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Keep-the-Peace-Bishop-T-D-Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: So we're in the fourth chapter of the book of
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  Speaker 1: Philippians and it is very interesting. I've had a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting day today. I interviewed a young lady named Nicole Avant.
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  Speaker 1: Her father was known as the godfather. He had done
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  Speaker 1: so many amazing things. Mr. Avant in the area of
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  Speaker 1: music and she herself has done quite a lot. His daughter,
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  Speaker 1: in the air production and she, in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, got a phone call. You'll hear the interview,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be on YouTube, telling her that her mother
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  Speaker 1: had been murdered. And it was all over the news
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  Speaker 1: that Jacqueline Avant had been murdered. You can imagine how
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  Speaker 1: difficult it was, how shocking it was for this family
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  Speaker 1: who were like black royalty to find themselves suddenly thrust
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  Speaker 1: into the spotlight in a chaotic way and couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: grieve properly because there was an investigation and court sessions
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  Speaker 1: and all of the things that go along with murder.
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  Speaker 1: And the last words her mother wrote to her was,
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  Speaker 1: think you'll be happy. Think You'll Be Happy. She just
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  Speaker 1: wrote a book called Think You'll Be Happy. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just powerful. Then the Ad Council asked me to help
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  Speaker 1: them coordinate something on mental health. And we did that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's out there on YouTube as well. So my
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  Speaker 1: mind went to the scriptures thinking about peace. Yeah, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about peace. The times we're in, the season we're in,
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  Speaker 1: where happiness is advertised to us. Romantic fireplaces lit, couples
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  Speaker 1: laying on bare skin rugs, celebrating their holidays with Chablis.
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  Speaker 1: caviar and your rent is two months backed up and
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  Speaker 1: you're hugging a ten year old pillow and sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to be happy and to have peace because you
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  Speaker 1: have trouble and you think everybody got something you didn't
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  Speaker 1: get am I right so it can be difficult you
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  Speaker 1: got a family coming over And the other side is coming.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to get your mind ready. Because you
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  Speaker 1: know you got that one cousin that's going to say something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. These green beans ain't right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't taste right. They don't care what you do.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, but isn't that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of power to give a person to let them steal your...
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  Speaker 1: One day, one holiday, one moment, steal your peace. A
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  Speaker 1: holiday that the world didn't even have it. Most countries
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  Speaker 1: don't even celebrate Thanksgiving, and it will steal your peace.
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  Speaker 1: A commercial you saw, something on Instagram, and it stole
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  Speaker 1: your peace. Somebody doesn't like you, and it stole your peace,
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  Speaker 1: even if they're related to you. I love you, but
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  Speaker 1: I cannot let you steal my peace. So tonight we're
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  Speaker 1: going to learn how to keep the peace. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, keep the peace. Begin at verse four
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  Speaker 1: and let's study the word of God tonight. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: in the vein of studying the word of God that
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  Speaker 1: we might grow thereby. Rejoice in the Lord always. Delight
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  Speaker 1: Take pleasure in him again. I will say rejoice. Let your,
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  Speaker 1: now listen how he describes you. Let your gentle spirit,
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  Speaker 1: your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience be known to
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  Speaker 1: all people. Look at your neighbor and say, is that you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in a society that rewards you for being hard, tough, mean, quick-witted, outspoken,
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  Speaker 1: is that you, your gentle, let your gentle spirit, let,
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  Speaker 1: that means you have an option, let your gentle spirit,
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  Speaker 1: your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience be known to
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  Speaker 1: all people, not just your people. I got people, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but them other people. And then he almost comes off
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  Speaker 1: of this gentle challenge with a warning. The Lord is near.
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  Speaker 1: Can you feel it? The Lord is near. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to let your gentle spirit out, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to make a decision to be gracious. You
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to let somebody set you off right now.
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  Speaker 1: You can't afford to be merciless and full of gossip.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot fill your head with trash and then pray
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  Speaker 1: for treasure. Oh yeah, we already into it. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be good. And then he warns us, don't be anxious
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  Speaker 1: or worried about anything, but in everything, every circumstance and
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  Speaker 1: situation by prayer and petition, With thanksgiving. Wait, wait, wait, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: this can't be right. This can't be right. In every
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  Speaker 1: circumstance and situation, I'm supposed to have a problem I'm
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  Speaker 1: praying about and be petitioning God and do it with thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't pout. I can't fall out and kick.
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  Speaker 1: I can't walk around and let everybody know I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not feeling you today. That's what's wrong. Don't roll up
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  Speaker 1: on me because if you roll up on me, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to limp back because... No, no, no. I got
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  Speaker 1: to pray and have a spirit of... Thanksgiving. Continue to
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  Speaker 1: make your requests, specific requests... specific, don't just pray God
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  Speaker 1: bless me, God bless me how, God bless her how,
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  Speaker 1: specific requests known to God. And the peace of God,
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  Speaker 1: that peace which reassures the heart, that peace which transcends
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  Speaker 1: all understandings, That peace which stands guard over your heart
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  Speaker 1: and your mind in Christ Jesus is yours. Finally, believers,
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  Speaker 1: whatever is true, whatever is true, stop lying to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: This is a pathway to peace. Whatever is true, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and
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  Speaker 1: confirmed by God's word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of
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  Speaker 1: good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is
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  Speaker 1: anything worthy of praise, Think continually on these things. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't say there weren't other things going on. But train
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  Speaker 1: your mind to think on whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
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  Speaker 1: whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is right. whatever is
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  Speaker 1: of God's word, whatever is pure, whatever is wholesome, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is lovely and brings peace. That's why you can't sleep
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  Speaker 1: at night because you're laying in the bed thinking about
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong. But God says, I want you to train
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  Speaker 1: your mind to focus on whatever is admirable and of
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  Speaker 1: good repute. And if there is any excellence, if there
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  Speaker 1: is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things.
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  Speaker 1: Center your mind, your mind, your mind, put your mind,
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  Speaker 1: put your mind on them and implant them in your life.
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  Speaker 1: heart the things which you have learned and received and
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  Speaker 1: heard and seen in me practice practice practice I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know we could do that I didn't know we could
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  Speaker 1: practice these things in daily life and the God who
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  Speaker 1: is the source of peace and well-being will be With you.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout amen. Father, as we go into the word
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  Speaker 1: of God tonight, let the word of God go into us.
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  Speaker 1: As we go into the word of God, let the
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  Speaker 1: word of God go into us. As we learn the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, let us practice what we are learning tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That it might be seen, for we are the only
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  Speaker 1: Bible many people will ever read. I thank you in
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  Speaker 1: advance for what you're about to do. Have your way
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  Speaker 1: in this place. In Jesus' name we pray, somebody shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated, chill, relax, take a load off.
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  Speaker 1: When we start talking, and there is a couple of
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  Speaker 1: ground rules that I need to be sure that you know,
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  Speaker 1: that most of you know, some of you know, but
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  Speaker 1: somebody might not know, that God formed man from the
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  Speaker 1: dust of the earth. from the ground, so we're made
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  Speaker 1: out of dirt. So don't try to pass yourself off
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  Speaker 1: as being more than you are, you're a dirt bag.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you can be according to scriptures, you're a
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  Speaker 1: dirt bag in a suit, a dirt bag in blue jeans,
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  Speaker 1: a dirt bag, a bald head. A dirt bag with
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  Speaker 1: a clergy collar on. You're made out of dirt. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you're made out of. That's why you have to
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  Speaker 1: bathe all the time because the dirt comes out. You're
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  Speaker 1: made out of dirt. God formed man out of the
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  Speaker 1: dust of the earth and breathed into him. He breathed
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  Speaker 1: into him the breath of life. The breath of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is spirit. It's spirit. In the Greek it's pneuma.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when you get sick and can't breathe, they
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  Speaker 1: say you got pneumonia. So spirit in the Greek is pneuma.
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  Speaker 1: He breathed into him the breath of lives. In the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew is zoe. He gave him the breath of lives
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  Speaker 1: and he became a living soul. The soul in Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: is nephesh. He became conscious, aware. Aware, what we call
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  Speaker 1: alive is to be aware. So, I am triune in
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  Speaker 1: the sense I live in a body, I am a spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a soul. Okay, stay with me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere. My body tells me when it's cold. My
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  Speaker 1: body tells me when the wind is blowing. body tells
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  Speaker 1: me all the experiences I have without external circumstances I
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  Speaker 1: am informed by my body because in my body I
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  Speaker 1: have world consciousness in my spirit I have God consciousness
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  Speaker 1: God is a spirit and they that worship him must
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  Speaker 1: worship him in spirit and in truth So I approach
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  Speaker 1: God in my spirit. If I'm a Christian, I'm born
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  Speaker 1: again in my spirit. If any man be in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he is a new creation. But I still got a
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  Speaker 1: corn and I still got a bunion. So he didn't
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  Speaker 1: recreate my feet. So if I was bowlegged before I
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  Speaker 1: got saved, I'm bowlegged after I got saved. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: change my legs, my bones, my skeletal frame or structure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so in my body, I have world consciousness. In my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: I have God consciousness and my spirit is born again.
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  Speaker 1: It's together. It's good. I'm not being saved. I am saved.
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  Speaker 1: I have eternal life. I've been delivered except in my
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  Speaker 1: mind In my soul, I have self-consciousness. And that's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting bag too. So in my soul, I have self-consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: That's where my memories, affections, appetites, disappointments, scars, wounds live
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  Speaker 1: in my soul. In my soul. I am, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I am exceedingly sorrowful. Those are emotions. We have emotions
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  Speaker 1: in my soul. Oh gosh, Lord at the emotions, regulating
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  Speaker 1: the emotions. My soul is not emotions, but it houses emotions.
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  Speaker 1: So all of my emotions, memories, good or bad, all
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  Speaker 1: live in my soul. The word soul in the Greek
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  Speaker 1: is where we get psyche, where we get the word psychology,
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  Speaker 1: where we get mind. Let's see what's in there. Aren't
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  Speaker 1: you glad? Now, it's just me and you here so
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  Speaker 1: we can talk, okay? Aren't you glad that God didn't
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  Speaker 1: put your mind on loudspeaker? At any given place, even
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  Speaker 1: in a place like this, I still wouldn't want my
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  Speaker 1: mind to be miked. Not even in church. Not even
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  Speaker 1: in church, I wouldn't want my mind to be miked
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  Speaker 1: because at any given moment, my mind will be thinking
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  Speaker 1: something That I'm glad I can keep it to myself. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I want to keep it to myself. I want to
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  Speaker 1: keep it to myself. I'll deal with it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it. I'm going to rebuke it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to bind it. I'm going to plead the blood
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  Speaker 1: on it. But I don't want you to hear me
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  Speaker 1: wrestling with myself about myself because my self is just,
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  Speaker 1: it's a ball of confusion. Of all parts of me
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  Speaker 1: that God would want to use, the Bible said it
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  Speaker 1: is with the mind that we serve the Lord. It
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  Speaker 1: is with the mind that we serve. No, that ain't it.
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  Speaker 1: It is when you get through dancing, it is with
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  Speaker 1: the mind that we serve the Lord. So if I
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  Speaker 1: was Satan, and I was gonna attack you anywhere, it
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  Speaker 1: would be in the mind. Because if your mind is
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  Speaker 1: up under attack, then your service is up under attack.
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  Speaker 1: Then you respond under attack. Then you snap at people.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a constant battle because God wants your
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  Speaker 1: mind to be changed and the enemy wants your mind
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  Speaker 1: to be stuck. It doesn't matter how old you get
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  Speaker 1: if you don't get better. It doesn't matter how many
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  Speaker 1: scriptures you quote if you don't get better. And if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get better, I have to get better
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  Speaker 1: in my mind because that's my consciousness. I have to
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  Speaker 1: live in here. I have to live in here. I
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  Speaker 1: have to process in here. And as long as I
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  Speaker 1: have self-consciousness, I'm alive. Because when I lose self-consciousness, they
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  Speaker 1: don't want me anymore. I don't care how much you're
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  Speaker 1: in love with me. If I lose self-consciousness, if my
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  Speaker 1: soul goes and all that's left is my body, we
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  Speaker 1: bury it. Because as many times as I hugged you,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really hugging you when I touched your body.
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  Speaker 1: What I was hugging was what came out of your soul.
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  Speaker 1: I love your soul. I might express it with my body,
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  Speaker 1: but I love your soul. I love your essence, who
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  Speaker 1: you are on the inside. We show up in the
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  Speaker 1: world from a soulish perspective. perspective. The mother who made
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  Speaker 1: mistakes for 20 years, now more seasoned and more mature,
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  Speaker 1: same mother comes back to the daughter wiser and says,
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  Speaker 1: I know I said some things that may have hurt you,
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  Speaker 1: but I may look the same, but I'm not the same.
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  Speaker 1: I've been changed in my soul. Changing my soul is
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  Speaker 1: a difficult process. Changing my hair is easy. I'm bald-headed,
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  Speaker 1: but I can change it. Yeah, I got a few quarters.
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  Speaker 1: I can go down there and have dreadlocks if I
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  Speaker 1: want them. You know what I'm saying? I got big
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  Speaker 1: old jaws. I was born with big jaws. I can
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  Speaker 1: change them. I can take this off my jaws and
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  Speaker 1: put it back in the mood. but I'm still me
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  Speaker 1: because moving things around from place to place. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna look at nobody because y'all just, all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: been moved around but you still, you didn't marry the container,
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  Speaker 1: you married the content. So people are attracted to the box,
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  Speaker 1: but they go home with the product. Okay. So you
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  Speaker 1: can change the container, but if you don't change the content,
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  Speaker 1: I show up and experience the world based on the
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  Speaker 1: healthiness of my soul. The CVS of the day. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have anything for my David said, no man cared
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  Speaker 1: for my soul. They wanted my money. They wanted my body.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted my time. They wanted my attention. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: my influence. They wanted my affluence. No man cared for
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  Speaker 1: my soul. We're going to get into some stuff tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I got you listening. I like my church quiet. My
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  Speaker 1: church is at its best when it's quiet. Because when
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  Speaker 1: you're quiet, you're thinking. When you're shouting, you're responding. When
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  Speaker 1: you're quiet, you're thinking. How healthy is your soul? You fine.
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  Speaker 1: You fine. You fine. I give it to you. How
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  Speaker 1: fine is your soul? How healthy are you in your
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  Speaker 1: thought life? Let's talk about it tonight. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Romans 12, 1 through 3 and look at it for
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  Speaker 1: just a moment. Here Paul is writing to the church
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  Speaker 1: at Rome. The church at Rome will become very, very important.
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  Speaker 1: because the epicenter of spirituality has been in Jerusalem, but
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  Speaker 1: it's about to shift to Rome. And so it's very
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  Speaker 1: important that Rome be rooted and grounded, because Christianity thrived
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  Speaker 1: in Rome, not in Jerusalem. It was birthed in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: but it did not strive till it got to Rome.
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  Speaker 1: So you had the Roman Catholic Church, and out of
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  Speaker 1: that you had Martin Luther and the and the 96 Theses,
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  Speaker 1: and the Protestant movement, protest, and everything Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call yourself, Lutheran, all was in protest. Protestant, Protestant,
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  Speaker 1: Protestant church comes out of Rome. It all comes out
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  Speaker 1: of Rome. So the letter written to Rome is extremely important.
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  Speaker 1: And Paul who speaks, who is a citizen of Rome,
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  Speaker 1: but is of the tribe of Benjamin and is a
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew by birth, is sent to Rome, which is largely Gentiles,
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  Speaker 1: to minister to them. And Paul is an... of the
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon of Rome. He has influence. He is known
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  Speaker 1: by the dignitaries. He is sought after as a scholar,
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  Speaker 1: a thinker, a theologian. He is mighty. And here in
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  Speaker 1: Romans 12 and 1, this man who spoke in several
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  Speaker 1: different languages starts this text out on his knees saying,
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  Speaker 1: I beseech you. I beseech you. I beg you, brethren.
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  Speaker 1: Beseech means to beg by the mercies of God that
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  Speaker 1: you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
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  Speaker 1: which is your reasonable service. Come on. And do not
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  Speaker 1: be conformed to this world. Now, now, let's go into this.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be conformed to this world. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: conformed to this world. Yes. Do not be conformed to
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  Speaker 1: your world. In other words, don't let what you're going
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  Speaker 1: through get to you. When Jesus was sleeping on the
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  Speaker 1: bow of the ship, when Jesus was sleeping in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the ship and the storm was raging around
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  Speaker 1: the ship and Peter gets flustered and Peter lets the
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  Speaker 1: storm that's on the outside get on the inside till
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  Speaker 1: he doubts the sleeping Jesus. The sleeping Jesus in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a hurricane is a picture of the peace
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  Speaker 1: of God. That God can go through storms and snore.
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  Speaker 1: is indicative of how strong his peace is. He is
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  Speaker 1: not conformed to the weather. He does not react to
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  Speaker 1: the climate. He does not respond to external circumstances. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is the only one asleep on the boat. Peter goes
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  Speaker 1: down there, knocks on the door, says,' Get up, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: carest thou not that we perish?' And Jesus gets up
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  Speaker 1: and rebukes the winds and the waves, wipes sleep out
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  Speaker 1: of his eye and says, oh ye of little faith.
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  Speaker 1: What did he do wrong? His emotions conformed to his environment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not happy. I thought I'd be married by now.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to delay your peace forever. Oh, excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not happy because I am married. So you're going
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  Speaker 1: to let your spouse have your peace. The storm on
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  Speaker 1: the outside has gotten on the inside. That's what makes
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  Speaker 1: boats sink. Clearly the storm had not gotten on the
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  Speaker 1: inside lest Jesus would have been wet. And if Jesus
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  Speaker 1: would have been wet, he would have been woke. So
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  Speaker 1: we have a dry Jesus in a hurricane. Asleep on
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  Speaker 1: a pillow. I don't care how deeply you sleep. If
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  Speaker 1: I turn the shower on you, you're going to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: We have a sleep Jesus and a wet boat. The
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  Speaker 1: boat is wet on the outside, but dry enough on
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  Speaker 1: the inside that Jesus is asleep and Peter is panicked
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  Speaker 1: because the storm that's on the outside has gotten in
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  Speaker 1: his soul. So the sleepy Jesus wakes up and says
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  Speaker 1: to Peter, O ye of little faith, He rebukes not
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  Speaker 1: only the winds and the waves, he rebukes Peter because
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  Speaker 1: Peter has let the external become internal. Watch this. So
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  Speaker 1: when we read this text, do not be conformed to
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  Speaker 1: this world. It means more than that. whether you listen
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  Speaker 1: at hip hop or not, or whether you keep up
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  Speaker 1: with the latest fashions or not, or all the things
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  Speaker 1: that we take it to mean, it may mean that.
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  Speaker 1: It means more than acquiescing to the culture. It may
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  Speaker 1: mean that, but tonight it also means don't let your
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  Speaker 1: world affect you. But be ye transformed from conformed to
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  Speaker 1: transformed in the Greek metamouphou where we get metamorphosis. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, your mind must constantly be going through a metamorphosis.
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  Speaker 1: Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So, So
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  Speaker 1: since my mind isn't new, though my spirit is new,
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  Speaker 1: or he wouldn't have called me brethren. in chapter one
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  Speaker 1: and I presented my body a living sacrifice in chapter
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  Speaker 1: one he's not talking to sinners he's talking to Christians
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  Speaker 1: who are being renewed in their mind tap your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: say he's not finished with me I am saved in
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  Speaker 1: my spirit. I shall be saved in my body. I
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  Speaker 1: am being saved in my mind. I have been delivered
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  Speaker 1: in my spirit. If I take you through Corinthians, I
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  Speaker 1: can prove it. I have been delivered in my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I am being delivered in my mind. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: don't want no mic on my head right now because
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  Speaker 1: it's not finished with me yet. I shall be delivered.
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  Speaker 1: When this mortality puts on immortality, I shall be delivered
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  Speaker 1: in my body. So my mind, you're catching me in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a metamorphosis. You're catching me while I'm spinning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the potter's house, yeah, but I'm also on
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  Speaker 1: the potter's wheel. And it depends on which side you look. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're catching me where he may have shaped this part,
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  Speaker 1: but not that part. He could have shaped my talent.
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  Speaker 1: and still be working on my character. He could have
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  Speaker 1: shaped my character and still be working on my discipline.
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  Speaker 1: He could have shaped my discipline and still be working
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  Speaker 1: on my mouth. You're catching me in a metamorphosis. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: real people, real people, real people talk to me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: My mind is being renewed, transformed, but transformed. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: glad I'm in my church tonight because I named the
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  Speaker 1: church the Potter's House, not only because the Lord said so,
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  Speaker 1: but because I knew that I was called to preach
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  Speaker 1: to people who weren't there yet. Let all the people
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  Speaker 1: who are strong enough to admit you're not there yet
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  Speaker 1: clap your hands. So everybody should be clapping except the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and the Sadducees who don't have the strength enough
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  Speaker 1: to admit that God is not finished with me yet.
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  Speaker 1: There's still some work that he's got to do in
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  Speaker 1: my life, but I want to stop making excuses and
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  Speaker 1: get it done so I can be transformed by the
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  Speaker 1: renewing of my mind. So I can stop moving all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff around, fixing up all of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's going to die anyway. What I got to be
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  Speaker 1: working on is the renewing of my mind because it
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  Speaker 1: is with the mind that I serve the Lord. It
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  Speaker 1: is with the mind that that I make choices. It
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  Speaker 1: is with the mind that I make decisions. It is
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  Speaker 1: with the mind that I react to you at any
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  Speaker 1: given moment and I would like to show you the
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  Speaker 1: best of me but sometimes you catch me in a
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  Speaker 1: turn and I show you the worst of me and
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  Speaker 1: come on somebody you catch me spinning or you trigger
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  Speaker 1: me or you say something and I don't respond to
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  Speaker 1: you in the meek quietness that I should have like
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Philippians talks about I want to be in Philippians but
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  Speaker 1: I'm stuck in Romans I want to live in Philippians,
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  Speaker 1: but I am stuck in Romans. I visit Philippians, but
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  Speaker 1: most of the time I live in Romans. I am
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  Speaker 1: trying to go through the metamorphosis of being transformed by
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  Speaker 1: the renewing of my mind. And you don't know it
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  Speaker 1: because you don't go home with me, but if you
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  Speaker 1: went home with me and you watched me long enough,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to catch me in a turn. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why y'all ended up married to who you got married to.
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  Speaker 1: You bought the container and you went home with the content. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Keep sitting there. I'm going to get them toes tonight.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get every one of them. Take your
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  Speaker 1: shoes off so you can get ready. I'm coming right
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  Speaker 1: down your aisle. Glory to God. Look at her. Man,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: have you ever seen anything so fine in all of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: your life? That's the box. That's the body. But you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: got to go home with the content. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: finest people can be some of the meanest, rattlesnake, cut
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  Speaker 1: your head off people you ever saw in your life.
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  Speaker 1: For man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks
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  Speaker 1: on the heart. And if we are to be the
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  Speaker 1: Christians that Philippians says we ought to be, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to have some surgery on the way we think. But
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: if we do, Romans says, that you may prove what
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  Speaker 1: is that good thing. and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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  Speaker 1: That if you change your mind, God will change your life.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: If you change your mind, God will change your life.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: The prodigal son took his father's wealth. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: he did wrong, he would rather have his father's blessing
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  Speaker 1: than his father's presence. In other words, Daddy, I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait on you to die. Give me the portion of
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  Speaker 1: goods that fall into me now. What father wants to
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  Speaker 1: hear his son say, I can't wait on you to
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  Speaker 1: die to get the house. Give it to me now.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: What a heartbreaking relationship between a father and a son
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  Speaker 1: that the son is looking at his watch waiting on
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  Speaker 1: you to die so he can get your stuff. But
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: this is reality. And he got out there and he
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of prostitutes. Jesus says he got harlots
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  Speaker 1: and friends who were only friends as long as he
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: had something to give them. Watch out for people who
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  Speaker 1: don't see you as anything other than an opportunity. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you think you got followers and you think you got
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: friends and you talk about how many people friended you
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: on Facebook and how many people are following you on
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: X and how many people you got following you on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok and how many people love you and adore you.
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  Speaker 1: You better be careful because most of them, most of
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  Speaker 1: them will disappoint you. Because they have a hidden agenda.
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  Speaker 1: And it is very difficult to discern somebody who really
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  Speaker 1: just wants you for you. Or are they waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the portion of goods that falleth unto them? And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says that when he ran out of stuff, he
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  Speaker 1: ran out of friends. And all of the harlots that
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  Speaker 1: slept with him left him before he got to the
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  Speaker 1: hog pen. And by the time he ends up in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the hog pen, he's in the hog pen alone. And
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: then it says the most amazing metamorphosis happened in the
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  Speaker 1: most unlikely places. For a Hebrew boy to be caught
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  Speaker 1: in a hog pen is like being in a slum
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  Speaker 1: in the gum. Hebrews don't eat pork. And he's not
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  Speaker 1: only about to eat the pork, he's about to eat
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  Speaker 1: what the pork eats. He couldn't be in the worse,
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  Speaker 1: more worse place. And yet God doesn't care how bad
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  Speaker 1: the place is to transform the mind. For the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said his body didn't move, but his mind moved. His
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  Speaker 1: flesh didn't move, but his thoughts moved. His legs didn't move,
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  Speaker 1: but his mind went through a metamorphosis. And the Bible
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: said he came again. to himself in the hall pen.
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  Speaker 1: He came. He had an awakening. He had an illumination.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: He had a moment where he came to himself, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: finally the potter has touched the head. and he has
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  Speaker 1: been transformed by the renewing of his mind. And he
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  Speaker 1: came to himself, and I know his mind was new
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: because he had the same life, same father, same hog pen,
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  Speaker 1: same slop that he was about to eat. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing that changed in the story was his mind. And
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  Speaker 1: the moment his mind changed, his decisions changed, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I will arise' and go to my father's house.' Aren't
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you the guy that just left your father's house, ripped
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: him off, took all his stuff and been with whores
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and laying in the bed with sluts and tramps, and
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, just when you were about to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: eat what the swine did eat, He came to himself.
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  Speaker 1: His appetites change. His decisions change. His directions change. His
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  Speaker 1: thought process change. And what he left now looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful who you leave because you may leave who
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you need and have to come back to him again.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And he's trying to practice because now that he's come
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  Speaker 1: to himself, the only thing that has changed is his mind.
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  Speaker 1: His father is still his father. He has to practice now.
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  Speaker 1: How am I going to explain that I may look
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  Speaker 1: the same but I am not the same? I have come.
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  Speaker 1: to myself I have come that's the journey to Damascus
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  Speaker 1: no Jerusalem no I came to myself The journey to
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  Speaker 1: myself may be longer than the journey to my father.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that have made a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: journey to the father that have not made a journey
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  Speaker 1: to themselves. So they like to be in religious places
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: and say religious things and have religious recitations and they
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  Speaker 1: spout religious colloquialisms because the journey to the Father may
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  Speaker 1: not be as far as the journey to yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: can say the right things and go home in turmoil
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: because until you come to yourself, then how can you
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  Speaker 1: fully come to your Father? because you don't really know
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  Speaker 1: who you are. How can you love me when you
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: don't love you? Oh, it's going to be tough tonight.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: So Paul says, for I say through the grace given
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  Speaker 1: to me to everyone who is among you not to think,
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  Speaker 1: not to think, not to think of himself more highly
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: than he ought to think, but to think solely. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell you to think bad about yourself. He just said,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: don't be arrogant. I found out most arrogant people are insecure.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: You have to be strong to be humble. Some people
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: cannot compromise enough to be humble enough because they aren't
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: strong enough, they don't feel safe enough to be vulnerable,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: they have not come to themselves. And they don't know
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: whatsoever things are true. Whatsoever things are true, the truth
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: is what sets you free. Not your ideals, not your principles,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: but grappling with your realities. I am where I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am the age that I am. I am the
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  Speaker 1: skin that I'm in. I am who I am until
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I embrace the truth of what happened to me. The
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  Speaker 1: truth liberates me. Denial incarcerates me. Truth is the emancipator.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: So I have to come to myself so I can
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: come to God and present my body a living sacrifice.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: How can I present something if I don't know what
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: it is? Somebody sent me a gift and I just
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: got a gift before I came here. And the first
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: thing I said, let's open it up because I didn't
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: come to see the box. I want to see what's
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: on the inside. So if you're going to be a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: gift to God, God said, let's open him up. So
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: if you get in a good ministry, a good ministry
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  Speaker 1: will open you up. A good ministry will make you
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: come to yourself. A good ministry will make you confront
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: where you are. A good ministry will strip you. That's
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus died naked on the cross. Because all things
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: are naked before him with whom we have to do.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't care how much you paid for your clothes.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot cover you, Adam and Eve. A naked savior
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  Speaker 1: died for a naked world. And the man and the
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  Speaker 1: woman were both naked and not ashamed. I'm in Genesis now.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: And so that naked Adam who sinned is redeemed by
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the last man, Adam. And he had to come on
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: in the form of the first man, Adam. So they
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: stripped him. And there on the cross, The Lamb of
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: God was at his best when it looked like he
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: was at his worst. There are moments that the gospel
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  Speaker 1: will strip you. It will strip you. It will take
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  Speaker 1: your clothes right off of you. It will strip your
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: mask off. It will mess up your makeup. It will
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: get in your business. It will get in your life
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: because we have a naked Savior He poured out of
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  Speaker 1: himself his glory and his honor. He laid aside his garments.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Over and over you see Jesus taking it off. And
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: now if our Jesus is taking it off, why are
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you so busy in a cover-up trying to put it
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: on when God is trying to take it off? Who
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: told you you were naked? God says to him. What
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: other animal makes clothes but us? Because we have not
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: ever gotten over our need to cover up. And we
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: go through a lot of expense to look good. If
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you had back all the money you spent on looking
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: good rather than being good, can't nobody beat us looking good.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: We always did. We look good even all the way
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: back to slavery. We look good. Big hats on, nice
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: clothes coming, your Sunday go to meeting clothes. We were
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: focused on looking good rather than being good. Other folks
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: spend less on looking good and are more concerned about
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: being good. Which one are you? Are you a look
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: good or are you a be good person? Are you
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: more focused on how you show up in the world
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: rather than how you are inside the world? And maybe
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: that's why you can't sleep at night. Because most of
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: us sleep without. So strip down to who you really are.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Are you good with you? Peace means to be at
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: one with oneself. To be aligned with oneself. I'm good
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: with me. I don't want your nose. I don't want
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: your toes. I take what he gave me. This This
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: text in Philippians toggles between piety. Piety is the quality
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of being religious or reverent like us. Piety. Sometimes it
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: has a negative connotation as pious, self-righteous, but it primarily,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: piety means to be religious, to be God conscious. Philippians 4,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: four through nine, wrestles between piety and practicum. Practicum is
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: where we get curriculum, where we practice what we've been taught.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: There is a difference between being religious and practicing what
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you've been taught. Have you ever noticed that we can
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: have 20 Sundays and the same people come up every Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: You can set your watch. Some of you are going
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to come up in every daggone altar call every week.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: If you have to come up every Sunday, you don't
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: have a practicum for your piety. You're schizo. You're bipolar.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: You're bipolar. The Bible said a double-minded man is unstable
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  Speaker 1: in all his ways. I don't doubt your sincerity when
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you come. I can tell you're sincere when you come.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: But the seed didn't hit good ground. It fell on
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: stony ground. And by Monday, it's gone again. And by Sunday,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you got to repent again because you don't practice faith. So,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: can I go further? Okay. Anytime you got a question,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: interrupt me. I'll take questions. But let me make this
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: one point before you do. I was thinking about this.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: and it really blew my mind. My mother used to
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: sell Avon. She did everything. I mean, she was a
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: school teacher. She ended up the Equal Employment Opportunities representative
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: for the state of West Virginia and still sold Avon.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And then she started keeping the product because they were
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: collection items. And at first she would say someday they're
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: gonna be valuable. In fact, I have some of them
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: that she collected. And she started collecting them and collecting
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: them and collecting them and collecting them until they were
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: in the drawers and they were in the attic and
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: they were in the basement. And little by little, the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: house got filled with stuff. And it was all beautiful, wonderful,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: smell good, aromatic, collector's items. But you couldn't appreciate it
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: because it was hoarded up in the house. Hoarding. Do
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean when I say hoarding? I
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: didn't say whoring. I said hoarding. Okay. Hoarding is having
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: so many things that you cannot manage the clutter. Your
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: life is cluttered. Until all of a sudden there's no
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: room for nobody to come in. People, you know, when
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you come in somebody's house, they say, come on in
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: and sit down. And you'll be looking... And you'll be
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: looking and you'll think, where? Make yourself at home. Come
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: on in if you can get in. We got all
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: kinds of sayings to cover for it. And there's all
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: of this clutter in the house and it's called hoarding.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: It's because you are afraid to let anything go. So
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you keep it all. I might need that. Don't throw
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: that away. I might need that one day. I might
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: need that one day. That's for company. When company comes,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I might use that. I know that chair is broken,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to fix it. I'm going to fix it.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And so we hoard it. And most generally, where you
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: live looks like how you think. When you go to
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: therapy and they take you in the first thing they
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: start doing is putting you on a schedule because your
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: lack of respect of time is an indication of chaos.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: And they teach you to straighten up your room, make
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: your bed, clean up your environment because it will help
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: you with your head. Because if you can be comfortable
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: in chaos, it's because it reflects what's going on I'm
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: messing with you. I ain't going to mess with you.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go over here. I'm going to mess
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: with them a little bit. So how do you like it?
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Do you like it neat? Do you like it nice?
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Do you not like everything in its proper place? Or
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: are you afraid to let go of stuff because someday
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: you're going to fix it and someday you're going to
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: use it and someday you're going to need it and
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: you pray for peace but you won't let go of
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: anything So you keep everything. You're on your third man
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: still mad at your first one. Stay with me. No, no, no.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: You thought I was just going to talk about milk
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: cartons and McDonald's bags and stuff like that. I didn't
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: get up out of bed to come out here to
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: talk to you about a Burger King bag that you
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  Speaker 1: ain't got rid of and that is in the trunk
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  Speaker 1: of your car. Open up the trunk of your car
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  Speaker 1: and ask yourself, does it look like your head? How
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: many people are still living in your head? Some of
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  Speaker 1: the people that you are upset with are dead and
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  Speaker 1: you can't bury them because you say, I might need.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Keep the peace. But how can you keep the peace
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  Speaker 1: if you keep the clutter? And you're so cluttered. And
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  Speaker 1: you're so cluttered. And sometimes it's not stuff. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's not past. Sometimes it's busy. Because as long as
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  Speaker 1: you're busy, you don't have to think. So you make
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  Speaker 1: up stuff to do. And if you don't have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do, you will get somebody else's problem and drag
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  Speaker 1: them home and try to fix them. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: fix them, you don't have to fix you. So you
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  Speaker 1: are attracted to broken people because you like to work
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  Speaker 1: on them so that you don't have time to deal
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  Speaker 1: with you. And broken people who are attracted to broken people,
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  Speaker 1: they like to fix people so they're attracted to broken people.
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  Speaker 1: And some people only love you broke. When you start
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  Speaker 1: getting better, they don't feel needed, so they lose their
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  Speaker 1: attraction to you. As long as you was on drugs,
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  Speaker 1: they was loving you. I see what he can be.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in him. It don't nobody else believe. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in what he can be. You get off drugs,
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  Speaker 1: she walks out. He walks out on you because you're better,
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  Speaker 1: because you no longer reflect the clutter I have. because
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  Speaker 1: I like to save junk. And as long as I'm
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: working on you, I don't have to practice on me.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: And I am conformed to the world and not transformed
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  Speaker 1: by the renewing of my mind. I'm going to stop
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  Speaker 1: right there for a minute. She said, don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Cluttered minds. Clean body. Cluttered mind. Cluttered life.
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping in clutter. How do you get in that bed?
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  Speaker 1: There's so much stuff in that bed. How do you
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  Speaker 1: find a spot? You don't clean the bed off. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't about making up the bed. There's nothing to make
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  Speaker 1: up because there's so much stuff in the bed. But
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: you can find just enough space to curl up over
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  Speaker 1: there and sleep in all of that because it reflects
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff you go to bed with in your head.
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  Speaker 1: Peace on this earth. Goodwill. Really? You're serving the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of Peace. And yet you have no peace. You're riding
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  Speaker 1: with a Jesus who's sleeping on a boat while you
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: are a hysterical individual. And don't let nobody tell you
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  Speaker 1: that only women are emotional. Because Peter is freaking completely out.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: And he is the only one on the boat who
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is a fisherman. How can you be a fisherman and
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  Speaker 1: freak out on the boat when you're the only one
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  Speaker 1: with the experience to get us to the other side
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and I left you in charge of a life that
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: you lost control of. Oh, I slipped that in. That
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: was like a right hook. I left you in charge
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  Speaker 1: of a life that you lost control of. And the
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: reason you can't fix it is because you cannot speak
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  Speaker 1: peace if you don't have peace. So a sleepy Jesus...
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: can calm winds and the waves because he had calmness
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  Speaker 1: in him. He could speak calmness out of him. But
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: if you have no calmness on the inside, why are
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you angry with your daughter for reflecting you? She just
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: got too much mouth. Wonder where she got that from.
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  Speaker 1: That boy just a hothead. He just a hothead. You
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: tell your wife, he just a hothead. It's just like you.
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  Speaker 1: So raising children is wrestling. with yourself in another form. Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I thought y'all be shouting by now. I thought y'all
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: be dancing by now. I'm not concerned about as much,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I am concerned about the state that the world is in,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to pull myself away from it because
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: what the enemy does is try to clutter your mind
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  Speaker 1: with things you cannot control. So he will either use
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: issues that you can't control Like I can't do anything
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  Speaker 1: about Ukraine. I can't do anything about Palestine. I can
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: use my voice, but I can't go over there and
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  Speaker 1: stop the killings and the murders. I can't straighten it out.
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  Speaker 1: But yet it just gets on my nerves just hearing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it every day, day in, day out. I think this
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: is terrible. It's enough. Why can't we just have peace?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: And if the enemy can't get you focused on things
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  Speaker 1: you can't control... He will then take you into digging
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: up things that are past. So you miss the present
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: talking about the past. And you don't even realize that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the enemy just ripped you off of today. You lost
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: today talking about all that stuff that happened three years ago.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And you lost a day that you'll never get back again,
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  Speaker 1: that nobody took from you, but the enemy seduced you
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  Speaker 1: out of today because you are living in yesterday and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: laying with ghosts. You are laying with ghosts because you
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: are a hoarder. And some of the people who hurt you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to forgive them to their apology. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: they're dead. So if I can't get free until you
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: say what I need to hear you say, then I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: have put the thermostat in your room that controls the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: atmosphere in mine. And now the thermostat has gone in
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: the grave and I'm hot in this room but I
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: can't get it straight because I gave you the power
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  Speaker 1: and I lost the power of myself. And now I'm
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: in therapy talking about how old I was when I
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: got potty trained. And dance all you want to but
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  Speaker 1: if you have no practicum you have no peace. I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: gotta be real. I gotta keep it 100. I gotta
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: keep it 100, stupid. You are 100% wrong. Digging in
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the trash can might seem real, but it's wrong. Because
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: it's trash. And it would be better outside of your
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: head than inside of your head. Can I go further? Okay,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: so we're in this situation now that we have got
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to find inner peace because people who have inner peace
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: carry it with them. They come into the room and
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  Speaker 1: they affect the atmosphere. Because they are peaceful. Despite all things.
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  Speaker 1: My wife can walk into a room and without saying
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  Speaker 1: anything at all, she can speak peace. Because Sarita can
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep standing up. She doesn't need a pillow
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  Speaker 1: or nothing. because I know she watches and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it when I get home standing straight
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  Speaker 1: up in a tsunami when she get ready to go
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  Speaker 1: to bed she can go to bed and that calmness
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  Speaker 1: affects atmosphere By the same token, if you're an anxious, irritated,
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  Speaker 1: frustrated person, when you come home from work, the kids
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: get nervous. Anybody know what I'm talking about? When certain
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: people come home and you glad that they came home
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: but you don't know who coming in the door and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: they bring the tension into the room and everybody's braced
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: for anything and you prepared for everything and you don't
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: know if they drunk, you don't know if they sober,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: you don't know if they gonna hug you and start
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: crying or whether they gonna slap you upside your head.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: because they changed the whole atmosphere of the room. You can,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: whatever is in you affects everything around you. So Jesus
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: was full of peace, so he spoke peace, and everything
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: became what he was. For instance, he is the light
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  Speaker 1: of the world. So when he stepped into darkness, he said,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: let there be light. And there was light and it
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  Speaker 1: was good. And the evening and the morning was the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: first day. It was the third day before he created
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  Speaker 1: the sun.
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  Speaker 1: And
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  Speaker 1: the reason he could say that is because he was that.
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  Speaker 1: And it became what he said. If you have love
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: on the inside, you can speak love and change the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: whole atmosphere in the room. But if you have hate
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: in your heart, don't expect your kids to be loving
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: because they were raised and cradled and nurtured in the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: malice and the anger and the frustration. And the bitterness
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: of who left you and who hurt you and who
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: didn't pay child support and who didn't support you. And
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: now he's running around with that other woman and taking
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: care of somebody else's kid. Don't think that if you
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: start bleeding, your kids won't be stained. When I was young,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I got saved. And I grew up in the Baptist church.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I went to church, but I wasn't really in the church.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: And then when I got around the holiest people is
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: when I really had to face off to me and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: get saved. Holiness was holiness. You know what I'm talking about.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Where they be dancing on the edge of the right here.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Right here, they be dancing. all the way down here
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: like that dancing, jerking, jerking. Service is over, drummer has stopped,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: and they take them out of the church, and they
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: take them out like that, and they were all up
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: under the power, and I said, oh God, give me
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: that joy, give me that joy. Give me the joy
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: because young people was just, they was running all over
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: the church. They was jumping, they was dancing on pews,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: dancing on, I've seen people dance on pot-bellied stoves and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: not get burned. I've seen the power of God move
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: in such a way that dead people got healed before
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the ambulance got there. I've seen lame people start walking.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I've seen deaf ears unstop. I've seen God do amazing things.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: People come into church drunk and rowdy and they rebuke
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: the spirit and the person would sober up and fall
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: out on the altar and give their heart to Jesus.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen drug dealers fall to their knees and repent
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: up under the power of God. But you cannot change
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: an atmosphere if you don't change your mind. And the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: problem today is you've got so many things pulling at
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: your head that you can't begin to clean up your room,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: your car, or your head because you keep thinking you
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: might need it someday. I'm going to keep this anger
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: so if he ever comes back, I'll be ready for him.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep this anger so when I run
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: into his new way, she's going to know I'm not
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the one, honey. I'm not the one. Yeah, I will.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep it. I'm going to keep it.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I might need it. But you're keeping the wrong stuff, baby.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: She's not important. He's not important. If you ever run
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: up on me, he's going to limp back. I tell
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: you that. I wish he would. I wish you, oh,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: he gonna be over there? Oh, I'm strapped, I'm ready,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for him. He ain't looking for you. You
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: made it your life's mission to tell off somebody who
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: ain't thinking about you. To drive your new car past
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: their house and their blinds are closed. You want to
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: show them you got a new car and they ain't
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: looking out the window. So tonight, what I'm challenging you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: to do is to throw out all the junk, clean
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: up all the clutter, and simply keep the peace. So
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: how do we keep the peace? That's nice in theory.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: How do we do that? Philippians helps us with that.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: It tells us we have to practice pulling our mind
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  Speaker 1: out of the sewer of all the things that happened
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: or didn't happen or should have happened or could have
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: happened and with a discipline to choose to look at
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: things that are true, things that are lovely, things that
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: are of good report. The Bible says if there be
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: any virtue, if there be any praise, Think on these things.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, think yourself loose. So mental health is
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: important because you could be spiritually saved and mentally bound.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say that again. You could be spiritually
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: saved and mentally bound. And eventually backslide and say church
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: don't work. It don't work because you didn't work it. See,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: you got to move from piety to practicum. You have
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: to practice this. If I describe that in Philippians, if
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I make that description and that don't sound like you
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: at all, you got some practicing to do. Put the
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: text back up there. Put the Philippians 4. Let's put
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: it back up there. Rejoice in the Lord always. Again,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: I will say rejoice. Go ahead. Let your gentle spirit,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: your graciousness, your unselfishness. Excuse me. I had something in
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: my throat. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. You don't want mercy until
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: it's for you. You don't give nobody mercy, but then
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you need mercy. Blessed are the merciful for they shall
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: obtain mercy. You cannot obtain what you do not give. Tolerance. No,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: she not coming back in this house because she didn't
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: obey me. And you're not coming up here to my house.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: You don't tolerate nothing. Make you uncomfortable? Excuse me for
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: moving your junk. Patience equates to peace. I will get
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: there when I'm supposed to get there. If it doesn't
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: happen in my 20s, it'll happen in my 30s. If
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen in my 30s, it'll happen in my 40s.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't happen in my 40s, it'll happen in
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: my 50s. Everything that God meant for me to have,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: I am willing to wait on it because maybe I'm
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: not ready for what I'm asking for. And I am
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: willing to have patience because if I can have patience,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I can have peace. If I can have patience, I
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: can have peace. In other words, I don't need no devil.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I don't need no demons. I am already doing a
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: great job of tormenting me. The devil don't have to
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: send nobody to persecute you. You persecute yourself. Look at you.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: You ugly. Look at you. You should have been further.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: How come you didn't go through school? Look at you.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: You getting fat. Look at you. You getting old. You old.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: It's over. It's finished. Why would the devil waste a
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: demon coming to your house when you're doing a better
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: job than hell itself killing yourself? You don't like you.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Look at how you talk to yourself and you pray
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: for peace. But there's sudden destruction. And he doesn't have
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: to use a demon on you. Because you're a hoarder.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: You're a hoarder. I'm going to say this. If this
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: message found you tonight. And I'll like to be found.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Being found is uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable. I mean, a message
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: that really find you good, really good, and show you
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: yourself really good. It's like a close-up picture. I think,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: back the camera up a little bit, please. Thank you.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Let's put a little distance on it. A filter would
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: be nice, you know. An unfiltered message where I really
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: have to confront me is uncomfortable. but it is the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: only thing that will give me peace. It may not
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: be comfortable, but if it's true, it's important. So yes,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: you have needs. That's true. You have requests. That's true.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: You don't have to give up thanksgiving because you have
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: a need. It is possible to wait with grace and
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: to have gratitude that you are alive. It is possible,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: if you stop being mad at everybody, to start thanking
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: God for your kidneys and your liver. and your lungs,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: and that you can see, and that you can walk,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: and that you can read, and that you can hear.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: And it's don't wait till you lose that stuff to
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: find out what really matters in life.