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Worship in the Wilderness Part 2 - Bishop T.D Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: We see God inviting his estranged children to be emancipated,
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  Speaker 1: not only to relieve the oppression, but to meet them
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness to worship him. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that they had not had a conversation with God
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  Speaker 1: for 400 years. The whole purpose of the saga of
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  Speaker 1: Exodus is built around the birth of the Old Testament church.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime something is born, something has to die. Moses has
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  Speaker 1: come to emancipate them from 400 years of being contorted
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  Speaker 1: into whatever Egypt wanted. And anytime you contort who you
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  Speaker 1: are into what other people want, there comes a point
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  Speaker 1: where you become unfamiliar with who you really are. We
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  Speaker 1: are in transition. The world is changing. We are in
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  Speaker 1: transition spiritually. But God will remove anything and anyone who
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  Speaker 1: is standing in between us being reconciled to him. They've
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  Speaker 1: lost everything. They have left Egypt to rediscover themselves by
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  Speaker 1: reconnecting with God. I ask God to deliver me from
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  Speaker 1: this bondage. And now when God sends a deliverer, I'm
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  Speaker 1: fighting him tooth and nail and asking him, are there
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  Speaker 1: no graves in Egypt? But you got one foot in
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  Speaker 1: Egypt and you got one foot on the promises of God.
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  Speaker 1: Break this mindset where you want to die in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: in disease, in disgrace, in mediocrity, in depression, just because
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  Speaker 1: you ran into trouble in front of you, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to want to go back to what God just brought
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  Speaker 1: you out of? I'm starting to see that the prophets
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  Speaker 1: from 2000 years ago are prophesying a day that we
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  Speaker 1: are seeing today. You might want to stay in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. You might want to be buried in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. You might think your story ends as
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  Speaker 1: a slave, but I don't. You might think that you
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  Speaker 1: were just created to serve somebody else, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: All God wants is to be reconciled with you. Can
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  Speaker 1: I go deeper? Can you say amen? Stand to your
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  Speaker 1: feet as we go to the word of God, the
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  Speaker 1: book of Exodus chapter 14. I think I wrote down nine,
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  Speaker 1: but it starts at verse 10. Exodus 14, 10 through 14.
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  Speaker 1: Our series, I'm on a series. I'm teaching worship in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. And I'm after something. Everything that I'm after
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  Speaker 1: is in conjunction with the purpose statement that I gave
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  Speaker 1: you during our 27th anniversary. One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: the elements that the Lord assigned to me was to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you have an encounter with God and
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  Speaker 1: not just an encounter with church. It is easy to
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  Speaker 1: mistake an encounter with church with an encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: While I love the church, I'm not sure that the church,
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  Speaker 1: being in the church's presence is going to do for
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  Speaker 1: you what being in God's presence will do for you.
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  Speaker 1: And when we think about it, the scripture talks about
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  Speaker 1: that the kingdom is like children sitting in the marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: piping to one another, singing to one another, looking for
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  Speaker 1: reactions from each other. But everything else is going up
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  Speaker 1: on this level and we're sitting on this level. The
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  Speaker 1: world is in disarray. I mean serious disarray. I mean
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  Speaker 1: more serious than anything I have seen in the 66
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  Speaker 1: years of my life. There are things that are in
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  Speaker 1: disarray that can be corrected by men who choose to
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  Speaker 1: ignore it for greed, for self-aggrandizement. And those things are
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  Speaker 1: reprehensible and disgusting. But there are some things that are
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  Speaker 1: in disarray that are in nature. The earth is scorching.
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  Speaker 1: It's biblical, by the way. It's prophetic, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't help it from being uncomfortable. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's prophetic. I know it's the last days. But that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't help homeless people from burning up on sidewalks. And
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  Speaker 1: while we banter back and forth about it, we are
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  Speaker 1: living in some chaotic times. And I am challenged to
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to make sure that you have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with God because everything that can be shaken will
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  Speaker 1: be shaken so that those things that cannot be shaken
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  Speaker 1: may remain. So when I say worship in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: it is dichotomous. The whole notion of the series, worship
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness, wilderness, a place where you're lost. a
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  Speaker 1: place where you're neither quite here nor there, God says,
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  Speaker 1: worship me right there in a confusing place, in a
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  Speaker 1: tumultuous place, in a chaotic place. He says, that's where
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  Speaker 1: I want you to pitch your tent and worship me
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  Speaker 1: right there. I'm not going to put my tent in
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  Speaker 1: your promised land. I'm going to put my tent in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of your problems because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: worship me In the wilderness. So we started teaching last Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: are there no graves in Egypt? In other words, the
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  Speaker 1: people were trying to escape slavery. They were leaving Egypt saying,
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  Speaker 1: are there no graves in Egypt? The moment they tried
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  Speaker 1: to break away, now Pharaoh is chasing them. Fear made
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  Speaker 1: them want to go back into Egypt. And to die
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt was no more glamorous than to die in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. Don't we ask God stupid questions? Aren't there
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  Speaker 1: no graves in Egypt? Why can't we die in Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: Dead is dead. If I'm going to talk to God
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  Speaker 1: about something, I want to talk to God about something.
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  Speaker 1: Can we move past choosing where we die? Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted
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  Speaker 1: their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. This
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  Speaker 1: is a bunch of people. Don't see this like you
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  Speaker 1: saw the movie. This is 600 chosen chariots. Egypt is
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  Speaker 1: the superpower of the era. The Pharaoh is known for
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  Speaker 1: his power and his authority and his ability. If he
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  Speaker 1: said die, you die. If he said live, you live.
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  Speaker 1: If he said behead her, she was beheaded. If he
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  Speaker 1: has absolute rule, there is no Congress, there is no
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  Speaker 1: There is no Supreme Court. There is no defense attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: There are no prosecuting attorneys. There is no recourse. There
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  Speaker 1: is no boycott. There is no picketing. He is absolute
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  Speaker 1: monarchy in complete control. So they were afraid, and the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel cried out to the Lord, who they
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  Speaker 1: had not talked to for 400 years. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: just because they're derelict. Faith erodes when you don't teach
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  Speaker 1: your children. These are the children of Abraham. They started
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  Speaker 1: out on a solid foundation, but over 400 years of
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  Speaker 1: mixing more with the Egyptians than they did with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Their faith had deteriorated to the point their language had deteriorated.
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  Speaker 1: Their culture had deteriorated. Their self-esteem had deteriorated to the
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  Speaker 1: point that they had not had a relationship with God
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  Speaker 1: for 400 years. And God was intent on bringing them
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  Speaker 1: into relationship with him like he is with you. God
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  Speaker 1: is intent on bringing you into relationship with him. Then
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  Speaker 1: they said to Moses, because there were no graves in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
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  Speaker 1: Those are my two choices. Why have you so dealt
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  Speaker 1: with us to bring us up out of Egypt? Is
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  Speaker 1: this not the word that we told you in Egypt saying,
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  Speaker 1: let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians. Leave
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  Speaker 1: us alone in our chaos. Leave us alone in our poverty.
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  Speaker 1: Leave us alone in our shame. Leave us alone in
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  Speaker 1: our disgrace. Don't bother me. I like being corrupt. I
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  Speaker 1: like being perverted. I like being broken leave us alone
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  Speaker 1: that's what the world is saying to the church today
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  Speaker 1: leave us alone leave us alone we like it like
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  Speaker 1: this don't raise any opposing opinion go along with us
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  Speaker 1: let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians leave
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  Speaker 1: me in my bondage leave me committing suicide Leave me
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  Speaker 1: hating myself leave me slitting my wrists leave me needing
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  Speaker 1: more therapy more and more therapy taking more and more
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  Speaker 1: pills Pills to go to bed pills to get up
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  Speaker 1: in the morning pills to get a smile on my
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  Speaker 1: face leave us alone. I That's what they're saying to
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  Speaker 1: the church right now. Just shut up and go along
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  Speaker 1: with the program. Leave us alone. Don't say nothing about
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  Speaker 1: anything to anybody. Go with the flow. You got to
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  Speaker 1: follow the culture. No, the culture's got to follow the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: For it would have been better for us to serve
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 1: And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, your emotions are talking. If you let
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  Speaker 1: your emotions talk, it will destroy you. It will kill
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  Speaker 1: your marriage. It will kill your children. It will kill
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  Speaker 1: your promotion. It will kill your advancement. All you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is let your emotions get the mic and
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  Speaker 1: it will tear down everything God is trying to do
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  Speaker 1: in your life. I'm already preaching. I'm just reading the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: He says, do not be afraid. Stand still. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You're too busy. Stand still. You talk too much. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You got too much opinion. Stand still and see the
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  Speaker 1: salvation of the Lord. Stand still. which he will accomplish
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  Speaker 1: for you today. For the Egyptians, whom you see today,
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  Speaker 1: they're not in your future. They're in your present, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not in your future. They're in your past, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not in your future. I'm preaching already. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's in your present and in your past that
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  Speaker 1: God says, I'm going to totally annihilate it out of
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  Speaker 1: your future. You shall see again no more for me.
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  Speaker 1: the Lord will fight for you and you shall hold
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  Speaker 1: your peace stop calling people stop finagling stop manipulating stop
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  Speaker 1: trying to dominate and control everybody the Lord will fight
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  Speaker 1: for you and you will study to be quiet to
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  Speaker 1: shut up Get your emotions away from the mic and
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  Speaker 1: shut up. Stop screaming. Stop popping your neck. Stop going
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  Speaker 1: off on people. It ain't working. Well, I'm just like
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  Speaker 1: my mama. It didn't work for her. I'm just like
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  Speaker 1: my daddy. It didn't work for him. Still faith. Quiet faith.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is not always loud. It's resolute. It's not always rambunctious.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't always sport muscles. It's quiet power. It's still arise.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm going to talk to you today is
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  Speaker 1: my second deposit on the series Worship in the Wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to look at somebody and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to give them the title. Announce my title to them. Say,
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  Speaker 1: we will not die here. That's our decision. That's our affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: That's our declaration. Tell them again, we will not die here.
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  Speaker 1: Father God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your presence and your glory and your grace. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all things worked after the counsel of
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  Speaker 1: your own will. We thank you that our emotions are
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily our reality and how we feel about it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make it so. We thank you that as people
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  Speaker 1: of faith, we are learning to walk. in the truth
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  Speaker 1: of your word and to believe what you said over
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  Speaker 1: how we feel about any particular given moment. We seek
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  Speaker 1: your face. We crave you. We long for you. We
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  Speaker 1: need you like a junkie needs a fix. We need
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  Speaker 1: you like a flower needs a raindrop. We need you
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  Speaker 1: like our ocean needs water. We need you like tear
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  Speaker 1: ducts need salt. Father, in the name of Jesus, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot exist without you as a deer panteth at the
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  Speaker 1: water brook. So pant I unto thee, O God. Feed
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  Speaker 1: us until we want no more. I rebuke every spirit
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  Speaker 1: of fear that has plagued us, that's made us restless
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  Speaker 1: and tormented us and kept away our sleep. and made
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  Speaker 1: us miserable in our own bodies, and made us forget
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  Speaker 1: that we are healthy, and made us forget that we
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  Speaker 1: are mobile, and made us forget that we had a
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  Speaker 1: roof over our head because we're so afraid by the
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  Speaker 1: threatening sound of what could be, what might be, what's
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  Speaker 1: coming up behind us. I rebuke the spirit of death
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  Speaker 1: and suicide and agony and pain and strife, and I
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  Speaker 1: command you to let God's people go. In Jesus' name
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  Speaker 1: we pray. Somebody shout amen. On your way down to
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  Speaker 1: your seat, say, we will not die here. Now I
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  Speaker 1: want to preface this because I want you to understand
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  Speaker 1: something about God. Can I teach you some things about God?
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  Speaker 1: God is eternal. Eternity transcends time. So we are creatures
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  Speaker 1: of time, hence we have birth dates. Because time determines
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  Speaker 1: our awareness. God is preexistent of time. That's why in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Genesis, it says in the beginning, God. See,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't tell you the beginning of God. Because God
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  Speaker 1: has no beginning. And he has no ending. From everlasting life,
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  Speaker 1: To everlasting thou art God. So I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that so that you can understand that time limits
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  Speaker 1: your perspective. I think differently at this age than I
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  Speaker 1: did 10 years ago. I think differently at 50 than
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  Speaker 1: I did at 40. I think differently at 40 than
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  Speaker 1: I did at 20. Because time allows me to increase
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  Speaker 1: in experience and ability and understanding. So it's not good
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  Speaker 1: to make permanent decisions with temporary information. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that again for the people in the back. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you are making permanent decisions with temporary information. How
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  Speaker 1: you feel about it now may not be how you
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  Speaker 1: feel about it in 20 years. Look at the people
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  Speaker 1: who got tattoos. I love you so much I want
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  Speaker 1: to write your name on my chest. Now you can't
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  Speaker 1: stand her. You haven't seen her in five years. You're
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  Speaker 1: dating somebody else, got married to them and got a baby.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're trying to get somebody to burn her name.
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  Speaker 1: Permanent decisions over temporary situations. When I went to school,
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  Speaker 1: Pluto was a planet. It was nine planets and Pluto
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  Speaker 1: was the last one. Then I picked up the paper
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  Speaker 1: one day, they decided it wasn't a planet. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know everything. Your doctor doesn't know everything. Your pastor doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know everything. Your mama doesn't know everything. Your daddy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know everything. And you don't know. So God has an
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  Speaker 1: eternal plan that works itself out in time. Why am
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  Speaker 1: I starting there? Because I want you to understand that
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  Speaker 1: God is not making this thing up as he goes.
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  Speaker 1: He's not saying, oh my God, Pharaoh's coming. What we
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  Speaker 1: gonna do? Lord God, I didn't know Pharaoh was gonna come.
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  Speaker 1: God knew the end from the beginning. In fact, God
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  Speaker 1: had prophesied to Abram that this was gonna happen before
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  Speaker 1: Moses' mama got pregnant. God had already planned their escape
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  Speaker 1: before they ever went into Egypt. He told Abram that
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  Speaker 1: your people are going to sojourn in Egypt for 400
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  Speaker 1: years and afterwards they're going to come out with great
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  Speaker 1: substance and Moses wasn't even born yet. Jacob wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: born yet. Joseph wasn't even born yet. God had the
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  Speaker 1: future figured out before the characters ever came on the
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  Speaker 1: stage and there you are thinking that you are conspiring
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  Speaker 1: with God to plan the future. Your future was already
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  Speaker 1: planned before you got here. It was already set in motion.
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  Speaker 1: And you might be shocked at what happened, but God
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  Speaker 1: is not shocked at what's going on in your life.
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  Speaker 1: God already knows everything that's going to happen in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And he made a way of escape before you ever
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  Speaker 1: ran into the problem. So when God gets ready to
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  Speaker 1: bring you out, no devil, no witch, no hex, no soothsayer,
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  Speaker 1: no weakness, no dumb decision you made can stop the
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  Speaker 1: hand of God. So stand still. If God started it,
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  Speaker 1: God is going to finish it. And he's planning, we
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  Speaker 1: know for sure he's planning at least 400 years in advance.
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  Speaker 1: At the bare minimum of this text, we know that
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  Speaker 1: God is thinking 400 years ahead. And you don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what you're going to wear to work tomorrow. The
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, because the book of Revelation
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  Speaker 1: says that the Lamb was slain from the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the world, God sticks all the way, millenniums ahead. He
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  Speaker 1: is sovereign. Sovereigns. He is absolute. There is no one
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  Speaker 1: above Him. He is God all by Himself. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I looked for someone to swear by that was greater
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  Speaker 1: than myself and finding no one greater than myself. I
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  Speaker 1: had to swear by myself because ain't nobody better than me.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody better than me. Ain't nobody greater than me.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody stronger than me. Ain't nobody smarter than me.
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  Speaker 1: Your artificial intelligence is just that. Artificial intelligence. I am
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  Speaker 1: absolute intelligence. I am the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise God. So
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  Speaker 1: play with your toys and play with your gadgets and
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  Speaker 1: ask them all the questions you want, but I'm the
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  Speaker 1: one with the answer. And I want you to have
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  Speaker 1: an experience with me. So I determined that Moses would
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  Speaker 1: be born. And I determined that Moses, whose name means
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  Speaker 1: drawn out, would be born a Hebrew, by a Hebrew slave.
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  Speaker 1: And I determined that in spite of Pharaoh, who was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the absolute power, that Moses would not
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  Speaker 1: see death. So he escaped. He beat the odds. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to some people for just a second
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  Speaker 1: in this room whose mama had a story about your birth.
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  Speaker 1: If your mama had a story about your birth and
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  Speaker 1: you know you were a miracle baby, stand up on
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  Speaker 1: your feet. Then you ought to understand the power of
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  Speaker 1: this text. You're looking at a miracle. Your birth was
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  Speaker 1: a miracle. Your start was a miracle. If you start out,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have no Bible. You didn't have no prayer life.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't speak in tongues and yet God let you
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  Speaker 1: be here today. If God protected you before you had
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  Speaker 1: a mouth, How much more ought God to be able
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  Speaker 1: to protect you right now? Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some miracle babies. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see some babies that escaped free of death. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see some babies that should have been a stillborn.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some babies that the doctors were
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  Speaker 1: shocked that you made it. But when God wills you
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  Speaker 1: to be into existence, you are here. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: shout the place down. You are here. You are here.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you got a car or not, whether you got
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  Speaker 1: a house or not, whether you got a boyfriend or not,
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  Speaker 1: whether you got a wife or not, whether your kids
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  Speaker 1: like you or not, your breath is a miracle. Let
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  Speaker 1: me stop. It's too early for me to go off.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like going off right there. All the miracle
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  Speaker 1: babies touch somebody and say, don't make me go off.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a miracle baby. You ought to get a t-shirt
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  Speaker 1: and wear it and say, I'm a miracle baby. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if you're 103 years old. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: wear the t-shirt and say, I'm a miracle baby. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a miracle. My life started as a miracle. I got
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  Speaker 1: here by a miracle. God willed me to be here.
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  Speaker 1: So ain't no need in you rolling your eyes and
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  Speaker 1: hating me because you're rolling your eyes ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: make me go back. If I came through and survived
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  Speaker 1: all of that, ain't no way you can kill me
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  Speaker 1: with a tweet. The devil is alive. I'm a miracle baby.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was a miracle baby. I got to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was a miracle baby because God purposed him to be.
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  Speaker 1: He purposed him to be. He purposed him to be
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  Speaker 1: born in the house that he was born in, to
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  Speaker 1: the mother he was born to, at the time he
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  Speaker 1: was born, in the situation he was born, in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of chaos and confusion. God purposed his mother to
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  Speaker 1: hide him for three months in a tent. A slave woman,
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  Speaker 1: a little raggedy hut. How do you hide a baby
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  Speaker 1: in a hut from a trained, experienced soldier? But when
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  Speaker 1: God gets ready to hide you, he'll hide you. He'll
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  Speaker 1: hide your greatness. He'll hide your anointing. He'll hide your gift.
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  Speaker 1: He'll hide your talent. Sometimes God didn't mean for you
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  Speaker 1: to be exposed. He didn't mean for you to get
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  Speaker 1: the job. He didn't mean for them to recognize you.
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  Speaker 1: Had they recognized you, they would have killed you. So
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  Speaker 1: stop crying about who didn't recognize your gift. God hid
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  Speaker 1: your gift to protect you so God puts him in
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  Speaker 1: the ark and lets him float down and now you
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  Speaker 1: know the story and he lands in the arms of
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter and he's raised in the house of his
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  Speaker 1: enemies because for what God is going to do in
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  Speaker 1: his life he cannot think like a slave You see
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  Speaker 1: the liberation of the Hebrews, they went in a family,
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  Speaker 1: but they came out a nation. So Moses is designed
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  Speaker 1: to lead a nation. And if you are called to
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  Speaker 1: lead a nation, you have to hang around with people
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  Speaker 1: who lead nations because you can't think like somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: running a fast food restaurant and run a nation. So
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  Speaker 1: Moses got to be in the room with national thought,
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  Speaker 1: with leadership skills, where decisions were made, not obeyed, made.
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  Speaker 1: He was born and obeyed. He was raised and made.
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  Speaker 1: There are little clues that happen in your life, all
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  Speaker 1: your life, that give you glimpses of where you are
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  Speaker 1: to be in life. Because God doesn't make it up
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  Speaker 1: as he goes. He planned it from the beginning. So
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  Speaker 1: he's already making deposits on your destiny while you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out who you are and where you are.
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  Speaker 1: This is a fight between nations. Like Russia and Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fight between nations. It's not just a fight
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  Speaker 1: between slaves and masters. It's a fight between nations. The
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews left Egypt as a nation. And Pharaoh was intimidated
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  Speaker 1: by them because they were a nation, but they thought
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  Speaker 1: like slaves. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when
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  Speaker 1: we start talking about this text today, God has spared
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  Speaker 1: no expense in their liberation. I want this to sink in.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm getting into where I want to be. God
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  Speaker 1: has spared no expense on their liberation. He doesn't use
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  Speaker 1: nuclear war. He doesn't use the techniques of our times.
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  Speaker 1: But he uses unique devices today. to cause them to prevail.
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  Speaker 1: First he says to Moses, go down there and tell
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh that I said let my people go. But before
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  Speaker 1: you go tell him, practice in the wilderness. Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time. I can't do this, Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do this. My mother used to walk up on
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  Speaker 1: me in the basement of my house preaching. Wasn't nobody
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  Speaker 1: down there. I just walked around. You can't tell me
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  Speaker 1: that the God I serve. And she'd come down the
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  Speaker 1: stairs and look at me like, who you talking to? Nothing, mama.
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  Speaker 1: God's got somebody practicing for what you're going to do
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  Speaker 1: in life. Don't hate rehearsal. And love performance. Because performance
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  Speaker 1: without rehearsal will always lead to failure. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? So Moses is out in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness practicing his stuff before nobody. Nobody's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Moses is in the middle of the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's looking at him. Nobody's clapping for him. Nothing. He's
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  Speaker 1: just sticking his hand... in his clothes and coming out
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  Speaker 1: with leprosy. He's sticking it back in. It's coming out whole.
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  Speaker 1: Pouring out water. It's turning into blood. And he's just
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  Speaker 1: going through his stuff, throwing down his rod. It turns
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  Speaker 1: into a snake doing stupid stuff. makes no sense because
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  Speaker 1: Moses is in time. And when you're looking at your
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  Speaker 1: situation in time, it makes no sense. But from eternity,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like rehearsal. It looks like preparatory school. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like I'm getting ready to do something amazing in
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  Speaker 1: your life and I want you to have the confidence
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  Speaker 1: in your craft so that I can bring you before
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  Speaker 1: great men and you won't faint on the stage. So
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  Speaker 1: act one, Moses goes down there with Aaron who he
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  Speaker 1: didn't need, but he thought he needed because you can
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  Speaker 1: be great and still be insecure. God, I'm preaching so
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  Speaker 1: good this morning. You can be great and still be insecure.
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  Speaker 1: You can be strong and mighty and still doubt yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can perform miracles and still...
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  Speaker 1: stutter I can bring both things before him
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  Speaker 1: at the same time because one does not contradict the
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  Speaker 1: other all things are open before him with whom we
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  Speaker 1: have to do all things and just because you stutter
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean God won't use you and just because you
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake doesn't mean God doesn't have a plan
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  Speaker 1: for your life and just because you're going through a
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  Speaker 1: bad time right now doesn't mean that you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a great ending and just because you went backwards don't
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  Speaker 1: mean you won't go forward And just because you're in
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  Speaker 1: a down setting moment doesn't mean you're not about to
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  Speaker 1: stand up on your feet like you never stood in
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  Speaker 1: your life before. I'm talking to somebody and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who it is. And if you're watching online and
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  Speaker 1: you know somebody who needs to hear this, text them
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  Speaker 1: right quick and tell them to log on right now
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  Speaker 1: because God has given me a message that they cannot
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  Speaker 1: afford to miss. You're frustrated because you're not getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: This is practice. We don't pay you for practice. We
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  Speaker 1: pay you for a performance. That's where practice pays off
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  Speaker 1: is in the moment of performance. So don't despise the
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  Speaker 1: day of small beginnings. I preached in the woods. I
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  Speaker 1: preached in the shower. I preached in the basement. I
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  Speaker 1: preached to animals. I preached to crickets. I preached to
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  Speaker 1: roaches before God gave me people. Don't despise the day
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  Speaker 1: of small beginning. You don't get paid in the practice.
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  Speaker 1: You get paid for the performance. My first business deal
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was to take walnut hulls and boil them and turn
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  Speaker 1: it into dye and sell it in mason jars for
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  Speaker 1: a quarter. I was eight. I know they didn't need
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  Speaker 1: that purple dye. They just bought it because it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: And then mama grew greens in the garden. I sold
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  Speaker 1: them in brown paper bags for a dollar, from a
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  Speaker 1: quarter to a dollar, and gave a receipt. And I
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  Speaker 1: gave a receipt and they were talking about me and
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  Speaker 1: my brother's civics class because the eight-year-old was doing business.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever's in you, God, lets you practice. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: got to watch your kids because their prophecies and their
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  Speaker 1: habits and their details and the little stuff they do
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  Speaker 1: and the little things that sometimes get on your nerves,
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  Speaker 1: they're little glimpses of what's going to be in their life.
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  Speaker 1: You don't become Michael Irvin when you join the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: You become Michael Irvin when you're backed up in the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina somewhere where nobody knows your name and nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: about your name and nobody's thinking about you. It is
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  Speaker 1: not about what they think about your name. It is
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  Speaker 1: about your diligence and going after what God has for you.
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  Speaker 1: I got to move on. And so he says, go
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  Speaker 1: down and tell Pharaoh. I said, let my people go. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Moses has the power to walk into Pharaoh's house because
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  Speaker 1: he was raised in Pharaoh's house. So he walks up
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  Speaker 1: in Pharaoh's house and said, God said, let my people go.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh thinks he's a God. Because in his life,
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  Speaker 1: he is a God. He serves a God, a deity,
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  Speaker 1: but he has so much power, he's drunk off of himself.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not careful, success will make you drunk off
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. And nobody can tell you that you're not
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  Speaker 1: a God and nobody can tell the king that he
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  Speaker 1: has no clothes because if everybody you surround yourself with
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  Speaker 1: is on your payroll, you can't be sure you're getting
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  Speaker 1: the truth. I don't know who that's for, but it's
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  Speaker 1: for somebody. So let me show you the scripture right
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  Speaker 1: quick because I got to make some ground. Are y'all
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  Speaker 1: enjoying this? So I'm going to Exodus 7, 8 through 12.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to see what happened in the palace.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
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  Speaker 1: when Pharaoh shall speak unto you saying, show a miracle
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  Speaker 1: for you, then thou shalt say unto Aaron, that's when
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  Speaker 1: you're going to find out why you've been practicing out
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  Speaker 1: in the desert. When I put you on stage, that's
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  Speaker 1: when I'm going to activate the things you've been rehearsing.
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  Speaker 1: Take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh and it
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  Speaker 1: shall become a serpent. And Moses and Aaron went in
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  Speaker 1: unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before
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  Speaker 1: his servants, and it became a serpent. Pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 1: The rod became a serpent. That's going to have power
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  Speaker 1: all through the Bible. The rod became a serpent. This
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  Speaker 1: is not just a moment. This is a glimpse. Then
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. Pharaoh said,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't nothing. I can do that too. So he
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  Speaker 1: called his wise men, his magicians, his sorcerers, and now
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  Speaker 1: the magicians of Egypt. They also did in like manner
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  Speaker 1: with their enchantments. That's why you got to be careful
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  Speaker 1: of Christians who follow miracles. Because Satan does tricks too.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in here's mama's name is Helen. Somebody in here,
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  Speaker 1: you dropped out of school in the seventh grade. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be careful about following people over this fanatical
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You got to be rooted on a
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  Speaker 1: solid foundation, on the word of God, on the truth,
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  Speaker 1: on the spirit of God, on the presence of God,
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  Speaker 1: and not on what you see with your eye. Because
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh said that ain't nothing. Them tricks you've been practicing,
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  Speaker 1: we do that too. So Pharaoh called for his magicians
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  Speaker 1: and they cast down every man his rod and they
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  Speaker 1: became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up Their rods. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear that? Do you hear that? They had more serpents.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron only had one rod that became a serpent, but
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  Speaker 1: it was stronger than all of the serpents put together,
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  Speaker 1: and it ate up his rods. And look at this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to spend a minute talking about sticks and snakes.
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  Speaker 1: Sticks and snakes, sticks and snakes. This is powerful. We
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  Speaker 1: often overlook the relationship between the stick and the snake.
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  Speaker 1: The stick became a snake. It was a stick in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, but when he cast it down, it became
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  Speaker 1: a snake. Sticks and snakes. When Paul was on his
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  Speaker 1: way to Rome, the Bible said that while he was
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  Speaker 1: gathering sticks, that a snake came out. There's something down
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  Speaker 1: between the stick and and the snake, the stick, and
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  Speaker 1: the snake, the stick, and the snake, the stick, and
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  Speaker 1: the snake. Thy rod comforteth me. Thy rod and thy staff,
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  Speaker 1: they comfort me. There's something between the stick and the
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  Speaker 1: snake that makes no accident that the snake was a stick,
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  Speaker 1: and the one that was a stick and became a
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  Speaker 1: snake devoured all the snakes of the magicians. This is Calvary.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see it yet. The Bible said that Christ
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  Speaker 1: carried a cross up the hill. That's the stick. That's
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  Speaker 1: the stick. And he carries it up the hill. That's
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  Speaker 1: the stick. But when he got on the stick, he
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  Speaker 1: became a snake for us. The Bible, let me put
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  Speaker 1: it in biblical language. He became sin who knew no
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  Speaker 1: sin that we might be the righteousness of God. And
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  Speaker 1: by him becoming that, when he lifted up, he said,
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  Speaker 1: if I be lifted up from the earth, if you
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  Speaker 1: cast me out, I'll turn into the cure for the
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  Speaker 1: venom that bit you in the first place. So it
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  Speaker 1: was snake to snake. And Satan said, I hexed, I
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  Speaker 1: cast spell, I sent curses. But when Jesus went to
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  Speaker 1: the cross, the Bible said he bore every curse that
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  Speaker 1: was ever against us, every hex, every spell that was
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  Speaker 1: ever against us. That was that one snake eating up
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  Speaker 1: all them other snakes. He devoured every last one of them.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first glimpse that we see between the
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  Speaker 1: stick and the snake. Jesus could have died on the
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  Speaker 1: whipping post, but it wouldn't have exemplified the stick and
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  Speaker 1: the snake. They could have beat him to death. They
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  Speaker 1: could have thrust him through with a sword. But in
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  Speaker 1: order to fulfill the draw and out that Moses was
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  Speaker 1: going to do and to establish the New Testament church,
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  Speaker 1: there had to be an association between the stick and
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  Speaker 1: the snake. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: didn't just die as the Lamb of God. He became
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  Speaker 1: sin for us. He became the cure from the venom
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  Speaker 1: of sin that the first man, Adam, partook of. He
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  Speaker 1: is the stick that became a snake. He became sin
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  Speaker 1: for us that we might be the righteousness of God.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't care who hex you. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who got a piece of your hair. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who worked roots on you. I don't care what they
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  Speaker 1: said about you. No weapon formed against you shall be
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  Speaker 1: able to prosper because God said I'll eat it up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat up what they said about you. I'll eat
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  Speaker 1: up what they did to you. I'll eat up the
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  Speaker 1: spell they cast on your mama. I'll eat up every
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  Speaker 1: generational curse. You're going to be the first one of
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  Speaker 1: your generation that's going to break the curse. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to eat it up. It got your mama.
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  Speaker 1: It got your auntie. It got your uncle. It got
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  Speaker 1: your grandfather. It got your great uncle, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to get you. Everybody who's breaking a generational curse,
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  Speaker 1: give him 30 seconds of crazy. Oh! You're watching on TV,
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  Speaker 1: type it on the line. Eat it up, Jesus. Eat
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  Speaker 1: it up, Jesus. Eat it up, Jesus. They've been in
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  Speaker 1: for evil, but eat it up, Jesus. Eat it up,
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  Speaker 1: eat it up, eat it up, eat it up. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: One snake ate up all the snakes of all the
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  Speaker 1: magicians and all the curses and all the spells. I
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  Speaker 1: got to get off it, but slap the name and
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  Speaker 1: say one. You only need one, just one, just one,
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  Speaker 1: just one, just one, just one, just one. If you
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  Speaker 1: got one rod, it's more than all the rods that
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  Speaker 1: have been beating you down. If you got one snake,
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  Speaker 1: it'll eat up every snake that came up against you.
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  Speaker 1: If you got one praise, it'll break a yoke that
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: come against your life. That's why the Bible said, bring
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  Speaker 1: ye all the tithes and offerings into the storehouse that
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  Speaker 1: there might be meat in my house. And prove me
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  Speaker 1: now herewith, if I will not open up the windows
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: or the floodgates of heaven and pull you out. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: One blessing you won't have room enough to receive. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one thing that's going to
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: fix everything that messed up anything that was happening in
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: your life. You only need one thing. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: thing have I desired of the Lord. That will I
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: seek out the... You better get up off me. I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: feel something on me. I feel something on me. You
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  Speaker 1: better get up. You've been asking for too much stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You just need one thing. You just need to be
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: one with God. You need to be one in his presence,
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  Speaker 1: one in his glory. Put away your list of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: At about 22, I won't dance. And when I'm 31,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I won't dance. And I want to buy my home
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  Speaker 1: when I'm 70.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up!
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  Speaker 1: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and all these things. Slap somebody and tell them I
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  Speaker 1: don't need but one thing. I love you, but I
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: don't have to have you. I like you, but I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: don't have to have you. I want you to be impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to appreciate me. But if I never
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: win your appreciation, I only got to have one thing.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I'm gonna show you who's God. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: show you who's boss. I'm gonna show you who's in charge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna use stuff that you ain't got. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: whip you without a chariot. I'm gonna beat you without
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  Speaker 1: a horse. I won't even use a sword to take
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: you down. I'm gonna kill you with locusts. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll use stuff that's not up under your regime and
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: not in your power. I'll turn your water into blood.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: God said, I'll release frogs. I'll send frogs up out
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  Speaker 1: of the rivers of Egypt until you can't see the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: ground for the frog. God said, I'll send lice after you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll send the livestock, we'll all get sick. I'll put
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  Speaker 1: boils all over your body. I'll send hell down on
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  Speaker 1: top of you. I'll send locusts and darkness and the
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  Speaker 1: killing of the firstborn. I'll kill every baby coming out
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: of your womb into your terminal. When God gets ready
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: to bring you out, he'll send stuff you thought couldn't
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: be done to get you out of the body. Look
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: at how much God paid for. to get you out
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: of what some of your kinfolks are still into. But
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: God reached down and snapped you out. And to God
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: be the glory for the things he has done. He
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: brought you from a mighty long way. How dare you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: sit there with your lips glued together and act like
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you can't praise God. Girl, you know you wasn't born
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: like this. God just brought you out. That's why it's
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: dangerous to be an enemy against somebody that God wants
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  Speaker 1: to use. It's not that they're dangerous. God is dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: God don't take no mess. God will kill you with
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they ain't got no name for. You'll be
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital and they'll say, we can't figure out
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you. We did an MRI. We did
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  Speaker 1: an EKG. We did an x-ray. We don't have no
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  Speaker 1: kind of machine to determine why you died. You'll just
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  Speaker 1: be dying. God said, touch not mine anointing. Do my
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  Speaker 1: prophets no harm? When I sent a man, shut up!
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  Speaker 1: You might not agree with him, but shut up! Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: in all of his might had no response to fight lice.
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  Speaker 1: He knew how to fight armies. but not boils. He
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  Speaker 1: knew how to fight people, but not locusts. Gotta hit
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  Speaker 1: you where your weapons don't work. All of this to
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  Speaker 1: let my people go. Can I take you deeper? Now
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  Speaker 1: this is what I want you to get. Sit down.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I want you to get. This is
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  Speaker 1: what I want you to get. My God, I feel
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost in you. Glory to God. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good for me to preach with a mic
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: because it pushes me. When I get a mic in
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  Speaker 1: my hand, I go, you know, I'm trying to be
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  Speaker 1: professorial and this mic can mess me up. Make me
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  Speaker 1: think I'm in a storefront somewhere. Next thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be running down the aisle, walking across pews, leaping
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  Speaker 1: up and down in the air, talking in tongues, shaking
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  Speaker 1: devils and rebuking witches and cashing out. Because I always
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  Speaker 1: keep my stuff with me. I always, I'm always packing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never by myself. I'm always, I always got something,
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  Speaker 1: just a little extra in case you come at me
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  Speaker 1: at the Dairy Queen. I don't need to call nobody
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  Speaker 1: to pray for me. I got enough power inside of myself.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted. I was preaching when you got here.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no such thing as a bad crowd if you
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  Speaker 1: got a real anointing. I'll flip this place over in
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  Speaker 1: the floor if God be for you. Who am I
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  Speaker 1: preaching to today? Now, I got to get you where
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  Speaker 1: God wants me to get you. Watch this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who it is, but something just broke in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't hardly hold your peace. You just got
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough. And hell can't do nothing about it. Have
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  Speaker 1: you got anything to take it from? Have you got
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  Speaker 1: anything to take it from? Then do it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just watch them. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you!
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! I'm grateful! I'm grateful!
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful! I'm grateful!
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  Speaker 2: Thank you!
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  Speaker 1: Thank you! Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're Lord of.
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  Speaker 1: The breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: Of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: Say it again.
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  Speaker 2: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 3: You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, a chief. Yes, a master. Yes, a father.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you. I thank you, God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!
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  Speaker 2: I dare you to thank him! I dare you to
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  Speaker 2: thank him!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! So sit down, sit down,
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  Speaker 1: sit down. I wanted you to get that anointing out
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  Speaker 1: of you so you could think. Because there is a
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  Speaker 1: glory that's just so high you can't think. When the
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  Speaker 1: glory is real, how the priest can't minister. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said when the glory fell on Solomon's temple, the priest
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: lay prostrate in the floor. Because there is a glory
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  Speaker 1: that gets you so intoxicated, you got to get that out.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the devil and say, I had to get
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  Speaker 1: that out. Watch this. Moses is leading them forward. almost
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  Speaker 1: against their will. Because while he's trying to get them
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  Speaker 1: out from under Pharaoh, when they heard Pharaoh's army coming
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  Speaker 1: up behind them, their emotions took over their intelligence. Have
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: you ever had your emotions take over your intelligence? So
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  Speaker 1: out of their emotions affecting their intelligence, their reasoning is
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  Speaker 1: so flawed that they start arguing over where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to die. Were there no graves in Egypt? Why did
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: you bring us into the wilderness to die? This whole
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: conversation is stupid. It's like saying, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: die in the bedroom, I want to die in the
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  Speaker 1: living room. Why did you bring me in the living room?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to die in the living room. Dead don't
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  Speaker 1: make no difference. It doesn't make any difference at all.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get in the presence of God and talk stupid.
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  Speaker 1: God is intelligent. Moses immediately, they didn't say nothing about
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  Speaker 1: being afraid. They just gave a stupid conversation and Moses said,
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  Speaker 1: be not afraid. Do we attack people that we ought
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  Speaker 1: to discern? Are we so focused on what they say
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  Speaker 1: that we don't think about why they said it? Moses
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  Speaker 1: doesn't wrestle with the what, because the what was ignorant.
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  Speaker 1: He goes right to the why. He says, don't be afraid. See,
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  Speaker 1: they're dealing with somebody they had seen commit atrocities, bury
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  Speaker 1: people alive, split them in two. Of course they were scared.
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  Speaker 1: They had not seen God's hand for 400 years. He
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: had worked around them, but he had not worked in them.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: He said, let my people go that they may worship
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  Speaker 1: me in the wilderness. So the word we call tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: in the Hebrew is ohel moed. It is a tent
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  Speaker 1: of meeting. God said, I'm taking them on a date.
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  Speaker 1: So they can find out who their husband is. Everything
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  Speaker 1: else I did for them. The locusts, the lice, the boils,
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  Speaker 1: the water turning into blood, the afflictions attacking the animals,
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  Speaker 1: all the 10 of the plagues I did for them.
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  Speaker 1: But having God doing things for you is different from
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: having God doing things in you. Now, here's where you're at.
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  Speaker 1: They have come down to the Red Sea, and they
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: think they're going to die. And Moses says, shut up.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. I like shut up. up. I was raised
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  Speaker 1: off of shut up. Y'all get you. My mother did
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  Speaker 1: not negotiate. If you went as soon as you finished talking,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to interject the thought. Shut your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: You sound stupid. And you know what I did? So
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: what Moses is saying to them is shut up. See,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the kind of faith today that can
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  Speaker 1: take an insult. No, no. You will leave the church
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  Speaker 1: because somebody sat in your chair. You can't take a
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  Speaker 1: good shut up. That's why Pharaoh keeps eating you up.
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  Speaker 1: Because until you can endure correction, you're not a son.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what your DNA says. He says, stand
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  Speaker 1: still and see the salvation of the Lord. For the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians that you see today, you shall see them again.
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  Speaker 1: No more. He didn't say they wouldn't have to fight again.
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  Speaker 1: They had to fight all kinds of people. Philistines, Amalekites,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of people. God, oh, and promise I am
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  Speaker 1: a nice, enticed, but what you're worried about, you ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna never see them no more. So settle this in
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  Speaker 1: your mind. I will not say this in a provocative way.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is too profound to be provocative. And because
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  Speaker 1: I want both your spirit and your soul to hear this.
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  Speaker 1: Settle this in your mind. In spite of the hoof
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  Speaker 1: prints that you hear through your senses coming up behind
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: you and the snorting of the horse's hot breath and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: the images that have been in your head for 400
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: years of what Pharaoh can do to you. And now
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: he is after you. It's like the image I had
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: when I went down to the power company years ago
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  Speaker 1: and asked them to keep the power on. And the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: woman said she was going to cut it off anyway.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: And I walked out of Appalachian Power Company crying walking
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: down the street because I saw an image of me
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: pushing a go-kart. And me and my wife and my
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: two kids was going to be homeless. And sometimes it's
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: an image you're fighting. I was crying and I couldn't stop.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I was crying over an image. David said, yea though
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: I walked through the valley of the. There are death
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: has shadows. Anybody understand what I'm talking about? Anybody ever
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: been up all night over an image? It hadn't even
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: happened yet, but it's an image. Anybody in Elijah running
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: from a threat from a Jezebel that you ain't even
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: seen who said you would be dead in 24 hours
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: and the 24 hours has elapsed and you still running?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Anybody still running from a ghost? Something somebody said about
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: you in the first grade? Something your stepmother told you?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Something somebody said about you? Something your big sister said
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  Speaker 1: about you? You still running from it? This is why
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I want to speak to your spirit and to your soul.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: And this is why you're logged on to this broadcast
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  Speaker 1: right now. This is why you cannot move. Because the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost said, You will not die here. Wait a minute,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: hold the music. I want you to take that and
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: make it yours. And I want you to hear your
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: voice say, I will not die here. I will not
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: die here. I may die somewhere, but I will not
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  Speaker 1: die here. This won't kill me. It may hurt me,
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  Speaker 1: but it won't kill me. I will not. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, I will not. You ain't got enough
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: fight in you. You ain't got enough. I want you
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: to pull up that stuff you did when you found
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: out your husband had a girlfriend. And I want you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: to say it like you mean it. I will not
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: die here. Now I'm gonna show you this and I'm
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: gonna close. They couldn't die at the Red Sea because
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: they had a rendezvous scheduled with God. And God could
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: not allow the Red Sea to restrict the meeting. He says,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: let my people go that they may worship me in
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: the wilderness. The Lord said to me, stop worrying about
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: reconciliation between races. Stop worrying about that. Stop worrying about that.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Stop worrying about that. Stop worrying about reconciliation between generations.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Stop worrying about reconciliation between genders. You will never be
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: able to negotiate reconciliation in any of these areas. I said, Lord,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: I had all kinds of reconciliation conferences. I did all
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. I counseled couples for years. I did it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you'll never be able to reconcile it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: the problem in the reconciliation is not between people or
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  Speaker 1: genders or generations. The problem is reconciliation with me. If
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  Speaker 1: you reconcile the man and the woman, the young and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the old, the black and the white, if they get
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: reconciled with me, then reconciliation with each other is not
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: only possible, it is a necessity because I am only
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: one God. There's not a white God and a brown
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: God and a black God and a female God and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: a male God and a young God and an old God.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: There's just one God. And if you're going to get
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: to me, you got to brush up against each other.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Call them back to me. Call them back to me.
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  Speaker 1: blonde hair, brunette hair, black hair, kinky hair, bald hair,
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  Speaker 1: no hair, buck teeth.
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  Speaker 3: Big lips.
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  Speaker 1: Call them back. Call them from Australia. Call them from Africa.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Call them from Switzerland. Call them from New Zealand. Call
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: them from Puerto Rico. Call them from Mexico. Call them
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: from Canada. God said, call them back. Call the dope dealer,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: call the deacon, call the whoremonger, call the prostitute, call
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: the church mother, call the senator, call them back! Because
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: if you call them back to me, they will bump
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: into each other, crawling after me. Watch this. your marriage
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: would get better if both y'all really got saved. What's
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: wrong with your kids is not that they don't obey you,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: it's that they don't obey God. What's wrong with you
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: is that you don't obey God. So how you gonna
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: get them to obey God while they watch you not
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: obey God? Oh, I'm coming for you, I'm coming for you.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Sit right there, sit right there, I'm coming for you.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: So in order to give you access to him, he
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: parted the Red Sea. Because the Red Sea was standing
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: in between the people getting to him. He could have
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: killed Pharaoh and his army with a heart attack. All
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: the horses could have dropped dead. He opened up a way.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: You remember that song. He laid the foundation and opened
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: up the way. What more could he do? They don't
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, but we know what we're
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: talking about. If you're our age, you know, what more
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: could he do? What more could he do? He laid
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: the foundation, opened up the way. What more could he do?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: What more could he do? What more could he do?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: He laid the foundation, opened up the way. What more
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: could he do? That's what we used to say. Y'all
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: don't understand that. That's okay. That's okay. Y'all sing that out.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. But when we got ready to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: chase a demon out of the room, what more could
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: he do? So what'd he do? He laid the foundation
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: and opened up the way and propped them across on
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: dry ground. I ain't through yet. And Pharaoh... Try to
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: follow him. Nobody can follow you through a way that
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: God made for you. What God has for you is
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: for you and all of your imitators and spectators and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: haters that's trying to get through the door that God
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: opened up for you. Every last one of them going
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: to drown trying to be like you. They can wear
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: your clothes. They can go to your barber. They can
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: wear your tie, but they can't get through your way.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: When God has a way for you to go through,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: it's your way. And once you get through, he's going
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: to shut it down. Watch this. He shut it down.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: And here's the question. And here's the problem. They were
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: trying to get away from Pharaoh more than they were
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: trying to get to God. At what point do we
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: stop running from and start running to? The will was
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: or is currently a time in your life that you
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: gave your all, stepped out on faith, forsook the familiar,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Offered up the right sacrifices and didn't see the reward
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: you anticipated. The job that downsized. The marriage that failed.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: The child that died. The business that capsized. The church
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: that just won't grow. No matter how successful we may
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: be in many areas, we are never exempt from the reflective,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: reminiscent idea, what was that all about? See, this is
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: what started me with this text. See, they said, were
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: there no graves in Egypt? Why did you bring us
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: out into the wilderness to die? What started me with
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: the whole text was, they did die in the wilderness.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the question wasn't wrong they didn't die at the Red
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Sea but they did die in the wilderness wonder why
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: God delivers us in one place and lets us die
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: in another. That's one question. Second question is, what about
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: me needs to die for me to get to the
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: promised land? Sometimes God puts you in the wilderness to
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: kill the thing that's stopping you from getting to the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: promised land. New Testament reflection on it is the first
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: generation died in the wilderness not having faith mixed with
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: the word that they heard. They died in the wilderness
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: because their motives were wrong. They were running from, not to.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: So God raises up another generation in the wilderness who
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: has no Pharaoh to run from. Because what God wants
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: from us, help me Jesus. What God wants from us
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: and what God has challenged me to do is to
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: create thirst in this room for him. I'm glad you
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: go to this church. I'm glad you come out here.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you come out here when it's hot and
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: when it's raining, when it's cold. I'm glad. I'm glad
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: you're streaming online. I'm glad we got, normally, I don't
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: know what the numbers are today, but somewhere between 70
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: and 80,000 people watching right now on stream all over
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: the world. I'm so glad. Stay tuned. Glad to have you.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Good for you to be here. Welcome to the Potter's House.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. But why are you watching? If you are
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: just running from Pharaoh, God will kill your Pharaoh to
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: check your motive. And once Pharaoh was dead, they wandered
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: for 40 years because their motive were still running from
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: and they did not ever transition to running to. And
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: they were so busy running from whatever horror that brought
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: you to church, whatever nightmare, whatever atrocity, whatever abuse, whatever misfortune,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: whatever agony, whatever crisis that brought you to church, thank God.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: God used it to bring you here. But you can't
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: spend your entire life running from a shadow. What God
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: wants for this church It's for us to bring you
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: into an encounter. You can't even have a relationship until
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: you have an encounter with God. Then you can have
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: a relationship. You can't have a relationship with somebody that
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: you don't have an encounter with. and you're having an
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: encounter with church, and music, and singing, and dancing, and preaching,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: and hooping, and hollering, and jumping, and information, and intellect,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: and education, and all that's good, and all that's wonderful,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: and we don't have to stop none of that. But
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  Speaker 1: none of that means a hill of beans. None of
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  Speaker 1: your degrees, none of your education, none of your hooping,
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  Speaker 1: none of your changing keys, none of your riffs, none
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  Speaker 1: of your runs mean nothing! It don't mean nothing! Beyonce
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  Speaker 1: can riff. Aretha can riff. Michael Jackson can riff. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care about your riffing. If it doesn't bring me
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  Speaker 1: into an encounter with God, you're wasting your breath. You
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  Speaker 1: can teach me Hebrew. You can teach me Greek. You
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  Speaker 1: can teach me Swahili. But if you don't bring me
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, why am I here? And God says, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want them to have an encounter with you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want them to have an encounter with the band.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want them to have an encounter with the
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  Speaker 1: praise team or the praise dancers. I don't just want
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  Speaker 1: them to have an encounter with your education, your intellect,
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  Speaker 1: your ability or your decisiveness or your revelations or none
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  Speaker 1: of that if it does not bring them into an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with me. I'm the one who sent the boars
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  Speaker 1: and the lice and the frogs to bring your Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and make him turn you loose. I'm the one who
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  Speaker 1: laid the foundation and opened up a way and made
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  Speaker 1: it possible for you to get out of jail, for
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  Speaker 1: you to escape your turmoil, for your body to be healed,
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  Speaker 1: for you to survive breast cancer. I'm the one that
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  Speaker 1: brought you through the flood and the fire and the
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  Speaker 1: food stamps and the crisis and the trauma in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one that brought you from crack and cocaine
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  Speaker 1: and drugs and addiction. I'm the one! And I am
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  Speaker 1: a jealous God. I'm jealous that I brought you out
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  Speaker 1: and you fall in love with other people. I'm jealous
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  Speaker 1: that I spent all my resources to deliver you and
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  Speaker 1: you still don't put me above everybody else. I'm jealous
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  Speaker 1: that I still play suck and fiddle around your false
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  Speaker 1: idols and your fake gods. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: miss me. I want you to miss me, not deacon you,
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  Speaker 1: not elder you, not evangelist you, not bishop you. I
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  Speaker 1: want you, Freddie.
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  Speaker 1: It's
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  Speaker 1: not enough that you escaped Pharaoh if you don't find me.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's dead and you're still not happy. You came here
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  Speaker 1: to find me. You came here to seek me. You
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  Speaker 1: came here to lay on your face in my presence
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  Speaker 1: and hunger for me. And all you're worried about is
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  Speaker 1: your seat and your parking space. And the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're more worried about your parking space than you are
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  Speaker 1: my glory is a sign that you only have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with church and you've never had an encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: You don't mind being late. You don't mind leaving early.
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  Speaker 1: You don't mind because you're more worried about the pancake
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  Speaker 1: house than you are the glory of God. Nobody can
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  Speaker 1: pastor you and nobody can lead you and nobody can
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  Speaker 1: help you. Because you're better at coming to work than
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  Speaker 1: you are at coming to me. You're more long-suffering with
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  Speaker 1: your lying husband than you are to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to see you humble yourself in my presence and
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  Speaker 1: miss me and crave me. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: have an encounter with me that changes the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your life, that changes your trajectory, that leaks into your
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  Speaker 1: daughter and your son, that heals your body and heals
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  Speaker 1: your mind. I want you to have an encounter with me.
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  Speaker 1: And you would need less therapy if you had more power.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to have an encounter with me until
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  Speaker 1: you can sleep at night. I want you to have
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  Speaker 1: an encounter with me until I fill up the emptiness
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  Speaker 1: that nobody can be able to fill. Not your husband
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  Speaker 1: and your boyfriend. None of them can fill the place.
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  Speaker 1: I left a hole in you. I left a thirst
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  Speaker 1: in you. I left a craving in you. And I
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  Speaker 1: want you to want me. And the reason you will
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  Speaker 1: not die here is that I kept you alive in
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  Speaker 1: the hopes that somewhere in the wilderness you would stop
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: running from and start running to. And I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know that I am more than religion. That I
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  Speaker 1: am more than a building. that I am more than
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  Speaker 1: theology and doctrine and ideas and Bible discussions and debates
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  Speaker 1: about texts and what does this mean and what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? I am your God. I am your God
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  Speaker 1: and I brought you through hell. And I brought you
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  Speaker 1: through hot water. And I brought you through agony and
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: I brought you through stuff you thought you wouldn't get through.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm tired of you not talking to me. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of you not craving me. And I'm tired
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  Speaker 1: of you not longing for me. I gave you the
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: wealth of the Egyptians. Not so you could show off.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to show you how good I could
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  Speaker 1: be to you. If you ever miss me. And no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make no formal altar call. Because
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  Speaker 1: if I had to make an altar call, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear me. If I have to call you, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even hear nothing that I said today. If there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: in your belly that's calling you, stay in your seat.
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  Speaker 1: I only want people who feel a magnetism, a drawing,
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  Speaker 1: a pulling, a craving, a nagging, a missing, a hunger,
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  Speaker 1: a thirst, a wailing in their soul that says, God,
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  Speaker 1: I want an encounter with you. And I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if I have to come on Sunday and come on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't care if I got to lay on
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  Speaker 1: my face I need something real. I need something that
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  Speaker 1: will last. I need something I can take home with me.
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  Speaker 1: I can't take this band with me. I can't take
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: them good singers with me. I can't take the bishop
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  Speaker 1: with me. I can only take you with me. And
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  Speaker 1: I need something that goes with me when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through hell on my job and I want to quit
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  Speaker 1: and cuss everybody out. I need something in my belly
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  Speaker 1: that sustains me. Thank you.