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The Blessing of a STRONG Connection With God T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I have seen God move mountains too big for me
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  Speaker 1: to climb, and you cannot tell me that I am
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  Speaker 1: not blessed because I am in Him, only because I
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  Speaker 1: am in Him. This is the hope of every believer
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  Speaker 1: to have that communion, that koinonia, that fellowship, that covenant,
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  Speaker 1: that closeness, that intimacy where you and God alone can
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  Speaker 1: enter into that place of intimacy, intimacy. It's so wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to be in a place with him, to be around
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  Speaker 1: somebody with whom you have nothing to hide. Because what
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  Speaker 1: makes me blessed is that I have access to him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the historic feast and parties of ancient
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  Speaker 1: Israel and understand that the harvest seasons were Huge events,
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  Speaker 1: not just work events. They were moments of elaborate celebrations
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  Speaker 1: and people would come from miles and miles around to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate what God had done because they so recognized that
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  Speaker 1: the harvest was at the mercy of God sending the rain.
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  Speaker 1: And the big parties that they would have would last
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  Speaker 1: for days and days and days because they had experienced drought.
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  Speaker 1: And nothing causes you to enjoy harvest Like having experienced drought.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you a spirit of gratitude and appreciation. If
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  Speaker 1: you've never been through a drought, you'll think you did
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  Speaker 1: it because of your own goodness. But once you've been
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  Speaker 1: in a drought, you know that you're at the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Usually representing a key moment in Jewish
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  Speaker 1: history was symbolic of the fact that we are dependent
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  Speaker 1: upon God to meet every need. Our harvest depends on Him.
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  Speaker 1: Our increase depends on Him. Our growth depends on Him.
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  Speaker 1: Our promotions depend on Him. Our businesses depend on Him.
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  Speaker 1: The health of our children depend on Him. Our livelihood.
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  Speaker 1: And so we give Him the glory. And particularly in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: these were robust parties. Huge celebration. The master venter is
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  Speaker 1: celebrating You as well. He's celebrating you. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: plan for your life. You're not an afterthought. You're not
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  Speaker 1: an accident. You're not an incident. He has a plan
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  Speaker 1: for you. So imagine the collaborative effort of God celebrating
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  Speaker 1: his children while they're celebrating him. It's much like praise
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  Speaker 1: and worship that we can praise until God turns around
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  Speaker 1: on his throne. Yes, sir. Dance till God dances with you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a celebration. In Israel, they had seven different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of feasts. And I just want to name them quickly
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  Speaker 1: so that you might know them and remember them. You
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  Speaker 1: got the Feast of the Passover. You got the Feast
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  Speaker 1: of Unleavened Bread. You got the Feast of First Fruits.
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  Speaker 1: You got the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. Rosh Hashanah,
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  Speaker 1: which is a Feast of Trumpets. The Day of Atonement,
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  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur. The Feast of Tabernacles. All of these feasts
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  Speaker 1: point to different attributes and aspects of their faith and
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  Speaker 1: their trust and their collaborative living with God. It is
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  Speaker 1: no incident that the first miracle that we see Jesus
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  Speaker 1: do occurs at a party. After John 1, 1 and
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  Speaker 1: talking about in the beginning was the Word and the
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  Speaker 1: Word was with God and the Word was God. All
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  Speaker 1: things were made by Him and without Him was not
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  Speaker 1: anything made that was made. In him was life, and
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  Speaker 1: the life was the light of men. And the light
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  Speaker 1: shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. Now
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  Speaker 1: there was a man who was sent from God, his
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  Speaker 1: name was John. He was not that light, but he
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  Speaker 1: was sent to bear witness of that light, saying, there
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  Speaker 1: is one coming after me who's mightier than I, whose
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  Speaker 1: shoes I'm not worthy to latch in. I will indeed
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  Speaker 1: baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost and with fire. And finally at 114,
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  Speaker 1: and the word was made flesh. and dwelt among us.
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  Speaker 1: And we beheld the wonder of his glory, the only
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  Speaker 1: begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The
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  Speaker 1: word was made flesh. The abstract was made concrete. The
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  Speaker 1: invisible was made visible. The intangible was now touchable. Christ
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  Speaker 1: materialized matter, materialized. And we beheld the wonder of his glory,
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  Speaker 1: the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth,
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  Speaker 1: just so that he could hang out with you. They
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  Speaker 1: talk about that in John 1.1, and the moment they
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  Speaker 1: get through telling you that Jesus is God in 1.1,
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  Speaker 1: by the time you turn the page to chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: he's at a party. You would think that after you
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  Speaker 1: got through going through all of this elaborate introduction to
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  Speaker 1: teach me that Jesus, the word was made flesh, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is God, that he would go out and do
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  Speaker 1: some God stuff, but John 2, he's at a party. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? He's chilling. He's at a party with his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: And the biggest problem he solves is not a withered hand.
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  Speaker 1: It's not leprosy. It's not a woman with the issue
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  Speaker 1: of blood. It's that they run out of wine. And
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he solves the problem by taking
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  Speaker 1: the mundane waters of Cana and turning it into the blissful, powerful,
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  Speaker 1: fragrant wines of a wedding whose guests were so appalled
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  Speaker 1: that they said you have saved the best wine for lands.
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  Speaker 1: How do you celebrate God? How do you celebrate God
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling his promise? Now that we know that God can
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  Speaker 1: be holy in one and party in two, how do
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  Speaker 1: you celebrate God? All I have to do is remember
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  Speaker 1: the times when I had no electricity or no running
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  Speaker 1: water and look back over my life and see where
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  Speaker 1: God has brought me from. And I celebrate God. I
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  Speaker 1: honor him and I worship him. I appreciate him. And
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  Speaker 1: I know I didn't get here by myself. I know
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  Speaker 1: I didn't deserve to be where I am. To God
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  Speaker 1: be the glory for the things he done. I wonder,
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  Speaker 1: did God also celebrate Israel during these feasts in the
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  Speaker 1: same sort of way, just like a parent celebrates the
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments of their children? Often the giver, the parent receives
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  Speaker 1: as much joy in the giving as the child does,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes more. In Matthew 25, it talks about a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting story. where Jesus in a parable talks about the
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  Speaker 1: talents that he has given out to various ones of
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  Speaker 1: his servants. And to one he gave five, and to
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  Speaker 1: one he gave two, and to one he gave one.
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  Speaker 1: Each with the expectation that you would do something with
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  Speaker 1: what he gave you. Because that's really what life is
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  Speaker 1: all about, doing something with what God gives you. The
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  Speaker 1: master leaves the three servants in charge of the possessions
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  Speaker 1: that he has placed into their hands. Now bear in mind,
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  Speaker 1: the servants are now in charge. I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to miss that. That these people who were subservient are
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  Speaker 1: now in leadership. That they have been moved into a
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  Speaker 1: position so powerful that now they're accountable to the owner himself.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to stop a minute and praise him
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  Speaker 1: for that. Yeah. How you can be a slave one
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  Speaker 1: minute and a master the next, that's kind of good
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  Speaker 1: stuff to me. Yeah, things can turn a man, that's
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  Speaker 1: why you have to be careful how you treat people
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  Speaker 1: because the person you met down might end up up
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  Speaker 1: and the person who's up might end up down. You
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  Speaker 1: never know how it's going to go. When he returns,
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  Speaker 1: he awards the servants who produced more with what he had.
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  Speaker 1: The servant who buried his talent, everything he had was
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  Speaker 1: taken away from him. If the master venter celebrated Israel,
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  Speaker 1: then I believe he celebrates you. He celebrates you by
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  Speaker 1: becoming all that he has labored for you to become.
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  Speaker 1: He celebrates you because you have become all that he
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  Speaker 1: has labored for you to become. When you win, he wins.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said that God is so interested in you
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  Speaker 1: being fruitful that it pleases him that you bring forth
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  Speaker 1: much fruit. So shall you be my disciples. As you
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  Speaker 1: move beyond your crushing and fermenting, God sets the table
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  Speaker 1: for his royal wine tasting. This celebration is a celebration
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  Speaker 1: for all of eternity. To understand that everything that God
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  Speaker 1: has laid out on the table, he has done it
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  Speaker 1: without hiding it, even from your haters. He has done
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  Speaker 1: it openly and publicly and that he is not ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: of the journey he took you through. So sit back
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  Speaker 1: and take the white napkin and put it in your
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  Speaker 1: collar if you please and allow the very angels themselves
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  Speaker 1: to pour you the first glass of success and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the nectar that comes from obeying him and recognizing that
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  Speaker 1: he doeth all things well. There are some places in
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  Speaker 1: God that are reserved only for those that he chooses.
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  Speaker 1: He that dwelleth in the secret place, secret place of
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  Speaker 1: the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.
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  Speaker 1: There are some places that God will take you into
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  Speaker 1: that are only a celebration of your intimacy with him.
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  Speaker 1: that only you and he alone can enjoy the inner
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  Speaker 1: sanctum my favorite scripture in the bible psalms 27 the
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  Speaker 1: lord is my light and my salvation of whom shall
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  Speaker 1: i fear The Lord is the strength of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even
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  Speaker 1: my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat
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  Speaker 1: up my flesh, they stumbled and they fell. Though a
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  Speaker 1: host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.
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  Speaker 1: And though war should rise against me, in this will
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  Speaker 1: I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and that will I seek after, that I may dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the house of the Lord all the days of
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  Speaker 1: my life. All the days of my life. To behold
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
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  Speaker 1: Check this out. For in the time of trouble, he
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  Speaker 1: shall hide me. in his tabernacle. In the secret of
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  Speaker 1: his provision shall he hide me. He shall set me
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  Speaker 1: upon a rock. Now shall my head be lifted above
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  Speaker 1: my enemies round about me and I will sing, yea,
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  Speaker 1: I will sing praises unto my God. Hear, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon
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  Speaker 1: me and answer me. For when thou saidst, seek ye
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  Speaker 1: my face, my heart said unto thee, thy face, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: will I seek. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It's so wonderful to be in a
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  Speaker 1: place with him, to be around somebody with whom you
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to hide. The Bible said all things are
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  Speaker 1: naked before him with whom we have to do. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing about you that he doesn't know. Not just what
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  Speaker 1: you did, but what you think, what you thought, what
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  Speaker 1: ran through your mind, what you would have done, what
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  Speaker 1: you could have done, what you're capable of doing, what
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  Speaker 1: you dreamed about, what you think about. All things are
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  Speaker 1: naked before him. So there is no need to be pretentious. Importance. Self-righteous, spectacular, impressive.
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  Speaker 1: You can be your authentic self because he already knows
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  Speaker 1: who you are. And what makes it even better than that?
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  Speaker 1: You are accepted in the beloved. You are accepted in
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  Speaker 1: the beloved because your life is hid in Christ with God.
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  Speaker 1: When you come before God, you come before God in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: In him I live, in him I move, in him
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  Speaker 1: I have my being. If any man be in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he is a new creature. All things are passed away
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  Speaker 1: and all things have become new. Why? Because of my position,
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  Speaker 1: not my condition. My condition is a working process, but
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  Speaker 1: my position is complete. It is finished. It is total.
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  Speaker 1: It is done. It is absolute. I'm already in the
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  Speaker 1: holies of holies. I got the hook up. I'm straight
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of God. That's why when Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: on the cross, the veil was rent from the top
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom so that I would have no restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Hebrews says that I can come boldly to
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  Speaker 1: the throne of grace and obtain mercy and find grace
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  Speaker 1: to help in the time of need. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: restricting me from being able to access him anytime, anyplace,
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  Speaker 1: at any time, at any moment in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be in a sanctuary. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be in a pool pit. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be in a choir stand. I don't have to put
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  Speaker 1: on a certain outfit. I don't have to wear anything special.
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  Speaker 1: I can access him in my shower. I can access
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  Speaker 1: him in my bathtub. I can access him on my
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  Speaker 1: way to work. I can access him because he has
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  Speaker 1: taken me through the process that brought me to a
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  Speaker 1: place that I am the wine at the table of
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  Speaker 1: shoe bread. I am the smell of burning incense in
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  Speaker 1: the holies of holies. I am the pot of manna
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  Speaker 1: that did not ferment. I am the wood that he
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  Speaker 1: covered with gold. I am the sheep skins that surround
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  Speaker 1: the tabernacle. I am the bowls and vials that are
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  Speaker 1: in the most holy place. Only because I am in him.
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  Speaker 1: Only because I am in him. Only because I stood
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  Speaker 1: with him in the question. He said, if you suffer
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  Speaker 1: with me, you will reign with me. If you go
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  Speaker 1: down with me, you'll come up with me. If you
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  Speaker 1: are buried in the likeness of my depths, you shall
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  Speaker 1: be in the likeness of my resurrection. Do you hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? The pain only lasts for
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  Speaker 1: a season and then it's over. The joy lasts for
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. Take heart, my friend. Have hope. Be filled
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  Speaker 1: with trust. God is working in you to transform and
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  Speaker 1: prepare you for this eternal feast. And if you think
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  Speaker 1: we're partying over here, you just wait till we get
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  Speaker 1: over there. You just wait. You just wait. You just
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  Speaker 1: wait till the trumpet sounds and the skies roll back
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  Speaker 1: and the clouds move out of our way and the
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  Speaker 1: angels bow and welcome us into the eternal presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that we have taught on this side is only
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  Speaker 1: the pattern of the dress. It is not the dress itself.
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  Speaker 1: We are wearing a pattern. But when we get there,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to put on the real thing, the real feast,
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  Speaker 1: the real celebration. That's why Jesus said, I will drink
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  Speaker 1: no more wine. until I drink it new with you
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of our God. So save the best
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  Speaker 1: drink for last. There are moments and times that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy would come in my ear and sit on my
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and whisper audibly almost so much that I could
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  Speaker 1: discern his voice itself in trying to convince me that
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  Speaker 1: because of something that I'm going through or facing, or
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  Speaker 1: feeling or thinking, maybe I am not blessed. Maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: not blessed because I've still got a mountain to bring down,
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  Speaker 1: a valley to forge, a river to cross, a problem
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  Speaker 1: to solve, a weakness to overcome. Maybe I'm not blessed
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  Speaker 1: because I've got a problem in my family or my
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  Speaker 1: finances or my job or my situation. Maybe I'm not
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  Speaker 1: blessed because I gained too much weight or lost too
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  Speaker 1: much weight or didn't do something that I had set
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  Speaker 1: up as a goal for me to do. And then
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  Speaker 1: I have to remind him that I am not blessed
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  Speaker 1: because of what is on me. I am blessed because
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  Speaker 1: of what is in me. I am blessed no matter
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  Speaker 1: where I go. I am blessed no matter what I wear.
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  Speaker 1: I am blessed in the city, I am blessed in
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  Speaker 1: the field. I am blessed in my going in, I
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  Speaker 1: am blessed in my coming out. I am blessed in
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  Speaker 1: my uprising and I am blessed in my down setting.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't do nothing but sit here, I sit
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  Speaker 1: here blessed. If I stand here, I stand here blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I have been blessed with these feeble lips of clay
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  Speaker 1: and these human hands I hold and these clay toes
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  Speaker 1: that are in these shoes, I have been blessed. to
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  Speaker 1: see drug dealers turn into deacons. I have been blessed
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  Speaker 1: to see winos turn into choir members. I have been
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  Speaker 1: blessed to see convicts turn into converts. I have been
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  Speaker 1: blessed to see the power of the gospel change deadbeat
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  Speaker 1: dads into responsible fathers. I have been blessed to see
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  Speaker 1: people go back to school and get their GED and
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  Speaker 1: continue to get their PhD. I have been blessed to
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  Speaker 1: see the downtrodden uplifted. I have been blessed to see
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  Speaker 1: homeless people buy their first house. I have been blessed
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  Speaker 1: to see families reconcile. And I have performed weddings for
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  Speaker 1: people who had divorced and walked away and decided to
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  Speaker 1: come back together again. I have seen God do the impossible.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen God do the amazing. I have seen
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  Speaker 1: him do the spectacular. I have seen him do the supernatural.
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  Speaker 1: Through these humble eyes and these weary, feeble lips, I
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  Speaker 1: have seen God move mountains too big for me to climb.
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  Speaker 1: And you cannot tell me that I am not blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Because what makes me blessed is that I have access
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  Speaker 1: to him. Anytime, anywhere, any place that I can come
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  Speaker 1: before the king without ceremony, ritual, or routine, that I
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  Speaker 1: need not change my garment or shave my face or
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  Speaker 1: go through any kind of ritual or routine that I
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  Speaker 1: am accepted in the beloved and I can come into
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  Speaker 1: his presence and access is granted because I got it
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  Speaker 1: like that with God. And you got it like that
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  Speaker 1: with God. You got a relationship with God like that.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus took for us what we would never be able
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  Speaker 1: to handle on our own. He took our griefs, he
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  Speaker 1: carried our sorrows, he took our weaknesses, he took away
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  Speaker 1: our excuses. But the master was not content with just
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  Speaker 1: saving us. No, he wishes us to be like him.
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  Speaker 1: He desires to refine and transform us. And every little
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  Speaker 1: step I take, every little step I take, I'm inching
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  Speaker 1: a little bit closer to being like Jesus. Every little
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  Speaker 1: step that I take, I can see his nature coming
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  Speaker 1: out in me. Even when I don't want it to.
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  Speaker 1: Even when I want to stay mad. Even when I
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  Speaker 1: want to hold a grudge, even when I want to
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  Speaker 1: get even, I see little pieces of Jesus showing up
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  Speaker 1: in my speech because he is carnate in my own humanity.
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  Speaker 1: He is realized in my own personality. And it is
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  Speaker 1: because of him that I rejoice in the crushing. I
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the crushing because I have no hope to be
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  Speaker 1: his glass of wine. and be held in his hand
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  Speaker 1: if I had not been his grape and been crushed
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  Speaker 1: by his feet.