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Instinct to Increase Bishop T.D. Jakes Hillsong Conference - Sydney 2013 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Your phone makes a noise. Wow. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You all are on fire tonight. You may be seated.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to tell you how delighted and honored
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  Speaker 2: I am on behalf of some of our team that's
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  Speaker 2: here with me and my wife and my children. We
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  Speaker 2: just thank you for spoiling us and making us feel
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  Speaker 2: loved and feeling right at home. I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: got more than I gave. I was just so blessed
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  Speaker 2: just to be here and to worship with you and
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  Speaker 2: to be blessed in the services with you and to
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to share with you tonight. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: indeed grateful. I leaned over and hugged Charles Neiman this
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  Speaker 2: afternoon and told him he just blew my socks completely off.
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  Speaker 2: He walked up there and said all of that gracious
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  Speaker 2: stuff about, you know, all the other speakers and then
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  Speaker 2: just preached till I couldn't even think of what my
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  Speaker 2: message was for tonight. It's bad to sucker punch a
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  Speaker 2: preacher like that. But I have something I want to
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  Speaker 2: share with you tonight that's on my heart tonight that
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the Holy Spirit has given to speak
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  Speaker 2: and to share into your heart and into your life tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm excited to be blessed to the Lord to
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  Speaker 2: do it. I'm going to go right into the word
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  Speaker 2: of God because I want to maximize the My time
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  Speaker 2: with you, I'm going to be in Matthew 25, 14
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  Speaker 2: through 29. I want to thank Brian and Bobby for
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  Speaker 2: their hospitality while you turned to that. They have just
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  Speaker 2: been so good. He fed me so good today I
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  Speaker 2: had to repent. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. I
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  Speaker 2: can go in the strength of that meat for 40 days.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew 25, 14 through 29, when you have it, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Oh, that was kind of weak. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to turn you into the potter's house tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to stand while I read
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  Speaker 2: the word of God because that's how I do it.
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  Speaker 2: And Brian told me to be myself, so I'm 56
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  Speaker 2: years old.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late to change.
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  Speaker 2: And when you hear this, you are hearing the master
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  Speaker 2: teacher say, Jesus Christ delivering a parable to explain to
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  Speaker 2: us that we cannot see using a story that we
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  Speaker 2: can see. It is a parable about the kingdom of
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  Speaker 2: heaven because the things that God has for us are
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  Speaker 2: beyond human comprehension. And yet Jesus introduces them to us
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  Speaker 2: in stories and parables. Not so much that we might
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  Speaker 2: get caught up in the nuances of the story, but
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  Speaker 2: that we might learn the principles that are in the story.
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  Speaker 2: Because the principles are the principles of the kingdom. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: say principles of the kingdom. We're going to hear one tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew 25, 14. For the kingdom of heaven is as
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  Speaker 2: a man traveling into a far country. who called his
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  Speaker 2: own servants and delivered unto them his goods. And unto
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  Speaker 2: one he gave five talents, and to another two, and
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  Speaker 2: to another one, and to every man according to his
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  Speaker 2: several ability, and straightway took his journey.
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  Speaker 1: Then he that.
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  Speaker 2: Had received the five talents went and traded with the
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  Speaker 2: same and made them other five talents. And likewise, he
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  Speaker 2: that received two, he also gained other two. But he
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  Speaker 2: that had received one, went and digged in the earth
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  Speaker 2: and hid his Lord's money. And after a long time,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with him.
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  Speaker 2: And so he that had received five talents came and
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  Speaker 2: brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou hast delivered unto
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  Speaker 2: me five talents. Behold, I have gained besides him five
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  Speaker 2: talents more. Look at me, God, I did good. That's
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  Speaker 2: not in your Bible, that's in mine. His Lord said
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  Speaker 2: unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou
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  Speaker 2: hast been faithful over a few things. Thou wilt make
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  Speaker 2: thee rule over many things. Enter into the joys of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. He also that had two talents came and said, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: thou deliverest unto me two talents. Behold, I have gained
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  Speaker 2: two other talents beside them. And his Lord said unto him,
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  Speaker 2: Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful
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  Speaker 2: over a few things. Thou wilt make thee rule over
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  Speaker 2: many things. Enter thou into the.
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  Speaker 1: Joys of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Uh... Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I knew that thou art a hard man, reaping where
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  Speaker 2: thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not sown.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this closely. I was afraid, and I went and
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  Speaker 2: hid thy talent in the earth, and lo, there. Thou
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  Speaker 2: hath that which is thine. His Lord said unto him,
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  Speaker 2: Thou wicked and slow for servant. Thou knewest that I
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  Speaker 2: reek where I sowed not together, where I have not strove.
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  Speaker 2: Thou oughtest therefore to put my money to the exchangers.
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  Speaker 2: And then at my coming, I should have received mine
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  Speaker 2: own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him and
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  Speaker 2: give it unto him which have ten talents for unto
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  Speaker 2: everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have
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  Speaker 2: abundance but from him that have not it shall be
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  Speaker 2: taken away that which he seemeth to have. Can the
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  Speaker 2: church say amen? Remain standing. I'm going to pray with
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  Speaker 2: you while you're standing. I do that so that you
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  Speaker 2: can't sleep while I'm preaching. Tonight I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you about the instinct to increase. The instinct to increase.
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  Speaker 2: Say that with me. The instinct to increase.
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  Speaker 1: Say it again.
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  Speaker 2: The instinct to increase. God never intended for you to
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  Speaker 2: stay where you started, in where you began, just maintain, neutralize,
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  Speaker 2: and wait on him to There is something down inside
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  Speaker 2: of you that God wants to bring forth. The very
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  Speaker 2: first command, the very first word that God said to
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  Speaker 2: man was be fruitful. And I say to you tonight
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  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus that you are coming into
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  Speaker 2: abundance in every area of your life. I say to
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  Speaker 2: you tonight that God didn't give you a cup that.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to run over. I speak increase over
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not just talking about money. I'm talking about ministry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about gifts of the Spirit. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: wisdom and knowledge and understanding. And every area of your life,
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  Speaker 2: abundance is coming to you if you have the instinct.
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  Speaker 1: To increase.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray. Sweet Holy Spirit, seize this moment to speak
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  Speaker 2: in this place. Hide my flesh behind the cross. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing exceptional about me. There's everything marvelous about you. If
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  Speaker 2: they hear from me and don't hear from you, they're
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  Speaker 2: coming in vain. But if you speak tonight, just one
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  Speaker 2: word will cause dead men to come out of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Speak in this house.
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  Speaker 2: Great God that you are, I believe you for supernatural miracles.
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  Speaker 1: Let this message.
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  Speaker 2: Outlive me and let it outlast me and let it
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  Speaker 2: be meat and nourishment to the souls of your people.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for what you're about to do. I
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  Speaker 2: turn it all over to you. In Jesus' name, somebody
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  Speaker 2: shout amen. No, I said somebody shout amen. Oh, that
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  Speaker 2: sounds good. Sit down. I like that good old Australian amen.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all got lungs down here.
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  Speaker 3: Shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, give him a praise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming along. I'm coming along. Take me slow.
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  Speaker 2: I had the privilege several years ago, I was invited
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  Speaker 2: by these businessmen in South Africa to come over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anybody here from South Africa? I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Cape Town and Sydney are two of my favorite cities
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  Speaker 2: in all the world. But I was over there ministering
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  Speaker 2: for a bunch of Christian businessmen who had come into
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  Speaker 2: an abundance of wealth, and they wanted to submit all
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  Speaker 2: that they had into the hands of God. And they
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  Speaker 2: invited me over to talk to them both about business
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  Speaker 2: and about faith and just a small group. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a big crowd of people, but it was an amazing time.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the benefits that they gave me for
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  Speaker 2: being over there is one of them had such influence.
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  Speaker 2: He said, when you get through working, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: take you on a safari. And being a hillbilly from
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  Speaker 2: the sticks in West Virginia, I thought that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: And I got real excited. I had my son with
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  Speaker 2: me and I had my wife with me. And I'd
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  Speaker 2: never been on a safari before, so I... I went
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  Speaker 2: out and bought me some safari clothes. Because you got
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  Speaker 2: to coordinate everything. You got to be looking good when
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  Speaker 2: you're out there with the elephants and stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because they might take pictures of you or something.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked like I knew what I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: I was excited.
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  Speaker 2: And they said, we're going to take you over in
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  Speaker 2: a little plane. And you're going to land on the
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  Speaker 2: runway and everything like that. And it's kind of out
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  Speaker 2: in a little remote area. But it's going to be cool.
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  Speaker 2: And we got on the little plane. I was cool.
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  Speaker 2: And my son was cool. And my wife was there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she was there. She was there. And I was really
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  Speaker 2: cool with it because I pictured a runway with a tower.
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  Speaker 1: And a control tower and everything.
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  Speaker 2: There was no control tower anywhere. There was a little
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  Speaker 2: runway just a strip going through the jungle. No lights
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  Speaker 2: or nothing on it. And we had to wait before
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  Speaker 2: we land because there was a rhinoceros out in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the runway. And all of a sudden, I
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  Speaker 2: knew this wasn't going to exactly be like what I
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  Speaker 2: had in mind when I started. But I was still
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  Speaker 2: cool because the little boy in me is kind of
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  Speaker 2: crazy and rough. And I thought, oh, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be good. And my son was down with it.
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  Speaker 2: He's ready to go do it. My wife was just there.
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  Speaker 2: They took us out to this, it was like a
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  Speaker 2: monstrosity of a mansion out in the middle of the jungle,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was J.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Getty's house, and it was really some place that
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't have gone had they not just allowed me
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  Speaker 2: to go. And it was wonderful. It was real plush.
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  Speaker 2: It was real nice. I was having a good time
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  Speaker 2: until they said, don't go out the house at night,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because the animals.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you have to understand, in the States.
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  Speaker 2: We have animals, but they're in cages and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And we're free and the animals are in cages. So
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  Speaker 2: this was an international concept that I was not exactly
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  Speaker 2: familiar with. I decided I was going to go anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So my son and I, we put on our outfits
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  Speaker 2: and we got up early that morning and we said,
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  Speaker 2: we're going out on the safari. They brought this big
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  Speaker 2: old Jeep up and we got on the Jeep. I said,
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  Speaker 2: are you ready? He said, yeah, dad, I'm ready. We
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  Speaker 2: jumped on the Jeep. My wife wasn't there. She felt
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  Speaker 2: led of the Lord to stay at home and pray
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  Speaker 2: for us. So we got on the Jeep, and we're
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  Speaker 2: riding out there, you know, and it was interesting because
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  Speaker 2: the guy who was giving us the tour and going
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  Speaker 2: to show us all of these unique animals, I mean
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  Speaker 2: lions and elephants and all of this fantastic stuff, he
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  Speaker 2: was a zoologist, and it was amazing. It was amazing
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  Speaker 2: because he knew all of this stuff about the animals,
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  Speaker 2: how the animals' teeth were cut a certain way so
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  Speaker 2: that when they bit into certain branches, the branches were
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  Speaker 2: cut in such a way that they would be pruned
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  Speaker 2: and still be fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. How smart our God is. That he
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  Speaker 1: is a God of detail.
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  Speaker 2: That every aspect of their created fiber fit into the
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  Speaker 2: environment in which they had been created. So that they
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  Speaker 2: could function and eat and survive without losing anything or
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  Speaker 2: destroying anything. He was explaining to me everything. He was
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  Speaker 2: explaining to me like this amazing stuff. How he could
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  Speaker 2: look like at the dung of the animals and tell
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  Speaker 2: whether it was a male or a female.
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  Speaker 1: Which way it went and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see too much, but I smelled something, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see nothing. I was on the Jeep when
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  Speaker 2: my son and myself and the zoologist who was a
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  Speaker 2: professor from a university who had a wealth of knowledge
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  Speaker 2: and information and intellect, and he could explain everything about dynamos.
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  Speaker 2: He could explain everything about them. But there was a
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  Speaker 2: Zulu who was sitting on the front of the Jeep
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  Speaker 2: in a small little chair with some kind of big
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  Speaker 2: old outfit on. And he was sitting out there and
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  Speaker 2: the zoologist could explain about the animals. He knew everything
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  Speaker 2: about the animals, but he couldn't find them. The Zulu
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  Speaker 2: who was sitting on the edge of the Jeep said,
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  Speaker 2: The elephant is over there. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: something hit me right smack dab in.
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  Speaker 1: The middle of my bald head.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I am sitting right in between intellect and instinct.
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  Speaker 2: Intellect can explain it, but only instinct can. Instinct is
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  Speaker 2: an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristics of a
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  Speaker 2: species whereby you have a motivation or impulse or gut knowing.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you're a spiritual being, it's a prompting of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. It defies logic or intellect, bypasses senses
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  Speaker 2: or reasoning, has nothing to do with what you read
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  Speaker 2: or studied or learned in school.
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  Speaker 1: It's the inner impulse, the nudging.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Holy Spirit to react beyond information. Now, intellect
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  Speaker 2: is real important. It's very, very important. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: have intellect. The more intelligent you are, that too is
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  Speaker 2: a gift from God. But intellect without instinct.
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  Speaker 2: Will cause you to fall short from the elephant is
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  Speaker 2: over there. I said that good, didn't I?
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  Speaker 1: Try that with me.
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  Speaker 2: The elephant is over there. Oh, y'all are messing that up.
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  Speaker 2: You take that Australian and mix it with that African
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  Speaker 2: and it just falls over in the floor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one more time. Say it.
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  Speaker 1: The elephant is over there. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: You did good. Give yourselves a big round of applause.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in my.
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  Speaker 2: Text tonight is teaching us the kingdom of heaven is lacking.
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  Speaker 2: The kingdom of heaven is lacked. It's not this, but
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  Speaker 2: it's like this. He's using something that you can understand
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  Speaker 2: to explain something that is beyond human reasoning. The kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of heaven is lacking unto a master, he says, who
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  Speaker 2: called his servants and gave them. Now, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to catch this. You have the master and the servant.
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  Speaker 2: And if you read that with your Australian mind or
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  Speaker 2: your American mind or wherever you came from, if you
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  Speaker 2: read it through the lens of that mind in the
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  Speaker 2: society in which you have been raised, in which you
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  Speaker 2: have been developed, or in which you have been.
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  Speaker 1: Extrapolated, you will miss the power of these words.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've got the master, and one translation says the
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  Speaker 2: master and the slave.
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  Speaker 1: And the master and.
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  Speaker 2: The slave are worlds apart. Trust me, those are not
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  Speaker 2: the same things at all. Jesus existed in an environment
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  Speaker 2: where most of the societies in which he lived during.
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  Speaker 1: His era were in a caste system. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a democracy.
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  Speaker 2: A caste system suggests whatever status of life you are
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  Speaker 2: born in, you belong there. So if you were born
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  Speaker 2: a slave, then you stayed a slave. If you were
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  Speaker 2: born a master, you stayed a master. If you were
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  Speaker 2: born poor, you stayed poor. If you were born wealthy,
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  Speaker 2: you stayed rich. There was no feeling of responsibility to
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  Speaker 2: raise one person up into another status of life. It
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  Speaker 2: is a caste system, the haves and the have-nots. The
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  Speaker 2: ends and the out, the master and the slave, the
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  Speaker 2: rich and the poor, and never.
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  Speaker 1: The twain shall meet.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole notion that this master who owns the
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  Speaker 2: slave is getting ready to go on a trip and
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't give it to his children. He doesn't give
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  Speaker 2: talents to his heirs. He bypasses his neighbors and gives
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  Speaker 2: it to a slave is shocking. You don't give your
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  Speaker 2: master's stuff to a slave.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's awesome. That's mind-boggling.
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  Speaker 2: The slave has been gifted with master's stuff. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: earn it. He didn't work for it. He didn't labor
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  Speaker 2: to get it.
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  Speaker 1: He has been gifted.
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  Speaker 2: God wants you to understand as far as the master
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  Speaker 2: is from the slave, that's how far we are from God.
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  Speaker 2: He said, my thoughts are above your thoughts, my ways
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  Speaker 2: above your ways.
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  Speaker 1: As the heavens are above the earth that's.
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  Speaker 2: The gulf that exists between me and you you can't
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  Speaker 2: work your way up to me you can't earn your
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  Speaker 2: way up to me you can't be good enough to
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  Speaker 2: get up to me never the twain shall meet we
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  Speaker 2: are far apart it is not where the slave works
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  Speaker 2: his way up to the master it is where the
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  Speaker 2: master comes down and gifts the slave it was not
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  Speaker 2: where I came up to God the story is that
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  Speaker 2: God came down to.
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  Speaker 1: Me and.
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  Speaker 2: The slave has been gifted.
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  Speaker 1: Say this with me. I am gifted.
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  Speaker 2: That's not bragging. See, y'all are scared to say it
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  Speaker 2: because you don't want to sound like you're arrogant or
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  Speaker 2: proud or anything. You want to always appear to be
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  Speaker 2: humble at all times, particularly when you're around other Christians
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  Speaker 2: because you are evaluated on a scorecard based on how
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  Speaker 2: humble you act. But tonight, just because Bishop Jakes is
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  Speaker 2: up here and you got to put up with me
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  Speaker 2: for about 30 more minutes, just go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And say, I am gifted.
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  Speaker 2: I am fearfully and marvelously made.
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  Speaker 1: There's all kinds of stuff in me. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of talent. There's all kinds of.
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  Speaker 2: Creative ability that I didn't learn in school. There's stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you can do that you don't even know how
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  Speaker 2: you can do it. You just can do it. You
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  Speaker 2: have just been gifted. You are so gifted that whoever
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  Speaker 2: gets you gets a gift.
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  Speaker 1: You are an asset and not a liability. You are
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  Speaker 1: the head and not the tail. You are above and
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  Speaker 1: not beneath. You got some good stuff. Somebody shout, I
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  Speaker 1: am gifted.
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  Speaker 2: I have been gifted. There's some things that you can
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  Speaker 2: do that you don't even know how you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: You can just do it. I mean little simple things.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be big things like cook or
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  Speaker 2: dress or build or design or create. And you just
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  Speaker 2: got a knack for something. You don't even know where
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  Speaker 2: you got it from. God in his infinite wisdom just
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  Speaker 2: came down and gifted you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, buddy. Yes, sir, buddy. If you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Understand what you have, you don't understand how to keep it,
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  Speaker 2: you don't understand how to value it, and you can't
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  Speaker 2: understand when you lose it. You have to understand that
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  Speaker 2: you are a gift. And whenever you come in the room,
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that doesn't add to the sum total
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  Speaker 2: of a number is a zero.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are not a zero, you are an addition. Shout,
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  Speaker 1: I am gifted. And the master.
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  Speaker 2: gave to the slave. The slave is the recipient of
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  Speaker 2: something that breaks the social order of his day. The talents,
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  Speaker 2: in this case really money, has been given.
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  Speaker 1: To him, just given to him. That's a crazy story.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: My ancestors were slaves. Let me tell you something. My
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  Speaker 2: great-great-grandmother was a slave and I remember her.
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  Speaker 1: I met her. And let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: Masters don't go out in the field and give slaves
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  Speaker 2: no money.
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  Speaker 1: Or anything else.
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  Speaker 2: But God uses this illustration to say, that's what I
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  Speaker 2: have done to you.
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  Speaker 1: I have gifted you.
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  Speaker 2: Every single solitary person in this.
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  Speaker 1: Room has been gifted.
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  Speaker 2: And in fact, I want all the gifted people to
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  Speaker 2: give God a praise. That's how you acknowledge that you
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  Speaker 2: know that you have been gifted. You don't sit there
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  Speaker 2: with your legs crossed looking all cute and trying to
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  Speaker 2: be humble and not acknowledge that you received a gift.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to give people gifts that don't act like
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  Speaker 2: it's a big deal when I give you a gift.
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  Speaker 2: When I give you a gift, I want a reaction.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to shout or cry or holler or something.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 3: I have been.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says that once he had gifted them,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't gift them the same. Now, understand this. And
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  Speaker 2: to one he gave five talents, and to the other
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  Speaker 2: one he gave two, and to the other one he
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: gave one. To one he gave five, and to another
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  Speaker 2: one he gave two, and to the other one he
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  Speaker 2: gave one. Three different slaves, three different amounts. All different
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  Speaker 2: amounts given to different people. The one who had five
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  Speaker 2: looked at the one who had two and said, mine
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like yours. The one who had two looked
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  Speaker 2: at one and said, it's the same thing. But all
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  Speaker 2: of them had been.
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  Speaker 1: Gifted. I learned something about God. God is not fair.
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  Speaker 1: God is not fair.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell by the way that brother just sung
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  Speaker 2: a minute ago.
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  Speaker 1: God is not fair. You can sing like that. That's
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: not fair.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some of y'all sound like a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: cats stabbed in the neck when you sing. I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean that in an offensive way. I mean that in
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the most polite possible way. You do not have the
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  Speaker 2: ministry of music. You make a joyful noise, but make
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  Speaker 2: it to the Lord because we do not want to
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  Speaker 2: hear you do it. God is not fair, but he
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  Speaker 2: is just. Fair would be two for you, two for you,
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  Speaker 2: two for you, two for you, two for you. That
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  Speaker 2: would be fair, but just. Says, I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 2: being fair. The Bible said he gave them according to
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  Speaker 2: their ability. Bless God, I'm ready to shout. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm ready to shout about? I'm ready to shout
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  Speaker 2: because the Bible said God gave gifts, the master gave
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  Speaker 2: gifts according to ability that he considered what I could
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  Speaker 2: handle before he gave it to me. Lord, don't give
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  Speaker 2: me a gift I can't handle. Lord, don't give me
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity I can't handle. Lord, don't give me an
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  Speaker 2: open door that I can't handle. Don't give me anything
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  Speaker 2: that's too high for me or too great for me.
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  Speaker 2: Give me what I'm able to handle. When they built
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  Speaker 2: this stage, they have a weight load specification. They built
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  Speaker 2: it to handle a certain amount of weight. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: pushing it to the limit tonight. But they considered what
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  Speaker 2: it could handle before they put me up here. That's
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  Speaker 2: why it's not good to be jealous of anybody because
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  Speaker 2: you might ask to be like somebody else and get
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  Speaker 2: something that you were not built to handle. Give me
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  Speaker 2: what I can handle. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: saying to you. Aren't you glad God considered your ability
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  Speaker 2: before he put something on you that drove you crazy,
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  Speaker 2: gave you a nervous breakdown, pushed you over the edge,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: became too much for you? Every blessing is not a
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: blessing and every success is not success. Joshua said God
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: would give you good success. If there is good success,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: there's got to be bad success. You don't want what
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: other people have. You want what God has for you.
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  Speaker 2: And so to one he gave five and to one
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  Speaker 2: he gave two. And to the other one, he gave one.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: One guy's got five. One's got two. One's got one.
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  Speaker 2: Each according to his ability. The one thing they all
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  Speaker 2: had in common is what we have in common tonight.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have the same talents. They didn't have the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: same amount. But all three of them had an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight....
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  Speaker 2: You may not have what the person next to you has.
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  Speaker 2: You might not can do what they can do. You
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: might not look like what they look like. You may
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  Speaker 2: not have the resources. You might not can play those
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: guitars like those boys were playing the guitar. You may
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: not can play those drums like they do. You may
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: not can speak like somebody can speak or sing like
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: somebody can sing or draw like somebody can draw or
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: be like somebody else can be. But the one thing
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  Speaker 2: we all have in common when we woke up this
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: morning and we were not dead, we woke up with
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: an opportunity. The brother who had five immediately went to
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  Speaker 2: work and said, whoa, I got five, but I see
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  Speaker 2: how it can be 10. And he took what he
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: had been given and turned it into something. That's what
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  Speaker 2: every pastor wants on his staff. He wants people on
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: his staff. If I hand you some work to do,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to just hand it back to
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  Speaker 2: me like I gave.
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  Speaker 1: It to you. I want you to take it and
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  Speaker 1: turn it into something. That's what you want.
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  Speaker 2: That's what, that's what, let me tell you, that's what
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Moses got out of his staff. Moses did miracles with
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: his staff, not because it was a stick, but because
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: it was able to turn into something. And when I
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: give you a job to do, I want you to
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: not just hold it like it is, but turn it
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: into something. Want your magic on it and make it
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: more than what it was when I handed.
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  Speaker 1: It to you. Be fruitful.
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  Speaker 2: Turn that opportunity into something. Turn that department into something.
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  Speaker 2: Turn that church into something. Turn that house into a home.
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  Speaker 2: Turn that woman into a wife. Turn that man into
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a husband. Turn that kid into a man. Turn it
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  Speaker 2: into something.
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  Speaker 1: Do your magic on it.
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  Speaker 3: Make it more than.
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  Speaker 1: What it was.
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  Speaker 2: Brother number five said, hey, I see how it can
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  Speaker 2: be ten.
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  Speaker 1: Cut. God Almighty.
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  Speaker 2: Brother number two said, excuse me, I see how it.
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  Speaker 1: Can be four.
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  Speaker 2: And brother number one said, now, you know, when he
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: come back, I don't want to take no chances. And
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: so the Bible said he was afraid and he hid
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  Speaker 2: his talent in the earth. His mistake is the mistake
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I've come to warn you of. If you expose your fear,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: You bury your talent. You need to reverse it. You
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: need to bury your fear and expose your talents. Tonight
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  Speaker 2: I want to challenge you. Everybody has fear. Everybody has fear.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't let your fear have you. Tonight, if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do what God has called you to do,
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  Speaker 2: you have got to reverse the process. Stop exposing your fear.
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  Speaker 2: Bury your fear up under the blood of the cross
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  Speaker 2: and the word of Jesus Christ and lift up your
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  Speaker 2: talent and say, this is the day that the Lord
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: has made. And when you switch that process, demons tremble
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  Speaker 2: and hell gets nervous. Curses are broken and yokes are destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: People are set free and your life is built over again.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have the courage?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout yes!
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  Speaker 2: When God gives you an opportunity, you need to work
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  Speaker 2: your magic on it and turn it into something.
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  Speaker 1: Brother 5 turned it into 10.
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  Speaker 2: Brother 2 turned it into 4. And Brother 1, well,
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  Speaker 2: he kind of messed up my story a little bit
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: because he kind of just.
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  Speaker 1: What had happened was.
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  Speaker 2: He never turned his opportunity into anything because of his fear.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And the Lord sent me to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to do with what he has
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: given you? What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do with it? What are
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you going to do with it?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: There's somebody in the hospital wishing they could be where
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: you are right now. There's somebody on a breathing machine
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: wishing they could be where you are right now. But
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: look at you. I know you got some problems and
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I know you got some issues, but you combed your
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: own hair. You got up out of the bed. You
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: brush your own teeth. You dress yourself. What are you
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: going to do with what God has given you? Anyway,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the story goes on. The master took a journey, went
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: into a far country, and he came back. When he
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: came back, he came back, walked up to brother number five.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Brother number five said, hey, I've been waiting on you
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to get back. I've got something to show you. Remember
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: when you gave me five?
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  Speaker 1: Shazam! I'm bad. He did that little Michael Jackson thing. Ten!
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  Speaker 2: Ten! Brother number two says, excuse me, let me show
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  Speaker 2: you some shazam.
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  Speaker 3: Four.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine in my mind brother number 10 looked at
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  Speaker 2: brother number four and said, how can you be that
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  Speaker 2: happy about four?
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  Speaker 1: I got 10 and you got four.
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  Speaker 2: Brother number four, if he had any sense, would have
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: told brother number 10, I may not have as many
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: as you have, but both of us have 100% increase
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  Speaker 2: over where we started.
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  Speaker 1: What I want you to see out.
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  Speaker 2: Of that is that God does not expect you to
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: work with what he has not given you. God is
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  Speaker 2: not holding you to somebody else's standard. What God is
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: holding you to is to work that thing on your level.
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  Speaker 2: You can't sit around and say, I wish I had more.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: If I had more, I'd do more with it. No,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you don't have to give an account for what God
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: gave me or God gave her or what God gave him.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: You do have to give an account for what God
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: has given you. And rather than to compare yourself with
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: somebody else, you need to work that thing on your level.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody help me in here. Touch somebody and say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: ready to work that thing. I'm ready to work that thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to work that thing. I'm ready to come
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  Speaker 2: up out of my fear and my doubt and my worry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to work that thing. I'm ready to work.
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  Speaker 2: Every day and every opportunity and every door he opens.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to work that thing. I'm ready to work
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  Speaker 2: that thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. In fact, touch three people and say, work
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  Speaker 1: that thing, work that thing, work that thing. Work it.
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  Speaker 2: Work it in the mission fields. Work it in the church.
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  Speaker 2: Work it in the ministry. Work it in the music department.
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  Speaker 2: Work it in the children's ministry. When you get back
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  Speaker 2: to your church, work that thing. It may not be
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: big like this. You may not have all the equipment
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: like this.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have.
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  Speaker 2: A lighting system. All you got is a flashlight. But, baby,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: work that thing. Work that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Work, work, work, work, work.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get you so fired up that hell
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: gets nervous when you pull out of the parking lot.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I want the devil to get hiccups when you wake
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: up out of the bed in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Because with all of your might.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And with all of your strength, according to what you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: have been given, you need to work that thing.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: 80 years old and.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: You're still alive, work that thing. If you got a wheelchair,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: spin it around in the floor and work that thing.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Whatever God gave you, this is your year to work
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: that thing. When you go to class, work that thing. So,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the master came back. So the story goes, five turned
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: it to ten, two turned it into four. Brother Juan said, uh,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I kept what you gave me. I didn't put a
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: spin on it. I didn't make it better. If God
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: brings somebody in your life, make them better. If God
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: gives you a talent, make it better. If God opens
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  Speaker 2: up a financial blessing, don't just hold it in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Make it better.
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  Speaker 2: And so the master looked at me, he got mad.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: He said, you should have put my money to the exchange.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: You should have done something with what I gave you.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: You should have done something with every day. You should
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: have done something with every opportunity. You should have done
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: something with every day of your life. You should have
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: done something.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: You should have stopped crying and complaining. You should have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: done something. I felt bad for brother Juan.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just that kind of person. I'm always for the underdog. Yeah,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I could have been Judas's lawyer. And I said, Lord,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: this is not fair because when you read the text carefully,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't tell brother five, brother two, or brother one
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  Speaker 2: to increase. You never told them to increase. You gave
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: them what you gave them and left. You did not
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  Speaker 2: command them to increase. So you're judging this brother kind
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  Speaker 2: of hard, Lord, because.
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  Speaker 1: He, you know, his brother had a hard life, Lord.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: He'd been through a lot of stuff, Jesus. You never
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: told him to increase. He said, no, this is not
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: about commandment. It's about instinct. Do you have the instinct to.
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  Speaker 1: To increase.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And I thought, oh my God, you never commanded them
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: to increase, but you expected them to increase. The kingdom
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of heaven will not command you to increase, but he
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: expects you to increase. That's why he says stuff like
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: be fruitful and multiply. I expect you to take everything
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I gave you and give increase to to what I've
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: given you. And I said, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Let me let me, let me try to figure this out.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Let me try to figure it out. And I said,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: in the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: word be established. And then all of a sudden the
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Lord called 10 witnesses out. And he said, do you
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: remember the 10 lepers? They came before Jesus and they said, oh, Jesus,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: have mercy on me. And Jesus says to the 10 lepers,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: go show yourself. Listen to this. This is a command.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Go show yourself to the priest. And the Bible said
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: that all 10 of them started moving toward the priest.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: But while they were headed to the priest. One of them,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: all of them looked down and they began to see
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: that they were healed. Isn't it something that when you
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: start walking in the word, you get healing in your life?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: You don't have to struggle. You don't have to labor.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: But the more you obey God, the more his healing
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: power operates in your life. And as they were walking,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: they all began to experience the healing. But one of
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: them turned around.
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  Speaker 1: And went back to.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Jesus and said, Lord, I just came to say thank you.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: And Jesus looked at the one and said, where are
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the nine? And I said, Lord, you didn't tell them
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: to come back. You told them to go show themselves
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: to the priest. He said, yes, but I'll put an
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: instinct down inside of you that when you get your blessing,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have to tell you to praise me. I
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have to tell you to trust me. You ought
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: to have the instinct. So tonight, you don't need anybody
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: to tell you to praise the Lord. You don't need
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: all this fine equipment. You don't need all of this
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: sound system. You don't need me. You don't need singers
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: or drums or tambourines or bongos.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: You need something.
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  Speaker 2: Down inside of you that says God has been so
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: good to me that I cannot leave this place without
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: giving him the highest praise and blessing him.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: For all that he's done for me.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: So what I'm going to ask you to do for
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the next 30 seconds, everybody who's got a gift, everybody
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: who's ever been blessed, everybody who's ever been touched, everybody
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  Speaker 2: who woke up out of the bed this morning, everybody
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  Speaker 2: who's ever been healed, everybody who's ever been set free,
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  Speaker 2: open your.
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  Speaker 3: Mouth and give God love.
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  Speaker 1: Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Yes! Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Yes!
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  Speaker 3: You got five seconds left!
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  Speaker 2: Take the roof off this place!
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: While you're praising him, while you're praising him, I speak
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  Speaker 2: increase over your life. I speak increase over your church.
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  Speaker 2: I speak increase over your preaching. I speak increase over
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  Speaker 2: your ministry. I speak increase in your family. I speak
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  Speaker 2: the blessing of the Lord. You're going to be blessed
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  Speaker 2: in the city, blessed in the field, blessed in your.
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  Speaker 1: Coming in, blessed in your going out, blessed.
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  Speaker 3: Bless, bless, bless, give God praise.
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  Speaker 2: He sends brother one in the outer darkness, but to
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  Speaker 2: brother four and brother 10, he says, well done, good
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  Speaker 2: and faithful servant. Enter into the joys of thy master.
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  Speaker 2: I came to tell Hillsong, there's about to be a shift.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've been faithful over a few things, God is
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  Speaker 2: about to make you ruler over many. And before I
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  Speaker 2: leave this stage tonight. I want every born-again, baptized, spirit-filled
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  Speaker 2: believer to turn around in a circle right now. Just
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  Speaker 2: turn right around in a circle. God is about to
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  Speaker 2: turn things around in your life.
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  Speaker 1: God is about to.
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  Speaker 2: Move you into another dimension. God is about to take
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  Speaker 2: you into orbit. God is about to raise you up.
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  Speaker 2: God is about to establish you. God is about to
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  Speaker 2: enter in. Enter in. You see, any slave can follow instructions,
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  Speaker 2: obey rules. But masters move by instinct. Abraham, take now
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  Speaker 2: thy son, thine only son, and offer him up. If
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  Speaker 2: Abraham would obey that first command without listening for that
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  Speaker 2: next voice, he would have slayed his son. Man shall
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  Speaker 2: not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 2: proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Are you walking
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  Speaker 2: in what God has said or are you walking in
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  Speaker 2: what God is saying?
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  Speaker 1: There is.
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  Speaker 2: An instinct that causes you to bring in the harvest.
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  Speaker 2: There is an instinct that tells the mother when it's
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  Speaker 2: time to have the baby. There is an instinct that
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  Speaker 2: separates the good from the great. It is not their intellect.
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  Speaker 2: It is not what they read in the book. It
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  Speaker 2: is not who you know. It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Elephant is over there.
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  Speaker 2: When you leave, when you leave this place, go get
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  Speaker 2: your elephant. I want to pray tonight for unborn dreams.
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  Speaker 2: for hopes that you can't quite touch yet. I want
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  Speaker 2: to pray for people who have an unction on the
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  Speaker 2: inside that doesn't even fit your situation. I want to
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  Speaker 2: pray for people that every time the devil says give
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  Speaker 2: up and die, there's something inside of you saying, no, live, live, live, live.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I want to pray for people that if we look
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  Speaker 2: at your background, you should have been a basket case.
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  Speaker 2: You should have had a nervous breakdown and lost your mind.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something in your gut, in your heart, in
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  Speaker 2: your spirit, in your innermost being that said, hold on.
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  Speaker 2: That instinct, that still small voice, that push of God
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  Speaker 2: is about to turn your life around. You've been shouting
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  Speaker 2: because you survived. You've been thanking God that you made
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  Speaker 2: it through your storm and your sorrow and your tears
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  Speaker 2: and your midnights. You've been thanking God that he sustained
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  Speaker 2: you when all hell was breaking loose. But I came
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  Speaker 2: to tell you that God didn't sustain you for you
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  Speaker 2: to stay where you are. He sustained you because your
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  Speaker 2: best days are in front of you. He sustained you
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  Speaker 2: because he's about to take you into another dimension. He
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  Speaker 2: sustained you because he has a purpose and a reason
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  Speaker 2: for your life.
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  Speaker 1: And the devil wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Try to kill you if you weren't headed somewhere. Your elephant.
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  Speaker 1: Is over there. Did you hear what I said? Your
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  Speaker 1: elephant is over there.
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  Speaker 2: Did you all hear what I said?
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  Speaker 3: Your elephant.
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  Speaker 1: Is over there.
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  Speaker 2: The reason you survived all hell breaking loose in your
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  Speaker 2: life is.
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  Speaker 1: Because your elephant is over there.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you stop.
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  Speaker 2: Till you get your elephant don't you stop till you
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  Speaker 2: build that church don't you stop till you birth that
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  Speaker 2: ministry don't you stop until you turn that house into
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  Speaker 2: a home that huddle into a family that mess into
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  Speaker 2: a message that test into a testimony Don't you stop
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  Speaker 2: until you see increase, until you see harvest, until you
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  Speaker 2: see the blessing of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: It's harvest time. It's harvest time.
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  Speaker 2: It's harvest time. It's harvest time. Somebody shout in this house.
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  Speaker 1: Join hands. Leave no one untouched. Span the aisles.
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  Speaker 2: Brother number 10, touch brother number 4. Brother number 4,
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  Speaker 2: grab brother 1. We're coming out of this tonight.
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  Speaker 1: God's about to wake up the dead.
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  Speaker 3: Dead dreams.
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  Speaker 2: Dead hopes. Dead prophecies. Dead miracles. Dead ministries. Your zeal
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: for God is coming back. Your zeal for God is
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: coming back. Your harvest is about to break forth. Somebody's
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: going to get financial breakthroughs. You've been dealing with a
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: tough time, but God is saying increase even over your finances.
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  Speaker 2: Squeeze that hand you're holding. I want you to know
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  Speaker 2: what a miracle feels like. Because the person you're holding
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  Speaker 2: in your hands is a miracle from God. You might
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  Speaker 2: not know their story and you might not know what
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  Speaker 2: they've been through, but trust me, they are a survivor.
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  Speaker 2: You're touching a survivor tonight. Now, God, you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: taken us through all you took us through to leave
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  Speaker 2: the hunt. Without the elephant. To build a church without souls.
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  Speaker 2: To have a sermon without salvation. To plow and not reap.
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  Speaker 2: To sow and not harvest. Squeeze that hand. God brought
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  Speaker 2: you to heal song. To stir your instincts. To show
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  Speaker 2: you where your elephant is. Your elephant is over there.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Your elephant is over there. Your elephant is over there. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I pray in the name of Jesus that the anointing
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit would seize his place and touch
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  Speaker 2: and heal and deliver and set free. That gifts would
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  Speaker 2: be stirred up. That ideas and creativity would be stirred up.
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  Speaker 2: That somebody would write that book. that somebody would open
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  Speaker 2: that business, that somebody would start that ministry, that somebody
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  Speaker 2: would open up that shelter, that somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Would go in the mission field.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, oh God, right now in the name of Jesus,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: that somebody would build that house, that somebody would build
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  Speaker 2: that dream. I pray right now in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's about to.
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  Speaker 1: Record the glory of the Lord is released in this place.
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  Speaker 3: Squeeze that hand. The elephant. God sent the elephant.
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  Speaker 1: The thing you've been waiting on.
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  Speaker 2: The thing the devil's been fighting you for.
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  Speaker 1: The elephant.
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  Speaker 2: It's over there. It's over there. It's over there. It's
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  Speaker 2: over there. It's over there. Don't stop. Till you find it.
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  Speaker 2: Because the elephant.
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  Speaker 3: Give him your best phrase, Hillsong! Yes!
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Yes!
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  Speaker 3: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Yes!
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 1: Woo! Woo! Woo!
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  Speaker 2: Yes! Somebody up there is about to work that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody over there is about to work that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody in the back is about to work that thing.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Look how the Alaspers, they're about to work that thing.
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  Speaker 3: The Alaspers!
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  Speaker 1: Please be seated. I got it.
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  Speaker 2: This is my last opportunity, and Pastor asked me, I
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: challenge you in giving tonight, in sowing. And I thought, yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Because when I get through preaching tonight, somebody's about to
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  Speaker 2: go get that elephant. Somebody's about to reap that harvest.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's about to see increase in their life. Somebody's about
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  Speaker 2: to step into another dominion. They're about to enter into
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  Speaker 2: the joys of the Lord. Your weeping may endure for
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  Speaker 2: a night, but joy It's coming in the morning. I
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: know in one way, entering into the joy of the
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Lord can be heaven. But that doesn't mean you have
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  Speaker 2: to be in hell while you're waiting on it. As
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  Speaker 2: we sow tonight, there's been some things that God has
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  Speaker 2: done in this place that's priceless. The word that you've heard,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: the yokes that have been broken, I don't mean from me,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: but these speakers who've come from all over the place.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Do y'all know that, maybe you don't know it. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know this is amazing? Do you know you got
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: people flying through international date lines to experience the glory
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: that's in this place right now? Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what university you went to. Preachers preach
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  Speaker 2: better up under the anointing. Singers sing better up under
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  Speaker 2: the anointing. Because when you're anointed, the anointing takes you
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  Speaker 2: into a dimension that you couldn't get in by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's the wind up under you that lifts you. If
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  Speaker 2: we preach better up under the anointing, if singers sing
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  Speaker 2: better up under the anointing, what would happen if we
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  Speaker 2: give up under the anointing of the Holy Spirit? I
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  Speaker 2: want to challenge you. I believe the anointing of God
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  Speaker 2: is in this place. I believe the anointing of God
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  Speaker 2: is in this place. It would be a shame for
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  Speaker 2: us to sit in this kind of anointing and this
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  Speaker 2: kind of glory and eat up these kinds of blessings
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  Speaker 2: and get up and belch and walk away and not say, Lord,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: we have a responsibility to sow into the God that
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  Speaker 2: has sown into us. We have a responsibility to sow
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  Speaker 2: in the direction that we are going. We're not sowing
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  Speaker 2: out of where we're have been we are sowing in
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  Speaker 2: the direction of where we are going how many people
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  Speaker 2: in here are going somewhere I want you to sow
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  Speaker 2: into your vision into your dream into the thing you
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  Speaker 2: have not touched yet I want you to sow into
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  Speaker 2: the invisible, infallible, immutable. All you have to have is
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: God's word on it. His word is good. His word
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  Speaker 2: is absolute. They've got some cards. I got to preaching
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: and I might have thrown my card away. I think
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the elephant ate my card. Get these cards out. And
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: I want you to sow in the direction that you're going,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: into the impulse and the prompting of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: I want you to sow into your elephant. I want
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: you to respond to the value of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of times I was sitting over there,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I received so much word, I just started weeping. Because
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: when you, I'm telling you, a word from God is priceless.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: It's priceless. I said a word from God is priceless.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: I was wiping tears this morning. I mean, I was
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: wiping tears. I don't cry easy. It's better in front
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: of people. Got to hold up your image. I tried
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: to act like, you know, somebody was cutting onions, but
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't see no onions. I know the value of
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: God's word kept me from dying, kept me from collapsing,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: stopped me from suicide. Burft a ministry inside of me.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Pick me up and turn me around. If you know
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: the value of the word, if you've got a dream
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: ahead of you that only God can help you to reach,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I want you to sow in the direction that you're going.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit. These cards are
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: available to you. And while you're writing, I'm praying. Father,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: bless every seed we sow. Bless every man, every pastor,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: every business owner, every writer, every dreamer, every student, every scholar,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: every teacher, every missionary, every person who has something in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: their heart, some instinct, some impulse, some waiting dream, some
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: waiting hope that they cannot do without you. We sow
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: into it right now in the name of Jesus. And
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: we sow mightily. And yes, Holy Spirit, As you speak tonight,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: we will say yes. We will not debate. We will
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: not do what we have always done. Because if we do,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: we will be where we have always been. And we
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: refuse to receive this word and go back to business
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: as usual. We break the curse of normalcy. We break
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: the curse of mediocrity. We break that curse right now
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. Yes, Lord, we will say
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: yes to your prompting. We will follow your voice. In
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, amen. Write the biggest check you can. Sow
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: the seed the Holy Spirit spoke to you. Sow in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: the direction that you are going because I declare unto you,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the elephant
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  Speaker 1: Is over there.