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OCTOBER_1_DON_T_FACE_THIS_MONTH_WITHOUT_KNOWING_WHO_S_COVERING · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, we pray, amen. You may
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  Speaker 1: be seated. Yeah, I'm home. First time I used this
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  Speaker 1: text publicly, I was 19 years old, preaching a funeral
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  Speaker 1: for a 17-year-old boy who was killed in a car wreck.
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  Speaker 1: I brought the family in. Let not your heart be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: You believe in God, believe also in me. In my
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  Speaker 1: father's house, there are many mansions there. If it were
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  Speaker 1: not so, I would have told you. I go to
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  Speaker 1: prepare a place for you that where I am, you
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  Speaker 1: may be also. And anytime we associate a text with
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  Speaker 1: a circumstance, sometimes we compromise the context from which the
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  Speaker 1: text is taken because our point of reference is limited
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  Speaker 1: to homegoing services and funerals. But in actuality, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a text of bereavement. This is not a text
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  Speaker 1: that is meant to comfort people in times of emotional
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  Speaker 1: chaos and distress. This is a text that is given
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  Speaker 1: to explain to a nervous and restless group of disciples
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  Speaker 1: the feeling of abandonment that they are facing. The time
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  Speaker 1: has come in their life for Christ to step away
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  Speaker 1: in his physical form and they are being weaned from him.
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  Speaker 1: Much like many of the soldiers who go off to
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  Speaker 1: war and they kiss their kids and their wives goodbye
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  Speaker 1: and say, let not your heart be troubled. I will
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  Speaker 1: come back to you. It is a promise that he
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  Speaker 1: gives on his exit that they are not abandoned. but
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  Speaker 1: that he will give them a guardian, another comforter, an
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  Speaker 1: alos pericletes, one who stands alongside to help and to
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  Speaker 1: aid and to give comfort. He is there to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you don't suffer in my physical absence. He
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  Speaker 1: is there and has been with you and shall be
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  Speaker 1: in you. It was interesting to note that one of
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  Speaker 1: the fullest classes that we had on Wednesday night has
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  Speaker 1: been on the Holy Spirit itself. Because we want to
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  Speaker 1: activate the Holy Spirit. We want to know that he
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  Speaker 1: is more than goose pimples and chill bumps, but that
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  Speaker 1: he is a resident force in our lives. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a feeling in our lives. He is a force in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. He is not an emotion. He is the
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  Speaker 1: personality of God revealed through human bodies. He is the
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  Speaker 1: light that lights the lantern. We are the lantern, but
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  Speaker 1: he is the light. I was looking at the moon
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  Speaker 1: last night. It was a quarter moon out and it
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  Speaker 1: was just glowing so beautifully in the night. And I
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  Speaker 1: said to a friend of mine, I said, the moon
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  Speaker 1: has no light of its own. It has no light
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  Speaker 1: of its own. It is at the mercy of its
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  Speaker 1: ability to see the sun. And to the degree to
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  Speaker 1: which it sees the sun, it illuminates in direct proportion
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  Speaker 1: to that visibility that it experiences with the sun. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason it is only lit to a quarter is
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  Speaker 1: because of the obscurity of the vision. So the clearer
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  Speaker 1: the vision, the brighter the light. So you might have
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  Speaker 1: some half-moon Christian right now that are gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: vision that's gonna take them to half-moon that takes them to, oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't get it, to full moon if you keep
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  Speaker 1: walking with him. So the moon is just a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of the sun in another part of the world. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we are to be, created in his image,
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  Speaker 1: a mirror, a reflection of his glory. There are many things,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them we're going to talk about today
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  Speaker 1: is a reflection of his glory. What's going to help
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  Speaker 1: us to understand is that this is an allegory in
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  Speaker 1: its essence that as a story or a picture or
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  Speaker 1: a piece of art that uses symbols to convey a
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  Speaker 1: hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one.
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  Speaker 1: This is an allegory. In other words, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: that it didn't happen. I'm saying that it has a
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  Speaker 1: double meaning. In its most simple and concise definition, an
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  Speaker 1: allegory is when a piece or visual or narrative media
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  Speaker 1: uses one thing to stand in for a different hidden idea.
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  Speaker 1: The reason that the idea is hidden from us is
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  Speaker 1: that what Jesus is saying is consistent to what the
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  Speaker 1: bridegroom would say to the bride. Okay, because in Jesus' day,
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  Speaker 1: they took marriage a little differently than we do today.
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  Speaker 1: At the time you were engaged, you were actually married,
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  Speaker 1: even though the marriage hadn't been consummated. That time period,
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  Speaker 1: you had entered into an agreement that was serious and committed.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Joseph was going to give Mary a bill
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  Speaker 1: of divorcement. Though he had not yet married her, he
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  Speaker 1: had betrothed her. He had entered into commitment with her,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a part of the marriage ceremony. What
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying to the disciples has a reflection and
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  Speaker 1: the relevance of what marriage meant in the Bible days.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? Marriage mimics the gospel. It is
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  Speaker 1: a shadow of how God brings us into the commonwealth
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. In its purest form, marriage is adoption. Marriage
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  Speaker 1: is adoption. When I met my wife, she was Sarita Jameson.
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  Speaker 1: But when I married her, I gave her my last
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  Speaker 1: name and adopted her into the Jakes family. Are you
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  Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying? You in? Yeah, after 43 years,
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  Speaker 1: if it didn't take by now, it's not going to take.
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  Speaker 1: The whole theme of weddings are important to God. Marriage
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  Speaker 1: is important to God. It means a lot to God.
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  Speaker 1: Your marriage is important to God, but marriage in general
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  Speaker 1: as an institution is important to God because it mimics
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with us, not your marriage. Marriage itself... mimics
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with us. The church is often called the
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  Speaker 1: bride of Christ for that reason. All throughout the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: God talks about marriage over and over again. From the
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  Speaker 1: book of Genesis, where he begins, the very first thing
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  Speaker 1: he does before he establishes the church Before he establishes
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  Speaker 1: a community, he starts with marriage. He puts Adam into
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  Speaker 1: a deep sleep, pulls a rib out of his side,
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  Speaker 1: and makes Eve to be his bride, and performs the
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  Speaker 1: first marriage in the book of Genesis. From the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis to the book of Revelations, where we're at
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  Speaker 1: the marriage supper of the Lamb, the whole Bible is
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  Speaker 1: full of inferences and references to marriage. In the second
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  Speaker 1: chapter of John, it opens with the marriage at Cana.
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  Speaker 1: So we see marriage in Genesis. We see marriage in Revelations.
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  Speaker 1: We see marriage in the Gospel of St. John. We
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  Speaker 1: see it over and over again. We see references to marriage.
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  Speaker 1: He tells one prophet to go and marry a harlot.
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  Speaker 1: It is not so much that he wants the prophet
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  Speaker 1: to be married to the prostitute, but he is trying
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  Speaker 1: to show us an image, an allegory of what he
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  Speaker 1: is going through being married to his people. Maybe your
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  Speaker 1: marriage he is using as an allegory to show you
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  Speaker 1: what it feels like for him to be married to us.
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  Speaker 1: I told you they wasn't going to like this message.
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  Speaker 1: So the second chapter of John opens with Jesus at
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  Speaker 1: the marriage at Cana. In the times of Christ, a
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  Speaker 1: Jewish wedding was a joyous and important event that typically
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  Speaker 1: lasted for several days. Days. I don't know how they
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  Speaker 1: afforded it. We did it in one day and I
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  Speaker 1: almost went broke. The wedding was typically held in a
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  Speaker 1: couple's home or in a rented space or in a
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  Speaker 1: banquet hall or a palace. The day of the wedding
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  Speaker 1: was considered a holiday and many friends and people would
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  Speaker 1: come to celebrate this particular magnanimous occasion. The wedding started
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  Speaker 1: with a betrothal. which was a simple ceremony where the
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  Speaker 1: couple would pledge to marry each other. It started way
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  Speaker 1: back then. Some marriages took longer than others. After the betrothal,
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  Speaker 1: the couple would wait for a few months or even
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  Speaker 1: years for the wedding to take place. During this time,
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  Speaker 1: the couple would prepare for the wedding, and not just
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  Speaker 1: the couple, but the bridegroom would go and build a
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  Speaker 1: house for his wife because he understood that it was
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  Speaker 1: his responsibility to provide. So I want to be sure
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  Speaker 1: you get this. So he engaged her, but he says,
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  Speaker 1: I can't marry you. I have to go prepare a
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  Speaker 1: place for you. And if I go away, I will
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  Speaker 1: come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am,
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  Speaker 1: there you may be also. And so Jesus is speaking
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  Speaker 1: in language that is familiar to the Jewish people. He's
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  Speaker 1: speaking broom talk. He's speaking broom talk. He says, in
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  Speaker 1: my father's house, there are many mansions there. If it
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  Speaker 1: were not so, I would have told you so. But
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  Speaker 1: none of them are suitable for you. I go to
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  Speaker 1: prepare a place for you that where I am, there
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  Speaker 1: ye may be also. And if I go, I will
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  Speaker 1: come again and receive you unto myself. Hallelujah. This is
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  Speaker 1: marriage talk. This is wedding talk. This is what the
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  Speaker 1: wedding ceremony is symbolic of. When we say that the
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  Speaker 1: wedding is sacred, It's not sacred because Jimmy and Susie
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  Speaker 1: are standing there because Jimmy might not be sacred and
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  Speaker 1: Susie might not be sacred either. But they could be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from them. But the institution
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  Speaker 1: itself is an icon and an allegory of a relationship
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  Speaker 1: that has a much deeper meaning than what society is
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  Speaker 1: talking about today. This is not a sociological or a
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  Speaker 1: political issue. From the text, it is a theological issue.
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  Speaker 1: It always was and it always will be because marriage
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  Speaker 1: is a picture of the relationship that God has with
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  Speaker 1: us in that he has adopted us and given us
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  Speaker 1: his name. Did he not say, whatsoever you ask the
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  Speaker 1: Father in my name, that will I do? Did he
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  Speaker 1: not say, whatsoever you do in word or deed, do
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  Speaker 1: it all in the name of the Lord Jesus? He's
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  Speaker 1: given us his name as a sign of betrothal, of adoption.
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave you orphaned. I will not leave
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  Speaker 1: you doubting who you are. I will not leave you
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  Speaker 1: at the mercy of anybody else accepting you in order
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  Speaker 1: for you to be whole again. I will come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? On the
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  Speaker 1: day of the wedding, the bride and the groom would
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  Speaker 1: start their day with the church service, followed by a
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  Speaker 1: procession to a wedding ceremony. They would go through all
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  Speaker 1: of these routines. The wedding ceremony typically took place in
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  Speaker 1: a synagogue, and it was led by a rabbi. During
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony, the bride and groom would exchange vows and
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  Speaker 1: make promises to each other, make promises to each other.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder we have precious promises. He made promises to us.
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  Speaker 1: like any groom would make to his bride. Precious promises
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  Speaker 1: have been extended to you. And the good thing about
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  Speaker 1: his promise, he always keeps his promises. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a man that I should lie, or the son
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  Speaker 1: of man that I should repent. Have I not spoken it?
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  Speaker 1: Shall I not perform it? Have I not said it?
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  Speaker 1: Will I not make it good? After the wedding ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: there would be a grand feast, which was attended by
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  Speaker 1: the family and the friends and the members of the community.
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  Speaker 1: The feast typically lasted for several days. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: hear the book of Revelations talking about the marriage supper
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  Speaker 1: of the Lamb. It is a celebration of after the
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  Speaker 1: wedding has taken place, we go into the marriage supper
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  Speaker 1: of the Lamb. In fact, on the cross, Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: given his body to his bride. Oh, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get with me in a minute. On the cross, he
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  Speaker 1: was giving his body to the bride. In the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: the bride will give her body to him, and we
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  Speaker 1: will enter into the merry supper of the Lamb. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear what I'm saying to you? Let not your
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  Speaker 1: heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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  Speaker 1: In my Father's house, there are many mansions. If it
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  Speaker 1: were not so, I would have told you. So I
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  Speaker 1: go to prepare a place for you. Remember when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: rose from the dead and Mary saw him out in
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  Speaker 1: the garden and she called him Rabboni. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: touch me not for I have not yet ascended to
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  Speaker 1: my father. What he means by that is I've got
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  Speaker 1: to put the blood on the mercy seat. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to sanctify a place for you. I've got to consecrate
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  Speaker 1: a place for you that where I am, there you
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  Speaker 1: may be also. So don't contaminate my blood with your
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  Speaker 1: touch because I'm on a mission. I've made a promise.
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  Speaker 1: that I've got to go to prepare a place for you.
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  Speaker 1: I did not rise from the dead just to prove
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  Speaker 1: to you that I am Lord. I rose from the
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  Speaker 1: dead so that my perfect, holy, spotless blood could hit
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  Speaker 1: the mercy seat and prepare a place for you to
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  Speaker 1: be able to dwell in the presence of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm saying to you? So all
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  Speaker 1: the friends and the family would gather around for the
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  Speaker 1: supper that came at the end. It was a celebration
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  Speaker 1: of love, of the commitment of the bride and groom.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? So the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish wedding took quite some time to take place. That's
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  Speaker 1: where you get the parable about the five wives and
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  Speaker 1: the five foolish virgins. who kept their oil lamps trimmed
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  Speaker 1: and burning, waiting for the bridegroom coming. Because no man
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  Speaker 1: knew the day nor the hour that the bridegroom would
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  Speaker 1: come back. They knew he was coming back. They knew
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  Speaker 1: he had promised to come back. They knew he had
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  Speaker 1: betrothed us. They knew that he had declared to us
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  Speaker 1: that we were his. They didn't know how long it
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  Speaker 1: would take him to prepare a place, but we were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to keep our lamps lit. Trimmed and burning for
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  Speaker 1: we did not know what day the master would come
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  Speaker 1: back for us. And this is why the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is so important to us because keeping your lamps trimmed
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  Speaker 1: and burning is an indication of having oil in your lamp.
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  Speaker 1: Oil in your lamp. is keeping yourself ready so that
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  Speaker 1: whenever he comes, if he comes before I get through preaching,
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  Speaker 1: if he comes before I close the service, if he
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  Speaker 1: comes before you leave the parking lot, if he comes
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  Speaker 1: in a suddenly, in a immediately, if he comes in
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  Speaker 1: a flash, we'll be ready because we have the oil on.
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit down inside of us, which is
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  Speaker 1: a guardian that lights the way so that we can
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  Speaker 1: see the Father. Philip says, show us the Father and
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  Speaker 1: it suffices us. Jesus said, have I been so long
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  Speaker 1: time with you and you still don't know that I
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  Speaker 1: and my Father are one? If you have seen me,
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  Speaker 1: you have seen the Father. Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go
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  Speaker 1: ye out to meet him. So here I go with
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  Speaker 1: my light. which is coming from my oil because I
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  Speaker 1: have the guardian down inside of me and I can
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  Speaker 1: see him. And Philip said, how can we go? We
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  Speaker 1: don't know the way. We've never been there. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
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  Speaker 1: man cometh unto the Father save he come by me.
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  Speaker 1: And all of the Bible over and over again, there
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  Speaker 1: is an emphasis on marriage. Jacob worked seven years that
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  Speaker 1: he might have Rachel and instead he He gets her sister, Leah,
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  Speaker 1: and has to work another 14 years before he gets Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: the love of his life. It took a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but he came back for her. We see it over
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  Speaker 1: and over again, the importance of marriage In the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: it's symbolic of a much bigger issue. I am not
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  Speaker 1: saying that your marriage is a picture of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: the church. I'm saying the institution, the ideology, the concept
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  Speaker 1: of marriage itself is a picture of Christ and the church.
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  Speaker 1: Did he not say in the Old Testament, I'm married
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  Speaker 1: to the backslider? Yeah, you threw him out of the church,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm still married to the backslider. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: told the prophet to go marry a prostitute and I
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  Speaker 1: let him go redeem her off the slave table because
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  Speaker 1: that's what I did with you. I promised you and
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  Speaker 1: you went a whoring and had strange children, but I
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  Speaker 1: still want you. And if I have to buy you back,
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  Speaker 1: that's what redemption means, to buy you back. I bought
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  Speaker 1: you back off the slave trade. You embarrassed me, but
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  Speaker 1: I still bought you. You made me ashamed, but I
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  Speaker 1: still brought you. You scandalized my love, but I still
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  Speaker 1: brought you. You took my promises for granted, but I
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  Speaker 1: still bought you. And if I have to go down
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  Speaker 1: to the slave auction, I see you standing there butt
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  Speaker 1: naked on the table. You're still my wife. Your hair
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  Speaker 1: is all over your head. Your makeup is smudged, but
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  Speaker 1: you're still my wife. And I will pay the price
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  Speaker 1: that is necessary to redeem you unto myself. Notice it
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  Speaker 1: is not dimption. It is redemption. I will buy you back.
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  Speaker 1: I will pull you out of your mess. I will
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  Speaker 1: pull you out of your shame. I will pull you
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  Speaker 1: out of your disgrace. I will pull you out of
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  Speaker 1: your troubles. I will pull you out I will snatch
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  Speaker 1: you out because you're still mine shake your head and
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  Speaker 1: say I'm still his I messed up but I'm still
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  Speaker 1: his I blew it but I'm still his I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been steadfast but I'm still his he says I am
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  Speaker 1: married to the backslider So what Jesus is doing in
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  Speaker 1: the 14th chapter of the gospel of St. John is
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  Speaker 1: talking to us like a groom talks to his spouse's fiance.
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  Speaker 1: He said, don't be upset. I know you're in love
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  Speaker 1: with me. He said, I'm going to wait for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but I'm coming back to receive you unto myself.
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  Speaker 1: We ain't finished. We're just getting started. And while I
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  Speaker 1: am gone, and while I am gone, I will not
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  Speaker 1: leave you as an orphan. I will not leave you
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  Speaker 1: in this world by yourself. I will not leave you
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  Speaker 1: in this world to deal with witches by yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: will not leave you in this world to deal with
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  Speaker 1: devils by yourself. I will not leave you in this
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  Speaker 1: world to face diseases by yourself. I will not leave
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  Speaker 1: you in this world to have to fend for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I will leave you an advocate, a comforter, a standby.
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  Speaker 1: I will leave you service. a guardian that stands in
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  Speaker 1: for you until I return again. You are protected. You
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  Speaker 1: are covered. You are sealed. You are connected. He is
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  Speaker 1: in you. Glory to God. He is inside of you,
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  Speaker 1: protecting you. You might not always sense him, but the
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  Speaker 1: devil knows that you're anointed. The devil already knows that
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  Speaker 1: there's oil in your lamp. The devil already knows that
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  Speaker 1: there's glory down inside of you. Did not the Bible say,
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  Speaker 1: Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?
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  Speaker 1: That means that the devil can't really detect you. when
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  Speaker 1: you have had an encounter with God. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: things he can't do to you because you're covered by
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  Speaker 1: the blood. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible said that when the sons of God
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  Speaker 1: came around the throne, along with them also came Satan
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus, and God asked him, where have you been?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I've been going to and fro and up
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  Speaker 1: and down, seeking, watch this, whom I may devour. If
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  Speaker 1: you got to seek who you can, then there's got
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody who you can devour. The reason you're
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  Speaker 1: still here is because he couldn't devour you. The reason
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  Speaker 1: you made it through your test is because he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: devour you. The reason he didn't take you out is
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  Speaker 1: because he couldn't devour you. The devil can only devour
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  Speaker 1: some people. A thousand may fall at your right side.
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  Speaker 1: Ten thousand will fall at your left side. But it
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  Speaker 1: will not come nigh you because I've got a guardian
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  Speaker 1: around you. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
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  Speaker 1: So Satan, otherwise known as Lucifer, says, I've been going
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  Speaker 1: to and fro up and down throughout the earth seeking
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  Speaker 1: whom I may devour. And God said, have you considered
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  Speaker 1: my servant Job? And Satan said, come on, please. You
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  Speaker 1: know I can't do nothing with him. You got the
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  Speaker 1: guardian around him. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a hedge all around you. You've got protection all around him.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even get to him. I can't get to
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  Speaker 1: his property. I can't get to his children. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get to his body. I can't get to his mind.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get to his emotions. Because you've got that
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  Speaker 1: force field around him. You've got that protection around him.
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  Speaker 1: You've got that courage. That's why you didn't die of
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  Speaker 1: crib death. That's why you didn't die at an early age.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you made it through three trimesters. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you made it through adolescence and puberty. Because God had
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  Speaker 1: a guardian around you. You were not orphaned in this world.
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  Speaker 1: You were not alone in this world. You were protected
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  Speaker 1: in this world. I need about a thousand protected people
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  Speaker 1: that will.
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  Speaker 1: Touch somebody and tell them I've been protected all my life.
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  Speaker 1: I may have gone through trouble, but trouble didn't go
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  Speaker 1: through me. I may have had a hard time, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't prevail over me. I've been protected all my life.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: When the enemy came in like a flood, the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord lifted up a standard against it. I've
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  Speaker 1: been protected all of my life. I never had to
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  Speaker 1: fight for myself because the battle was not mine. It
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  Speaker 1: belonged to God. And every time they thought they had
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  Speaker 1: me surrounded, I looked again and I was surrounded by Him.
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  Speaker 1: I've been covered on the right. I've been covered on
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  Speaker 1: the left. I've been covered on the north. I've been
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  Speaker 1: covered on the south. I've been covered while I was sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: I was covered even when I was wrong. I was
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  Speaker 1: covered when I made mistakes. I was covered in my foolishness.
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  Speaker 1: So when you see me praising God, don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: praising God because I'm crazy. I'm praising God because I'm protected.
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  Speaker 1: I want somebody to take 30 seconds and just forget,
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  Speaker 1: just forget, just forget. Not only has he covered me,
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  Speaker 1: he's covering me right now. Tetraveira, say God's got you covered.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you're worried about, God's got you covered. Whatever is
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  Speaker 1: getting on your nerves, God's got you covered. Whatever the
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  Speaker 1: devil is threatening you with, God's got you covered. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The host should encamp against me. My heart shall not fear.
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  Speaker 1: The war should rise against me. In this will I
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  Speaker 1: be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That will I seek after. That I may dwell in the...
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  Speaker 1: That I may dwell in the... That I may dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the... that I may dwell in the house of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord all the days of my life to behold
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His
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  Speaker 1: temple for in the time of trouble He shall hide
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  Speaker 1: me in His pavilion in the secret of His tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: shall He hide me He shall set me upon a
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  Speaker 1: rock and now shall my head be lifted up above
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  Speaker 1: my enemies and I will sing, I will sing praises
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  Speaker 1: unto my God. Somebody sing a praise to your God
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  Speaker 1: right now. The Bible says that Herod's daughter danced before
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  Speaker 1: the king. And the king said, if you dance before me,
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  Speaker 1: you can have whatever you want. And she said, I
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  Speaker 1: want the head of John the Baptist. And John the
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  Speaker 1: Baptist lost his head because that daughter found her dance.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. If you dance before the king...
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  Speaker 1: He will cut the head off of your enemy. No
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  Speaker 1: weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper. And
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  Speaker 1: every tongue that rises against you, God will condemn. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're quiet. I know you're conservative. I know you're reserved.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're intelligent. But when you're in a fight
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  Speaker 1: with the devil, Sometimes you got to dance for his head.
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  Speaker 1: You got to dance for a breakthrough. You got to
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  Speaker 1: dance for deliverance. I'm going to take 30 seconds for
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  Speaker 1: a praise break. Because there might be something you want
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  Speaker 1: to kill. There might be something you want to annihilate.
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  Speaker 3: There might be something you want to destroy. There might
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  Speaker 3: be something you want to take out.
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  Speaker 1: There might be something you want to get out of
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  Speaker 1: your way. There might be something that you want to annihilate.
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  Speaker 3: And I dare you to.
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  Speaker 1: Dance before the king. Look at your neighbor and say,
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  Speaker 1: don't let me go to dancing. If I go to dancing,
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  Speaker 1: no weapon formed against me shall be.
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  Speaker 3: Able to prosper.
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  Speaker 1: If I go to dancing, yokes will break. If I
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  Speaker 1: go to dancing, walls will come down. If I go
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  Speaker 1: to dancing, doors will open. If I go to dancing,
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  Speaker 1: God will behead my enemy. If I go to dancing,
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  Speaker 1: God will give me the victory. I'm not in this
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  Speaker 1: thing by myself. I better stop because I feel something.
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  Speaker 3: Pushing me in the back. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like giving God a praise in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Slap seven people and tell them he promised. He promised.
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  Speaker 3: He promised. He promised never.
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  Speaker 1: To leave me. He promised never to leave me alone.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: He promised never to leave me. I've seen the lightning flash.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard the thunder roll. I've felt sin's greatest passion
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  Speaker 1: trying to conquer my soul.
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  Speaker 2: But I heard the.
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  Speaker 1: Voice of Jesus telling me, still followed.
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  Speaker 3: He promised. He promised. He promised. He promised.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down. I'm not finished yet. I'm not finished yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not finished yet. I'm not finished yet. I feel
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  Speaker 1: something in this place, though. I'm not finished, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel something in this place. I feel something in this place.
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  Speaker 1: I feel an unction in this place. I feel the
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  Speaker 1: guardian in the room right now. I feel it, I
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  Speaker 1: feel it, I feel it, I feel it, I feel it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel it, I feel it, I feel it, I
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  Speaker 1: feel it. I feel somebody, the devil's been trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell you you're an orphan, but the devil is alive.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I will not leave you an orphan. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I will send an allos pericletis, one who stands alongside
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  Speaker 1: to help. One who stands alongside to help, like godparents
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  Speaker 1: do with parents at baby dedications, they stand alongside to help.
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  Speaker 1: They have a responsibility that if something would happen to
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  Speaker 1: the parents, the guardians step in to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: the decisions for the child are taken care of. Like
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  Speaker 1: the executive over a will or an estate, they step
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  Speaker 1: in as a guardian to make sure that the will
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  Speaker 1: is taken care of according to the testator who left
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  Speaker 1: a will for the children. The executor over the will
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  Speaker 1: is there to make sure that everybody gets what they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to get. The Holy Ghost is there to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that everybody gets what they're supposed to get. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about nobody getting your stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about nobody getting your life. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about nobody getting your job. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about nobody getting your blessing because
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost It's the executive over the estate. And
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  Speaker 1: whatever the testator has willed for you to get, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get it.
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  Speaker 3: Can I get a good hand clap for the testator?
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  Speaker 1: Sit down. I'm going to go further. Jesus' conversation was
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  Speaker 1: so real to the apostles. that they were expecting his
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  Speaker 1: return at any moment. When they stoned Stephan, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that Stephan, while they were stoning him in his face,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't looking at the rocks, but he looked up
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  Speaker 1: into the heavens and he saw Jesus standing on the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of the Father. And once he saw Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the rocks didn't make any difference at all because he
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  Speaker 1: remembered that he had a promise from the Lord. Anybody,
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  Speaker 1: you got some rocks thrown at you right now, but
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  Speaker 1: you got a promise from the Lord. Look above the
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  Speaker 1: rocks and see that God is still with you. Does
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  Speaker 1: somebody say he's still with me? You hit me, but
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  Speaker 1: he's still with me. You talking about me, but he's
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  Speaker 1: still with me. You're scandalizing me, but he's still with me.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like me, but he's still with me. You
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  Speaker 1: curse me, but he's still with me.
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  Speaker 3: Shout yes!
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  Speaker 1: Yes! The last days were so paramount in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of the disciples that when Peter started preaching on the
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  Speaker 1: day of Pentecost, he reminded them, he said, this is
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  Speaker 1: that which the prophet Joel spoke of, that in the
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  Speaker 1: last days saith God, I will pour out my spirit
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  Speaker 1: upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
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  Speaker 1: Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men
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  Speaker 1: shall see. This is that which the prophet Joel spoke
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  Speaker 1: of in the last days. The last days started then.
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  Speaker 1: You up here talking about we're in the last days.
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  Speaker 1: We're not in the last days. We're in the last seconds.
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  Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul, who was a new convert, who had
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  Speaker 1: been a follower of Judaism all his life, Hebrew and
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  Speaker 1: Zellius concerning the law, when he was converted on the
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  Speaker 1: road to Damascus, the very first book he wrote was
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  Speaker 1: the book of Thessalonians. So don't read Paul's writings in
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  Speaker 1: the order that they are in your Bible. The first
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  Speaker 1: writing of Paul came from Thessalonians. And he says that
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  Speaker 1: day will appear, but not before the man of sin
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  Speaker 1: is revealed because all Paul knew is that the groom
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  Speaker 1: was coming back. It was years before he understood the death, burial,
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  Speaker 1: and resurrection. It was years before he understood justification by faith.
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  Speaker 1: It was years before he understood the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It was years before he understood the gifts of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: But while he was still in Corinth trying to establish
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  Speaker 1: a church, he wrote Thessalonians because the one thing he
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  Speaker 1: was sure of is that he was coming back. The
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  Speaker 1: guardian had not yet reminded him of all that Jesus taught.
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  Speaker 1: So as Paul's understanding increases, his epistles increased. But the
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  Speaker 1: one thing he understood from the beginning is that he's
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  Speaker 1: coming back again. Tell somebody to say he's coming back again.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming back again. He's coming back. You'd be surprised
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  Speaker 1: how differently people would live if they really believed he
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  Speaker 1: was coming back again. Amen. You'd be surprised at the
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  Speaker 1: habits you say you can't quit, that you would quit
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  Speaker 1: if you believed that Jesus was coming back again. You'd
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  Speaker 1: be surprised at the people you wouldn't cuss out if
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  Speaker 1: you believed that Jesus was coming back again. You'd be
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  Speaker 1: surprised at the people you wouldn't do evil to if
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  Speaker 1: you really believed that Jesus was coming back. Because the
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  Speaker 1: Bible said, if you really believe what I said, you
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  Speaker 1: will keep my commandments. Not you will dance, not you
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  Speaker 1: will shout, not you will holler, but the sign that
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  Speaker 1: you really believe me and that you really love me
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  Speaker 1: is that you obey me. Oh, I lost you. Let
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  Speaker 1: me try you. Obedience is a sign of love. Obedience
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  Speaker 1: is a sign of love. Obedience is a sign of love.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why obey him is in the vow. It's
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  Speaker 1: not because he's smarter than you. It's because your marriage
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  Speaker 1: is playing a role. And the bride is the church.
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  Speaker 1: And as a bride, we include the word obey into
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  Speaker 1: it because obedience is a sign of love. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that you're any lesser. It's not who makes the most money.
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  Speaker 1: It's not anything that society is talking about today. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the text said that society cannot see me. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make the culture see the Christ. The culture
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  Speaker 1: can't see the Christ. The culture only sees what's fair,
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  Speaker 1: what's right, according to the norms of the times that
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  Speaker 1: you're living in. But this is not about you and Harry.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about you and boo-boo. This is not
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  Speaker 1: about you and Frankie. You're just an icon. You're just
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  Speaker 1: a symbol. The union is a symbol of a far
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  Speaker 1: deeper principle and allegory that has way more strength in
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  Speaker 1: it than your personality does with his. This is not
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  Speaker 1: about you. I'm not obeying nobody. This is not about you.
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  Speaker 1: Your marriage becomes a symbol of a struggling church to
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  Speaker 1: obey the Lord. Let me go deeper. Husbands, love your
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  Speaker 1: wives as, I told you, playing a role, as wives.
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  Speaker 1: Christ has loved the church and gave himself a ransom
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  Speaker 1: for it. I wish I would stop complaining about obeying
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  Speaker 1: because you got the best deal. It told the men
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  Speaker 1: to love you like Christ loved the church. Christ died
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  Speaker 1: for the church. And if you stay married long enough,
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  Speaker 1: I said, if you stay married long enough, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to die. What you would do, what you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to do as a man, what you'd like to say,
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  Speaker 1: how you'd like to respond has to die because you're
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  Speaker 1: playing a role. Husbands, love your wives as Christ has
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  Speaker 1: loved the church and gave himself a ransom for it.
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  Speaker 1: Can I preach this thing this morning? So God establishes
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  Speaker 1: the marriage as a prophecy that has meaning behind it
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  Speaker 1: because it is symbolic of Christ and the church. I
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  Speaker 1: go to prepare a place for you that where I
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  Speaker 1: am there ye may be also whether you go you
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  Speaker 1: do not know but I am the way the truth
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  Speaker 1: and the life No man cometh unto the Father, save
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: he come by me. Jesus is talking language that they understood.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking marriage talk. The reason it sounds like funeral
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  Speaker 1: talk is that we are in a different culture. So
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  Speaker 1: we bring bodies in saying, let not your heart be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my
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  Speaker 1: father's house, there are many mansions there. If it were
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  Speaker 1: not so, I would have told you so. I go
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  Speaker 1: to prepare a place. We don't even know what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. What we're really talking about is the promise
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  Speaker 1: of the betrothed, Christ to the church. What we're really
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: talking about is the dilemma Joseph was in because before
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  Speaker 1: he could build a house, Mary got pregnant and he said,
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  Speaker 1: let me give her a bill of divorcement privately to
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  Speaker 1: put her away. Because had he finished the house, she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have had Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: In a barn.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a prepared place for her. So she
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  Speaker 1: rode on a donkey. I feel like preaching this morning.
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  Speaker 1: She rode on a donkey. Because everything was going down
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  Speaker 1: so fast. And he said, well, maybe I should divorce her.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: But the angel said, don't divorce her. That that is
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  Speaker 1: in Mary was conceived by the Holy Ghost. And it
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  Speaker 1: put him in a dilemma because he hadn't prepared a
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  Speaker 1: place for her. So he said, as a guardian, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have to put you in the inn. But
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  Speaker 1: there was no room at the inn. So she had
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  Speaker 1: the baby in the barn. But because God is sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: he meant for her to have the baby in the
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  Speaker 1: barn because she didn't really have a baby. Because babies
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  Speaker 1: aren't born in barns. She had a lamb. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Come on with me. Come on with me, church. Come
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  Speaker 4: on with me, church. Come on with me, church. Come
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  Speaker 4: on with me, church. Come on with me, church. Come
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  Speaker 4: on with me, church. Come on with me, church.
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  Speaker 3: Come on with me. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know God's got a place for you?
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  Speaker 1: God's got a prepared place for you that you are
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  Speaker 1: not in this world by yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Holler at me.
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  Speaker 1: Now behold the Lamb, the precious Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come.
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  Speaker 5: On, come.
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  Speaker 1: On.
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  Speaker 3: She's in delivery. And they.
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  Speaker 1: Wrapped him in swaddling clothes. And he was born in
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  Speaker 1: a manger while shepherds were outside. Tending the flock. They
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  Speaker 1: were tending a lamb, but she was having the precious lamb.
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  Speaker 1: The precious lamb. The precious lamb. The precious lamb.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on. The precious lamb.
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  Speaker 1: Oh!
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody glad you came to church this morning? I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I used to have to go out and speak
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I was going all the time and my
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: kids were real small and they never liked for me
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  Speaker 1: to go preach, you know. Man, they felt like I
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: was leaving them. They didn't understand I was taking care
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: of them, but they felt like I was leaving them.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: They grabbed my legs and said, Daddy, don't go. Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: don't go. I'd have suitcases at the door. Daddy, don't go.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm coming. I'm coming back. I'm coming back.
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  Speaker 1: But I left you with your mother. I didn't leave
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  Speaker 1: you by yourself. I left you with your mother. You're
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  Speaker 1: in good hands. And this is what Jesus is saying
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  Speaker 1: to his disciples. He said, I'm not going to leave
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  Speaker 1: you by yourself. You're not going to be without a guardian.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be without a protector. You're not
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  Speaker 1: without somebody who's going to feed you. You're not without
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  Speaker 1: somebody who won't fight for you. You're not without somebody
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: who won't take care of you. But Jesus is speaking
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Glory to God. Can I go
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: deeper with this thing? Do you not realize that the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is your guardian? Protecting you in the weight.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: That the anointing of God in your life is there
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to protect you in the weight. So that people can
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  Speaker 1: get a lock on your hair and can't curse you.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: so that they can make a doll that looks like
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you stick pins in it, but you can't feel it
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: because you got the Holy Ghost. Because you got the
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost down on the inside, you are still here.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Some of you are the only one in your family
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: that survived, but because of the Holy Ghost, you are
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: still here. The disease that runs through your family ran
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: into a wall, when it ran into the guardian that's
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: standing up to protect you from all hurt, harm, or danger,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: touch seven people and say, I'm protected. I'm protected. I'm protected.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: God's got me covered. I am protected. You ought to
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: put A, B... You ought to put ABT on your
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: shirt and let hell know this house is protected. Don't
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: try to burglarize me because God has got me protected.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I wish I had a thousand people with the Holy Ghost.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: in this place that would thank God for the guardian
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: that you have over your life. The only reason you're
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: not turning tricks is that the guardian kept you when
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't keep yourself. The only reason you don't have
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a needle in your arm is because the guardian protected
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you when you wouldn't protect yourself. Slap somebody and tell them,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I got the Holy Ghost. You need the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit every day and every hour. You need him
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to watch over you. You need him to protect you.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: You need him to guide you. You need him to
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  Speaker 1: be a fence all around you. You need him to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: be by your side. You need him to make a
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: way out of no way. Somebody ought to thank him
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: for the Holy Ghost. My guardian, my advocate, my comforter,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: my stand alongside, my help in ages past. I'm talking
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: about the Holy Spirit of God. The Spirit of God
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  Speaker 1: is on you now, both to do and to will,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: according to his own good pleasure. I know there are
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: a few witches in here, but I'm not scared of you.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: because I got a guardian angel, and because I have
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a guardian, I understand that my root is stronger than
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: your root, that I got more power in the hem
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: of my garment than you have in your pocketbook. I'm
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: covered by the blood of the lamb. The spirit of
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: God is all over me and he's keeping me alive.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and say the guardian did it. The guardian
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  Speaker 1: blessed me with my house. The guardian blessed me with
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: my car. The guardian blessed me with my life. He's
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  Speaker 1: just that good. He makes a way for me. He
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  Speaker 1: prepares a place for me. He opens doors for me.
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  Speaker 1: He provides for me. He protects me. When the serpent
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: tries to bite me, it's the oil that drives the
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: serpent away from me. I'm covered by the oil of God.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout yes. When I was in Jerusalem, I talked
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: to an old shepherd and the shepherd told me that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the sheep are so dumb that they'll stick their nose
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: in the holes and the holes in the ground are
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: where the snakes live. But a good shepherd will take
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: oil and put it on the sheep's head. I said,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: why do you put oil on the sheep's head? He said,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: because the oil is a snake repellent. Think of all
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the things you stuck your head into. But because the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: oil was on your head, I heard David say, the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He covers
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: my head. with oil Satan you tried to kill me
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: but I shook it off cause I got oil on
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: me I got snake repellent look at your neighbor and
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: say what are you wearing Tell them I'm wearing snake repellent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm covered with oil. This is not Chanel. This is
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: not Tom Ford. I'm covered with all of the lamb.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a guardian protecting me both day and night.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Lord my soul should keep. If I should die before
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I wake. I pray the Lord my soul will take.
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  Speaker 1: He kept me when I was asleep. He kept me
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  Speaker 1: when I was under anesthesia. He kept me in the
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  Speaker 1: operating room. He kept me in the car wreck. He
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  Speaker 1: kept me when my friends were enemies. He kept me
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  Speaker 1: when I was surrounded by witches. He kept me when
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: the enemy tried to destroy me. He kept me Down
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: through the years, the guardian has made a way for me.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: The guardian has opened doors for me. The guardian has
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: protected me. I wish I had a hundred people that
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: had the Holy Ghost. And he walks with me. And
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: he talks with me. And he tells me I'm his own.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: If you don't like me, I'll be okay. Because he
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: tells me... I'm his own.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not an orphan. I'm not alone. I'm not by myself.
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  Speaker 1: If you think you got me cornered, the devil is alive.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. God.
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  Speaker 1: Has me surrounded. He's got me covered. He's got me protected.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: He's got me covered on every side. Hallelujah to God.
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  Speaker 1: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: I gotta quit, but.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I feel the power of the Holy Ghost all over
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: this place.
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  Speaker 2: He's real.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: He's real.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Jesus is real to me. So many people doubt him.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: But I can't live without him.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: That is why I love him so.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: He's so real to me.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he.
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  Speaker 1: Is.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's real.
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: He's real.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: He's real.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: Yes, he is.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: He's real.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's real in the morning. He's real at noonday. He's
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: real when the sun goes down. He's real when I
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: don't have He's real in the courtroom.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: He's real.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout, he's real.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: He's real.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: He's real.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: If you thought you saw me driving by myself, you're wrong.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: The guardian was sitting right beside me. If you thought
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I was eating by myself, you're wrong. The guardian is
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: sitting at the table.
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  Speaker 5: He's real.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah!
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah!
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!
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  Speaker 3: Slap somebody and tell them The Guardian did it.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no needin' hatin' on me, the Guardian did it.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: The Guardian gave.
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  Speaker 1: It to me. The Guardian protected me. The Guardian surrounded me.
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  Speaker 1: The Guardian guided me. The Guardian brought me through the storms,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: through the rain, through the lightning, through the flood. He's
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: always been there.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Every time I turn around.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: God keeps doing great things for me. Somebody turn around
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: right fast.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Every time I turn around!
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Every time I turn around!
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Oh! Oh! He's my guardian. He's my king. He's my prince.
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  Speaker 1: He's my peace. He's my redeemer. He's my day star.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: He's my shield. He's my buckler. He's my trumpet. He's
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: my lily.
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  Speaker 3: In the valley.
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  Speaker 1: He's my bright and morning star. He's my kinsman redeemer.
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  Speaker 3: He's my bulwark. He's my water. In dry places. Yes
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: he is. Yes he is. Yes he is.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: Yes he is.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Yes he is.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Yes he is.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Yes he is.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory.
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  Speaker 3: Yes!
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 5: Yes!
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Stand on your feet, I'm going to show you something close.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter 5. Put it up there for me. I
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: might not have given it to you. Ephesians 5. Find
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: it for me. Uh-huh. I didn't give it to you.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: But I still know it. Ephesians 5. When it comes
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: to my wives, obey your husbands. You got it? Yeah.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Go on down. From one, now two. Keep on going.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Keep on going. Keep going. Keep going. Right there.
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  Speaker 5: 521.
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  Speaker 1: Be subject to one another out of reverence. For Christ.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Not out of who's right or wrong. Out of reverence
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: for Christ. The Messiah. The anointed one. Come on. Wives,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: be subject. Be submissive. And adapt yourself. not to men,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: to your own husband as a service to the Lord.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I know that's not what you're reading in the magazines today,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: but that's just what the Word said. Come on, keep going.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: For the husband is the head of the wife as
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Christ is the head of the church. Himself, the savior
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  Speaker 1: of his body. You supposed to see her as your body.
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  Speaker 1: Let me show you something. Hold it right there. I'm
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: gonna get the rest of you in a minute. When
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Adam woke up out of his sleep, Before he saw
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Eve as his wife, he saw her as his body.
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  Speaker 1: He said, she is bone of my bone and flesh
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: of my flesh. So she is both the body of
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Adam and the bride of Adam. So when the Bible
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: says that for the husband is the head of the
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: wife as Christ is the head of the church himself,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: the savior of his body. Why are you beating on
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: your body? I never to this day have met a
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: man who beat his woman and loved himself. The reason
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: you are beating on her is that you don't like you.
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  Speaker 1: She is your body. She is bone of your bone
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: and flesh of your flesh. Come on, I'm going to
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: drive this home. As the church is subject to Christ,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: also be subject in everything to their husbands. Everything. As
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the Christ is subject to the church. Now, neither one
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: of us got it real right Because the church isn't
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: always subject. And the wife isn't submissive. But the role
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: you play does not make you lesser than. But your
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: role is an allegory of Christ and the church. So
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: we're in our parents' closet and we're playing dress up.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: And you don't put on the church and he has
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: put on Christ. And we're acting as the church has
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: loved and submitted to Christ. That's what it's supposed to be.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about what it is. Husbands, love your
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: for her. I just got to be me. I just
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: got to be me, man. I just got to be me.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: She don't understand me. She don't understand where I come from.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: This is how I am. So it's wrong. It's I.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to do it as, not I. Christ has
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: loved her so that he might sanctify her. So he's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: got to love her like that while she's still not sanctified.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the washing of water with the word. Watch this. That
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: he might present the church to himself, that where I am,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: you may be also. In glorious splendor, without spot or
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: and faultless If I had time, I'd get into this.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Some of her purity is your responsibility. A lot of
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: her anger is coming from the fact she has not
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: been loved as Christ has loved the church. How can
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: you submit to somebody who won't be ahead? I'm just
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: saying if you decide to do it the way the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Bible said do it, if you decide to do it
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the way they're doing it now, I can't teach on that.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. They're doing something new. I don't
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: get it. Even so, husbands should love their wives as being,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: in a sense, their own bodies.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: He who loves his own wife, loves himself.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Ladies, stop marrying men who don't love themselves. Because if
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: he don't love him, for no man ever hated his
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: own flesh. but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it as,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: see where it keeps going back to? As Christ does
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: the church. See, so I'm kind of confused because it
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's talking about marriage, but I'm not sure.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Cause he keeps going back to as Christ does the church.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Come on, give me some more of it. Because we
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: are members, parts of his body. For this reason, a
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: man shall leave his father and his mother. Oh yeah,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: they're talking about marriage. And shall be joined to his
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: wife and the two shall become one flesh. Come on.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: This mystery. Underline that, this mystery. It's very great. But
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: I speak concerning the relation of Christ and the church.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: He's not even talking about marriage. He's only using marriage
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: as a metaphor to talk about Christ and the church. However,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: let each man of you without exception, love his wife.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: He said, however, it's still good for you. Love his
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: wife as being, in a sense, his very own self,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: and let the wife see that she respects and reverences
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: her husband, that she notices him. This is all you
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: gotta do. This is all you gotta do. Notice him,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: regard him, honor him, prefer him, venerate and esteem Him,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: that she defers to Him, praises Him, and loves and
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: admires Him exceedingly. Now you got to understand this. He says,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: I'm really not talking about marriage. I'm talking about Christ
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: in the church. But it's still good medicine for you
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: to understand how it really works. But what I'm really
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: teaching you is let not your heart be troubled. Neither
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: let it be afraid. You believe in God, believe also
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: in me. In my father's house, there are many mansions there.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: If it were not so, I would have told you so.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: I go to prepare a place for you that where
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: I am, there ye may be also. And if I go,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: I will come again and receive you unto myself. I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: will not leave you as an orphan, comfortless. I want
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: that to sink in. I will not leave you. The
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: reason I want it to sink in is because so
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: many of us feel so alone. Jesus said, I will
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: not leave you as an orphan, comfortless. I will give
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: you a guardian, an advocate, one who stands alongside to help.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: If you need help this morning, you are not alone.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: The guardian stands alongside. If you've been in a hard
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: place and you've been trying to do it in your
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: own strength, you're going to fail at it. Let me
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: tell you something, sisters. You're talking about I'm a strong woman.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I'm tough. I don't take no stuff. I wish you.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Being strong is overrated. It might be all right for
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: about 10 days or something like that, but you get
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: in about 10 years Having to go to the grocery store,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: argue with the mechanic, carry the groceries up the steps,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: cook the food, help the kids with homework, drive them
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: to school, go to jail. Every dollar come in the house,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: you got to bring it. Every napkin come in the house,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: you got to buy it. Every piece of bread come
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: in the house, you got to buy it. It's overrated. Brother,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: you can't be no man by yourself. Half of you
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: didn't have no example. Half of you didn't have a
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: good example. Some of you had a good example, wouldn't
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: listen to it. Now you're trying to play a role
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: by yourself. Y'all going out to that church, you women
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: going out to church. You should beat her in the door.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: You're the one that has to prepare a place. You're
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the one that has to give a ransom for her.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: You're the one who's supposed to love, cherish, nourish her.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: You're the one that's supposed to treat her like you
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: treat your own body. You're not supposed to starve her
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: of your attention, affection. Yeah, I'm starving her because she's
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: starving me. That you might sanctify her. You're supposed to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: leave her with no excuse to disrespect you. I'm not
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: excusing her. I'm saying you're not supposed to leave her
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: with no excuse. Some of you gave her a license.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: to cuss you. And then got mad when she used it.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: The point of the message is I'm not preaching about marriage.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just like Ephesians, I'm like Paul. I'm preaching about
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Christ and the church. And that all God is using
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: marriage for is an allegory. Marriage in general, not yours.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: So don't write me anything about your anger. What about
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: when Fred come in at three o'clock? I ain't talking
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: about Fred. It's just an example. A shadow mimics motion,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: but shows no details. Earthly marriages motion and model, but
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: do not detail nor fully reflect. We are only talking
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: about shadows, allegories, what we are talking about. I guess,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether that appreciates for you or for me.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: When my mother died, a long time ago, I'm okay now,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: but when she died, and my father had been dead,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: it occurred to me that never again would I be
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: able to walk in somebody's house and just go in
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: the refrigerator. Never again would I have anybody that no
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  Speaker 1: matter what I did stupid, they would open up the
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  Speaker 1: door and take me in. Never again would I have
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  Speaker 1: somebody that I could come to their house at 3
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and my mama would swear she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't asleep. No, I wasn't really asleep. You hungry? And
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  Speaker 1: I felt like an orphan, a 40 year old orphan.
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  Speaker 1: And what really, really made me want to drive this
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  Speaker 1: in is that I suspect that some of you with
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  Speaker 1: and without parents, with and without spouses, with and without
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  Speaker 1: people feel like you're in this world all by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And you go to church, and maybe you even have
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, but you're not really letting him be
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  Speaker 1: a guardian. And you feel abandoned, orphaned. And you feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is the test. If people really knew who
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  Speaker 1: I was, they wouldn't love me. So you don't get
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of fellowship because fellowship is hidership. You're hidden
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  Speaker 1: like torpedoes buried in the bottom of an ocean, dust
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  Speaker 1: and dirt all over top of you. And the guardian
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  Speaker 1: is standing there with his arms outstretched saying, come unto
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  Speaker 1: me all that are weak and heavy laden. I will
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  Speaker 1: give you rest. my yoke upon you and learn of
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  Speaker 1: me my yoke is easy and my burdens are light
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  Speaker 1: and I know you got your image to protect and
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  Speaker 1: your ego needs a bottle but if you let go
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  Speaker 1: of your ego and your image a minute and you've
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  Speaker 1: been fighting like an orphan in an orphanage everybody The
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  Speaker 1: whole reason your temper is so bad is you don't
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  Speaker 1: feel safe. You sounded pretty good. You don't feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, needing to feel safe
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  Speaker 1: is not feminine. Even men, need to feel safe are
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  Speaker 1: you safe to love are you safe to take care
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  Speaker 1: of I don't mind giving you a house as long
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  Speaker 1: as I know that isn't why you're with me truth
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is there are as many lonely married
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  Speaker 1: folks as there are single folks truth of the matter
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  Speaker 1: is there are as many miserable rich folks as there
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  Speaker 1: are desperate poor folks. And the Guardian just wants you
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  Speaker 1: to be real for a minute.