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Rightfully Mine! · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get in as much of this as
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  Speaker 1: I can. I'm going to Genesis chapter 32, verse 24
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  Speaker 1: through 30. I may have to continue this on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: night as a disclaimer. Amen. Stand if you're able for
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  Speaker 1: the reading of the word. So Jacob was left alone.
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  Speaker 1: So Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with
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  Speaker 1: him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could
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  Speaker 1: not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip
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  Speaker 1: so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with
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  Speaker 1: the man. Then the man said, let me go for
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  Speaker 1: it is daybreak. This was a night fight. But Jacob replied,
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  Speaker 1: I will not let you go until you bless me.
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  Speaker 1: The man asked him, what is your name?
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  Speaker 2: Jacob, he answered.
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  Speaker 1: Then the man said, your name will no longer be Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: but Israel. Because you have struggled with God and with
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  Speaker 1: humans and have overcome. Because you have struggled with God
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  Speaker 1: and with humans and have overcome. Lord, have mercy. I
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  Speaker 1: have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob said, please tell me your name. But he replied,
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  Speaker 1: why do you ask my name? Then he blessed him there.
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  Speaker 1: So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, it is because I.
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  Speaker 2: Saw God.
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  Speaker 1: Face to face, and yet my life was spared. Did
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  Speaker 1: you notice I started out talking about man? He wrestled
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  Speaker 1: a man to the breaking of day, and it ends
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  Speaker 1: up talking about I saw God face to face? This
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  Speaker 1: is a theophonic appearance of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob wrestles with a man whose name is a
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  Speaker 1: secret because the time has not yet been given to
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  Speaker 1: expose who he is. Why do you ask me that?
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  Speaker 1: Jacob wrestles with a theophonic manifestation of Jesus Christ in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament lacking unto the fourth one in the
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  Speaker 1: fiery furnace. Jesus shows up in the Old Testament. He
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  Speaker 1: peaks from eternity into time in the Old Testament. And
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the visitations of God as he
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  Speaker 1: moves in the life of Jacob in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. And I want to examine this. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk from the subject rightfully mine. Rightfully mine. And
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  Speaker 1: somebody says rightfully mine. I don't care what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you say about me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how you act. I don't care what your attitude
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  Speaker 1: might be. It's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 2: Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: It's rightfully mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You may
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  Speaker 1: say I stole it. You may say I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: You may say I'm not legit, but it's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: If God didn't want me to have it, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have it. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: It's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: Mind. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on us.
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  Speaker 1: As we open up the word of God, we need you.
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  Speaker 1: You're the revelator. You're the author and finisher of our faith.
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  Speaker 1: You're the inspirator of our very text before us. You're
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  Speaker 1: of paramount importance in this moment. Without you, we can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. Open up the oracles of heaven and speak
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  Speaker 1: to your people today, whether they are near or far away.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way in this place. In Jesus' name, somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in his presence. Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it's weird to have people in the building. I'm used
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  Speaker 1: to saying somebody say amen and hearing like... I almost
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do. Y'all said amen. It almost
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  Speaker 1: scared me. I thought, oh God, real people. It is
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  Speaker 1: hard to look at this text in the microcosm of
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  Speaker 1: the situation itself without including in the periphery of the
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  Speaker 1: attitude and the concepts of the family from which Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is extrapolated.
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  Speaker 2: For you cannot talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob outside of the context of who sired him, his
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  Speaker 1: father Isaac, without understanding his mother Rebecca, without taking a
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  Speaker 1: glance at least at Abram and understanding the Abrahamic covenant
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  Speaker 1: because that is the blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Inherent, a part of his inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding Jacob also means understanding the pressure that existed in
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  Speaker 1: his life, having been born into a spiritual aristocratic monarchy.
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  Speaker 1: A manifestation of God through a family that started a
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  Speaker 1: lineage that became a nation. They were a family of purpose,
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  Speaker 1: but that does not mean that they were not a
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  Speaker 1: family of problems. It is possible, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: to have purpose and problems. If I don't say anything
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  Speaker 1: else today, I can sit out right there. Some people
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  Speaker 1: think if you have purpose, once you find your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: you won't have any problems. And then other people are
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  Speaker 1: having problems finding their purpose. But people who have found
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  Speaker 1: their purpose also understand that the art of being purposeful
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  Speaker 1: is also to navigate through the problems that come with purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob's life has become a microcosm of purpose and
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  Speaker 1: problems and pains. I did my first funeral when I
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  Speaker 1: was 19 years old, and I quickly learned that at
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  Speaker 1: times of great pain, family problems surface quickly. Yeah. It
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  Speaker 1: might look good at the ceremony, at the service, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how they were fighting in the car
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  Speaker 1: and arguing in the house and complaining about this or
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  Speaker 1: that because pain brings problems to the surface. And part
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  Speaker 1: of the problem is brought about through what is rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: You're not taking mama's house. You're not taking. Mama told
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  Speaker 1: me one day while we were frying chicken in buttermilk
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  Speaker 1: sauce that she wanted my grandbaby to have. Everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: a claim on what is rightfully mine. And it can
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  Speaker 1: be quite contentious. It can require a pastor not only
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  Speaker 1: be able to eulogize the funeral, but to litigate the
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  Speaker 1: opposing ideas of the family. And if he's unable to
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  Speaker 1: resolve it, it may actually go to court to an
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  Speaker 1: attorney for an attorney to sort through. And even attorneys
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  Speaker 1: are left scratching their heads and judges left trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out because sometimes there is no will. And when
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  Speaker 1: there is no will, then the court takes over what
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  Speaker 1: is rightfully done. and does what's best in its eyes
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  Speaker 1: because you never left a clear plan as to what
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  Speaker 1: was best in your eyes. So this is about rights,
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  Speaker 1: and it's about a family that's carrying on a legacy, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Pointing toward calvary.
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  Speaker 1: And to be privileged to be born into a family
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  Speaker 1: that is pointed toward Calvary, it has to run, you
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  Speaker 1: would think, in a straight line. Every birth was important
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  Speaker 1: from Eve forward. Every woman who had a baby was
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  Speaker 1: hoping and praying that she would be the messianic mother
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  Speaker 1: of the God child. For the Bible said that the
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  Speaker 1: seed of the woman should rise up and bruise the
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  Speaker 1: head of the serpent, and the serpent should bruise his heel.
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  Speaker 1: So every woman who went into labor was hoping for Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for and looking to the expectation of the fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of the problem to break the curse. And so every
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  Speaker 1: child was significant. You have women like Elizabeth who said,
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  Speaker 1: give me a child lest I die. I got to
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  Speaker 1: have it. I got to have it. You have women
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  Speaker 1: who were barren like Hannah praying and praying and praying
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  Speaker 1: and praying till they staggered around like drunk women, not
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  Speaker 1: because they were lonely. She had Penina's kids, but she
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  Speaker 1: was hoping to be the one that had the child
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  Speaker 1: that made the difference. In this particular case, you must
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  Speaker 1: realize that Jacob enters into this text in a position
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  Speaker 1: of wrestling That's the first thing they tell us, that
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  Speaker 1: Jacob was left alone with God. And there he wrestled
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  Speaker 1: with the man.
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  Speaker 2: He wrestled. Somebody say. he wrestled.
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  Speaker 1: The word wrestle makes me sling all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to his birth. Because Jacob's fight didn't start on the
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  Speaker 1: mountaintop in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's fight did not start there. Jacob's fight started in
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  Speaker 1: the womb when his mother birthed him into the world.
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  Speaker 1: He was in a fight when she was pregnant. There
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  Speaker 1: was such fighting going on in his mother's womb that
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  Speaker 1: she had to pray and ask God, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: Take a look at this text. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: look at this. I want to look at this. Take
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  Speaker 1: me to Genesis. 25. Yeah. 25, 21. Isaac prayed to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that funny? His mama was too. Isn't that funny?
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  Speaker 1: He married a woman like his mother. I ain't about that.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife
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  Speaker 1: because she was childless. He had the faith to pray
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  Speaker 1: for a barren woman because he was born out of
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  Speaker 1: a barren womb. The Lord answered his prayer and his wife, Rebecca,
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  Speaker 1: became pregnant. The babies jostled each other or wrestled with
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  Speaker 1: each other within her. And she said, why is this
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  Speaker 1: happening to me? What's going on inside of me? What's
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  Speaker 1: going on in my stomach? This isn't just a kick
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  Speaker 1: and a jab.
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  Speaker 2: These folks is fighting it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine a woman being pregnant with twins and
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  Speaker 1: they're in a fight and your belly is going from
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  Speaker 1: side to side and they're kicking martial arts and everything
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  Speaker 1: in the world. They are fighting and she says, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? So she went to inquire of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said to her, two nations are in
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  Speaker 1: your womb. And two people from within you will be
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  Speaker 1: separated from One people will be stronger than the other.
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  Speaker 1: And the older will serve the younger. Now that is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The older will serve the younger. That's interesting. Because it's
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  Speaker 1: not normally like that. Normally the younger will would serve
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  Speaker 1: the older because the older one would be the firstborn.
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  Speaker 1: And the blessing is on the firstborn. But God says
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  Speaker 1: when all of this is over, the older will serve
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  Speaker 1: the younger. That alone switches the birth order. When the
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  Speaker 1: time came for her to give birth, there were twin
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  Speaker 1: boys in her womb. The first to come out was red,
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  Speaker 1: and his whole body was like a hairy garment, so
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  Speaker 1: they called his name Esau. After this, his brother came
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  Speaker 1: out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So they called
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  Speaker 1: him Jacob, trickster, supplanter, con man. That's what Jacob means.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac was 60 years old. Look at that. Isaac was
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  Speaker 1: 60 years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. These
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  Speaker 1: are the children of his old age, much like he
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  Speaker 1: is the child of an old man. He is 60
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  Speaker 1: years old having a baby. Now, I'm over 60. And
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  Speaker 1: the last thing I want my wife to come home
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  Speaker 1: and tell me The doctor said, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: start raising children at 60. But this is what has
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  Speaker 1: come up under his lot to do. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of pride in being 60 and
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  Speaker 1: birthing a child. The same kind of pride that Abram
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  Speaker 1: had when he had Isaac, the pride of saying, even
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  Speaker 1: in this season of my life, I am yet fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is born in this environment and they named him
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  Speaker 1: because of how they found him and they found him fighting.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible said because he was snatching at Esau,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the womb, they called him Jacob. Until
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  Speaker 1: you understand that part of the story, then you won't
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  Speaker 1: understand the rest of the story. Because what happens next
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  Speaker 1: is the fight not only for the birth order, but
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  Speaker 1: the birth right to understand who has the right to reign.
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  Speaker 1: Nature teaches, history teaches, the period teaches that the firstborn
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  Speaker 1: should have the right to reign. And so when they
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  Speaker 1: brought Esau to his father Isaac, Isaac loved Esau. But
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  Speaker 1: God hated him. Put a pin right there. Why does
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  Speaker 1: God hate Esau? That's a strong word. Why does God hate?
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  Speaker 1: I hate Esau. I'll add that to Jacob is pulling
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  Speaker 1: at him, coming out of the womb. And they called
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  Speaker 1: him Jacob because he had his hand on the heel
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  Speaker 1: of the firstborn child. And the old man has purpose
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  Speaker 1: to bless his firstborn. But the prophecy said that the
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  Speaker 1: blessing would be on the younger of them.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been in.
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  Speaker 1: A situation where you weren't even in line for the blessing?
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  Speaker 1: Where it didn't look like it was going to be you?
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  Speaker 1: You were not the favorite. You were not the most likely.
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  Speaker 1: You were not the preferred. You were not the one,
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  Speaker 1: not only in your family, in your neighborhood, in your school,
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  Speaker 1: in your house, in your life. Have you ever believed
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  Speaker 1: God for something and the odds were against you? The
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  Speaker 1: odds are against Jacob. But they forgot that old Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is a fighter. And the fight started in the womb.
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  Speaker 1: And what we do not know is what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the womb. We don't know who was supposed to be first.
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  Speaker 1: We only know who came out first. That's all we know.
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  Speaker 1: We know who came out first. Now, when we look
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  Speaker 1: at this next deposit that we're going to make, in
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  Speaker 1: this next phase, we're going to get down to the
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  Speaker 1: birthright in Genesis 25, 29 through 34. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: begin to understand that the fight that started in the
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  Speaker 1: womb now continues outside the womb. Because Jacob said it
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  Speaker 1: ain't over. Somebody say it ain't over. Once when Jacob
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  Speaker 1: was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open
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  Speaker 1: country famished. He said to Jacob, quick, let me have
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  Speaker 1: some of that red stew. I'm famished. That is why
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  Speaker 1: he was also called Edom. Jacob replied, first, sell me
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  Speaker 1: your birthright. Let's finish what we started. Look, I am
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  Speaker 1: about to die, Esau said. What good is the birthright
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  Speaker 1: to me? They're still fighting.
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  Speaker 2: But Jacob said, swear to me first.
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  Speaker 1: So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some
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  Speaker 1: lentils and some cornbread and some collard greens and some
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  Speaker 1: rice and some potato salad and some sweet potato pie.
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  Speaker 1: He ate and drank and then got up and left.
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  Speaker 1: So Esau despised his birthright. He gave away his birthright.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible said... that it wasn't his in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. Wonder why the Bible says Esau sought repentance
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  Speaker 1: with many tears and found it not. See, sometimes somebody
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  Speaker 1: else has got something that is rightfully yours. Y'all gonna
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  Speaker 1: get it in a minute. Let me put it in
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  Speaker 1: biblical terms. I'll give you houses that you didn't build.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you vineyards that you didn't grow. Somebody may
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  Speaker 1: be living in what's going to be your house. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: may be driving what's going to be your car. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: may be in an office of going to be yours
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  Speaker 1: they just don't know it yet you may have to
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  Speaker 1: fight for it but God said it's rightfully.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know I don't know I don't know all.
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  Speaker 1: I know is what the way Jacob handled it is
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  Speaker 1: totally opposite to what the angel said to Rebecca. For
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  Speaker 1: the angel said to Rebecca that the younger one, that
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  Speaker 1: the older one would serve the younger one. And that
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  Speaker 1: reversed the order. Hear me right now.
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  Speaker 2: God is getting ready to reverse the order.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be careful in this season who you
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  Speaker 1: walk past. Because God is getting ready to reverse the order.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be careful who you look down on
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  Speaker 1: because God is getting ready to reverse the order.
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  Speaker 2: Just because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Seem like I have it doesn't mean that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: about to get it. The last shall be first and
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  Speaker 1: the tail shall be the head. God is about to
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  Speaker 1: reverse the order. And I admit, I never really liked Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: I think Jacob was an embarrassment to the family. I
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  Speaker 1: always preach Jacob from a negative perspective because Jacob, because
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  Speaker 1: of this tricky pull, him and his mama got together
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  Speaker 1: and scammed the old man out of the birthright. She
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  Speaker 1: had him dressed like he was hairy. She had him
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  Speaker 1: change his voice and come into the room. And the
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  Speaker 1: old man couldn't half see. And he fooled around and
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  Speaker 1: blessed Jacob. The wrong son, or was it?
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  Speaker 2: The wrong son.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how God will move whatever he has
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  Speaker 1: to move and manipulate whatever he has to manipulate to
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  Speaker 1: put you in the place to line you up for
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  Speaker 1: what's next in your life? I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some folks that got a strange testimony. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people that wasn't born to be what
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  Speaker 1: you ended up being, but God just kind of started
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  Speaker 1: moving things around and switching things up, and you ended
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  Speaker 1: up someplace, and you said.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how I got here.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob, Jacob finds himself in a place with his brother,
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  Speaker 1: that even though he has the birthright, it doesn't feel right.
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  Speaker 1: He has the birthright, but it doesn't feel right because
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  Speaker 1: Esau hated Jacob over what happened, which put a cloud
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  Speaker 1: over the birthright. And he also got the blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: the problem with the blessing is Jacob was dying when
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  Speaker 1: he gave him the blessing. And he gave him the
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  Speaker 1: blessing and he told Esau, I only had one. So
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  Speaker 1: the Jacob that we see in our text has the
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  Speaker 1: birthright and the blessing, but he hasn't lost the struggles.
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  Speaker 1: Because he has it up under the cloud of is
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  Speaker 1: it authentic? Is it rightfully yours? Don't look confused because
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  Speaker 1: some of y'all have some stuff right now that your
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  Speaker 1: haters say is not rightfully.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob is still.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to figure out is this me or is this God?
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  Speaker 1: Is this my manipulation or is this divine intervention? Bear
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  Speaker 1: in mind, Jacob never heard what the angel told his mama.
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  Speaker 2: So he climbs up on the mountaintop.
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  Speaker 1: And he climbs up on the mountaintop and makes up
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  Speaker 1: in his mind, I'm not coming down until I feel justified.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing more for him to get then the
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  Speaker 1: birthright and the blessing, the only thing left to get
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  Speaker 1: is to authenticate the blessing. And only God can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever gotten into something that Let me talk
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  Speaker 1: to the folk on the Zoom. Have you ever gotten
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  Speaker 1: into something that only God could get— No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all ain't real. I want to find some people who
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  Speaker 1: have prayed the prayer, Lord, if you get me out
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  Speaker 1: of this, I promise I— There's.
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  Speaker 2: 10 people in here.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't but 10. Lord, if you just get me
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  Speaker 1: out of this, I promise I will— Jacob is wrestling
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and wrestling. He's been wrestling in the womb. He's been
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: wrestling with his brother. And now he has gone from
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: wrestling to running. He is running from Esau because Esau
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: is trying to kill him. And his mother has to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: get him out of the house because his brother is
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: trying to kill him. You thought you had problems in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: your family? Y'all doing good. We are about to see
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: The sin of Cain and Abel repeat itself in Jacob
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  Speaker 1: and Esau. That's when your brother tries to kill you
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  Speaker 1: because of your blessing. You see, Satan doesn't have any
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: new tricks. All he has is old tricks. And if
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you live long enough, you start to notice I've seen
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: this before. The names have changed, but this is the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: same old devil I had to fight 10 years ago.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Because you're not, the devil is not a creator. He
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is an imitator. So he threw his old Cain and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Abel trick out. And told Esau, you ought to kill him.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And Jacob had to run. Blessed but running. Y'all didn't
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: get it. I'm going to tell y'all. I'm blessed, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'm running. I want to talk to some people that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are blessed, but you got to run sometime. You got
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to run sometime. You're blessed, but you got to keep
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: running because you know that there's haters back there that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: if you just trip, they will try to destroy everything.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Jacob goes from the.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Wrestling Jacob To the running Jacob. And he has been running.
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  Speaker 1: For years. Can you imagine. Running. For years. Or do
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you have to imagine it. Maybe you can remember it. Running.
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  Speaker 1: For years.
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  Speaker 2: Not feeling. Authentic.
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  Speaker 1: For years. Not knowing whether you are enough. For years.
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  Speaker 2: Not knowing whether you have what it takes.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: For years. Not knowing whether you're really gifted or not.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: For years. Not knowing if your childhood struggle is over.
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  Speaker 1: For years. I want to talk to some people who
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: have been wrestling and running for.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Years and years and years.
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  Speaker 1: And even though Esau never got you, the flight wore
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: you out. The trip wore you out. The running wore
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: you out. The wrestling wore you out. And Jacob now
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: comes to the mountaintop. Sin, I want to settle this
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: once and for all. I want to settle this once
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and for all. And so he does what he's good at.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: He starts wrestling. Wrestling again. He doesn't really know how
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to talk to God. He's had to wrestle all his
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: life until wrestling has become a pathology. Note to self,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: do not marry a wrestler. Because if you marry a wrestler,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: all they know how to do. Note to self, do
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: not hire a wrestler. because if you hire a wrestler
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: all they know how to do is here Jacob is
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: with God and he's not praying he's wrestling because the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: only communication he knows how to make is wrestling If
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you see looks like a nail. Oh, y'all don't hear
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. See, some of us don't have enough toolbox,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: enough tools in our toolbox to step into our destiny.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: All we have is what we've always had to use.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And so we fight anything that gets in front of us.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: We had to fight in the womb. We had to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: fight in the house. And now we're fighting with God.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Fighting is our love language. It's the only language. Oh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you ain't going to say nothing. But some of y'all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: married somebody. That fighting is their love language. It's the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: only way we know how to communicate. And so Jacob
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: was left alone with God. And there he wrestled. He
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: wrestled with God. This text always amazed me because I
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: already know who will win the fight. What wrestling is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: there to be done with God? And yet God in
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: his infinite grace and wisdom allows Jacob to wrestle like
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you do when a little boy comes up on you
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and he wants to fight and he starts doing the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: windmill thing and you grab him by his big head.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: It's not that you couldn't beat him, but you just
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: grab him by his big head. Until his arms get
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: tired and he calms down. That's Jacob wrestling with God.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Your arms are too short to wrestle with God. You
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: don't have enough strength to wrestle with God. You're watching
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: me online right now. You ought to be tired of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: running and wrestling. And even when it comes to God,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: you're wrestling with God. You're wrestling with a God who
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: gave you the breath you used to fight with. Who
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: gave you the legs you used to kick with. Who
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: gave you the strength in your arms you used to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: fight with. Do you really think you can win wrestling
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: with God? But God knows that Jacob is wrestling not
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: with God. He's wrestling with himself. Can I go deeper?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: He's wrestling with himself. He's got the birthright. He's got
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the blessing, but it doesn't feel right. Some of y'all
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: got the birthright and you got the blessing, but it
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. God can give you a blessing and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you can't enjoy it because it don't feel right because
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you're not sure you're supposed to have it. And you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: don't own the opportunity that God has given you. You're
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in it, but you don't own it because it don't
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: feel right. And so you wrestle. I talked to a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: pastor the other day who for years wrestled about getting
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a building. And then he finally got the building built.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And now he's wrestling about having the building built. I said, look,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you can't have it both ways. If you're going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be sad with no building, you can't be sad with
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the building. You got to decide sooner or later, I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: going to be happy about something. If you're going to be, oh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: come on, somebody. If you're going to wrestle outside, you
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: can't get in and still wrestle.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: You wrestled before.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: You got blessed. And now you're blessed and you're still wrestling?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: You wrestled when you were single until you got married
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and now you're married and you're wrestling. And you wrestled him,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you're married until you get divorced. And now you're divorced
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and you're still wrestling with the person you left? Because
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: all you got is a hammer. And all of life
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: looks like a nail. Jacob is wrestling with God.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: And God is visiting.
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  Speaker 1: Can't stay. Because he hasn't been born of a woman.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: And he says, let me go. For the day breaketh.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Jacob says, I won't let you go till you bless me.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you're already blessed. You already have the birthright.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Do you know you can be blessed and not know
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that the enemy can make you feel in such a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: way that you don't really know that you have what
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you got? Listen at the schizophrenia of their conversation. Jacob
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: wrestles with the angel, but when the angel sees that
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the day breaketh, the angel now says to him, let
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: me go for the day breaketh. Jacob says, I won't
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: let you go till you bless me. The angel says,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: what is your name? Who wrote this?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: What does, what, what does... What is my name? We
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: in a fight.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: We in a fight. Me and Beanie in a fight.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And we roll it all over the pulpit. And I
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: stop in the middle of the fight and say, what
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: is your name?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you think I was pretty stupid to stop in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a fight and say, the angel asked him who is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: actually Christ and already knows. What is your name? And
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: he answers, I am what they called me.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I am Jacob.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: See, the blessing was in figuring out who he was.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: The blessing wasn't the boat. It wasn't the car. It
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't the house. It wasn't the cattle. It wasn't the sheep.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the property. It wasn't the land. It wasn't
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: any of that. The blessing was.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Do you know who you are? So I want to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: ask you this morning, do you know who you are?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Or is your only answer, I am what they call me?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: When Jacob said I am, when he answered I am Jacob,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: he was saying I am what they call me. I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: am what they said about me. And here lies the problem.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: If you only define yourself by what they say about yourself.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You will never find yourself and therefore you cannot be
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: yourself because you are living under the curse of the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: ignorance of people who didn't understand the prophecy that was
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: over your life. That's a drop the mic moment right there.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: What is your name in the middle of a fight?
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: What does it have to do with anything? It has
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: everything to do with it.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: It's how do you see yourself? I see myself the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: way my ex-husband saw me. I see myself the way
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: my third grade teacher said about me. I see myself...
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: By what my old boss said about me, I see
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: myself through the lens of what my old girlfriend said
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: about me. What is your name? He answers, I am
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what they call me. I am Jacob.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: That's why you got.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: To be careful what you call your children. You can't
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: get so mad at your children that you start calling
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: them all kind of names. Because you're just angry for
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a moment. But the name will stick for a lifetime.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And they will walk in the footsteps of what you
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: call them. Don't let the devil trick you into saying
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: just anything about your child. Because it will be a
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't call your daughter a tramp. Don't call
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: her a slut. Don't call her a hoe. Because if
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you call her that, that's what's coming back at you.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: God don't talk to you like that. With your broken, crazy,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: idiotic self, he calls you, you are the head and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: are blessed in the city. You are blessed in the field.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: You are blessed in your uprising. You are blessed in
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: your down city. There are some other things God could
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: bring up that you are. But he knows the power
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: of calling you something. So Jacob is struggling trying to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: end the battle that the birthright didn't fix and the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: blessing didn't fix. Because now even outside of the presence
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: of Esau, he is battling inside. Like his mother, he
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: has two nations warring in his womb. Like her and Jacob,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you also have two natures fighting inside of you. Which
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: one is gonna rule? The older or the younger? Your
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: first birthday or your newborn birthday? So the art is
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to make the elder your human birth date, serve the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: younger your saved birth date. But in order to get
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the elder to serve the younger, you have to wrestle
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: because the elder doesn't want to give up his birthright
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and his control in your life. And here you've been
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: born again, But you've got to fight on the inside.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: And so sometimes you've got to get away from the crowd.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: You've got to hang up the phone. You've got to
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: shut down FaceTime. You've got to shut down Facebook. You've
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: got to shut down everything and get down on your
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: knees and get in the presence of God and try
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: to figure out, what is my name? What is my name?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: What is my name? Am I who touched me? What
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: is my name? Am I who left me? Am I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: who fondled me? Am I who beat me up? Am
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I who arrested me? Am I what the press says
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I am? Am I what my enemy?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: What is my name? Because some kind.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Of way I have always called myself What they call me.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: And even with the birthright and even with the blessing,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I don't feel blessed. Because all I can hear and
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: all I answer to is what you call me. And
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: when you call me something, you're calling me what you
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: expect from me. When you call me something, you are
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: calling me what you expect from me. Y'all glad to
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: be back in church? Could it be, I'm not sure,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just asking a question. Could it be possible that
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Jacob should have been born first, but Esau fought him
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: out of the first position? And God changed the blessing
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: order since the birthing order had been altered. Could that
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: be why God hated Esau? Could that be why Esau
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: sought repentance with many tears and found it not? It's
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: because what he did was to try to disrupt the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: purpose of God.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm not saying it is, I'm just
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: asking questions.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, we have come to this mountain alone
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to wrestle with God. And the first thing he tells
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Jacob is, you are not who you think you are.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Your name shall no more be called Jacob. Then the
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: man said, your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: because you have struggled with God and with humans and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: have overcome.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Israel, you're a prince.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Not a fighter, not a wrestler, not a trickster, not
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: a con artist, not a liar.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: You did some of that. Now, you did it. You
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: did it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: You did it. You did it, but you are not it.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: This is a higher calling.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I press toward the mark of a higher calling.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I press toward the mark of a higher call on my.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Life than the gravitational pull of my history I press toward.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: The higher call of my destiny, I'm moving towards something
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that you may not even see in me. I'm a
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: prince without a palace. I'm a prince without a throne.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm a prince without a princess. I'm a prince. I'm
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: a prince that don't look like it riding on this donkey,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm a prince. You don't treat me like it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: But I am wrestling with God to find out what
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: is in me. And he smote him at his hip joint.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And Jacob never screamed. And he never yelled. He just
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: comes hopping down off the mountain. He never cried out.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: He never hollered.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: You know why?
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: It is worth the struggle. It is worth whatever the
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: struggle was. to find out who you are and what
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you got and what you can do and what you
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: can be. And Jacob comes down off Israel, Israel, Israel,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Israel comes down. Jacob, Israel, Jacob and Israel, Jacob, Israel, Jacob,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Israel comes down. He's limping off the mountaintop. Only one leg,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: only one leg. Jacob leg. The only one part of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: it is limpid. It's wounded. Jacob will never recover full
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: strength because Israel.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: What got smoked was the Jacob's side. It got smoked. Oh,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: y'all don't want to fool with me. I feel like preaching.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: What got smoked is the Jacob's side. He hit the
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: part of me that was controlling me and knocked it
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: out of joint so it wouldn't have the power that
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: it used to have in my life. So Jacob, Israel,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: all throughout the rest of his life, the names interchange
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: back and forth, all the way to the grave. Sometimes
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: in the same sentence, one moment they call him Jacob,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: the next moment they call him Israel. Because he still
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: has that Jacob background, but he has that Israel future.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Hey!
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I feel like running. He... Y'all didn't get that. If
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: y'all got that, y'all would tear this place up. Somebody
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: in here trying to act like you don't understand. You
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: know you still got that Jacob background, but you got
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that Israel future, and you just dragging that Jacob. You
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: just dragging that Jacob. Come on, Jacob.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: We're going this way. We're not going that way. We're
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: going this way. And he comes down off the mountain.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Daybreak has come. The night fight is over. Every fight
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: he ever had was a night fight. Fighting in the womb.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Fighting in the dark. He's had night fights. Anybody had
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: night fights? Went to bed tired, woke up tired. Night fights,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: night fights, night fights. I want some real saints that
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: can talk to me about some night fights. Three o'clock
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: in the morning and you're having a night fight. 4.15
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: and you're just looking at the clock. You up, you
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: don't even know why you up. Jacob and Israel is
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: having a fight at four o'clock in the morning and
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: it's been a night fight.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: And it was morning time. Because weeping can only endure
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: for a night. Joy.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Joy.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Coming in the morning.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: And what is important, if you give me a minute,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: what's important for you to see is this. Both of
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: them came down off the mountain. But one of them
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: had been smoked. And Jacob never fully recovered his strength
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: in Israel's life. There are some things that are still there,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: but they're nowhere near like they used to be because
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: God has smoked the hip joints and you walk in
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: with a limp. because of what you've been through and
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: where you came from and how you had to wrestle
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: with God and you had to wrestle with man, but
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you're still moving forward. That's why you prevail. Because you've
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: been through hell, but you're still moving forward. You cried
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: all night, but you're still moving forward. You're lonely half
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the time, but you're still moving forward. And God gave
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: you a limp to show the world that you're a fighter.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: You've been with God.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And the first person he runs into when he gets
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: to the bottom of the mountain, is Esau. That which
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: he has been running from, he is now ready to confront.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And he comes limping down off the mountain to say,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not scared of you no more. I'm not going
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: to run from you no more because I found out
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: who I am. And I know who I am. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I know what I can be. And I know what
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I can do. And I know where I can go.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And I know what he's done in my life. And
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I know that I have a destiny. And I know
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that what's in front of me is greater than what
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: is behind me. And I know that nations shall come
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  Speaker 1: out of my body. That my 12 sons shall become
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  Speaker 1: the 12 tribes of Israel. And out of the 12
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  Speaker 1: tribes of Israel shall come the lion of the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Judah. And I know who I am. You can't
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  Speaker 1: mess with me because of what God put down inside
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  Speaker 1: of me. I now realize what a birthright really is.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, you ain't got no blessing to
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  Speaker 1: give me no way. I've already been blessed. I've been
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  Speaker 1: blessed by God. I've been called by God. I've been
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  Speaker 1: directed by God. I've been sent by God. I got
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  Speaker 1: the anointing of God. I got the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: I got the power of God. The Lord told me
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  Speaker 1: to tell you to stop struggling with what he's given you.
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  Speaker 1: To stop feeling unworthy of what he's given you. To
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  Speaker 1: stop wrestling with what he's about to release in your life.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord told me to tell you to stop feeling
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  Speaker 1: ashamed because of the mistakes of your past regarding what
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  Speaker 1: he's about to do in your life right now. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you that the blessing is
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  Speaker 1: rightfully yours. It is rightfully yours. Somebody holler, it's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to be bold in it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stand up in it. I'm going to walk in it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live in it. Because today I realize
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  Speaker 1: that if God would have wanted Esau on the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: he would have put Esau on the mountain. If God
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  Speaker 1: would have wanted to give Esau the blessing, he would
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  Speaker 1: have given Esau the blessing. If God would have wanted
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  Speaker 1: Esau to have it, he would have given it to
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  Speaker 1: him and he would have never allowed the trick to
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  Speaker 1: work in his life. But God chose me. I may
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  Speaker 1: have showed up late, but he chose me. I may
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  Speaker 1: have got pushed aside, but he chose me. I may
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  Speaker 1: have had to fight all of my life, but he
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  Speaker 1: chose me. Somebody just reach up and snatch it and
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  Speaker 1: say it's rightfully mine. is rightfully mine. Peace is rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: Joy is rightfully mine. Victory is rightfully mine. To be
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  Speaker 1: happy is rightfully mine. To walk in the fullness is
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  Speaker 1: rightfully mine. I suffered for it. I fought for it.
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  Speaker 1: I crawled for it. I cried for it. I wrestled
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  Speaker 1: for it. I need 30 seconds of crazy praise. I
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  Speaker 1: need 15 seconds of somebody that will praise God like
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  Speaker 1: you lost your mind. Praise God like you don't care anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Praise God with your lip. Praise God through your pain.
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  Speaker 1: Praise God through your struggle. Praise God through your fight.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I'm through running. I'm through hiding. I'm through ducking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm through dodging. Here am I. Somebody shout, it's mine.
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  Speaker 2: It's mine. Shout, it's mine. It's rightfully mine. This shore.
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  Speaker 1: This peace. This power. This life. This anointing. This strength.
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  Speaker 1: This gift. This house. This car. This wife. These kids.
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  Speaker 2: These kids. These kids. These doors. These opportunities. Who do
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  Speaker 2: they belong to? Whose are they? Whose are they? Who's
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  Speaker 2: out there? Who's out there? Who's out there? Who's the homeowner?
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  Speaker 2: Who's the head? Who's above? Who overcomes? Who survives?
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  Speaker 1: Who's blessed?
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  Speaker 2: It's mine, it's mine, it's mine. It's mine, it's mine,
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  Speaker 2: it's mine.
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  Speaker 1: So they came down off the mountain and he faced
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  Speaker 1: off with Esau. They had a conversation and he told Esau,
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  Speaker 1: may the Lord watch between me and thee while we
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  Speaker 1: are absent.
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  Speaker 2: One from another.
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  Speaker 1: See, that doxology wasn't really a blessing. It was a separation.
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  Speaker 1: It means you have gone as far as you can
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  Speaker 1: go in my life. This is the line. Don't cross it.
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  Speaker 1: May the Lord watch between me and thee. while we
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  Speaker 1: are absent, one from another, because I'm not running no more,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not coming over to you, and I refuse
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  Speaker 1: to give you what is rightfully mine. What do you
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  Speaker 1: say about it? What do you say about it? What
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  Speaker 1: do you say about it? What do you say about it?
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  Speaker 1: Let everything that have breath praise ye the Lord. Stand
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  Speaker 1: up on your feet if you're able. There's somebody watching
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  Speaker 1: me today. You can't really sit in your blessing. You
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  Speaker 1: kind of have sitting in it. But you don't trust
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  Speaker 1: it in case they leave, in case they laugh, in
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  Speaker 1: case they abandon me. In case it's over. It's mine,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes I feel like I stole it. And what
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  Speaker 1: God is trying to get you to do is to
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  Speaker 1: put your weight on it. to put your weight in
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of who you shall be and not who
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  Speaker 1: you have been. There are some issues in your life
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  Speaker 1: that have been dislocated at the hip and they will
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  Speaker 1: never fully recover their strength. Oh yeah, you'll always have
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a limp. When it rains, it might hurt. You might
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: not show up as fast as people who haven't been
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: through what you've been through. But God fixed it so
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: that Jacob can't stop Israel from getting where he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to go. And the reason he did it is because
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  Speaker 1: it's rightfully yours. You may run with drug dealers, but
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: you are not one of them. You may be abusing substance,
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  Speaker 1: but you are not what you're taking. You're bigger than
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: the life you're living and the people you've been laying
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: with because you were born for a purpose. And even
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: though you hurt sometimes, It's time for you to step
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  Speaker 1: into your destiny and step into your legacy and step
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  Speaker 1: into your dynasty. God loves you, Israel. God loves you, Jacob.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: When Jacob was dying, the Bible said that Jacob was
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: dying And Israel sat up in the bed and strengthened himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he blessed all his sons before he said goodbye.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: And when Joseph brought to him his two sons, Manasseh
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  Speaker 1: and Ephraim, to be blessed, Jacob crossed his hands because
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  Speaker 1: he knew what it was to be the guy in
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  Speaker 1: the background And he saw Joseph trying to maneuver one
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: to the front. And he said, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I've already seen that trick before. And I'm old enough
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: now to cross my hands to make sure who's supposed
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: to get the blessing gets the blessing. You can't politicize
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: God's favor. What God has got for you is for you.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: If you receive it right now, if you let him
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  Speaker 1: into your heart, if you let him into your spirit,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: if you let him into your story, if you let
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  Speaker 1: him into your life, if you let him wrestle you
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: till you wear out and you surrender, he'll give you
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: your new name. You need a new name. Some of
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: you need a new name in your own house, with
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: your own family. They don't think they can count on you.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: They don't think they can trust you. They don't think
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: you'll ever do anything. They'll amount to anything. God wants
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: to give you a new name. You are not Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: Your name is Israel. Jacob is what they call you.
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  Speaker 1: I call you a prince. And if you're receiving... He'll
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: come into your heart. Let's pray right now. I feel
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: an anointing to pray for backsliders and sinners coming back
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: to Christ to this moment right now. Right now you've
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: drifted away and you've been acting out what they called you,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: what they said about you, what they did to you,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: where they touched you, how they handled you. You've been
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: living beneath your privilege, but today you're coming into your
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: destiny and moving away from your history. You'll always limp
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but you're about to move forward because
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: God is calling you somewhere you've never been. Let's pray together.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Father in the name of Jesus for every soul that's
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: saying yes for every tear that falls for every heart
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  Speaker 1: that surrenders for every mind that surrenders to the designates
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: and the dictates of the Holy Spirit come in and
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  Speaker 1: rescue them right now. Fill them with your presence and
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  Speaker 1: your word wash them in your blood and forgive them
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: of their sins. And though they may limp a little
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: bit I pray that from this moment forward, they'd never
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: be the same again. While I'm praying, let me pray
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: for church folks who have already got the birthright. They
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: already got the blessing, but they're afraid to really trust it.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't seem real. Help them to know that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: it is rightfully mine. Let me pray for the people
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: that you got blessings that you're about to unleash in
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: their lives that are mind-blowing considering what they've been through
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: and where they came from and what they've been up
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: against and how they've.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Been fighting all of their life. They can't hardly believe it.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: Help them to receive this message as a prophecy that
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: what you're about to release is rightfully mine. I surrender
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: to you. I say yes to you. In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Right where you are, whether you're in the building, whether
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: you're zooming in, whether you're logged online, lift your hands
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: and open your mouth and just give him just a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: little bit of praise right now. Right now. Give Him praise. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Give him a praise.
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  Speaker 5: It is rightfully mine It is rightfully mine Never go back.
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  Speaker 1: The way you came. You hear me? The people that
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: are in this room do not leave here the way
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: you came. Let this word get inside of you. The
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: people who are Zooming, let this word get inside of you.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: The people who are streaming, let this word get inside.
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  Speaker 1: You might be going through the house, laying out your dinner,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: getting in the car to go get something to eat.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: And you might be walking funny. But you tell him,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of this limb. I'm proud of this limb.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of this limb. Before he touched me, this
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: thing controlled me. But I'm walking in the promises of God.
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  Speaker 1: And they are yea and amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: On our first Sunday where we're halfway back. Give God
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: the greatest praise you can muster.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: Never go back. Never go back.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Come on, church.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: Never go back. Say it again. Say it again. It's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: rightfully mine.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Say it again.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: It's rightfully mine. Say it again. Say it again. It's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 1: Throw your hands up and say it's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 5: Is Christ fully mine?
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  Speaker 2: Say it one more time.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: Is, is Christ fully mine?
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Say it again.
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  Speaker 5: Say it again.
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  Speaker 6: I dare you to shout it again.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: One more time, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I free you to dream. I free you to dream.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: I free you to dream. I free you to think.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: There's freedom in the room.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: About 400 days ago, when this pandemic hit and we
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: had to originally shut down, I promised God I may
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: shut down, but I'm not going to drop that mic.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: So I got on TVN and CNN and Fox and everybody,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: MSNBC and everywhere I could go trying to add some
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: comfort to the chaos. Because storms come and they go.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: But whatever God told you to do, don't you drop it.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: Don't you drop it. You might not get to do
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: it like you used to do it, but you got
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: to hold on.
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  Speaker 2: You know why?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's rightfully mine.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: It's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get through this as a nation, as
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: a generation, universally, as a community specifically, as an individual personally.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how dark things have gotten, who you lost,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: or how you cried, or how you suffered, Of what
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: you're going through. Just be consistent. With what you got left.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Because God will never use what you lost to bless you.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: He will always use what you got left. As I
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: dismiss you. I want you to go out of here.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Humming to yourself is rightfully mine. It's mine. And I'm
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: going to rest in it. And I'm going to rest
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: in it. And I'm going to.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Sit in it.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to experience it. It's rightfully mine. Now
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: let the words of my mouth and the meditations of
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Oh, Lord, my
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: strength and my redeemer. Until we meet again. In Jesus' name,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: let me hear you sing it.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: It's rightfully mine.
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  Speaker 5: He's using everything. He's using everything.