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

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  Speaker 1: Get your Bibles, if you would, and join me in
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of St. John, chapter number 8, verse 1
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  Speaker 1: through 11. Pay attention to that, 1 through 11. The
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of St. John, chapter 8, chapter 1, verses 1
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  Speaker 1: through 11. And when you have it, stand on your
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  Speaker 1: feet as we read from the Word of God. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Everyone standing. If you're not incapacitated. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it a blessing to be able to stand? Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Even if your feet are sore, stand up. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody ever died from a corn. That answer made
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  Speaker 1: me think I was going to die. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Watch
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  Speaker 1: the continuity of this story closely. It is only given
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  Speaker 1: to us once. It is not discussed in Matthew, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: or Luke. John takes us into this traumatic moment, this
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  Speaker 1: episode that only becomes real if you put yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the place of the character. If you stand outside of
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  Speaker 1: the text and watch it like a voyeur watching a film,
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  Speaker 1: then you can remain detached and uninvolved. But if you
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  Speaker 1: become the character, this is one of the most traumatic,
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  Speaker 1: humiliating moments in scripture for an individual to face in
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  Speaker 1: a crowd. So much has been said about Will Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Rock. But most of it is only said
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  Speaker 1: because it happened in a crowd. When people get to
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  Speaker 1: see our humanity, they get to have an opinion about
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  Speaker 1: our humanity. And our opinions can be weapons. We can
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  Speaker 1: be cruel and we can be vicious and we can
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  Speaker 1: be mean because it's not us. But I did an
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  Speaker 1: interview yesterday and I told the reporter, I said, if
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  Speaker 1: somebody followed all of us around with the camera, we
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  Speaker 1: would shut up. Because all of us have had those moments.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't get printed in the paper. They weren't on
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  Speaker 1: the 6 o'clock news. They weren't on TMZ. But we
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  Speaker 1: have all had those moments that we have not been
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  Speaker 1: our best selves. And to display your worst self in
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  Speaker 1: front of people can be humiliating. I have never read
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  Speaker 1: a bad resume. I quit my job. I'm unstable. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a liar. I can't get along with anybody, but I
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  Speaker 1: need a job. No, no, we always present ourselves as
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  Speaker 1: flawless and perfect and then you hire them and you
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  Speaker 1: get the reality. Ah, you don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. This is real about humanity. It's real
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  Speaker 1: about life. It's real about the struggle between the spirit
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  Speaker 1: and the flesh. It's real about what crowds can do
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  Speaker 1: when your future is turned over to men. It is
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  Speaker 1: a dangerous thing. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.
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  Speaker 1: And early in the morning, he came again into the
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  Speaker 1: temple and all the people came and all the people
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  Speaker 1: came and all the people came unto him and he
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  Speaker 1: sat down and taught them. And the scribes and the Pharisees, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're always around. brought unto him a woman taken in adultery.
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  Speaker 1: Bear in mind, this is a crowd. And the scribes
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  Speaker 1: and the Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Not suspected of it, not accused of it, not allegedly.
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  Speaker 1: They snatched her in the act of adultery. And when
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  Speaker 1: they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master,
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  Speaker 1: This woman was taken in adultery in the very act.
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  Speaker 1: We caught her red handed. Now Moses in the law
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  Speaker 1: commanded us that such should be stoned. But what says thou?
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  Speaker 1: This they said tempting him that they might have to
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  Speaker 1: accuse him. But Jesus stood down. And with his finger
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  Speaker 1: wrote on the ground as though he heard them not.
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  Speaker 1: You know God is an actor. So when they continued
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  Speaker 1: asking him, they kept on relentlessly. He lifted up himself
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  Speaker 1: and said unto them, go ahead. He that is without
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  Speaker 1: sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
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  Speaker 1: And again, he stooped down. and wrote on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And they which heard it, being convicted by their own consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: went out one by one. Beginning at the eldest, the
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  Speaker 1: old folks left first. Even until the last, see, when
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  Speaker 1: you get older, you know, well, I'm not, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was left alone, and Jesus was left alone. Leave me alone,
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  Speaker 1: leave me alone, Lord. Jesus was left alone, and the
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  Speaker 1: woman standing in the midst. When Jesus lifted up himself,
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  Speaker 1: so he must have stayed bent while they were leaving.
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  Speaker 1: Never said another word to them. just planted a seed
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  Speaker 1: that woke up their consciousness. Jesus lifted up himself and
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  Speaker 1: saw none but the woman. He said unto her, woman,
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  Speaker 1: where are those thine accusers? Have no man condemned thee?
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  Speaker 1: She said, no man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her,
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  Speaker 1: neither do I condemn thee. Go on. And sin no more.
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  Speaker 1: Can you say amen? I want to use a one
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  Speaker 1: word subject for this message. And the word is caught.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been caught? The word is caught. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout caught. Spirit of the living God fall fresh on
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  Speaker 1: us now. As we endeavor to extrapolate from the text
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  Speaker 1: those things that you have commissioned unto us. We thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your power. We thank you for your anointing.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for your glory. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your unction. We thank you for being the God who
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  Speaker 1: intervenes when all hell breaks loose. Minister to the needs
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  Speaker 1: of your people, great God that you are. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: name we pray, amen. You may be seated in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of God. This question arises whenever we are caught
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  Speaker 1: In a compromising situation. Are you sorry that you did it?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard that? Or are you truly sorry
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  Speaker 1: for the illicit act? Or are you really sorry that
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  Speaker 1: you got caught? Now, it implies that there's a choice.
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  Speaker 1: That either you are sorry because you did it or
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  Speaker 1: that you're sorry that you got caught. Often this is
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  Speaker 1: a false choice. One feeling is not mutually exclusive from
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  Speaker 1: the other. In reality, I mean, it is possible to
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  Speaker 1: be sorry that you did it and sorry that you
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  Speaker 1: got caught. Sorry that you allowed yourself to yield to
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  Speaker 1: your foolish fleshly side and sorry that it ended in
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  Speaker 1: such a debacle. You can be sorry for both. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in fairness, you can be sorry for neither. There are
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  Speaker 1: some people that aren't sorry about anything. They're not sorry
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  Speaker 1: that they did it. They're not sorry that they got caught.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some that are sorry for everything. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it is possible to be sorry that you allowed your
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  Speaker 1: impaired judgment to create the situation and also be sorry
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  Speaker 1: that That your secret sin has been exposed leaving your
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  Speaker 1: sin not just in the hands of God where it
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  Speaker 1: belongs but in the hands of men. David said I
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  Speaker 1: would rather fall into the hands of God than to
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  Speaker 1: fall into the hands of men. And it seems like
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  Speaker 1: a strange statement for David to make that he would
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  Speaker 1: rather fall into the hands of God because God has
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  Speaker 1: all power and because God is holy. And because God
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  Speaker 1: is pure. And because God has given us the laws.
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  Speaker 1: And God has given us the commandments and the mandates.
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  Speaker 1: And the Pharisees are quoting out of the word of
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  Speaker 1: God what God has said concerning the law. and still
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  Speaker 1: David said I would rather fall into the hands of
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  Speaker 1: God not because of his laws but because of his
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  Speaker 1: character his character then can often supersede his commandment that
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  Speaker 1: is to say he can be merciful to whom he
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  Speaker 1: will be merciful He can be gracious to whom he
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  Speaker 1: can be gracious. The truth of the matter, you missed
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  Speaker 1: the shouting moment because everybody in here is in here
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  Speaker 1: because God overlooked some iniquity in your life to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't leave me out here by myself when you
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  Speaker 1: know that When you know you're on line and you
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  Speaker 1: know and you know and you know that the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God we just got through singing about was not
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of you. If God had dealt with us
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  Speaker 1: according to our sins, we would have all been destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: So our backup logic then defaults to God expose your
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  Speaker 1: sin to teach you a lesson. That's the other comment
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  Speaker 1: we get. God exposes your sin to teach you. Now
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  Speaker 1: certainly this is possible. There are times that according to
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  Speaker 1: Romans 6 and 1 that God gets tired of our
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  Speaker 1: continuous habit of sin. You just wear God out. Romans
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  Speaker 1: 6 and 1 says, shall we continue in sin that
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  Speaker 1: grace may abound? God forbid. How can we? that are
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  Speaker 1: dead to sin continue therein. And today nobody talks about sin.
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  Speaker 1: So sin can drape itself in church clothes and finery
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  Speaker 1: and point its fingers at other people without accusation because
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  Speaker 1: the church has muted its voice about sin lest conviction
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  Speaker 1: come too close to home. But you don't get taller
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  Speaker 1: by lowering the ruler. The standard is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And if in anything you have to be willing to say,
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  Speaker 1: I fell short of it, not that I lowered it.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have arranged our theology to fit our predicament. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's quiet now. What we believe about God has been
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  Speaker 1: tailor-made to fit our reality. When in fact, God is
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  Speaker 1: God and he always will be God and he will
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  Speaker 1: never change. It is not within our power to bring
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  Speaker 1: God down to our dysfunction. It is God that calls
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  Speaker 1: us up to rise up to his requirements. It is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. The culture may change. The society may change.
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  Speaker 1: The times may change. But it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: We have been warned and then ignored the warning. We
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  Speaker 1: have been nudged and ignored being nudged. He has whispered
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  Speaker 1: to us, you're going too far. You're getting out of line.
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  Speaker 1: You need to get yourself together. And yet we ignore
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  Speaker 1: it because we hear God when we want to. When
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  Speaker 1: you tell the church to praise God, the whole church
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  Speaker 1: will blow up. When you ask the church to give,
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  Speaker 1: people will start looking the other way. We hear God
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  Speaker 1: when we want to hear God and we think that
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  Speaker 1: God is a God of our convenience, but God is
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  Speaker 1: still God. There are many times that God's judgment is
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  Speaker 1: not so much to destroy us. Eventually, worse than destroying us,
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  Speaker 1: God will give us over to ourselves. What the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says is a reprobate mind. To have your conscience seared
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  Speaker 1: with a hot iron. To get to the point that
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  Speaker 1: wrong doesn't feel wrong. And so we're living in a
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  Speaker 1: day that we call wrong right. And we call right wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of having to defend your wrongness, now you
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  Speaker 1: often have to defend your rightness. Because if you say
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  Speaker 1: what is right, it's now wrong. And if you say
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  Speaker 1: what is wrong, it's now right. And y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you. This, however, is not an
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  Speaker 1: example of either situation. It is not about God being
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  Speaker 1: weary of this woman's hardened heart, her rebellious disposition. It
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  Speaker 1: is not about God bringing her to an open shame
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  Speaker 1: and humiliating her because of the repetitive of her obnoxious behavior.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that this woman is even a prominent woman.
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  Speaker 1: She has written no books of the Bible. She is
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  Speaker 1: not said to be a leader or a teacher or
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  Speaker 1: exalted herself above measure. She is not even given a name.
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  Speaker 1: She is referred to as the woman caught. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I could ask if there are any women in here
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  Speaker 1: that's ever been caught. Yeah, yeah, the woman caught. The
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  Speaker 1: woman caught. Maybe it wasn't adultery, but caught with the
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  Speaker 1: IRS about your taxes. Or caught going too far in
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  Speaker 1: how you handle your children. Or caught cussing out your husbands.
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  Speaker 1: Or caught yelling. She is the woman caught in the acts.
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  Speaker 1: To be caught in the act is a grievous thing.
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  Speaker 1: not just for a woman, for anybody to be caught,
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  Speaker 1: is a painful thing. The feeling of being trapped alone
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  Speaker 1: is a painful thing. Psychologists teach us that the most
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  Speaker 1: humiliating trauma is public trauma. All of us have gone
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  Speaker 1: through private traumas. Trauma that stayed in the house. Most
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  Speaker 1: of us from my generation was raised in a generation
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  Speaker 1: that taught us what goes on in this house stays
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  Speaker 1: in this house. Because whatever it was, they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: close it in within a range that they could reach
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  Speaker 1: it and handle it before it was left to the
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  Speaker 1: court of public opinion. Because when it gets in the
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  Speaker 1: courts of public opinion, there is no end to the
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  Speaker 1: ridicule you can receive when trouble goes public. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever been caught? I started to tell a story on myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to decide whether to do it or not.
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  Speaker 1: I was a young man in the grocery store and
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  Speaker 1: they had a family pack of pork chops. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why I can't explain why. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: say I was starving and broke or something. But I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that broke. But I just decided to take the
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  Speaker 1: pork chops. I didn't know that the mirror overhead allowed
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  Speaker 1: the manager. Y'all don't want me to pass it on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So the manager caught me. And when I
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  Speaker 1: realized that he caught me, it was either fight or flight.
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't choose between fight or flight, so I
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  Speaker 1: did both of them. I hit him with the pork chops.
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  Speaker 1: As hard as I could with both hands, I hit
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  Speaker 1: him with the pork chops till I knocked him over
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  Speaker 1: in the floor. And then I ran. I'm busy traveling,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, but I just, in a
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  Speaker 1: moment of weakness, I just decided to confess. I ran
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  Speaker 1: because I had delayed him with the hit. But if
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  Speaker 1: he caught, if he caught up with me, I would
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  Speaker 1: be caught. And I didn't want to go home and
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  Speaker 1: tell mama that I had been caught. Come to think
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  Speaker 1: of it, I don't know if I ever told mama
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  Speaker 1: about this. I just thought about that. I'm almost 65
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  Speaker 1: years old and she's dead. Well, mama, if you're listening.
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  Speaker 1: To be caught was terrifying. So I ran like I
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  Speaker 1: have never ran in my life. And because I was
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  Speaker 1: so young and he was so old, I knew he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't catch me. And I ran away. And just because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get caught doesn't mean I was innocent. So
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  Speaker 1: when I go into the prison ministry, I don't go
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  Speaker 1: into the prison ministry with my nose up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: But for the grace of God and some heavy one
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  Speaker 1: and a half inch thick pork chops, I would have
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  Speaker 1: been locked up too. But the pork chops were thick
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  Speaker 1: enough to hold him long enough that I didn't end
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  Speaker 1: up in cell block B. And I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: why I did it. I can't even justify why I
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  Speaker 1: did it, except for the fact I was around people
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  Speaker 1: who were doing it. And when you get around people
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  Speaker 1: who are acting out in certain ways, in order to
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  Speaker 1: be accepted as really being one of them and being
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  Speaker 1: the clique and in the club, I wanted them, they
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  Speaker 1: dared me. I wanted to show them I got just
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  Speaker 1: as much courage as you do. So I stole the
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  Speaker 1: pork chops. Still didn't get to eat them because I
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  Speaker 1: had to drop them so I could run. Human depravity
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  Speaker 1: escapes no one. It reaches everybody. It reaches every level.
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  Speaker 1: But imagine with me, if you have ever been caught wrong,
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  Speaker 1: if the IRS has ever caught you, if the boss
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  Speaker 1: has ever been there at the door when you came
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  Speaker 1: in at 10 o'clock and you would do it at 8,
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  Speaker 1: you know how your heart begins to race in your
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  Speaker 1: chest because you've been caught wrong. Anytime you get caught
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  Speaker 1: doing anything that is perceived to be wrong, there's a
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of anxiety involved in it. But in this
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  Speaker 1: particular case today, this is magnified to an extreme degree.
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  Speaker 1: Because one moment she is in the embrace of her lover.
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  Speaker 1: Loving her and loving him and there they are intertwined
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  Speaker 1: in the embrace of the most ultimate expression of intimacy.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoying their debauchery amongst themselves. Caught up in the bliss
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  Speaker 1: of their intimacy. And then she was snatched from the
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  Speaker 1: euphoric feeling of sexuality to the degradation of being disheveled.
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  Speaker 1: Nude and captured. And if captured were not enough, she
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  Speaker 1: has to bring herself out of the stimulation of that intimacy.
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  Speaker 1: Only to run into the terror. Yanked from one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Into another with no preparation, no warning, no chance to
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  Speaker 1: get ready, no chance to make an excuse, no plea.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had life yank you? I didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: to get many amens. Because I know you can't blow
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  Speaker 1: your cover. Because it's important to you that you protect
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  Speaker 1: your image. But there is many people in this room
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  Speaker 1: that have had to flee out of a window or
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  Speaker 1: run out of a door or run down the back
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  Speaker 1: steps or delete a text or hide a memo or, oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not you. You too, holy. But I'm talking about that
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  Speaker 1: one over there, that one over there in the balcony
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  Speaker 1: where ain't nobody sitting. That's what I'm talking about, those
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  Speaker 1: invisible people. There are many people who know the terror,
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  Speaker 1: the emotional trauma that comes on you when you are caught,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you know you've been a and you brought
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  Speaker 1: it on yourself and whenever you are caught you don't
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  Speaker 1: get into a police car feeling cool and comfortable you
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  Speaker 1: don't get handcuffed feeling good about yourself your heart is
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  Speaker 1: racing your pulse is racing your mind is beating you
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  Speaker 1: up And you wonder, will I ever get out of this?
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  Speaker 1: Especially when you understand that they have not only caught you,
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  Speaker 1: but caught you nude. At least let me get dressed.
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  Speaker 1: At least let me cover up. Even though I've been exposed,
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  Speaker 1: if I have on cover, I don't feel as exposed
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  Speaker 1: as I am exposed when I'm exposed and exposed. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: what this woman feels like in this moment. Imagine now
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  Speaker 1: it is just according to the law that they catch her.
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  Speaker 1: But notice the injustice that they only caught her. See,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to men, we can be right and
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  Speaker 1: still be wrong. It is wrong that what she did,
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  Speaker 1: what she did like she did when she did it,
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  Speaker 1: but it is an absolute fact that she couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: that by herself. But they caught the woman in the
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  Speaker 1: act of adultery. Ha, ha, ha, ha. She has to
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  Speaker 1: suffer the injustice that they let the man have a pass.
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  Speaker 1: And they brought the woman to open shame and tossed
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  Speaker 1: her out in front of a crowd and told her
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  Speaker 1: story without allowing her to speak for herself. It's a
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  Speaker 1: terrible thing when you believe what you read about somebody
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  Speaker 1: without hearing the extenuating circumstances that created the dilemma. We
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  Speaker 1: live in a society now that people make a living
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  Speaker 1: out of catching you wrong. And it's not hard to
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  Speaker 1: catch you wrong. It's hard to catch you wrong in church.
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  Speaker 1: But if I follow you around long enough, if I
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  Speaker 1: bug your house and put cameras in your house, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, it wouldn't be so much dancing going on
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  Speaker 1: if we started playing videos of moments in your life. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know some of you got too old now. We
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  Speaker 1: can follow you around. It's cool. But if we go
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  Speaker 1: back far enough, Bill Cosby, if we go back far enough,
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  Speaker 1: if we go back far enough, there's not a passion
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  Speaker 1: in this room that hasn't lived through a scene that
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  Speaker 1: if it showed up on the screen, you'd want to
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't want me to see you in the
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  Speaker 1: light of your worst moments. You want me to see
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  Speaker 1: you in the light of your best moments.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do.
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  Speaker 1: When your worst moments go public? When your most private, vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: human proclivities are exposed for public scrutiny and everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: an opinion about About yourself, I told you, I told
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  Speaker 1: you he wasn't no good. I never did believe he
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  Speaker 1: was any good. I knew it all the time. When
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  Speaker 1: everybody was running, I thought, I told you not to
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  Speaker 1: marry him. I told you he was a dog. All
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of his dogs, girls, all of them are dogs. All
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  Speaker 1: of them are dogs. All men are dogs. Excuse me,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: who was that cheating with? It is true we are living,
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  Speaker 1: we are living, when we're living in the scriptures, we're
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: living in a misogynic society today. that tends to have
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  Speaker 1: a sliding scale of justice, one for the man and
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  Speaker 1: one for the woman. But we are also living in
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  Speaker 1: a society today where it has become popular to ridicule
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  Speaker 1: the man and let the woman go free. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you can sleep with the man and testify against him
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  Speaker 1: as a victim. And I keep wondering, how do you
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  Speaker 1: get to be the victim? Oh, they ain't saying much now, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about rape. I'm not talking about rape.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about abuse. I'm not talking about trauma.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about stuff you willingly did and then changed
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  Speaker 1: your mind about it and decided to play victim. And
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  Speaker 1: you saw me too when you wrote me too. When
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  Speaker 1: you know you instigated this situation and then tried to
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  Speaker 1: benefit from it justice left to men is often unjust
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  Speaker 1: because depending upon where we are in our sociological evolution
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  Speaker 1: what we call right at one moment we lock you
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  Speaker 1: up for at another my grandmother got married when she
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  Speaker 1: was somewhere between 13 and 15 years old And it
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  Speaker 1: was right. The same thing today.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: Is wrong. I noticed that Congress is considering legalizing marijuana. Okay,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: but what about all the brothers and sisters that are
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: locked up in jail right now for smoking a joint?
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  Speaker 1: When you change the law, does that exonerate the person?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: We still have people in jail for laws that have
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: now changed. And they're still caught. There she is. Her
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  Speaker 1: hair is all over her head. Her makeup is smeared.
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  Speaker 1: She's lost an earring. She's trembling with fear. Tears are
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: running down her face. She's humiliated and disgraced. She is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: traumatized in a way for which it will take years,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: if ever, for her to recover from the humiliation. She
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: can't go in the grocery store anymore without people saying, yeah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that's her. That's the one right over there. Right over there.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Right over there. Got the nerve to be looking for
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  Speaker 1: some green beans. I wish she would come in here.
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  Speaker 1: You know how we do when we get some dirt
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  Speaker 1: on people. Whenever we see them, we won't let them
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  Speaker 1: grow beyond what we... So she is put in a
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  Speaker 1: place where the rest of her life she has to
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  Speaker 1: build the inner fortitude to live with the whispers of men.
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  Speaker 1: But that is not the immediate problem. The immediate problem
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  Speaker 1: is according to the law she was to be stoned.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine? This woman went from being kissed to
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  Speaker 1: being stoned. From being loved to being hated. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way life is. One moment you're feeling one thing, And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: one text, one phone call, one statement, one picture, one moment,
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  Speaker 1: one quote, one mic left on, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you're in crisis mode. Is there anybody in here who
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: has ever been in crisis mode? You don't even have
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  Speaker 1: to say what it was about. But if you've ever
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: been in crisis mode, stand up and clap your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Crisis mode will scare you to death. Crisis mode will
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: take away your appetite. Crisis mode will make you stop
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  Speaker 1: eating or drinking. Crisis mode will rob you of your
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: sleep at night. Crisis mode will make you hypertensive. Crisis
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: mode does things to your body, not just to your mind,
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  Speaker 1: for which you do not easily recover easily. and some
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  Speaker 1: people never recover. Crisis mode, if you survive the stones,
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  Speaker 1: will leave you cutting yourself. Crisis mode will take away
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  Speaker 1: your self-esteem. Crisis mode will leave you with a feeling
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  Speaker 1: of unworthiness. Crisis mode will knock you down to your knees.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Crisis mode will make an atheist break out in a
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: prayer that says, Lord! If you can hear me, if
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  Speaker 1: you get me out of this. Oh, you ain't never
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: prayed that prayer. Let me talk to the real people. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if you just get me out of this, I'll never.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know whether the woman was married or the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: man was married, but one of them was married in
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: order for it to be adultery. Let me just use
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: my imagination. What does she say to her daughter? What
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: does she say to her son? How do you tell
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  Speaker 1: your mother? Will I live? To make amends. And everybody
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: in the crowd got their rocks. Isn't it amazing how
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: quickly we will get our rocks? And you say, oh, Bishop, Bishop, Bishop,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: get out of here, Bishop. Come on now, Bishop. We
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: don't stone no more. Twitter is a rock. The comment
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: sections at the bottom of an article is a rock.
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  Speaker 1: A rock that does damage because when you are in
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: crisis mode you have a tendency to read the comments
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: looking to evaluate the damage but being hit by the
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  Speaker 1: rocks of people who are just as guilty about something
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  Speaker 1: as you are. But because they have not been caught
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: They join the lynch mob and begin to attack you
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  Speaker 1: when in reality this is not about a crime, it's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: about a sin. And there is none of us that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: can say we have no sin. No, not one. And
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: yet you got sinners ready to stone a sinner. They're
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: stoning her in the midst of the knowledge of their
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  Speaker 1: own guilt. It is barbaric. It is terrible. It is traumatic.
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  Speaker 1: It is disturbing. And I would think that it was
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  Speaker 1: ancient had I not been to a particular country where
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the president of that country told me that in their culture,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: if a young girl loses her virginity before she gets married,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: they throw her in a well. And there are people
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: today that they love you until they get something on you.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And if they get anything on you, whether they saw
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: it or not, if they just heard about it. See,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the crowd didn't see her. The crowd didn't catch her.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: The Pharisees caught her. But the people who stoned her
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: were ready to stone her over what they heard about her.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had anybody stone you over a rumor?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: It is interesting as we become more civilized, our ways
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: of responding to crime and sin has evolved. In the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: early days, they would bring you before the guillotine and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: shoot you in front of a firing squad. Earlier still,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: they stoned you, which means you died rock by rock.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: They stoned the Apostle Paul. That means that Paul was
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: only guilty of preaching. People stone you because they disagree
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  Speaker 1: with you. Or bring you before a guillotine and a
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  Speaker 1: firing squad because of the uniform you wear or the
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  Speaker 1: skin you're in. And you didn't get to pick the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: skin you're in. And later, we started hanging people. And
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  Speaker 1: if we caught you wrong, we would try you right
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  Speaker 1: there on the spot. No jury, no judge, no laws whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: We just hang you. And it is just in the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: last month or so that lynching has become a crime.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that we have been to the moon
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: and lynching was still not a crime? Can you believe
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: that we've got phones that operate like computers but lynching
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: was still a crime? Do you see how far behind
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: law is on life I can quote several laws that
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: are on books in certain states that are reprehensible. Like
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: looking at a woman, especially a white woman, caused Emmett
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  Speaker 1: Till to be killed. I'm talking about when justice falls
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of wicked men. You could die for something.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: that the woman who accused him him on her deathbed said,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I was just joking. And I believe he was 13.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: 13-year-old boy is now dead over a lie. The danger
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: thing about taking a life is that you can't give
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  Speaker 1: it back if you find out you were wrong. They
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: were going to kill this woman. And we've gotten better now.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: We went from hanging people to the electric chair so
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you could fry. And then we decided we would be
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit more humane and put you in the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: gas chamber so you could choke. And now... In most places,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: we inject you with serum if you get caught. So
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that means whether you do anything or not, you live
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: your life with the looming, hovering possibility that you could
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: be And that is stress in and of itself. I
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: belabor the point because I want you to understand that
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: stress doesn't always come from what you did. Stress comes
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  Speaker 1: from what is possible. Anxiety is to worry about something
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  Speaker 1: that has not happened. Anxiety not only affects you psychologically,
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  Speaker 1: It affects you physiologically. So that your body goes out
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  Speaker 1: of whack. Your immune system goes down. You are prone
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to more diseases. You can get more infections just because
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of what is possible to happen to you if you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: get caught. All of that is alive in this text.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: And they've already picked out their rocks. And it is
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: almost a kind of feeling The kind of exuberance that
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: comes from mob mentalities. I don't have it in my
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: head right now, but there's a term how we will
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: act in a mob in a way that we would
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: never act as an individual. We will burn and loot
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  Speaker 1: and kill and shoot and climb and destroy because everybody
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: else is doing it. We will climb up the walls
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  Speaker 1: of the White House. We will do all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We will burn down stores that we would never do
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: as an individual. But in a mob, a mob mentality
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: takes over a room and people start doing things because
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: it is. It's part of the mob. And it is
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: true of church. There are people that only praise God
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: because other people are praising God. They would never praise
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  Speaker 1: God alone. But when they see other people praising God,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: they praise God. And there are people who do not
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: praise God because the person sitting next to them is
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: standing there like a mummy and you're afraid of being
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: rejected by them. So even though God is nudging you
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: to your feet for a praise, you won't give God
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a praise because you don't see anybody else giving God
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: a praise and the mob is sitting on the move
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. That is what is happening. Glory
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: to God. But look at somebody and say, I ain't
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: gonna let you worry me. That's not good English, but
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: it's a good attitude. I'm not going to let you
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: worry me. You can sit there with your nose in
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: your hand, your legs crossed and act important. But if
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I get ready to praise him, I'm going to praise him.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: If I get ready to lift him up, I'm going
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: to lift him up. If I get ready to clap
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: my hands, I'm going to clap my hands. I don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: care if you can't see around me. I don't care
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: if I make you nervous. I don't care if I
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: get on your nerve. You can move if you want
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: to move, but you can't stop me from praising God.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let you mob me into not
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: praising God. He's been too good. He's been too good.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Type it on the line.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: He's been too good. I got to praise him. I
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: got to praise him. I must praise him. I will
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: praise him. I shall praise him.
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  Speaker 1: Whoo, glory to God. I feel the Holy Ghost
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: coming in this place. I feel the Holy Ghost coming
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: in this place. One of the things that I enjoyed
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the most about our International Leadership Summit, I didn't know
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: how it was going to work. I had CEOs and
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: billionaires and millionaires in the room with church folks and
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: saints and elders and bishops and archbishops. But when the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost hit that place... You couldn't tell the billionaire
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: from the pauper. Everybody was laid out. Everybody was crying.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Everybody was crawling across. Because when the Lord gets ready,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: you got to move. You may be high. You may
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: be low. But when the Lord gets ready. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel some independent people in this room. I feel
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the spirit of independence in this room. I run if
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I want to run. I can't help it that you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: don't run. If I'm a runner, I'm a runner. If
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I'm a clapper, I'm a clapper. If I'm a leaper,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a leaper. Because I'm not going to let you
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: intimidate me with your funny looking stares from doing what
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I do like I do when I do it. Because
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: can't nobody do what I do like I do when
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I do it. Because I'm a person. I'm an individual.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I'll stand by myself. Shout yes, somebody. Sit down, I
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: want to go deeper. They brought the woman to Jesus.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: The Pharisees and the Sadducees brought her to Jesus to
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: tempt him. Wait a minute. You thought when I said caught,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I was talking about her. But I wasn't talking about
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: her being caught. She was just the bait. This text
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  Speaker 1: is not in the Bible about catching a woman in adultery.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: This text is in the Bible because they used the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: woman to try to catch Jesus. It is not really
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: her sin that is on trial. It is his wisdom.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: If he said don't stone her, he would have spoken
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: against the law. If he said stone her, he would
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: have defeated his purpose for coming. He didn't come to
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: stone the sinner. He came to save the sinner. He
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: didn't come to annihilate the sinner. He came that the
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: sinner might have life and have life more abundantly. It's
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: not the woman that they're trying to catch. It's Jesus
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that they're trying to get caught. The enemy is only
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: interested in your human struggle because he wants to use
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  Speaker 1: you as click bait. They weren't fishing for the woman.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: They were fishing for Jesus. They caught the woman like
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: you catch worms to go fishing. She was the bait.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: And they asked Jesus, what sayest thou? Am I in
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the word of God? What sayest thou? Because we gave
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  Speaker 1: you the bait and the bait is laying on the
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: floor trembling and the rocks are in the hands of
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the crowd. Do you let us stone her and honor
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Moses or do you discredit Moses whom God sent? Say,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: the whole Bible is built And the Bible stories begin
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: with Satan's desire to catch God in a trap. That's
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: how sin entered into the world in the first place.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Satan didn't care none about no forbidden fruit. Satan didn't
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: care none about no apples. Satan don't care nothing about
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: your behavior he's just trying to put God into a
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: position because God hates sin and God loves man and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: as long as they're divided God has no conflict but
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: when you put what God hates into what God loves
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: now God is in a problem because hell is trying
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: to catch him that's how the book starts Trust me,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: people say, don't be the bait, don't be the bait,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: don't be the bait. I know you're human, but don't
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: be the bait. I know you're lonely, but don't be
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: the bait. I know you get weak, but don't be
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the bait. Don't be the bait. Don't be the bait.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Don't be the bait. Don't be the bait. Don't be
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: the bait. Don't be the bait. Don't be the bait.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Don't be the bait. Don't be the bait. Don't be
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the bait. Because it's not about your ex-husband. It's not
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: about your wife. It's not about your children. The hell
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: is trying to find something that they can use on
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: God to put God into a dilemma. Let's God save
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: what he hates or God kills what he loves. That's
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: how the story starts. It is the law of first mentions.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: And since it is the law of first mention, and
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: since it starts in Genesis and explodes in John, Jesus
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: started doing what God was doing in Genesis. He stooped down.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Can I teach this word of God? They said, what
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: do you say? He said, oh, so you're going to
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: use old tricks? I'm going to use old answers. And
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: he stooped down in the dirt. When we first met God,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: he was playing in the dirt. The first time we
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: see God, he is playing in the dirt. shaping man
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: breath of lives. And so since Satan wanted to take
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: it back to the first fight, Jesus stooped down and
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: started playing in the dirt again. And all of this
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: is acting out in front of you, boomeranging, mirroring what
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: happened in the book of Genesis. Guilty man, glorious God.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: And the glorious creator of the universe, the CEO of heaven,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the executive of the angels, the head magistrate of the celestial,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: stooped down. That's what the incarnation is all about. When
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: God came in the form of Jesus, it was God
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: stooping down. The Bible said he poured out of himself
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: his glory and his honor. And he came down to
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: his lowest common denominator. that through his poverty we might
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: be made rich. He stooped down and acted because God
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: is an actor as if he did not hear them.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: How do you get that God is an actor? God
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: is always acting. He is like ass, a mighty rushing wind.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: He appeared like cloven tongues of fire. Oh, y'all don't
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. On the road to Emmaus, he
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: made as if he would go further. God is always acting.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Sometimes God will act to see your reaction. Jesus acted
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: like he was going to keep on walking. to see
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  Speaker 1: if they would invite him to come in. God is
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  Speaker 1: always acting. He act like he was going to pass
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  Speaker 1: by the woman with the issue of blood to see
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  Speaker 1: if she had enough faith to chase him. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had some God chasers in this room. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to walk past me and not give me what
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  Speaker 1: I want this Sunday morning. If I have to crawl
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  Speaker 1: through all of the dignitaries, I'm going to touch the
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  Speaker 1: hem of this garment. Somebody give him 30 seconds of
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  Speaker 1: crazy praise. Here is the dilemma. Sit down. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go further. Can I go further? Here is the
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  Speaker 1: dilemma in the text. The text is written in transition.
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  Speaker 1: Even though it is divided into your Bible as the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament, it actually occurs under the Old Testament. Because
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  Speaker 1: the book of Hebrews says that the testament is not
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  Speaker 1: in force until the testator dies. So Jesus couldn't operate
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  Speaker 1: upon the New Testament theology because it occurred upon the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament law. And they were trying to get him
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  Speaker 1: to break the law when he came to fulfill the law,
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  Speaker 1: not break the law. If he broke the law, he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be the righteous lamb that was slain for our
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  Speaker 1: sins because they would have ought against him. and they
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  Speaker 1: sought to catch him. So he stooped down. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like preaching now. He stooped down on the ground as
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  Speaker 1: if he did not hear them. How can a God
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  Speaker 1: who knows your thoughts are far off not hear your
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  Speaker 1: words close up? Now there are two people on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The woman is already on the ground. And when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: stooped down on the ground, he came down to her level.
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  Speaker 1: He knew she couldn't come up. So he went down.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm praising him today. Because when I could
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  Speaker 1: never come up to his standard, he came down to
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  Speaker 1: where I was. He said, if you won't be on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, baby, you ain't gonna be on the ground
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. I'm gonna stoop down on the ground where
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  Speaker 1: you are. I would rather be on the level of
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  Speaker 1: the adulterer than be on the level of the rock thrower.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus stooped down and now we got two
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  Speaker 1: people And like Christ being on the cross, he exercises
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  Speaker 1: the power of silence. Silence is powerful. You ain't got
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  Speaker 1: to answer every question. You have not got to absolve
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  Speaker 1: every curious bystander. Stop making it your mission to change
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  Speaker 1: the mind of your accuser. Jesus did the same thing
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  Speaker 1: on Calvary when he got ready to go to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: He answered them not a word. Sometimes your greatest strength
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  Speaker 1: is in your ability to shut up. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to get them told. You don't have to get them straight.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to get even. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: respond to everything they say. Sometimes you just don't say
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all. I was reading through the comments for,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about next year's ILS is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in Orlando. And we've got about 24, I think
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  Speaker 1: 48 hours, you can get a reduced rate on next
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  Speaker 1: year's registration. And down in the comments, somebody was saying,
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  Speaker 1: when are you coming to Boston? And I explained to them,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a regional meeting that travels from city
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  Speaker 1: to city. It's an international annual meeting that happens once
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  Speaker 1: a year. We would love to have you come. I
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  Speaker 1: went on a little further, but I was losing patience
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  Speaker 1: when I saw somebody from Miami say, when are you
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  Speaker 1: coming to Miami? Now, maybe you don't know much about Florida,
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  Speaker 1: but the distance between Miami and Orlando is close enough
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  Speaker 1: that if you had any real hunger, you could get
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  Speaker 1: in your car and drive down the road to Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: But because you're so lazy and you don't value God
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  Speaker 1: enough to go out of your way to get it,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: I decided to act like I didn't read it. So
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  Speaker 1: I didn't answer it at all. So if you are
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  Speaker 1: screaming on, the reason I didn't answer is because the
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  Speaker 1: Bible said avoid foolishness. and unlearned questions for they do
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  Speaker 1: gender strife. So I made as if I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I asked my
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  Speaker 1: mother a question and she said nothing at all. And
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  Speaker 1: I pressed the issue and all she can do is
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  Speaker 1: look up and say, I heard you. Which was her
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  Speaker 1: way of saying that was stupid. So Jesus acted as
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't hear them, which was his way of
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  Speaker 1: saying that was stupid. But they pressed it and they
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  Speaker 1: pressed it and people will press you and press you
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  Speaker 1: and press you. And you're trying to be nice. And
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: you're trying to be Christian. And you're trying to be loving.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: And you're trying to act like the Bible tells you,
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  Speaker 1: you have to act. It ain't you. You acted. Because
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  Speaker 1: if you came out of your acts and gave them you,
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  Speaker 1: you would pull your earrings off your ears and shake
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  Speaker 1: your head and say, girl. Or pull your jacket off
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  Speaker 1: and say you want some of that gear. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to act. You got to act right even when
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel right. You got to act nice even
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel nice. Because I'm trying to let
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  Speaker 1: this mind be in me, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a war going on in my mind. One
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: part of my mind is quoting scriptures. And the other
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: part of my mind is cussing you out. And so
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say nothing because I don't know
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: which one of these wonder twins is going to leap
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  Speaker 1: out of my lips. So... Y'all ain't going to let
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  Speaker 1: me preach in here. I need some real people this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to no church people. I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: need some real people in this room. I need some
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: real people in this room. And then Jesus stood up
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. And they thought they had caught him. But
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Jesus used the greatest weapon you can use against an enemy.
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  Speaker 1: And I am going to give it to you. And
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to write it online. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to remember this. I want you to keep it in
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  Speaker 1: your head. The greatest weapon you can use on an
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: enemy is wisdom. It's not knowledge, it's wisdom. Jesus said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: stone her. Just he that is without fault, cast the
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  Speaker 1: first stone. Now there's a crowd around this woman. And
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: then he got back down on the ground with her.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord. I want to thank you. I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank him. I want to thank you. Anybody want
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to thank him? Anybody want to thank him? Thank you, Lord.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for coming down where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at. Thank you that if I'm going to be humiliated,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to sit in the humiliation with me. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in pain, you sat in the
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  Speaker 1: pain with me. If I'm going to be weeping at
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the tomb of Lazarus, you're going to come in and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: weep with me. Why did Jesus cry at the death
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: of Lazarus when he already knew he was going to
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: wake him up? Because we have a God who will
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: have koinonia with you, fellowship with you. when you are
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: in pain. And I wanna say to every person who's
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  Speaker 1: in pain, who's in humiliation, who's in struggle, who's in agony,
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  Speaker 1: if everybody's standing above you ready to stone you, look
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  Speaker 1: for Jesus to be sitting down in the dirt with you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, I'm not by myself. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this is gonna turn out, but I'm
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: not by myself. My heart is racing, but I'm not
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: by myself. I've lost all the color out of my skin,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: but I'm not by myself. I'm biting my fingernails, but
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not by myself. I'm in grief over my mother,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: but I'm not by myself. I lost my child, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not by myself. Because when I'm down on the ground,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: so is he. Thank you, Lord. for not leaving me
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  Speaker 1: by myself. Thank you, Lord, because you said, lo, I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: am with you always. Thank you, Lord, for being with me.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can be with you when you're on the mountaintop,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: but I need a God that will be with me
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: when I'm in the valley. I need a God who
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: will get down in the dungeon with me. I need
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a guard that'll go into the jail cell with me.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I need a guard who'll go in the courtroom with me.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: I need a guard that'll go in the hospital with me.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I know his visiting hours are over, but you can't
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: stop him from being in the hospital with me. I
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: have a guard that'll go into the emergency room. I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: have a guard that'll go in the operating room. I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: have a guard that'll go into the courtroom. I have
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: a guard that'll go into the welfare office. I don't
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: have to face it by myself. I have a God
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  Speaker 1: that'll go in the divorce court with me. I have
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: a God that'll go in the counseling with me. I
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: have a God that'll go in the therapy with me.
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  Speaker 1: He got down where she was. Now when he asked him,
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  Speaker 1: he that is without fault cast the first stone. It
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  Speaker 1: only left one person eligible To stone her. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: He never said another word. He never looked up again.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: He went back to playing in the dirt. You don't
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: understand the power of this. This is Satan trying God
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: on his turf. Because Satan is the prince and the
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  Speaker 1: power of the air in the earth. So he said,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: I couldn't defeat you in heaven. I got cast out
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. I couldn't defeat you in the garden. Maybe
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: now I can defeat you in this place. And Jesus
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: is down there writing in the dirt. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what he was writing. It could have been.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. That saved the wretch
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  Speaker 1: like me. But now I'm found Was blind But now
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  Speaker 1: I'm found.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 1: The grace that taught.
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  Speaker 3: My heart to.
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  Speaker 1: And grace my fears.
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  Speaker 2: Relieved How precious did.
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  Speaker 1: He The grace of peace. The hour of peace. The
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  Speaker 1: eye I first beat But if it were me I
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: would have been right through me day. Anybody been through
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: some danger?
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  Speaker 3: Just toast.
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  Speaker 1: And smash. I have already I dare you to think
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Have come come on lift your toast.
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  Speaker 1: That brought me safe thus far. And whatever you're worried about,
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  Speaker 1: grace will lead me Now the Bible doesn't tell me
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  Speaker 1: what position the woman was in. But she had to
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  Speaker 1: be down here like this. Because she wasn't looking up.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: And the Bible said he wasn't looking up. But when
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  Speaker 1: he stood up, he had to touch her and say, woman,
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  Speaker 1: where are your accusers? She was waiting on the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in here had been waiting on rocks. But God
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  Speaker 1: sent me to tell you the rocks ain't coming. Slap
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor and tell him the rocks ain't coming. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've been worried about the rocks, but the rocks
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  Speaker 1: ain't coming. I know you saw the rocks in their hands,
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  Speaker 1: but the rocks ain't coming. I know you prepared yourself
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: and covered your head, but God said, you're rocks. They
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  Speaker 1: ain't coming. Your acts, they will not come. Your acts,
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  Speaker 1: they will not come. They meditate, but they will not come.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to destroy you, but they will not come.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: He had to tap on the shoulder. He had to
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  Speaker 1: tap on the shoulder. He had to tap on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are so ready for the worst that
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: God has to tap you on the shoulder and ask
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: you a question. And the reason he had to ask
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: her a question is because everybody else was gone. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said immediately they begin to drop their rocks.
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  Speaker 1: And then it tells you not just the what. The
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  Speaker 1: what is they drop their rocks. The why is their conscience.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody in here has something that if you remembered,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: you would shut up. And sometimes God has to do
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  Speaker 1: something to you To make you remember. Watch the order.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: The folks who are supposed to remember the least, remember
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  Speaker 1: the best. From the eldest to the youngest. The old
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  Speaker 1: people thought about something. They said, well, it ain't that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Another one dropped the rocks. Well, God is a God
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: of second chances. The other one said, he will have
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  Speaker 1: mercy on whom he will have mercy. And when the
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  Speaker 1: young people saw the old people dropping their rocks, they
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: had a lot to remember. They said, well, I ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna say nothing either because I don't want him to
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  Speaker 1: tell my business and I get stoned. Because what measure
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: you meet will be met unto you. Remember that. What
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  Speaker 1: judgment you give out will always come back to you.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: It never fails. I'm 65 years old almost, and I
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: can never see a time that somebody who went after
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: somebody didn't end up getting gotten. You're gonna get gotten.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get gotten. You rock me today, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be you tomorrow. That's why I don't rock nobody.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: I pray for everybody. You can't never say you heard
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  Speaker 1: me rocking nobody. Glory to God. Because blessed are the merciful,
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  Speaker 1: for they shall obtain mercy. If you want mercy, you
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: got to learn how to give mercy. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared of judgmental people. I'm scared not of you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared for you. Because whatever you send out against me, Harpo. Amen. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me get Bible. Do unto others as you would
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  Speaker 1: have them do unto you. It's going to come back
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  Speaker 1: to you, baby. It's going to come back to you, boy. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to come back to you. It's going to
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: come back to you. It's fun when you throw it,
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  Speaker 1: but it ain't fun when you receive it. So the
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  Speaker 1: only one left that could throw a rock was the
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  Speaker 1: one in whom there was no sin. He said, where
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: are thy accusers? She looked around and said, thank God.
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  Speaker 1: I have none, Lord. And then he says, neither do
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  Speaker 1: I condemn thee. Now watch this. In the Old Testament,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: they said if they caught you, they stone you. But
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: in the New Testament, In Galatians 6 and 1, it said, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: come on, meekness. Meekness, not arrogance. Meekness, not self-righteousness. Meekness,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, remembering meekness. yourself remember yourself baby consider
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  Speaker 1: yourself and then he told her go your way and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: don't be click bait again go your way and learn
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  Speaker 1: from this how to be better go your way And
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: learn not to be bait for the Pharisees to use
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  Speaker 1: against me. I got you out of it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: I approved of it. I got you out of it.
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  Speaker 1: That don't mean I condone it. I didn't let them
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  Speaker 1: kill you. That doesn't mean you wasn't guilty. Learn from this.
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  Speaker 1: Go thy way. Stand to your feet. Whether you're watching
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: online or whether you're in this building, God wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: had me preach this if you didn't need to hear it.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Whether you are a person Living with the threat of
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: what somebody wants to do to you. Help me judge this.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: What is it they call it when somebody threatens to
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: exploit you? Exploitation. Maybe you're living under a cloud of
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the words of an enemy. Or maybe you're living up
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: under the cloud of a memory. Or maybe every so
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: often you get a threatening text or word that obliterates
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: your peace. That sends terror through every fiber of your being.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're living your life faking a smile to hide
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: the fear that any moment everything you have could vanish away.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Satan is an accuser of the brethren. And maybe you
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: have lived your whole life tense and bowed over. Or
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: maybe you have lived with someone who will never let
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  Speaker 1: you forget what you did while they have amnesia about
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: what they did. And all of your life, you're crouched
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: over in the corner. First thing, you ain't there by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is with you. Second thing, Whoever's trying to stone
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: you got a secret too. And you don't have to
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: live your life like that. You don't have to spend
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life in shame and humiliation and
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  Speaker 1: disgrace even though you were wrong. You don't have to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life afraid to come outside
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  Speaker 1: or be around people or to move or to be
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: your better self just because somebody said I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stone you if you go up I want to minister
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  Speaker 1: to people who are dealing with the threat it had
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  Speaker 1: happened but it's a threat hanging over your life you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go bankrupt you ain't going to never have
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  Speaker 1: nothing you're not smart enough to be in that position
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  Speaker 1: You don't deserve what you're asking for. You filthy, slimy thing.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you try to be happy? You caused somebody misery,
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  Speaker 1: and now you want to be happy. And the threat
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  Speaker 1: is hanging over your life. And no matter what you wear,
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  Speaker 1: what you do, or where you go, there's always somebody
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: bringing you back to the act they caught you in.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: When Jesus said the spirit has come upon me to
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: set the captive free. Today is your day of liberation.
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  Speaker 1: I am not, I cannot, and I will not condone sin.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is sin. But it is not incurable. It is
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  Speaker 1: not everlasting. It can be washed away. What can wash
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  Speaker 1: away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What
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  Speaker 1: can make me, what can make me whole again? Put
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  Speaker 1: that picture back up of that woman crossed out. What
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  Speaker 1: can make me whole again? You see her? Your soul
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  Speaker 1: looks like that. and you're wondering if you can ever
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  Speaker 1: be whole again. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Your
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  Speaker 1: soul looks just like that. Your emotions look just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Your rest looks just like that. You can't sleep at
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  Speaker 1: night because of that. There's some antagonists, some extortionists who
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  Speaker 1: seeks to stone you for doing something that they are
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  Speaker 1: guilty of one way or another. And today, this Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't want you balled up in a knot. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell her stay in a knot. He said go.
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  Speaker 1: And you haven't been able to go and you haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to enjoy and you haven't been able to
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  Speaker 1: be free and you haven't been able to be whole
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  Speaker 1: because you're guilty. You had a baby out of wedlock.
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  Speaker 1: You had an abortion. You've done some illicit things, some
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  Speaker 1: wrong things, some perverted things, some illegal things, some inappropriate
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  Speaker 1: thing that haunts you. And people don't know that you
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  Speaker 1: have to fake your smile every morning and say, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to JCPenney's. But down on the inside, you look
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  Speaker 1: just like that. If this position looks like your soul,
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  Speaker 1: about something that you did or something that was done
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  Speaker 1: to you. If this position looks like how you live
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  Speaker 1: your life, it will affect your relationships because you will
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  Speaker 1: always be attracted to somebody to save you from the
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: agony of your history. If this message is reaching out
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  Speaker 1: to you, Jesus did not die and shed his blood
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  Speaker 1: for you to stay in a crouched position waiting on
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  Speaker 1: the next rock to hit you. In fact, the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,
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  Speaker 1: make your requests made known unto God. Amen. God says,
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  Speaker 1: I do not want you to be anxious. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to have anxiety. Yes, you were wrong. You
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  Speaker 1: were wrong as two left shoes. You're guilty as hell.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to change your guilt. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to rewrite the script. I'm not trying to change the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: But you can be guilty and not be condemned. There
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  Speaker 1: is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. And I want to have prayer with you
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  Speaker 1: as your pastor. I want to have prayer with you
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  Speaker 1: because I understand what it feels like to be balled
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  Speaker 1: up in a knot. Every time I drove past paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that man was going to get me. Because
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  Speaker 1: I made peace with him and peace with God. And
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  Speaker 1: peace with myself. Because I cannot live my whole life
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  Speaker 1: like that. Sitting at Thanksgiving dinner table feeling like that.
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  Speaker 1: Driving down 30 feeling like that. Going to college feeling
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  Speaker 1: like that. trying to start a business, but inside I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that. Because if you feel like that, when
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  Speaker 1: good things come, you will self-sabotage yourself. Because if nobody
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  Speaker 1: else rocks you, you will rock yourself. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people. I want some people on this
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  Speaker 1: altar who have been stoning yourself. It's not that God
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  Speaker 1: hasn't forgiven you. It's not that people haven't forgiven you.
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  Speaker 1: You have not forgiven yourself. And every time anything good happens,
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  Speaker 1: you feel too filthy to receive it. And they're teaching you,
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  Speaker 1: you have a lack of faith. No, you have a
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  Speaker 1: lack of forgiveness. And I want you to receive forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: and be made whole. Anybody else? If you're coming, don't
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  Speaker 1: you stand there undercover and need to come and be
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  Speaker 1: so worried about your dead gum image that that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the courage to step over top of what
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  Speaker 1: people think and come get what you need.