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  Speaker 1: to them, the same became mighty men, which were of
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  Speaker 1: old men of renown, interbreeding. And God saw that the
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  Speaker 1: wickedness of man was great in the earth and that
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  Speaker 1: every imagination of the thoughts of his heart Was only
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  Speaker 1: evil continually. And it repented the Lord. That he had
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  Speaker 1: made man on the earth. And it grieved him at
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  Speaker 1: his heart. And the Lord said. I will destroy man.
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  Speaker 1: Whom I have created. From the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Both man and beast and the creeping things and the
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  Speaker 1: fowl there, for it repented me that I made them. But, but, but, Noah,
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  Speaker 1: check this out, Noah found grace. Noah found grace. In
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation.
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  Speaker 1: And Noah walked with God. Noah found grace in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the Lord. Leads me to this text and
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  Speaker 1: to this topic for the text. The grace to make changes.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe as we contemplate the text and the
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  Speaker 1: complexities thereof, that somebody's gonna find grace to make changes.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not living the life you love, you have
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  Speaker 1: the power to change it. If you're not living the
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  Speaker 1: life that God loves for you to have, you have
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  Speaker 1: the power to change it. But you must find grace
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  Speaker 1: to make changes. changes will not be easy let's pray
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  Speaker 1: while we're standing.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of the living God fall fresh on us today
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  Speaker 2: overshadow us with the kind of anointing that changes lives
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  Speaker 2: that establishes peace that consecrates us now open our minds
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  Speaker 2: and our thinking and our intellect for it is with
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  Speaker 2: the mind that we serve the Lord Increase our capacity
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  Speaker 2: to receive the intensity of this text. In Jesus' name
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  Speaker 2: we pray.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who loves him, shout amen. You may be seated
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of God. Let's go to work. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the book of Genesis, the book of beginnings. It
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  Speaker 1: is the soil from which our theology emerges. It is
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  Speaker 1: the rooting system from which we get a peek into
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  Speaker 1: the mind and the characteristics of God. It is here
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  Speaker 1: that we begin to understand how God unveils, unveils his
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  Speaker 1: plan for man. Like a scroll, he unveils it. Like
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  Speaker 1: in a museum, he exposes it, lifting the curtain from it.
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  Speaker 1: The apocalypse to unveil truth. What is hidden in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament is revealed in the new. The Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: has been given to us as a schoolmaster through which
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  Speaker 1: we might extrapolate grace and truth and learn the character
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  Speaker 1: and the nature of God. Are you hearing what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying today? I want to put your Bible in a
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  Speaker 1: different perspective today. The text before us today requires a
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  Speaker 1: bit of context. Text without context is dangerous. The other
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  Speaker 1: day somebody ripped just a 20 second piece of a
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  Speaker 1: message I preached on Father's Day. And the text without
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  Speaker 1: context went viral. Everybody had something to say about it.
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  Speaker 1: So the lesson that we can learn, I didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't because I know what I meant.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I meant and I can stand. You
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  Speaker 1: can't take 20 seconds and tear down 25 years. And
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  Speaker 1: all the women who know I am for you, make
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  Speaker 1: some noise. Make some noise. That's why I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: But the same danger that happens when you take anything,
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  Speaker 1: any text and isolate it and reinterpret it, it's the
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  Speaker 1: same danger we have when we go into the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. We have the propensity to snatch scriptures and
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  Speaker 1: use them as we will. Even church folks will get
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  Speaker 1: into a fight in the family amongst friends and the
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  Speaker 1: marriage and throw scriptures at each other. often out of
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  Speaker 1: context just to win the point. So this particular text,
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  Speaker 1: it is vitally important how this is edited and distributed
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  Speaker 1: because a text out of context loses its relevance and
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  Speaker 1: its truth. I want to hopefully contextualize the times surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the occurrence because I think that's important. What was going
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  Speaker 1: on in the times? What was going on in the age?
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  Speaker 1: What was going on in the era That led God
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  Speaker 1: to such a drastic place of frustration. Because in the
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  Speaker 1: text God is frustrated. He is frustrated. He said I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry I made man. The text literally says I repent
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  Speaker 1: that I made him. Now when you think of repent
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  Speaker 1: it's an anthropomorphic term. It doesn't really mean repentance like
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  Speaker 1: we repent. But it is the closest word that we
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  Speaker 1: would understand repentance. to a sovereign God's frustration over the
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  Speaker 1: predicaments we have come to. Continually wicked. Every thought and
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  Speaker 1: imagination is evil. God, it's disgusting. Yes, ma'am, you got
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  Speaker 1: it right. You got where I'm going even now. As
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  Speaker 1: it was then, so is it now. But you made
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  Speaker 1: me get ahead of myself. Then explain why. See, we
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  Speaker 1: so in sync that we know what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do before we do it because we got it like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I like to preach at the potter's house.
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  Speaker 1: Once we then contextualize the time surrounding the occurrence, then
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  Speaker 1: I want to explain why such drastic occurrences transpired as
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  Speaker 1: an almost complete human genocide. Do you understand what the
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  Speaker 1: flood was to humanity? You're talking about genocide of a race.
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  Speaker 1: This is genocide of the human race. And out of
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  Speaker 1: all of the people that adorned the planet, only eight
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  Speaker 1: souls were saved. And God crushed everything, brought it down
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  Speaker 1: to his lowest common denominator. And if you would visualize
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  Speaker 1: the flood, It would not feel quite so wonderful to
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  Speaker 1: watch people drowning and screaming and babies gurgling up under
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  Speaker 1: the water and entire families crushed up under the judgment
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  Speaker 1: of God, indiscriminate of your screams or your age or
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  Speaker 1: your gender. When he got ready to wipe out, he
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  Speaker 1: totally annihilated everything. The third thing I want to do
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  Speaker 1: is challenge your ideas about fear and faith. I want
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  Speaker 1: to challenge it. I want to challenge your ideas about
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  Speaker 1: fear and faith as if they were always enemies. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to rethink fear and faith cohabitating in your
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  Speaker 1: human experience. Because say whatever you want to say, there's
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  Speaker 1: not a person of faith in this room that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: also have fear. So you can quote scriptures all you want,
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  Speaker 1: you can say whatever you want today, but at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, I want to talk about how
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  Speaker 1: fear and faith can work for you or against you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to eradicate your natural but debilitating need to
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  Speaker 1: fit in rather than stand out. Because so much of
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  Speaker 1: our energy is invested in fitting in. We dress to
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  Speaker 1: fit in. We walk to fit in. We change our
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  Speaker 1: vernacular to fit in. We do whatever we have to
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  Speaker 1: do to fit in. If Noah would have fit in,
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  Speaker 1: he would have drowned in the flood. So if Noah
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  Speaker 1: had been the type of person who was trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep up with the culture, he would have drowned in
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  Speaker 1: the culture. And I am challenging you in this message
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  Speaker 1: today to have the courage to resist the downward tug
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  Speaker 1: of being caught into a vortex of a drowning society.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not willing to stand out, get out
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  Speaker 1: the room right now. Click me off right now. If
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  Speaker 1: fitting in is more important than standing out, turn me
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  Speaker 1: off right now. And stop telling people you're a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus didn't fit in with nobody. He stood out.
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  Speaker 1: He charted his own course and he made his own
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  Speaker 1: way and I'm trying to empower you to have the
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  Speaker 1: courage and the fortitude and the discipline to stand on
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  Speaker 1: your convictions and not your crowd and not your culture
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  Speaker 1: and not your generation and not your ethnicity or anything else.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to stand on what you believe. I want
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  Speaker 1: to guide you to the importance of embracing and incorporating
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  Speaker 1: your God-given uniqueness. You are fearfully and marvelously made. There
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  Speaker 1: will never, ever be another you. They can dress like you,
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  Speaker 1: they can walk like you, they can put on your shoes.
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  Speaker 1: There'll never be you. Never has been another you. Never
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  Speaker 1: will be another you. If you got a twin, he
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  Speaker 1: ain't you. You in a class all by yourself. When
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  Speaker 1: God made you, he broke the mold. And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: put all of that uniqueness in you down to your
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  Speaker 1: voice print and your fingerprint and your hair follicles and
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  Speaker 1: your DNA for you to melt into the mush of
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  Speaker 1: a drowning society. So those are the five goals, and
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot to cover. So let me go
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  Speaker 1: to work. A man named John Nelson Darby lived in
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  Speaker 1: the 1800s. He lived in the 1800s. He was born
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  Speaker 1: in November. He died in 1882, 82 years old. He
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  Speaker 1: was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures
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  Speaker 1: among the original Plymouth Brethren And the founder of the
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  Speaker 1: exclusive brother, he is considered to be the father of
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  Speaker 1: modern dispensationalism and futurism. Now, don't let that dispensationalism get
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  Speaker 1: you tangled up. Because dispensationalism doesn't change the text. It
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  Speaker 1: merely categorizes it. It's a fouling of the text. What
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  Speaker 1: system you foul it in, which enables you to see
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  Speaker 1: the the broadness of the scope of God's plan from
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  Speaker 1: a dispensationalist perspective. It is a particular hermeneutic or analytical
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  Speaker 1: system for interpreting the Bible based on a literal translation
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  Speaker 1: and which stands in contrast to earlier belief systems like
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  Speaker 1: Calvinism because Calvinism sees the Bible through covenants. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a disagreement about the Bible. It is a disagreement
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  Speaker 1: about how the Bible is best explained. Are you following
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Now, disagreement exists between covenant theology and
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  Speaker 1: dispensationalism regarding the meaning of revelation. Covenant theology views the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament as the key to interpreting the Old Testament, okay?
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  Speaker 1: As the key to interpreting the Old Testament we must
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  Speaker 1: look at the New Testament. That is the way they think. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: concepts such as the biblical covenants and promises to Israel
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  Speaker 1: are believed to be interpreted by the New Testament as
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  Speaker 1: applying to the church. So what God said to Israel
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  Speaker 1: up under covenant theology, they think it applies to the church.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe true, more likely not true. It is kind of
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to, for me to write a letter to my
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  Speaker 1: wife that I give to Pastor Val as her truth.
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  Speaker 1: So to assume that what God has said in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament applies to us might in some cases danger
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  Speaker 1: the theology of what you're trying to understand. To break
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  Speaker 1: it down in the street language, stop reading other folks' mail.
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  Speaker 1: Higher dispensation is subscribed to another hermeneutical view. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get to where you're going. Just wait on me.
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  Speaker 1: I need to lay this foundation. You must understand then
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  Speaker 1: that the definition of this word is adherence to or
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  Speaker 1: advocacy of a system of interpreting history in terms of
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  Speaker 1: a series of God's dispensations. It's just understanding it through
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  Speaker 1: dispensations I hand an accountant a million dollars and how
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  Speaker 1: she puts it in columns depends on her understanding of
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  Speaker 1: it but it does not diminish its worth so the
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  Speaker 1: word of God is the word of God but what
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  Speaker 1: we are debating about is how we explain and what
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  Speaker 1: category we put each period in are you understanding what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying There are many so-called dispensationalists, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that I am one, but I do understand to
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  Speaker 1: some degree the rudiment ideology of dispensationalism, even though it
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  Speaker 1: only started in the 1800s. There is the dispensation of
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  Speaker 1: innocence from the creation to the fall. All my Fison
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  Speaker 1: people are saying amen and yes. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, you know this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It is the dispensation of innocence which begins from the
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  Speaker 1: creation to To the fall of Adam. This is called
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  Speaker 1: innocence because Adam didn't even know that he was naked.
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  Speaker 1: They were innocent and all things were pure before them.
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  Speaker 1: And God even had to ask him, who told you
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  Speaker 1: that you were naked? Now, can you imagine walking around
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  Speaker 1: naked and paying it no attention? I can't hardly imagine that,
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  Speaker 1: but the animals do it all the time. Innocence. So
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  Speaker 1: innocence prevailed over this era because God had put them
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  Speaker 1: in a place mentally that they did not regard nudity
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  Speaker 1: as obscenity. So the man and the woman would walk
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  Speaker 1: around in the garden, you know. How you doing? I'll
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  Speaker 1: leave that alone. This is... The second dispensation is called consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: And it is from the fall of man, when man
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  Speaker 1: fell in the garden, to the flood. Because all of
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  Speaker 1: that period didn't have laws, didn't have rules. All it
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  Speaker 1: had was conscious. It had conscious ruling the area. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is important because this is from the fall of
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  Speaker 1: man to the flood. So what we are reading in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 6 is coming to the end of the era
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness. Okay? At the end of the era of
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  Speaker 1: doing according to whatever your heads say do. So when
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  Speaker 1: God says every imagination exists, in the heart of man
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  Speaker 1: was evil, it showed that when we are left to ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: we only wax worse. I was in Kiev and I
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  Speaker 1: was on a tour while I was in Kiev years
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  Speaker 1: ago and the lady told me that when communism became
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  Speaker 1: pervasive in their society and they got rid of all religion,
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  Speaker 1: they found out that depravity became so overwhelming that it
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  Speaker 1: almost destroyed the culture. That religion is some kind of
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  Speaker 1: barrier that stops the culture from becoming totally decadent. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that we're totally good, but it stops us from
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  Speaker 1: becoming totally bad because it yanks you back into place.
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  Speaker 1: And in the absence of any type of theology, their
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  Speaker 1: culture began to wax worse and worse and worse. And
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  Speaker 1: she's telling me this standing in front of a church
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  Speaker 1: where churches had been outlawed. So we are standing in
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  Speaker 1: a place now where there are no churches and there
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  Speaker 1: is no real theology and there are no preachers and
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  Speaker 1: there is no law. So with the absence of all
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  Speaker 1: of that, the heart of man became more and more wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Until it repented God that he had ever made him.
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  Speaker 1: Because God made you to be in his likeness and
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  Speaker 1: in his image. And yet you were trying to be
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  Speaker 1: in their likeness and their image. Y'all didn't get that.
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  Speaker 1: Here you are trying to fit in with the culture
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  Speaker 1: and the culture didn't make you. If you would spend
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  Speaker 1: half as much energy trying to be like God instead
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  Speaker 1: of trying to be like them, you would achieve the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of God and God would not regret you. I
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  Speaker 1: do not want my father to regret me. He can
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  Speaker 1: chastise me. He can correct me. He can fix me.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't want him to look at me and say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I ever had you. The power of that
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  Speaker 1: blow is more than my heart could bear. But that
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  Speaker 1: is the power of the text before us today. The
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  Speaker 1: father is looking at the child and saying, I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: I had you. The vessel that was made of clay
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  Speaker 1: has become marred in the hand of the potter and
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  Speaker 1: he has decided to totally disrupt what it is in
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  Speaker 1: the hopes that it may become pure. a vessel with
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  Speaker 1: whom he can be well pleased. Jeremiah 18, Jeremiah, what
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  Speaker 1: is 18? It's playing out in Genesis 6. This is
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  Speaker 1: the story of humanity, the potter and the clay marred
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  Speaker 1: in the hands of the potter. The decision now has
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  Speaker 1: to be made. Do I totally destroy it or do
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  Speaker 1: I make it again another vessel? And we're standing on
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  Speaker 1: the precipice of this decision in this text today. And
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  Speaker 1: we are feeling the angst of the creator and the
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  Speaker 1: intense disappointment that God has when we fail to live
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  Speaker 1: up to his intention for our lives. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to live up to your intention for my life. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to live up to your intention for my life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to live up to your intention. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to live up to your intention for your life.
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  Speaker 1: But I must live up to his intention. for my life.
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  Speaker 1: Noah will end the error of consciousness. He will sail
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  Speaker 1: from the shores of consciousness into the safety of Mount
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  Speaker 1: Arad and begin human government. And then government emerges. So
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  Speaker 1: human government is from the flood Can I finish this
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit? Just to put some contextualization to it.
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  Speaker 1: Human government is from the flood to Abram. And during
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  Speaker 1: this period, you have patriarchal rules and you begin to
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  Speaker 1: set up government and order and structure enters into the
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  Speaker 1: creative story, which originally was not there. When Abram comes along,
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  Speaker 1: we come into the dispensation of promise. Because above everything else,
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  Speaker 1: Abram has a promise. Somebody says, Abram has a promise.
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  Speaker 1: All he has is a promise. He doesn't have details.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have revelation. He doesn't have understanding. But God
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  Speaker 1: just says, get me out of that country and away
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  Speaker 1: from that kindred and go to a place that I
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  Speaker 1: will show you. And I will make of you a
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  Speaker 1: great nation. And I will make your name great. And
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  Speaker 1: I will bless them that bless you. And I will
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  Speaker 1: curse them that curse you. And everywhere your feet trod,
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the land. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you how I'm going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you none of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All I'm going to do is give you a promise.
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  Speaker 1: There are people in this room, all you have is
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  Speaker 1: a promise. You don't know when, you don't know how,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know where, you don't know what it's going
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  Speaker 1: to take. But like Abraham, you have moved on a promise.
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  Speaker 1: You have left on a promise. You have stood on
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  Speaker 1: a promise. And you don't have no details. And it
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  Speaker 1: gets on your nerves when people ask you for details
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  Speaker 1: because all you have is a promise. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: know how. And you don't know how God's going to
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  Speaker 1: fix it. And you don't know when he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. So stop asking me for questions that I
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  Speaker 1: don't have answers to. And if you're going to walk
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  Speaker 1: with me, you got to walk by faith. You can't
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  Speaker 1: walk by sight. You got to walk by faith or
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  Speaker 1: you can't walk with me. Make some noise if I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to you. I asked my wife the other day,
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  Speaker 1: I said, baby, you trust me? She said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: trust you. I said, good. I'm going to take you somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to tell you where. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to pack yourself to celebrate you
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  Speaker 1: without you asking any questions. And she never asked me
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  Speaker 1: another word. That comes from trust. Trust. she still don't
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  Speaker 1: know where I'm going to take her. I pulled her
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  Speaker 1: clothes together and said, you like that? Is that okay?
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  Speaker 1: Change anything you want to change? Do whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to do. She said, it's fine. She packed to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: She don't even know where it is. But she has
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  Speaker 1: a promise. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: will pack your bag to go somewhere and you don't
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  Speaker 1: even know where it is. And you got to be
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  Speaker 1: obedient enough to trust that whatever he has in store
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  Speaker 1: for you is going to work out for your good.
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  Speaker 1: So stop asking him questions and step out on the
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  Speaker 1: promises of God and start moving where God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to go. Abraham had a promise. Shout, I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a job, but I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a spouse, but I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a house, but I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the money, but I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have no friends, but I got a promise.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to stand on the promises of Christ
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  Speaker 1: my King. Through eternal ages, let His praises ring. Glory
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  Speaker 1: in the highest, I will shout and sing. I'm standing
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  Speaker 1: on the promises. I'm standing on the promises. Of Christ
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  Speaker 1: my Savior. I'm standing on the promises of Christ my King.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that's standing? Let me hear it.
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  Speaker 1: I got a long ways to go. These are accounting
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  Speaker 1: columns that we put truth in. It doesn't add to
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  Speaker 1: it nor diminish it. It's just an overview of how
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  Speaker 1: to organize your thoughts about the linear view of God's
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  Speaker 1: plan for man. So from Abraham to Moses, we had promise.
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  Speaker 1: When Moses comes to Sinai, we have the dispensation of law.
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  Speaker 1: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not have no other
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  Speaker 1: God before me. Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother.
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  Speaker 1: All the law of God begins to play because the
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  Speaker 1: law of God is, I don't have time to get
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  Speaker 1: deep into it, but the law of God is the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of theocracy. Not democracy. Theocracy. A God-ruled nation. a
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  Speaker 1: called out group of people must have a law system,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a legal system creates civilization. Without a legal system, we
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  Speaker 1: have the problem that Noah is dealing with where all
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: we're left up to is if it feels good, do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens when people go back. their own mind
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  Speaker 1: and there is no law so God brought law through
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  Speaker 1: Moses because God is setting up a nation not an
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  Speaker 1: organization he's setting up a nation This would be true
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  Speaker 1: even in an organization. You can't have an organization that
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: don't have laws and ethics and rules and everybody does
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  Speaker 1: however you want to do. That doesn't work and it
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't work in a country. And so he gave them laws.
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  Speaker 1: He gave them three things for those who want this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He gave them laws. He gave them judgments. Judgments is
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  Speaker 1: how you settle strife between each other. Laws deal with
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign relationship You have with God and he gave
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  Speaker 1: them ordinances, which is how you worship. Three different aspects.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going further. I'm going further. I'm going further. Are
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  Speaker 1: you with me? From Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary is law.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus went to the cross, he completed the law.
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  Speaker 1: He fulfilled the law. He did the thing that I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do. He obeyed the law. That's why he is
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  Speaker 1: my righteousness and I am complete in him. And the
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  Speaker 1: curses that were chasing me because I kept breaking the
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  Speaker 1: law were nailed to the cross with him. And I
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  Speaker 1: am free from the curse of the law and from
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  Speaker 1: sin and death for he whom the son has set
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  Speaker 1: free is free indeed. Jesus is my Juneteenth. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: my 4th of July. Jesus is my moment of independence.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is my emancipation proclamation. Jesus is my liberty. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is my loosing. Jesus is my deliverance. Jesus is my breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: He declared me free. Death has no power. Death has
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  Speaker 1: no strength. The grave cannot hold me. Hell cannot curse me.
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  Speaker 1: Satan cannot bind me because every curse was nailed to
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  Speaker 1: the cross and I'm free indeed. That's a good shouting
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  Speaker 1: moment right there. See, we have raised up a generation
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  Speaker 1: of people who are shouting about silly stuff. Shouting because
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  Speaker 1: your shoes was on sale. Shouting because you got two
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  Speaker 1: dresses for the same price. Shouting because they got a
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  Speaker 1: discount on your car. Shouting because you got a raise.
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  Speaker 1: You're shouting about stuff that can be taken away. But
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we used to shout about things that no devil in
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  Speaker 1: hell can take away. You can take my coat. You
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: can take my job. You can have my shoe. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't take away my Jesus. Because I'm free in
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  Speaker 1: my soul. Somebody shout yes. Somebody shout yes again. Praise
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  Speaker 1: God for what Jesus did. Praise God for what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 1: No devil can take it. No witch can curse it.
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  Speaker 1: No enemy can bind it. They can't stop God from
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: saving you. I don't care how many times they say
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  Speaker 1: you're not saved. It's not their word that saves you.
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  Speaker 1: It's God's word that saves you. And if God says
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  Speaker 1: you're saved, and if God says you're saved, And if
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  Speaker 1: God says you're free, and if God says you're whole,
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  Speaker 1: somebody help me. Help me praise his name. Slap somebody
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  Speaker 1: and say, I found grace. I found grace. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: sinner but I found grace. I'm a freak but I
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  Speaker 1: found grace. I'm wild but I found grace. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: manageable but I found grace. I've been fluid in my
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  Speaker 1: thinking but I found grace. Grace is my stabilizer. Grace
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  Speaker 1: is my anchor. Grace is my strength. Grace is my power.
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  Speaker 1: Grace is my stability. Grace is my foundation. Grace is
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  Speaker 1: the comfortization. of every promise in the scriptures. I got
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  Speaker 1: it when I got grace. If you got grace to live,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: give God a praise. Somebody holler, I'm grace for this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop whining about it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stop crying about it. I'm going to stop worrying about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop being fatigued about it. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: man for the job. I got grace for this. I
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  Speaker 1: can deal with you. I can deal with you. And
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I can deal with you. Not because you're easy, but
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  Speaker 1: because I got grace for this. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got grace for this. I can handle it. I
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  Speaker 1: got the grace for this. Talk about me all you
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  Speaker 1: want to. I found grace for this. It used to hurt,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: but I found grace for this. It used to upset me,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: but I found grace for this. When I realized you
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  Speaker 1: don't pay my bills... You didn't save my soul. You
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  Speaker 1: don't own my heaven. Whatever you think is none of
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  Speaker 1: my business. I found grace. Type it on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I found grace. You better not get up here if
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you don't have grace. They'll run you home if you
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: don't have grace. You got to have staying power. You
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: got to be stubborn. You got to have relentless grace.
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  Speaker 1: Stare you right in the face. Grown man grace. Time
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  Speaker 1: to be a grown woman, baby girl. Time to put
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  Speaker 1: on your big britches and be a grown woman. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, I'm grace for this. Sit down, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you some more. Can I feed the flock?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Because I'm anointed to feed the flock. And I feel
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the master feeder feeding through me today. I feel an
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  Speaker 1: unction coming in this place. Somebody's getting some bread from
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: God today. The manna is falling from heaven. The manna
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: is falling from heaven. The true bread is coming down
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  Speaker 1: from above. Reach up and grab some of this bread.
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  Speaker 1: The last of the seven dispensations is the millennial reign
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Grace is from the cross to the return
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and the millennial reign of Christ takes us into the
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  Speaker 1: seventh dispensation. But what I want you to see is
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: grace is five dispensations, four dispensations from conscious. So when
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says Noah found grace. You got it. He
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: found something that wasn't even in his era. He tapped
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: into something that hadn't been freely dispensed yet. I prophesied
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: to somebody in this room, you're getting ready to tap
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: into something that is not even common to where you
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: are right now. It don't fit into your family. It
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: don't fit into your age group. It defies imagination, but
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you're just going to find it. You're just going to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: stumble into it. Be careful to get it right. It
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: was not that grace found Noah. Had grace found Noah,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: that would be sensible. That would express God finding Noah.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't that grace found Noah. Noah found grace.
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  Speaker 1: Push two or three people and say, I'm looking for grace.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for grace. I'm looking for grace. I'm looking
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: for grace. I'm looking for grace. I'm looking for grace.
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  Speaker 1: Give me my next face. Come on. I'm looking for grace.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for grace. I'm looking for grace. I'm looking
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: for grace. I'm looking for grace. Can I go deeper?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: What I'm trying to get you to do is today
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: our text ends at an era of self-willed. Human consciousness
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: is self-willed. Because there was no law yet given, morality
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: was totally dependent on a fallen species having self-will. In politics,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: it's somewhat different. mirrors democracy. We the people. We the people.
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  Speaker 1: What does that even mean today? We the people. America
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: is actually more of a republic than it is a democracy,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: but it has a democratic posture. And when we look
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: at a democratic posture, to this day, that is really self-rule.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Democracy is self-rule. Theocracy is God rule. The further we
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: get into self-will, the more we are discovering how wicked
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: self is. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. We are
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of Genesis 6. Because the more
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: we try to run things the worse it gets. Because
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the human will is corrupt. That's why we're not safe
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: sitting in a church. That's why we're not safe in
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: a grocery store. That's why we're not safe walking through
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a mall. Because the more we rule ourselves the more
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  Speaker 1: corrupt we become. Because the people who have rule over
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: us have an agenda. I'm not picking sides. There's a
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Democratic agenda. There's a Republican agenda. And all of them
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: are working their agenda. And you are not in the agenda.
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  Speaker 1: There I said it. There I said it. There I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: said it. There I said it. There I said it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just out. There it is.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Oops. There it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is clear nobody's listening to us. Everybody's doing whatever
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: they want to do to have longevity in the positions
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: that they're in. And it is becoming increasingly clear to
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: get back in the office, they will sell their mama.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And it is all evidence of the fact that we
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: have moved so far away from God that you can't
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: tell where you're going to be safe at. We got
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: 12-year-old boys walking around with AK-47s. You're scared of your
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: own children. You got kids building bombs in their bedroom
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: and the parents don't even know it's built until they
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: blow up the school and then they issue an apology.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: How you gonna apologize to me for my dead child?
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you go up them steps and go into
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: that room and see what was going on in that room?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: How can we be ruled by our conscious when we
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: have none? This is Noah's problem. This is God's anger.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: This is God's hostility. Because left to our conscious, we
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: are deceitful and treacherous and self-willed and evil. The Bible
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: said the heart of man is continually wicked. And every
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: imagination is evil. Now I have to submit to your evil.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I'm already wrestling with my evil. And now I got
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to submit to your evil. I got a big enough
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: job trying to manage my evil. And now I got
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: to watch out for your evil. defensive driving. I'm driving
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: through the world trying to make sure that I can
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: get me through and also anticipating what is the next
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: crazy thing you're getting ready to do. That's where we are.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: That's where we are. And we don't know what we
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: got for sure. We don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know if we're going to get to vote.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen in the country.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what rights are going to be taken away.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to be added. We don't
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: know nothing about taxes because nobody's listening to us. And
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: worse still, nobody's listening to God. That's a good shouting
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: spot right there. So I got to hurry. I got
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: to hurry. I got to hurry to my clothes. In
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the scripture, self-rule leads to annihilation of most of we
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the people. Because it did not consider God as the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: sovereign that he is. God is sovereign. And while they
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: knew him as God, they glorified him not as God.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: And we are so full of self-will. We step into
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Genesis in the era of self-rule and encounter the judgment
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: of God. We had better take notes from history and
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: consider God over self. We talk about the flood. We
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: talk about the what, but we don't talk about the why.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: And we better figure out the why so we can
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: stop the what. The why was, number one, they were lascivious.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: No boundaries. Anything goes. Lust was on the loose. Eating
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: and drinking was on the loose. No real propensity toward worship.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: It amazed me when everything shut down but the clubs.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody running around in masks. Everybody scared to breathe on anybody.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I'm bathing in Clorox and these people dropping it like
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: it hot. I thought y'all at the club, y'all breathing
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: all over each other. Y'all gonna go home and kill
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: your parents and your grandparents just because you're trying to
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That's the power of silence. You know, you don't have
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: to say it. This created mutations in the earth. Giants
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: in the earth. I won't spend a lot of time
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: on this, but there's debates about when the sons of
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: God saw the daughters of men. Some people say that
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the sons of God were the sons of Seth. and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: the daughters of men were the daughters of Cain, and
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: that when the two sides got together, they created giants.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: But then there are others who recognize that the sons
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: of God in the Old Testament is often referred to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: as angels, as it was in the book of Job,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: when it said that the sons of God came around
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the throne, and among them were Satan. The angels were
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: also called the sons of God. And so it makes
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: more sense that when celestial beings start sleeping in with
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: terrestrial beings, a mutated species would come into the earth.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I wasn't there. You weren't either. But
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: let's guess about it a minute. You cannot mix natures
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: between that which is divine and that which is human
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and cohabitate together and come out natural. So they came
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: out with giants who had some angel likeness and yet
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: were humans. And when God saw what he created was
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: being perverted into something that he did not create, it
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: repented God that he had ever made man. So when
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: we start dealing with genetics and start developing our own
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: sheep and our own cattle and then start practicing on
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  Speaker 1: making people, I'm wondering if we're not creating humans. I'm
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: going to go a little bit deeper and then I'm
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: going to close. When I grew up, we used to
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: hear about Noah building the ark and how the rainbow
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: was a sign that it would never be by water.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: And we used to sing songs, it won't be by water,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: but by fire next time. Now, I don't like drowning
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: and I sure as heck don't like burning, but I
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: couldn't imagine for the life of me how the earth
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: could catch on fire. Because when I was little and
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I was learning theology, I didn't know anything about global warming.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: But now that I'm a man, I've seen the glaciers melting.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I've seen the polar bears dying. I've seen the temperatures increase.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I've seen the droughts coming. I've seen the core of
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: the earth getting hotter and hotter and hotter. And we're
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: just dancing and eating and making merry and going on
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: about our business as if we have no understanding that
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: we've got plague. We have got more plagues in the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: last decade. than I have seen in my entire lifetime.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: And what's worse is that we're getting used to it
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and we call it normal. Shootings are normal. Killings are normal.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Rapes are normal. All kinds of domestic abuse is normal.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: And the earth waxing hot till we are begging for
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: rain has become normal. It is so dry that they're
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: advising you not to cut your grass lest it catch
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: on fire. And if you think you're going to get away,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: where could you go where there was no COVID? When
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: COVID was at its peak. See, I know people, I
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: have friends that live here in Dallas that leave Dallas
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: in July and August to get away from the heat.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: So with that rationale in mind, where could you go
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: to get away from COVID? When Italy was locked up
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: and France was locked up and Rome was locked up
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and Europe was locked up and Africa was all wrapped up.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Where were you going to go when Australia was sick
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and New Zealand was sick? The whole earth is being
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: infected with more and more and more. And all you're
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: worried about is how much money you make. What has
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: more money have to do with more breath? That's all
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  Speaker 1: you care about is how much more money you're going
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  Speaker 1: to make. How much more you're going to bling with.
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  Speaker 1: And the earth is catching on fire. Noah's conscience led
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  Speaker 1: him to escape the vortex of human depravity as his
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  Speaker 1: conscience found grace. The vortex of human depravity. Let me
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  Speaker 1: give you this visual so you understand what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the vortex of human depravity. I was studying on when the,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say the Atlantis, the Titanic, when the
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  Speaker 1: Titanic was going down in the water. It was not
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  Speaker 1: that the people didn't escape. Most of the people got
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  Speaker 1: out of the boat and made it to rafts and
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  Speaker 1: were trying to get away. But when the Titanic sunk,
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  Speaker 1: it created such a vortex that even those who escaped
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  Speaker 1: got sucked into the vortex and they died as well
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  Speaker 1: as the people on the boat because they were still
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  Speaker 1: too close to what was going down. I know it's old-timey.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's old-fashioned. I know it's out of school.
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  Speaker 1: But are you too close to what's going down? I
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  Speaker 1: know you got your own raft and you're doing your
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  Speaker 1: own thing and you're moving away, but have you gotten
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  Speaker 1: far enough away that the vortex of your so-called friends
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  Speaker 1: are not pulling you? Intellect doesn't find grace nor deny it.
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  Speaker 1: Being smart doesn't make you have more grace. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: stop you from having grace, but it doesn't make you
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  Speaker 1: have more grace. Success doesn't make you have grace. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop you from having grace, but you don't get
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  Speaker 1: grace because you're successful. So to all of you successful
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  Speaker 1: intellectual people who think that somehow because you have more
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  Speaker 1: degrees and more intellect or more fame or more fortune
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  Speaker 1: that you have more grace and you think you're exempt
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  Speaker 1: from needing this word, how dare you be that arrogant?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you be that stupid? How dare you be
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  Speaker 1: foolish enough to think that smart people didn't drown in
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  Speaker 1: the flood? That rich people didn't drown in the flood.
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  Speaker 1: You can be caught up in the vortex. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how cute you are. I don't care how rich
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  Speaker 1: you are. I don't care how famous you are. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to me on TV right now. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how famous you are. I don't care what you drive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you live in. What I'm preaching
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  Speaker 1: at is coming right to you. You think you're safe
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  Speaker 1: because you work for a great company. You think you're
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  Speaker 1: safe because you're a millionaire or a billionaire. You think
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  Speaker 1: you're safe because you got gold albums and all kind
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  Speaker 1: of success. Nothing can protect you from when God gets
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  Speaker 1: ready to send a flood, everything that's not in grace
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  Speaker 1: is going down. If you're not in grace, you're going down.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not in grace, you're going down. You and
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  Speaker 1: your money. You and your Rolls Royce. You and your career.
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  Speaker 1: You and your fame. You and your fortune. Look at
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: how many rich people are killing themselves. Look at how
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: many successful people commit suicide. In the last five years,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen some of the most famous people taking their
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  Speaker 1: own life. Don't be a fool. When God sends a flood,
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  Speaker 1: everything that's not in the ark begins to go down.
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  Speaker 1: But I got news for you. It's not too late
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  Speaker 1: to get in your ark. I got news for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not too late for you to find your way
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  Speaker 1: to the ark. If you would humble yourself and get
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  Speaker 1: down on your knees and stop being self-ruled, self-willed, and self-regulated,
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  Speaker 1: you could come on in this hard child. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to rain. Come on in this hard child. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to rain.
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  Speaker 3: God told Noah, it's going to rain.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in this hard child. It's going to rain, children.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to rain, children. Come on in this hard time.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in this hard time. You better get on
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  Speaker 1: in this hard time. You better come on in this
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  Speaker 1: hard time. God told Noah. God told Noah. You better
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  Speaker 1: get on in this hard time. You better get on
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  Speaker 1: in this hard time. Hurry up, get in!
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  Speaker 3: Hurry up, get in! Hurry up, get in! Hurry up,
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  Speaker 3: get in! Come on, let's have a little old-fashioned.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit, just a little bit. Give me
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: just a little bit. You know why you don't see
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: as much shouting as you normally would? Because we don't
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  Speaker 1: have enough people that are sure they're in the ark.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: But everybody that knows you're in the ark, give God
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  Speaker 1: a praise right now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on in this ark. Come on in this house.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in this house. You better get.
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  Speaker 1: On in this house. You better get on in this house.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: You better get on in this house.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: You better get on in this house. You better get
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: on in this house. You better get on in the house.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to rain.
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  Speaker 3: It's your children.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna rain. It's your children. It's gonna rain.
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  Speaker 3: Dial up your children.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna rain.
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  Speaker 3: Up your family. If you got to go by yourself.
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  Speaker 3: If you got to go by yourself. If you got
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  Speaker 3: to go by yourself. God told Noah.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the amazing part. I'm only halfway finished. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pick it up next Sunday. Can I
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: pick this up next Sunday? Are y'all with me? Can
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I pick this up next Sunday? Because I haven't even
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  Speaker 1: got to the grace to make changes. The grace to build.
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  Speaker 1: The grace to grow. The grace to move. The grace
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  Speaker 1: to function in disruption. Next week I'm going to show
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  Speaker 1: you how to have the grace to function in disruption.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was so anointed that he built in disruption. And
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  Speaker 1: you've been waiting on everything to be calm so you
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: can build. It ain't going to happen. You got to
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  Speaker 1: build it anyway. Where are my builders at? Make some noise.