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T-D-Jakes-Sermons-I-am-the-Good-Shepherd · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on The Potter's Touch. The door is so
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  Speaker 1: powerful that I can go in and out and find
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  Speaker 1: green pastures. Pastures in His presence. Pastors outside of his presence.
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  Speaker 1: Pastors up under the anointing. Pastors on my job. Green
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  Speaker 1: pastors in my church. Green pastors in my house. Green
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  Speaker 1: pastors with my preacher. Green pastors with my friend. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be at a particular geographical location to
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  Speaker 1: get the glory of the Lord. Once I find the door,
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  Speaker 1: I can find the pastor. Whether I'm going in.
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  Speaker 2: This is the part of touch.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings, family. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: share the word with you. The word is the thing
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  Speaker 1: that sustains us. It keeps us going no matter what
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  Speaker 1: you're going through. And God wants to reveal himself to you.
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  Speaker 1: He has given us direct access to his presence. You
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  Speaker 1: won't want to miss this message. The message is called,
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  Speaker 1: I am the good shepherd. Find out why I called
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  Speaker 1: it that as we go now to the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: There are terms that are called in theology anthropomorphic terms.
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  Speaker 1: Anthropomorphic terms are terms where God uses things, metaphors and
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  Speaker 1: similes to cause you to understand things that you would
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  Speaker 1: not be able to understand otherwise. The hand of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord was upon Elijah does not really mean that God's
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  Speaker 1: hand was on him physically, but it does mean that
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  Speaker 1: he was up under God's covering and protection. He covereth
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  Speaker 1: me with his feathers. Does not mean that God is
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  Speaker 1: a bird, but it gives you a picture in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: As a hen covers her eggs, so has God covered you.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning that the warmth that you experience and the incubator
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  Speaker 1: process that exists in your life is a result of
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  Speaker 1: the hovering of the Holy Spirit over your head and
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  Speaker 1: over your life. It is that method of teaching that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus employs here in the final summary moments of his
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  Speaker 1: life on earth to finally infuse his disciples with pictures
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  Speaker 1: and metaphors that would help to reveal more clearly his plan,
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  Speaker 1: his purpose, and his intimacy that he desires to express
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  Speaker 1: to you. First, he says, I am the door. What
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  Speaker 1: is a door? It's a portal of entry. It's a
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  Speaker 1: place of access. He says, there are things, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: that God has for you that you have heard before,
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  Speaker 1: that have been taught to you down through the ages,
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  Speaker 1: and yet you have not been able to access them.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I am the door through which you can
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  Speaker 1: access the blessing of Abraham. through which you can receive
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God. I am the door that gives
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  Speaker 1: you entrance into the kingdom. He is so bodacious in
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  Speaker 1: his claim that he says, no man cometh unto the Father,
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  Speaker 1: save he come by me. I am the place of
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  Speaker 1: entry into the promises that the Father has for you.
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  Speaker 1: He says, so that you might go in and out
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  Speaker 1: and find green pastures. We cannot just live in the
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  Speaker 1: express presence of God. We are certainly living in the
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  Speaker 1: omnipresence of God, but we cannot live in the express
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  Speaker 1: presence of God no more than the priest in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament could live their lives in the holies of holies.
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  Speaker 1: It is a futile endeavor for you to try to
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  Speaker 1: spend 24 hours a day walking in an expressed anointing
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. You wouldn't get anything done. God's presence
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  Speaker 1: is so overwhelming and so powerful that if you spent
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  Speaker 1: all day up under the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't get anything accomplished in your life at all.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, I want you to be able to
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  Speaker 1: go in and out. and fine green pastures. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to go in and out with a familiarity like
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  Speaker 1: a child does who lives in your house, who goes
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  Speaker 1: in and out. I can remember when I was a
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  Speaker 1: little boy growing up in our house, and we had
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  Speaker 1: a screen door, and the object of the screen door
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  Speaker 1: was to keep the flies out. We had no air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: You understand the times. And the kids would go in
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  Speaker 1: and out the door, in and out the door. Mama
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  Speaker 1: would holler, shut that door. They kept going in and
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  Speaker 1: out the door. The reason we went in and out,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the neighbors rang the doorbell, because we were able
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  Speaker 1: to go in and out, they could not go in
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  Speaker 1: and out because they did not enjoy the relationship that
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  Speaker 1: we had through which we could readily access without anybody
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  Speaker 1: granting us permission, access to go in or out. When
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  Speaker 1: you know that you are His child, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to stand with your nose pressed up against the window
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  Speaker 1: pane and wish you could be inside. When the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit advertises before you things that God has in store
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  Speaker 1: for you, because that is what the Holy Spirit does.
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  Speaker 1: It advertises like a storefront window the things that God
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  Speaker 1: has inside the kingdom for you. Where did you get
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  Speaker 1: that from, Bishop Jakes? I'm glad you asked. He says,
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  Speaker 1: eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither have
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  Speaker 1: entered into the heart of man the things that God
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  Speaker 1: has in store for them that love him. But... It
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  Speaker 1: have been revealed unto us by His Spirit. So picture
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God as a window through which you
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  Speaker 1: can see into the kingdom, your destiny, and your future,
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  Speaker 1: and it is perpetually advertising to you what God has
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  Speaker 1: in store. Why is that important? We would have fainted
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  Speaker 1: Had not we believed to see the goodness of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord in the land of the living, we would have
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  Speaker 1: become weary and faint with the storms and the adversities
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  Speaker 1: and the atrocities of our time. But every time you
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  Speaker 1: got ready to faint, God advertised your future and he
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  Speaker 1: gave you the power to overcome your past. And oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, that's why the Bible said, without a vision,
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  Speaker 1: the people perish. I may not be able to touch it,
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  Speaker 1: but Pastor Gwyneth, if I can see it, then with patience,
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  Speaker 1: I can wait for it. And I understand that where
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  Speaker 1: I am will not last, that there's something inside there
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  Speaker 1: I want. Many people see it. They hear us. They
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  Speaker 1: hear us preach, they hear us teach on television, on
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  Speaker 1: the internet, through books, through tapes, and they hear all
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  Speaker 1: of the things that God has in store, but they
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  Speaker 1: cannot access it because they will not come through the door.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, because you are my children, I am the door.
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  Speaker 1: You can enter in and out and find green pastures.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take a moment and praise God for
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  Speaker 1: his accessibility. His accessibility is incredibly important to us. We
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  Speaker 1: need to know that. There have been times in the
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  Speaker 1: past that the church has taught an erroneous ideology that
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  Speaker 1: suggested that God was not accessible to us, that you
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  Speaker 1: had to go to a particular person or priest in
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  Speaker 1: order to access the Lord. This is inconvenient. because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the priest is not available. Sometimes it's the wrong day,
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  Speaker 1: too far away. The crisis occurs at five o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. I can't get the priest on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: But if you understand that Christ is my high priest,
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  Speaker 1: then that means I don't have to wake the bishop
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  Speaker 1: up to get a breakthrough. I can go to God
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  Speaker 1: for myself. I don't even have to leave the office.
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  Speaker 1: I can be in my office and go through the door.
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  Speaker 1: I can be in the courtroom and go through the door.
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  Speaker 1: I can be in a prison cell and go through
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  Speaker 1: the door. The door is so powerful that I can
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  Speaker 1: go in and out and find green pastures, pastures in
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  Speaker 1: His Pastors outside of his presence, pastors up under the anointing,
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  Speaker 1: pastors on my job, green pastors in my church, green
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  Speaker 1: pastors in my house, green pastors with my preacher, green
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  Speaker 1: pastors with my friend. I don't have to be at
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  Speaker 1: a particular geographical location to get the glory of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Once I find the door, I can find the pastor,
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  Speaker 1: whether I'm going in or whether I'm going out. Then
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  Speaker 1: he introduces an alien factor into the text, an alien
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  Speaker 1: factor into the text, an intimidating factor, a slithering, crawling factor.
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  Speaker 1: He introduces the thief. The thief crawls into this text
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  Speaker 1: like the snake slithered into the garden. interrupting and romantic
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  Speaker 1: interlude between God and his church. He deals with the
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  Speaker 1: intention of the thief. He says, the thief cometh, but
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  Speaker 1: to kill, steal, and destroy. The fact that you have
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  Speaker 1: access to the door does not mean that the thief
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  Speaker 1: will not come. The fact that you pray in the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit does not mean that the thief will not come.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that you pay your tithes does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that the thief will not come. The fact that you
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  Speaker 1: sing in the praise team does not mean that the
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  Speaker 1: thief will not come. The fact that you pass to
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  Speaker 1: the church does not mean that the thief will not come.
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  Speaker 1: The thief will come. Jesus told you he would come.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said he would come. Jesus declared he would come.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you shocked that the thief has come? Just
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  Speaker 1: imagine now, if you knew a thief was coming to
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  Speaker 1: your house, how would you get ready for a thief?
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  Speaker 1: If you knew a thief was coming to your house,
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  Speaker 1: would you leave the windows open and the doors unlocked?
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  Speaker 1: If you knew a thief was coming, would you set
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  Speaker 1: the alarm? If you knew a thief coming, would you
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  Speaker 1: arm yourself with weapons? If you knew a thief was coming,
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  Speaker 1: would you hide your possession? I came to tell you
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  Speaker 1: the thief is coming. The thief is coming. I could
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  Speaker 1: have slept in this morning, but the thief is coming.
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  Speaker 1: I could have laid in my bed, but the thief
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  Speaker 1: is coming. I could have taken it easy, but the
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  Speaker 1: thief is coming. I can't let him come and catch
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  Speaker 1: me with my work undone. The thief's coming. The thief,
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  Speaker 1: the thief, the thief, the thief's coming. I cannot afford
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  Speaker 1: to fall out with you and get in a war
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  Speaker 1: with you and spend the rest of my life arguing
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  Speaker 1: with you. Whatever we're angry about, we gotta get over
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  Speaker 1: it because the thief is coming. The thief is coming.
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  Speaker 1: I can't put that much energy into you. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a devil to fight. I've got an enemy to thwart.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta lock these doors. I gotta hammer shut these windows.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta pull these blinds. The thief's coming. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: I came in here acting funny towards you. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: thinking about you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a devil to fight.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Preachers, it took him 40 days to gather up the sheep.
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  Speaker 1: He showed up in the upper room and they were scattered.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas was not there. He had to come back again
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  Speaker 1: so he could bring Thomas back. And then he told him,
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  Speaker 1: tell Peter, I know you denied me, but meet me
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  Speaker 1: in Galilee.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes.
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  Speaker 1: So in the book of Acts, he had brought them
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  Speaker 1: all back together again.
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  Speaker 3: Are you under the shepherd's watch?
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  Speaker 1: Alarms go off that you can't even hear. And angels
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  Speaker 1: start flying in that you can't even see because I
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  Speaker 1: am sheltered.
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  Speaker 1: Even tell you all the stuff that almost got me
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  Speaker 1: if nobody in the whole church praises god i will bless.
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  Speaker 2: The lord at all times.
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  Speaker 3: And when your gift is $ 70 or more, you will
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  Speaker 1: Your sister died from it, and yet some kind of
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  Speaker 1: way you're still here. The shelter of the shepherd brought
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  Speaker 1: me through the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever felt vulnerable, ill-suited for the fight you
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  Speaker 1: have to fight. All hell is up against you and
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel equipped to withstand the adversities that have
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  Speaker 1: come against your life. You assess your own strengths and
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  Speaker 1: don't feel competent to survive in the atmosphere that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord has placed you in. How could God be good
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  Speaker 1: and put me in a world full of wolves? How
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  Speaker 1: could God be loving and put me in an office
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  Speaker 1: full of wolves? How could God be kind and put
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  Speaker 1: me in a community full of wolves? Doesn't he know
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  Speaker 1: that I don't have the strength and the apparatus I
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  Speaker 1: need to fight against the opposition that's at hand? Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: he understand the vulnerability of my nature, the weakness of
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  Speaker 1: my flesh, the cravings.
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  Speaker 2: Of my lusts?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't he know that my mind and my will is
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  Speaker 1: not strong and tenacious enough to withstand the kind of
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  Speaker 1: battle that I have to fight every day? Does God
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  Speaker 1: know that I can't sleep at night? Does God know
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  Speaker 1: that I toss and turn because I smell a wolf?
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  Speaker 1: Does God know that I can't rest in peace because
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  Speaker 1: I catch the scent of trouble coming and I feel ill-prepared?
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the money and the bill is coming.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the strength and the challenge that's coming.
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  Speaker 1: How could God put me in this situation where I
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  Speaker 1: am so ill-equipped to fight against what I've got to
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  Speaker 1: fight with? I'm glad you asked. That's why he said,
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  Speaker 1: but I come. That you might have life and have
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  Speaker 1: it more abundantly. Help me preach. Tell your neighbor, you're
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  Speaker 1: not in this by yourself. You don't have to fight
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  Speaker 1: this by yourself. You don't have to withstand this by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to deal with this by yourself. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the shepherd is coming. The shepherd is coming. The shepherd
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  Speaker 1: is coming. The shepherd is coming. So Jesus says, I
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  Speaker 1: come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: He is saying, I come against anything that is against you. Whoo! Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta dance right there myself. Woo! I felt that thing.
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  Speaker 1: I come against whatever's trying to kill you, whatever's trying
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  Speaker 1: to steal from you, whatever's trying to destroy you. I
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  Speaker 1: come against it. I come against it. I come against
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  Speaker 1: whatever enemy that's trying to assassinate your destiny, your future,
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  Speaker 1: your calling, your purpose. I come that you might have life.
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  Speaker 1: I came to protect what I started in you. I
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  Speaker 1: come You fought for my life. You fought for my joy.
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  Speaker 1: You fought for my peace. You fought for my promotion.
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  Speaker 1: You fought for my survival. When the enemy came in
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  Speaker 1: like a flood.
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  Speaker 2: The Spirit of the Lord. Somebody had a good shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he says, I'm not trying to make you shout.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I am the good shepherd.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a hireling. He said, a hireling will run when.
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  Speaker 1: The wolf comes. But I am the good shepherd. When
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  Speaker 1: the wolf runs to you, I'm going to run toward him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't run from a fight.
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  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes!
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  Speaker 1: And then he says, the wolf comes so that he
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  Speaker 1: might scatter the sheep. I gotta deal with that word scatter. See,
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  Speaker 1: the wolf knows that there's strength in numbers. So he
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  Speaker 1: tries to scatter the sheep. That's why the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. Because you got
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  Speaker 1: a wolf to fight. And if he catches you by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: he's able to devour you. But the Bible said the
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  Speaker 1: closer you get to the last days, the more.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta stick together.
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  Speaker 1: The more you're under attack, the more you need to
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  Speaker 1: be in church. The more the enemy is up against you,
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  Speaker 1: the more you need to be in the service of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Because you are not strong enough by yourself
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  Speaker 1: to come against the enemy. The enemy wants to scatter
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  Speaker 1: so that he can destroy. He wants to scatter so
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  Speaker 1: that he can destroy. He wants to scatter so that
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  Speaker 1: he can destroy. That's why I told you last week,
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  Speaker 1: the good shepherd left the 99. They were safe together.
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  Speaker 1: And he went after the one because he was out
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  Speaker 1: there by himself. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, don't be out there. No,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hoop it. Don't be out there.
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  Speaker 1: The reason the shepherd leaves the ninety and nine is
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  Speaker 1: because there's strength in the pack. He goes after the
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  Speaker 1: one because isolation is the last step before destruction. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if I had time, I would work that. Anything that
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  Speaker 1: is about to be destroyed will always isolate itself right
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  Speaker 1: before destruction. Whether it's in your family, whether it's in
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  Speaker 1: your marriage, whether it's in your church, people leave before
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  Speaker 1: they leave. The last trick of the enemy is to
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  Speaker 1: get you isolated. Nobody understands me. Nobody loves me. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: there for me. All of those are the tricks he
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  Speaker 1: used to put you in a state of isolation. Because
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  Speaker 1: once he separates you from the pack, he is trying
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  Speaker 1: to destroy you. Look at somebody and say, don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: Can I preach this morning? Now, all my preachers are saying, Bishop,
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  Speaker 1: I see the text. I see the exegesis of the text.
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  Speaker 1: You have exegeted the text properly, but there is one problem.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you have us read Acts 1? What does
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  Speaker 1: that have to do with the door, the thief, and
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  Speaker 1: the shepherd. The reason I had you read Acts 1
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  Speaker 1: is because the devil tried a trick. The devil knew
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  Speaker 1: that if I smite the shepherd, I can scatter the sheep.
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  Speaker 1: So they hung him high.
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  Speaker 2: And they stretched him wide.
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  Speaker 1: For they thought if I get the shepherd, I'll destroy
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  Speaker 1: the sheep. And when they hit the shepherd, the sheep scattered.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas threw his hands up and said, I'm leaving the church.
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  Speaker 1: Peter denied him and went to curse him. And the
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  Speaker 1: wolf was coming in for the kill. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I got him where I want him. They're all scattered.
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  Speaker 1: They're all broken apart. They're tattered and torn. Hell started
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  Speaker 1: having a party. The party lasted all weekend. Friday night
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  Speaker 1: they were high. Saturday night they were drunk. But early
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Early early.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning, here come the shepherd. Tell somebody, say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here he comes. Here he comes, the lion.
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  Speaker 2: Of the tribe of Judah, the rose of.
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  Speaker 1: Sharon, the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's my seal. He's my buckler. Here he comes. Preachers,
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  Speaker 1: it took him 40 days to gather up the sheep.
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  Speaker 1: He showed up in the upper room and they were scattered.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas was not there. He had to come back again
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  Speaker 1: so he could bring Thomas back. And then it told him,
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  Speaker 1: tell Peter, I know you denied me, but meet me
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  Speaker 1: in Galilee, shall ye ask? So in the book of Acts,
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  Speaker 1: he had brought them all back together again. Devil, you
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  Speaker 1: tried to destroy me. But I'm back.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You were after my joy. But I'm back.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You were after my peace. But I'm back. Everybody, whoever
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: got off track, you ought to.
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  Speaker 2: Be praising God. Everybody, whoever went.
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  Speaker 1: Down, you ought to give God a praise and say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back. I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: You should have killed me when you had the chance,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: but I'm back. Shout yes. I've got to stop there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's been a real joy to share the word
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of the Lord with you, and particularly this message, I
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  Speaker 1: am the good shepherd. It is your will that activates
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: God's power in your life. He doesn't make you worship him.
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  Speaker 1: He is the good shepherd that cares for us. One
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of the things that I believe he provided, I spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time with the Lord, really grappling over
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  Speaker 1: this book that I just released called Destiny. Step into
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  Speaker 1: your purpose. This is a book everybody's talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to have it, not because they're talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: but because it is relevant to those of us who
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  Speaker 1: are really trying to step into our purpose and sort
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  Speaker 1: away from us all the things that have been given
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  Speaker 1: to us that we're not really drawn to, we're not
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: really called to. It's not really a part of our destiny.
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  Speaker 1: I pray this will bless your life like it's blessed mine.
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  Speaker 1: It has been the catalyst through which my entire career evolved.
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  Speaker 1: There was always something pulling at me even when I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what to call it. Now I do. It's destiny.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have to let you go. Failure is
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: not the end.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: We've had to make staff changes.
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  Speaker 1: Listen for destiny's authentic call. Destiny awaits you. Will you
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: take the first step?
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  Speaker 4: Destiny is written to connect what's in you with the
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: purpose that awaits you. The first action step requires faith.
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  Speaker 4: Order Destiny today.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Everywhere books are sold. There is more. When they were
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: all assembled, that's what the text says. And then it
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: starts naming them. James was there. Bartholomew was there. Matthew
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: was there. John was there. None of that excited me.
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  Speaker 1: But when they told me that Thomas was there and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Peter was there, I knew that the devil had tried
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to destroy them, but they made.
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  Speaker 2: It back just in.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said you made it back just in.
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  Speaker 3: This is the barter's touching end.