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When_God_Knocks_You_Down,_He_s_Calling_You_Higher_Bishop_T_D · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: We have to look at the contexts in which the
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  Speaker 1: text is extrapolated from the pretext tells us the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: that exists during this time. It is an atmosphere of newness.
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  Speaker 1: It is an atmosphere of new beginnings. It is the
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  Speaker 1: disciples embarking on Christ's work without Christ's physically being there.
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  Speaker 1: And they start the work of the Lord at a
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  Speaker 1: deficit because all through the Synoptic Gospels they are referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the Twelve, but now they only have eleven
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  Speaker 1: because in the process of the crucifixion, Judas has hung
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  Speaker 1: himself and his guts have spilled out on the Potterish field.
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  Speaker 1: So they have the name the twelve. But the reality is,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes your name can be greater than your situation, and
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  Speaker 1: when your name doesn't have equilibrium with your situation, you
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  Speaker 1: want to fix that thing so that you become authentically
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  Speaker 1: what they call you. And in the process of them
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  Speaker 1: attempting to fix it, they meet together and prayed and
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  Speaker 1: selected two men, and they began to cast lots to
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  Speaker 1: see who would be Judas's replacement. They cast lots, and
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  Speaker 1: they cast lots, and the lots fell on the lot
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  Speaker 1: fell on Matthias, and Matthias became, in their view, the
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  Speaker 1: replacement for Judas. And I'm not saying that he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the replacement for Judas, but it is interesting to note
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't. There's no recordings of Matthias doing anything amazing,
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  Speaker 1: no books written by their disagreement able where the churches
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  Speaker 1: were founded by, and he's not mentioned any place in
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  Speaker 1: all of the epistles. But they had picked him by
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  Speaker 1: casting lucks. In total contrast to that, God has chosen Saul,
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  Speaker 1: who we call Paul, to be a New Testament apostle. Now, Matthias,
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  Speaker 1: according to my research, had been walking with the disciples
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  Speaker 1: and around Jesus all the time, and in my carnal mind,
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense that Matthias would be a replacement because
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  Speaker 1: he is a witness to the miraculous power of God. Saul,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, has no real experience with the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. But rather than having experienced with the
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  Speaker 1: power of God, he is totally opposed to Christianity. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: when he meets the Lord, he meets the Lord on
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  Speaker 1: the way to capturing more Christians to bring back to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: though they were not yet called Christians. It was called
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  Speaker 1: the Way. Yeah, and he was trying to find people
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  Speaker 1: who were in the way to bring them back to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to persecute them, and yet he has an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with God. I couldn't help but think of the difference
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  Speaker 1: between in the Old Testament between King Saul, who was
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  Speaker 1: somebody that God gave Israel because they desired a king,
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  Speaker 1: and David, whom God chose. Many are called, but few
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  Speaker 1: I chosen. And in the Old Testament, Saul was called,
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  Speaker 1: but David was chosen. Will remember when the kingdom was
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  Speaker 1: rejected from Saul and Samuel was weeping, God said, why
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  Speaker 1: weeps now over what I have rejected. I have found
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  Speaker 1: a man after my own heart. Look at the contrast
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  Speaker 1: between Saul and David. Saul looks like a king by
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  Speaker 1: all natural rights. He has every reason to be king.
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  Speaker 1: He has his stature and the demeanor of a king.
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  Speaker 1: He is from the tribe of Benjamin. He comes from
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  Speaker 1: the pedigree that is prophesied that he would be king.
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  Speaker 1: David comes from the house of Jesse. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the pedigree or the background. He's from the tribe of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the history behind him that connotes kingship.
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  Speaker 1: Saul stood ahead and shoulders above all men. He had
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  Speaker 1: the right look, but David had the right an oint
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  Speaker 1: the right annoyty. And while we pick people that look good,
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  Speaker 1: God will pick people that are anointed for the service
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  Speaker 1: and for the task. And all of a sudden we
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  Speaker 1: find ourselves in this situation that is mirrored in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament as a reflection of the Old. Whereas we
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  Speaker 1: are talking about Saul versus David in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament, we're talking about Matthias. Is he
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth Apostle or is it Paul. Some would even
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  Speaker 1: argue that Paul is the thirteenth Apostle. But my concern is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see where Matthias ever did anything. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: a living witness the folk I pick on my own.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let that hang out there, because enough
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  Speaker 1: people laugh to let me know that you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking. Is there anybody in here than ever? Pick
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  Speaker 1: somebody on your own, cast lots, pick somebody because your
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  Speaker 1: mama was born in May, and my mama was born
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  Speaker 1: in May, and grandma's name was thell Man. Your grandma's
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  Speaker 1: name was Thel And it makes sense to you. But
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  Speaker 1: everything that makes sense to you isn't what God has
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  Speaker 1: for you. In fact, more times than not, God will
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  Speaker 1: pick something that makes no sense at all and raise
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  Speaker 1: it up, and you'll be scared to receive it, because
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  Speaker 1: what God has in his heart for you doesn't agree
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  Speaker 1: with what you had in your mind for you. That's
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  Speaker 1: just the case here in the text. The very fact
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  Speaker 1: that Saul would be chosen was so shocking that even
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  Speaker 1: Ananias and his faithfulness to God did not really want
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  Speaker 1: to go lay hands on Saul, because Saul was snatching
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  Speaker 1: people that followed Jesus and taking them, persecuting them. And
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  Speaker 1: yet Saul has an encounter with God. Somebody say an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with God. He has an encounter with God. And
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  Speaker 1: it is not where somebody witnessed to him. It is
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  Speaker 1: not where somebody preached to him. It is not where
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  Speaker 1: somebody persuaded him. God did not use any human hand
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  Speaker 1: or sticks like locks to choose him. God stepped into
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  Speaker 1: Saul's life. And if you read the whole text, you
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  Speaker 1: will read it was a fight on the road to
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  Speaker 1: the Dabascus. It starts out with a fight. There is
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  Speaker 1: a fight between God and Saul. Now Saul has gotten
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  Speaker 1: permission from the High priests to go down and attack Christians.
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  Speaker 1: He's got permission from the priests, but not from the
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  Speaker 1: one who the priests served, and he is credentialed to
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  Speaker 1: go down there and attack Christians. But God has another plan.
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  Speaker 1: He intervenes into his life. He disrupts his life, and
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  Speaker 1: he starts wrestling with him. A great light appeared and
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  Speaker 1: knocked him off of his beast, and then he said,
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  Speaker 1: who is it? Lord? And he said, it is Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: whom thou persecutor? Wait a minute, I got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that of a minute. Saul had never done anything
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. He had only attacked those who followed Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus takes it personal when you attack his kids.
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  Speaker 1: It is Jesus whom thou persecutor. You think you're just
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  Speaker 1: rounding up my disciples, but you're actually persecuting me. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we try to teach you that the battle is
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  Speaker 1: not yours. It belongs to God. Because people think they're
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  Speaker 1: fighting you, but they're not fighting you. They're fighting the
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  Speaker 1: God that annoyed you. The battle is not yours, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to get even, and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to feel bad because you didn't get the last word in,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to fend for yourself, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to struggle for yourself, because God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of dealing with your enemies. I prophesy to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Your enemy is about to get knocked off his peace.
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  Speaker 1: He's about to get knocked off his beast. This is
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  Speaker 1: a radical, warlike conversion. It is not a nice, easy conversion.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a polite conversion. It is not that
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  Speaker 1: somebody gave him a track. It is not that somebody
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  Speaker 1: prayed with him, and it's not that somebody talked to him.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that somebody intellectualized him. God just came on
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  Speaker 1: the road and knocked it over. Oh God, have mercy
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  Speaker 1: Lord to God. I'm just in my introduction, I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: not to get happy. But when I start thinking about
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  Speaker 1: all the things that God knocked over? Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: in here that's had God knock over some stuff? Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God, that was coming to get you and you
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  Speaker 1: knew it was coming to get you, and God knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. It might not be but ten people in here,
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  Speaker 1: but you're praising God not for a new car or
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  Speaker 1: a new house, or a new job or a new place.
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  Speaker 1: You're praising God because when the enemy was coming at you,
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  Speaker 1: God knocked it over. Nudged somebody and tell them he
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  Speaker 1: knocked it over. They were after me and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after my job and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after my mind and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after my peace and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after my sanity and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after my family, and he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. And I'm still praising God. How God can
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  Speaker 1: overthrow the plans of the enemy, the tactics of the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: the wiles of the devil. When God gets ready to
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  Speaker 1: do it, you don't have to run out to the
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  Speaker 1: middle of Damascus road God, or meet him in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the road and knock them off their beasts.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get about ten seconds of praise for a knockover? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a knockhover. I knock over, I knock over,
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  Speaker 1: A knock over, I knock over. God can knock it over.
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  Speaker 1: Threw him on this pack, knocked him to the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, who is it, Lord? And the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: it is Jesus, whom thou persecuted. This alone is enough
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  Speaker 1: to make you be careful about who you attack, because
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  Speaker 1: you can invertedly be attacking Jesus fighting people and get
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  Speaker 1: knocked over because you didn't even realize who he was
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  Speaker 1: fooling with. Saul has no idea that it is Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that he is persecuting. Anytime you get in the way
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  Speaker 1: of God's purpose with your opinion, your opinion does not
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  Speaker 1: equate to God's purpose. God has a purpose. And when
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  Speaker 1: God has a purpose, your opinion don't amount to God's purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And if you put your opinion in the way of
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose, God's gonna knock it over. It is Jesus
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  Speaker 1: o loud persecuted. And the Bible said that when Saul
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  Speaker 1: humbled himself that he when he got up, he saw
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  Speaker 1: no man. So wat, watch, watches, because you got to
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  Speaker 1: see this. This is a radical This is a radical
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  Speaker 1: fight out here on the road to Damascus between a
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  Speaker 1: belligerent individual who is courageous enough to snatch people out
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  Speaker 1: of their house and drag them back to Jerusalem, and
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  Speaker 1: a God who don't care nothing about his personality says
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  Speaker 1: I will come against you. I don't care how tough
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  Speaker 1: you think you are, and knocked him right over. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of Jacob being on penial and how he
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  Speaker 1: comes to penial, and how God dealt with him and
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  Speaker 1: wrestled with him and brought him down and changed everything
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  Speaker 1: he thought about himself, his name, his destiny, his background.
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  Speaker 1: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had that kind of radical conversion. There are some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that had a radical conversion. God
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  Speaker 1: just came into your life. You weren't planning for it,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't expecting it, You had no intentions of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all used to talk about church folk, never
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  Speaker 1: thinking in your life that you would end up clapping
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  Speaker 1: your hands and jumping around in church today. Can we
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  Speaker 1: be real for a minute. Some of you never thought
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  Speaker 1: you'd be in the partner's house, and here you are
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the part of his house clapping your hand
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  Speaker 1: because God did something radical in your life to turn
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  Speaker 1: you around. Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God,
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Some of you never thought you belonged
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  Speaker 1: to a big church. You said, I don't like big churches.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like being in crowd. But God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of knocking you off of your beach and sending
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  Speaker 1: you in a completely different direction. He said, anybody that
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  Speaker 1: can be real in here and be honest A radical,
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  Speaker 1: A ridical converse, a radical converse, a radical converg We
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  Speaker 1: don't use the word conversion much in church. We don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about conversion, and we don't talk about conviction. It
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  Speaker 1: used to be in the church they talked about conviction.
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  Speaker 1: People would come to the altar convicted. Now they come
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  Speaker 1: to the altar taking pictures. Now people come to the
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  Speaker 1: altar facetiming you and doing Facebook life. You had the
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  Speaker 1: altar supposed to be looking for Jesus, and you think
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  Speaker 1: you're a film producer. But when conviction gets a hold
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  Speaker 1: to your life, you cut your camera off and lay
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  Speaker 1: down on the altar with tears running down your face
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  Speaker 1: because you've had a radical encounter with God. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about coming up to the altar because your dress
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  Speaker 1: is cute. I'm not coming up to the altar because
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  Speaker 1: you want a picture to take home to show your
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  Speaker 1: friends who were there. You don't come to see me,
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  Speaker 1: You come to see Jesus. You don't come to see people.
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  Speaker 1: You come to see Jesus. You don't come because you're
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  Speaker 1: a film producer. You come to see Jesus Hoah can
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  Speaker 1: converge coldly. I want all the folks who got convicted
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  Speaker 1: about your life and your mess and your stuff and
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  Speaker 1: the way you live to jump up on your feet
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  Speaker 1: and just fair witness that there's still some conviction left
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  Speaker 1: in the church. Conviction about sin, conviction about evil, conviction
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  Speaker 1: about wickedness. There still exists a convicting Holy Spirit. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just a dancing holy spirit. There's a convicting Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: There's a holy spirit that will knock you off your beasts,
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  Speaker 1: bring you down to your knees, make you surrender, make
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  Speaker 1: you sell out. There's a convicting Holy Spirit that will
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  Speaker 1: make you walk away from people you thought you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: live without. A convicting holy spirit that will disrupt you,
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  Speaker 1: that will change your life, that will make you uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: with stuff you like. A convicting Holy Spirit that will
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  Speaker 1: come into your life and speak to you about your
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  Speaker 1: nasty sitting for a way, A convicting Holy Spirit that
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  Speaker 1: will bring you down to your knees and make you
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  Speaker 1: surrendered to God and say yes to God. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how long you've been doing it. And because we
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  Speaker 1: have little conviction, we have little conversion. Because you can't
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  Speaker 1: have true conversion until you have true conviction. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make you be convicted. I can't talk you
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  Speaker 1: into being convicted. You have to have an encounter with
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  Speaker 1: God that shows you yourself. And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you see him like you've never seen him before. Who
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  Speaker 1: is it? It's Jesus, whom thou persecuted. And he shows
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  Speaker 1: up as light. Jesus shows up as light. In him
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  Speaker 1: was light, and the life was the light of men.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus shows up as light. Stop making choices in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus shows up as light. He illuminates situations. He'll show
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  Speaker 1: you perspectives. See the problem. Now all the prophets can
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  Speaker 1: see everybody but themselves. I'm a little bit leer on
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  Speaker 1: people who know what you are to do but don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they ought to do. How come you can
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  Speaker 1: see my life and you can't see your life? How
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  Speaker 1: come you can see my child but you can't see
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  Speaker 1: your child. There you are talking about my child. Your
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  Speaker 1: child was out there with my child? Shut up? Did
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  Speaker 1: I say that out loud? Well? I did? I said
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  Speaker 1: it out loud. I said it out loud. I said
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  Speaker 1: it out loud. I said it out loud. He had
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  Speaker 1: a moment with God. I'm going to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about four things. I'm gonna talk about the moment, the misfit,
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  Speaker 1: the messenger, and the message. The moment, the moment, the moment,
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  Speaker 1: the moment. It's a moment. It's a moment. That's how
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  Speaker 1: salvation reaches you. Boom, It's a moment, the moment, the misfit,
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  Speaker 1: the messenger, and the message. He had a moment with God,
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  Speaker 1: a moment with God that disrupted everything he knew about himself.
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  Speaker 1: He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: about himself. He was a Pharisee. He was a Pharisee,
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  Speaker 1: the most conservative group. He was a Pharisee. Concerning the law.
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  Speaker 1: He was zealous, he was committed to what he believed,
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  Speaker 1: lived all over his life up under the law, and
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  Speaker 1: in one moment, it was all disrupted. Do you not know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been in a religion.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been following an idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many generations it's been in your family.
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  Speaker 1: One moment with Jesus can radically revolutionize your life. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: listening at me, you're trying to hold on to your
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  Speaker 1: traditions and get a little bit of Jesus. And you
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  Speaker 1: like some of the stuff Jesus said, and you think
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  Speaker 1: that religion as a smorgast. Boy, I have a company
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  Speaker 1: this and a little bit of that and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the other, and I'll mix it all up together.
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  Speaker 1: Me and God got my own thing. No, if you
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  Speaker 1: encountered Jesus, you got to give up everything you encountered
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  Speaker 1: before and walk away from it. That's why Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: I counted all as tongue. Everything I knew, everything, I learned,
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  Speaker 1: everything I lived for. I had a radical moment with
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  Speaker 1: God that changed my value system. My values have been misaligned.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, Paul, who was leading men,
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  Speaker 1: ends up being led by the men he was leading,
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  Speaker 1: and they had to lead him because he was blind.
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  Speaker 1: Because God said, I'm gonna shut your eyes till you
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  Speaker 1: get this right. I'm gonna shut you down till you
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  Speaker 1: get this right. I'm gonna shut up your finances till
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  Speaker 1: you get it right. I'm gonna shut up your strength
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  Speaker 1: until you get it right. God has a habit of
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  Speaker 1: shutting you down till you get it right, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're stubborn, especially when your heart headed, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: like to fight. God knows how to shut you down.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna bring you to a place of
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  Speaker 1: vulnerability where you're gonna need the people that you used
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  Speaker 1: to lead, and they're gonna have to lead you as
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  Speaker 1: I bring you into the truth. Some moment. It was
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  Speaker 1: some moment that change the rest of the moments for
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  Speaker 1: the next two thousand years. And God didn't trust no
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  Speaker 1: evangelist to do it. He appeared unto Saul on the
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  Speaker 1: road to the maxis Now. Part of the criteria of
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  Speaker 1: being an apostle is to be an eyewitness to the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: and Saul wasn't at the tomb. So Jesus did a
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  Speaker 1: special appearance. Oh God, God to do a special appearance.
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  Speaker 1: He'll come in your room, He'll come in your hotel.
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  Speaker 1: He'll come in the club, he'll come in the bar.
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  Speaker 1: God will do a special appearance. He'll come right where
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  Speaker 1: you are and just shut up. Oh read to God.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler. He showed up. He showed up in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't planning to get saved he showed up when
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I came back to the club. I went to Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: I brought two sets of clothes. I said, I'm gonna
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: go to the convocation and at night, I'm going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the club. I never got to use the second set
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: because he's shot up. I had packed all my sharp
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: stuff too. I was gonna be clean, baby, I was
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be clean. I put a couple of suits in there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Give God a nod. How you going, Jesus, Yeah,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the club, quick change out to church.
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  Speaker 1: Never made it to the club because he shot up.
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  Speaker 1: Next thing I know, I'm walking down now with tears
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: running down my face. Mother Macastle singing all of my life.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'll say yes, Lord, and I'm crying in an offering,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: coming back to the Lord. Have you had a moment
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: with Jesus or do you just go to church? Have
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you had a moment with Jesus? Or is there a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: nice looking girl in his church and you're coming over
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: here because you're trying to convince her that you you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and Jesus are you cool? We're cool? I'm cold. Give
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Jesus a nod. It's really you. I'm out to you
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: can experience the part's house and not experience Jesus. You
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: can experience me and not experience Jesus. If you have
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a moment with Jesus, it will radically change your perspectives,
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  Speaker 1: your attitudes. And look at how, looking how how Jesus
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: wrecked everything that Saul's life was built on it suddenly
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and one moment it's gone. You can't be a member
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  Speaker 1: of the Sanhedron and preach Jesus. You can't be a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: pharisee and preach Jesus. You can't be zealous concerning the
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  Speaker 1: law and teach grace. Wow, it changed his head, It
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  Speaker 1: changed his identity, It changed his personhood, It changed everything
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  Speaker 1: about him. He wiped the God wiped the slate clean,
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  Speaker 1: completely clean. This is why you hear Paul saying over
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  Speaker 1: I profess to know nothing but Christ and him crucified.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: He is not going to fall into the trap of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: thinking he's smart again. He's spoke in five different languages,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and he says, I am a fool for Christ. He said,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. And he has a moment with
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: God alone, with nobody there but the men who were
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: with him, and they're leading him. They're leading him into Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not how he planned to go into Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't plan to come into Damascus blind being led
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  Speaker 1: by men. He planned to come into da Mascus straw
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  Speaker 1: attacking men, snatching women out of the house. But it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't always end up like you thought. Just because you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: think something right now doesn't make it true. He comes
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: into Damascus helpless. The powerful man is now helpless, blind, groping,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: depending on them to lead him. And God tells him
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to go to a man he doesn't even know, nay
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: man a Nias. And there he is on a street
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: called street, doesn't even know anonyusis address. Y'all, don't hear
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And Annius, when God tells Anonius to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: pray for Saul, he says, are you serious, Saul of Tarsus?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You want me to pray for him? You want me
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to go pray for him. See, we get in these cliques,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and sometimes we won't pray for people because they're not
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in our clique. I'm not praying for no Democrat, I'm
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: not praying for no Republican. I'm not praying for no
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: white folks. I'm not praying for no black folks. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: went through something, you'll know what I went through. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: don't care what you went through when you was a child.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: God will humble you down. Because God is not promised
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to always use who looks like you, votes like you,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: dresses like you to bless you. God uses whoever he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: wants to use. He don't meet with you. He doesn't
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do a poll, he doesn't do a census. He doesn't
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: meet with the committee. He doesn't need board approval. When
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: God gets ready to snatch or y'all got quiet. When
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: God gets ready to snatch somebody, he will snatch somebody. Anna.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I just doesn't want to be seen with Saul. It's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: bad for his brand, it's bad for his reputation, it
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: could be bad for his life. And yet God says,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he prayeth now, there ought not be nothing that supersedes
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  Speaker 1: the command of God in your life. When God says, forgive, forgive,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: When God says, let it go, let it go. When
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  Speaker 1: God says it'll all be over in the morning, It'll
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: all be over in the morning. When God says we've
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: been made, do it for a night, but joy comes
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in the morning. He don't ask you how you feel
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: about it. It Well, Lord I just don't feel like
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and I don't feel like this morning. It don't feel
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: like morning to me. Shut up. If God says this morning,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this morning, it may still be dark outside, but this morning.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You do know that morning starts in the dark. When
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: God says this morning, it's morning. So he wants you
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to rejoice like this morning. He wants you to shout
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: like this morning. He wants you to move like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that Denis. He wants you to go down to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a street called straight and pray for a man who
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: was coming to kill you Gord verse, how do you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: pray for a man.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Who is coming to kill you, a man you have
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: aught against.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: That's why God won't accept your gift if you have
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: malice in your heart. He said, leave your gift at
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the altar and reconcile yourself with your brother. Because whatever
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they did, it ain't worth you losing your authority with God.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Whatever they said, it ain't worth you losing your power
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: with God. No matter how it hurts you, it doesn't matter.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You still got to do what you got to do.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And if God says do it, you got to do it. See,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: we don't use this word any word, the old word obedience.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Obedience it's better than sacrificing. Obedience it is better than sacrificing.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I appreciate whatever you sould, but obedience, it's better than sacrificing.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: You can't give your way, it does getting a license
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to do wrong. So Annius obeys God and he goes
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: down there and he lays hands on the man who
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: was going to lay hands on him. Can you do it?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: No serious, can you do it? Can you lay hands
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: on the person who was coming to hurt you? Antonius
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: lays hands on Saul, who was gonna lay hands on him,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and the power of his obedience costs a scape to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: fall from Saul's eyes. I don't know who I'm preaching to,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: but I'm talking to somebody that if you would just
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: do what God says do and stop wrestling with your
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: ego and your pride and humble yourself the power you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: would have the scales fall from his eyes, And suddenly
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Saul can see and he goes from having a moment
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: with God to a moment as a misfit. I want
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you to feel this. How can he go back to
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the Sanhedrin court and tell him about Jesus because he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: is no longer one of them. There is no seat
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for him amongst a sanhedron. He's lost all of that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: He's lost all credibility with the ahedron because he is
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: taking on this Jesus philosophy that they hated. They have
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: empowered him to attack what he has become. So he
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: she got so he can't. He can't go back. There
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is a point in God. It's not that you don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: want to go back. It's not that you ain't tempted
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to go back. It ain't that your flesh don't want
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to go back. But there is a point in God
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: where you cannot go back. That's somebody's word watching right now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: You cannot go by. You can't go back and undo
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: what God has done in your life. You can't unknow
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: what you know once you know who Jesus he is.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You can't unknow that. I don't care how you drink,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: how much weed you smoke, how high you get, I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't care how many light dances you get. Once you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: know Jesus, there's a mark on your life that something
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is always gonna be missing until you say yes, you
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: can't go back. The problem, however, is not just said
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he can't go back because I can leave one group
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: if I connect with the other, I can. I can,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I can I can be rejected by this group if
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm accepted by the other. The problem with Saul is
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: when he comes to the Apostles, they don't believe in him.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: They don't believe him. They don't believe in him. They
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: don't like him, they don't accept him, and so he
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: has to accept being a misfit. You have to accept
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: being a misfit. You can change your hair, you can
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: change your clothes, you can change your style, you can
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: change your walk. They still not gonna like you, because
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: when God has called you out, you can't go back.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You have to accept being a misfit. Look at somebody,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: say I'm different. I'm different. You ain't never seen nobody
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like me before. You're never gonna see anybody like me again.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm different. And after years and years of low self
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: esteem and crying about it, I'm finally starting to accept
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that I'm different. I'm cool with it. I'm okay with it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I can live with it. I understand that I've been
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: trained in it. I learned how to be a misfit.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that you don't like me. And it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter that you don't believe in me. I can
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: stand on my own because I had an encounter with Jesus.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And so when Saul, who is now called Paul, starts
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to minister, he ministers from the place of a misfit.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: All my misfit people hear me. Good. The reason you
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: have the annointing is because you're a misfit. The reason
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you have your anointing is because you're a misfit. Had
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: they accepted you, you wouldn't have had the annoyingting. Had
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: they embraced you, you wouldn't have had the annoyingty. Because
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Paul was a misfit. He gives us most of the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: New Testament epistles because he does not fit in with
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: either groove. He's an outcast on both sides. But when
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you're an outcast with men, you are in cast with God.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Until you hear what I'm saying, I'm talking to somebody
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I don't even know who it is. You are a misfit.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Stop fighting it, Stop changing yourself, stop redoing your philosophy.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be what everybody else wants you to be.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You were meant to be a misfit. Your Savior was
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a misfit. It. The stone that the builders rejected has
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: been made the chief corner store. Stop crying about it,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Stop worrying about it, Stop being frustrated about it. You
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: don't want to be in with them. God saved you
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: from being in with them. He meant for you to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: be different. Look at your neighbor and introduce him. Say hello,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I'm different. Yeah, my name is different. My name is that,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: my walk is different, my talk is different. The way
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I think is different, the way I believe is different,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the way I flow is different. I understand it if
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: you don't like me. Everybody can't walk with a misfit.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: You have to be a misfit yourself to understand another
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: misfiting when you see it. I want some misfits in
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: this room to give God a pray. You don't fit
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: in with your family, you don't fit in with your community,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you don't fit in with your neighborhood. You just some
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: misfit for Jesus. Often it takes half your life to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: accept being a misfit, because we are always advertised, marketed, modeled,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and promoted fitting in, and it hurts to not quite
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: be either one. It's lonely. It's lonely being a misfit.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: When you are a misfit, you are misunderstood. Their cues,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: You are being arrogant, their cue, you are being high minded.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: They accuse you, we used to say, of being such
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: a much. They accuse you of walking around with your
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: head up in the air. They accuse you of forgetting
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: where you came from. Come on, misfits, back me up
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: on this. Being a misfit means that you have to
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: learn to be okay with being misunderstood. That ain't easy.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: That ain't easy. That ain't easy. It was not easy
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to be the apostle Paul. It was not easy to
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: be shunned by your future and rejected by your past.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It'll make you pray harder because you don't have nobody
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to depend on but the Lord. It'll make you get
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: up and come to church on Sunday morning. I don't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: care how cold it is outside. You wrapped up and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: came to church because this is the only place you fit.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Not the building, the presence of the Lord, the glory
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of the Lord, the annoying of the Lord. This is
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a place where we feed the misfits. Hey, misfits, Dinner,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: is served, and the minor says that he needed me.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Paul started preaching immediately. Ain't that's something. Immediately he starts
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: preaching in the synagogue. He didn't come back to the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: synagogue to be accepted. He knows they think he's crazy,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: but he's preaching in the synagogue. He has to fight all.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Of his life, but in between the fights, he's writing
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: most of the New Testament. In between fights.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: He came to Listra and they threw rocks at him,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: and they stoned him till his head was busted and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: his back was bleeding, and they drug him out the
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: city as half dead. But as soon as he woke up,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he got in between the fight and started preaching again,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: saying stuff like, there is therefore now no condemnation to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: them that are in Christ, Jesus who walk no longer
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: after the flesh, but after the spirit. If any man
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: be in Christ, he is a new creature. All old
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: things have passed away, the whole old things have become new.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: For we know if this earthly house or tabernacle shall
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: be us, all we have another building eternally in the heavens.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Having this assurance that God, who has begun a good
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: work in you shall perform it unto the day of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I want to talk to everybody in here
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that's been in the fight. Out to fight, out to fight,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, in between the fights, preached the gospel.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Lay hands on the sink, blinded eyes. We have built
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the devil, and keep on going. That put him on
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the boat, and the boat fell apart. He survived, the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: ship wrecked, and the snake bid him. But in between
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the fights, he kept on telling them Jesus's Lord to
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the glory of God. I wish I had a hundred
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: people that would praise God in between the fight. You're
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: steal God, You're steal God. The ship has wrecked, but
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: your steal God. The snake has bidden me, but your
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: steal God. The rocks made me bleed, but your steal God.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: See it ain't no praise till you're praising God with
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: blood running down your face. No praise. Tell your praising
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: God in the middle of rejection and pain. Let the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: redeemed of the Lord say, soul. I'll give you thirty
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: seconds to give God a praise like you lost your mind.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: You got ten seconds to open your mouth. Every misfit
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: in the building every misfit on lie, every misfit in
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the mouth of that. You got five seconds to open
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: your mouth and give God some praise and settle in
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: on being disliked. Settle in, I'm being controversial, settle in,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I'm being Miss's three. There, it's okay. This is why
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: it's okay. This is this is why it's okay to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be a misfit, because number three, you're the messenger, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you can't be the messenger if you fit in. That's
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: what's wrong. Now. We got too many folks trying to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: fit in, too many preachers trying to fit in. If
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be the messenger, you gotta be willing to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: be the misfit. Glory to God. You can't be common
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: with the people that you're trying to lead. That's why
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: we don't have parents no more, because they're too busy
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: trying to be friends with their kid. So you're so
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: busy trying to meet friends that the kid ain't got
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: no parent. And now if you're not a friend, you
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: not a parent. The devil is a lie. You gotta
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: understand that you gotta be a misfit. You gotta be
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a misfit. If you're gonna win this battle. If you're
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be a boss, you gotta be a misfit. You
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: can still be nice, but you ain't got no business
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: chasing it behind people trying to make them like you.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: This ain't no election. Your paycheck voted me boss. I'm
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the boss. You can't cash the check and not recognize
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: who signed it. Come on, we might as well clean
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: it up in here. Look at somebody saying clean it up.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: You are the messenger. You are the messenger. You are
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the messenger. I don't care whether you're a preacher or not.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: You're the messenger. You're still a witness. You're a soul winner.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be an undercover agent on your job.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: You don't want nobody to know that you saved so
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: that you still got permission to live out your own life.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and be a messenger. Start praying for people
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: on break. You're a messenger. God didn't put you on
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the job to make money. He puts you on the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: job to change lives. You could have made money anywhere.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: You're on an assignment. You're a messenger. You got a message.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: You're on a mission. That's why the enemy keeps fighting
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: you it's because you're a messenger. He wouldn't try to
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: shut you down if you didn't have something to say.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: The reason he's attacking you is because you're a messenger.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: I want every messenger in here to clop your hands.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. But messengers
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: get funted with being misfifs because being a messenger means
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: saying yes to being a misfit. So when the enemy
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: wants to shut down your message, he'll show you how
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: bad you don't fit. Am I preaching right? I say,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: am I preaching right? You are a messenger. Most of
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: what we know about church, about the fivefold ministry, about
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: the resurrection from the dead, about the mystery of the Godhead,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: about the peace that passes all understanding, about having peace
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: with God, about no condemnation. Most of what we know
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: about the resurrection came from Paul, not Matthias. Stop worrying
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: about who they picked. God picked you. God pigged you.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again. God pigged you. I'm gonna
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: say it again. God pig you, and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be eighty, and you don't have to be seventy,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to be sixty. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be fifty. Jesus started ministering when he was twelve
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  Speaker 1: because God pigged you. You have to understand that God
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  Speaker 1: picks you, and it's not because your past is in alignment.
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  Speaker 1: It's because you had a unique moment with God. And
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  Speaker 1: stop being frustrated because you can't teach people how to
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  Speaker 1: have a moment that they didn't have. Oh God, that's
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  Speaker 1: so good, Thank you Jesus. I'm gonna watch this on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube again myself. Some of you that are messengers are
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  Speaker 1: frustrated because in your loneliness, you are trying to make
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  Speaker 1: disciples out of people who do not have your moment.
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  Speaker 1: And if they did not have your moment, they cannot
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  Speaker 1: have your mantle. Let me tell it to the people
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  Speaker 1: over here. If they did not have your moment, they
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  Speaker 1: cannot have your mantle. That's why Elijah told Elisha, if
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  Speaker 1: you see me when I'm taken up, you can have
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  Speaker 1: my mantle. You can't get my mantle just because you
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  Speaker 1: want it, just because you think you got a write
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  Speaker 1: to it, just because you gave me a love offering.
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  Speaker 1: You can't buy me off and get this until you've
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  Speaker 1: been knocked off your beast, until you've had an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with God, until you walked around blind, and until you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to be a misfit. You can't teach people how
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  Speaker 1: to be what they didn't see. So forgive yourself for
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  Speaker 1: not being able to reduplicate yourself when Jesus picks out
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  Speaker 1: twelve to say, y'all pull it at me. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus picks out twelve disciples, you know the first thing
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  Speaker 1: he tells them, take up your cross and follow me
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  Speaker 1: because you're gonna hear me teach all you want to,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not gonna get my mantle or of what
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  Speaker 1: I teach. You're gonna get my mantle off of what
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  Speaker 1: I suffer. So the invitation is until you have a
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  Speaker 1: shared experience, you cannot receive my spirit without receiving my cross.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us are stuck in the misfit stage, hindering
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  Speaker 1: our message because we are still grieving over not fitting
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  Speaker 1: And until you resolve and say yes not only to God,
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  Speaker 1: but yes to not quite fitting in with either group,
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  Speaker 1: Yes to being peculiar, Yes to thinking different, Yes to
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  Speaker 1: having a flow that's different from other people's flow. You
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  Speaker 1: will never discover your message, your message, which is your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: number for your message, because you are a messenger. Your
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  Speaker 1: purpose is predicated on your message, not your emotions. God
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  Speaker 1: didn't call you for your feelings. He called you for
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  Speaker 1: your message, because you are a messenger to a dying world.
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  Speaker 1: To model what love looks like, what strength looks like,
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  Speaker 1: he looks like, what diligence looks like, what commitment looks like,
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  Speaker 1: what fortitude looks like. In between fights, you got to
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  Speaker 1: keep teaching people how to be survivors, how to walk alone.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes am I helping anybody? Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the divorces that we're having we should have
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  Speaker 1: never had because we are trying to get something out
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  Speaker 1: of marriage that it is not designed to give you.
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  Speaker 1: You're taking marriage for therapy, and when you don't get
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  Speaker 1: therapy out of it, you get out of it. If
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  Speaker 1: you want therapy, go to a therapist. It is not
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  Speaker 1: my job to fix you. It is my job to
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  Speaker 1: love you. The reason I can't fix you is that
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to fix me, and it is wrong of
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  Speaker 1: me to expect you to fix me because whatever's broke
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  Speaker 1: in me was broke when you bought me. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: house you bought as is. I'm a fixer upper. The
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  Speaker 1: drain don't work, and the life splash on and off,
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  Speaker 1: and when it rains real hard, I leak in the kitchen.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm still your house. Yah, don't hear me? And
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  Speaker 1: you are angry with me over stuff I don't know
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  Speaker 1: nothing about. You're trying to work out in me stuff
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  Speaker 1: you had going on with your daddy. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: work out in you stuff I had going on with
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  Speaker 1: my mama that ain't even fair. You wasn't even married.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even know what happened. And if I tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: only get my side. And yes, I got a devil
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  Speaker 1: to fight. How many people in here are honest enough
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  Speaker 1: to say you got a devil to fight. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm at church this morning, because I got a devil
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  Speaker 1: to fight. That's why I was wipping my hands and
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  Speaker 1: praising God when you were singing, because I got a
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  Speaker 1: devil to fight. That's why your job is so important,
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  Speaker 1: because you helped me fight my devil. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: can't cross my legs and look cute in church, because
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  Speaker 1: I got a devil to fight, and I came in
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  Speaker 1: here this morning to get some ammunition to help me
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  Speaker 1: in the fight. Because when I leave this place, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going back to the front lines, and I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to do battle. I'm not talking about doing battle with people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about doing battle with me, doing battle with
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  Speaker 1: my own head, doing battle with my own pain, doing
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  Speaker 1: battle with my own self, sometime, doing battle with my prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: with my destiny head. Am I ready? Can I handle it?
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  Speaker 1: Can I pull it off? Am I enough? No? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not enough. But with God, I'm more than enough. I
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  Speaker 1: can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get a praise in this place? Can I get
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  Speaker 1: a praise in this place? So when Paul gets down
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  Speaker 1: to the end of his life, he sends a message
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  Speaker 1: to his mentee. He does not tell Timothy about all
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  Speaker 1: his revelations. He does not tell Timothy about all the
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  Speaker 1: places he travels. He does not tell Timothy how he
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  Speaker 1: was trained at the feet of Camille. He does not
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  Speaker 1: tell Timothy how many languages he spoke. He he does
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  Speaker 1: not tell Timothy that he is solely responsible for the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel reaching the Greeks that he preached the gospel on
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  Speaker 1: Mars Hill until a whole nation got saved. He does
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  Speaker 1: not tell Timothy that it was not Peter alone that
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  Speaker 1: brought the Gospel to Rome. But that's why the shipwrecked
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: was to keep him from getting to Rome, because when
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  Speaker 1: Paul got to Rome, the whole game change and the
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  Speaker 1: headquarters of Christianity slipped over from Jerusalem over to Rome.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't tell him any of that. You know what
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  Speaker 1: he tells him, I thought a good fight. AH fought
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  Speaker 1: a good fighter. I did it when I felt like it.
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  Speaker 1: I did it when I didn't feel like it. I
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  Speaker 1: did it when things were going good. I did it
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  Speaker 1: when things were going bad. I did it when I
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  Speaker 1: was on the mountain. I did it when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the valley. I did it when people liked me.
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  Speaker 1: I did it when people hated me. I did it
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  Speaker 1: when they understood. I did it when they didn't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to clop for yourself and say, I have
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  Speaker 1: thought somebody clopped for yourself. I fought a good fight.
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  Speaker 1: I raised some kids by myself. I'm a single mother,
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  Speaker 1: but I fought a good fight. Hollylujah. I divorced some mother,
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  Speaker 1: but I kept on taking care of my children. I
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  Speaker 1: fought a good fight. I fed people who didn't like me.
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  Speaker 1: I came to work where they talked about man. I
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  Speaker 1: kept on going to work, even though the person I
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  Speaker 1: trained ended up getting a job. I should have gone,
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  Speaker 1: but I still came to work, and I fought a
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  Speaker 1: good fight. I want to talk to some people that
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  Speaker 1: had been into some fight. I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to these cutie people that I ain't been through nothing yet.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some real souldiers that's been
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: in some real fights. Paul tells him a time I fought,
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  Speaker 1: I fought. I fought a good fight. I fought fights
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  Speaker 1: other people wouldn't even take up. I fought fights I
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  Speaker 1: could have avoided. I fought a good fight. You know what,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I kept the faith? Yeah, sometimes that was the fight. Sometimes,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: see y'all think I'm fighting with people. Sometimes the fight
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  Speaker 1: is to keep the I fought a good fight. I
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  Speaker 1: kept the faith. Wait on this, here's what you've been
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  Speaker 1: waiting on now. Laid up for me is a crown
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. Didn't get it when I wanted it, didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it where I worked at it, some stuff only
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  Speaker 1: God can give you. Now laid up for me is
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: a crown of righteousness. We used to sing stuff like
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  Speaker 1: we shall behold Him or that other song. The marketplace
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  Speaker 1: is empty, no more selling in the streets. The King
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  Speaker 1: is coming. We don't sing about heaven right now because
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  Speaker 1: we got better cars. We don't think about heaven because
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: we got air conditioning. We don't think about heaven because
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: we got dishwashers and garbage disposals and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth of the Mighty is nothing you own
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  Speaker 1: is your crown. None of it is a crown. There
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  Speaker 1: is a crown for those of you who have fought
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  Speaker 1: a good And it ain't down here. It ain't down here, bro,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't down here. Why would you appreciate Because every
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  Speaker 1: time I open up the paper, somebody else has committed suicide.
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  Speaker 1: You know why most people commit suicide because they never
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: got the crowd. They put in the fight and they
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: didn't get the crowd. But Paul tells Timothy, now laid
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  Speaker 1: up for me is a crown of righteousness, And not
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  Speaker 1: for me only, but for all of those who await
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: his appearing. Stand to your feet. If God spoke to
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  Speaker 1: you today. Give him some kind of praise. Quick teachers
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  Speaker 1: review is make your life count in between fights. Don't
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  Speaker 1: survive a fight only to be in misery about an
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  Speaker 1: old fight. You wasted your free time talking about your
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: old time. In between fights. Makes your life out. Do
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  Speaker 1: something purposeful. That's what the fight was about in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. In between fights, do what you were created
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  Speaker 1: to do. This is a teacher's review. The power of obedience.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding that sometimes you have to go against your feelings
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  Speaker 1: and obey God and lay hands on people who were
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: trying to lay hands on you because this is not
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: your business. This is God's business you're doing. Do you
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying? Teachers Review? I want you to understand.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: You didn't choose God. God chose you. Teacher's review. Fitting
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: in is overrated. Be okay with being different. Nobody writes
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: books about ordinary, only extraordinary. Be cool with it all
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: of not all, but most of our heroes were lauded
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: after they died. If you demand payment up front, you
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: are distracted from your destiny. Who am I talking to?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: When you worry about being a misfit, you put your
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: happiness in the hands of someone else. Means that I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: can only be happy if you like me. That's too
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: much power to give to any clique, any group, any crowd,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: any coworkers. That's too much power to give anybody. You
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: gotta be cool with doing you, y'all. I often joke
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: talking about how my wife loves Christmas, and she got
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: the house you know, it looked like Santa Claus lived there,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: and the one who always teasing her about it, I said,
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  Speaker 1: how come you ain't playing your music? You know why.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: It ain't my thing, but it's hers. And if it
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  Speaker 1: gives you joy, turn the music off. It takes a
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: long time to stop trying to change people and just
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: love them like they are. It ain't nothing wrong with that,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, And let me turn the music on, let
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  Speaker 1: me help, let me do something. Stop trying to make
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  Speaker 1: people into you, because can we be honest a minute.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't that happy being you, so why are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to make me be you? Early in the message,
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  Speaker 1: I used two words that I've said we don't use
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  Speaker 1: much conversion and conviction. Conversion the right to change, the
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  Speaker 1: right to be somebody else is important. Don't walk yourself
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  Speaker 1: into situations you can't get out of because your conversion
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  Speaker 1: is a process, and conviction is the decision that I
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  Speaker 1: need to change directions now. I'm not sure, but I
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  Speaker 1: believe that somebody in this room will watching online, has
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: been knocked off your beasts, the wind knocked out of you, blackout,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: you can't see your way clear. God has disrupted your
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  Speaker 1: life because He's got something for you that's different than
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  Speaker 1: where you were headed. And you can be hard headed
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  Speaker 1: and come to him on a cart lowered down through
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  Speaker 1: the roof, or come to him in a dread disease,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: or you can come to him now and say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I need to make some changes. Ain't no need of
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  Speaker 1: me having a new year if I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: be a new me, even if I am despised, if
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  Speaker 1: I have to leave my click, my game, even if
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  Speaker 1: I have to change jobs, whatever I have to do
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill what you created me to do. I'm tired
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: of fighting you. God. It's enough to fight me. You
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: know what Jesus told Paul that I left out. He said,
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  Speaker 1: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: The prick was something that they put at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the stall to stop the mule from kicking the
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  Speaker 1: stall trying to get away. It was a are object
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  Speaker 1: that the more you kicked against it, the more it
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  Speaker 1: hurt you. And when God says