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A Gift To The Giver!! - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the gospel of St. Matthew chapter number two,
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  Speaker 1: verse one through 12. The gospel of St. Matthew chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse one through 12. Glory to God. After Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod,
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  Speaker 1: magic from the east came to Jerusalem. and asked, where
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  Speaker 1: is the one who has been born King of the Jews?
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  Speaker 1: We saw his star when it rose and have come
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  Speaker 1: to worship him. When King Herod heard this, he was
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  Speaker 1: disturbed and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called
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  Speaker 1: together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law,
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  Speaker 1: he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
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  Speaker 1: In Bethlehem in Judea they replied, for this is what
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  Speaker 1: the prophet has written. But you Bethlehem in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah are by no means least among the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler
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  Speaker 1: who will shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod called the
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  Speaker 1: Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time
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  Speaker 1: the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
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  Speaker 1: go and search carefully for the child. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: you find him, report to me so that I too
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  Speaker 1: may go and worship him. After they had heard the king,
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  Speaker 1: they went on their way and the star they had
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  Speaker 1: seen when it rose went ahead of them until it
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  Speaker 1: stopped over the place where the child was. When they
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  Speaker 1: saw the star, They were overjoyed. On coming to the house,
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  Speaker 1: they saw the child and his mother, Mary, and they
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  Speaker 1: bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures.
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  Speaker 1: Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts.
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  Speaker 1: They presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
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  Speaker 1: And having been warned in a dream not to go
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  Speaker 1: back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to verse 11 for just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear verse 11 again. On coming to
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  Speaker 1: the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary
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  Speaker 1: and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened
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  Speaker 1: their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and frankincense,
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  Speaker 1: and myrrh. Can you say amen? I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: from the subject, a gift to the giver. A gift
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  Speaker 1: to the giver. Let's pray while we're standing. Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the living God, fall fresh, fresh like dew upon us.
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  Speaker 1: Saturate us with your presence in such a divine way
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  Speaker 1: that we know that we have been with you Because
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  Speaker 1: whenever we encounter you, it saturates our soul. It permeates
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  Speaker 1: our spirit. It affects the way we live and walk
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  Speaker 1: and think and move and have our being. One moment
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  Speaker 1: with you can catapult us for months. Tabernacle with us
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  Speaker 1: right now. Dwell amongst us, oh God. Dwell amongst us.
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  Speaker 1: Just hang around us. We are thirsty to be in
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  Speaker 1: your presence. Now govern the preaching of the word today.
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  Speaker 1: Let it go out for edification and not entertainment. Let
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  Speaker 1: it inspire and impart virtue unto your people. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you in advance for what you're going to do. In
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Good morning, Potter's House. I greet you
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus' joy. I'm excited and delighted to have this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to have a conversation with you that I have
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  Speaker 1: been having with God. I have come to observe over
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  Speaker 1: the 63 years of my life that some people are
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  Speaker 1: give us and some people are take us. That some
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  Speaker 1: people are so consumed with self-enthroned egotism that they are
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  Speaker 1: much better and more proficient at being recipients than they
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  Speaker 1: are at being givers and sowing into someone else's life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I realize during a season like this in a capitalist society,
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  Speaker 1: we equate giving with wealth and substance and jobs and
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  Speaker 1: zeros and checks. But I want to dispel this myth
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  Speaker 1: right away that giving is not about having money. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about stuff. It's not about possessions. It's not about
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  Speaker 1: how much you make. Giving is an attitude. It's a disposition.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's giving of service or giving of time or
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  Speaker 1: giving of compliments, it's something that happens in you. It's
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  Speaker 1: not in your pocketbook. It's not in your wallet. It's
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  Speaker 1: in your heart. If it's not in your heart, your
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  Speaker 1: wallet can be full, but if your heart is empty,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be a giver. See, some of us
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  Speaker 1: have a giving spirit. We don't have much, but we
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  Speaker 1: got a giving spirit. If we got a cookie, we
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  Speaker 1: gonna cut it up and give you some of it.
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  Speaker 1: If we got peanut butter and jelly, we gonna make
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  Speaker 1: you sandwiches and cut it up and decorate it and
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  Speaker 1: present it to you. If we don't have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: give you, we gonna help you get something up the
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  Speaker 1: steps or help you get your refrigerator moved or do
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  Speaker 1: something to serve you in some way. We can't stand
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  Speaker 1: to sit by and watch you labor while we do
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  Speaker 1: nothing because we have been trained to be givers. My
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  Speaker 1: mother told me, make people miss you when you're gone.
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  Speaker 1: Give them something to say about you. Give them something
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  Speaker 1: that if Sally was only here, she would do something.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it be where you can be absent and
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  Speaker 1: be no different absent than you were present. Giving is
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  Speaker 1: an attitude. It's a disposition. It's part of our characteristic
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  Speaker 1: to be like God is to be a giver. For
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  Speaker 1: God is the giver. John 3.16 makes it clear to
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  Speaker 1: us that God so loved the world that he gave
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  Speaker 1: his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall
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  Speaker 1: not perish but have everlasting life. Listen at that. God
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  Speaker 1: so loved the world that he gave his son. In Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: God so loved his son that he gave him the world. Really?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. In John 3, 16, God
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  Speaker 1: so loved the world that he gave his son. In Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: God so loved his son that he gave him the world.
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  Speaker 1: Our first encounter with God is wrapping a gift, preparing
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  Speaker 1: a world, getting things in order, not so that he
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  Speaker 1: might have a dwelling place because God did not need
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  Speaker 1: earth to dwell. Heaven is his throne, earth is his footstool.
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  Speaker 1: God dwells in eternity, we dwell in time. When we
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  Speaker 1: first are introduced to our creator, the first thing we
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  Speaker 1: find him doing is making a gift for his son.
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  Speaker 1: To give that gift to his son is his highest honor.
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  Speaker 1: We do not serve a God who is demanding us
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  Speaker 1: to give him things without him having first given us.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get that in your spirit. My
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  Speaker 1: God is a giver. My God is a giver. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like God, I gotta be a giver.
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  Speaker 1: When I first met him, he was a giver. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing I learned about him is that he created
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  Speaker 1: the seas and the oceans and the winds and the
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  Speaker 1: waves and the satellites and the sun and the heat
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  Speaker 1: and the morning and the wind. And he did it
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  Speaker 1: all for me to climatize the atmosphere just to the
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  Speaker 1: degree that it never got so cold it killed me
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  Speaker 1: or so hot that it scorched me when it was
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  Speaker 1: climate control. And he put me into an environment from
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  Speaker 1: which he created me because you exist best here. in
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  Speaker 1: environments from which you were created. It's hard to exist
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  Speaker 1: in an environment you were not created. If you were
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  Speaker 1: not created in the upper echelon, you feel funny in
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  Speaker 1: the upper echelon. If you were not created and raised
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  Speaker 1: in the ghetto, you feel funny in the ghetto. If
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  Speaker 1: you were not created in the ocean, you can swim
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  Speaker 1: a while, but after a while, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: get up out of there because you're an imposter. The
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  Speaker 1: fish can swim for years and years and years because
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  Speaker 1: he was created in the water. He was conceived in
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  Speaker 1: the water. He was hatched in the water. He was
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  Speaker 1: born in the water. You can only thrive in what
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  Speaker 1: you are created in. And to make sure that we
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  Speaker 1: thrived in the environment that he created for us, he
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  Speaker 1: then scooped up the earth and made us out of
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  Speaker 1: it so that we would be kin to it. So
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  Speaker 1: that it is not just that God gave... me the universe,
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  Speaker 1: God created me out of the universe. And out of
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  Speaker 1: the dust God created man and he became a living
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  Speaker 1: soul and he breathed into him the breath of life
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  Speaker 1: and he became a living soul. And Adam woke up
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  Speaker 1: and said, all of this for me? All these waterfalls
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  Speaker 1: and mountaintops and streams and rivers for me. All these
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  Speaker 1: trees and mountains and sunsets for me. All this crashing
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  Speaker 1: of water against the rocks dashing for me. You mean
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  Speaker 1: the dew that falls like mist in the morning was
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  Speaker 1: all done for me. You created every flower, every blossom,
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  Speaker 1: every tree for me. And God said, I love you
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  Speaker 1: like that because God is a giver He is a giver,
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  Speaker 1: understanding that he is a giver. And then he gave
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  Speaker 1: it to us and said, I want you to be fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to multiply. I want you to replenish, subdue,
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  Speaker 1: and have dominion. He said, I'm going to make you
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  Speaker 1: the boss of it. I'm going to put you in
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  Speaker 1: charge of it. God said, I created a kingdom, a
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  Speaker 1: king's domain, and then gave you dominion and you're large
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  Speaker 1: and in charge. Amen. So the first gift that he
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  Speaker 1: gives us is that he gives us a creation. The
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  Speaker 1: second gift he gives us in Genesis is he gives
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  Speaker 1: us redemption. For when Adam messed up the first gift,
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  Speaker 1: God said, that's all right, I got another one. He
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  Speaker 1: walked through the cool of the garden and found Adam
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  Speaker 1: in his sin and his nakedness and said, Adam, you
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  Speaker 1: can't gift your way out of this. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: give you a gift there to get you out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you can gift your way out of this,
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  Speaker 1: That will be works. I got to teach you grace.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you something you don't even deserve.
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  Speaker 1: And the voice of the Lord walked through the cool
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  Speaker 1: of the garden and he found redemption. And he came
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  Speaker 1: and dressed man in custom clothed fur. And we call
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  Speaker 1: it redemption. And it was the second gift. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was the third gift. The third gift was the
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  Speaker 1: gift given to the deceived Eve to regenerate the species
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  Speaker 1: from creation to redemption to regeneration. He says, I invite
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  Speaker 1: you as a woman to partner with me in a
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  Speaker 1: limited liability partnership where we are going to partner to
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  Speaker 1: create life. We are going to regenerate. Gene rates. Are
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  Speaker 1: you with me this morning? I didn't bring you a
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  Speaker 1: happy meal. I didn't bring you a bologna sandwich this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't bring you anything like that. I didn't pack
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  Speaker 1: a hot dog this morning. All you peanut butter and
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  Speaker 1: jelly people, y'all might do a click off. I came
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  Speaker 1: to bring a seven course meal to you to make
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  Speaker 1: you understand that God so loved you that he kept
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  Speaker 1: giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and
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  Speaker 1: giving and giving. And that's what this season is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus is a gift from God. He is still
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  Speaker 1: God giving from Genesis to Revelation. God never diminishes in
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  Speaker 1: his generosity. He never depletes his resources nor runs out
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  Speaker 1: of compassion. His mercies are new every morning. And even
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  Speaker 1: as we celebrate this season in our lives, you must
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  Speaker 1: understand that Christ himself is God making himself a gift
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  Speaker 1: to us. that God steps down into a virgin and says,
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  Speaker 1: I need some wrapping paper. And flips around inside of
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  Speaker 1: her womb and wraps himself up in humanity. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, God comes stepping from eternity into time,
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  Speaker 1: all wrapped up in human form. Emmanuel was a gift
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  Speaker 1: to us. And heaven started singing and angels started rejoicing
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  Speaker 1: because God had given the ultimate gift. Now God has
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  Speaker 1: made himself a gift. Who are you a gift to?
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  Speaker 1: If you are a Christian, which means you are Christ-like,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to be a gift to somebody. How have
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  Speaker 1: you given yourself lately to? to someone because Jesus is of,
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  Speaker 1: if God made himself a gift, then surely the people
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  Speaker 1: who worship God must make themselves a gift, not a liability.
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  Speaker 1: Not a liability. You need to be an asset every day.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be a gift to somebody every day.
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  Speaker 1: You need to wrap yourself up in forms beyond your
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  Speaker 1: normal purview and give yourself to somebody. That's why Jesus
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  Speaker 1: later girds himself with a towel and gets down on
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  Speaker 1: his knees and starts washing feet because it's always about
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  Speaker 1: wrapping yourself in whatever you need to be wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: in order to present yourself properly. sacrifice because God never
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  Speaker 1: gives us an unwrapped gift and that's what Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is God wrapped gift and that's what the creation
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  Speaker 1: creation was God wrapping a world to give to his
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  Speaker 1: son God is always giving. He's always giving gifts. He's
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  Speaker 1: always giving things like in shadows and types, God is
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  Speaker 1: giving things. That's why he had Jacob to give Joseph
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  Speaker 1: the coat of many colors. Yeah, yeah, because he is
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  Speaker 1: a giver and he is always giving to his people
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  Speaker 1: and he gives it to the boy while he is
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  Speaker 1: yet a child. Great God of mercy. I wonder, did
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  Speaker 1: Jacob know that he was acting like God when he
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  Speaker 1: made a coat of many colors for a kid? A
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  Speaker 1: kid that would become the prince of Egypt is crowned
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time with a gift beyond his years. Great
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  Speaker 1: God Almighty. When God gets a gift for you, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just have the present in mind, it has the
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  Speaker 1: future in mind. When God gives a gift for you,
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  Speaker 1: it embraces everything that you shall be. When God gives
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  Speaker 1: a gift for you, it embraces your destiny and not
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  Speaker 1: your history. In fact, God will give you something on
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  Speaker 1: time that's for another time. Oh, y'all didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 1: That was so good, I got happy myself. Don't throw
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  Speaker 1: away nothing God gave you, even if it doesn't fit
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  Speaker 1: your situation, even if it doesn't make any sense right now,
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't understand why God gave you what
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  Speaker 1: he gave you, like he gave you, don't throw away anything.
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  Speaker 1: Even if they laugh at it, even if they mock it,
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  Speaker 1: even if they make fun of it, even if they
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  Speaker 1: say you don't need it, hold on to everything God
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  Speaker 1: gave you. Joseph, the coat might look silly around your brotherhood,
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  Speaker 1: But when you're walking around Egypt in a chariot behind Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to understand that the gift was a prophetic gift.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to today. You got
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  Speaker 1: a gift that doesn't even fit your situation, but the
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  Speaker 1: gift is a prophetic. It is a prophetic gift from God.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to declare right now, I am gifted. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you said that like ABCs. Say it like you believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I am gifted. Say it to the devil. He hears you.
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  Speaker 1: I am gifted. I am gifted. If nobody gets me
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  Speaker 1: anything for Christmas, I am gifted. If UPS doesn't deliver anything,
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  Speaker 1: I am gifted. If FedEx doesn't drop off a package,
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  Speaker 1: I am gifted. If nothing is under my tree, I
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  Speaker 1: am gifted. I was born a gift. I'm a walking gift.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a talking gift. I'm a thinking gift. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: moving gift. I'm a functioning gift. I'm an anointed gift.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I walk in the room, you have been gifted
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  Speaker 1: because I am gifted. I am a gift. And he
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  Speaker 1: gave apostles and prophets and pastors and teachers and evangelists.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I made people a gift. Shout it, I
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  Speaker 1: am a gift. I am a gift. The Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: whosoever findeth a woman, findeth a wife, findeth a good
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  Speaker 1: thing because she is a glory to God. Make yourself
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  Speaker 1: a gift. Well, let somebody find you a gift. Let
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  Speaker 1: them find you a gift, an asset, an addition with
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  Speaker 1: treasure that you spend the rest of your life unwrapping.
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  Speaker 1: We are still unwrapping Jesus. 2,000 years later, we are
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  Speaker 1: still unwrapping Jesus, beholding the manifold wisdom and presence and
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  Speaker 1: glory and honor of who He is and what He's
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  Speaker 1: able to do. We have not yet fully exposed the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of the Godhead bodily. All that dwells in Him
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  Speaker 1: and with Him. All of the many things He is.
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  Speaker 1: all of the I am's that he is are yet
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  Speaker 1: to be revealed. All of the cures that he is
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  Speaker 1: to diseases. He is secure before the disease ever came along.
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  Speaker 1: He is the answer before the question ever came. He
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  Speaker 1: is the solution before the problem ever came. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the answer. He is a gift from God. Hail Mary.
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  Speaker 1: You've been highly favored. What is favored? You've been gifted
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  Speaker 1: amongst women. I am going to partner with you and
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  Speaker 1: borrow your paper to wrap my gift. And ye shall
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  Speaker 1: bring forth a son and he shall be called Emmanuel. God,
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  Speaker 1: tabernacle or God wrapped amongst us. And we beheld the
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  Speaker 1: wonder of his glory. The only begotten of the father
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  Speaker 1: full of grace and truth. It is this Jesus. who
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  Speaker 1: is a gift that brings me to the text. I
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  Speaker 1: am standing at the gate of the text, mesmerized by
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  Speaker 1: the majesty of His splendiferous grace, His omnipresence, His omniscience,
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  Speaker 1: His omnipotence, His power, His absoluteness, His sovereignty. His ability
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  Speaker 1: to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we may ask
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  Speaker 1: or think. And yet I am beholding him in swaddling
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  Speaker 1: clothes in a manger surrounded by shepherds and sheep and goats.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that God has caused the star to
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  Speaker 1: twinkle as a bow on a gift in a manger
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  Speaker 1: to the world. A living gift to a dying world
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  Speaker 1: is where I stand on the precipice of understanding who
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  Speaker 1: he is. I am mesmerized that all the prophets of
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  Speaker 1: the ages all come together in concert to describe the
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  Speaker 1: excellency of who he is. I am amazed that all
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  Speaker 1: of the Old Testament prepares him and all of the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament looks back in awe at him that at
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  Speaker 1: this one sliver in time, Eternity and time clapped together.
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  Speaker 1: Mercy and truth came together. Grace and justice confused themselves
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  Speaker 1: together or fused themselves together in a manger, in a trough.
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  Speaker 1: That God presented this gift in the trough. And when
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  Speaker 1: I step into this text, can I preach this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Because I feel like preaching. Whether you feel like being
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  Speaker 1: preached to or not, I feel like preaching. And then
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  Speaker 1: I'm mad at the devil and I'm going to show him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show him who he's fooling with. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to show him who he's fooling with. He don't
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  Speaker 1: understand who he's fooling with. He don't understand who he's
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  Speaker 1: fooling with. Somebody give him 30 seconds of praise. He
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  Speaker 1: don't know who he's fooling with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you jumped on the wrong one. You jumped. You jumped.
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  Speaker 2: You jumped.
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  Speaker 1: You jumped. You jumped. You jumped the wrong one. You
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  Speaker 1: jumped the wrong one. You jumped the wrong one. I
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  Speaker 1: got the real Holy Ghost. You jumped the wrong one. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy. Anybody out there
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  Speaker 1: got the Holy Ghost? Anybody got the Holy Ghost? Anybody
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  Speaker 1: got the Holy Ghost? Anybody got the Holy Ghost? Anybody
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  Speaker 1: got the Holy Ghost? What I am getting to is
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  Speaker 1: the mysterious magi who appear only once. No encore. They
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  Speaker 1: will not be discussed in Mark, Luke, Oh John, this
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  Speaker 1: is our one and only glimpse at this mysterious magic. Now,
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  Speaker 1: because we have confused Bible with Christmas carols, we misrepresent
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  Speaker 1: the magic. We take liberties and assumptions because instead of
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  Speaker 1: learning scripture, we learn them through songs and art and
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  Speaker 1: imagery that creates a caricature that is totally opposed to
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible says. Like the Bible never said that
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  Speaker 1: they were kings. Like the Bible never said that there
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  Speaker 1: were three. Like the Bible never said that they showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the manger. Oh yeah, bring the mic. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just for backup. The Bible never said that they showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the manger. And yet in every nativity scene,
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  Speaker 1: we see them in the manger. We see three of
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  Speaker 1: them in the manger. And we have convoluted truth with tradition.
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  Speaker 1: We have diluted scripture with music. We have created this
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  Speaker 1: strange caricature of truth because we don't really study Bible.
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  Speaker 1: We get secondhand information like people get secondhand smoke. And
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  Speaker 1: because we have secondhand information, we have confused the text
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  Speaker 1: with the arts. And thereby we think that the wise
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  Speaker 1: men showed up at the manger. But the text says...
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  Speaker 1: They showed up at the house. The text says when
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  Speaker 1: the magic came, they came to the house. And the
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  Speaker 1: text says that they came after Jesus was born. Put
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  Speaker 1: it back up there, Matthew 2, 1. Put it back up.
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  Speaker 1: Let me show it. Let me show it. Put Matthew 2,
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  Speaker 1: 1 right, right, right quick. Yeah. And Jesus was born
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  Speaker 1: after Jesus, after Jesus, after Jesus, after Jesus, after Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the time of
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  Speaker 1: King Herod, the Magi from the east came to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: He was born and they haven't even got to Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: They're still in Jerusalem talking to Herod. Oh, y'all got
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  Speaker 1: quiet now. Yes, yes. So you have to understand they
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  Speaker 1: came from the east and they came because they saw
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  Speaker 1: the star. They did not come because of prophecy or
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  Speaker 1: word of knowledge or because they were theologians or scholars
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  Speaker 1: or even Jews. They came because they studied the science
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  Speaker 1: then of astrology. And they had seen a star. And
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  Speaker 1: God had revealed himself through a star that had not
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  Speaker 1: been seen in the constellations before. And they understood that
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the star was a sign that a
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  Speaker 1: king had come. Good God of mercy. Oh, can I
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  Speaker 1: get in this word? Can I get in this word?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody come to get in this word? In this word.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, they could look at the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: tell what was happening on earth. No wonder the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said the heavens are telling the glory of God. I
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  Speaker 1: don't need a Bible. I don't need a prophet. I
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  Speaker 1: don't need a scripture. I don't need a preacher. They
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  Speaker 1: said we looked at the heavens and the heavens told
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  Speaker 1: us the glory of God. The term magic we refer
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  Speaker 1: to as wise men is really a word where we
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  Speaker 1: will later get magic because they were the mysterious magic
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  Speaker 1: who experienced God through a star. You can experience God
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  Speaker 1: through anything. You can experience God through an ass. You
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  Speaker 1: can experience God through the parting of a red sea.
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  Speaker 1: You can experience God through fire on the top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. You can experience God through the dry bones
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  Speaker 1: in the valley. You can experience God through a dry
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  Speaker 1: riverbed where all the water has dried up. You can
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  Speaker 1: experience God. I am that I am. Preach the message
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  Speaker 1: to a star. that convinced the wise men that there
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  Speaker 1: was a new king that had come. Generally, when the
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  Speaker 1: Magi traveled, they traveled in twelfths. We get the number
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  Speaker 1: three because they gave three gifts, but the Bible never
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  Speaker 1: said there were three men. They were likely the Nabataeans
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  Speaker 1: who controlled the Arabian Peninsula and therefore they understood the
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  Speaker 1: vitality of trade. Their routes were from Yemen in the
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  Speaker 1: east to the ports of Gaza. And from Egypt in
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  Speaker 1: the south to Syria, Asia Minor, and east to Persia,
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  Speaker 1: their capital was Petra, which means rock, which is a stone,
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  Speaker 1: was at the crossroads of the two lucrative trading routes,
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  Speaker 1: where gold, frankincense, and myrrh were not only the Nabataeans'
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  Speaker 1: cash crops, but it was also representative of a diplomatic gift.
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  Speaker 1: They needed whoever was going to be king to have
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  Speaker 1: a good relationship with the Nabataeans because that meant that
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  Speaker 1: whoever would be king of Israel would control the trade
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  Speaker 1: routes from which the frankincense, the gold, and the myrrh
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  Speaker 1: would be moved. They knew that as Jesus became the
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  Speaker 1: king of the Jews, he was the door to their blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all didn't hear what I said. They knew that as
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would be the king of the Jews, he would
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  Speaker 1: become the door to their blessing. In other words, they
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  Speaker 1: were smarter by nature than the Jews of the time
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  Speaker 1: were by habit. They without the Pentateuch, they without a temple,
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  Speaker 1: they without the sacrifice of bullets and ghosts understood that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was a door, understood that Jesus was a gateway,
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  Speaker 1: understood that Jesus was the gateway to the future of
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  Speaker 1: the trade of everything that they had dug out and
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  Speaker 1: hewed out and labored with. And so they brought the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the beating of the rock to get the gold.
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  Speaker 1: The bruising of the tree to get the frankincense. The
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  Speaker 1: crushing of the root to get the myrrh. And they
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  Speaker 1: brought that which had been beaten and that which had
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  Speaker 1: been bruised and that which had been crushed to that
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  Speaker 1: which would be beaten and that which would be bruised
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  Speaker 1: and that would be crushed. They brought a gift to
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  Speaker 1: a giver. They brought a bruising to a bruising. They
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  Speaker 1: brought a beating to a beating. They brought a treasure
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  Speaker 1: to a treasure. That's what we're looking at in this
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  Speaker 1: text today. It is a gift given to a king
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  Speaker 1: who had to be two years old or younger, but
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  Speaker 1: no longer is in the manger and not yet on
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  Speaker 1: the throne. He's in an in-between place. God will give
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  Speaker 1: you a gift that does not fit where you are.
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  Speaker 1: but will be for where you're about to go. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. I'm going to say it again.
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  Speaker 1: God will give you a gift that does not fit
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  Speaker 1: where you are. but it is a gift for where
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  Speaker 1: you are about to go. I feel the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: prophecy in this place. God will give you a gift
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  Speaker 1: that is revelatory, that shows your shall be while you
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  Speaker 1: are still in this toddler state of being. God will
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  Speaker 1: give you a gift ahead of time. Let me break
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  Speaker 1: that down. God will anoint you to be king while
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  Speaker 1: you're still a shepherd boy. God will put a robe
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  Speaker 1: on you to lead Egypt while you're still carrying lunches.
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  Speaker 1: God will give you a gift that doesn't even fit
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  Speaker 1: where you are. I want to talk to somebody who's confused,
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  Speaker 1: because you know you got something, but you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you got, and you don't know how to use it,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't understand why you got what you got.
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  Speaker 1: But God has already given you something for where he's
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  Speaker 1: about to take you into. Somebody shout, I am gifted.
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  Speaker 1: These men brought a king's gift to a kid. They
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  Speaker 1: brought a king's gift to a kid and God is
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  Speaker 1: famous for bringing gifts ahead of time. For anointing kids
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  Speaker 1: to be kings years before they become kings. Yes. for
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  Speaker 1: making coats of many colors for princes before they ever
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  Speaker 1: become or even enter into Egypt. God has given you
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  Speaker 1: something that doesn't fit where you are. And don't let
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  Speaker 1: anybody make you forfeit what he gave you because it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fit where you are. Hold on to what he
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  Speaker 1: gave you. The gift is for an appointed time. In
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  Speaker 1: the end, it will speak and not lie. Though the
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  Speaker 1: visionary wait for it. Wait for it. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: make sense in a minute. It doesn't have to make
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  Speaker 1: sense in the moment. It's going to make sense in
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  Speaker 1: a minute. You don't understand why you are where you are,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in your life right now. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to make sense right now. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: fit into the decor of the house. It doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: sense for the situation. But soon, God! God is going
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  Speaker 1: to show you why you had to go through everything
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  Speaker 1: you had to go through. If you think I might
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  Speaker 1: be talking to you, give God a praise right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you think I'm speaking to you, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: If you think I'm speaking to you, if you think
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  Speaker 1: God is talking to you, if you think God is
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  Speaker 1: saying something to you, open your mouth and give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and holler, I got something. Type it
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  Speaker 1: out on your computer, I got something. Text it on
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  Speaker 1: your phone, I got something. I know I got something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand it, but I got it. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense, but I got it. It doesn't fit into
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  Speaker 1: my atmosphere, but I got it. I have been gifted.
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  Speaker 1: Let all the gifted people give a sign. All the
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  Speaker 1: gifted people give a shout. All the gifted people give
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  Speaker 1: a text. All the gifted people give a tweet. All
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  Speaker 1: the gifted people make a noise. If you know you're gifted,
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  Speaker 1: make some noise. I may be broken, but I'm gifted.
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  Speaker 1: I may be bruised, but I'm gifted. I may be
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  Speaker 1: hewn out the rock, but I'm gifted. I might be worried,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gifted. I might be in turmoil, but I'm gifted.
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  Speaker 1: I might be confused. But I am gifted. Let every
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  Speaker 1: devil know I'm gifted. Let every witch know I'm gifted.
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  Speaker 1: Let every demon know I'm gifted. He that hath began
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  Speaker 1: a good work shall perform it until the day of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Lord have mercy. I wish I had an
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  Speaker 1: old time in church so I could get an old
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost praise. I wish I had a praise in
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  Speaker 1: this place that could step into your destiny, that could
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  Speaker 1: step into your future. Somebody that believes God for prophetic worship.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Go into a prophetic praise right in front of your laptop.
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  Speaker 1: Right in front of your iPad. Right in front of
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  Speaker 1: your computer. Open your mouth and give God. Give God. Hallelujah. Give, God, give, give, give, give, give,
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  Speaker 1: give to the giver. Give, God. You ought to give
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  Speaker 1: him a praise. You ought to give him a praise.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to give him a praise. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: stop being stingy and give God a praise. You ought
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  Speaker 1: to give to the giver. He gave you your shoes.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you your feet. He gave you your pants.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you your legs. He gave you your hat.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you your head. Open your mouth and give
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  Speaker 1: God a praise. Praise him until hell gets nervous. Praise
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  Speaker 1: him until demons tremble. Praise him until yokes are broken.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I need 30 seconds of crazy. You see, that's why
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  Speaker 1: some of us can't get our breakthrough because we can't
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  Speaker 1: get our praise right. What the Magi did before they
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  Speaker 1: gave him their gifts, they gave him their praise. You're
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  Speaker 1: so busy being gifted, you haven't learned how to praise him.
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  Speaker 1: But when you forget about yourself and open your mouth
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  Speaker 1: and praise him, God will open up a door and
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  Speaker 1: give you revelation. I'm going to give you another chance.
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  Speaker 1: to open up your mouth and give God a praise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you, yeah, cute you, conservative you,
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  Speaker 1: quiet you. Give your gift to the giver. Give Jesus
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas gift. Open your mouth. I want to warn.
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  Speaker 1: I want to warn all you mangy. I want to
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  Speaker 1: warn all you wise men. When they talked to Herod,
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  Speaker 1: Herod said, go find Jesus so that I can come
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  Speaker 1: and worship him too. I want to warn you about
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  Speaker 1: fake worshipers. I want to warn you about opportunists. I
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  Speaker 1: want to warn you about people who see you headed
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction and try to go your way.
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  Speaker 1: I want to warn you about people who try to
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  Speaker 1: tie into your favor what God has for you. is
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  Speaker 1: for you. Don't bring nobody. Don't drag nobody. Don't take nobody.
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  Speaker 1: And don't tell nobody. God is about to set you
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  Speaker 1: into the fullness of your purpose. But you got people
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  Speaker 1: hanging on. They act like they want to worship like you.
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  Speaker 1: But they really want to kill your dream. The devil
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  Speaker 1: is alive. I rebuke the spirit of Herod. I rebuke
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Herod. Herod has got to die. I
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  Speaker 1: bind your power in the name of Jesus. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got the Holy Ghost, bind Herod now. Now Josephus teaches us.
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  Speaker 1: Josephus teaches us that the reason Herod had an attitude
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  Speaker 1: about the wise men coming is that in 6 BC,
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  Speaker 1: they had come to Herod and brought him gold, frankincense
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  Speaker 1: and myrrh. so that they could continue to do business
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  Speaker 1: in the region. So when Herod saw them coming, he
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  Speaker 1: thought they were coming to honor him. And he found
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  Speaker 1: out that they were coming to honor another king. And
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  Speaker 1: he got jealous. The spirit of jealousy is alive and
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  Speaker 1: well in the world right now. You've been trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out why they're trying to kill you. They're jealous
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  Speaker 1: of you. They're jealous of what you've got. They're jealous
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  Speaker 1: of what God is about to do in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I talking to? They're acting like they're worshipers,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: but they're jealous. And so the wise men came, and
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: when they saw the star, they came to the house.
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  Speaker 1: I know it wasn't the manger because the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: it was a house. I know it wasn't the manger
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  Speaker 1: because Joseph wasn't there. I know some time had passed
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  Speaker 1: because later Herod would say, in order to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how old Jesus is, I will kill everything two years
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  Speaker 1: old or younger. Because the reason Herod wasn't sure is
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  Speaker 1: because they never came back to tell him that they
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  Speaker 1: had found Jesus. Because while they were worshiping while they
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  Speaker 1: were worshiping God told them to go back another way.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And when I read, go back another way, God told
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  Speaker 1: me to tell you, you are expecting to go back
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  Speaker 1: to normal. But you are not to cry out for normal.
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  Speaker 1: That God is going to take us back. I feel
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of prophecy. God is going to take us
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  Speaker 1: back another way. Because if we go back to normal,
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  Speaker 1: there's a trap in normal that the enemy has set
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  Speaker 1: for our demise. We have to be prepared to go
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  Speaker 1: back another way.
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  Speaker 3: Another way. Another way. Another way. Another way. Another way.
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  Speaker 3: Another way. Now, this is against the currency of orthodoxy.
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  Speaker 3: It is against the grain of normal because people who
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  Speaker 3: are normal and traditional are stuck in one way. You
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  Speaker 3: can only do things one way. You can only have
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  Speaker 3: church one way. You can only do business one way.
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  Speaker 3: You can only interact with people one way. But God
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  Speaker 3: said you have got to learn how to get.
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  Speaker 1: Back another way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: you cannot tell yourself, I can't help this. This is
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  Speaker 1: how I am. I'm just like my mother. I'm just
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: like my grandmother. It is what it is. I am
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  Speaker 1: what I am.
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  Speaker 1: God said you got to be
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: more flexible than that. I'm going to do what you
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  Speaker 1: want me to do. But I got to take you
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  Speaker 1: another way because the enemy has a trap set for you. Who?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to? The enemy has a trap
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  Speaker 1: set for you. And I'm going to bring you back
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  Speaker 1: another way. And in order for you to find that way,
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  Speaker 1: you have to give your gift to the giver. So
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the gold was taken out of rocks. Archaeologists have still
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  Speaker 1: found traces of gold coming out of that region that
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  Speaker 1: was in the rocks. So you had to bust the
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  Speaker 1: rocks to get the gold. Christ is that gold. That
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  Speaker 1: rock that was shattered. All they were giving him in
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  Speaker 1: the frankincense that they had to get out of the
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  Speaker 1: white inner part of the tree or the myrrh that
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: came out of the ground is all they were giving
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: him is what he already was. The frankincense was used
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: for incense. The sweet aroma of prayer identifies his intercessive capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit deeper? And we will
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  Speaker 1: not hear any more talk about myrrh until he's on
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  Speaker 1: the cross and they offer him wine and myrrh to
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  Speaker 1: anesthetize his pain Everything that he will be is in
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  Speaker 1: the gift he already has. And so the Spirit says
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  Speaker 1: to you. How? So the Spirit says to you. You
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  Speaker 1: think you're waiting on God to equip you. But everything
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  Speaker 1: you shall be, you have already been given. everything you
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  Speaker 1: will need has already been imparted to you. So don't
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  Speaker 1: be bothered if I anoint you to be king and
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  Speaker 1: I send you back to feed sheep. It may take
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  Speaker 1: 14 more years but the oil didn't lie. You will
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  Speaker 1: be king and don't be upset when your haters steal
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  Speaker 1: your coat. They can take your coat of many colors
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  Speaker 1: but they can never rob you of your prophecy the
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  Speaker 1: anointing that I put on you in this season is
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  Speaker 1: irrevocable it is irrevocable It brought you all the way
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  Speaker 1: from where you came from to where you are right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I will do a new thing in you if
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  Speaker 1: I can only get you to embrace another way. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. I've not forgotten you. I'm going
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: to do it. How? I've not forgotten you. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do it another way. Those magic, however many
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  Speaker 1: there were, knew that to bring a gift to the
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: giver was to unlock the future, the pathway, the route,
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  Speaker 1: the access for all of the future. Until you stop
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: thinking of church as church, your life will never change.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: You have to see this moment as the gateway to
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  Speaker 1: the fulfillment of your prophecy. And you didn't come to
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  Speaker 1: give out of his necessity, but your own. Because all
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  Speaker 1: that you will ever give him, he already is. And
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  Speaker 1: all that you will ever give him, he's already given
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  Speaker 1: to you. And nothing that is in your future will
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  Speaker 1: be able to pass through without Him. Because He is
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  Speaker 1: the gateway to what is next in your life. So
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  Speaker 1: on this Christmas Sunday morning, I felt led of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to talk to you about the mysterious magic
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  Speaker 1: the mysterious magic and to understand that we bring gifts
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  Speaker 1: to the giver your God is a giver and right
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  Speaker 1: now in this moment I'm going to ask everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this room viewing around the world gift to the giver
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  Speaker 1: on whatever level you can it can be seeds in
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  Speaker 1: the ground it can be the fruit of your lips
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  Speaker 1: it can be in your worship but I do not
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  Speaker 1: want you to stand in the presence of the giver
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  Speaker 1: and just be a spectator I challenge you to be
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  Speaker 1: wise enough to be smart enough to be astute enough
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  Speaker 1: To bring a gift, I bring a gift. To the
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  Speaker 1: giver of gifts, I lay down a gift. Here's my gift.
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  Speaker 1: I worship you. I bring gifts. I've come this far
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  Speaker 1: to bring a gift. to offer up a gift to
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  Speaker 1: the Rock of Ages. To the Rock of Ages. I
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  Speaker 1: will bring a gift because I shall come forth as
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  Speaker 1: pure gold. I will sow a gift. I sow a
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  Speaker 1: gift to let the devil know I'm coming out of
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  Speaker 1: this better than how I went into it. I shall
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  Speaker 1: come forth, I shall come forth as pure gold. I shall,
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  Speaker 1: I shall. Somebody needs to release the frankincense of worship
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  Speaker 1: into the atmosphere. And right where you are, you need
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  Speaker 1: to give a gift to the giver of absolute Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost worship. Absolute Holy Ghost worship. Everybody in here ought
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  Speaker 1: to bring some kind of gift. Some kind, some kind,
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  Speaker 1: some kind, some kind of gift. We offer a gift
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  Speaker 1: to the giver. We give our gift to you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We offer a gift to the giver. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: how you could just stand there and just look and
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  Speaker 1: not do something, not sow anything, not say anything, not
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  Speaker 1: give anything, not raise your hands, not open your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: not find some kind of way to be responsible enough
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  Speaker 1: to give a gift, a gift, a gift, a gift,
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  Speaker 1: a gift, a gift to the giver. Even if it's
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  Speaker 1: your life, a gift to the giver. Even if it's
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  Speaker 1: your past, a gift to the giver. And I understand
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  Speaker 1: how you could stand to be in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the King of Kings. and not need him to open
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  Speaker 1: up anything for you, not need him to loose anything
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  Speaker 1: for you, not need him to fix something for you,
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  Speaker 1: not need him as a gateway to your future. I
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  Speaker 1: can't go into another year without you. I can't go
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  Speaker 1: into another moment without you. I can't go with it
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  Speaker 1: without you. I can't get it through without you. I
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  Speaker 1: can't get it done without you. I can't master it
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  Speaker 1: without you. I can't deliver it without you. I can't
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  Speaker 1: birth it without you. I can't make it without you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't start it without you. I can't build it
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  Speaker 1: without you. I can't get safe passage without you. You're
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  Speaker 1: the king of kings. Here is my praise, Jesus. I
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  Speaker 1: give it to you. Here is my praise, Jesus. I
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  Speaker 1: give it to you. Alfred, I'm to you. I give
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  Speaker 1: it to you, Jesus. My praise, my praise. If you're
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  Speaker 1: in this room and you don't know Jesus, if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching on the internet and you don't know Jesus, if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching through your phone and you don't know Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you what he wants for Christmas. For
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  Speaker 1: you to give your life to him is no more
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  Speaker 1: than what he did for you. He gave his life
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  Speaker 1: to you. Why don't you give your life to him?
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  Speaker 1: That's your gift to the giver. I know they're sowing seeds.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're planting into the kingdom of God. That's
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  Speaker 1: their gift. Your gift to the giver is to lay
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  Speaker 1: prostrate and say, Lord, I give you my life and
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  Speaker 1: my sins and my struggles and my trials and my
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  Speaker 1: tests and I give you. I give my weakness and
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  Speaker 1: my frailty and my vulnerability and my temper and my
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  Speaker 1: anger and my craziness and my wildness and my inability
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  Speaker 1: to grow up. I give it, I give it, I
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  Speaker 1: give it. I just lay it at your feet. Because
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  Speaker 1: you're the king. You're the king. You're the king. You're
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  Speaker 1: the king. You're the king. I bow before you. I
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  Speaker 1: bow before you. I bow before you.
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  Speaker 2: I bow before you.
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  Speaker 1: Father, I pray for every gift given to the giver,
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  Speaker 1: whether they are tangible or audible or spiritual or the
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  Speaker 1: personal giving of one's life. I pray, God, that you
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  Speaker 1: would receive it as a sacrifice. I pray, God, that
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  Speaker 1: we would go home another way. I pray we go
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  Speaker 1: back another way. Whatever the devil's got set up, I
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  Speaker 1: pray that you cancel it right now. Whatever's in his pot,
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  Speaker 1: whatever's in his plan, I pray that it would go down.
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  Speaker 1: And the Magi went home another way. And they left
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  Speaker 1: Herod guessing. Looking. And they couldn't find Jesus. Because a
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  Speaker 1: voice spoke to Joseph and said, take your son and
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  Speaker 1: your wife and go into Egypt. And God said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to let them get you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: hide you. God said, I'm not going to let them
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  Speaker 1: get you. I'm going to hide you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: hide you because these men, these mysterious magic, gave a
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  Speaker 1: gift to the giver. And it set in motion the
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  Speaker 1: course of events that led Herod to try to kill
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  Speaker 1: him and gave Joseph permission to hide him. One final
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  Speaker 1: thing before I close. To all of you who serve
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  Speaker 1: a broke Jesus, To all of you who can only
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  Speaker 1: respect a Jesus who has nothing at all and can
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  Speaker 1: only envision him as impoverished. I'm not on the boat
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  Speaker 1: that's trying to make you believe that he's rich and
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  Speaker 1: riding a Bentley. I'm not trying to say that either.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm saying when he was a baby, they brought
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  Speaker 1: him gold. When he was a kid, They gave him
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  Speaker 1: the gold you give to kings while he was still
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  Speaker 1: under two. Joseph is so blessed, he's got to flee
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus and Mary because he's got a king's ransom. Gold, frankincense,
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  Speaker 1: and myrrh that was given, that was befitting a king.
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  Speaker 1: You are not worshiping a wimpy, helpless, distraught, benevolent God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the manger fool you. He knew who he was.
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  Speaker 1: He knew what he had. He knew what he could do.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to challenge you to rethink how you
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  Speaker 1: see Jesus. Because I don't know no homeless folk who
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  Speaker 1: need a bookkeeper. I don't know nobody in a shelter
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  Speaker 1: that needs an accountant. Judas was Jesus' bookkeeper and accountant.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know nobody who is as you portray Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and in need of an accountant. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: no broke folk who have to pay taxes. And I
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  Speaker 1: admit I don't know no rich folk who can get
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  Speaker 1: money out of the fish's mouth. But that's, y'all don't hear.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear what I'm saying. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: challenge you. You got to rethink what your God can do.
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  Speaker 1: You got to rethink what your God is. I want
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  Speaker 1: to challenge you to rethink what your God is able
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  Speaker 1: to do in times like these. God's going to bless
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  Speaker 1: you in strange ways, unorthodox ways, unusual ways. Take the
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  Speaker 1: brakes off how you see him. He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly,
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  Speaker 1: above all ye may ask or think. He'll bring it
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  Speaker 1: on camels. He'll bring it on camels. He'll bring it
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  Speaker 1: on camels. He'll bring it on camels. Whatever! you need
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want whatever you like he'll hide you and
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  Speaker 1: for two years while Herod was killing Jesus was hidden
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  Speaker 1: until the angel came and told Joseph he dead now
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  Speaker 1: You can come home. That which was trying to kill you.
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  Speaker 1: I got to quit. Let me stop. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out there. I can't get myself in. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I can't get it off me. But I
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  Speaker 1: heard the Holy Ghost say, that which was trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill you is dead now. Hey! I heard him saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's dead now. It's dead. You ain't got to hide.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry. I heard God say, it's
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  Speaker 1: dead now. I don't know who that's for, but I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't close this harvest without pronouncing. God told me to
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  Speaker 1: eulogize your murderer. your antagonist, your hit man. God told
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  Speaker 1: me to eulogize him. He told me not to let
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  Speaker 1: you go into another year being afraid of what you
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  Speaker 1: used to be afraid of. God said he's dead now.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise. Somebody give
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  Speaker 1: him 30 seconds of crazy praise. He's dead now. He's
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  Speaker 1: dead now. He's dead now. He's dead now. He's dead.
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  Speaker 1: He's dead now. And so says the word of the Lord.