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Sticks & Stones - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the house. We are so glad you joined
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  Speaker 1: us today. Choosing to tune in to this sermon was
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  Speaker 1: not by accident, and I believe God has a word
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  Speaker 1: just for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. God is always using the people of this
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  Speaker 2: house to speak his word. So whether you're watching from
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  Speaker 2: across the street or maybe you are across the world,
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  Speaker 2: you are not just a viewer. You are our family.
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  Speaker 1: And we believe That worship doesn't have walls and experiencing
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of God's spirit doesn't always require a commute.
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  Speaker 2: So are you ready to join us as we fellowship
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  Speaker 2: and unite in spirit and in truth? I want your
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  Speaker 2: hearts to be open because we are going to encounter
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  Speaker 2: God together.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. We see you. We love you.
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  Speaker 1: And we believe this word is going to change your life.
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  Speaker 4: Exodus chapter 17, verse 1 through 6. It is so
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  Speaker 4: good to see you this morning. It's just good to
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  Speaker 4: see you. You didn't have to be here this morning.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have to be here this morning. But God
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  Speaker 4: was good enough to let our moments roll on. You
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  Speaker 4: ought to say yes, somebody. We're going to start reading
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  Speaker 4: at the first verse of the 17th chapter of the
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  Speaker 4: book of Exodus. The book of Exodus describes the exit
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  Speaker 4: of the children of Israel out from the bondage of
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  Speaker 4: the Egyptians, where they had been oppressed for 400 years.
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  Speaker 4: They had lived in Egypt for 430 years. The first
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  Speaker 4: 30 years they were not oppressed. But when Joseph died
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  Speaker 4: and another Pharaoh came in, a Pharaoh that knew not
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  Speaker 4: Joseph nor his God, he began to oppress him. People
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  Speaker 4: will change on you, won't they? And they lived in.
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  Speaker 3: Oppression for 400 years. I know you can't imagine 400 years.
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  Speaker 3: I can't either.
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  Speaker 4: That's a long time to live up under oppression. And
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  Speaker 4: they had almost forgotten who they were, their customs, their ceremonies,
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  Speaker 4: their language, their rituals. But they cried unto God in
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  Speaker 4: a haphazard way, not knowing fully what to call him,
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  Speaker 4: how to use his name, how to stand on his word.
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  Speaker 4: But he heard the cry. He told Moses, I have
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  Speaker 4: heard the cry of my children. Go down into Egypt
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  Speaker 4: and tell Pharaoh to let my people go. God is
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  Speaker 4: going to release somebody in here today. I feel it.
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  Speaker 4: I feel it. I feel it. I feel it. God's
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  Speaker 4: going to release somebody.
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  Speaker 3: In here today.
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  Speaker 4: And so they left out of Egypt. going into the
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  Speaker 4: promised land by way of the desert. God doesn't always
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  Speaker 4: let you choose what route he takes you to deliver you.
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  Speaker 4: It's not always comfortable. It's not always convenient. It's not
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  Speaker 4: always cool. And just because you get out of one
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  Speaker 4: trouble don't mean you won't have to face another one.
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  Speaker 4: And so they got out of one kind of hell
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  Speaker 4: to run into another one. Now they're going through the desert.
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  Speaker 4: And it is scorching hot during the day. Hot enough
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  Speaker 4: to die in the walk during the day. And it
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  Speaker 4: is freezing cold at night. But they were free. But
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  Speaker 4: they were free. Look at somebody say, I still got problems.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm free. Yeah, yeah. Everything is not going right,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm free.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. My money's kind of funny, but I'm free.
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  Speaker 4: My husband walked out on me, but I'm free. My
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  Speaker 4: parents are sick, but I'm free. My refrigerator's half full,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm free. And I have learned whatever state I'm in,
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  Speaker 4: therewith to be content. That's maturity. When you can praise
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  Speaker 4: God when everything isn't quite right.
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  Speaker 3: We interject into.
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  Speaker 4: The experience at a time and at a moment that
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  Speaker 4: they are adjusting to a new reality. And I chose
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  Speaker 4: this text, I believe the Lord put it on my
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  Speaker 4: heart because we are adjusting to a new reality. It's
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  Speaker 4: not that the past was perfect, but now we have
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  Speaker 4: a new kind of problem to fight. And it's going
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  Speaker 4: to take a new kind of ingenuity, a new kind
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  Speaker 4: of wisdom, a new kind of power.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to deal with it.
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  Speaker 4: And Moses is trying to lead a people who are one, displaced,
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  Speaker 4: and two, confused, and three, frustrated. And they're not sure
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  Speaker 4: of their leader. And they're not sure of themselves. And
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  Speaker 4: they're not sure of God. Because they had not walked
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  Speaker 4: with him long enough. See, you have to walk through
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  Speaker 4: God through a whole lot of situations to be sure
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  Speaker 4: of God. Anybody can be sure of God when all
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  Speaker 4: the bills are paid and your body's feeling good and
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  Speaker 4: your kidneys are working right and you got no cancer.
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  Speaker 4: But when all hell is breaking loose, the devil has
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  Speaker 4: a tendency to say, where is your God now? Am
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  Speaker 4: I talking right to somebody in here? And the verse
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  Speaker 4: 1 says, and all the congregation of the children of
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  Speaker 4: Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin. After their journeys
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  Speaker 4: according to the commandment of the Lord. And pitched in Rephidim,
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  Speaker 4: which was a little camp in the wilderness. And there
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  Speaker 4: was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore, because
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  Speaker 4: of the fact that there was no water for them
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  Speaker 4: to drink, the people did chide with Moses. See, whenever
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  Speaker 4: things get tight, people get nasty. I better not start
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  Speaker 4: into this text. I'm going to start something. The reason
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  Speaker 4: there's so much vitriol in this country right now is
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  Speaker 4: that things have tightened up a little bit. And when
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  Speaker 4: people get tight, they need somebody to blame. So they
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  Speaker 4: want to blame this folk and that folk and this
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  Speaker 4: person and that person. And so they begin to blame
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  Speaker 4: Moses and to begin to pick on him and chide
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  Speaker 4: him and said, give us water that we may drink.
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  Speaker 4: And Moses said unto them, why chide.
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  Speaker 3: Ye with me?
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  Speaker 4: Haven't you ever wanted to say that to somebody? Let
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  Speaker 4: me translate it into Ebony. Why you fooling with me?
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  Speaker 4: You want some of this? Don't start nothing won't be nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Don't make the nice man mad. Why chide ye with me?
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  Speaker 4: Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? If you chide with me,
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  Speaker 4: you tempt God. If you mess with me, you mess
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  Speaker 4: with God. You may think I'm in here by myself,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm surrounded by God all around me. And the
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  Speaker 4: people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses.
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  Speaker 4: Those two things go together, thirst and gossip.
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  Speaker 3: Thirst and murmuring.
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  Speaker 4: See, when you are satisfied, a whole lot of things
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  Speaker 4: don't stick to you. But when you are not satisfied
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  Speaker 4: in your own life, you have a tendency to be cynical,
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  Speaker 4: to be condescending, to be acrimonious, to have the kind
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  Speaker 4: of attitude and disposition that you are hard to get
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  Speaker 4: along with. You have to understand then that when people
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  Speaker 4: are mean to you, they are mad at themselves. I'm preaching,
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  Speaker 4: I'm preaching and I'm just reading the text. Lord have mercy,
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  Speaker 4: let me go on about my business. They murmured against
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  Speaker 4: Moses and said, wherefore is this that thou has brought
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  Speaker 4: us up out of Egypt? Now they was in slavery.
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  Speaker 4: So anything's got to be an upgrade. To kill us
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  Speaker 4: and our children and our cattle with thirst.
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  Speaker 3: And Moses cried unto the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: You can say things that make men of God cry
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  Speaker 4: unto God. You can say things that make women of
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  Speaker 4: God cry unto God. And when they cry unto God,
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  Speaker 4: something is going to happen. He said, what shall I
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  Speaker 4: do unto this people? They be almost ready to stone me.
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  Speaker 4: And the Lord said unto Moses, go on before the people.
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  Speaker 4: And take with thee of the elders of Israel and
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  Speaker 4: thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river. Take in thy
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  Speaker 4: hand and go. Take your rod and go in front
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  Speaker 4: of the people. Behold, I will stand before thee there
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  Speaker 4: upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to pay attention to that. I want
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  Speaker 4: you to take your rod and smite the rock Lord
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  Speaker 4: they thirsty why you got me hitting rocks have you
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  Speaker 4: ever had God give you an answer that didn't make
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  Speaker 4: no sense you talking to him about the rent and
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  Speaker 4: he's telling you to give water to the puppy Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: God will command you to do something that don't seem
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  Speaker 4: like it has nothing to do with your situation. But
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  Speaker 4: he said, I want you to smite the rock. That's
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  Speaker 4: why when pastor was talking about obedience, he was really
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  Speaker 4: hitting on something. Sometimes God will tell you something that
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  Speaker 4: don't make sense to you. It passes all understanding. You
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  Speaker 4: can't stand under it, but you got to obey it.
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  Speaker 4: smite the rock take your rod take your stick and
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  Speaker 4: hit the rock and there shall come water out of
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  Speaker 4: it oh I could dance right there because I never
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  Speaker 4: seen a rock there was supposed to be a water
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  Speaker 4: cooler but but God said if you if you obey
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  Speaker 4: me I'll make things that's not supposed to bless you
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell y'all, if you obey me, I'll give
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  Speaker 4: you jobs that you're not supposed to have.
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  Speaker 3: If you obey me, I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Give you the kind of spouse that make folks jealous
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  Speaker 4: when you walk in. And they say, what is she
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  Speaker 4: doing with him? God said, I'm going to bring water
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  Speaker 4: out of it that the people may drink. And Moses
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  Speaker 4: did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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  Speaker 4: Can you say amen? Amen. I'm interested in that take
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  Speaker 4: your rod and smite the rock. And my subject this morning,
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  Speaker 4: remain standing, I'm going to pray. But my subject this
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  Speaker 4: morning is sticks and stones.
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  Speaker 3: Sticks and stones.
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  Speaker 4: My God, I feel something in this place. Spirit of
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  Speaker 4: the living God, fall fresh in this place right now.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you for what you're going to do. Move
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  Speaker 4: in the midst of your people, great God, that you are.
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  Speaker 4: In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Somebody shout thunderously, amen.
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  Speaker 4: You may be seated. Oh, y'all sound like the part
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  Speaker 4: of the house. You sound like the part of the house.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody shout amen. Good, my God. I have been in
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  Speaker 4: Dallas for the last 30 years. I was raised in Charleston,
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia. I am 69 years old come June. I
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  Speaker 4: have been preaching for nearly 50 years. It'll be 50
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  Speaker 4: years in September, 50 years of preaching the gospel of
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  Speaker 4: Jesus Christ. But when I was a boy, I grew
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  Speaker 4: up on the side of a hill in the area
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  Speaker 4: we call Vandalia in Charleston, West Virginia. And our house
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  Speaker 4: was the last house before the hill dropped over the cliff.
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  Speaker 4: And so we would, from time to time, go play. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I cannot remember a toy that I had that plugged up.
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  Speaker 4: I know y'all don't understand this. I'm going to say
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  Speaker 4: that again. I cannot remember a toy I had that
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  Speaker 4: plugged up. No Nintendos, no nothing, no laptops, no nothing
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  Speaker 4: like that. I might have got a train set one time,
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  Speaker 4: but most of it didn't plug up. Most of it
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  Speaker 4: didn't have battery. In fact, we had very few toys
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  Speaker 4: that came out of the stores. You might get a
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  Speaker 4: plastic train, you know, that you could run back and
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  Speaker 4: forth with. My sister would get a doll baby or
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  Speaker 4: something like that. But most of the time, mama would
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  Speaker 4: send us out with no toys, and she would tell us,
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  Speaker 4: go outside and play. Now, you don't hear too many
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  Speaker 4: mamas telling their children to go outside and play today,
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  Speaker 4: especially in Dallas, because it's hot outside. But the reason
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  Speaker 4: we didn't mind going outside to play is because it
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  Speaker 4: was hot inside.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to talk to y'all. They bougie over there.
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  Speaker 4: When the house is hot, it's a different kind of
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  Speaker 4: hot from the hot outside. Because at least a little
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  Speaker 4: breeze will blow every now and then. Or you can
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  Speaker 4: get up under a shade tree. But when that house
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  Speaker 4: gets to smoking and you start feeling like a turkey
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  Speaker 4: and you start basting in your own juices.
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  Speaker 3: It was hot in the house. It was hot in
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  Speaker 3: the house.
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  Speaker 4: There was no air conditioning for a long time. There
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  Speaker 4: was just a fan. One would be turned this way
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  Speaker 4: and one would be turned the other way. And they
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  Speaker 4: were trying to be scientific, you know, to get a
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  Speaker 4: breeze to blow through the house.
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  Speaker 3: And that was normal.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, the power went out in Dallas and I
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  Speaker 4: almost had a fit. I said, oh God, if you
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  Speaker 4: don't turn this electricity back on, I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: To die right where I am.
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  Speaker 4: And then it occurred to me, fool, you was raised
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  Speaker 4: in a hothouse. I had forgotten where I came from.
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  Speaker 4: I had forgotten what God had done. I had forgotten
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  Speaker 4: how to withstand discomfort. And a few days of discomfort
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  Speaker 4: didn't compare to decades of.
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  Speaker 3: Living in that hot house.
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  Speaker 4: It was so hot we got where we didn't pay
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  Speaker 4: it no attention.
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  Speaker 3: Hot was normal. My neighbor's house was hot. The pages
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  Speaker 3: that lived up the street, their house was hot. Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Hutchinson's house was hot.
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  Speaker 1: Ms.
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  Speaker 4: Timberlake's house was hot. Everybody on the street lived in
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  Speaker 4: a house that was hot and we still sang and
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  Speaker 4: we still got along and we still had fun and
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  Speaker 4: we still had life and we still got up in
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  Speaker 4: the morning and we were still brothers and sisters and
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  Speaker 4: we're still together today in spite of the heat. Everything
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have to go your way.
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  Speaker 3: For you to have peace.
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  Speaker 4: My mom would send us outside to play with, I
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  Speaker 4: already told you, no kind of toys or nothing. And
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  Speaker 4: you would grab some sticks and make them into bows
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  Speaker 4: and arrows. And y'all don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 4: You would make some castles out of rocks or sand.
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  Speaker 4: One year I had a magnifying glass. I was chasing ants.
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  Speaker 4: Not too long ago, I sent one of my grandchildren
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  Speaker 4: outside to play. I bought him a little motorbike, a
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  Speaker 4: little mud bike, and I sent him outside to play.
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  Speaker 4: He played for a minute or two. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 4: he wheeled back around and went back in the house
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  Speaker 4: and got on his iPad. And I thought, don't you
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  Speaker 4: want to play outside? But see, he was raised inside.
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  Speaker 4: in comfort, in air conditioning, with iPads, and he knew
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  Speaker 4: how to run the iPad, but he didn't know much
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  Speaker 4: about withstanding heat. Is there anybody in here that knows
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  Speaker 4: something about withstanding heat? See, people who live in a
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  Speaker 4: hothouse don't cook till it's late at night. That's why
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  Speaker 4: we started cooking oven. We start cooking turkeys at night
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  Speaker 4: because it was too hot during the day to heat
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  Speaker 4: up the house, cooking a turkey or baking a cake
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  Speaker 4: or doing it. So your mama did all the baking
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  Speaker 4: at night when the house had cooled down. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 4: understand that. I have to explain this to you. This
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  Speaker 4: was before Jiffy cornbread. This was for quick grits. We
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  Speaker 4: just made do with what we had and went on
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  Speaker 4: about our business. These children that I'm preaching about, they
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  Speaker 4: was like me. They was out there in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 4: I played in the wilderness with sticks and stones. I
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  Speaker 4: played in the creek beds. pulling rocks out of creeks
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  Speaker 4: and trying to catch salamanders and and y'all don't know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm talking about I played with boxes and and
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  Speaker 4: caught toads and brought them back home to mama and
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  Speaker 4: brought a turtle back in the house those were my toys.
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  Speaker 3: That I played with because I was raised in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's hard to hurt somebody that's been raised in
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  Speaker 4: the wilderness.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you've been raised in.
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  Speaker 4: The wilderness, what would send other people back home, you
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  Speaker 4: can take it. All you got to do is default
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  Speaker 4: back to where you came from and say, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be all right. Somebody said, how could you preach
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  Speaker 4: in the church for two years?
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  Speaker 3: And it was empty. I said, oh, there wasn't no problem.
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  Speaker 4: I was raised preaching in a church that didn't have
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  Speaker 4: no people. If I had seven people, it was a
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  Speaker 4: big crowd. We might've had 30 people on Easter counting
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  Speaker 4: pregnant people.
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  Speaker 3: And dead folks.
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  Speaker 4: And I know how to make the best out of
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  Speaker 4: a bad situation. And I'm not ashamed of that. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not ashamed of that. That's given me stick-to-it-edness. Stability. That's
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  Speaker 4: given me fight and drive and tenacity. That's given me
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  Speaker 4: a certain relentlessness. That's given me an attitude. I don't
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  Speaker 4: have to have a Hammond B3. I can have an
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  Speaker 4: upright piano with a microphone. Stuck down in it tied
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  Speaker 4: to an amplifier and stomped my foot and still praise
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  Speaker 4: the Lord. I can have a triangle and a washboard
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  Speaker 4: and start praising the Lord with a washboard. And we
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  Speaker 4: would bring down more glory with a washboard than you
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  Speaker 4: all do with all this technology you got right now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to have. I can be in my house.
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  Speaker 4: I can be in my living room. I can be
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  Speaker 4: in my car with no music at all and get
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  Speaker 4: happy all by myself. I can get happy in the bathtub.
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  Speaker 4: I can start speaking in.
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  Speaker 3: Tongues in my car.
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  Speaker 4: Because I wasn't raised with all of this fancy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I was raised where the praises of God was in
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  Speaker 4: your mouth.
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  Speaker 3: And you didn't have to plug it up.
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  Speaker 4: It would just come out of your belly and flow rivers.
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  Speaker 4: So the children of Israel were adjusting to the heat
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  Speaker 4: of the desert. They were used to being slaves. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't like it, but they were used to it. They
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  Speaker 4: had had 400 years of it, which is 10 generations,
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  Speaker 4: 10 generations of slavery. And they asked God to deliver them.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes we ask God to deliver us and we
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  Speaker 4: think that deliverance is going to be comfortable. But deliverance
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  Speaker 4: was not comfortable. Pharaoh was chasing them. Trying to get
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  Speaker 4: them back. Deliverance brought them to the Red Sea. A
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  Speaker 4: stoppable place. They got to a stoppable place. Being delivered.
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  Speaker 4: Some of you have asked God to deliver you and
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  Speaker 4: now you're at a stoppable place. But you don't understand
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  Speaker 4: that God's miracles are generally in stoppable places.
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  Speaker 3: And so Moses.
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  Speaker 4: being a young leader himself, not having had much experience
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  Speaker 4: leading people, not being familiar with people that he's related to,
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  Speaker 4: is trying to lead them through a stoppable place. And
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  Speaker 4: he says, God, what am I going to do? Pharaoh
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  Speaker 4: is behind me and the mountains are on either side
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  Speaker 4: of me and we have no weapons. I got a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of farmers with me and they're murmuring against me.
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  Speaker 4: And God said to him, what is that in your hand?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: So God had given him, let me go back. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 4: had 400 chosen chariots. That was the best fleet he
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  Speaker 4: had for warfare. They were riding on chariots and horses
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  Speaker 4: with swords and shields. And God gave Moses a stick.
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  Speaker 4: God must have a sense of humor. And God said
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  Speaker 4: it like he had a nuclear bomb or something. What
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  Speaker 4: is that in your hand? He said it like it
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  Speaker 4: was an atomic bomb. What is that in your hand?
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  Speaker 4: And Moses said, I got a stick. God said, lift
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  Speaker 4: up what you got. Touch somebody and say, lift up
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  Speaker 4: what you got. Don't wait for things to get better.
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  Speaker 4: Don't wait for things to get nice. Don't wait for
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  Speaker 4: you to have confidence in your weapon. If you don't
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  Speaker 4: have nothing but a stick, lift up the stick. Moses
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  Speaker 4: is just learning what the stick will do. He has
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  Speaker 4: practiced a little bit in the wilderness. He's done a
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  Speaker 4: few things with Jethro out in the wilderness where God
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  Speaker 4: was showing him how to work what he had. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: God will put you in isolation to teach you how
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  Speaker 4: to work what you got. He'll give you a dress rehearsal,
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  Speaker 4: a practice. And God had told Moses, put your hand
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  Speaker 4: in your bosom. And it came out white as snow.
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  Speaker 4: Pour out water and it turned to blood. He said,
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  Speaker 4: throw down your stick and it turned to a serpent.
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  Speaker 4: Grab the serpent by the tail and it turned.
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  Speaker 3: To a stick.
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  Speaker 4: See, I'd have lost right then. Because when God said,
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  Speaker 4: grab the serpent by the tail, the miracle would have
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  Speaker 4: been over right then. Okay. But grabbed the serpent by
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  Speaker 4: the tail and it turned into a stick. So he
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  Speaker 4: has a weapon that he is still learning how to use.
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  Speaker 4: So fast forward when he comes down to the Red Sea,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: God is still examining, trying to get him to examine
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  Speaker 4: what is in his hand. He said, Lord, I got
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  Speaker 4: this rod in my hand. He said, stretch forth the rod. Lord,
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  Speaker 4: the Pharaoh's coming. And he's got chariots and I can
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  Speaker 4: hear the hoof prints galloping behind me. God said, I
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  Speaker 4: don't care about what you hear in your senses. obey
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  Speaker 4: my word and stretch forth what's in your hand. I'm
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  Speaker 4: preaching to somebody already. I don't know who it is.
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  Speaker 4: Your senses are telling you one thing, but your spirit
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  Speaker 4: is telling you something else. And so Moses stretched forth
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  Speaker 4: his rod, just nothing but a stick. And the Bible
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  Speaker 4: said that the waters parted this way and that way.
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  Speaker 4: And he made the water stand at attention. And when
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  Speaker 4: Moses stepped down into the, when he stepped down into
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sea, he stepped down into dry ground. Y'all
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  Speaker 4: didn't get that. See, you're still stuck at the fact
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  Speaker 4: that the water stood up. You haven't even gotten to
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  Speaker 4: the fact that who dried.
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  Speaker 3: Up the land that was sitting up under the water.
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  Speaker 4: Will God not dry up the land for you and
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  Speaker 4: make a way out of no way and put you
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  Speaker 4: in a position that he'll make your pathway smooth?
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  Speaker 3: He'll make your path.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I had a witness where God made something
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  Speaker 4: smooth that you thought was going to be hard. And
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  Speaker 4: God brought them through on dry ground. Having brought them
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  Speaker 4: through on dry ground, God now has them in a
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  Speaker 4: position where they come out on the other side. By
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  Speaker 4: the time Pharaoh gets to the Red Sea, the walls
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  Speaker 4: are collapsing. The dry ground has turned to mud and
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: they are drowning in the Red Sea. They are drowning
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  Speaker 4: in what you walk through. I said, they are drowning
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: in what you walk through. They are drowning in what
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: you walk through. And ma'am, you know what she did?
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  Speaker 4: She started, she grabbed a tambourine. I wish somebody had one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She grabbed a tambourine and started doing like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She started beating her tambourine like that. See, praise is
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  Speaker 4: a weapon. And the more she beat the tambourine, the
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  Speaker 4: more Pharaoh's army drowned in the Red Sea. Y'all don't
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: hear what.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking to you about. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 4: If you would just start praising God over them bills.
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  Speaker 4: God would drown them grills in dry ground. If you
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: would start praising God in the hospital, I know they're
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: going to think you're crazy. But if you just give
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  Speaker 4: that tambourine a couple of taps in there, God would
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: do something with that cancer. He would move that tumor.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: He would shrink that disease. Because greater is he that
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  Speaker 4: is in you than he that is in the world.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I had a witness in here.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't have nothing.
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  Speaker 4: But a praise. But while you were praising God, don't
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  Speaker 4: you know while you're praising God, God is drowning your enemies?
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  Speaker 4: If you knew what I'm talking about, you would dance
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  Speaker 4: right where you are. Because when you start praising God,
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  Speaker 4: devils start growling. When you start praising God, bodies get healed.
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  Speaker 4: When you start praising God, God starts opening doors. We're
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: not just dancing to be dancing. We're in a fight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not dancing because I got new shoes.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I'll kick off my shoes and dance barefooted because I'm
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: in a fight.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody in a fight?
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Give them about 15 seconds of warfare praise.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, warfare.
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  Speaker 4: Warfare in this place. Warfare in the balcony. Warfare in
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  Speaker 4: the background. Warfare in this place. I'm going to dance
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  Speaker 4: while the devil drowns. I'm going to dance while he drowns.
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  Speaker 4: And God brought them through. The Bible said he brought
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  Speaker 4: them through on eagle's wings. He gave them first class service.
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  Speaker 4: He brought them through on eagle's wings. Now they have
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  Speaker 4: made it through the desert. They have survived. Y'all didn't
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: hear that. They went in slaves and came out sons.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: They were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and under
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  Speaker 4: the sea. There was a cloud above them. There was
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: water all around it. God calls it baptism. Some of
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  Speaker 4: the things you call trouble, God calls baptism. And they
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: come out on the other side and the problem is
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: they're in the wilderness. And since they're in the wilderness
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  Speaker 4: and they're thirsty. Now you've been a slave. You had
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  Speaker 4: to make bricks with no straw. You built pyramids and
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  Speaker 4: had all kind of warfare. And now you're complaining because
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  Speaker 4: you're thirsty. And they chided against Moses. Thirsty people are
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  Speaker 4: angry people. I want to drive that in real deep.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I realize I said it before, but I'm going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: say it again. Thirsty people are angry people. Sometimes even
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: if you give them some water, it will not stop
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: the anger because the thirst is not coming for the
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  Speaker 4: lack of water. The thirst is coming because they are
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: angry people. They're frustrated people. And they'll take it out
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  Speaker 4: on you because they need something to brain. I was
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: studying on the human brain and the study that I
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: was reading said the human brain, if it cannot find
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  Speaker 4: a reason to explain the turmoil, will make up a
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  Speaker 4: reason because it needs to rationalize to you why you
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  Speaker 4: are going through what you're going through. So you can't
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  Speaker 4: even trust what you're thinking sometimes because sometimes you're thinking
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  Speaker 4: just so you'll have something to be mad at. You'll
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: be mad at the immigrants. You'll be mad at white people.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be mad at black people. You'll be mad at
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: short people. You'll be mad at fat people. You'll be
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  Speaker 4: mad at anybody to explain why you're there. Therefore, you
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  Speaker 4: feel justified to be in your condition because you have
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: blamed somebody for that condition.
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  Speaker 3: So they blame Moses.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't Moses' job to get them some water, but
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: they blamed Moses for bringing them out there where there
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: was no water. And God, Moses cried out to God
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  Speaker 4: and said, why are the people chatting me? Why are
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: they chatting me? Why are they chatting against you? And
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: God told Moses, I'm going to show you something else.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do something with your stick that's never
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  Speaker 4: been done before. And the Lord told me to come
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  Speaker 4: here and tell you this morning that he's going to
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  Speaker 4: do something with your stick that's never been.
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  Speaker 3: Done before.
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  Speaker 4: There is a relationship set up in this text that
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  Speaker 4: is a preview of Calvary between the stone and the stick.
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  Speaker 4: You can't see it because it's in the shadows, but
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: there's something there between the stone and the stick. Deliverance
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: always happens whenever you see a stone or a stick.
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  Speaker 4: There's something about the way God moves through a stone
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  Speaker 4: or a stick. And he has a way of opening
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  Speaker 4: up a door. So he told him, take the stick
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  Speaker 4: and hit the rock and water is going to come out.
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  Speaker 4: I've been showing you a little bit about your stick,
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  Speaker 4: but let me show you a little something about your rod.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 4: God did all kinds of stuff with rocks. David picked
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  Speaker 4: up rocks, smooth stones out the riverbank and killed Goliath
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  Speaker 4: with a rock. He didn't have a sword or a shield.
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  Speaker 4: All he had was a rock. Jacob laid his head
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  Speaker 4: down on a rock and the heavens opened up. I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about what God can do with a rock. God
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: has a way of doing things with rocks that will
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  Speaker 4: blow your mind. These weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
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  Speaker 4: but they're mighty through God. It's not normal for water
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  Speaker 4: to come out of a rock. But God has a
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  Speaker 4: way that if you take the stick and you take
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  Speaker 4: the rock, it brings water out of the rock. And
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  Speaker 4: all through the Bible, this pattern continues over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: We see God delivering his people with rocks and with sticks.
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  Speaker 4: We see God opening up doors and making ways. We
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  Speaker 4: see God moving mountains. We see God opening up revelations.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, we see God as a rock. The Bible
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: said he is the chief cornerstone. Oh, y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Elijah slept on it. David threw it.
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  Speaker 4: Moses hid in it. God said, Moses, get over in
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: the rock and I'm going to cause my glory to
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: pass before you. Jonathan climbed through the rock to fight
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  Speaker 4: the enemy. Solomon took the rock and built the temple.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: The spies climbed over the rock. The Hebrews shouted till
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  Speaker 4: the rocks came tumbling down. The Pharaohs dropped their, the
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  Speaker 4: Pharisees dropped their rocks. Y'all don't hear me. Lazarus leaped
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  Speaker 4: out of the rock. God has a way of doing
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  Speaker 4: things with rocks that you don't even understand. And when
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  Speaker 4: you take the stick and you put it with the rock,
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  Speaker 4: water's going to come out. Touch your neighbor and say
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  Speaker 4: water is about to come out. This whole pew is
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  Speaker 4: about to get wet. This whole pew is about to
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  Speaker 4: get wet this resurrection Sunday. Because what God did on
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Calvary is foreshadowed in the Old Testament. If you think
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  Speaker 4: about the resurrection story, it is really a story about
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  Speaker 4: a stick and a stone. It's just a story about
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: a stick and a stone. Let me show you in Genesis.
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  Speaker 4: The Bible says that Abraham took his son, his only
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  Speaker 4: son Isaac, and he put on him the wood. That's
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  Speaker 4: the stick. And he took the stick and brought it
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  Speaker 4: to a stone and built an altar with the stick
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  Speaker 4: and a stone. Genesis 22 is a picture of Calvary,
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  Speaker 4: what God can do with.
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  Speaker 3: A stick and a stone.
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  Speaker 4: Like Isaac carried the wood, Jesus carried the cross. but
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  Speaker 4: the cross was just a stick. And the Bible said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm about to feel like preaching in a minute. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: the Bible said that Jesus understood the power of the stick.
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  Speaker 4: So no man took his life. He laid it down,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: but he laid it down on a stick. He knew
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  Speaker 4: the power of the stick. All through the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 4: it has taught us the power of the stick. Elijah
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: sent a stick down to the widow's house to heal
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  Speaker 4: her son. There's power in the stick. So Jesus laid
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  Speaker 4: down on the stick and they.
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  Speaker 3: Hung him high. And they stretched him wide.
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  Speaker 4: And the Bible said they drove a nail into his
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  Speaker 4: wrist on the right side and the left side. They
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: took a spike and drove it through both feet. Symbolizing
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  Speaker 4: the Jew and the Gentile coming together up under one gospel.
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  Speaker 4: And they nailed him to the cross. But that ain't
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  Speaker 4: the bad part. If they'd have left the cross laying down,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have been saved. But they messed up when
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  Speaker 4: they lifted it up. Because the Bible said, if I
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  Speaker 4: be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw.
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  Speaker 5: Men unto me.
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  Speaker 4: If you're getting something out of this, give him a
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  Speaker 4: little praise. They hung him from the 6th to the
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  Speaker 4: 9th hour. They hung him till he hung his head
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  Speaker 4: in the locks of his shoulders and died.
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  Speaker 3: They hung him.
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  Speaker 4: Until graves all over Jerusalem began to open up.
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  Speaker 3: They hung him until the bell in.
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  Speaker 4: The temple was rent from the top to the bottom.
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  Speaker 4: They hung him till the Old Testament fainted over into
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  Speaker 4: the New Testament. They hung him until the law was fulfilled.
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  Speaker 4: They hung him. Oh, didn't they hang him?
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  Speaker 3: They hung him. Oh, yeah. Yes, they hung him.
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  Speaker 4: And they hung him till he just came over to death.
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  Speaker 4: He submitted to death, the death of the cross, and
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  Speaker 4: he died.
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  Speaker 3: For your sins.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about the sins you testify about. I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: talking about the sins you don't tell nobody about. He
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  Speaker 4: died for your secret sins. He died for your private sins.
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  Speaker 4: He died for your personal sins. That's why God doesn't
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  Speaker 4: understand when you can come out on Easter and not
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: praise God. Because he knows that you know what he
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  Speaker 4: did in your life. He knows what the church folk
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  Speaker 4: don't know that happened to you. when you was a child.
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  Speaker 4: He died for a little bit of this. And he
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: died for a little bit of that. And he died
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  Speaker 4: till it was over. And he died till it was finished.
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  Speaker 4: And he died until he said tell to less time.
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  Speaker 4: It is finished. Slap your neighbor and say, it is finished.
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  Speaker 4: You can talk about it, but it's finished. You can
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: bring it up, but it's finished. You can roll your eyes,
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  Speaker 4: but it's finished. You can post post-its, but it's finished.
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  Speaker 4: When God finishes something, it is finished. Don't expect me
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  Speaker 4: to walk around with my head down because I know
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  Speaker 4: it's finished. Expect my head to be up. Expect my
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  Speaker 4: back to be straight because I know it's finished.
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  Speaker 3: I can come boldly.
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  Speaker 4: To the throne of grace and find mercy to help
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  Speaker 4: me in the time of need because it is finished.
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  Speaker 4: I can get in the house of God and shout
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  Speaker 4: like I didn't do what I know I did because
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: it is finished. I wish I had about a hundred
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: people that knew what I was talking about. You've got
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: to praise him because you know what he did for you.
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  Speaker 4: You know how he delivered you. You know how he
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: set you free. Grab your neighbor one time and say,
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  Speaker 4: when I think of the goodness, when I just think
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  Speaker 4: about it. When I just think about it. When I
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: think about where he brought me from. When I think
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: about domestic violence. When I think about child abuse. When
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: I think about agony. When I think about eating tomato sandwiches.
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  Speaker 4: When I think about eating mayonnaise sandwiches. When I think
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: about the hell he brought me through.
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  Speaker 3: My soul. My soul.
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  Speaker 6: My soul.
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  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: Thank God for saving me. Oh, I'm almost finished now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to take up much time. But I
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: feel something pushing me in the back. I feel something
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  Speaker 4: stirring in my soul. The Bible says that he borrowed
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  Speaker 4: a grave from Joseph of Arimathea. But let me understand
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  Speaker 4: something here. Anytime you borrow something, you don't plan.
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  Speaker 3: To stay there.
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  Speaker 4: He borrowed it because he only was going to use
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  Speaker 4: it for three days. When I came to earth on
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  Speaker 4: June 9th, 1957, I borrowed this body because I didn't plan.
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  Speaker 3: To stay here. For I know if this.
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  Speaker 4: Earthly house or tabernacle shall be dissolved, I got another building.
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  Speaker 4: Eternal in the heavens. Somewhere over in glory. I already understand.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody's going to drive my car.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's going to wear my clothes.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody's going to sleep in my bed. But that's all right.
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  Speaker 4: Because I just borrowed it. I've got a mansion over
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  Speaker 4: in glory.
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  Speaker 3: And it's mine. Yes, it's mine.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a mansion over in glory. Somewhere beyond the Jordan.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: And it's mine. Yes it's mine. They took Jesus to
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: a barbed tomb. And they rolled the stone in front
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  Speaker 4: of him. And they left him there all day Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: All day Friday. All day Saturday. But Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning. Michael, Sunday morning, Sunday morning,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Sunday morning. He got up out of the grave.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, he did. He got up out of the grave.
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  Speaker 4: I never could understand how he would later appear in
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: a gardener's suit. He didn't get to go to the store.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: He didn't get to stitch anything. But when he rose
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  Speaker 4: from the dead. He spoke in some clothes. Into existence.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't understand. How he could walk around. In the grave.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Because they wrapped him in one inch strips of linen.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: And you remember Lazarus had.
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  Speaker 3: To be loosed.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: But who loosed Jesus? He loosed himself. He set himself free.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: He spoke him a new pose into existence. And he
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  Speaker 4: was walking around in the grave. But it didn't stop there.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's not enough.
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  Speaker 4: To get out of your grave clothes. It's not enough.
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  Speaker 4: To wake up out the grave. If you're still stuck
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  Speaker 4: behind a stone. And as I get ready to close.
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  Speaker 4: Some of you've been resurrected. But you've been living behind
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  Speaker 4: the stone. A stone of doubt. A stone of poverty.
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  Speaker 4: A stone of insecurity, a stone of pride, a stone
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  Speaker 4: of lust. But the Lord said, I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: roll the stone out of the way. I know you're
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  Speaker 4: in there. You've been in there a long time trying
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  Speaker 4: to praise me behind a stone. But I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: roll the stone out of your way. Slap your neighbor
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  Speaker 4: and say, get out of my way. I've got to
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  Speaker 4: get up out of this grave. I've got to get
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  Speaker 4: up out of this depression. I've got to get up
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  Speaker 4: out of this state I'm in. I've got to get.
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  Speaker 3: Up out of this situation. I'm tired of.
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  Speaker 4: Walking around in depression. I'm going to roll the stone away. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anybody that's got faith in the Lord? I
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  Speaker 4: want you to take your faith and just roll the
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  Speaker 4: stone out of your way. God's getting ready to roll
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  Speaker 4: the stone out of your way. He's getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: move it out of your way so that you can
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  Speaker 4: come out of the grave. And when you come out
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  Speaker 4: of the grave, you ought to come out praising God.
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  Speaker 4: You ought to come out giving God the glory. You
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  Speaker 4: ought to come out lifting him up. They nail you
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  Speaker 4: to a stick. They hid you behind a stone. But
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  Speaker 4: God's going to bring.
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  Speaker 3: You out of everything. They had you locked up behind.
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  Speaker 4: Who am I preaching to?
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  Speaker 3: Somebody that I'm preaching to.
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  Speaker 4: Take about 30 seconds and start leaping in the presence
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  Speaker 4: of God.
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  Speaker 3: Start leaping. Start leaping. Start leaping.
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  Speaker 5: Till the stone knows he can't hold you.
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  Speaker 4: Start leaping till the sickness knows you gotta.
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  Speaker 5: Turn me loose.
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  Speaker 4: Start leaping till depression.
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  Speaker 3: Comes out of your body.
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  Speaker 4: Start leaping till suicide leaves your spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Start leaping till you get a new joy.
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  Speaker 4: Start leaping till you get a new dance.
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  Speaker 3: Start leaping. Leap your way out.
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  Speaker 5: If you can't leap, then crawl.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't crawl, then walk.
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  Speaker 4: But touch seven people and say, I got to get
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  Speaker 4: out of here. I gotta get out of here. I
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  Speaker 4: got to get out of here. I've been down too long.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: There's a power that's pulling me out.
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  Speaker 3: Of my situation. Ain't no grave gonna hold my body down.
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  Speaker 4: Gravity can't hold me down. Enemies can't hold me down.
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  Speaker 4: Situations can't hold me down. Death can't hold me down.
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  Speaker 4: When God says get up, I'm going to get up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get up. And the nails can't hold me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get up. And the grave can't hold me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get up and your stretch can't hold me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get up, roll your eyes, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: still going to get up.
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  Speaker 3: Write your notes.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm still going to get up.
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  Speaker 3: Lord, I feel something about to break loose in this place.
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  Speaker 4: If I had a hundred radical people that made up
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  Speaker 4: your mind, you're not going to take it anymore. If
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  Speaker 4: I had a hundred radical people that would give God
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  Speaker 4: the praise, something.
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  Speaker 3: Would break in here this morning. Something would break in
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  Speaker 3: here this morning. Something would break. in here this morning.
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  Speaker 4: He's stronger than witchcraft. He's stronger than roots. He's stronger
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  Speaker 4: than Satan. He's stronger than the enemy. He's stronger than trouble.
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  Speaker 4: He's He's stronger than turmoil. He's stronger than disease. He's
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  Speaker 4: stronger than sickness. Whatever you need from the Lord, he's
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  Speaker 4: stronger than that. You ought to break loose from your
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  Speaker 4: bands and give God the praise. Leap up and say
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  Speaker 4: he's stronger. He's stronger.
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  Speaker 3: He's stronger. He's stronger. He's stronger.
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  Speaker 4: I've been down too long.
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  Speaker 3: He's stronger. He's stronger. He's strong.
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  Speaker 5: He's strong.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you're going to do on your pew.
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  Speaker 4: But as for me, I'm going to praise the Lord
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  Speaker 4: right in this pew. I'm going to give him a
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  Speaker 4: praise right in this balcony. I'm going to praise him.
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  Speaker 4: Because something's about to break. Get a lock of my hair.
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  Speaker 4: But you can't curse me. Get my DNA. But you
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: can't stop me. Talk about me. But you can't stop me.
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  Speaker 4: Because when God says get up, ain't nothing for me
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 6: But, but, but, but, but, but, but Grab your neighbor
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  Speaker 6: by the hand and say, Neighbor, get up.
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  Speaker 4: Get up God still wants to use you Get up.
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  Speaker 4: God's got something he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: Get up.
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  Speaker 4: He still wants to anoint you.
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  Speaker 2: Get up.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a plan for your life. I'm about to
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: take my seat. But for the next three minutes, I
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: want the wow. radical don't care what.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I got on folks.
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  Speaker 4: To give God a praise I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 4: about three minutes to find a way to get up
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  Speaker 4: out of your grave roll your stone away pull your
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  Speaker 4: nails out your fingers and give God the praise on.
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  Speaker 3: Your mark.
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  Speaker 4: On your mark.
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  Speaker 1: Get set.
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  Speaker 5: Go Go Go Go I.
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  Speaker 4: Gotta get up I gotta get up I gotta get
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  Speaker 4: up I gotta get up.
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  Speaker 3: You got one minute. you got one minute.
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  Speaker 4: Left you got one minute left to give god the
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  Speaker 4: praise you got 45 seconds to give god the praise
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  Speaker 4: You got 40 seconds to stop worrying about these.
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  Speaker 3: People and break loose.
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  Speaker 4: This is your Sunday to break loose. You got 30
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  Speaker 4: seconds to break everything that held you, everything that.
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  Speaker 3: Tied you up.
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  Speaker 4: 20 seconds to give God the glory.
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  Speaker 3: I can't hear you. Ten.
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  Speaker 5: Nine.
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  Speaker 4: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: Seven.
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  Speaker 3: Six.
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  Speaker 1: Five.
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  Speaker 5: Four. Three. Two.
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  Speaker 4: One.
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  Speaker 3: Give him a praise. Give him a.
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  Speaker 5: Praise.
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  Speaker 3: Give him a praise. Glory to your name, O God.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing worse than being in the grave is
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: to be resurrected and can't get out. To have the
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  Speaker 4: know-how and the knowledge, but you can't get out. You
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: walk so far and you run into something And you
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: have to go back. And the enemy's got you convinced
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: that that stone in your life cannot be rolled away.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know what kind of stone it is. It
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: might be a stone of depression. It might be a
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: stone of fear. It may be a stone of PTSD.
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  Speaker 4: But you hit it every time you try to get out.
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  Speaker 4: And some of you have decided, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 4: live in the tomb. But God said no. God said no.
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  Speaker 4: Lift your hands for a moment and worship him. all
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  Speaker 4: over this room. Worship him in spirit and in truth.
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  Speaker 4: I see you here on Sunday. Glad to have you.
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  Speaker 4: But let's get real for a minute. That stone that's
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  Speaker 4: in your life need not stay in your life. That
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: stone that's in your house need not stay in your house.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: Lift your hands. Open your mouth. And if you do
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  Speaker 4: like the Egyptians did and cry unto God, he'll move
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  Speaker 4: everything out of your way to deliver you. You might
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  Speaker 4: be watching online, but God will move everything out of
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: your way to deliver you some of you live behind
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  Speaker 4: a rock of pride and your pride has stopped so
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  Speaker 4: many blessings from coming in your life and you hold
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  Speaker 4: on to it for dear life because all you've ever
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: done was live behind the wall Of your image. But
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: if you give up your image this morning. If you
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: get sick and tired of being sick and tired. If
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: you get to the point that you want to come
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: out of that grave. Early in the morning the women
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  Speaker 4: came down to the tomb. To get Jesus where he
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  Speaker 4: used to be. And the angels sitting on the stone said,
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  Speaker 4: he is not here. He is risen. I can just
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: imagine people coming to where you used to be. And
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  Speaker 4: the angels said, she's not here.
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  Speaker 3: She's not here.
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  Speaker 4: She's not here. She's not here. I know the girl
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about, but she's not here. I know the
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  Speaker 4: woman you're talking about, but she's not here. I know
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  Speaker 4: that brother you're talking about, but he's not here.
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  Speaker 3: He has risen.
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  Speaker 4: I cut my message short because I'm led of the
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  Speaker 4: Lord to pray for somebody who wants to rise up.
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  Speaker 4: out of it. Who seriously means I'm tired of walking
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  Speaker 4: around in this tomb surrounded by corpses. I go out
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  Speaker 4: to eat with them. I go out to party with them.
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  Speaker 4: They come over my house. I'm tired of being around
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  Speaker 4: dead things. I'm not talking about them. I don't mean
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  Speaker 4: no harm against them, but I know better because he's
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  Speaker 4: done too much in my life for me to live
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  Speaker 4: another day.
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  Speaker 3: In the tombs.
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  Speaker 4: If you're in this room and you want out bad
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: enough not to care about your image You want out
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: bad enough to increase your parameters, enlarge your borders, to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: have the abundant life that Jesus died for you to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: have life. He didn't die for you to have church.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: He died for you to have life. He died for
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: you to have life. You're existing, but you're not living.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: How many birthdays you think you're going to have? How
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: many more Christmases you think you're going to have? You're
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: wasting time. He said, the day you hear my voice.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Hardly not your heart.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: This Sunday morning, I don't care who's standing beside you.
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  Speaker 3: Tell them, move out of my way.
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  Speaker 4: I can't let you be a stone at a moment
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  Speaker 4: that God is trying to work something out in my life.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm coming if I got to come out the balcony.
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  Speaker 4: I'm coming if I got to come down the steps.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: I'm coming if I got to come out of the corner.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: I'm coming if I got to come with liquor on
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: my breath. I'm coming if I was smoking a joint
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: last night. I'm coming this morning. Because I want to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: change in my life. Touch a neighbor, tell them stones
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: gonna roll this morning. Stones are gonna roll this morning.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: Stones are gonna roll this morning. They're gonna roll this morning.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: They're gonna roll this morning. It's God's job to call
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: and it's your job to answer. But God is doing
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: his job. Why don't you do yours? Come on. I'll
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: wait on you.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: You're not going to use me as no excuse.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: .
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: When I go into prayer,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: it's going to be too late for you to come.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: This space we got right here is a grace space.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: Grace don't last always. Shall we continue in sin that
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: grace may abound? God forbid. For if we are buried
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: in the likeness of his death, we shall be also
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: in the likeness of his resurrection. And you having quickened
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: who were dead in the trespasses of sin, he gave
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: you new life. He gave you something that the drug
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: dealer can't give you. that your chick on the side
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: can't give you. He gave you something that nobody else
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: can give you. And I want you to come. It's
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: a great space. This is the space that proves that
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: you can't go to heaven and, I mean, go and
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: stand before God and say, I never got a chance.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: This is your opportunity. There is nothing in your life,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: on your life, or in your past, That God cannot forgive.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: There is nothing on your mind. No matter how hideous
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: or dark it might be. That the word can't penetrate.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: And change your life. There is nothing. There is nothing.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: That's hindering you. He rolled that stone down. He will
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: roll that habit right out of your way. And there's
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: nothing out there. There's nothing out there but trouble, and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: they want to come home.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: At the Potter's House, we are invested in you, not
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: just what you do or who you're becoming.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: We believe that in this house, we are better together.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: We need one another to be holy, to hold each
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: other accountable, and to keep growing.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: As God positions us to serve every soul, we believe
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: that an act of sowing is an act of faith
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: and agreement right where God is speeding up.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: And we're honored that we get to partner with you
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: in reaching lives near and far. This is your official
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: invitation to not just be a spectator, but to be
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: a partner. Be a member of our family that seeks
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: kingdom solutions during the challenges of every season.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Your giving, your service, and your love to this house
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: isn't just generosity.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: It's ministry.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: If this message spoke to you and you believe what
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: God is doing in this house, we invite you to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: become a member today. We want to do life with you.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: And share this message with someone you care about, someone
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: who needs it the most. I believe that it could
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: be the catalyst for the breakthrough that they're seeking. No
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: matter where you are, remember, God sees you, He loves you,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: and so do we.