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Intentional Floods - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Joshua 3 beginning at verse 6 ending at verse 17
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  Speaker 1: when you have it stand on your feet if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have it fake it I'm going to be reading
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  Speaker 1: out of the King James Version and Joshua spake unto
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  Speaker 1: the priest saying take up the ark of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: and pass over before the people And they took up
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  Speaker 1: the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said unto Joshua, this day, watch this closely,
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  Speaker 1: this day will I begin to magnify thee in the
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  Speaker 1: sight of all Israel. That they may know that as
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  Speaker 1: I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
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  Speaker 1: And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the
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  Speaker 1: brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still
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  Speaker 1: in the Jordan. And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: Come hither and hear the words of the Lord your God.
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  Speaker 1: And Joshua said, hereby ye shall know that the living
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  Speaker 1: God is among you. Wait a minute. So Joshua talked
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  Speaker 1: to God. Now Joshua is talking to the people. Hereby
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  Speaker 1: ye shall know that the living God is among you
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  Speaker 1: and that he will without fail drive out from before
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  Speaker 1: you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and
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  Speaker 1: the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God wants you to know. He says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to drive out all of those squatters that are
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  Speaker 1: sitting on your land. Behold, the ark of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord of all the earth passes over before
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  Speaker 1: you into Jordan, into Jordan. Remember the river Jordan. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: take you 12 men out of the tribe of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: out of every tribe, a man. And it shall come
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  Speaker 1: to pass as soon as the soles of the feet
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  Speaker 1: of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the
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  Speaker 1: waters of Jordan. That the waters of Jordan shall be
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  Speaker 1: cut off from the waters that come down from above
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  Speaker 1: and they shall stand upon a heap. Good Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: it came to pass when the people were moved from
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  Speaker 1: their tents to pass over Jordan and the priest bearing
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  Speaker 1: the ark of the covenant before the Lord. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happened. We heard what he said. Now we're hearing
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And as they that bear the ark were
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  Speaker 1: come unto Jordan and the feet of the priest that
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  Speaker 1: bear the ark were dipped in the brim of the waters.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. For the Jordan overfloweth all his banks all
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  Speaker 1: the time of harvest. Wait, go back to that verse.
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  Speaker 1: For the Jordan overfloweth all his banks. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: it's a flood. In the middle of all the time
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  Speaker 1: of the harvest, the sign of the harvest is the
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  Speaker 1: flooding of the Jordan. Keep going. Then the waters which
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  Speaker 1: came down from above, because the Jordan is in the
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  Speaker 1: valley and there's waters coming down out of the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just rain. Then the waters which came down
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  Speaker 1: from above stood and rose up upon a heap very
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  Speaker 1: far from the city of, the city Adam, that is
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  Speaker 1: beside the Zarephath. And those that came down toward the
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  Speaker 1: sea of the plain, even the salt sea felled and
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  Speaker 1: were cut off. And the people passed over right against Jericho.
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  Speaker 1: And the priests that bear the ark of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of the Jordan. And all the Israelites passed over
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  Speaker 1: on dry ground until all the people were passed clean
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  Speaker 1: over Jordan. Can you say amen? I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about intentional floods. Intentional floods. You say God is intentional.
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  Speaker 1: And when you say God is intentional, you think of blessings.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to talk about God is intentional about trouble.
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  Speaker 1: God is intentional about floods. I told the Lord I
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  Speaker 1: was worried about my daughter who incidentally just texted me,
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  Speaker 1: she said, I'm watching daddy. And I said, Lord, by
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  Speaker 1: now I realize that my children are really yours. And
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  Speaker 1: by now I'm starting to understand that they are yours
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  Speaker 1: before they are mine and they will be yours when
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  Speaker 1: I am gone. And so we are co-parenting with God.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to worry like I did worry
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  Speaker 1: or I'm going to try not to worry like I
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  Speaker 1: did worry as if I were raising them alone because
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  Speaker 1: we're co-parenting. And I've come to understand that whether you
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  Speaker 1: have children or don't have children, life brings I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whether it's like this for you. Everybody has problems,
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  Speaker 1: but you go through a season where it comes from everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: While you're trying to straighten out this, this happens. While
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to straighten out that, that happens. And after
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  Speaker 1: a while, you look like the water keeps getting higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher and higher and higher and higher, and you
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  Speaker 1: start frowning in it. I was getting ready to catch
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  Speaker 1: a plane to go to London and it was starting
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  Speaker 1: to flood in Dallas. And the newscaster said, part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason for the flood is not just the deluge
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  Speaker 1: of the rain, but the drought that preceded it had
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  Speaker 1: made the ground so hard that the water just slid
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  Speaker 1: off of it for the first few hours, which created flooding.
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  Speaker 1: Because my property, the back end of my property is
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  Speaker 1: in a floodplain, it floods down into the back end
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  Speaker 1: of my property. And I have seen it flood so
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  Speaker 1: bad that it damaged trees and property and barns until
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  Speaker 1: we had to replace because the entire gazebo was underwater
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  Speaker 1: because it was in a floodplain. God can bless you
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  Speaker 1: in a floodplain. But every now and then the flood
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  Speaker 1: will overwhelm you if you've been built in a flood plain.
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  Speaker 1: And to think that God is intentional begs the question,
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  Speaker 1: why do bad things happen to good people? intentional floods.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, as we
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  Speaker 1: embark upon this journey, I pray that the power of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit would overshadow us in such a way
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  Speaker 1: that we are supernaturally endowed with the kind of grace
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  Speaker 1: that enables us to be effective at communicating outwardly what
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  Speaker 1: you have breathed inwardly into my spirit and into my life.
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  Speaker 1: I feel as though this is a prophetic word. Speak, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: answer questions, unveil mysteries. Feed your flock as only you
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  Speaker 1: can do. I thank you in advance for what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to do amongst your people today. Show off. Throw
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  Speaker 1: your weight around. Show the devil who's boss. I believe
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  Speaker 1: you're for miracles in this place. Great God, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: stand still right where we are until we see clearly
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing in this season. Trust you right now.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, shout amen. You may be seated in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. Disclaimer right off the top before
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  Speaker 1: I get too deep in this. The book of Joshua
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  Speaker 1: just excites me. It just does it for me. The
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  Speaker 1: book of Joshua does it for me in the same
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  Speaker 1: way that the book of Ephesians does in the New Testament.
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  Speaker 1: Because neither book is for wimps. The book of Joshua
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  Speaker 1: is for people who have been in a period of wandering.
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  Speaker 1: And the wandering has now stopped. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that the fighting has. You go from wandering. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who I am. I don't know what I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. I don't know what's going on in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where I fit in. I don't feel understood.
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  Speaker 1: That's the wandering period. But then when you come into
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  Speaker 1: your own, then you have to start fighting for your place.
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  Speaker 1: And they're in the middle of a transition from wandering
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  Speaker 1: to fighting. They're in the middle of a transition because
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  Speaker 1: they are a new generation coming into a new place
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. Abraham's seed is finally reclaiming the
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  Speaker 1: land that was theirs but now has been inhabited by
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. There are some things that God has promised
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  Speaker 1: you like he promised Abraham that somebody else is sitting
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  Speaker 1: on right now. God says, I have given you the land.
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  Speaker 1: I have not changed my mind from what I told Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: And don't let the squatters fool you. It's still yours.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I have given you the land, but you
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  Speaker 1: got to possess it. So you can't be timid and
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  Speaker 1: just sit back and wish for it and pray for
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  Speaker 1: it and hope for it and long for it. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be bold. Don't read the book of Joshua
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to be wimpish. Because the very first
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  Speaker 1: thing it says in Joshua, be strong and very courageous.
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  Speaker 1: For I am with you to deliver you whether so
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  Speaker 1: ever thou goest. And I will give you good success.
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  Speaker 1: Good success suggests that there is bad success. And God
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  Speaker 1: is not timid about telling you, I'm not just going
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  Speaker 1: to wrap it up in a bow and hand it
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  Speaker 1: to you. You're going to have to possess it. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to snatch it. You're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to fight for it. It's not just going to happen
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  Speaker 1: for you. Joshua is in transition too because he is
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  Speaker 1: the successor of Moses. Now, if you're ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be the successor of somebody, you don't want it to
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  Speaker 1: be Moses. Because Moses was bad. Moses was amazing. Moses
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  Speaker 1: was incredible. Moses was trained for 40 years in the
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  Speaker 1: house of Pharaoh and 40 years in the house of
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  Speaker 1: Jethro before he started his task. Moses was bad at 80.
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  Speaker 1: When you bad at 80, you bad. Anytime you walk
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  Speaker 1: across a desert at 80 years old leading a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of disgruntled people, you are amazing. And he's doing his
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  Speaker 1: best miracles in his old age. So though Joshua is younger,
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  Speaker 1: he is less endowed than Moses was. Joshua works for Moses,
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  Speaker 1: leading armies down in the valley into battle like at Rephidim.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, Moses is up on the mountain and
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  Speaker 1: he's doing more raising his arms than Joshua could do
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  Speaker 1: with his sword. Joshua was over, he was bad. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is, is that Moses is now dead. And Joshua
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  Speaker 1: has finally got maybe what he wanted, maybe what he
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  Speaker 1: hoped for, maybe what he didn't want. Regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: he wanted, God wanted him, selected him, and made him
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  Speaker 1: Moses' successor. And he's leading a people who have been
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  Speaker 1: led by Moses the mighty. And they grieved for Moses
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  Speaker 1: for about 40 days at the bottom of the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't stop crying. So they are walking with a
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  Speaker 1: guy that they don't really respect. So they are transitioning
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  Speaker 1: from being wanderers in the wilderness to fighters in the
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  Speaker 1: promised land, from a desert place to a fruitful place,
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  Speaker 1: from an old leader to a new leader. This is powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Faith and fight are the prerequisites of reading this book.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not willing to have faith and fight, See,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks fight but they don't have faith.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have faith, but they won't fight.
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  Speaker 1: In order to step into the pages of the book
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  Speaker 1: of Joshua, you got to have faith and fight. You
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  Speaker 1: got to pray and take your medicine. You got to
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  Speaker 1: talk in tongues and exercise. You got to pray and
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  Speaker 1: work out. You got to have faith and fight. For
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  Speaker 1: where God is getting ready to take you, that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're logged on this morning. You have got to have
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  Speaker 1: faith and fight. To survive, you got to have faith
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  Speaker 1: and fight. To keep your marriage, you got to have
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  Speaker 1: faith and fight. To keep your mind, you got to
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  Speaker 1: have faith and fight. To hold on what God has
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  Speaker 1: given you, you got to have faith and fight. And
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  Speaker 1: now you're getting ready to go into new territory that
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  Speaker 1: is yours but you've never seen it and you've got
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  Speaker 1: to have faith and fight like never before because write
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  Speaker 1: this down, this will not be that So as you
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  Speaker 1: transition from where your proficiencies are, they had learned how
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  Speaker 1: to survive in the desert, but they knew nothing about
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  Speaker 1: possessing the promised land. Years ago, I preached a message
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  Speaker 1: called Desert Babies. Desert Babies. And Desert Babies was extrapolated
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  Speaker 1: from the fact that this was a generational message. It
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  Speaker 1: was a message about the transition from one generation to another.
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  Speaker 1: The people who left with Moses have for the most
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  Speaker 1: part died in the wilderness. The people who are marching
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  Speaker 1: with Joshua have for the most part been born in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. Oh, I wish I could just camp out there.
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  Speaker 1: When you've been born in the desert, your idea of
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  Speaker 1: normal is different. It is not so much that they
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  Speaker 1: miss the leeks and onions of Egypt. That was their
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  Speaker 1: father's problem. But now they have very little to miss.
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  Speaker 1: Most of what God did to deliver the Hebrew people
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  Speaker 1: out of captivity, they didn't see. They heard about it,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't see it. They definitely were not transformed
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  Speaker 1: by Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob because all of them were dead.
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  Speaker 1: All of the stories about the happenings on the night
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  Speaker 1: of the Passover and the blood on the doorpost, they
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  Speaker 1: missed all of that. That wasn't something that they had
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  Speaker 1: personally experienced. For them, it was tradition. Now, listen to
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  Speaker 1: this good. Are y'all with me? Tradition is important. I
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  Speaker 1: know you don't like to hear that, but tradition is important.
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  Speaker 1: Tradition is important. It gives us a sense of identity
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  Speaker 1: to know our history. Tradition is all about defining this
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  Speaker 1: is who we are. It causes us to understand our history. Today,
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  Speaker 1: tradition is almost a four-letter word. But tradition is the
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  Speaker 1: foundation that contemporary thought builds from. I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: this on my way to church and I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what you all call traditional gospel was contemporary gospel
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  Speaker 1: when I grew up. And the oddity about what you
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  Speaker 1: call contemporary is only contemporary in this season. Your children
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  Speaker 1: will call it traditional. And what you are singing as
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  Speaker 1: new songs, they'll say back in the day, my mama
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  Speaker 1: used to sing this. Because life keeps on turning and
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  Speaker 1: the stage keeps on changing and all the rules you're
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  Speaker 1: making are going to become tradition in a minute. I've
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  Speaker 1: lived long enough to see it. I've lived long enough
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  Speaker 1: to see it. I can remember when Mahalia Jackson was contemporary.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember when they would not allow her in
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  Speaker 1: certain churches because of the way she sung. They called
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  Speaker 1: it honky tonk gospel. Clapping your hands in church and
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  Speaker 1: singing that kind of music in church. Mahalia was controversial.
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  Speaker 1: Now she's ancestrally traditional. Times change. To totally disregard tradition
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  Speaker 1: is like to disregard a crack in the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: your house. New windows and new draperies won't fix a
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  Speaker 1: broken foundation. If you don't have a foundation, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how you decorate it, the house is coming down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're not builders and you may not be
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  Speaker 1: in construction, but still you need to take that note
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  Speaker 1: because that is also relational. If you don't build a
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  Speaker 1: solid foundation, don't be shocked five years, ten years later
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  Speaker 1: when the marriage collapses. When the company collapses, when the
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  Speaker 1: vision collapses because you were picking out drapes when you
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  Speaker 1: should have been building foundation. I didn't get much praise
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  Speaker 1: on that, but that's important. If there's a crack in
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  Speaker 1: the foundation, new carpet will not fix it. Tradition is
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  Speaker 1: extremely important. One of the great challenges of marriage is
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  Speaker 1: that you've got two different family traditions coming together. So
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  Speaker 1: your idea of normal and her idea of normal is
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  Speaker 1: all built on your ancestry, your background, your exposure, and
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  Speaker 1: where you came from. And when the two traditions collide,
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  Speaker 1: they often conflict. Because your idea of a good husband
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  Speaker 1: and my idea of a good husband is all defined
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  Speaker 1: by what we saw or didn't see. Tradition gives us foundation.
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't give us revelation. Tradition gives us foundation,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't give us transformation. And transformation, transformation is
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  Speaker 1: formation in movement. And they are being formed while they're moving.
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  Speaker 1: Like a woman doesn't have a baby just laying still
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  Speaker 1: unless there's something wrong with the pregnancy. She is transitional
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  Speaker 1: and yet the baby is being formed in transition. And
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  Speaker 1: most of us are being formed in transition. Hence we
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  Speaker 1: have transformation. But you can't stop moving because you're forming. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep it moving even though you're in
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  Speaker 1: formation and put up with all the haters who point
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  Speaker 1: out all the areas that aren't formed yet. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to keep it moving and not let them shut
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  Speaker 1: you down because they're talking about where you are and
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  Speaker 1: you're focused on where you're going. Transformation happens in movement.
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  Speaker 1: Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, not past tense.
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  Speaker 1: Renewing is a process, not an event. Oh, I came
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  Speaker 1: to church this morning and my mind was renewed. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's being renewed. That word has got to work in you.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to form in you. It's got to develop
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  Speaker 1: in you. It's got to become a new normal for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to come into fruition as you work it out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to work it in on Sunday and you
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  Speaker 1: have to work it out on Monday. I will not
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  Speaker 1: see you on Monday. I will not see you on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I won't see you again until Wednesday. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: your homework is to work out what you heard on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't work it out, you still have tradition,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not seeing transformation. The word form itself implies process.
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  Speaker 1: A potter works with clay. He's forming it. It's in process. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: when you're in process, you are neither this nor that.
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  Speaker 1: The best advice I got. When I moved to Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: came from Pastor Ed Montgomery in Houston, Texas, when he
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  Speaker 1: called me up and said, remember, leave everything that you
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  Speaker 1: learned in Charleston in Charleston because this will not be that. Whoo! Woo,
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  Speaker 1: how it helped me. Woo, how it blessed me. Woo,
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  Speaker 1: how it spoke to me. Because I really came here
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  Speaker 1: thinking that this was going to be just another version
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  Speaker 1: of that. So I thought, I have been pastoring for
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  Speaker 1: 20 years. I know how to do this. I came
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  Speaker 1: in here ready to repeat the experience I did in Charleston.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing he drove into my head is,
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  Speaker 1: is that none of that matters. It doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you learn, this will not be that. And if
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  Speaker 1: you turn this into that, you should have stayed with this.
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  Speaker 1: We step into this text where Joshua is being formed
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  Speaker 1: into a leader. We step into this text where the
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  Speaker 1: wanderers are being turned into fighters. We step into this
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  Speaker 1: text that they're not quite in the promised land and
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  Speaker 1: they're not quite in the desert. And they're in this nebulous,
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  Speaker 1: indiscreet place, which is frustrating all by itself. When you
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  Speaker 1: cannot define where you live is troublesome. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how y'all are. Y'all might be able to do this.
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  Speaker 1: But when I travel to another city, the first place
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I want to go is to my hotel. If you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: let me get to my hotel and drop my bags,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I'm good to go anywhere. But I can't leave my
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: bags in the car and start going places because I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: need to know where I live. I need to know
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: something is stable before I become transitory. I need to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: know that I got a place to stay. My room
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: is good. My bags are good. Let me drop the bags.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I don't even have to unpack them. But when I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: drop my bags, I'm saying to my soul, I live here.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Even if it ain't but three days. For the next
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: three days, I live here. When you don't have an address,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you have a problem. I'm talking about the uncertainty of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: being between places. The uncertainty and the anxiety that it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: brings on your soul when you are between places. Let
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: me show it to you another way. When you are
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: not quite an adult, but not a child, it is adolescent.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Adolescent.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And when any parent knows that adolescents are difficult to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: raise because they are too grown for you to treat
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: them like you used to treat them, but they're too
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: childish to bear any responsibility. So you want to be
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a grown man, but you don't pay no bills. You
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: want to be a grown woman, but you don't add
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: anything to the house. It gets on my nerves because
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you don't want me to treat you like a child.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And you say you're grown till you get in trouble.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Y'all ain't going to help me. Two times a transition
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in your life. One when you are a teenager and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you are adolescent and the second one is when you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: are in midlife crisis or menopause. I must have hit
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: somebody in this room because they hollered. Because you start
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: tripping out because you're too young to be an old lady.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: But you're too old to be a young woman. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you can't drop your bags anywhere. You're too young to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: be an old man. But you're too old to run
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: with the people you're trying to own with. So you
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: go out on the basketball court and try to shoot
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: hoops and pull a hamstring. And the hamstring is an announcement.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That the old great man just ain't what he used
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to be, ain't what he used to be, ain't what
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: he used to be. The old great man just ain't
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: what he used to be, ain't what he used to be.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: That was a nice example. Brothers, I could give you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: other examples, but I'm going to stay right there with
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the hoop. You're going to hoop with me this morning.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: You're going to hoop with me this morning. There are
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: wake-up calls that your body gives you So while the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: women are having night flashes, the men are having panic attacks. Because...
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Never mind. Okay. So all of a sudden you're trying
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to prove something to yourself that you can't prove. That
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I still got it. I still got it. So that's
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: why he runs off with the young secretary. It ain't
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: her youth. It ain't her cute. It's her, it's him
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: trying to prove to himself that life is not doing
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: what life does. It don't have nothing to do with
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you as a wife. It has everything to do with
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: what he's scared of. And besides, you sweating anyway. Going
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: through mood changes. What's your matter? I don't know. Get
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: out of here. Don't ask me nothing. Don't ask me nothing.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Why are you frustrated? Because you don't have no place
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to put your bags. Yes. You don't know where you live.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You're not quite in the desert and you're not quite
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in the promised land. You're close to the milk and honey,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: but you can't eat it. The sun is at your back,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: but you can't go back. And you can't be who
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you used to be. And you're not quite where you're
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: going to be. You're in this nebulous, indescript, foreign place
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: for which there are no rules. And you have no address.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I could stay here all day. I can't, but I could.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I could. I could stay here all day. Let me
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: just go just one hair down. deeper that one of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the big traumas of slavery that we never talk about
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: is not just the atrocities and the abuse and the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: beatings and the hangings and the murders and and all
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of that it is the absence of culture language identity
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and even last name I was explaining to my African
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: friends when I was in London. I said, the thing
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I most admire about you is you know who you are.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I am Matthew Ashomaloa. I have come from the tribe
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of so-and-so. And my ancestors come from such and such
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a place. I said, I don't have a last name.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Jake's is German. Clearly you can see. There is a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: certain trauma that comes purely from the loss of your tradition.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: The loss of your tradition makes you nomadic, floating, moving, uncertain.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And in as much as you can tie into your
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: roots you can produce your fruit. But there can be
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: no fruit without a root. What is my language? What
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: does my language? I was in Nigeria and a guy said,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you're Igbo from the tribe of Igbo because they had
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: done some research, DNA research to prove that my ancestors
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: were Igbo and he started speaking to me in the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Igbo language and he said, this is what your language
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: sounds like and I started crying Because I had never
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: heard it. No root. This is where these people are.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: They have heard about the miracles. They have heard about
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the Passover night. They have heard about the Red Sea.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: They have heard about it, but they didn't see it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: They have heard about the death angel, but they didn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: see it. They have heard about the bitter waters of Mar,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: but they didn't see it or they were children. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: now they are walking with the God of that they
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: have never seen in his fullness, and they have no
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: root like their parents did to the miracle. The miracle
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: at the Red Sea was so important that even after
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: this generation is dead, God still refers to, am I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: not the God who brought you through the Red Sea
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and through the wilderness? That was the point of reference
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: for the relationship with God. Problem is, this generation didn't
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: have that point of reference. We have a generation today
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that doesn't remember when John F. Kennedy was shot, that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't remember when Dr. King was killed in the motel room,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: that doesn't remember the civil rights movement. So you think
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter is the beginning of a struggle? No, no, no, no, no.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: You don't have a root and you don't remember. Oh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you've heard about it, but you didn't experience it. We
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: have a generation today that's trying to build a marriage
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: on a movie. So you are having arguments about what
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a husband ought to be and what a wife ought
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to be when in truth you have no idea what
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: they ought to be. You're basing it on movies and
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: what your girlfriends told you and what you read in
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Essence magazine or Woman's Today magazine, whichever ethnicity you like
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to read. That's your definition of what, it amazes me
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that women write the books they read about what men
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: ought to be. Especially when you didn't grow up in
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a house with men. It's amazing to me that men
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: sit up and base their ideas of what good sex
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: is based off of pornography. I'm going to get out
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of this in a minute. I got stuck in it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get out of it in a minute.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So if she doesn't perform like a flick you saw
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: on your phone. I saw one brother start sweating, I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: think he going into menopause. He going into menopause right
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the message. Because your ideas are
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: locker room ideas. When men talk to each other, we
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: draw conclusions about what your wife ought to be and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you go home mad at her because she's not living
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: up to a fantasy. They are in this nebulous, indescript
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: place called the I don't know place. The greatest thing
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to know is what you don't know. Write that down.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything any more important. The
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: greatest thing to know is what you don't know. You
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: will never be smart until you can admit what you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. And yet we're living in a society that
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you like to brag to everybody about what you know,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: even though you don't know what you say you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and you don't know what you don't know. That means
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: there's no room for you to learn or grow because
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you're already filled up with your own need to impress
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: everybody with what you don't know. The beginning of wisdom
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: is ignorance. The beginning of fool is empty. The beginning
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of up is down. If you would humble yourself, God
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: would exalt you. But because you've exalted yourself, there's no
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: room for promotion in a vessel that's already full. Somebody say,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. One of the things that we learned
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in running a corporation is that we are afraid of saying,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So the first thing they teach you
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: in crisis management is to get people together and get
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: them scripted so that everybody who answers the phone directs
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: people to the right people because we feel embarrassed to say,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So we say stuff that we're not
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: sure of so we can appear informed. Say it again.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Say it again. I don't know. Say
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: it again. The best doctors in the world are the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: doctors who can say to you, I would rather you say,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the reason my father is dead today is because he
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: went to a doctor who treated him for a long
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: time and didn't know what was wrong with him until
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: all chances of healing him were gone. And finally, he
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: says to him, when it is too late, I don't know.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Not being able to say I don't know can kill
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a marriage, can kill a ministry, can kill a company,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: can kill a person. Your arrogance is a lethal weapon
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: that ought to be registered because you cannot say I
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: don't know. A little moment for preachers. It is not
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: what you know about the text that makes you a
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: great preacher. It's what you ask of the text. If
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you come to the text as a fool, you will
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: leave as a professor. But if you come to the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: text as a professor, you will walk away as a fool.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Say it again. I don't know. For we know not
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what to pray for as we ought. But the Spirit
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: itself make his intercession for us with groanings and moanings
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: that cannot be uttered. We don't know. We don't know.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: We don't know. We don't know. We don't know what
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it's going to be like. We don't know what's going
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to happen. We don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: We don't know how to live in the promised land.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: We don't know how to fight this kind of fight.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: We don't know Joshua like we knew Moses. We don't
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: know where we are. We're in transition. And when you're
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: in transition, nobody has to say anything for you to
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: be irritable. You're irritable because you're scared. You're irritable because
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: your norm has been shattered. You're irritable because you're in
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a nebulous place. You're irritable because you have landed in
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the city, but you haven't checked into the hotel. Tradition
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: will not produce tradition. Transformation is personal. Be ye transformed
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12, 2, that's personal.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: That's not congregational. You don't get transformation because you go
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to the potter's house. You can go to the potter's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: house until you're an old woman, but if you are
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: not transformed by the renewing of your mind, you won't
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: be able to make it. In Romans 8, when it
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: talks about, we know that all things work together for
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the good of them that love the Lord. For we know,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: we know, we know. And then it finally says, we
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: know not what to pray for as we ought. That
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: humility of saying we know not is I don't. No. Joshua,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you don't know how to lead. Israel, you don't know
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: how to follow. Joshua doesn't know how to lead. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: know he doesn't know how to lead because the first
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: thing he does is pull out his sword against an
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: angel and ask God, whose side are you on? What? What?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: What I don't know produces a praying church who wants
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: God to be on your side more than you seek
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: to be on his side. Are you spending all your
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: time trying to talk God to bless what you plan?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Or are you humbly coming to him and say, Lord,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: give me your plan? Because I don't know. I don't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: know how to do this. Today, I'm going to talk
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: to you about three things and I'll be gone. I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: going to talk to you about influence. I'm going to
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: talk to you about impediments. And I'm going to talk
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to you about instigators. I'm going to talk to you
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: about influence. I'm going to talk to you about impediments
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: because that's what the flood is, an impediment. And I'm
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: going to talk to you about instigators. Give me a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: few minutes and I'll be done. What God says to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Joshua is vitally important. He says, I am going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: magnify you in the eyes of the people. Which means
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: God says, I am going to give you influence. Don't
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: confuse affluence with influence. Because there are many people who
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: are affluent, but they don't have influence. They're affluent. They're well-known.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: They're recognizable. They have big names. They have big offices.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: They have big suites, but they don't have effect on
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the people who follow them. Affluence does not equate with influence.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: God says to Joshua, I'm going to give you influence.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Influence is leadership. Flowing out of him. It's what flows
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: out of you. It's what flows out. It's not just
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: what you say. It's stuff that subconsciously, like the effluence
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: is the lava that flows out of a rock. Effluence
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: is what, it's not just what you're doing or what
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: you're saying. What is flowing out of you affects everything
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: around you. The subconscious things that you emit into the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: atmosphere is effluence. So we got affluence, we got influence,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and we got effluence. He was already effluent or he
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: would have been commanding or he would not have been
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: commanding or leading people. He was a warrior. But because
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: he was a warrior, didn't make him Moses anymore. Influence, however,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: is the ability to have a measurable impact on others' decisions, behaviors,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and effect outcomes. Influence. And there's not a person in
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: this room or a person watching online who doesn't need influence.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: If it's just over your daughter, if it's just over
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: your son, If it's just in your job and in
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: your position or with your team or on your staff,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that's up under your auspices, it's a
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: terrible thing to lead something without influence. When we think
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of great influencers who positively or even controversially affected the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: world around them, we mustn't confuse their affluence here either.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: In reality, many influencers may not have been affluent at all.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther wasn't affluent. But when he translated the Latin
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: scriptures over into the German language in 1522, it gave
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: him influence that led to the Protestant movement. of which
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: we and Baptists and Methodists and AMEs and United Methodists
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and Church of God and Christ and Church of God
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: and Church of God and Prophecy and everybody else is
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: a part of the collective protests that came when the
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Bible fell into the hands of people who could read it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It gave him influence because it affected our behavior, our decisions,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and our choices. What are, how... effective at you are
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you at influencing other people's behaviors decisions and outcomes that
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: influence doesn't come by yelling screaming arguing nagging complaining cussing
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: people out breaking dishes going at them with skillets you
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: can't make people respect you you cannot buy respect Giving
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: me gifts, sending me cards, giving me money doesn't make
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: me respect you to the point of affecting my decisions,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: my outcomes. Oh my God, I'm preaching. God said, I,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: God said, I am going to magnify you before the people.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Don't confuse titles with influences. Amen. You get more, I'm
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the apostle. That's the big thing now. I'm apostle. I'm
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: a chief apostle. I'm going from a bishop to be
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: an apostle. I'm going to be an apostle, but I
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: was a bishop. And the other guy's an apostle, but
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: he's getting ready to be coronated a bishop. Shut up!
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Changing the title doesn't change the impact. If you have influence,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: you got influence whether they gave you the title or not.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Titles are not influence. Don't confuse degrees and education and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: intellect with influence. You can have more degrees than a
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: thermometer and influence absolutely nobody. God says to Joshua, I'm
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: going to magnify you in the eyes of the people.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Here's the question. Because some of you, God is getting
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: ready to magnify you in the eyes of the people.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: If God magnifies you, would you magnify him? Oh, magnify
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: If God gives you the power to influence people's decisions, outcome,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: and purpose, would you then magnify God or would you
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: magnify yourself and brag about how smart you are and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: how capable you are? Because God is not giving influence
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to in this season to people who need self-aggrandizement and self-promotion.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: God has given influence to humble people who will lay
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: on their face before God and say to God, be
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the glory for the things he has done. Are you
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: in the building? Give me some power on the mic.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Are you in the building? Are you here in the building?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Are you in the balcony? Are you up there in
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the balcony anywhere? Are you online anywhere? Is there anybody
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: left that God can magnify you and you will remember
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: to magnify the Lord? Make some noise if I'm talking
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: to you. respect is never given it must be earned
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: when President Zelensky said to America I don't need evacuation
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: I need ammunition in the Ukraine he said I don't
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: need evacuation do you need a way out no he
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: said I don't need evacuation I need ammunition I Immediately
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: his influence went through the roof. Because that's the kind
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: of leader that everybody finds attractive. Not the one who flees,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the one who fights. The one who stays and says,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I'll get down in the dirt and I'll fight till
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  Speaker 1: I die before I give up on my heritage, my culture,
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  Speaker 1: my tradition, my background. This is my country. This is
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  Speaker 1: who I am. I need somebody who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: on the front line. not pushing me from the car.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua was a fighter. Now he's learning how to be
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  Speaker 1: a leader. God created trouble. Watch this. God created trouble.
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  Speaker 1: To give him influence. Which leads me to impediments. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going from influence to impediment. Can I take a little
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  Speaker 1: bit longer today? Because I came fully loaded. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: bring a happy meal. I brought a five course filet
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  Speaker 1: mignon dinner served in segments and courses with sorbet in
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  Speaker 1: between each segment. Are you ready for this? The flood
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  Speaker 1: was an impediment. The flood was an impediment that God
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  Speaker 1: used to increase Joshua's influence. You've been asking God to
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  Speaker 1: move the impediment. But if God removes the impediment, you
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  Speaker 1: won't have the influence. How you respond to your impediment
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  Speaker 1: is what gives you influence. Watch this. Oh, God, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited. See, Joshua, when he was up under Moses,
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  Speaker 1: had seen the grapes. He had seen the grapes of
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  Speaker 1: the promised land. He had foretasted the grapes, but he
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  Speaker 1: had not seen the flood. The flood was associated with
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  Speaker 1: the harvest, so it didn't flood all the time. So
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  Speaker 1: the last time Joshua was there, he talks about the
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  Speaker 1: giants that were in the land, the sons of Hanak,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't mention the flood. He had sent spies over,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't come back talking about the flood. They
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  Speaker 1: had not seen the flood. Remember Joshua 3.15. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says that Jordan overfloweth all his banks.
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  Speaker 3: All the time of harvest. The flood and the harvest
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  Speaker 3: are connected. Joshua has come to the promised land at
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  Speaker 3: the time of the harvest, which means it's raining a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And all the waters of Jerusalem have no place to
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  Speaker 3: flow but down.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to Israel. I've seen the Sea of Galilee.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Jordan River. I was shocked when
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River. Were you shocked when
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  Speaker 1: you got to the Jordan River? I was shocked when
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River. I was disappointed when
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Jordan River. I was expecting to
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  Speaker 1: at least see the Canal River, the river from Charleston.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be like a river. I got
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  Speaker 1: to the Jordan River, man, it looked like a creek.
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  Speaker 1: I said, so John was baptized. The Jordan River is
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  Speaker 1: no wider than this stage. I was so disappointed because
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  Speaker 1: in my head, I saw something that was big. But
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  Speaker 1: when I came to the Jordan River, it was not
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  Speaker 1: during a flood. So if you come to my backyard
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  Speaker 1: and it hadn't been a flood, it's actually quite dry
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  Speaker 1: But because it's in a flood plain, if you come
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  Speaker 1: at another time, bring your swimming trunks. Because the little
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  Speaker 1: pond in my backyard overflows to the point that I
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  Speaker 1: had to claim insurance and rebuild, not because I live
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  Speaker 1: with a river in my backyard, but in that season,
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  Speaker 1: it flooded. You are in a flooding season. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord wants you to hear this word today. Because the
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  Speaker 1: Lord ordered the impediment of the flood to give you influence.
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  Speaker 1: How you handle this flood will determine the influence for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Because you are leading a
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  Speaker 1: group of people who have no point of reference. So
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  Speaker 1: God has simulated a crisis to prove his promise that
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  Speaker 1: as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you.
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  Speaker 1: So God has turned a creek. into a river so
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  Speaker 1: that he can demonstrate his power in your life. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of rebuking the devil and pleading the blood, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to thank God for the flood in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. Because the flood is
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  Speaker 1: a sign that the harvest is in process. And the
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  Speaker 1: flood is a sign that God is about to give
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  Speaker 1: you influence beyond your wildest dreams. Because how you deal
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  Speaker 1: with this impediment will determine the influence that you walk
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  Speaker 1: in the rest of your life. And if you don't
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  Speaker 1: cross this Jordan, you will never kill the Canaanites, the Gerashites,
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  Speaker 1: the Habbites, the Hittites, or the Jebusites. Everything you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be depends on how you handle this flood. It
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  Speaker 1: was a creek when you saw it. Now it's a
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  Speaker 1: flood when you get up to it. And you're standing
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  Speaker 1: there at the Jordan wondering what to do. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need evacuation. You need ammunition. Joshua is leading the people
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  Speaker 1: to where he has already been, just like Moses led
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  Speaker 1: them to the place he'd already been. You cannot lead
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  Speaker 1: people to places you haven't gone. So stop trying to
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  Speaker 1: be a tour guide in a place you don't know
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  Speaker 1: nothing about. So Joshua is leading them to a place
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  Speaker 1: that he has been before. He is proficient at crossing
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan when it's not a flood. But now it's
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  Speaker 1: a flood. And all he has is the promise of
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  Speaker 1: God that as I was with Moses, so shall I
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  Speaker 1: be with you. The only difference is, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: hurry on. The only difference is, is that at the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea, Moses stretched forth his rod and the waters
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  Speaker 1: parted and they walked across on dry ground. But when
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  Speaker 1: Joshua gets to the Jordan and the flood has turned
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: it into an amazing river and Joshua stands there at
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan River and standing there is not working. He
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  Speaker 1: can't stretch forth his rod. That's not working. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be with you like I was with Moses,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to do it like I did
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  Speaker 1: with Moses. So you can't imitate your Moses and cross
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  Speaker 1: your Jordan. Who am I preaching to in this place?
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  Speaker 1: Slap your neighbor and say, I'm going to cross over Moses.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to cross over. I'm about to leave the
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  Speaker 1: old me and cross over to a new me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to leave my old place and cross over to
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  Speaker 1: a new place. I'm about to step out of this
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  Speaker 1: zone and step into that zone. Everybody won't be able
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  Speaker 1: to go with me. So some people are going to
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: have to stay on this side of the Jordan because
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  Speaker 1: not every tribe is able to cross over a flood plain,
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  Speaker 1: but the Lord sent me here to preach to somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's standing in front of a flood. You can't bring
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  Speaker 1: everybody with you. Some people got to pitch their tent.
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  Speaker 1: out in the desert because they are desert babies. They
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  Speaker 1: are not kingdom builders. And you got to let them
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  Speaker 1: pitch their tent within their comfort zone. But there are
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  Speaker 1: a few of us that have come too far to
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  Speaker 1: fall short of the promise of God. Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: in this house that That's come too far to settle
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  Speaker 1: on the desert. You've been through too much. You've cried
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  Speaker 1: too many nights. You endured hardness. And whatever you got
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  Speaker 1: to go through, I'm going to step into this Jordan
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  Speaker 1: and make something happen. Give me 30 seconds of crazy praise.
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  Speaker 1: I got to.
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  Speaker 2: Go all the way.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go all the way. If mama don't go,
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  Speaker 1: if daddy don't go, if sister don't go, if brother
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  Speaker 1: don't go, I got to go all the way. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to work it. My rod ain't working,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to do something to get my miracle
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord. Maybe you stretched forth your rod and
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: it worked for Moses, but it didn't work for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Moses' method. It's Moses' anointing that is on
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  Speaker 1: you to cross over this season in your life. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm answering prayers, if I'm answering questions, if I'm speaking
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: to your destiny, holler at your boy. There is no
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  Speaker 1: way to get to the grace without dealing with the impediments.
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  Speaker 1: The things that impede your progress are a sign of
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: your progress. There wouldn't be an impediment if there weren't
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: grapes on the other side of this. If there wasn't
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: milk and honey on the other side of this. Slap
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, get to the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord told
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: me to tell you, make it happen. Type it on
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  Speaker 1: the line. I'm going to make it happen. I can't
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: hear you. You ain't mad enough. You ain't radical enough.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: You're not aggressive enough. I'm going to give you another
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: chance to make some noise if you're going to make
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  Speaker 1: it happen. In times like these, people don't know what
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: to do because we have never seen times like these.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: We've never seen plagues like these. We've heard about it,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: but we've never seen it. It's been a hundred years
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: since the blue bonnet plague was out. We've never seen
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: the disruption that we're seeing right now. Our banks are overflowing. Oh, hallelujah.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Our markets are overflowing. Our stock markets are overflowing. The
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: price of our rent is overflowing. The price of a
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: piece of chicken is overflowing. And we've never seen days
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: like we're seeing right now. But I serve notice on
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: the devil. I will not stop till I cross over.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Where are my crossover people? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So here you are standing in front of an impediment.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: It could be a financial impediment, an emotional impediment, a
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: physical impediment, a sociological impediment. I don't care what kind
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: of impediment it is. You're going to have to instigate
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: A miracle. Moses was able to part the waters without
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: getting wet. But in order for Joshua to get his miracle,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: he had to step over into what wasn't moving. And
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the Lord told me to tell you, it looks like
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: it's not moving, but step in it anyway. Where are
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: my instigators? I'm going to instigate a miracle. I'm about
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: to set it off up in here. I'm about to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: step out into something that ain't working. I'm about to
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: put my foot into the Jordan River. Slap your neighbor
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: and say, step in the water. I stepped in the water.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: The water was cold. It chilled my body, but not
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: my soul. I stepped in the job. I stepped in
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the storm. I stepped in the haters. Step into it.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line. Step into it. What I'm
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: trying to tell you is you got to get your
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: feet wet. You can't just look at the impediment. You
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: got to instigate your next miracle. Look at somebody holler,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: instigate it. There are people in the Bible that only
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: got a miracle because they instigated it. Naaman would have
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: died of leprosy if he didn't instigate a miracle. The
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: blind man, Bartimaeus, would have died blind, but he kept
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: on yelling until he instigated a miracle. If you're going
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: to instigate a yell at the top of your lungs...
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: He yelled. He yelled. He yelled. He yelled till Jesus
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: stood still. He yelled till he got God's attention. The
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: woman with the issue of blood. Jesus was passing her by,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: but she said, I'm going to instigate a miracle. If
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I got to get down and crawl, I'll crawl till
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I get to Jesus. Because I'm an instigator, I need
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: 500 instigators to jump out in the aisle and set
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: it off. Yes! The rest of you stay where you are.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: You waiting on the loan. You waiting on some help.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: You waiting on Big Brother to come. You waiting on
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: somebody to break you out. But I need 500 instigators
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: that are getting ready to get your feet wet. Step
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: over into the water. Step over into your miracle. Step
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: over into your dream. Step over into it. Give your
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: God a praise. You got to hear this. You got
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to hear this. So the Bible said that when Joshua
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: stepped out into the water and the priest stepped out
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: into the water, nothing was happening. Nothing was moving. Nothing
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: was changing. They stood in the middle of nothing changing.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: That's why when y'all started singing about standing, I almost
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: lost my mind because there is a moment that you'll
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: stand in it and it'll look like it's not going
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: to move. But when you stood on it, the rock
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: you stood on, though you couldn't see it, you were
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: standing on a rock. You were standing on a promise.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: You were standing on a vision. You were standing on
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: a dream. You were standing on God's Word. You were
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: standing on what God said. Stand on it. Stand on it.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Stand on it. Stand on it. Stand on it. Stand
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: on it. Stand on it!
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Stand on it! Stand on it! Stand on it!
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Whoo! Somebody holler, I'm an instigator. That means I got
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: to get my feet wet so that the people following
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: me can go across on dry ground. I got to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: step in the water so that they can step on
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: dry ground. Somebody better grab my coattail because I feel
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: like preaching. Get your feet wet.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: Stand on it.
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  Speaker 1: Stand in the middle of it. Stand in it.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Stand on it.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Instigators, when you first stand on it, your feet will
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: get wet and it'll look like it didn't work. But
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: God is training you not to walk by sight. but
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: by faith. And so the Bible said that as the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: priests stood on a rock they couldn't see, with a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: water they couldn't move, that when God saw them standing
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: on it, now this is where it gets deep. There
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: is a moment in faith where you step out there
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: And nothing changed. And you gotta stand in uncertainty. And
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: stand in fear. And stand in doubt. And stand in anxiety.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: And not go back. Because of the level of influence
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: that God is about to give you. You can't go
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: back because it doesn't look like it's working. When they
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: stood in what wasn't working, be it a marriage, be
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: it a job, be it an entrepreneurship, be it raising
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: a child, be it building a building, be it starting
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: a company, every successful entrepreneur I have ever known stood
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: in water. For a while. Over budget. No profit. No increase.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: But they stood there. I'm standing here today. Just because.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: The Bible said while they were standing there, In nothingness
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: and nebulousness and uncertainty and fatigue and fear that God
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: stopped the waters that were coming down off the mountains.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: He dammed it up at Adam, a city miles away.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: And see what I got to show you right quick.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: The Sea of Galilee... flows into the Jordan River, and
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea. The Dead
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Sea is called the Dead Sea because it's got so
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: much salt in it that nothing can live in it.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: The Jordan feeds the Dead Sea. That's why Jesus was
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: baptized in the Jordan, to typify your sins being washed
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: into the Dead Sea. Amen. never to live again. It
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: was important that John baptized Jesus in the Jordan because
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the Jordan flows into the Dead Sea. And God says,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: your sins I will remember no more. Watch this. So
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: God shut up the waters that were coming from Galilee
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: and coming down off the mountains of Jerusalem. He damned
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: them up. On one side. And he shut it down
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: on the other side. So that everybody who came after
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: them would come across on dry ground. That's what being
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: a leader is. It's making it possible for the people
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: who come after you not to have to deal with
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: what you had to deal with to get to where
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: they're trying to go. So the Bible says that after
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: all the people had passed through on dry ground, God said,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: don't leave this place without getting the stones from the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: places where the.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Where the feet of the priest stood firm. God said,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the only thing that's valuable about this process is where
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: did you stand firm? He said, go rescue the rocks
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: that you stood on and leave them as a memorial
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: to your children. Because your children don't have no roots.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Your children don't have any traditions. So when they ask you,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: how did you make it? Take them to the rocks.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Let them know that success is not easy. That survival
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: is not easy. That endurance is not easy. Let them
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: know that I had to get my feet wet. I
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: had to stand on a rock I couldn't see. But
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: the rock withstood the flood. And I saved my rocks
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: for the next generation to see that what mama did
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't easy. Mama got wet so you could be dry.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: Daddy got wet so you could be dry. Daddy took
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: on two jobs so you could go to school. Mama
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: took on two jobs so you'd have a chance to
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: go to the NFL. I worked over so you could
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: work under. This is where my feet stood firm. So
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: that whenever you come to your flood, you will understand
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: the flood is never a reason for you to give up.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: It is a reason for you to have influence. The
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: impediment made you an instigator, and being an instigator gave
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: you influence. Every time you withstand the flood, you gain
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: influence because somebody is watching how you handle, watch this,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: the unexpected. How you handle the unexpected will determine the
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: level of influence you have. You see, respect can never,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: somebody cut the lights out, it's okay. Respect, the devil
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: got to do something. Respect, he got to do something.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: I don't blame him, I'll do something too. Respect, watch this,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: look at me, look at me, look at me a minute.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Look at me a minute. Respect. can never be given.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: It must be earned. So I called the message Intentional
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Floods because whenever God is going to give you new influence,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: he'll create a flood to simulate an experience that Moses
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: didn't have to create so the people will see you
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: as a Moses Your flood is your credentials. And if
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: you stand up to this, I wish somebody was saying stand,
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  Speaker 1: but if you just stand when everything in you wants
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  Speaker 1: to run and hide, if you just stand in a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: nebulous situation, of great frustration, after you've done all you can,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: and you're tired, and your feelings are hurt, and you
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: want to give up and you want to break down,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to walk away, and you tell yourself,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't even worth all of this. God sent this
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  Speaker 1: flood to test your ability to stand in water. To
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  Speaker 1: stand in that which is overwhelming. The waters had overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: the banks of Jordan. So what I saw was not
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  Speaker 1: what Joshua saw. Because I didn't see it in a flood.
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  Speaker 1: You're in a flood zone. A flood of hate. a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: flood of gunfire, a flood of political chaos, a flood
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  Speaker 1: of racism and sexism and every other kind of ism,
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  Speaker 1: you're in a flood. A flood of emotional stress and
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: chaos and uncertainty. God said, you're standing on what they
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  Speaker 1: can't see. A rock is somewhere in that flood. Stand
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  Speaker 1: on the rock. And you're going to instigate God to
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: create a dry path. Hear me good. Hear me online.
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  Speaker 1: A dry path will come after you stand. The way
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  Speaker 1: you instigate Your next is to stand up to your now.
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  Speaker 1: Stand on it. Stand. That's all he wants you to
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  Speaker 1: do is just get you to do this. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's hard and your emotions are going crazy. But if
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  Speaker 1: you just stand on what you know, stand on what
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  Speaker 1: you've been taught, stand on what God promised you, stand
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  Speaker 1: on his promise in your life.