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Sticks & Stones - Bishop T.D. Jakes The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the house. We're so glad you joined us today.
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Speaker 1: Choosing to tune in to dis serment was not by accident.
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Speaker 1: And I believe God has a word just for you.
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Speaker 2: That's right. God is always using the people of this
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Speaker 2: our family.
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Speaker 1: And we believe that worship doesn't have walls, and experiencing
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Speaker 1: the goodness of God's spirit doesn't always require a commute.
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Speaker 2: So are you ready to join us as we fellowship
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Speaker 2: and unite in spirit and in truth. I want your
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Speaker 2: hearts to be open because we are going to encounter
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Speaker 2: God together.
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Speaker 1: Heymen, we see you, we love you, and we believe
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Speaker 1: this word is going to change your life.
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Speaker 3: Exodus, chapter seventeen, verse one through six. It is so
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Speaker 3: good to see you this morning. It's just good to
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Speaker 3: see you. You didn't have to be here this morning.
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Speaker 3: I didn't have to be here this morning, but God
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Speaker 3: was good enough to let our moments roll on. You
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Speaker 3: ought to say yes, somebody, We're going to start reading
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Speaker 3: of the first verse of the seventeenth chapter of the
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Speaker 3: book of Exodus. The Book of Exodus describes the exit
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Speaker 3: of the children of Israel out from the bondage of
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Speaker 3: the Egyptians, where they had been oppressed for four hundred years.
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Speaker 3: They had lived in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.
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Speaker 3: The first thirty years they were not oppressed. But when
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Speaker 3: Joseph died and another pharaoh came in, a pharaoh that
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Speaker 3: knew not Joseph nor his God, and to oppress them.
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Speaker 3: People are change on you want them. And they lived
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Speaker 3: in oppression for four hundred years. I know you can't
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Speaker 3: imagine four hundred years. I can't either. That's a long
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Speaker 3: time to live up under oppression. And they had almost
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Speaker 3: forgotten who they were, their customs, their ceremonies, their language,
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Speaker 3: their rituals. But they cried unto God in a haphazard way,
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Speaker 3: not knowing fully what to call him, how to use
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Speaker 3: its name, how to stand on his word. But He
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Speaker 3: heard the cry. He told Moses, how I heard the
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Speaker 3: cry of my children. Go down into Egypt and tell
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Speaker 3: Froh to let my people go. God is gonna release
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Speaker 3: somebody any here today. I feel it. I feel it.
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Speaker 3: I feel it. I feel that God's gonna release somebody
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Speaker 3: any here today, and so they left out of Egypt,
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Speaker 3: going into the Promised Land way of the desert. God
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Speaker 3: doesn't always let you choose what route he takes you
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Speaker 3: to deliver you. It's not always comfortable, it's not always convenient,
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Speaker 3: it's not always cool. And just because you get out
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Speaker 3: of one trouble don't mean you won't have to face
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Speaker 3: another one. Because they got out of one kind of
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Speaker 3: hell to run into another one. Now they're going through
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Speaker 3: the desert and it is scorching hot during the day,
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Speaker 3: hot enough to die in the walk during the day,
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Speaker 3: and it is freezing cold at night. But they were free.
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Speaker 3: But they were free. Look at somebody, say, I still
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Speaker 3: got problems, but I'm free. Yeah, yeah, everything is not
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Speaker 3: going right, but I'm free. Yeah yeah yeah. My money's
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Speaker 3: kind of funny, but I'm free. My husband walked out
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Speaker 3: on me, but I'm free. My parents are sick, but
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Speaker 3: I'm free. My refrigerators half full, but I'm free. And
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Speaker 3: I have learned whatever state I'm in, therewith to be condenned.
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Speaker 3: That's majority when you can praise God when everything at
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Speaker 3: quite right. We interject into the experience at a time
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Speaker 3: and at the moment that they are adjusting to a
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Speaker 3: new reality. And I chose this text. I believe the
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Speaker 3: Lord put it on my heart because we are adjusting
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Speaker 3: to a new reality. It's not that the past was perfect,
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Speaker 3: but now we have a new kind of problem to fight,
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Speaker 3: and it's going to take a new kind of ingenuity
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Speaker 3: and new kind of wisdom and new kind of power
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Speaker 3: to be able to deal with it. And Moses is
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Speaker 3: trying to lead a people who are one displaced and
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Speaker 3: two confused, and three frustrated, and they're not sure of
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Speaker 3: their leaders, and they're not sure of themselves, and they're
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Speaker 3: not sure of God because they had not walked with
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Speaker 3: them long enough. See, you have to walk through God,
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Speaker 3: through a whole lot of situations to be sure of God.
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Speaker 3: Anybody can be sure of God when all the bills
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Speaker 3: are paid and your body's feeling good, and your kidneys
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Speaker 3: are working right, and you've got no cancer. But when
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Speaker 3: all hell is breaking loose, the devil has a tendency
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Speaker 3: to say, where is your God? Now? Am I talking
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Speaker 3: right to somebody in the ears? And the verse one says,
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Speaker 3: and and all the congregation of the children of Israel
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Speaker 3: journey from the wilderness of sin after their journeys according
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Speaker 3: to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Refidum,
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Speaker 3: which was a little camp in the wilderness, and there
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Speaker 3: was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore, because
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Speaker 3: of the fact that there was no water for them
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Speaker 3: to drink, the people did chide with Moses. See, whenever
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Speaker 3: things get tight, people get nasty. I better not start
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Speaker 3: under this text. I'm gonna start. The reason there's so
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Speaker 3: much vitriol in this country right now is that things
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Speaker 3: have tightened up a little bit. And when people get tight,
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Speaker 3: they need somebody to blame. So they want to blame
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Speaker 3: this folk and that folk, and this person and that person.
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Speaker 3: And so they begin to blame Moses and to begin
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Speaker 3: to pick on him and chide him, and said, give
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Speaker 3: us water that we may drink. And Moses said, under
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Speaker 3: them way, chide ye with me? How did you ever
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Speaker 3: wanted to say that to somebody? Let me translate it
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Speaker 3: into you bodies? Why you fooling with me? You want
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Speaker 3: some of this? Don't start nothing, won't be nothing. Don't
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Speaker 3: make the nice man mad? Why childe ye with me?
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Speaker 3: Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? If you chide with me,
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Speaker 3: you temp God? If you mess with me, you mess
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Speaker 3: with God. You may think I'm in here by myself,
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Speaker 3: but I'm surrounded by God all around me. And the
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Speaker 3: people thirst it there for water, and the people murmured
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Speaker 3: against Mother. Those two things go together, thirst and gossip first,
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Speaker 3: and murmuring. See, when you are satisfied, a whole lot
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Speaker 3: of things don't stick to you. But when you are
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Speaker 3: not satisfied in your own life, you have a tendency
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Speaker 3: to be cynical, to be condescending, to be acrimonious, to
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Speaker 3: have the kind of attitude and disposition that you are
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Speaker 3: hard to get along with. You have to understand then
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Speaker 3: that when people are mean to you, they are mad
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Speaker 3: at themselves. I'm preaching, I'm preaching her. I'm just reading
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Speaker 3: the text. Lord, have mercy. Let me go on about
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Speaker 3: my business. They murmured against Moses and said, wherefore is
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Speaker 3: this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt?
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Speaker 3: Now they was in slavery, So anything's got to be
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Speaker 3: an upgrade to kill us and our children and our
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Speaker 3: cattle with thirst. And Moses cried unto the Lord. You
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Speaker 3: can say things that make men of God cry unto God.
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Speaker 3: You can say things that make women of God cry
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Speaker 3: unto God. And when they cry on to God, something
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Speaker 3: is going to happen. He said, what shall I do
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Speaker 3: unto this people? They be almost ready to stone me.
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Speaker 3: And the Lord said, under Moses, go on before the
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Speaker 3: people and take with thee of the elders of Israel.
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Speaker 3: And thy rod were with thou smotest the river. Take
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Speaker 3: in thy hand and go take your rod and go
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Speaker 3: in front of the people. Behold, I will send I
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Speaker 3: will stand before thee there upon the rock in horror,
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Speaker 3: and thou shalt smite the rock. I want you to
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Speaker 3: pay attention to that. I want you to take your
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Speaker 3: rod and smite the rock. Lord, they thirsty while you
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Speaker 3: got me hitting rocks. Have you ever had God give
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Speaker 3: you an answer that didn't make no sense. You talking
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Speaker 3: to him about the rent and he's telling you to
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Speaker 3: give water to the puppies. Sometimes God will command you
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Speaker 3: to do something that don't seem like it has nothing
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Speaker 3: to do with your situation. But he said, I want
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Speaker 3: you to smite the rock. That's why when Pastor was
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Speaker 3: talking about obedience, he was really hitting on something. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: God will tell you something that don't make sense to you.
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Speaker 3: It passes all understanding. You can't stand under it, but
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Speaker 3: you gotta obeyed. Smite the rocks. Take your rod, take
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Speaker 3: your stick and hit the rock, and there shall come
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Speaker 3: water out of it. Oh, I could dance right there,
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Speaker 3: because I've never seen a rock. There was supposed to
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Speaker 3: be a water cooler. But God said, if you obey me,
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Speaker 3: I'll make things that's not supposed to bless you. Let
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Speaker 3: me tell y'all, if you obey me, I'll give you
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Speaker 3: jobs that you're not supposed to have. If you obey me,
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Speaker 3: I'll give you the kind of spouse that makes folks
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Speaker 3: jealous when you walk in. And they said, what is
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Speaker 3: she doing with him? God said, I'm gonna bring water
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Speaker 3: out of it that the people may drink. And Moses
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Speaker 3: did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Speaker 3: Can you say, a man, I'm interested in that. Take
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Speaker 3: your rod and smite the rock. And my subject this
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Speaker 3: morning remains standing. I'm going to pray, but my subject
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Speaker 3: this morning is sticks and stones. Sticks and stones, my God,
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Speaker 3: feel something in this place. Spirit of the Living God,
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Speaker 3: fall fresh in this place right now. I thank you
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Speaker 3: for what you're going to do. Move in the midst
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Speaker 3: of your people. Great God that you are in the
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Speaker 3: mighty name of Jesus, we pray somebody shout thunderously. Amen,
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Speaker 3: you may be seated, or y'all sound like the part
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Speaker 3: of that. You sound like the part of somebody shout Amen,
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Speaker 3: serve my job. I have been in Dallas for the
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Speaker 3: last thirty years. I was raised in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Speaker 3: I am sixty nine years old. Come June. I have
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Speaker 3: been preaching for nearly fifty years. It'll be fifty years
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Speaker 3: in September. Fifty years of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 3: But when I was a boy, I grew up on
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Speaker 3: the side of a hill in the area we called
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Speaker 3: Vandehlia in Charleston, West Virginia. And our house was the
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Speaker 3: last house before the heel dropped over the cliff, and
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Speaker 3: so we went from time to time go play. Now,
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Speaker 3: I cannot remember a toy that I had that plugged up.
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Speaker 3: I know y'all don't understand this. I'm gonna say that again.
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Speaker 3: I cannot remember a toy I had that plugged up.
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Speaker 3: No Nintendos, no nothing, no, no, no laptops, no, nothing
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Speaker 3: like that. I might have got a train set one time,
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Speaker 3: but most of it. Most of it didn't plug up,
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Speaker 3: most of it didn't have batteries. We had very few
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Speaker 3: toys that came out of the store. You might get
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Speaker 3: a plastic train, you know that you could run back
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Speaker 3: and forth, and my sister would get a doll baby
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Speaker 3: or something like that. But most of the time Mama
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Speaker 3: would send us out with no toys, and she would
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Speaker 3: tell us go outside and play. Now, you don't hear
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Speaker 3: too many mamas telling their children to go outside and
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Speaker 3: play today because they're especially in Dallas, because it's hot outside.
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Speaker 3: But the reason we didn't mind going outside to play
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Speaker 3: is because it was hot inside. I'm gonna talk to
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Speaker 3: y' all. They booze you over there. Let me when
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Speaker 3: the house is hot, it's a different kind of hot
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Speaker 3: from the hot outside because at leaf a little breeze
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Speaker 3: will blow every now and then, or you can get
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Speaker 3: up under a tray a shade tree. But when that
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Speaker 3: house gets the smoking and you start feeling like a
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Speaker 3: turkey and you start basting in your own juices, it
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Speaker 3: was hot in the house. It was hot in the house.
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Speaker 3: There There was no air conditioning for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and there was just a fan. One would be turned
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Speaker 3: this way and one would be turned the other way,
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Speaker 3: and they were trying to be scientific, you know, to
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Speaker 3: get a breeze to blow through the house. And and
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Speaker 3: that was normal. Last year, the power went out in Dallas,
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Speaker 3: and I almost had a fit. I said, oh God,
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Speaker 3: if you don't turn this electricity back on, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: die right where I am. And then it occurred to me,
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Speaker 3: fool you was raised in a hot house. I had
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Speaker 3: forgotten where I came from. I had forgotten what God
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Speaker 3: had done. I had forgotten how to withstand this comfort.
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Speaker 3: And a few days of discomfort didn't compare to decades
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Speaker 3: of living in that hot house. It was so hot
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Speaker 3: we got where we didn't pay no attention. Hot was normal.
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Speaker 3: My name's house was hot. The pages that lived up
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Speaker 3: the street, their house was hot. Miss Hutchinson's house was hot. Everybody.
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Speaker 3: Miss Timberleck's house was hot. Everybody on the street lived
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Speaker 3: in a house that was hot. And we still sang,
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Speaker 3: and we still got along, and we still had fun,
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Speaker 3: and we still had life, and we still got up
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Speaker 3: in the morning, and we were still brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 3: and we're still together today. In spite of the heat,
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Speaker 3: everything didn't have to go your way. For you to
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Speaker 3: have people, mamm would sent us outside to play with
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Speaker 3: already told you no kind of toys or nothing, And
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Speaker 3: you would grab some sticks and make them into bowls
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Speaker 3: and arrows. And you don't know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: You would you would make some castles out of rocks
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Speaker 3: or or sand. One year, I had a magnifying glass.
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Speaker 3: I was chasing hands. Not too long ago, I sent
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Speaker 3: one of my grandchildren outside to play. I bought him
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Speaker 3: a little motorbike, a little mud bike, and I sent
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Speaker 3: him outside to play. He played for a minute or two, yeah,
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Speaker 3: and then he will back around and went back in
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Speaker 3: the house and got on his iPad. And I thought,
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Speaker 3: don't you want to play outside? But see he was
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Speaker 3: raised inside in comfort, in air conditioning, with iPads, and
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Speaker 3: he knew how to run the iPad. But he didn't
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Speaker 3: know much about withstanding heat. There is there anybody in
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Speaker 3: here that knows something about with sand and heat. See,
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Speaker 3: people who live in a hot house don't cook till
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Speaker 3: it's later at night. That's why we started cooking the oven.
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Speaker 3: We started cooking turkeys at night because it was too
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Speaker 3: hot during the day to heat up the house. Cooking
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Speaker 3: a turkey or baking a cake, or doing anything. So
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Speaker 3: your mama did all the bacon at night when the
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Speaker 3: house had cooled down. Y'all don't understand the however, I
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Speaker 3: have to explain this to you. This was before Jiffy cornbread,
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Speaker 3: This was before quick grits. We just made do with
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Speaker 3: what we had and went on about our business. These
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Speaker 3: children that I'm preaching about, they was like me. They
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Speaker 3: was out there in the wilderness. I played in the
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Speaker 3: wilderness with sticks and stones. I played in the creek bed,
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Speaker 3: pulling rocks out of creeks, trying to catch salamanders, and
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Speaker 3: y'all don't know what I'm talking about. I played with
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Speaker 3: boxes and caught toads and brought them back home to Mama,
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Speaker 3: and brought a turtle back in the house. Those were
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Speaker 3: my toys that I played with because I was raised
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Speaker 3: in the wilderness. Now it's hard to hurt somebody that's
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Speaker 3: been raised in the wilderness, because when you've been raised
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Speaker 3: in the wilderness, what would send other people back home?
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Speaker 3: You can take it. All you got to do is
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Speaker 3: default back to where you came from and said, I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna be all right. Somebody said, how could you preach
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Speaker 3: in the church for two years and it was empty.
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Speaker 3: I said, oh, that wasn't no problem. I was raised
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Speaker 3: preaching in a church that didn't have no people. If
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Speaker 3: I had seven people, it was a big crowd. We
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Speaker 3: might have had thirty people on Easter, counting pregnant people
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Speaker 3: and dead folks. And I know how to make the
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Speaker 3: best out of a bad situation. And I'm not ashamed
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Speaker 3: of that. I'm not ashamed of that. That's given me sticktuitiveness, stability.
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Speaker 3: That's given me fight, and drive and tenacity. That's given
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Speaker 3: me a certain relentlessness. That's given me an attitude. I
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Speaker 3: don't have to have a Hammon B three. I can
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Speaker 3: have an upright piano with a microphone struck down and
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Speaker 3: and tied to an amplifier, and start my foot and
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Speaker 3: still praise the Lord. I could have a triangle and
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Speaker 3: a washboard and start praising the Lord with a washboard,
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Speaker 3: and we would bring down more glory with a washboard
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Speaker 3: than you all do with all this technology you got
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Speaker 3: right now, I don't have to have I can be
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Speaker 3: in my house, in my living room. I can be
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Speaker 3: in my car with no music at all and get
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Speaker 3: happy all by myself. I can get happy in the bathtub.
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Speaker 3: I can start speaking in tongues in my car because
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Speaker 3: I wasn't raised with all of this fans and stuff.
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Speaker 3: I was raised where the praises of God was in
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Speaker 3: your mouth and you didn't have to plug it up.
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Speaker 3: It would just come out of your out of your
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Speaker 3: belly would float rivers. So the children of the Isri
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Speaker 3: were adjusting to the heat of the desert. They were
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Speaker 3: used to being slaves. They didn't like it, but they
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Speaker 3: were used to it. They had had four hundred years
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Speaker 3: of it, which is ten generations, ten generations of slavery.
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Speaker 3: And they asked God to deliver them. And sometimes we
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Speaker 3: ask God to deliver us, and we think that deliverance
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Speaker 3: is going to be comfortable. Prince was not comfortable. Faivorah
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Speaker 3: was chasing them, trying to get them back. Deliverance brought
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Speaker 3: them to the Red Sea, a stoppable place. They got
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Speaker 3: to a stoppable place being delivered. Some of you have
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Speaker 3: asked God to deliver you and now you're at a
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Speaker 3: stoppable place, but you don't understand that God's miracles are
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Speaker 3: generally in stoppable places. And so Moses, being a young
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Speaker 3: leader himself, not having had much experience leading people, not
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Speaker 3: being familiar with people that he's related to, is trying
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Speaker 3: to lead them through a stoppable place. And he says, God,
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Speaker 3: what am I going to do? Faivorah is behind me,
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Speaker 3: and the mountains are on either side of me, and
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Speaker 3: we have no weapons. I got a bunch of farmers
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Speaker 3: with me, and they're murmuring against me. And God said
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Speaker 3: to him, what is that in your hand? So God
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Speaker 3: had given him, let me go back. Savo had four
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Speaker 3: hundred chosen chariots. That was the best fleet he had
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Speaker 3: for warfare. They were riding on chariots and horses with
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Speaker 3: swords and shields. And God gave Moses a stick. God
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Speaker 3: must have a sense of humor. And God said it
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Speaker 3: like he had a nuclear bomb or something. What is
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Speaker 3: that in your hand? He said it like it was
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Speaker 3: an atomic bomb? What is that in your hand? Moses said,
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Speaker 3: I got a stick? God said, lift up what you got.
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Speaker 3: Touch somebody and say lift up what you got. Don't
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Speaker 3: wait for things to get better, don't wait for things
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Speaker 3: to get nice. Don't wait for you to have confidence
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Speaker 3: in your weapon. If you don't have nothing better, stick,
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Speaker 3: lift up the stick. Moses is just learning what the
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Speaker 3: stick will do. He has practiced a little bit into
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Speaker 3: the wilderness. He's done a few things with Jeth, throw
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Speaker 3: out of the wilderness where God was showing him how
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Speaker 3: to work what he had. Sometimes, God will put you
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Speaker 3: in isolation to teach you how to work what you got.
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Speaker 3: He'll give you a dress rehearsal a practice. And God
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Speaker 3: had told Moses, put your hand in your bosom, and
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Speaker 3: it came out white as snow, pour out water, and
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Speaker 3: it turned the blood. He said, throw down your stick,
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Speaker 3: and it turned to a serpent. Grabbed the serpent by
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Speaker 3: the tail and it turned to his stick. To the idolaus
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Speaker 3: right then, because when God said grab the serpent by
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Speaker 3: the tail, the miracle would have been over right then, okay,
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Speaker 3: But grab the serpent by the tail, and it turned
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Speaker 3: into a stick. So he has a weapon that he
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Speaker 3: is still learning how to use. So fast forward. When
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Speaker 3: he comes down to the Red Sea. God is still
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Speaker 3: examining you. Trying to get him to examine what is
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Speaker 3: in his hand. He said, Lord, I got this rod
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Speaker 3: in my hand. He said, stretched forth to rod. Lord,
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Speaker 3: the Phayroh's coming, and he got cherriots. And I can
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Speaker 3: hear the hoof Prince galloping behind me. God said, I
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Speaker 3: don't care about what you hear in your senses. Obey
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Speaker 3: my word and stretch forth what's in your hand. I'm
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Speaker 3: preaching to somebody already. I don't know who it is.
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Speaker 3: Your senses are telling you one thing, but your spirit
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Speaker 3: is telling you something else. And so Modes stretched forth
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Speaker 3: his rod. There's nothing but a stick. And the Bible
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Speaker 3: said that the waters started this way and that way,
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Speaker 3: and he made the water stand that attention, and said
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Speaker 3: when Modes stepped down into the when he stepped down
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Speaker 3: into the red sea, he stepped down into dry ground. Yo,
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Speaker 3: your dad, see you still struck at the fact that
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Speaker 3: the water stood up. You haven't even gotten to the
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Speaker 3: fact that who dried up the land that was sitting
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Speaker 3: up under the water. Will God not drive the land
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Speaker 3: for you and make a way out of no way
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Speaker 3: and put you in a position that he'll make your
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Speaker 3: pathway smooth? He'll make your path I wish I had
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Speaker 3: a witness where God made some smooth that you thought
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Speaker 3: was gonna be hard, and God brought them through on
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Speaker 3: dry ground. Having brought them through on dry ground, God
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Speaker 3: now has them in a position where they come out
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Speaker 3: on the other side. By the time Pharaoh gets to
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Speaker 3: the Red Sea, the walls are collapsing, the drag ground
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Speaker 3: has turned the mud, and they are drowning in the
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Speaker 3: Red Sea. They are drowning in what you walk through.
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Speaker 3: I said, they are drowning in what you walk through.
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Speaker 3: They are drowning in what you walk through. Ma'am. You
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Speaker 3: know what she did. She started she grabbed the tambourine.
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Speaker 3: I wish somebody had one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she grabbed
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Speaker 3: a tambourine and start doing like that. Yeah. She started
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Speaker 3: beating their tambourines like that. She praised as a weapon.
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Speaker 3: And the more she beat the tambourine, the more Federal's
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Speaker 3: army drowned in the Red Sea. Y'all, don't hear what
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Speaker 3: I'm talking to you about. Glory to God. If you
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Speaker 3: would just start praising God over them bills, God would
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Speaker 3: drown them bills and dry ground. If you would start
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Speaker 3: praising God in the hospital, I know they gonna think
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Speaker 3: you're crazy, But if you just just just give that
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Speaker 3: tambourine a couple of taps sitting there, God would do
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Speaker 3: something with their cancer. He would move that tumor, he
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Speaker 3: would shrink that disease. Because greater is he that is
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Speaker 3: in you, then he that is in the world. Earl,
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Speaker 3: I wish I had a witness in here. You didn't
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Speaker 3: have nothing better praise. But while you were praising God,
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Speaker 3: don't you know while you're praising God, God is drowning
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Speaker 3: your enemies. If you knew what I'm talking about, you
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Speaker 3: would dance right where you are. Because when you start
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Speaker 3: praising God, devil start driving. When you start praising God,
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Speaker 3: bodies get healed. When you start praising God, God starts
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Speaker 3: opening doors. We're not just dancing to be dancing. We're
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Speaker 3: in a fight. Say I'm not dancing because I got
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Speaker 3: new shoes. I'll kick off my shoes and dance barefooted
28:43
Speaker 3: because I'm in a fight. Anybody in a fight given
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Speaker 3: about fifteen seconds of warfare, praise whoafair pair in this
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Speaker 3: slave warfair, in the balcony warfare, in the bak warfare,
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Speaker 3: in this place, I'm gone dad, while the devil browns,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna da. While they drowned, and God brought them through,
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Speaker 3: the Bible said he brought them through on the eagle swings.
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Speaker 3: He gave them first pass service. He brought them through
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Speaker 3: on eagle swings. Now they have made it through the desert.
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Speaker 3: They have survived slavery. They went in slaves and came
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Speaker 3: out suns. Y'all did get that. They went in slaves
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Speaker 3: and came out sons. They were baptized on to Moses
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Speaker 3: in the cloud and under the sea. There was a
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Speaker 3: cloud above them. There was water all around it. God
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Speaker 3: calls it back baptism. Some of the things you call trouble,
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Speaker 3: God calls baptism. And they come out on the other side.
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Speaker 3: And the problem is they're in the wilderness. And said
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Speaker 3: they're in the wilderness and they're thirsty. Now you've been
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Speaker 3: a slave, You had to make bricks with no straw,
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Speaker 3: you built pyramids and had all kinds of warfare, and
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Speaker 3: now you're complaining because you're thirsty, and they tied it
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Speaker 3: against Moses. Thirsty people are angry people. I want to
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Speaker 3: drive that in real deep. I realized I said it before,
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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna say it again. Thirsty people are angry people.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes even if you give them some water, it will
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Speaker 3: not stop the anger because the thirst is not coming
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Speaker 3: for the lack of water. The thirst is coming because
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Speaker 3: they are angry people. They're frustrated people and they'll take
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Speaker 3: it out on you because they need something to brain.
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Speaker 3: I was studying on the human brain, and the study
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Speaker 3: that I was reading said, the human brain, if it
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Speaker 3: cannot find a reason to explain the turmoil, will make
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Speaker 3: up a reason because it needs to rationalize to you
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Speaker 3: why you are going through what you're going through. So
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Speaker 3: you can't even trust what you're thinking sometimes, because sometimes
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Speaker 3: you're thinking just so you'll have something to be mad at.
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Speaker 3: You'll be mad at the immigrants, you be mad at
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Speaker 3: white people. You be mad at black people. You'll be
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Speaker 3: mad at short people. You'll be mad at fat people,
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Speaker 3: you be mad at anybody to explain why you're there. Therefore,
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Speaker 3: for you feel justified to be in your condition because
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Speaker 3: you have blamed somebody for that condition. So they blame Moses.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't Moses' job to get them some water, but
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Speaker 3: they blamed Moses for bringing them out there where there
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Speaker 3: was no water. And Moses cried out to God and said,
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Speaker 3: why are the people chatting me? Why they're chatting me,
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Speaker 3: why they're chatting against you? And God told Moses, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to show you something else. I'm going to do
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Speaker 3: something with your stick that's never been done before. And
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Speaker 3: the Lord told me to come here and tell you
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Speaker 3: this morning that he's going to do something with your
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Speaker 3: stick that's never been been done before. There is a
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Speaker 3: relationship set up in this text that is a preview
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Speaker 3: of cavalry between the stone and the sticks. You can't
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Speaker 3: see it because it's in the shadows, but there's something
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Speaker 3: there between the stone and the stick. Deliverance always happens
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Speaker 3: whenever you see a stone or a stick. There's something
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Speaker 3: about the way God moves to a stone or a stick,
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Speaker 3: and he has a way of opening up a door.
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Speaker 3: So he told him take the stick and hit the rock,
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Speaker 3: and water is going to come out. I've been showing
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Speaker 3: you a little bit about your stick, but let me
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Speaker 3: show you a little something about your rock. Let me
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Speaker 3: tell you some God did all kinds of stuff with rocks.
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Speaker 3: David picked up rocks, smooth stones out the river banks
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Speaker 3: and killed Eliath with a rock. He didn't have a
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Speaker 3: sword or a shill. All he had was a rock.
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Speaker 3: Jacob laid his head down on a rock and the
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Speaker 3: heavens opened up. I'm talking about what God can do
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Speaker 3: with a rock. God has a way of doing things
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Speaker 3: with rocks that will blow your mind. These weapons of
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Speaker 3: our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God.
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Speaker 3: It's not I'm on for water to come out of
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Speaker 3: a rock. But God has a way that if you
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Speaker 3: take the stick and you take the rock, it brings
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Speaker 3: water out of the rocks. And all through the Bible,
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Speaker 3: this pattern continues over and over again. We see God
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Speaker 3: delivering his people with rocks and with sticks. We see
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Speaker 3: God opening up doors and making waves. We see God
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Speaker 3: moving mountains. We see God opening up revelations. In fact,
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Speaker 3: we see God as a rock. The Bible said, he
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Speaker 3: is the chief corner star home. Oh y'all, don't hear
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Elijah's slept on it, David through it,
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Speaker 3: Moses head in it. God said, Moses, get over in
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Speaker 3: the rocks, and I'm going to cross my glory to
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Speaker 3: pass before you. Jonathan climbed through the rocks to fight
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Speaker 3: the enemy. Solomon took the rock and built the temple.
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Speaker 3: The Spies climbed over the rock. The Hebrew shouted till
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Speaker 3: the rocks came tumbling down. The Pharohes dropped their the
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Speaker 3: Pharisees drop their rocks. Y'all, don't hear me Lazarus leaps
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Speaker 3: out of the rocks. God has a way of doing
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Speaker 3: things with rocks that you don't even understand. And when
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Speaker 3: you take the stick and you put it with the rock,
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Speaker 3: Water's gonna come out. Put your nave and say, water
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Speaker 3: is about to come out. This whole pew is about
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Speaker 3: to get wet. This whole pew is about to get wet.
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Speaker 3: This this resurrection Sunday, because what God did on cavalry
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Speaker 3: is foreshadowed in the Old Testament. If you think about
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Speaker 3: the resurrection story, it is really a story about a
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Speaker 3: stick and a stone. It's just a story about a
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Speaker 3: stick and a stone. Let me tell you. In Genesis,
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Speaker 3: the Bible said that Abraham took his son, his only son, Isaac,
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Speaker 3: and he put on him the wood, that's the stick.
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Speaker 3: And he took the stick and brought it to a
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Speaker 3: stone and built an altar with the stick and a stone.
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Speaker 3: Genesis twenty two is a picture of cavalry, what God
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Speaker 3: can do with a stick and a stone. Like Isaac
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Speaker 3: carried the wood, Jesus carried the cross, but the cross
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Speaker 3: was just the stick. And the Bible said, he said,
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Speaker 3: I'm about to feel like preaching in America and the
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Speaker 3: behavior said, But Jesus understood the power of the stick,
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Speaker 3: so no man took his life. He laid it down,
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Speaker 3: but he laid it down on a stick. He knew
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Speaker 3: the power of the stick. All through the Old Testament,
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Speaker 3: it has taught us the power of the stick. Elijah
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Speaker 3: sin his stick down to the widow's house to heal
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Speaker 3: her son. The power in the stick. So Jesus laid
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Speaker 3: down on the stick, and they hung him high, and
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Speaker 3: they stretched him wide, and the Bible said, they drove
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Speaker 3: a nail into his wrist on the right side and
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Speaker 3: the left side. Then they took a spike and drove
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Speaker 3: it to both feet, symbolized the jew and the Gentile
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Speaker 3: coming together up under one gospel. And they nailed him
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Speaker 3: to the cross. But that ain't the bad part. If
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Speaker 3: they'd have left the cross laying down, I wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: been safety. But they messed up when they lifted it up,
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Speaker 3: because the Bible said, if I be lifted up from
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Speaker 3: the earth, I'll drawn me in under me. If you're
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Speaker 3: getting come out of this, give him a little prease.
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Speaker 3: They hung him from the sixth to the ninth hour.
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Speaker 3: They hung him till he hung his head in the
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Speaker 3: locks of his shoulders and died. They hung him until
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Speaker 3: raise all over Jerusalem begin open up. They hung him
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Speaker 3: and toil the bill, and the temple was rent from
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Speaker 3: the top to the bottom. They hung him to the
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Speaker 3: Old Testament painted over into the New Testament. They hung
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Speaker 3: him until the law was fulfilled. They hung him, ordering
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Speaker 3: their hanging. They hung him, Yes, they hung him, and
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Speaker 3: they hung him till he just came over to death.
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Speaker 3: He submitted to death, the death of the cross. And
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Speaker 3: he died for your sins. I'm not talking about the
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Speaker 3: sins you testify about. I'm talking about the sins don't
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Speaker 3: tell nobody about it. He died for your secret sins.
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Speaker 3: He died for your private sin. He died for your
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Speaker 3: personal sins. That's why God doesn't understand when you can
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Speaker 3: come out on Easter and not praise God, because he
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Speaker 3: knows that you know what He did in your life.
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Speaker 3: He knows what the church folk don't know that happened
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Speaker 3: to you when you was a child. He died for
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Speaker 3: a little bit of this, and he died for a
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Speaker 3: little bit of that, And he died till it was over,
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Speaker 3: and he died till it was finished, and he died
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Speaker 3: until he said, tell te Lesie, it is finished. Stop
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Speaker 3: your neighbor and say it is finished. You can talk
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Speaker 3: about it, but he's finished. You can bring it up,
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Speaker 3: but it's You can roll your hid, but it's finished.
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Speaker 3: You can post post this, but it's finished. When God
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Speaker 3: finished the suckerd it is finished. Don't expect me to
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Speaker 3: walk around with my head now, because I know it's finished.
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Speaker 3: Expect my head to be up, expect my back to
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Speaker 3: me straight. Because I know it's finished, I can come
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Speaker 3: boldly to the throne of Race and find mercy to
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Speaker 3: help me in the time of need. Because it is finished.
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Speaker 3: I can get in the House of God and felt
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Speaker 3: like I didn't do what I know I did. Because
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Speaker 3: it is finished. I wish I had about one hundred people,
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Speaker 3: but knew what I was talking about. You got to
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Speaker 3: praise it because you know what he did for you.
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Speaker 3: You know how he delivered you, you know how he
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Speaker 3: set you freeze. Grab your neighbor one time. And I say,
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Speaker 3: when I think of the goodness, when I just think
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Speaker 3: about it, when I just think about it, when I
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Speaker 3: think about where it brought me from, when I think
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Speaker 3: about domestic violence, when I think about child's a beauty.
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Speaker 3: When I think about agony, when I think about eating
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Speaker 3: tomato sandwiches, when I think about eating man Hey sandwiches,
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Speaker 3: when I think about the hell, he brought me to.
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Speaker 3: My soul, my soul, my soul, how out, Hollylujah, God,
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Speaker 3: thank God for saving me. Oh, I'm almost finished now,
41:50
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna take as much time. But I feel
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Speaker 3: something pushing me in the back. I feel something that
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Speaker 3: stirring in my soul. The bye said that he borrowed
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Speaker 3: a grade from Joseph of Armathea. But let me understand
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Speaker 3: something here. Anytime you borrow something, you don't plan to
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Speaker 3: stay there. He borrowed it because the only one was
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Speaker 3: gonna use it for three days. When I came to
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Speaker 3: Earth on June ninth, nineteen fifty seven, I borrowed this
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Speaker 3: body because I didn't plan to stay here for I'm
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Speaker 3: go at this earthly house or tabernacle shall be dissolved.
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Speaker 3: I got another building eternal in the heavens somewhere, Oh,
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Speaker 3: ing glory. I already understand. Somebody's gonna drive my car,
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Speaker 3: somebody's gonna wear my clothes, somebody's gonna sleep in my bed.
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Speaker 3: But that's all right, because I just borrowed it. I've
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Speaker 3: got a man shouldn't over win glory. And it's mine, Yes,
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Speaker 3: it's mine. I got a mansion somewhere beyond the Jordans,
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Speaker 3: and it's mine, Yes, it's mine. They took Jesus to
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Speaker 3: a morn tube, and they rolled the stone in front
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Speaker 3: of him, and they left him there all day Thursday,
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Speaker 3: all day Friday, all day Saturday. But Sunday morning, Sunday morning,
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Speaker 3: Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Michael, Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning,
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Speaker 3: he got up out of the graves. Yesterdayed he got
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Speaker 3: up out of the grave. I never could understand how
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Speaker 3: he would later appear in a gardener's suit. He didn't
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Speaker 3: get to go to the store, he didn't get to
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Speaker 3: stitch anything. But when he rose from the dead, he
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Speaker 3: spoke in some clothes into existence. I couldn't understand how
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Speaker 3: he could walk around in the grave, because they wrapped
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Speaker 3: him in one inch strips of linen. And you remember,
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Speaker 3: Landris had to be loose, But who lose Jesus? He
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Speaker 3: loosed himself. He set him stuff free. He spoke in
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Speaker 3: a new clothes into a cyst and he was walking
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Speaker 3: around in the grave, but it didn't stop there because
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Speaker 3: it's not enough to get out of your brain clothes.
44:48
Speaker 3: It's not enough to wake about the grave if you're
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Speaker 3: still stuck behind a stone. And as I get ready
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Speaker 3: to close, some of you been resurrected. But you've been
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Speaker 3: living behind the stone, a stone of doubt, a stone
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Speaker 3: of poverty, a stone of insecurity, a stone of pride,
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Speaker 3: a stone of lust. But the Lord said, I'm getting
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Speaker 3: ready to roll the stones out of the waves. I
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Speaker 3: know you're in there. You've been in there a long time,
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Speaker 3: trying to praise me behind a stone. But I'm going
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Speaker 3: to roll the stone out of your ways. Stop your neighbors, say,
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Speaker 3: get out of my ways. I got to get up
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Speaker 3: out of this brave. I got to get up out
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Speaker 3: of this depression. I got to get up out of
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Speaker 3: this stay down here. I've got to get up out
45:52
Speaker 3: of this situation. I'm tired of walking around in depression.
45:59
Speaker 3: I'm going to roll the stone away. How that Luljah?
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Speaker 3: Is there anybody that's got faith in the room. I
46:08
Speaker 3: want you to take your faith and just roll the
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Speaker 3: stone out of your way. God's getting ready to roll
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Speaker 3: the stone out of your way. He's getting ready to
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Speaker 3: move it out of your way so that you can
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Speaker 3: come out of the grave. And when you come out
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Speaker 3: of the graves, you ought to come out praising God.
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Speaker 3: You ought to come out giving God the glory. You
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Speaker 3: ought to come out lifting him up. They nail you
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Speaker 3: to a stick, They hid you behind a stone, but
46:44
Speaker 3: God's gonna bring you out of everything. They head you
46:48
Speaker 3: locked up behind. Who am I preaching to somebody that
46:53
Speaker 3: I'm preaching to take about thirty seconds and start leaping
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Speaker 3: in the presence of God. God leaving, God leaving, God
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Speaker 3: leaving till the sore nose he can't hold you. Son,
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Speaker 3: leaven till the sickness nose. You gotta turn me a
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Speaker 3: loose God leaven till the person comes out of your body.
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Speaker 3: God leading till suicide, leads your spear. God leading here,
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Speaker 3: you get a new joy. God Leathan here, you get
47:35
Speaker 3: a new Dand Don leathing leads your way out. If
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Speaker 3: you can't leave, then't crawl. If you can't tall, didn't walk,
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Speaker 3: but touch seven people there.
47:49
Speaker 4: I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out
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Speaker 4: of here. I've got to get out of here. I've
47:56
Speaker 4: been down too long. I gotta get out of here.
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Speaker 4: There's a power that's.
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Speaker 3: Pulling me out of my situation. Ain't no brain gonna
48:08
Speaker 3: hold my body down. Gravity cain't hold me down, En,
48:14
Speaker 3: I mean, cain't hold me down. Situation hain't hold me down, said,
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Speaker 3: can't hold me down. When God says get up, I'm
48:28
Speaker 3: gonna get up, I'm gonna get up, and the nails
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Speaker 3: can't hold me. I'm gonna get up, and the grain
48:37
Speaker 3: cain't hold me. I'm gonna get up. And your said,
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Speaker 3: hey to hold me.
48:43
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get up.
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Speaker 3: Row your eyes, but I'm still gonna get up. Write
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Speaker 3: your notes, but I'm still gonna get up. Lord, I
48:55
Speaker 3: feel something about the break loose in this place. If
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Speaker 3: I had a hundred radical people that made up your mind,
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Speaker 3: you're not gonna take it any Lord. If I had
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Speaker 3: a hundred radical people that would give God the praise,
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Speaker 3: something would break in He hear this, Lord, something would
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Speaker 3: break in here this morning. Something would break in here
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Speaker 3: this morning. He's stronger than wish craft. He's stronger than roots.
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Speaker 3: He's stronger than Satan. He's stronger than the enemy. He's
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Speaker 3: stronger than trouble. He's stronger than turmre. He's stronger than disease.
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Speaker 3: He's stronger than sickness. Whatever you need from the Lord,
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Speaker 3: he's stronger than that. You are to break loose from
49:49
Speaker 3: your band and give God the praise. Leap up and
49:53
Speaker 3: say he's stronger, He's stronger, strong, he's strong, he's strong.
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Speaker 3: I've been down too long. He's strong, he's strong, he's strong,
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Speaker 3: he's strong. I don't know what you want to do
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Speaker 3: on your pew, but as for me, I'm gonna praise
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Speaker 3: the Lord right in this pew. I'm gonna get him
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Speaker 3: a praise right in this falcony. I'm gonna praise him.
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Speaker 3: Have something about the break, Get a lock.
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Speaker 5: Of my hair.
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Speaker 3: But you can't curse me, get my tea, but you
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Speaker 3: can't stop me. Talk about me. But you can't stop me.
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Speaker 3: Because when God says, get up, ain't nothing for me
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Speaker 3: to do. But but what.
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Speaker 5: Bod, but.
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Speaker 4: Go bye bye, bye fue fue.
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Speaker 5: Grab your name a boy the head and.
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Speaker 3: Say name of get up by get up. God still
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Speaker 3: wants to use me. Get up. God've got something he
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Speaker 3: wants to do. Get up. He still wants to annoy
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Speaker 3: your Get up.
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Speaker 5: He's got a plan for your life.
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Speaker 3: I'm about to take my seat for for the next
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Speaker 3: three minutes.
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Speaker 5: I want the wild bright of her.
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Speaker 3: Don't care what I got on. Folks, to give God
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Speaker 3: a praise. I'm gonna give you about three minutes to
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Speaker 3: find away, to get up out of your brain, roll
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Speaker 3: your stone away, pull your hair, down your fingers, and
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Speaker 3: get good the praise on.
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Speaker 5: Your mark.
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Speaker 3: On your arm. Just pad, go, go.
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Speaker 2: Go.
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Speaker 3: So. I gotta get up. I gotta get up. I
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Speaker 3: gotta get up. I gotta get.
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Speaker 5: Up, Get up, get up, get up.
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Speaker 6: Pound of that way, get up, get up, get him,
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Speaker 6: get a pun of that way, get him, get up,
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Speaker 6: get up, get him, put of my way, get up,
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Speaker 6: get up, get him, get up that way, get up,
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Speaker 6: get up, get up. Of gay, get up, get up,
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Speaker 6: get up, get up, point of get get up, get
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Speaker 6: get up, get him, get us get it, get up,
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Speaker 6: get up, get up.
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Speaker 3: Get up up. You got one minute. You got one
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Speaker 3: minute left. You got one minute left. The give out
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Speaker 3: the praise you got forty pop sucking breaking up the
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Speaker 3: praise you got forty sucking time for stop worrying about
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Speaker 3: these people and break loose. This is y'all sun there
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Speaker 3: to break loose. You got thirty suckings to break everything said,
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Speaker 3: hell you everything that tied you up, puny sucking stuff,
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Speaker 3: and give God the glory.
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Speaker 5: I can't hear you.
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Speaker 3: D f.
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Speaker 5: Abraid the.
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Speaker 3: Big five, four three two one. Give me a.
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Speaker 5: Praise, Give him a praise. You remember, praise.
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Speaker 3: Me. No one they sin worse than being in the grave.
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Speaker 3: It is to be resurrected and can't get out, to
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Speaker 3: have to know how and the knowledge, but you can't
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Speaker 3: get out. You walk so far and you run into
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Speaker 3: something and you have to go back, and the enemy's
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Speaker 3: got you convinced that that stone in your life cannot
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Speaker 3: be rolled away. I don't know what kind of stone
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Speaker 3: it is. It might be a stone of depression, may
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Speaker 3: be a stone of fear. There may be a stone
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Speaker 3: of PTSD. But you hit it every time you try
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Speaker 3: to get out. And some of you have decided I'm
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Speaker 3: just gonna live in the tomb. But God said no.
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Speaker 3: God said nod. Lift your hands for a moment and
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Speaker 3: waship him all over this room. Worship him in spirit
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Speaker 3: and in truth. I see you here Sunday, glad to
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Speaker 3: have you. But let's get real for a minute. That
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Speaker 3: stone that's in your life need not stay in your life.
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Speaker 3: That stone that's in your house need not stay in
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Speaker 3: your house. Lift your hand, open your mouth, and if
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Speaker 3: you do like the Egyptian did and cry under God,
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Speaker 3: He'll move everything out of your way to deliver you.
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Speaker 3: You might be watching online, but God will move everything
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Speaker 3: out of your way to deliver you. Some of you
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Speaker 3: live behind a rock of pride, and your pride has
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Speaker 3: stopped so many blessings from coming in your life. And
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Speaker 3: you hold onto it for dear life because all you've
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Speaker 3: ever done was live behind the walls of your image.
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Speaker 3: But if you give up your image this morning, if
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Speaker 3: you get sick and tired of being sick and tired,
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Speaker 3: if you get to the point that you want to
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Speaker 3: come out of that grade. Early in the morning, the
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Speaker 3: women came down to the tomb to get Jesus where
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Speaker 3: he used to be, and the angels sitting on the
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Speaker 3: stone said, he is not here. He has risen. I
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Speaker 3: can just imagine people coming to where you used to be.
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Speaker 3: And the angel said, she's not here, she's not here,
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Speaker 3: she's not here. I know the girl you're talking about,
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Speaker 3: but she's not here. I know the woman you're talking about,
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Speaker 3: but she's not here. I know that brother you're talking about,
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Speaker 3: but he's not here. He has risen. I cut my
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Speaker 3: message short because I'm there of the Lord to pray
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Speaker 3: for somebody who wants to rise up out of it,
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Speaker 3: who seriously means I'm tired of walking around in this
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Speaker 3: tomb surrounded by corpses. I go out to eat with them,
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Speaker 3: I go out to party with them. They come over
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Speaker 3: my house. I'm tired of being around dead things. I'm
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Speaker 3: not talking about them. I don't mean no harm against them,
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Speaker 3: but I know better because He's done too much in
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Speaker 3: my life for me to live another day in the tombs.
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Speaker 3: If you're in this room and you want out bad
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Speaker 3: enough not to care about your image. You want out
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Speaker 3: bad enough to increase your parameters in larger borders, to
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Speaker 3: have the abundant life that Jesus died for you to
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Speaker 3: have life. He didn't die for you to have church.
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Speaker 3: He died for you to have life. He died for
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Speaker 3: you to have life. You existing, but you're not living.
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Speaker 3: How many birthdays do you think you're gonna have? How
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Speaker 3: many more Christmases you think you're gonna have? You're wasting time,
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Speaker 3: he said today. You hear my voice I did not
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Speaker 3: your heart this Sunday morning. I don't care who's standing
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Speaker 3: beside you. Tell them move out of my way. I
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Speaker 3: can't let you be a stone at a moment that
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Speaker 3: God is trying to work something out in my life.
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Speaker 3: And I'm coming. If I gotta come out of the balcony,
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Speaker 3: I'm coming. If I gotta come down the steps, I'm coming.
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Speaker 3: If I gotta come out of the corner, I'm coming.
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Speaker 3: If I gotta come with liquor on my breath, I'm coming.
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Speaker 3: If I was smoking a joint last night, I'm coming
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Speaker 3: this morning because I want to change in my life.
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Speaker 3: Touch a neighbor, Tell them stones go roll this morning.
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Speaker 3: Stones are gonna roll this morning. Stones are gonna roll
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Speaker 3: this morning. You're gonna roll this morning. They're gonna roll
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Speaker 3: this morning. It's God's job to call, and it's your
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Speaker 3: job to answer. Now. God is doing his job. Why
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Speaker 3: don't you do yours? H Come on, I'll wait on you.
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Speaker 3: You're not gonna use me as though, excuse Come on.
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Speaker 3: Let me let me, let me, let me, let me,
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Speaker 3: let me, let me. Let me make this real clear
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Speaker 3: so you can understand it. When I go into prayer,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be too late for you to come.
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Speaker 3: This space we got right here is a great space.
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Speaker 3: Grace don't last always. Shall we continue in sin that
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Speaker 3: grace may abound. God forbid, for if we are buried
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Speaker 3: in the likeness of His death, we shall be also
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Speaker 3: in the likeness of His resurrection. And you had the
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Speaker 3: pricking who were dead, and the trespasses of sin. He
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Speaker 3: gave you new life. He gave you something that the
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Speaker 3: drug dealer can give you, that your chick on the
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Speaker 3: side can give you. He gave you something that nobody
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Speaker 3: else can give you. And I want you to come.
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Speaker 3: It's a great space. This is the space that proves
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Speaker 3: that you can't go to heaven. And I mean go
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Speaker 3: and stand before God and say I never got a chance.
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Speaker 3: This is your opportunity. There is nothing in your life,
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Speaker 3: on your life, or in your past that God can forgive.
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Speaker 3: There is nothing on your mind, no matter how hideous
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Speaker 3: or dark it might be, that the Word can't penetrate
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Speaker 3: and change your life. There is nothing, there is nothing
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Speaker 3: that's hindering you. He will roll that stone, he will
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Speaker 3: roll that habit right out of your way. And there's
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Speaker 3: nothing out there. There's nothing out there but trouble and
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Speaker 3: they want to come home.
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Speaker 1: At the Potter House, we are invested in you, not
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Speaker 1: just what you do, for who you are becoming.
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Speaker 2: We believe that in this house we are better together.
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Speaker 2: We need one another to be holy, to hold each
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Speaker 2: other accountable, and to keep growing.
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Speaker 1: As God positions us to serve every soul. We believe
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Speaker 1: that an act of sawing is an act of faith
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Speaker 1: and agreement right where God is speeding.
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Speaker 2: Up, and we're honors that we get to partner with
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Speaker 2: you in reaching lives near and far. This is your
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Speaker 2: official invitation to not just be a spectator, but to
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Speaker 2: be a partner, be a member of our family that
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Speaker 2: seeks Kingdom solutions during the challenges of every season.
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Speaker 1: Amen, your giving, your service, and your love to this
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Speaker 1: house isn't just generosity, it's ministry.
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Speaker 2: God is doing in this house, we invite you to
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Speaker 1: Share this message with someone you care about, someone who
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Speaker 1: where you are, remember, God sees you, and he loves you,
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Speaker 1: and so do we.