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Walk It Out Wednesday The Danger of Entitlement - Bishop T. D. Jakes (1) · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Hey family, welcome to the house. We're so glad you're
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  Speaker 1: here and we are excited about this word that you
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  Speaker 1: something that you've been praying for, believing God for, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to.
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  Speaker 2: Sow a seed.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Whenever God meets me, I make it my personal
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  Speaker 3: commitment to to sow a seed, to build an altar.
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  Speaker 3: When there's something in that message that you know the
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  Speaker 3: light turns on or it deals with something that you
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  Speaker 3: have been struggling with, there is something about having this
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  Speaker 3: practical manifestation of that response of what God just said
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  Speaker 3: to you. And for me, that comes when I sow
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  Speaker 3: a seed.
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  Speaker 2: We love you. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it to the end and then share this message
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  Speaker 1: with somebody. It's going to change your life and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: many others.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to the Gospel of St. Mark 12,
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  Speaker 2: verse 1 through 12, where we left off Sunday. The
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12, verse 1 through 12.
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  Speaker 2: And if once you have it, would you stand? If
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  Speaker 2: you can put it on my monitor, it'll make it
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  Speaker 2: easy for me. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Let me preface this by saying, They were always trying
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  Speaker 2: to set Jesus up. Always trying to set Jesus up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad for the Bible, because the Bible lets
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  Speaker 2: you know what's normal. There's nothing new up under the sun.
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  Speaker 2: And right before this, they were trying to set him up.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus said, they asked Jesus a question. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: asked them a question. He answered the question with a question.
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  Speaker 2: He said, now, is the baptism of John of God
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  Speaker 2: or not? And they were in a dilemma because they
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  Speaker 2: reasoned in themselves, if we say it's not of God,
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  Speaker 2: the people are going to judge us. If we say
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  Speaker 2: it is of God, they're going to want to know
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  Speaker 2: why didn't we participate. And Jesus had a way of
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  Speaker 2: kind of putting them in a stronghold. And what I
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  Speaker 2: like about him, he had a fierce clap back. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Without being nasty or anything like that, he just had
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  Speaker 2: a way of clapping back. So this parable comes at
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  Speaker 2: the end of this deliberation. And the parable is designed
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  Speaker 2: for them to see themselves. Because if he told them
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  Speaker 2: about themselves, they would deny it. That it was true.
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  Speaker 2: But a parable is designed that you can find yourself
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  Speaker 2: in the parable. And it's been a while since I
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  Speaker 2: preached something on Sunday that so many people said they
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  Speaker 2: saw themselves in the text. Yeah, they saw themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the text. And that's a good thing because if you
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  Speaker 2: can't see yourself in the text, something is wrong. The
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  Speaker 2: women used to beat brass. and fill it with water,
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  Speaker 2: and it became mirrors for them, where they said, you
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  Speaker 2: don't go to the Word of God. The Word of
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  Speaker 2: God is like a woman who goes over to the
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  Speaker 2: mirror and forgets what manner a man, what manner a woman,
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  Speaker 2: or what manner a man he saw. The Word of
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  Speaker 2: God is a looking glass for you to see yourself
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  Speaker 2: more clearly and understand yourself more dearly. So it starts
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  Speaker 2: out in the first verse. I got tickled, so I said,
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  Speaker 2: would you please get past the first verse? Because I
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  Speaker 2: could have stayed in the first verse all Sunday long.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I got much further than the first verse.
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  Speaker 2: But it says, go back to the first verse. Then
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  Speaker 2: he began to speak to them in parables. He began
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  Speaker 2: to speak to them in parables, which is mostly what
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  Speaker 2: he did. We got very few sermons from Jesus. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that funny? We got very few sermons from the Sermon
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  Speaker 2: on the Mount. You know, maybe one or two other things.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus preached till the woman's house was filled and they
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  Speaker 2: was cutting up her roof. And the Bible still doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give us his text, his subject, his sermon or anything else.
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  Speaker 2: He preached out in the desert till people were about
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  Speaker 2: to faint. And we still don't know the sermon. We
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  Speaker 2: know everything that happened around the sermon. But we don't
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  Speaker 2: know the sermon itself. And here, this is not a sermon.
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  Speaker 2: It's a parable. He's a storyteller. He's telling a story.
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  Speaker 2: But there's truth in the story. A parable is a
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  Speaker 2: story that has truth in it that you can extract
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  Speaker 2: from it that you can use to better yourself. So
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  Speaker 2: this is one of them. He says, A man planted
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  Speaker 2: a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a
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  Speaker 2: place for the vine vat, and built a tower. And
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  Speaker 2: he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2. Now at vintage time, harvest time, he sent
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  Speaker 2: a servant to the vine dresser that he might receive
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  Speaker 2: some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vine dresser. Now, wait,
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  Speaker 2: I got to stop here and go back and say this.
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  Speaker 2: I made it a comparison Sunday that I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: elaborate a little bit on. Everything in verse one, the
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  Speaker 2: owner did. The vinedresser didn't do anything at all. He
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  Speaker 2: did the digging. He built the tower. He set them
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  Speaker 2: in the garden. He built the hedge. They walked into
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  Speaker 2: the finished work of the vinedresser, which is much like Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: where when you look at Genesis, God is doing all
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  Speaker 2: the work, and he creates man to walk into the
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  Speaker 2: finished work of God, which is much like salvation. We
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  Speaker 2: don't do anything to save ourselves. We walk into the
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  Speaker 2: finished work of Jesus Christ. So anytime you walk, he
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  Speaker 2: finished on the fifth day. Okay? He created man on
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  Speaker 2: the sixth day. Five is the number of grace. Five
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  Speaker 2: is the number of grace to typify all the things
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  Speaker 2: that God does for us that we walk into and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have any right. So we just walked into
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  Speaker 2: it and received it by the grace of God. And
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  Speaker 2: so I wanted to draw the parallel between those three things.
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  Speaker 2: The finished work of Christ is what we are saved by.
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  Speaker 2: It's not your works, lest any man should boast. It
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  Speaker 2: is done by the finished work of Christ. So these
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  Speaker 2: people have now come in here to lease a garden
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't build. to do what he told Adam
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  Speaker 2: to do, to tend the garden. But he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: to build the garden. He just had to tend the garden.
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  Speaker 2: So we are stewards of what God owns. And we
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  Speaker 2: are judged by how well we steward what we have
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  Speaker 2: been given. And so every now and then you need
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  Speaker 2: to do an accounting inventory of what you have been given.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you're going to have to give an account
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  Speaker 2: for what you have been given, you need to know
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  Speaker 2: what you got. So there's no need in being coy.
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  Speaker 2: I know I got this. I got this. I got
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  Speaker 2: this gift. I got that gift. I got the other gift.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get this. You need to know what you
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  Speaker 2: do have, what you don't have. Silver and gold have
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  Speaker 2: I none, but such as I have, give I unto thee.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up
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  Speaker 2: and walk. See, he said, I don't have any money
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  Speaker 2: on me, but I do have some power. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk.
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  Speaker 2: He had to know that he had the power. And
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  Speaker 2: the enemy's job is to try to make you not
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  Speaker 2: know that you got what you got. Because the only
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  Speaker 2: thing you have to give an account for is what
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  Speaker 2: you've got. You don't have to give an account for
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  Speaker 2: somebody else's gift. That wouldn't be fair. If God said
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  Speaker 2: to me, I want you to sing like Donnie McClurkin,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't sing like Donnie McClurkin, I ain't afraid you
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  Speaker 2: didn't give me that. Okay, so I can't sing like
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  Speaker 2: Donnie because you didn't give me that, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to give an account for that because I don't
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  Speaker 2: have that. I can enjoy him singing like that. In
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  Speaker 2: my mind, I can sing like that. In my mind,
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  Speaker 2: I sing him out the table. Don't let me get
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  Speaker 2: in the shower and go to sing, and I'll run
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  Speaker 2: him right out the room. But in real life, you
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  Speaker 2: cut that water off and it's just me out there. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: it's embarrassing, Jesus. Have you ever been singing in your
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  Speaker 2: car with somebody and you was killing it? And then
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  Speaker 2: they stopped singing and we heard you? Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 2: that's like. So that's where we are. Now, at the
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  Speaker 2: finish time, let me go back to the other verse
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  Speaker 2: because I lost my place. Now, at the finish time,
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  Speaker 2: he sent a servant to the vinedresser that he might
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  Speaker 2: receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedresser. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is how they pay rent, by giving a portion
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  Speaker 2: of what he's given back to them. They're in business
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  Speaker 2: with God. Whether you know it or not, you're in
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  Speaker 2: business with God. And God says, if you give me
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  Speaker 2: a portion of what I have given to you, just
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  Speaker 2: a portion, I'll be satisfied with that. So he sent
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  Speaker 2: the man during the time of the harvest and he says,
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  Speaker 2: go and collect because I know it's time. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's come to fruition. It's developed now. They have grown, hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: It has grown, definitely. Now it's time to do some collecting.
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  Speaker 2: Sooner or later, you come into a point that God
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  Speaker 2: has a right to ask something of you. He's given
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  Speaker 2: so much to you that he's got a right to
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  Speaker 2: ask something of you. Oh yeah, I'm good already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's given so much to you, he's got a right
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  Speaker 2: to ask something of you. God will not ask of
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  Speaker 2: you something that he hasn't given to you. So of
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  Speaker 2: thine own have we given thee. So we need not
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  Speaker 2: walk up to the altar and lay something down on
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  Speaker 2: the altar like we're doing God a favor because whatever
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  Speaker 2: you give God, he already gave you. So always you're
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  Speaker 2: doing is proving your faithfulness by giving back to him
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  Speaker 2: a portion of what he has given you. Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 2: And if you keep the portion, you rob the owner.
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  Speaker 2: If I say I'm going to give you $ 100 and
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  Speaker 2: for every $ 100 I want you to give me $ 10
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  Speaker 2: and you can come along and you keep the $ 90,
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  Speaker 2: I got the $ 10 and you take the whole $ 100,
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  Speaker 2: you rob me. And you've also taught me not to
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  Speaker 2: do business with you because I can't trust you. So
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  Speaker 2: this is more about trusting it is the $ 10. He
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  Speaker 2: don't need the $ 10. It's not about that. It's about,
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  Speaker 2: can I trust you? And God says, if I can
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  Speaker 2: trust you with a little bit, I can trust you
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  Speaker 2: with a whole lot. Or if you be faithful over
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  Speaker 2: a few things, I'll make you ruler over many. So
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  Speaker 2: instead of them doing what they needed to do, how
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  Speaker 2: they needed to do it, which would have been the
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  Speaker 2: end of it, seeing as they didn't work for it,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't labor for it, they didn't build it, They
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  Speaker 2: didn't grow it. They didn't plant it. All they had
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  Speaker 2: to do was say, here's your portion right here, and
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  Speaker 2: it would have been over. No. Sometimes we bypass the
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  Speaker 2: simple thing and do something that's so much worse. And
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  Speaker 2: they took him and beat the man and sent him
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  Speaker 2: away empty-handed. So they beat him up. Again, he sent
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  Speaker 2: them another servant, and at him they threw stones, wounded
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  Speaker 2: him in the head. These are mean people. And sent
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  Speaker 2: him away shamefully treated. And again he sent another, and
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  Speaker 2: him they killed. And many others, beating some and killing others. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want to stop there for a minute. I won't
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  Speaker 2: leave you standing too long. But I want to stop
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  Speaker 2: there for a minute and point out to you, Cain,
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  Speaker 2: all Cain had to do was offer up a lamb
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  Speaker 2: in the book of Genesis. That was very simple. All
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  Speaker 2: he had to do was offer up a lamb. It
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  Speaker 2: was very simple. It was very plain. And the Bible said,
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  Speaker 2: by faith, let me prove it to you, by faith,
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  Speaker 2: Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how do I get faith? Faith comes by hearing and
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  Speaker 2: hearing by the word of God. So he had to
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  Speaker 2: be an earshot. He had to be an earshot, and
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  Speaker 2: he chose to give him what he grew out of
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  Speaker 2: the ground. First problem with that, what came out of
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  Speaker 2: the ground was cursed. Second problem with that is if
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  Speaker 2: Abel did it by faith, then Cain had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to do it by faith too, okay? Third thing about
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  Speaker 2: it is you won't kill a lamb, but you turn
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  Speaker 2: around and kill your brother. Now, it seemed like to
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  Speaker 2: me it would have been easier to kill a lamb, okay? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not itching to kill no lamb, but it seemed
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  Speaker 2: like it'd be easier to kill the lamb than it
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  Speaker 2: would be to kill my brother, okay? And then he
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  Speaker 2: got smart about it. Am I my brother's keeper? That's
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  Speaker 2: how you know you've done wrong because you get an attitude.
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  Speaker 2: You get a real nasty attitude. And time after time
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  Speaker 2: after time, notice what I want you to see through
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  Speaker 2: this text. It's the patience and the long-suffering of God.
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  Speaker 2: Because when I sent the first servant and you beat
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  Speaker 2: him up, See, that's where this whole parable would have
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  Speaker 2: stopped right there. It would have stopped right there because
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  Speaker 2: I would have drove my chariot right through the field
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  Speaker 2: and set it on fire and burned it all down
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  Speaker 2: because you don't appreciate what I've given you. But no,
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  Speaker 2: he sent another one. And they threw rocks at him,
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  Speaker 2: hit him in the head, and sent him away shamefully.
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  Speaker 2: He comes back shamefully. I'm not sending you nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: That's two I've given you. And you had two times
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  Speaker 2: to do the right thing. You ain't going to do right.
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  Speaker 2: But no, he sent another and another one and another one.
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  Speaker 2: And every time it happened the same. But what I
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  Speaker 2: want you to see is how long-suffering he was. Our
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  Speaker 2: God is gracious. He's long-suffering. He's merciful. He gives you
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  Speaker 2: time after time after time to get yourself together. And again,
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  Speaker 2: he sent another, and him they kill, and many others
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  Speaker 2: beating some and killing some. Now, they know that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: their stuff. They know they had no right for that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't kill the mailman because you don't like the mail.
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  Speaker 2: But they killed all of them. Therefore, still having one son.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's down to one son. And this is important
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  Speaker 2: because this is prophetic. Therefore, he's now down to one son.
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  Speaker 2: His beloved is a clue. This is my beloved son
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  Speaker 2: in whom I am well pleased. Okay. So he's not
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  Speaker 2: just his son. He's his beloved son. You know, beloved son.
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  Speaker 2: This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
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  Speaker 2: He's like Joseph to Jacob. He's his beloved son. He's
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  Speaker 2: his favorite son. They sent somebody that he had deep
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  Speaker 2: emotional attachment to. They sent him, he also sent him
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  Speaker 2: to them last, saying, they will respect my son. They're
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  Speaker 2: not that bad. They will respect my son. Verse 7,
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  Speaker 2: but those vinedressers said among themselves, oh, goody, this is
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  Speaker 2: the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: will be ours, which shows you what their intention was
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  Speaker 2: in the first place. There are a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who grin in your face and smile and act like
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  Speaker 2: they're with you, but all the while they're plotting. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be like you. They want to be you.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be you. They want to be you.
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  Speaker 2: Brother came to me and said he wanted my anointing.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm not through with it. When I finish
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  Speaker 2: with it, you can have it. But right now, you
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  Speaker 2: can't have it while I'm working with it. They killed
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  Speaker 2: his son. Now, maybe this hits me harder as a father,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe it hits you harder as a parent. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be hard for me to get over that. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: hard for me to, I don't know if I could
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  Speaker 2: like you no more. Because you killed my son. You
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  Speaker 2: killed my son. My son is worth more to me
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  Speaker 2: than all the grapes in the fields. And you kill
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  Speaker 2: my son. And now you have killed my son in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of the harvest of grapes. And there is
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  Speaker 2: a correlation between the grapes and the blood. Do you
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  Speaker 2: see that? You got the grapes and the blood. Take, drink,
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  Speaker 2: this is my blood. The New Testament is in my blood.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the correlation between the two things. So they
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  Speaker 2: took him and killed him and cast him out of
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  Speaker 2: the vineyard. He was the heir to the vineyard and
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  Speaker 2: they cast him out. Let me stop there for a
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  Speaker 2: minute and point out to you that there are the
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  Speaker 2: scripture in Hebrews, I believe it's Hebrews, where the Bible
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  Speaker 2: said that Jesus was crucified outside the camp. He died
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  Speaker 2: outside of the camp. He died outside of the religious
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  Speaker 2: order of Israel. He died outside, and I'm glad they
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  Speaker 2: crucified him outside because by them crucifying him outside, it
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  Speaker 2: gives me just reason to come in. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? So, therefore, what will the owner of
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  Speaker 2: the vineyard do? Now we're down to this. He will
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  Speaker 2: come and destroy the vine dressers and give the vineyard
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  Speaker 2: to others. Now, he says, I've reached my limit. Shall
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  Speaker 2: we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: There is a limit. And here's the scary part about
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  Speaker 2: the limit. You don't know where it is. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know how far is too far. You got by with
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  Speaker 2: this and you got by with that and you got
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  Speaker 2: by with the other. But I'm not sure I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get by with this because he doesn't mark the
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  Speaker 2: spot where grace ends. Shall we continue in sin that
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  Speaker 2: grace may abound? He doesn't tell you where the limit is.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't tell you when he's coming back. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: tell you when judgment is going to be required upon
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  Speaker 2: you so that there will be a certain reverence that
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  Speaker 2: you have all along the way and a temperance that
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  Speaker 2: you have along the way because you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: push him too far. Have you not even read this scripture?
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  Speaker 2: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
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  Speaker 2: You may be seated. Now, the reason I had you
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  Speaker 2: sit down right there It's because that's where I want
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  Speaker 2: to start. I want to start right there for a
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  Speaker 2: good reason. I want to start there because we have
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  Speaker 2: gone from grapes to stone. We have gone from grapes
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  Speaker 2: to stone. Everything else was about vineyards and grapes, and
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  Speaker 2: now we've gone to stone. And he says to them,
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  Speaker 2: go back to the other verse. Go back one. Go
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  Speaker 2: back one. Yeah. Have you not even read this scripture?
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  Speaker 2: The stone which the builders rejected. Now, there's a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: He implied it when he said, my beloved son. We
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  Speaker 2: know he's hinting at Jesus. When he goes from talking
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  Speaker 2: about grapes and which you could see Jesus if you
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  Speaker 2: look deeply enough into it. You could see the vineyard
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  Speaker 2: in it. But when he comes down to stone, it's
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  Speaker 2: a mixed metaphor because we've gone from grapes to stone.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that he doesn't know English well. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't know grammar well. It's a mixed metaphor
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  Speaker 2: because the point of the story isn't the story. The
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  Speaker 2: point of the story is the stone. Whenever I say
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  Speaker 2: the stone to you, and if you're a believer, you
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: ought to think Jesus. Because Jesus is the stone that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the builders rejected. Jesus is the stone in the wilderness
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that the Bible said that they drank from the stone.
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  Speaker 2: That's Jesus. Jesus. If you drink of the water that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I have, you shall never thirst again. That's Jesus. He's
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  Speaker 2: my rock in the weary land. He's my stone hewed
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  Speaker 2: out of the mountain. He's a stone that God hewed
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  Speaker 2: out the mountain to write the Ten Commandments in. That's Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you see the stone, you see Jesus. He's a stone.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rock of ages. He's a stone. He's a
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  Speaker 2: solid one. He's an absolute one. He's a complete within
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  Speaker 2: himself one. When you see the stone, the stone, there's
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  Speaker 2: no shakiness. There's no variable. Ain't no question the stone.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't going to crush the stone. You can crush
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: them grapes. But you're not going to crush the stone.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And he said, have you not heard the stone which
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone? I want
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to lay on that a little bit. Always go with
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  Speaker 2: the one that everybody else rejects. Because God will always
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  Speaker 2: use the rejected one to indicate this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be my chief cornerstone. I'm not going to pick the
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  Speaker 2: one that's the most popular. I'm not going to pick
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  Speaker 2: the one that everybody likes. I'm not going to pick
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  Speaker 2: the one that nobody's talking about. In fact, his rejection
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  Speaker 2: is direction. Come on with me. Come on with me. See,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you have to understand there was a reason for your rejection.
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  Speaker 2: That God allowed you to be rejected to indicate that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to do something massive in your life.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The rejection was very important to the process. So you
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: can't allow yourself to stay wounded over being rejected no
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  Speaker 2: matter how bad you hurt yourself. Because rejection helps to
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  Speaker 2: fulfill the prophecy that God is going to build something
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  Speaker 2: out of those who have been rejected. Why is it
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  Speaker 2: like that? Because when you're rejected, you've got a different attitude.
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  Speaker 2: When you're rejected, it means you have not been selected
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  Speaker 2: by man. To be not selected by men means you
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  Speaker 2: are chosen of God. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can't, if you're going to be chosen of God,
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  Speaker 2: you can't spend the rest of your life chasing man,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get man to change his mind about rejecting you.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to accept their rejection as God's selection. Where
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: are my chosen ones? Yeah, where are my chosen ones? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I can walk with my head up Because I know
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  Speaker 2: that the stone that the builders rejected has been made
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  Speaker 2: the chief cornerstone. The cornerstone that holds up everything that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be built in two directions. It's the cornerstone.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to build this way. It's going to build
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  Speaker 2: that way. It sets the parameters of the building. It
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  Speaker 2: is the chief cornerstone. He's the chief cornerstone because he
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  Speaker 2: reaches all the way back to the Hebrews, to Israel,
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  Speaker 2: to the Old Testament on one hand, and he reaches
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  Speaker 2: all the way forward into the New Testament to the
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  Speaker 2: Greeks and the Gentiles on the other hand. He is
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  Speaker 2: the cornerstone. He is accessible to both sides. He is
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the chief cornerstone. The stone that the builders rejected couldn't
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: be placed in one side and not the other, so
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: they put him on the corner so there was equal
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  Speaker 2: access to him. No matter which side you were on,
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  Speaker 2: whether you were building on the east side or the
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  Speaker 2: west side, you still had access to Jesus because he's
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  Speaker 2: the cornerstone. You can't have all of Jesus and take
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  Speaker 2: him from me. No, because he's the chief cornerstone. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have no hell to send me to because he's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the chief cornerstone. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I have never read in the scriptures where God gave
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  Speaker 2: anybody the keys to hell. So you can say I'm
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: going to hell all you want, but you can't send
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: me to hell because you don't have no keys. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: number two, you ain't sure where you going. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: You ain't sure where you going. And you know how
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: people are so quick to send you someplace and they
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: not sure where they going? Yeah, you might be there
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: opening up the door when I get in. See, you
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: have to understand that Jesus is the chief cornerstone you
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: got to understand the access that I can come boldly
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: to him to the throne of grace to obtain mercy
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  Speaker 2: and find grace to help in the time of need
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  Speaker 2: because he has made himself available to me he is
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  Speaker 2: the chief cornerstone oh my god I'm about to get
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: happy already and I just got started he's the chief
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  Speaker 2: cornerstone I'm never that far from him I'm never that
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  Speaker 2: far from him. He's not afar. In him I live.
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  Speaker 2: In him I move. In him I have my being.
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  Speaker 2: He's available to me. He is the chief cornerstone. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to holler for him way over there somewhere
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: because he is nigh unto me, even in my mouth.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He's so close to me that when he speaks to me,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: he speaks in a whisper. He speaks in a whisper
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: because he's that close to me. He's that close to me.
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  Speaker 2: You could be sitting right beside me and not hear
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  Speaker 2: what he said to me because he's that close to me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: He is the chief cornerstone. Are you hearing what I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: saying to you? And I wanted you to get this
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: part better. If you didn't have time Sunday to get
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: into it, I wanted you to understand you ain't never
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: by yourself. You're never alone. You don't live by yourself.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You didn't drive over here by yourself. You didn't make
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: it through the storm by yourself. You didn't survive the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: test by yourself. He's the chief cornerstone. He's always been
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: your chief cornerstone. If your mama forsake you. if your
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: daddy forsake you, if your sister forsake you, if your
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: brother forsake you. He's been your chief cornerstone. It's through
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: the cornerstone that you set the plumb line. That's how
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you make everything straight, because you do it through the cornerstone.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: And when you set the plumb line, you can't set
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a plumb line without a cornerstone. The cornerstone lets you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: and once you set that line, everything else you build
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: is going to be built in accordance with that line.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Come on, I need me some Masons in here now.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I need some Masonary people in here now who understand
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  Speaker 2: that this plumb line he set is so I won't
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: go too far. This plumb line shows me when I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: about to go too far over the edge. This plumb
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  Speaker 2: line causes me to be able to adjust myself. This
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: plumb line. So you're not my plumb line. You're not
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: my plumb line. So I don't have to spend a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: whole lot of time talking about, are you looking at
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  Speaker 2: me funny? I don't care how you're looking at me
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: because you're not my plumb line. Jesus is. Tell your neighbor,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Jesus is. My God, I better stop because I feel
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: something stirring down in my soul. Jesus is my plumb line.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: He's my plumb line. He's what I measure up to.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: He's what I come into alignment with. He's how I
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  Speaker 2: determine where I am. He's my plumb line. He makes
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  Speaker 2: the pathway straight. The Bible said that he would make
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  Speaker 2: the crooked path straight. He'll make me straight. He'll make
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  Speaker 2: me straight. He'll fix me up. He'll get me together.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: He'll clean me up. He'll get me off drugs. He'll
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: get me off cocaine. He'll get me off of whatever
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  Speaker 2: I'm strung out on. He'll get me out of it
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: because he'll make the pathway straight if I set my
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: plumb line on Jesus. The problem with today, we set
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: our plumb line on our feelings. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 2: stay with me. Don't move now. Don't move now. Stay
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  Speaker 2: right where you are. Everything is to be decided by
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  Speaker 2: how you feel. I don't like my mother. I don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: agree with how my father raised me. I don't like
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: my school. I don't like my church. Everything's about how
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: you feel. They hurt my feelings. They hurt my feelings.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: So your feelings have become your God. You can't have
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: your feelings as your God and have faith. Because faith
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: and feelings will often be a contradiction one against the other.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Seldom are your feelings going to line up with your faith.
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  Speaker 2: In spite of your feelings, you're going to walk by
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: faith and not by sight. Glory to God. If you
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: get this, it's going to help you a whole lot
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: with how you deal with people. Because you have overemphasized
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the importance of other people's opinion. And if you're not careful,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: you'll set your plumb line to their applause. Oh, you
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: didn't hear what I said there. That was bad right there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: That was worth writing down right there. So just because
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you're clapping don't mean God is pleased. And just because
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you're rolling your eyes don't mean that I'm in trouble.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Because you are not my plumb line. I'm not going
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to do it because you said do it. I'm not
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: going to do it. I'm not going to do it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You hear me? I'm not going to do it because
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: you said do it. Because you're not my plumb line.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You're not my judge. You're not my king. You're not
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  Speaker 2: my ruler. You're not my bulwark. You're not my trumpet.
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  Speaker 2: You're not my defense. You're not my help in ages past.
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  Speaker 2: You're not my rock of ages. You're not my joy.
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  Speaker 2: You're not my peace. You're not my power. You're not
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: my God. You're not my kinsman redeemer. You're not my
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: day star. You're not my bulwark. You're not my trumpet.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: You're not my shield. You're not my buckler. Oh, y'all
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: don't hear me. You're not my dove. You don't hear
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You're not my eagle. You're not my
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: wind blowing in the trees. You're not my lily of
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the valley. You're not my bright and morning star. You
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: overinflated your place in my life. And if you think
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: you can walk away and kill me, that means you
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  Speaker 2: don't understand who you are. I love you, but you're
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: not my cornerstone. If I line up with my cornerstone
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and he decides to bless me, you can't curse me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: You got to sit up and watch me eat because
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: he'll prepare a table before me in the presence of
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: my enemies. And he don't ask you to vote on
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: whether I can eat or not. You can be mad
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and I can still eat. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Oh,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that's good. I got one person to please and that's God.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I got one person to please and that's God. And
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: that's enough. That's enough. I don't need nobody else putting
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: their mouth in me and God's business because if he
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: wasn't long-suffering, he would have cut me off. And I
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: don't trust anybody else to be my chief cornerstone because
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: you're too flaky and you change too much. And you're double-minded.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And you're unstable in all your ways. But he said,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I am the Lord thy God. I change not. From
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: everlasting to everlasting. I'm still God. I'll be right where
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: you saw me Monday. I'll be there Tuesday. I'll be
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: there Wednesday. I'll be there Thursday and Friday. And when
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you get to Saturday, I'll be waiting on you. And
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: when you get to Sunday, I'll be waiting on you saying,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: come this way. Because I am the same God. yesterday, today,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: and forevermore. Do you hear what I'm saying? I feel
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: a praise about to break out in this place. I
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: feel a praise about to break out. I feel a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: praise about to break out in this place. See, the
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: disciples did real good as long as Jesus was popular.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: They did real good as long as Jesus was popular.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But when it got where Jesus was controversial, a whole
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: lot of people left him. But them rejecting him is
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: what qualified him to be the chief cornerstone. In fact,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the Bible said if the princes of this world would
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: have known what they were doing, they would have never
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: crucified the Lord. Because when they crucified him, they identified
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: him as being the chief cornerstone. Are you with me?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Are you with me right now? Are you with me
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: right now? When was the last time you spoke to
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  Speaker 2: your son? Speak to the stone. Water can come out
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of the stone. Speak to the stone. It can turn
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: to bread. Speak to the stone. It can meet your need.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Speak to the stone. It can kill your Goliath. Speak
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: to the stone. It can build what you don't have.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Speak to the stone. It can direct you and give
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you what life didn't give you, what your mama didn't
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: give you, what your daddy didn't give you, what your
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: sister didn't give you, what your brother didn't give you.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: He said, I'm all of that. Who shall I say
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: sent me? I am that I am. Whatever you need
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: me to be, whatever you didn't get, whatever you lack,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: whatever you're unsure about, whatever you're insecure about, I am that.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: If you're hungry, I'm bread. If you're thirsty, I'm water.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. If you need direction,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I'll guide you. I'll be a cloud by day. I'll
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: be a pillar by night. I got you covered. Whatever
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you need. Don't worry about the desert. I knew you
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: were in the desert. But I got you covered in
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the desert. I will fan you in the desert. I'll
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: be a shade over your head. I'll be a fire
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: by night. I'll give you HVAC because I'm God. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: can cool you when it's hot. I can heat you
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: when it's cold. I'm God. I can do anything you need.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: And all you got to, as long as you see me,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: you know your needs are going to be met. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: will do whatever it takes to make you able to
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: receive what I have for you. But all I ask
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you to do is don't get arrogant. Don't get arrogant
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: and act like you have a right to it. Don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: get arrogant and act like you're entitled to it. Don't
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: get arrogant and get beside yourself and start believing the
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: applause of men and thinking you are more than you are.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Because you know, I know you. I know you ain't nothing.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I know you came from nothing. I know what you
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: will do. I know what you're capable of. I know
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: what you used to do. I know what you're still doing.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And still I chose to bless you anyway. So don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: nobody else praise me in the whole church. When I
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: look at you, I expect to see some praise. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: want to see some praise out of you because I
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: know you. I know you. I'm not asking about you.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I don't need a prophet to come tell me about you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I know you and I saved you anyway. And half
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the things I sent you, you killed. And I kept
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: you anyway. You stoned it. And I kept you anyway.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: You threw rocks at it. And I kept you anyway.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: And if don't nobody in your role praise God, you
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: owe me a praise. You owe me a praise. You
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: owe me a praise. To God be the glory. To
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: God be the glory. To God be the glory for
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: the things he has done. Somebody who's a witness, give
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: him a praise right there. Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: give him a praise right there. The problem is that
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: when you look at God's attitude and you look at
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: their attitude, there's such a stark contrast between his kindness,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: his grace, his growth, his goodness, and their greed, which
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: is a derivative of their entitlement. You know why you're greedy?
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Because you're entitled. Ain't nothing never enough because you're entitled.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: You're entitled. It's your way or the highway because you're entitled.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: You're spoiled bread. You're entitled. You think I was supposed
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: to do it. That's why you won't praise me. You
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: think I was supposed to heal you. You think I
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: was supposed to bring you out. I'm looking for somebody
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: who's grateful. I'm looking for somebody who's grateful. I'm looking
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: for somebody who knows they're not worthy. I'm looking for
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: somebody who's ready to throw their hands up and give
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: me the praise because you know it was me that
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: brought you all the time. You know you didn't do right.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: You know you left a bloody trail behind you. You
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: killed some folks. You stoned some folks. You bruised some folks.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: If I dealt with you like you dealt with them,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't be here today. I'm looking for somebody to
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: give me the glory. But it's not your personality. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: you don't feel like praising God. And your feet hurt.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: And you too tired. And you not in the mood.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And somebody parked in your parking space. And somebody sitting
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: in your seat. What seat? You ain't got no seat.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: You don't own no seat. You don't own no seat.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Come out of this craziness you got in your mind
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: like you own something. One day your seat will be empty.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and you will be missed and somebody will be sitting
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: in your seat. Somebody's going to drive your car. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to wear your coat. Somebody's going to wear your shoes.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be selling your shoes down at Goodwill.
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  Speaker 2: You better come out of it. You act like you're
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  Speaker 2: in a coma. Wake yourself up. Wake yourself up, Zion. Zion,
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  Speaker 2: wake yourself up. Come out of your sleep and recognize
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: ain't nothing that you got you're not going to leave behind.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You can't take a blanket with you. You can't take
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  Speaker 2: a pillow with you. You can't take a steak dinner
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  Speaker 2: with you. Everything you got is on loan. I just
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: don't like for nobody to wear my clothes. Well, somebody
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: gonna wear them. Somebody gonna wear them. Somebody gonna buy
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: that suit that you paid $ 250 for. They gonna buy
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: it for $ 15. $ 15. They're going to buy it for
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: $ 15 and they're going to take it where you would
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: never take it before. And they're going to do what
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: they want to do because you don't have nothing. You
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: don't have nothing. I don't owe you nothing. I chose
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  Speaker 2: to bless you. I decided to bless you as an
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  Speaker 2: act of my sovereign will. Hallelujah. I don't owe you
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  Speaker 2: no blessing. I chose to bless. I chose to wake
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  Speaker 2: you up this morning. I chose to give you the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: activity of your life. I chose to make you smart.
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  Speaker 2: I chose to give you a good memory. Stop looking
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: down your nose at other people. I chose to bless you.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I chose you for that house. I chose you for
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: that job. I chose you for that house. So no
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: matter how high you get, keep on praising me as
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: low as you can go. prostrate yourself on the floor
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: and never act entitled because I don't even want you
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to look entitled I don't even want you to turn
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  Speaker 2: your face up like you're entitled I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see it on your face because you and me got
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  Speaker 2: a covenant and I know you Oh my God, something's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen in here tonight. I can feel it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: So I said, something's going to happen in here tonight.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Something's going to happen in here tonight. Something's going to
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: happen in here tonight. And when he came, when the
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: owner came, when the owner came, he killed the men
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: that he had chosen to be a steward because they
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: had not been a good steward over what he'd given them.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to go deep. You with me? Have
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: we been a good steward of the planet? So whatever
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: happens to the planet, we cannot say to God, you're
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: unjust because of how we handled what he gave us.
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  Speaker 2: How did you handle your children? I mean, when it
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: got on your nerves and you didn't feel like being bothered.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: What did you say to your spouse? No, no, no.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: All you remember is what they said to you. So
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: you got a one-sided narrative of what all they did wrong.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: And I learned a long time ago. When you get
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: somebody in a room talking about their spouse or their
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: old church or their old boss, you're only getting half
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: of the story. If you get that other half and
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you match them two sides together, you will get a
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: complete picture. You should hear what he called me. What
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: did you say? So what we have to do is
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: do inventory over what we have been given. What I'm
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: telling you is real important. Because God is going to
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: judge you according to what he gave you. Every person
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: he made like you. Every opportunity he gave you. Every
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: position he put you in. You're going to have to
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: give an account for it. He's only going to judge
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: you over what he put under your control. So when
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you take inventory, the reason it's important that you take
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: inventory is because whatever he gave you wasn't yours. The
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: chance he gave you. The people he let you meet.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: The favor he gave you. The attitude they have towards
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: you is all because of your association with him. And
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: you fooled around. You thought they liked you. No, no, no, no, no.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: They didn't like you. They didn't like you. He turned
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the heart of the king in his hand and made
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: them to like you and carved out a space for you.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Now you don't want to go to work. He carved
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: out a space for you. And you feel like you're
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: so entitled that now you want the whole thing to
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: be rearranged to fit your needs, your lacks, your attitude,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: your aptitude, never realizing none of this is yours. None
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: of it's yours. None of it's yours. Anybody in here
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: work in a funeral home? Hold your hand up if
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: you work in a funeral home.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Anybody?
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Anybody? We're over here. Yeah, yeah. Then you know what
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about. You know when it's all said and done,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I don't care how pretty you are. I don't care
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: how fine you are. I don't care how many degrees
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: you got. I don't care what college you went to.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: When it's all said and done, they put you on
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: that slab. You're going to be naked on that slab.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: You ain't going to be able to hide nothing on
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: that slab. It ain't going to matter how fine you are.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: You just did. People walk past you and say, you
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: look like yourself. Oh, she look like she sleep. You
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: ain't sleep. You dead. All them hours you worked out
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: in the gym, all them biceps and triceps and all that.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: The reason the Bible said bodily exercise profit is little
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you're not supposed to take care of
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: your body. But it says when you get through doing
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: all of that and taking all them vitamins and BK-12
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: and K-17, and I don't eat this, and I don't
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: eat that, and I'm a vegan, and I'm a, when
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you get through doing all of that stuff, and running
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: five miles in the morning, and five miles in the evening,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: when you get through doing all of that stuff, and
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: almond milk, and I don't drink soy milk, and I'm
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: allergic to cow milk, when you get through doing all
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: of that stuff, you still, you still gonna be dead.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying don't do it. Do all of it.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Do all anything. Maybe if it keep you a week longer,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: do it if you want to be here a week longer.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: But when the week is up. When the week is up,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: I don't care who you met that told you you
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: was fine, you're still going to be dead. I don't
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: care who fell in love with you, they're going to
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: cry at the funeral. But by next week, they're going
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to find something funny and be laughing about it. And
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: in a couple of months, they're going to feel a
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: little bit better. And if you wait nine months, they're
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: going to be dating again. And if you fool around
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: a year, they're going to be sleeping in the bed
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: that you were sleeping in the bed with her with.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: It's all, y'all don't want to hear the truth. I've
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: lived long enough. I've lived long enough that I've seen
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: the truth. You are expendable. You are expendable. You are expendable. Listen,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: let me tell you, I don't want to hurt your
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: little feelings, but you are expendable. I know they told
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: you ain't nobody in the world like you and can't
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: nobody love you, love me like you love me and
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: you blew my mind. And my eyes roll up in
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: my head and my toes curl up to my kneecaps.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: They're going to uncurl them toes and find somebody else
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: and keep right on going because you're expendable. And the
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: reason you're, that's why you can't be entitled. Oh, you
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: didn't hear me. I think you're the only one who
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: heard me. That's why you can't fool around here and
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: be entitled because you're expendable. If you think for one
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: minute that out of 8 million people on the planet
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: that you're the only one in the whole wide world
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: that can do whatever it is that you're doing, you
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: are out of your mind. There's somebody drunk up under
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: the bridge that'll sing you up under the table. There's somebody...
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: in the prison that can outdraw you and do draft
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: there's somebody in the street there's somebody with a needle
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: in their arm that gotta raise up and use them
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: and blow your mind you are expendable that's why you
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: gotta be humble That's why you got to be grateful.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: He chose you. He picked you out. He gave you
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: a chance. He opened up a door. He gave you
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: an opportunity. He exposed you to blessings that you didn't
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: even work for. Hallelujah to God. You can't be entitled.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: You're too expendable to be entitled. You have to humble
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: yourself up under the mighty hand of the Lord. You
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: don't know who's going to have to hand you your
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: last drink of water. You don't know who's going to
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: have to change you in the bed. You don't know
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: who's going to have to roll you over. You don't
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: know who's going to have to put your lipstick on,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: who's going to have to fix your face, or who's
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: going to have to close your eyes. You are expendable.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: So you can never be entitled. You've got to be grateful.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: You've got to be grateful because out of 8 billion
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: people in the world, there's somebody can do what you're doing.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: There's somebody who can do what you're doing. There's somebody
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: in the bush who can do what you're doing. There's
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: somebody in the woods that can do what you're doing.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: There's somebody in college right now that can do what
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: you're doing. They can do what you're doing. And there's somebody,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: I hate to tell you this, that can do it
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: better than you do it. So if you're jealous, you're
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: wasting your time because there's always somebody going to be
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: cuter than you. There's always going to be somebody smarter
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: than you. That's why you got to be grateful when
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: God brings people into your life because people have options.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: God has options. Jobs have options. Life presents options. And
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: there's always somebody. I used to work at a plant
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: and the man would make me so mad. There was
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: a barefoot boy standing right outside the door that would
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: love to have your job. It didn't sound good, but
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: it was true. I went on to work. I humbled
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: myself down and stopped complaining about short lunch break and
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: went on to work and ate my little ham sandwich
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: and went on back up on the dock and did
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: what I had to do because I knew I was expendable.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: And if you ever get in your head that you
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: are expendable, you'll stop being entitled. If you're looking for
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: a cure for entitlement, you got to spend some time
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: facing the fact that you're expendable. And even if you
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: don't expire, you're going to slow down and retire. And
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to do what you
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: used to do. So if all they wanted you for
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: was what you used to do, they're going to be gone.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: That's why you can't set your plumb line on their opinion.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Because as soon as you stop performing, they will go
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: on about their business. Very few people will stay beyond
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: you giving them what they need. This text shows you, okay,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: the owner came back and said, I came to get
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: what I need over and over again. You beat him up.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: You hit him in the head. I sent my son.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: You killed my son. You didn't take care of what
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: I gave you. To him whom much is given, much
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: is required. Now I'm going to take you out and
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get none of it. You're not
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: going to get your half or my half. You're not
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: going to get your third or my two-thirds. You're not
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: going to get any of it. You were conspiring to
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: get it all. And because you were greedy and you
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: wanted all of it and you weren't satisfied to let
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: anybody else be blessed but you, you talked yourself out
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of the whole thing. Now you don't get nothing. And
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: there's nothing as sad as running into some old person
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: who has lived their whole life and ends up with nothing.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Because no matter what God gave them, they always blew it.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Because sometimes it takes getting old to get some sense.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: And you get older, you get some sense. As you
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: get older, you begin to realize, I'm not so such
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: a much. I'm not so great. I'm not so wise.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not so smart. I don't speak so good. I
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: don't sing so good. I'm not the only one God has.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not the only tree in the forest. I'm not
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the only one. And it'll give you a whole different attitude.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Problem is, most of the time, by the time we
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: wake up, it's too late. It's too late. That's why
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: the Bible says the day you hear my voice, harden
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: not your heart. Because the first time I sent somebody,
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: you should have gathered up what was mine and give
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: it to me. How many of you are sitting on
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: gifts right now, sitting on talents right now, sitting on
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: blessings right now, sitting on increase right now, sitting on
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: opportunity right now, sitting on skill? I know the choir
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: sings on Tuesday, and I just don't feel like doing
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: nothing on Tuesday because I'm tired on Tuesday. yeah and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: she said I'm going to choir rehearsal yeah she said
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I passed that test go with the dance if God
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: gave you something I'm being funny but I'm also being
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: serious God gave you something if you can understand calculus
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: and trigonometry and it comes easy for you that don't
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: mean you better than me That means God gave you
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: something that's in alignment with his divine purpose for your life.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: He equipped you with everything you needed to take care
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: of everything he gave you. Y'all didn't hear me. I'm
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: going to keep coming until you get it. He dug
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: out the back. He built the tower. He placed the
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: hedges in place. He gave you everything you need to
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: be successful at what he called you to do. And
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: everything you didn't need, he didn't give you. So there's
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: no need in you coveting what your neighbor got because
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: you don't need what your neighbor got to do what
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: he called you to do. For everything God called you
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: to do, he equipped you for it. I want you
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: to say this with me. I got everything I need.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: I've got everything I need to do what God called
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: me to do. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I got everything I need.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: I got everything I need. I got everything I need
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: to do what God called me to do. And I'm
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: not just talking about church stuff. I'm talking about everything
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: God called me to do in the world. Everything God
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: called me to be in life. I got everything I need.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: I got just the right brokenness. come on stay with
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: me I got just the right brokenness I was broken
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: in all the right places He had a plan when
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: he broke me. He broke me in all the right
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: places so I would have the right thirst and the
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: right need and the right drive and the right humility
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: and the right perseverance. He allowed me to be broken.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Where was God when I went through there? He was
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: watching it. He was measuring it. He was making sure
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: that it went deep enough to put you in a
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: position that when he put you in there, you would
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: fit God monitors, not just the day, but the night.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: He monitored it. The enemy might have been used to
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: do it, but God controlled it and said, here and
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: no further. You can touch this, but not that. You
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: can touch the other, but you can't touch this. And
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: all of it was a setup so that you would
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: have the right personality to dig in and become what
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: you need to be to do what God created you
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: to do. Glory to God. And he expects you to
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: do it like you got some sense without the spirit
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: of entitlement. Because other people are going to come along
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: and try to take what you got with the spirit
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: of entitlement, but they're going to all perish. They're going
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to all perish because what God has for you is
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: for you. As long as you don't get entitled. Is
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: this helping anybody? Put my first scripture up at the top. Yeah.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Not Mark 12, the other one. The first one at
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: the top of the page. Then he began to speak
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: to them in prayer. No, no, no. Above that, that
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: we haven't used yet. At the very top of the notes.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Let me go up here. Let me go up here.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Let me go up here so I can do this myself.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: oh yeah I still got a little fire in the
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: furnace Matthew 21 42 through 45 yeah give me that
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: yeah there you go Now, this is the same story
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: told from another gospel writer, and he goes into more detail,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: and that's why I wanted to use it. Jesus said
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: to them, have you never read in the scriptures the
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone?
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: This was the Lord's doing. Is he talking about the
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: stone or the rejections? We always quote it for something good.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: This is the Lord's doing, child. And it's marvelous. We
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: don't say that when he's whooping our behind. I've never
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: heard nobody quote that scripture while they were going through hell.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: But this is the Lord's doings. The rejection that brought
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: the selection. The furnace is seven times hotter than it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: ought to be. This is the Lord's doings. The lions
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: are hungry and they threw you in the lion's den.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: You know why? This is the Lord's doings. None of
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the physicians have been able to heal your body and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: you're still bleeding. You know why? This is the Lord's doing.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: I set you up so that when you got your healing,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: you would know it was an absolute miracle and you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: would know that I was on your side. I did
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: it so you would be sure that... that it was
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: me and not them. I let them try and fail
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: so that you would praise me and you wouldn't be
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: confused and be running around there, jumping around no hospital,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: praising no doctor. God said, I'm going to do it myself. Dr.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Jesus is going to come in the room and do
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: it myself so you have no doubt. This is the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Lord's doing. This is the Lord's doing. Hallelujah. Somebody shout,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: this is the Lord's doing. My God. And it is
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  Speaker 2: marvelous that he can put that much heat on me
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  Speaker 2: and not destroy me. It is marvelous that he can
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  Speaker 2: expose me to that much pain and I still survive.
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  Speaker 2: It is marvelous that I can be exposed to that
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  Speaker 2: much dysfunction so that I might be able to function
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  Speaker 2: where he put me. It is marvelous that I can
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  Speaker 2: withstand so much stuff that I thought I couldn't bear
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I would die. and I thought I
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  Speaker 2: would lose my mind, and I thought I would go crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's marvelous that he would push me that close to
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  Speaker 2: the edge and yet keep my feet from falling. It's marvelous. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, who am I preaching to? It's marvelous. If
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  Speaker 2: half the people in the room knew what you've been through,
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't even understand how you could be sitting here,
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  Speaker 2: why you haven't lost your mind, why you're not sitting
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  Speaker 2: on the floor eating a ball of cotton, And yet
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  Speaker 2: when your mind was about to fall apart, God kept
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  Speaker 2: your mind from falling apart. And it's marvelous. It's marvelous. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: touch somebody and say it's marvelous. It's marvelous. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about the pain I bore. I'm talking about the nights
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  Speaker 2: I suffered. I'm talking about the times I cried myself
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  Speaker 2: to sleep. I'm talking about the time I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to eat. It's marvelous. I'm talking about our lights
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: being off. I'm talking about our water being hard. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about me thumbing to teach Bible class. It's marvelous.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about teaching Bible class to 10 people for
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  Speaker 2: 10 years. It's marvelous. I'm talking about the times I've
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  Speaker 2: ran out of gas. I'm talking about the times we
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: had to float down the hill and put it in
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  Speaker 2: neutral to try to stretch the gas. It's marvelous. in
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  Speaker 2: our hide it's marvelous that you could go through all
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  Speaker 2: of that licking and still keep on ticking it's marvelous
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: it got me ready for this it got me ready
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  Speaker 2: for you it got me ready for the storm it
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: got me ready that I don't break as easy as
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  Speaker 2: you thought you thought you'd break me didn't you you
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  Speaker 2: thought you'd utterly destroy me but he fired me up
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  Speaker 2: and put me in the furnace and it's my thank
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  Speaker 2: you for burning me till I got stronger. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for dealing with me till my soul said, yeah. Thank
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you for building me up where I'm weak. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving me the power. I brought my own Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: In case you left yours in the car, I got
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  Speaker 2: enough with me that I can drag this service by myself.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Because I'm used to preaching to an empty room.
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  Speaker 2: I'm used to preaching to folk half-sleep. It's marvelous the
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  Speaker 2: way he brought me. It's marvelous the way he took me.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: It's marvelous. You want to see marvelous? Look at me. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God. It's marvelous. Turn to your neighbor and say,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: you want to see marvelous? Look at me. It's marvelous.
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  Speaker 2: It's marvelous. Don't know who my daddy is, but it's marvelous.
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  Speaker 2: Got raised by my grandmother, but it's marvelous. Had no
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: shelter over my head, but it's marvelous. Slept up under
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  Speaker 2: a bridge, but it's marvelous. So now you can't talk
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  Speaker 2: about me and run me off. Because if I made
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  Speaker 2: it up under the bridge, I can make it around you.
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  Speaker 2: You can't roll your eyes and send me home. It's marvelous.
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  Speaker 2: You see why you can't be entitled and be leaving
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: this and quitting that and running over here and running there?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Sometimes God wants you to sit down. Be still and
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  Speaker 2: know that I am God. And besides me there is
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  Speaker 2: no other. Hallelujah. Having done all to stand. Stand therefore
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  Speaker 2: with your loins girt about with truth. Because if you
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  Speaker 2: can stand it, I'll do something marvelous in your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: He whose feet are planted in the house of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. It's marvelous.
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  Speaker 2: I'm teaching you how to stand something. I'm teaching you
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  Speaker 2: how to take something. I'm teaching you how to endure something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm teaching you when to shut your mouth. I'm teaching
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: you when to hold your peace. I'm teaching you how
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  Speaker 2: to be still. I'm teaching you how to let me
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  Speaker 2: fight your battles. I'm teaching you how to know that
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: I will provide for you when I get ready. And
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  Speaker 2: until I get ready, you can cry, you can scream,
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  Speaker 2: you can moan, but you're not getting out until I
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  Speaker 2: say you're getting out. The chains aren't going to fall
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  Speaker 2: until I say they're going to fall. The door's not
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  Speaker 2: going to open, Peter, until I say it's going to open.
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  Speaker 2: The way's not going to be made until I say
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be made. You can knock at the
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  Speaker 2: door all night. But the door is not going to
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  Speaker 2: open until I get ready for it to open. And
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  Speaker 2: when I get ready for it to open, I'll touch
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  Speaker 2: Rhoda and let Rhoda hear you. And Rhoda will open
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  Speaker 2: the door and let you in. Good God Almighty, I
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: feel something. I better stop because I feel something in
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  Speaker 2: this place. Don't you know when God gets ready to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: let you in, he's always got a Rhoda somewhere. That
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: can hear the knocking at the door. And he'll open
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: up a door for you. And he'll make a way
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  Speaker 2: for you. And it's marvelous. And I feel like shouting.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Somebody take a minute. And give me 15 seconds of
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  Speaker 2: Pentecostal praise. Oh Holy Ghost praise. Give me sanctified praise.
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  Speaker 2: Give me devil chasing praise. Give me rock throwing praise.
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  Speaker 2: Give me thirst quenching praise. You got one more minute.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a praise that'll bring down a giant. Give
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  Speaker 2: me a praise that'll shut up a lion. Give me
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: a praise that'll open up a door. Give me a
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  Speaker 2: praise that'll make a way out of no way. Give
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  Speaker 2: me a praise that'll let every demon around you know
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  Speaker 2: that you've been with the Lord. Give me a praise
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  Speaker 2: that'll make your fever go down, that'll bring your high
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  Speaker 2: blood pressure down, that'll bring your low blood pressure up.
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  Speaker 2: that will regulate your blood sugar, that will give you
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  Speaker 2: a new mind. Give me a praise that'll get all
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  Speaker 2: in your spirit and stop you from acting a fool
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  Speaker 2: and going crazy and tearing up stuff you gotta replace.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a praise that'll get down in your belly
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  Speaker 2: and stir you up. I can't hear you. I wish
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  Speaker 2: somebody would open their mouth and praise him without entitlement
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  Speaker 2: and praise him with enthusiasm. Open your mouth and give
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  Speaker 2: God the glory. I dare you. to praise the Lord.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord till hell gets nervous. Praise him until
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  Speaker 2: demons tremble. Praise him till fever leaves your body. Praise
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  Speaker 2: him till your knees stop hurting. Praise him till your
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  Speaker 2: back stops hurting. Praise him till your migraine leaves. Praise him.
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  Speaker 2: until hell knows that God is all over you and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: he's keeping you alive. I feel, I feel. I feel,
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  Speaker 2: I feel. I feel, I feel. I feel, I feel.
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  Speaker 2: I feel power in this place. Something's going to happen
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: in this place. We're going to walk this word out.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to walk it out until our minds are new.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to walk it out until our spirits are revived.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to walk it out until we get a
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  Speaker 2: new attitude. We're going to walk it out until we
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  Speaker 2: learn how to talk to people. We're going to walk
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: it out until we calm ourselves. We're going to walk
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  Speaker 2: it out until the mind of Christ gets in us.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I dare you to pray them.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: I double dare you. I double dare you. I double
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  Speaker 2: don't dare you to open your mouth and give God
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: some Holy Ghost praise. I need somebody that's been in
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: a fight. I need somebody that's been in a fire.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: I need somebody that's been in a struggle. I need
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: somebody who was marred in the hand of the parlor.
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  Speaker 2: I need somebody who's been broken. I ain't talking about
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: them cute dancers. I'm talking about them fire dancers. Give
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: me a dancer. Better make it rain in this building.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a dance. Better make the wind blow in
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  Speaker 2: the rafters. Give me a dance. Better stir my soul.
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  Speaker 2: Put running in my feet. Put carpet in my hand.
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  Speaker 2: Put joy in my soul. Give me a praise. Somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a deacon's praise. I'll take a minister's praise.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a pastor's praise. Somebody blood washed. Give God
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  Speaker 2: a praise right now. If you're watching online, praise him
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  Speaker 2: by the couch. Dance by the coffee table. Leap on
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  Speaker 2: top of the bed. And let hell know. You can't
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  Speaker 2: have my house. You can't have my front porch. Get
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  Speaker 2: out of my driveway. God is doing something new in
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  Speaker 2: me and I owe him the praise because I am
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  Speaker 2: not entitled. Can I hear you? Give God the glory.
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  Speaker 2: Can I hear you? Give God the praise. Somebody open
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  Speaker 2: your mouth and shout unto God. Let me go just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit further. Give me verse 43. I'm almost done.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will
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  Speaker 2: be taken from you and given to a nation bearing
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  Speaker 2: the fruits of it. I'm going to take what I
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  Speaker 2: had in mind for you and I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: it to somebody else who will bear fruit of You
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  Speaker 2: murmuring and complaining, let me find somebody who would be
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  Speaker 2: glad to have this opportunity. I'll fly them in. I'll
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  Speaker 2: put them on the bus. You don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put them on the train. I'll bring them in
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  Speaker 2: here from the homeless shelter. Hallelujah. Do you hear what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you? Touch your neighbor and say, I'm
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: about to get grateful in here. Watch this. This is
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  Speaker 2: important because this is good. This is good. This is good.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody getting anything out of this? Watch this. And whoever
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  Speaker 2: falls on this stone will be broken. But on whomever
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  Speaker 2: it falls, it will grind him to powder. If you
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  Speaker 2: fall on the stone, you'll be broken. Mm-hmm. But if
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  Speaker 2: the stone falls on you, you'll be shattered. That means
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  Speaker 2: that if you judge yourself, you'll have no need to
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  Speaker 2: be judged. If you fall on the stone, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: broken in all the right places for things to open
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  Speaker 2: up for you, for things to move for you. Go
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: ahead and be stubborn. Go ahead and be hard to get.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and be entitled. If you don't fall on
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  Speaker 2: this stone... and get broken in such a way that
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  Speaker 2: I can use you to open up a door I
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  Speaker 2: can make you a key that opens up a mystery
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  Speaker 2: if you fall on the stone I'll let you be
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  Speaker 2: broken in all the right places but if you wait
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  Speaker 2: and let the stone fall on you you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be crushed and you won't be any good for anything
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  Speaker 2: but I'll still get it done Because I got another nation.
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  Speaker 2: Everything he said in the parable happened. The temple was
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  Speaker 2: crushed and not one stone was left standing upon another.
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  Speaker 2: And all that they had was taken away. And God
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  Speaker 2: gave it to somebody else. To this day, The Muslims
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  Speaker 2: are controlling the temple in Jerusalem. Oh, I'm filled with
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: shock and awe that we could go to Jerusalem and
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: the Muslims are controlling the temple. God will get somebody
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  Speaker 2: that you think not and put them in the position
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  Speaker 2: and keep on moving. Am I doing good with this?
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: I'm almost where I want to be. Now when the
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  Speaker 2: chief priest and Pharisees heard his parable, they perceived, they
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  Speaker 2: perceived that he was speaking of them. Look at how
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  Speaker 2: long it took them to figure out, he talking about me.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: Look at The intentionality of Jesus talking about them to
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  Speaker 2: their face. Look at the entitlement that blinded them from
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: knowing that God was talking about them. Now you can
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: either get mad because he's talking about you or you
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: can get glad that he's talking about you. Because if
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: he's talking about me, he hasn't given up on me.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. If he's talking about me, he's still trying
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: to convince me. I don't get worried until he's shut up.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now they all of
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: a sudden realize that he's talking about them. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read this. Is there another verse? Was that
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: the last verse? They sought to kill him, but for
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: fear of the Jews. They backed away. How many people, things, diseases, currents, infirmities, bacteria,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: has tried to kill you? But God. I'm going to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: answer these few questions and I'll be done. that gave
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: me some questions that you all wrote in there is
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: a thin line between pride and confidence how do you
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  Speaker 2: determine if you are acting on pride or just being
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: confident confidence is based on how you see what God
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  Speaker 2: has done in you pride is always based on how
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  Speaker 2: you are perceived and by the viewer. So the plumb
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  Speaker 2: line for pride is always based on the observer. Me
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  Speaker 2: and you don't have this Bible class by ourselves. They
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  Speaker 2: ain't ready. They ain't ready. Me and you don't understand
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in here. Pride is where you are
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: overly concerned about your image. Pride is all about you
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  Speaker 2: and how they perceive you. Confidence is all about what
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: God has done inside of you. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Being confident of this one thing, that God,
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  Speaker 2: who has began a good work in you, shall perform
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  Speaker 2: it unto the day of Jesus Christ. That's what I'm
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: confident about. Just one thing. I'm confident of this one thing,
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  Speaker 2: that God who have done a great work in you
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  Speaker 2: shall perform it to the day of redemption. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: say pride. I'm confident. Pride always centers around how other
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  Speaker 2: people see you. And Satan being filled with, Lucifer being
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: filled with pride. Move quickly. In front of all the
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  Speaker 2: sons of God gathered around the throne. Because pride always
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  Speaker 2: centers around your image. Your image. When God said with
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  Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments that you should have no graven image
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  Speaker 2: before me, he's not just talking about idols. He's You
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  Speaker 2: can make yourself an image before God and you won't
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  Speaker 2: do what he says do because you worship at the
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  Speaker 2: throne of your own opinion. I'm going to let that
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  Speaker 2: sink in. Let it marinate. you care about is how
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  Speaker 2: you look to people who don't even matter that's pride
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  Speaker 2: proud look image when you were created in his image
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  Speaker 2: And you're trying to create him into your image. You
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: got an image thinking how things ought to be. And
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: you're trying to get God to cooperate with what you
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: got playing. And God is trying to get you to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: cooperate with what he got playing. Can I finish this up?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: So she says there's a thin line between pride and confidence.
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  Speaker 2: How do you determine if you are acting on pride
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: or just being confident? And by the way, you know.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't play me like you really don't know. You know
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: what is pride. You may not know it all day,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: but when you lay down at night, and you calm
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: down and the Holy Spirit gets your ear, if you
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: really got the Holy Ghost, he will show you you
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  Speaker 2: if he don't show you me. I'm tired of these
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: prophets that can see me and can't see themselves. Oh,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: y'all don't hear what I'm saying? So how do you
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: differentiate between being prideful And being confident, I've answered that. Also,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: do you balance being humble and confident without being entitled?
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: That's impossible. You don't have to balance it. Because if
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  Speaker 2: you are humble, let me take it this way. The
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  Speaker 2: more confident you become, the more experienced you are. The
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: more experienced you are, the more humble you become. You understand?
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: When you see somebody entitled, they're a novice. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know whether I ought to tell you this or not.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: But the quickest way to tell a novice in the
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: pulpit is that they jump up shouting. They start up
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: way up here That's a novice. And the reason they
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: do it is because they're afraid that they won't be
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: able to get you. And for image sake, they rev
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: up at the beginning, not realizing that if you start
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  Speaker 2: at the top, you got no place to go. When
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: you are experienced, you can get up. I'm so glad
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: to be here tonight. to have this opportunity to share
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the word of God with you. Oh, look at you.
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  Speaker 2: You look beautiful tonight. Give yourselves a round of applause.
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  Speaker 2: When they do that, they're going to kill you. They're
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: going to kill you. You're going to die. Pay up
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: your life insurance. Send a cash out to the doctor
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: because they're going to kill you dead. You know why?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: They are confident. They are confident enough to be casual.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all can't handle that. Them singers that come up to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: the mic. You make the darkness light before you. And
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: what's wrong, you make it right before you. And you
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: sit up there and say, oh, that's cute, that's nice.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: And by the time they get to their chorus, and
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: they get to the high places, he will. Oh, turn down. Oh,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: with an infinite love. They don't start up here. They
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: build up here. That's confidence. That's confidence. Arrogance. Pride. Makes
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: you want to get up and show off from the beginning. Because...
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  Speaker 2: The pride comes from unbelief that you really aren't what
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  Speaker 2: you say you are and that you can't do what
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  Speaker 2: you say you can do. But when you know who
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  Speaker 2: you are and you know what he gave you, you
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  Speaker 2: can stand in the confidence of who you are. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care who preach. I don't care how good they preach.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if they rip the church apart. None
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  Speaker 2: of that takes away from what God gave me Because
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to give an account for what God
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  Speaker 2: gave you. All I have to do is be a
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  Speaker 2: good steward over what he gave me. How many people
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  Speaker 2: are getting something out of this? How do I apply
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  Speaker 2: this message, the danger of entitlement to my life? That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of hard to answer because if I've been preaching
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  Speaker 2: this long, you ain't figured that out. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to say to you. Also, Bishop, you said you
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  Speaker 2: can't retire from what you are. You can retire from
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  Speaker 2: what you do, struggling with that statement. I can retire
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  Speaker 2: from what I do. I cannot retire from being a man.
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  Speaker 2: I can retire from working because that's something I do.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot retire from what I am. I can't retire
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  Speaker 2: from being black. I'm going to be black. My hair
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  Speaker 2: is going to turn white. My gums are going to
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  Speaker 2: turn pink. And my skin is still going to be black.
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  Speaker 2: You know why? That's what I am. You cannot change
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  Speaker 2: what you are. You can change what you do. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to make it any plainer than that
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  Speaker 2: to you. How many people got that? As I wrap
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  Speaker 2: this up tonight, the substratum of the text that lies
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  Speaker 2: before us today is built on the premise of this
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  Speaker 2: primary ingredient, the refusal to let greed overtake growth. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And if greed is to overtake growth, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: bring us to a place that we are denied gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: And in the absence of gratitude, we will try to
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  Speaker 2: replace it with happiness. And happiness means something has to
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  Speaker 2: happen in order for me to feel good. So I
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  Speaker 2: will chase you down for a feeling that I cannot generate.
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  Speaker 2: I know that hurt a little bit. I will chase
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  Speaker 2: you down for that. What God is trying to say,
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  Speaker 2: I gave you this chance. I did all the hard stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't bring you into the garden until it was
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  Speaker 2: already set up. God is systematic. Not only did he
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  Speaker 2: create the garden, he created a system to water the garden.
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  Speaker 2: That a mist came up every morning and watered the garden.
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  Speaker 2: He was the first sprinkler system. God is systematic. That
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  Speaker 2: he put man into a system that rejuvenated itself continually
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  Speaker 2: on its own auspices. Because he was there. Cut my finger.
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  Speaker 2: And the moment you cut it. The blood will rush
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  Speaker 2: to the wound. And the white corpse. in my blood
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  Speaker 2: cell will galvanize themselves around the point of entry and
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  Speaker 2: begin to stitch back the skin cells because God put
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  Speaker 2: me in a system that sustains the body to the
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  Speaker 2: point that doctors really can't explain why we die God
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  Speaker 2: is a systematic God. God will put you in a system.
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  Speaker 2: Throw your hands up and say, God put me in
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  Speaker 2: a system. God will put you in a system that
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  Speaker 2: sustains you. You watch it online. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: do this for yourself. God will put you in a
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  Speaker 2: system that rejuvenates you. If you wait on him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the most patient person in the world. I
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  Speaker 2: admit it. Me and him, we're working on it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the third grade. Yeah, I'm in the third grade.
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  Speaker 2: I'm working on it because I want what I want
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  Speaker 2: when I want it. But that's precisely why I don't
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  Speaker 2: get it when I want it because he's teaching me
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  Speaker 2: to trust him in the process to wait on him
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  Speaker 2: because he has a system for every need in your life.
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  Speaker 2: And all you have to do is flow with that system.
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  Speaker 2: In the absence of that obedience, greed came in. Not
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  Speaker 2: only did they take what was theirs, they took what
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  Speaker 2: was his, and they were left with nothing. Because he
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  Speaker 2: took it all from them. Y'all don't understand. They did
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  Speaker 2: all that work. Ain't got nothing. One of the hardest
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  Speaker 2: scriptures for me to understand in the Bible was where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said to him that hath will I give more
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  Speaker 2: and to him that hath not will I take away
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  Speaker 2: that which he seemeth to have. That seems so cruel.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you take away when I'm in need? God said,
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  Speaker 2: it's not your need that moves me. It's your consistency.
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  Speaker 2: To him that have, I will give more. If I
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  Speaker 2: offer you money to put into a stock that's crashing,
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  Speaker 2: Would you invest?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you're stupid. You want to invest into something that's
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: growing up, not something that's going down. To him that
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  Speaker 2: have not, will I take away that which he seemeth
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  Speaker 2: to have? Because I gave you enough water and enough
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  Speaker 2: sunshine and enough rain that by now you should have figs.
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  Speaker 2: Why cumbereth it the ground? I'll give you three more
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  Speaker 2: years and if it doesn't bring forth fruit, I'm going
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: to cut you down. Because instead of bringing forth fruit,
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  Speaker 2: you're bringing forth excuses. I don't know whether this is
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: year one, year two, but for somebody it's year three.
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  Speaker 2: And God says, If you don't buckle down and get
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  Speaker 2: this done and continue to make the same mistakes that
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: you always made and always end up where you always were,
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  Speaker 2: don't be surprised when I stop investing in a poor stock.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: To him that have, will I give. To him that
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: have not, will I take away that which he seemeth
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: to have. You know why? God wants a profitable servant.
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  Speaker 2: A profitable servant. But it's profit. It depends on how
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  Speaker 2: much you started with your principle. For somebody, a dollar
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: is profit. If you started with 50 cents and you
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  Speaker 2: made a dollar, you're profitable. But if you started with
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  Speaker 2: five dollars and you're down to one, if you started
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  Speaker 2: with friends and now don't nobody like you, If you
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  Speaker 2: started with favor and you messed up every door God
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  Speaker 2: opened for you, don't keep coming back to God asking
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  Speaker 2: him for more until you are faithful over what he's
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  Speaker 2: given you. Now, I'm going to tell you something, and
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: I want you to understand this real good. When we
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  Speaker 2: worship the Lord in an offering, it is never because
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  Speaker 2: God needs the money. God don't care nothing about no money.
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  Speaker 2: His streets are paved with gold. You know what money does?
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: It breaks the curse off of you by saying, God,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what you give me. I will not
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  Speaker 2: worship the gift of more than I worship the giver
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  Speaker 2: and it is a statement of trust that you can
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  Speaker 2: do business with me and right now when I first
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  Speaker 2: started tithing I told y'all I started tithing on welfare
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  Speaker 2: food stamps and my mother used to hate for me
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  Speaker 2: to say that don't tell people that that don't sound
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  Speaker 2: but it's true But as soon as I proved to
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  Speaker 2: him that I would be faithful with the government check,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: you got to start where you are with faithfulness. You're
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  Speaker 2: watching on screen tonight. The Holy Spirit is speaking right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is not really an offering. It's a test. Abraham
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: took Isaac up on the mountaintop. It wasn't really an offering.
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  Speaker 2: It was a test. God said, now I know that
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  Speaker 2: you will not withhold any good thing from me because
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: I have proven you. This is a proving moment. I
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  Speaker 2: know you will dance. I know you will shout. I
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: know you will sing. I know you will clap. But
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: were you so out of the vineyard that he gave you?
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: He gave it to you. Now he's come by just
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: to see if you'll break him off as he is
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  Speaker 2: and worship him. In that way. You're watching online. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care if you're in this country or another country
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: or you're watching from another state or you just stayed
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: at home because you didn't feel like coming out into traffic.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what your reason is. Pass this test.
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  Speaker 2: You got unexpected money that came in? Pass this test.
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  Speaker 2: You got no money at all. Don't feel bad. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot give what you have not been given. You can
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: give what you've wasted. But you cannot give what you
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: have not been given. It is when God has given
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  Speaker 2: to you and you shut up your bowels of compassion
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  Speaker 2: that you miss your opportunity to give. This is the
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  Speaker 2: most personal part of the service because nobody knows what
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  Speaker 2: you and God what is in your hand but Moses
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  Speaker 2: if you use what is in your hand God will
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  Speaker 2: part the Red Sea and he will bring you across
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  Speaker 2: on dry ground it's offering time in the sanctuary This
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  Speaker 2: is the time that God proves us. He proves us
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  Speaker 2: with his word. He proves us with his offering. When
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  Speaker 2: you're ready, stand up on your feet. And I know
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  Speaker 2: you at home sitting in front of the couch and
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: you look stupid, but stand up. Stand up because the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is with you. is my banner. And when I
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  Speaker 2: wave my offering before him, this is the flag I
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  Speaker 2: fly under. This is the country I'm from. I was
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  Speaker 2: born here, but I'm not from here. I came from
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  Speaker 2: glory and I'm going back to glory. Father, you see
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  Speaker 2: every hand waving. You see every heart that wishes they
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  Speaker 2: had something to wave and they don't. You see people
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  Speaker 2: in their living rooms and in their couch and standing
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  Speaker 2: up by the kitchen table and they're waving before you
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  Speaker 2: because they're starting to realize that we are entering into
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  Speaker 2: a time that we cannot make it without you. Take
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: whatever we got. If it's two fish and five loaves
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: of bread. If it's $ 5, 000. If it's tithes on a
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: check that came in that we didn't even expect to
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: come in. Whatever it is. Promotion. Door open. Grant given.
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  Speaker 2: Way made. You did that. I know that was you.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not going to be arrogant I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to be arrogant and I'm going to humble myself and
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say yes to the Lord because I
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: am not entitled I'm expendable I'm replaceable you just chose
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  Speaker 2: to bless me and as an act of love and
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  Speaker 2: understanding of you I give it back to you The
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  Speaker 2: way Hannah gave back Samuel, I give it back to you.
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  Speaker 2: And it opened up her womb and she produced child
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  Speaker 2: after child after child. Let this be a womb offering,
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  Speaker 2: a womb opening offering that gives us increase. Somebody shout increase.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, amen. Pass it all the way to
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  Speaker 2: the left. If you have a passable, tangible seed, How
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  Speaker 2: many people are glad you came to Bible class tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Clap one more time so I can do it. If
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  Speaker 2: by chance a wayward girl or a prodigal son has
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: stumbled into the doors of this church, maybe because life
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: has thrown some curveballs at you and you know enough
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: about God to know he's trying to get your attention.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: It may be something said in the message or it
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: may be something that God's been dealing with you about
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: for several weeks. But whether you're a prodigal son or
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: a wayward girl or a wanton mother or a frivolous father,
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  Speaker 2: I want to give you an opportunity to accept Christ
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  Speaker 2: to be your personal Savior, personal Savior. for your personal problem,
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  Speaker 2: for your personal pain, for your personal weakness, for your
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: personal dysfunction, for your personal disorientation. I have a personal
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: Savior that wants to rescue you. And I would give
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  Speaker 2: you an opportunity in the final moments of this service
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: to make a decision. I'm not going to try to
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: trick God. I'm not going to act like God has
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: entitled me to be blessed. I have not been fair.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: I have not been just. I have not been fully forthright.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: But today I'm going to make things right between me
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: and God. And I'm going to give you a chance
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  Speaker 2: to walk down this aisle right now and make an
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  Speaker 2: open commitment that I'm going to walk with Jesus. It's
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: a one tonight. If you're online, the prayer lines are open.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: There are people who will pray with you. Come on down.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: Stand right there. Is there someone else? Come on down.
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  Speaker 2: Is there someone else? I'm tired of this whole world.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of this whole world. I'm tired of these streets.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of my way. I'm
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: ready to do things God's way. And I'm not going
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: to let the devil trick me into letting this service
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  Speaker 2: in with me saying I should have, I would have,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: I could have. I'm going down there now, nervous, heart thumping,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: lump in my throat, But I'm coming down there now
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: to give my life to Jesus. Is there another one?
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  Speaker 2: I want four ministers to come and meet these on
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: the altar. Come on down. I'm going to need another minister.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: And while our ministers are leading them to Christ, I'm
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: going to take this last minute to give you one
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: last chance because the Lord is long-suffering.
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  Speaker 4: If you're here tonight. Isn't this beautiful?
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: Isn't this beautiful? It's okay. Let God do what he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to do. we're going home soon I don't mean
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: to your house we're going all the way home we're
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: going home soon don't you want to go with us
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: This old world is not my home. And he keeps
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: proving it more every day. I'm a stranger here. I'm
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: not welcome here. But I know a place where the
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary shall be
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  Speaker 2: at rest. All the saints of the ages shall sit
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: at his feet and be blessed. There's somebody that's got
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: regret in your heart right now. You want to come.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: It's not too late. Come on down. I felt it.
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  Speaker 2: I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: clap your hands. To all of you that are watching online,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: I thank you for watching online with us and staying
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: throughout the entire Bible class. May the Lord strengthen you
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: and bless you and keep you. To all of you
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  Speaker 2: who press your way, through the crowd to be out
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: here tonight to hear the conclusion of the whole matter
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for being here to all of you
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  Speaker 2: who came to this altar I'm so proud of you
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  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you So proud of you. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see you on Sunday. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the Potter's House isn't just a place.
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  Speaker 3: It's a movement. Family, we are so much better when
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 3: we come together. And today, we're inviting you to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of something bigger. When you sow a seed,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: you're planting the future of hope, healing, and change.
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  Speaker 1: In times of uncertainty, the house stands strong, and because
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: of you, it keeps standing for others. Your giving isn't
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: just generosity, it's ministry. And what you sow today will
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: be the miracle someone is praying for.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 3: If this message spoke to you, and if you're ready
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 3: to step into faith, if you believe in what God
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: is doing here, don't wait. Sow a seed, move in faith.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 3: Every gift, every act of generosity fuels this mission and
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: brings us closer to reaching the lives that need it
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 3: the most.