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The Principle of Circumcision - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to turn in your Bibles
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  Speaker 1: to Joshua 5, 1 through 9.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joshua.
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  Speaker 1: The book you dare not open unless you're prepared to fight. Amen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So happy to have my friend, Dr. Sorrell, in the house.
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  Speaker 1: I know they've acknowledged you, but thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: longtime friendship and support of this church. Joshua is to
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament what Ephesians is to the New Testament.
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  Speaker 1: It lays down the prerequisites and what is necessary to
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  Speaker 1: possess the things of God. Amen. Amen. In Ephesians it says,
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  Speaker 1: God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and things
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  Speaker 1: that pertain unto life and godliness. In Joshua it starts out,
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  Speaker 1: I have given you the land to possess it. In
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  Speaker 1: both books there is a transfer of influence and affluence
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  Speaker 1: that happens simultaneously. And we stand at the apex of,
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  Speaker 1: not at the apex, but at the entrance of that
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  Speaker 1: transfer of as Israel goes from being nomadic to possessing
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  Speaker 1: land for the first time. Having wandered in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe this is you, you wandered in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: of ideas and been in survival mode, they are now
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  Speaker 1: about to break into the next dimension of their lives
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  Speaker 1: and to re-understand themselves, not from a tent perspective, But
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  Speaker 1: houses that they didn't build and vineyards that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: grow are about to come upon them. And after walking
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  Speaker 1: through the desert in the hot heat of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: they are now about to taste the grapes and enter
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  Speaker 1: into a season of harvest that is unrivaled. They stop
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  Speaker 1: at Gilgal for just a moment, having ended their wandering stage.
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  Speaker 1: And we are now at the entrance of Gilgal as
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  Speaker 1: they now begin to Now when all the Amorite kings
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  Speaker 1: west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along
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  Speaker 1: the coast heard how the Lord had dried up the
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  Speaker 1: Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their
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  Speaker 1: hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the
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  Speaker 1: courage to face the Israelites. At that time, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Joshua, it would seem to me that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord would have said, take them while they're weak. Take
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  Speaker 1: them while they're scared. Take them while they are paralyzed
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  Speaker 1: by the very thought of you. But instead, at that time,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said to Joshua, make flint knives and circumcise
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites. This is an important word, again. So Joshua
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  Speaker 1: made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gebeth Haralof.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is why he did so. Watch this. All
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  Speaker 1: those who came out of Egypt, all the men of
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  Speaker 1: military age, died in the wilderness on the way after
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  Speaker 1: leaving Egypt. Okay. All the people that came out had
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  Speaker 1: been circumcised. So they were circumcised in Egypt. But all
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  Speaker 1: the people born in the wilderness during the journey from
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  Speaker 1: Egypt had not. The Israelites had moved about in the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness 40 years before. Until all the men who were
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  Speaker 1: of military age when they had left Egypt had died.
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  Speaker 1: Since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had sworn to them that they would not see the land.
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  Speaker 1: He had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us a
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  Speaker 1: land flowing with milk and honey. Oh my God. So
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  Speaker 1: he raised up their sons. in their place. And these
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  Speaker 1: were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because
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  Speaker 1: they had not been circumcised on the way.
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  Speaker 3: And after the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in
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  Speaker 1: camp until they were.
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  Speaker 3: Healed.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Joshua, Today, notice this closely,
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  Speaker 1: today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.
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  Speaker 1: They're miles from Egypt, but today I have rolled, they've
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  Speaker 1: been wandering for 40 years. Today I have rolled away
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  Speaker 1: the reproach of Egypt from you. Pharaoh has been dead.
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  Speaker 1: In the Red Sea, but today I have rolled away
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  Speaker 1: the reproach of Egypt from you. So the place has
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  Speaker 1: been called Gilgal till this day. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about the principles of circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: The principle of circumcision. I don't so much want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about circumcision as I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about the principles. circumcision I will talk about
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  Speaker 1: circumcision but ultimately I want you to get the principle
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  Speaker 1: of circumcision father God in the name of Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: we bow our heads before you like the children of
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  Speaker 1: Israel we are standing before the promises of God and
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  Speaker 1: we're about to enter into a new dimension of living
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  Speaker 1: unlike anything we have ever seen before and we dare
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  Speaker 1: not go forward without you We cannot go to battle
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  Speaker 1: without you. We cannot possess the land without you. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot prosper without you. We cannot sanctify ourselves without you.
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  Speaker 1: We need your hand over our lives. Now open our
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  Speaker 1: mouths and open our hearts that we might feed the
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  Speaker 1: flock of God universally in every time zone, in every
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  Speaker 1: language that is watching me around the world. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for increase right now In Jesus' name, amen. You
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  Speaker 1: may be seated in the presence of God. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: do it. When we think of circumcision in our times
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  Speaker 1: and in our culture, we think about it regarding health reasons.
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  Speaker 1: And men understand the importance of circumcision from a health perspective.
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  Speaker 1: As Christians, Judeo-Christians, We think about it from a spiritual perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the Bible, from a biblical perspective, circumcision is
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  Speaker 1: the sign of the covenant. Watch the words closely. It
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  Speaker 1: is not the covenant. It is the sign of the covenant.
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  Speaker 1: God entered into covenant with Abraham before he required the
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  Speaker 1: sign of the covenant. So the circumcision becomes an outer
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  Speaker 1: sign of an inner covenant. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And we see circumcision all throughout the Bible. And from
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  Speaker 1: literally from Genesis to Revelations, there is a constant, almost
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  Speaker 1: nonstop debate about circumcision. Who is to be circumcised? How
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  Speaker 1: they are to be circumcised? What does circumcision mean? And
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  Speaker 1: what does it take in the Old Testament to legitimize circumcision?
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  Speaker 1: Because there were complaints throughout the book of Jeremiah about
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  Speaker 1: That sometimes people had the sign of the covenant on
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  Speaker 1: the outside through circumcision, but they didn't have the inner
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  Speaker 1: circumcision of the heart. If you Google circumcision of the
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  Speaker 1: heart in your Bible, you will find that the outer
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  Speaker 1: sign of circumcision is supposed to mean that you have
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  Speaker 1: a circumcised heart. That you have, as Hebrews would say,
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  Speaker 1: cleanse yourself of the filthiness of the flesh of and
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. It is not enough for us to
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  Speaker 1: have symbols and religious ideas and not incorporate them into
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  Speaker 1: our lifestyle so that we go through more than ceremonies
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  Speaker 1: and rituals, but have a personal, intimate relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: And I cannot think of anything as a man any
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  Speaker 1: more personal than circumcision. It is interesting when we preach
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  Speaker 1: messages about childbirth, the women start making noises. And when
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  Speaker 1: we start talking about circumcision, the men just look nervous. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: their eyes kind of squint. You know, they start rattling
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  Speaker 1: their toe and everything like that because every man in
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  Speaker 1: this room understands what it means to be circumcised. From
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  Speaker 1: a biblical perspective, a Judeo-Christian perspective, we think of circumcision
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  Speaker 1: around Abram when God spoke to him to take a
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  Speaker 1: flint stone and to... go out into the wilderness and
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  Speaker 1: to cut himself Lord have mercy I mean it's not
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  Speaker 1: that I don't love you Lord I really do but
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  Speaker 1: would you repeat the question again I'm not sure I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure I understand exactly what you want me to do.
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  Speaker 1: Right hand, left hand. I mean, give me some details.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stalling. I need some more time. So Abram goes
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  Speaker 1: out and circumcises himself. And for most people who only
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  Speaker 1: read their Bible, their only reference to circumcision begins with Abram.
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  Speaker 1: And they think it is purely a Judeo-Christian ideology, but
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  Speaker 1: in reality, that is not true. In reality, the practice
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  Speaker 1: of circumcision is believed to have originated in Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: was widely practiced throughout the Near East, including areas like Mesopotamia.
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  Speaker 1: In the Levant, it also talks about circumcision, was practiced
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  Speaker 1: by the Canaanites and non-Israelite people. So it didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: start within the confines of Scripture. And in order to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it in the context of Scripture, we have to
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  Speaker 1: also understand that the rites of circumcision existed amongst many
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  Speaker 1: religions and tribes and ideas that did not have the
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  Speaker 1: meaning that this does. Are you following me? It was
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  Speaker 1: also practiced by the virgins of Tharsis in Italy. It
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  Speaker 1: was practiced amongst people who did not believe in Jehovah,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Zohar, Hasidic communities in Judaism. The ancient
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians also performed circumcision for both religious reasons, but also
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  Speaker 1: for medical reasons as well. Medically, they believed that it
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  Speaker 1: helped to cure a variety of ailments, including fevers and epilepsy,
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  Speaker 1: and even cancer. That's what they thought. Religiously, they believe
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  Speaker 1: that circumcision went even deeper than that and was a
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  Speaker 1: sign of purity and that it helped to protect the
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  Speaker 1: individual from evil. The Greeks, on the other hand, did
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  Speaker 1: not practice circumcision at all, and neither did the Romans. However,
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  Speaker 1: circumcision was practiced by the ancient Jews, as we talked
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  Speaker 1: about with Abraham and as well as by the ancient Phoenicians, Hittites,
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  Speaker 1: and Mesopotamians, which I might remind you that God called
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  Speaker 1: Abram out of Mesopotamia. So where he came from, there
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  Speaker 1: was a practice of circumcision that did not reflect Covenants
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  Speaker 1: with God, just like there were tabernacles before the tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: of Moses. There were tents. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: So it is not the thing itself, but it is
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  Speaker 1: the thing, the evolution of what it means that becomes
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  Speaker 1: powerful to us. from a spiritual perspective. But we must
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  Speaker 1: understand the panoramic reality that we were not the first people, Judeo-Christians,
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  Speaker 1: to come up with the idea of circumcision. That is
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  Speaker 1: to say that the cutting of the flesh was a
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  Speaker 1: necessary part of commitment even amongst some armies. And let
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  Speaker 1: me say that is a commitment. If you take a
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  Speaker 1: sharp stone and you circumcise yourself, I believe you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I believe you. You are not a hypocrite. You are
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  Speaker 1: not phony. But from a biblical perspective, we must look
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  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper at it because it represents the
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  Speaker 1: cutting away of the flesh. And we are all called,
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  Speaker 1: both men and women, to cut away the flesh. That
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  Speaker 1: if we are going to walk with God, we have
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  Speaker 1: to understand that periodically we go through seasons of circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: We go through periods of setbacks. If we were bushes,
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  Speaker 1: we would call them prunings.
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  Speaker 3: There are times in.
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  Speaker 1: Our lives that God allows us to lose something that
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  Speaker 1: we might gain something. If we were to, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere. If we were to go a little
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  Speaker 1: bit deeper, we would also understand that according to the
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  Speaker 1: book of Leviticus, without the shedding of blood, there is
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  Speaker 1: no remission of sin. And there is no blood to
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  Speaker 1: make you appreciate the pain and the power of purpose
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  Speaker 1: like your own. When you put your own blood, sweat
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  Speaker 1: and tears into something, you are serious about it.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, where there is no sacrifice, there is no commitment.
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  Speaker 1: The sacrifice that makes you understand that in order to
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  Speaker 1: get to this next level, there has to be a
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  Speaker 1: cutting away. It's very prudent and very important for you
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  Speaker 1: to realize and understand that and to always be reminded
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  Speaker 1: of that, that circumcision happens throughout the scriptures and As
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  Speaker 1: an indication of stepping into a new dimension, a new lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: a new order. In the New Testament, it will be
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  Speaker 1: compared to water baptism. Because it is an outward sign
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  Speaker 1: of an inward cleansing and an initiation. Give me a minute.
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  Speaker 1: An initiation that says I'm going into the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Let's face it. Going into the next level is not easy.
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  Speaker 1: Change is not easy. Anytime God orders change in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: it is not easy. And it is even more complicated
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  Speaker 1: when God changes your life, but you won't let him
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  Speaker 1: change you.
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  Speaker 3: Life can take.
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  Speaker 1: You to a place that you are not equipped to handle.
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision says that if I'm going to go further, not
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  Speaker 1: only is my environment going to change, but I personally
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  Speaker 1: have to change in order to go into this next level.
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  Speaker 1: And I am a sinner and there are some things
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  Speaker 1: that need to be cut out of my life in
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  Speaker 1: order for me to progress to the next level. I
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  Speaker 1: can't spend all of my life in kindergarten. Sooner or later,
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  Speaker 1: I have to grow up. Even if it means losing
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  Speaker 1: some friends I had in kindergarten to go to the
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  Speaker 1: next level, circumcision becomes a necessary thing. If you can't
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  Speaker 1: feel it, it's not a sacrifice. Sacrifices occur all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. But when you start talking about your faith,
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  Speaker 1: if you cannot feel it, it's not a sacrifice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we have raised a group of believers in this era
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  Speaker 1: that we have intoxicated you with the promises of God.
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  Speaker 1: and you get excited about the promises of God, and
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  Speaker 1: you get excited about the land that flows with milk
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  Speaker 1: and honey, but we do not tell you about the
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  Speaker 1: pain that is associated with the promise. Consequently, we're more
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  Speaker 1: excited about the wedding than we are the marriage. So
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  Speaker 1: we put all of our money and all of our
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  Speaker 1: energy and all of our passion into the ceremony, but
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony doesn't mean anything if the relationship behind it
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  Speaker 1: is not as more beautiful than your wedding gown. Are
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  Speaker 1: you hearing what I'm saying? We like the idea of
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  Speaker 1: saying that we work for a major Fortune 100 company.
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  Speaker 1: We like to brag about it, wear the logo, get
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  Speaker 1: the preferred parking space, get the office. But when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the work that's involved in it, you'd be
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  Speaker 1: surprised at the people that like the title but don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do the work. It's like the husband who
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  Speaker 1: kept telling his wife, I'm the head of the house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the head of the house.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the man. I'm the head of the house.
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  Speaker 1: And they were laying in the bed that night and
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  Speaker 1: they heard somebody walking around the property and coming to
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  Speaker 1: the door and he said, you better go see what
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  Speaker 1: that is. We don't always understand how much it costs
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  Speaker 1: to To go through transition. The price that people pay
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  Speaker 1: to be who they are. Who they become as our heroes.
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  Speaker 1: How they function in our lives. What they do in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. We don't understand how much it costs to
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  Speaker 1: make yourself available. We see them on the stage. We
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  Speaker 1: see the comedian making us laugh and we think they
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  Speaker 1: must be happy people. Yet we have had countless famous
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  Speaker 1: successful comedians to commit suicide. Because we don't understand that
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  Speaker 1: there's some bleeding and some cutting going on. All we
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  Speaker 1: see is the person. but we don't see the pain
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  Speaker 1: and we don't see the price it is painful to
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  Speaker 1: be a good husband it costs you something to be
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  Speaker 1: a good husband you have to cut your ego back
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  Speaker 1: to be a good husband You have to cut your
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  Speaker 1: pride back to be a good husband. You have to
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  Speaker 1: cut back your need for reciprocity to be a good husband.
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  Speaker 1: It is not easy to be a good husband. Women,
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of quiet, but you're going to let this
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  Speaker 1: next part. It is not easy to be a good wife.
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  Speaker 1: It is easier to look like a good wife. And
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  Speaker 1: that takes a lot of work. You spend hours looking
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  Speaker 1: the part, but when it comes down to actually being
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  Speaker 1: a good wife, that's a task. Listen, ladies, if you
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  Speaker 1: got a dog, you got to feed him. If you
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  Speaker 1: got a cat, you got to have cat litter to
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  Speaker 1: take out. If you got fish, you got to change
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  Speaker 1: the water every so often. You can't take in something
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  Speaker 1: and not expect it to require something. Just because you
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  Speaker 1: have a baby doesn't make you a mother. Let me
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  Speaker 1: give you something you can chew up. You're a mother,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't want to get out the bed. You're
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  Speaker 1: a mother, but you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to cook.
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  Speaker 1: You're a mother, but you don't want to wash clothes.
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  Speaker 1: You're a mother, but you don't want to deal with
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  Speaker 1: the issue. You're a mother, but you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do homework. You like the title, but you don't like
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  Speaker 1: the job.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision says in order to go to this next dimension,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to pay a personal price. In
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  Speaker 1: order to evolve. It's going to cost you something. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not the way you've always done things. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not the way you like it. But we're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to cut away the way you like it.
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  Speaker 1: So that we can do it the way God wants it.
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  Speaker 1: It requires something of you. Everything in life requires something
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  Speaker 1: of you. Promotions require something of you.
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  Speaker 3: If you get a.
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  Speaker 1: Promotion, they're paying you more. You love the money, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't love the extra work and the extra hours
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  Speaker 1: and the extra demands and the extra stress and the
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  Speaker 1: extra headache. Nothing is for free. There are no free rides.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that God allowed Abraham to cut himself,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted him to understand that salvation is expensive. Redemption
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  Speaker 1: is expensive. He later says to Abraham, take now thy son,
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  Speaker 1: thy only son, and take him to a place I
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  Speaker 1: will show you and offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Abraham, do you have any skin in the game?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wants you to invest in them, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: invest in themselves. Do you have skin in the game?
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision is about having skin in the game. Circumcision is
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  Speaker 1: about being fully vested in the fact that you are
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  Speaker 1: committed to whatever it takes to get to this next
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  Speaker 1: level in life. And so in our text today, when
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  Speaker 1: we start dealing with our text, we begin to understand
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  Speaker 1: that not only in our text, but all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the New Testament, all the way to the cross,
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  Speaker 1: we are looking at circumcision. Beyond the cross, they're still
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  Speaker 1: debating about circumcision throughout the epistles. In the book of Acts,
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  Speaker 1: there was a great discourse, they almost came to blows there.
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  Speaker 1: in the Antioch accident. And they were fighting about whether
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles who were being converted to Christianity had to
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  Speaker 1: go through the remedial process of being circumcised as Jews
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  Speaker 1: in order to be eligible to be Christians. And the
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  Speaker 1: disciples almost came to blows. When I read that, it
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  Speaker 1: did me good because the preachers get to fighting today.
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  Speaker 1: So it lets me understand the early church had its
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  Speaker 1: issues as well. They had their disagreements. They had their fights.
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  Speaker 1: I used to think that you can only walk with
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  Speaker 1: people that are in total alignment with you. But when
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do great things, you have to work
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  Speaker 1: with all kinds of people. And sometimes you have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with people. that philosophically I don't agree with, but
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  Speaker 1: in order to get the task done, I've got to
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  Speaker 1: work with different kinds of people. You cannot just hire
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  Speaker 1: people because they're nice. You can't hire people because you
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  Speaker 1: like them. You can't hire people who always say yes
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  Speaker 1: to whatever you say. You got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: deal with all types of people. And the disciples almost
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  Speaker 1: came to blows on arguing about how to get this
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  Speaker 1: right how much of the old do we take into
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  Speaker 1: the new how much of it is still relevant what
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  Speaker 1: did the cross cancel out and what did it not
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  Speaker 1: cancel out how big is the word grace and it's
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  Speaker 1: the word grace encompassing enough to allow these uncircumcised who
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  Speaker 1: were idolaters to go through the blood of the cross
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  Speaker 1: and that be enough circumcision for them to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be redeemed, brought the disciples to the point of
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  Speaker 1: being ready to fight. In the 15th chapter of the
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  Speaker 1: book of Acts, they start the discussion. Just give me
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  Speaker 1: the first couple of verses. I might not read it all.
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  Speaker 1: Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were
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  Speaker 1: teaching the believers. Unless you are circumcised according to the
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  Speaker 1: custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they were teaching. This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute,
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  Speaker 1: which means fisticuffs. Paul and Barnabas are ready to get
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  Speaker 1: it on. into sharp dispute and debate with them. So
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Barnabas were appointed along with some other believers
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  Speaker 1: to go to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders
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  Speaker 1: about this question. So they are traveling all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to Jerusalem to go before the council to debate
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  Speaker 1: this issue. because it had become toxic, it had become violent,
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  Speaker 1: and they were willing to fight about it because it
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  Speaker 1: was a big deal. They were concerned that circumcision would
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  Speaker 1: delay the Gentiles from being converted to Christianity. If you
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  Speaker 1: made the price too high, they might fall away. Then secondly,
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  Speaker 1: they were concerned about our understanding of grace. and how
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  Speaker 1: gracious grace is, and how gracious God's blood is, how
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  Speaker 1: efficacious his redemption is, and is it efficacious enough that
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to go through the path I went
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  Speaker 1: through to get to the place I'm going to. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear that. They don't have to go through the
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  Speaker 1: path I went through to get to the place I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to. Most, you have to be careful who you
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  Speaker 1: let mentor you because people have a tendency to think
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  Speaker 1: that you have to go through the path they went
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  Speaker 1: through to get to the place God's taken you to.
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  Speaker 1: When in reality, sometimes God took you through it so
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  Speaker 1: that I don't.
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  Speaker 3: So that I don't have to go through it.
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  Speaker 1: God allowed you to face it so that I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to face it. So don't make me go back
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  Speaker 1: and go through what you went through in order to
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  Speaker 1: get to where I'm trying to go. Can we pick
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  Speaker 1: up from here? Can we take it from right now?
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  Speaker 1: Can I listen and learn? Do I have to go
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  Speaker 1: back and repeat the classes that you've already taken in
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  Speaker 1: order for me to go to the next place? You
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  Speaker 1: gotta be careful who you let mentor you Because instead
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  Speaker 1: of just giving you their Christ, they will force on
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  Speaker 1: you their culture. and not accept that you can have
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  Speaker 1: Christ and still be uniquely who you are. You make
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  Speaker 1: me have to dress like you, act like you, talk
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  Speaker 1: like you, think like you, or then you threaten me
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  Speaker 1: with hell if we disagree over a point. But I
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  Speaker 1: noticed in the Word, God gave Peter the keys to
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, but he didn't give anybody the keys to hell.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all not going to talk back to me today. The
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  Speaker 1: substratum of this text then centers around the reality that
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  Speaker 1: they have now crossed through the Jordan. And what you
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  Speaker 1: don't realize is that this whole story is full of circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: It is not merely the physical act of circumcision that
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  Speaker 1: is the substratum of this text. The very fact that
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  Speaker 1: they went through the Jordan is a type of circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: It is a type of baptism. It is a type
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  Speaker 1: of burial. It is a type of new beginnings. It
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  Speaker 1: is a type of new understanding of yourself. A new
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  Speaker 1: self-actualization takes place as they come through the Jordan on
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  Speaker 1: dry ground. And it was so powerful that when the
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  Speaker 1: heathens heard about it, their hearts opened. melted inside of
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  Speaker 1: them when they saw how God made a way for
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  Speaker 1: them now you've got to be in trouble in order
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  Speaker 1: for God to make a way now you want God
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  Speaker 1: to prove himself strong in your life but you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get in no trouble but the reality is
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  Speaker 1: in order for God to prove himself strong he has
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  Speaker 1: to put you in trouble in order to show you
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  Speaker 1: how strong he is so that the heathens can see
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  Speaker 1: that God brought you forth on dry ground and you
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  Speaker 1: made it across to the other side. Somebody shout hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: So here we have this new generation of Hebrews who
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  Speaker 1: are now ready to possess the promises of God. They
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  Speaker 1: have seen the hand of God on Moses. They have
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  Speaker 1: seen the anointing that's on Moses. They have seen the
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  Speaker 1: gifting that is on Moses. Moses has led them for
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  Speaker 1: 40 years through the wilderness.
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  Speaker 3: But the truth of.
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  Speaker 1: The matter is the circumcision doesn't start at Gilgal. The
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  Speaker 1: circumcision starts at Mount Nebo. When Moses goes up on
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  Speaker 1: the mountaintop and never comes back again, that's a circumcision too.
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  Speaker 1: There is a synergism between Moses going up on the
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  Speaker 1: mountain in the book of Exodus and them cutting away
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  Speaker 1: the flesh in the book of Joshua. Because to lose Moses...
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  Speaker 1: sent them into a state of grieving that lasted 30
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  Speaker 1: days before they were healed. And to lose their flesh
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  Speaker 1: sent them into a state of pain that required them
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  Speaker 1: to spend weeks and weeks and weeks before they recovered.
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  Speaker 1: So we are seeing a series of circumcisions from the
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  Speaker 1: death of Moses to the Jordan. Let me go deeper
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  Speaker 1: in the Jordan. You must understand that the Jordan is
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  Speaker 1: fed by the Sea of Galilee. It starts out as
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  Speaker 1: fresh water, turns into salt water, and ends up in
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  Speaker 1: the Dead Sea. So to cross the Jordan is to
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  Speaker 1: say everything that I was goes into the Dead Sea.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that I went through went into the Dead Sea.
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  Speaker 1: This is why when Jesus got ready to be baptized,
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  Speaker 1: he got baptized into the Jordan because that it might
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  Speaker 1: fulfill all righteousness, letting us know that God doesn't hold grudges.
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  Speaker 1: When God washes it away, he washes it all the
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  Speaker 1: way into the dead sea, not to be remembered.
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  Speaker 3: In the world or in the world to come.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had somebody whose sins had been washed
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  Speaker 1: into the sea of forgetfulness. Somebody who understood that you
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  Speaker 1: might remember, but God doesn't remember. I've been through the
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  Speaker 1: Jordan and walked through the process, and my past is
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  Speaker 1: behind me. So I don't have to live in guilt,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have to cross the street when you
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  Speaker 1: walk by. You can roll your eyes at me, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't stop the fact that I've.
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  Speaker 3: Been through the Jordan. and I'm free.
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  Speaker 1: All the free people, show them how free people pray. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's how free people praise. That's how free people praise
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. That's how, that's how, that's how, that's how,
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  Speaker 1: that's how free when you've been free. When you've been
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  Speaker 1: forgiven for much. When you have survived much. When you
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  Speaker 1: have endured pain and blood and swelling and trauma and
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  Speaker 1: still you made it to the other side. You don't
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  Speaker 1: care whether people like.
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  Speaker 3: You or not.
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  Speaker 1: You will praise the Lord because I've already been through
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan. I've already lost people that I love. I've
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  Speaker 1: already had to survive grief and pain and disappointment. And
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  Speaker 1: without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. See,
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  Speaker 1: salvation is a bloody business. We used to sing, I've
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  Speaker 1: already been to the water. And I've already been baptized.
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  Speaker 1: My soul has been converted. Y'all don't know that. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel, I feel, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Every time we go on again. Hallelujah. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I already... And I, let me turn you my soul.
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  Speaker 3: I feel, I feel, I.
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  Speaker 2: Feel all right.
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  Speaker 3: Ever since, ever since I've been a saint.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah, born again.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah, born again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, I've already been to the water. And I've
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  Speaker 2: already been baptized. Just for a minute, just for a minute,
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  Speaker 2: just for a minute. Give me just.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit for a minute. Tell your neighbor I've
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  Speaker 1: been through something. Tell your neighbor I've been through something.
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  Speaker 1: I've been through something. I didn't just show up at church.
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  Speaker 1: I've been through something. I'm not talking about where I parked.
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  Speaker 1: I've been through something. When you really been through something,
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  Speaker 1: you don't argue about petty stuff. They took my parking space.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't been through nothing, baby. They didn't speak to me.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't been through nothing. When you have really had
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  Speaker 1: to face the sharp knife... Your feelings get tough. Your
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  Speaker 1: back gets straight. Your head goes up. Your mind becomes
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  Speaker 1: invisible because you know the cost.
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  Speaker 3: There is a principle.
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  Speaker 4: There is a principle that goes along with circumcision that
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  Speaker 4: says to us, Instead of God sending them in to
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  Speaker 4: fight their enemy, he told them to be circumcised.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it's a bad time to be circumcised.
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  Speaker 3: While I got to fight.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather wait till I got healed before I fight.
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  Speaker 1: And right in the face of an enemy whose heart
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  Speaker 1: is melting for fear of the fact that you're with me,
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  Speaker 1: this seems like a bad time for me to take PTO.
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  Speaker 1: Right when I'm about to possess the land. Right when
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to step into the blessing. Right when I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to walk into my destiny. Right when I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to walk into my future. Right when I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: rebuke the witch. Right when I'm about to rebuke the warlock.
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  Speaker 1: Right when I'm about to break the curse. This ain't
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  Speaker 1: no time for me to have any. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: had something bad happen at the wrong time? No. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever noticed that the worst things happen at the
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  Speaker 1: best times.
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  Speaker 3: In your life?
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  Speaker 1: Just when you're getting ready to get yourself together, all
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: hell breaks loose. It is the principle of circumcision. Just
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  Speaker 1: when you're about to step into your destiny, that's when
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  Speaker 1: you have the most trouble with your spouse, the most
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  Speaker 1: trouble with your children, the most trouble on your job,
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  Speaker 1: the most trouble in your house. It is the principle
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  Speaker 1: of circumcision. That before you can possess, you got to
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  Speaker 1: go through pain to possess. You have to do cutaways
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  Speaker 1: to possess. Abraham's going up on the mountaintop. He's followed
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  Speaker 1: by his minions who are following behind him. When he
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  Speaker 1: found the vision of where he was supposed to go,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: he told them to stay with the asses, being the
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  Speaker 1: ladder going yonder to worship. The separation from the servants
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  Speaker 1: that were serving him is circumcision.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision isn't just about a sharp knife in a personal place.
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision is about who doesn't get to go.
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  Speaker 3: Come on with me.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I'm just getting started. I'm ready for you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. And the problem with some of you, the
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  Speaker 1: reason you can't possess the promised land is because you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: can't say goodbye to some of your fleshly, no Bible reading,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: no faith believing, no favor developing people.
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  Speaker 3: But some of.
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  Speaker 1: Us have made up our mind, if mama don't go.
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  Speaker 1: If daddy don't go, if sister don't go, if brother
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  Speaker 1: don't go, I'm going all the way with the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anybody in.
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  Speaker 1: This place that's made up in your mind that you're
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  Speaker 1: going all the way with the Lord? Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the balcony? Is there anybody on the line? Is
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  Speaker 1: anybody strapped in? Whatever I got to give up, whatever
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  Speaker 1: habit I have to break, whatever problem I have to solve,
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  Speaker 1: whatever mountain I have to crawl, whatever river I have
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  Speaker 1: to ford, whatever dry place I got to walk through,
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to walk through it to get what God
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: promised me.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk.
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  Speaker 1: To some people who are standing on the verge of
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the next dimension. If you're in the house, give God
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of.
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  Speaker 3: So it would be remiss of.
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  Speaker 1: Me if I didn't point out that circumcision is a
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  Speaker 1: battle tactic. Because if I'm gonna fight the battle, I
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  Speaker 1: want to have paid the price to fight the good
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  Speaker 1: fight of faith. I want to make sure that I've
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  Speaker 1: cut off enough of my pride and my arrogance and
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  Speaker 1: my flesh and my temperament and my attitude in order
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  Speaker 1: that when I'm in the fight, the devil can't bring
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  Speaker 1: up nothing. I don't want to give him anything to
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  Speaker 1: work with. I feel like preaching this morning. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give him anything to work with. There's some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room, God is getting ready to take
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  Speaker 1: you so high that you can't afford to play down
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  Speaker 1: low any longer.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want the enemy to.
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  Speaker 1: Have anything to work with because God is getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to take you to the, who am I preaching to? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm preaching to you, text your neighbor and say
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  Speaker 1: something is about to happen now. Something is about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. Something is about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. Something is about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. I'm cleaning up stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I used to let go. I'm saying yes when I
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  Speaker 1: need to say yes and no when I need to
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  Speaker 1: say no because something is about to happen.
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  Speaker 3: And you say I'm acting funny. Maybe I am.
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  Speaker 1: But something is about to happen in my life. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in this place that understands the words that
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  Speaker 1: are coming out of my mouth? Circumcision is a principle.
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  Speaker 3: It's necessary. It was good that I've been afflicted.
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  Speaker 1: Had I not been afflicted, I would have never known
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of the Lord. Are there any mature Christians
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: in here that can say it was good that I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: was afflicted? It was good that we broke up. It
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: was good that you fell out with me. It was
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: good that you left me. It was good that you
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  Speaker 1: fired me. It was good that the house didn't sell.
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  Speaker 1: It was good that things didn't work out.
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  Speaker 3: It was good.
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  Speaker 1: I want somebody to rejoice while you bleed. Y'all didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear me, I'm going to say it again. I want
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  Speaker 1: somebody who can rejoice while you bleed, rejoice while you're
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  Speaker 1: still bruised, rejoice while you're still swollen, rejoice while you're
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: still in the hospital. I want somebody in this place
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  Speaker 1: that can see that all things are working together for
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the good of them.
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  Speaker 3: That love the Lord, who are.
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  Speaker 1: Called according to His purpose. And the Lord wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to be here this morning to say you're still on track.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: You're hurting but you're still on track. You're swollen but
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: you're still on track. You're bleeding but you're still on track.
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  Speaker 1: The battle is not yours. It belongs to God. It
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: belongs to God. Somebody holler, it belongs to God. I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: feel the anointing walking up and down their house. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: feel the spirit of the Lord in this place. I
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: feel handcuffs falling off. I hear chains falling to the ground.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I see God opening up doors. This word is for you.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Before you cross into the next dimension, there's some cutting
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that's got to be done. Get your scissors out. Snip, snip.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: It's time to cut away.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be polite. Stop trying to fit in.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to get along. Whatever it takes to get
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: to the next level, snip, snip. It may hurt, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to cut. I might be lonely, but I'm
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: going to cut. I may cry myself to sleep, but
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: it's got to be cut. And I want you to
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: understand this. I'm still developing this just a little bit.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? I said, can I go deeper?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: You must understand that before they ever even got to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the Jordan, they lost Moses. They lost Moses. The losing
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: of Moses is a professional circumcision. The person who mentored
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: you and fed you and brought you through the wilderness
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and brought you to where you need to be. It's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: a professional circumcision. No Moses stays. I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: it to y'all, see if y'all get it. No Moses.
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  Speaker 3: Moses stays.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you have to value them while you have
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: them because no Moses stays. That's why parents don't outlive
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: their children because no Moses stays.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: No Elijah stays.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: No Elijah stays. No Paul stays. No Naomi stays. God
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: puts people in your life to hold you up. Like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: jet propulsion, he puts them in your life to hold
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you up until you get to a certain height and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: then they fall off. When our purpose is completed, Our
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: separations occur. It doesn't have to be a devil. It
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a witch. It doesn't have to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: be Satan. It can be by design. The device attached
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to the top of a rocket is put there. It's
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: called a payload fairing. And it's put on the top
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: of the rocket. And when they put it on there,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: they know it's coming off. They put it on for
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: it to come off. The standard payload fairing is typically
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: a cone cylinder object at the top of the apparatus.
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  Speaker 1: Due to aerodynamics, it is put in place with the
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  Speaker 1: considerations that although other specialized fairings are in use, these
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  Speaker 1: are designed to come apart and fall off.
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  Speaker 3: The type of fairing that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about in the illustration which separates into two
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: halves upon jettisoning into place is called a clamshell. like
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: a clam opens up and releases what's important on the inside,
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  Speaker 1: it is designed to come off. There are some people
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  Speaker 1: in your life that were there for a season and
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  Speaker 1: they were designed to come off.
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  Speaker 1: When you get high enough, when you get
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  Speaker 1: high enough, when you get high enough, when you get
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  Speaker 1: high enough, when you get high enough, things start coming apart.
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  Speaker 1: Things start falling off. Everything that wasn't necessary starts moving
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  Speaker 1: out of your way. It's because you're airborne now. I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: want to talk to some people that are airborne. And
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: everybody that started with you is not staying with you.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Everybody that launched with you is not staying with you.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right on track. God designed you that once
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  Speaker 1: you got to a certain height, they have gone as
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  Speaker 1: far as they can go. They have to come off
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  Speaker 1: for you to go to the next level. And you've
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  Speaker 1: been feeling like your life is falling apart. Your life
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  Speaker 1: is not falling apart. It's doing exactly what it's designed
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's the principles of circumcision. When you get
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  Speaker 1: so high, it's gotta come off. What the law said
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  Speaker 1: to circumcise a baby when it's eight days old. But
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  Speaker 1: in Gilgal, these are grown men. If they would have
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  Speaker 1: got cut when they were supposed to, they wouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: remember it now. But everything you don't cut when you're
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: supposed to cut it, The later you wait to cut it,
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  Speaker 1: the more it hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me, stay with me. If I would have
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  Speaker 1: cut it when I was 20, I wouldn't be fighting
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  Speaker 1: with it in my 40s. If I'd have cut it
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  Speaker 1: when I was 40. 40, I wouldn't be fighting with
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  Speaker 1: it when I'm 60. That's why the Bible said the
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  Speaker 1: day you hear my voice, harden not your heart. The
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  Speaker 1: moment I tell you let them go, let them go.
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  Speaker 1: Let Lot go. Let his wife go. Let him pick
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  Speaker 1: what he wants to pick. Let them rip you off
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  Speaker 1: as long as they lead. The children of the barn
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  Speaker 1: wife will not inherit with the children of the married wife.
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  Speaker 1: Tell Hagar to get out of the house. All of
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  Speaker 1: this is circumcision all throughout your life. If you look
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  Speaker 1: back over your life, every so often something fell off.
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  Speaker 1: every time you went a little further something stepped off
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  Speaker 1: every time you climbed a little higher something fell off
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  Speaker 1: if ain't nothing falling off of you you're in trouble
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: if everybody still likes you you're in trouble there ought
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  Speaker 1: to be something falling off of you because you're about
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  Speaker 1: to go into the next level touch your neighbor and
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  Speaker 1: tell them it hurt but it's worth it it hurt
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  Speaker 1: but it's worth it I cried, but it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: I was in turmoil, but it's worth it. I was angry,
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  Speaker 1: but it's worth it. I had anxiety, but it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work
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  Speaker 1: for us a far more exceeding weight of glory, for
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  Speaker 1: we look none at the things that are seen. For
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  Speaker 1: the things that are seen are temporal and the things
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  Speaker 1: that are not seen are eternal.
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  Speaker 3: High five somebody and say, cut it off. Cut it off.
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  Speaker 3: Cut it off.
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  Speaker 1: Cut it off.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to the next level. Cut it off. God's
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  Speaker 3: about to do a new thing in your life. Cut
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  Speaker 3: it off. God's about to give you houses you didn't build.
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  Speaker 3: Cut it off.
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  Speaker 1: God's about to put you in the flow. You're about
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  Speaker 1: to step into the flow. You're about to step into
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  Speaker 1: the flow.
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  Speaker 3: You've been walking.
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  Speaker 1: Through dry places all your life, but God's about to
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  Speaker 1: put you in a place where the milk and honey
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  Speaker 1: is flowing in your direction. Somebody step into the flow.
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  Speaker 1: Step into the flow. I'm about to step into the flow.
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  Speaker 3: There's a current.
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  Speaker 1: There's a wave. There's a flow. There's a rhythm. There's
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  Speaker 1: a movement. There's a flow. I'm going to step into
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the flow. I'm not going to be like the man
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  Speaker 1: at the pool who sat by the pool for 38
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  Speaker 1: years waiting on somebody to drop me in the water.
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  Speaker 1: The devil is alive. If you don't carry me, I'll
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  Speaker 1: carry myself. If I can't carry myself, I'll crawl. If
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  Speaker 1: I can't crawl, I'll roll. If I can't roll, I'll slide.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes. To get to the next level, I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to go all the way. I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: a thousand radical people, a thousand desperate people, a thousand
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  Speaker 1: relentless people.
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  Speaker 3: Make some noise in this house.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Professional pain is the one who taught me and
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  Speaker 1: the one who led me and the one who brought
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  Speaker 1: me gets me so high and then falls off. That's
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: as far as they can go. Their falling off is
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: a sign that you can go the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 3: By yourself.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't have fell off if you couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop telling yourself you can't do it. The sign that
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: you see them falling off is a sign that the
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: jet is now high enough that it's got enough thrust
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: up under itself to keep on going. To just keep
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: on going. To just keep on going. Look over at
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: somebody and say, I will survive. I'm hurt, but I
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: will survive. I'm bleeding, but I will survive. I will survive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in pain, but I will survive. I'm in grief,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: but I will survive. I'm missing, but I will survive.
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  Speaker 1: I was built to fly. I was built to go up.
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  Speaker 1: I was built to go further. I was built to
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: reach up. I was not built to sit down. I
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: was not built to give up. I was not built
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to quit. I was not built to walk away. The
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: devil is alive. You ain't going to stop me because
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you fall off.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to go higher than you ever saw me go.
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  Speaker 3: In all of my life. Can I stop.
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  Speaker 1: Right here and say, when I think of the goodness
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: of Jesus and all that the Lord has done for me,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: my soul cries out, High five somebody and say, I
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  Speaker 1: can make it from here. I can make it from here.
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  Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
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  Speaker 1: They shall mount upon wings like eagles. They shall run
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  Speaker 1: and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's gained enough altitude that you can make it from here.
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  Speaker 1: You may have tears in your eyes. But you can
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: make it from here. You may be lonely sometime, but
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: Make it from here.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I feel a victory praise about to take over this
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: house right here and right now. I don't know who
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: it is, but something just fell off of you.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: Something just fell off you. Something just... You're gonna pay, bitch!
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Touch a neighbor. Touch a neighbor and say, you just
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: dropped something. You just dropped something. You just dropped something.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: You just dropped something. You just dropped something. You just
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: dropped something. Excuse me, ma'am. You just dropped something. Excuse me, lady.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: You just dropped something. Excuse me, preacher.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: You just dropped something.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, businessman. You just dropped something. You just dropped it.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: You just dropped it. If you would have needed it,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: it would have stayed attached. But it fell off so
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: you could go higher. Shout yes. As I hasten. There
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: was professional pain. The pain of separation. The pain of abandonment.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: The pain that Moses is not coming back. The pain
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: that the chariot has taken my father away. There's pain
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: associated with it. There's pain that Naomi is no longer There.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: There's pain associated with it. Professional pain. My mentor is gone.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this will work for me like
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: it worked for you. Elijah comes to the Jordan. There
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: we are at the Jordan again. And he has a
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: mantle of his father. But will it work for me
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: like it worked for my father? It's the same mantle.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Here it goes.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Shout out. it's the same mantle and.
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  Speaker 1: The bible said when Elijah smoked the waters it wasn't
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: so much the man that the water recognized it was
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: the mantle that the water recognized and when the water
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: recognized the mantle it will part for any man anybody
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: got the mantle in here Something's getting ready to open
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: up for you if you got the mantle. Are you
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying to you? So that's the professional loss.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: My father, my father, the host of Israel has taken
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: you away. And I feel like I still need you.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: And you're backing away. No, I must back away so
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: you can discover who you are. If I don't back away,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: you will never come into your own. You will never
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: reach the height that you could have reached before. If
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: you allow me to stay stuck in the place I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: was in. And then from professional pain to personal pain.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Personal pain is the pain that you bear in your body.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: The things that you go through that nobody knows that
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: you go through. The pain that you bear and you're
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: smiling and it's hurting to walk. The bruises you incurred
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: that you don't testify about. The things you live with
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: in your house that you say nothing about. Personal pain
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: is when you've been cut in a place that you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: can cover. The Bible said don't do any work yet
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: even though you can cover it Covering is not healing.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to go into this battle covering
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: personal pain. I want you to give yourself a moment
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: to heal so that once the swelling has gone down
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and the bruising, which is trapped blood, begins to move away,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you can go into the battle with the full assurance
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: that that was then. They ain't heard me. Let me
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: try y'all. That was then.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: .
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: So they had the professional
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: pain of losing Moses the personal pain of being circumcised.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: And then when God told them to take Jericho, he said,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: but I don't want you to live there. Destroy everything
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: in Jericho because Jericho is circumcision too. cutting off that
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: which comes first. First fruit offering. Lifting it up to God.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: So they marched around the wall in April. Look, they
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: have spent time healing in Gilgal. And then they have
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: spent a week marching around a wall to take a
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: city that they don't get to keep. Some people only
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: fight for stuff that they get to keep You have
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to be willing to fight for something even when you
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: don't profit from the fight. Come on, come on, come on,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: come on. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: So Jericho was the first city. It was the foreskin
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: of the promised land. It was to be offered up
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: to God. much like David killed the Philistines and took
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: a hundred foreskins and threw them at the feet of Saul,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: it is a sign that I made contact with my promise.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: So God said, don't save anything out of Jericho because
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: we're going to cut this once and for all. And
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: if you cut it right, I'll give you every other
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: city that comes after it. If you cut it off,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: if you cut it right, I mean, if you stop
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: babying yourself and pampering yourself and snipping at yourself and.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Ooh, that hurt. If you just go ahead and.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to somebody. I don't know
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: who it is.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Just go ahead. The quicker the better. Just cut it off.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had somebody, the men can relate to this,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: they put some tape on your chest and they're trying
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: to be delicate and you just say, just rip it off.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Some of you are so close to where you got
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: to go that you got to rip it off. Personal pain.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: And then they gave themselves time to heal so that
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't walk into their promises still bruised by their past.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: So that your next marriage doesn't get your old marriages
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: beaten in. Somebody holler, cut it off. So that you're
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: not in a situation bitter about where you came from.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Somebody say, cut it off.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: So that you don't go on your new job talking
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: about your old employer. Somebody say, cut it off. Whoever
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: said that, you're getting ready to step into a new
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: arena and a new place in your life. And God
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: wanted you to hear this word so that you will
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: get the principles of circumcision. So they completely destroyed Jericho,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: annihilated it, burned it down to the ground, destroyed it
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: so bad they still can't find it, burned it completely up,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: except for one man who tried to save a little
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: bit for himself, which led to the defeat at Ai.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: They didn't get beat. because they weren't able, AI was
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: a small city. They got beat because he didn't fully
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: cut it off. You broke up, but you still got
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: the number. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, shout, shout, shout. Shout, shout, no, no, shout, shout. Shout.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Y'all ain't going together, but you inbox from time to time.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: Come on, shout. No, no, shout. Shout, shout.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: See if they shout now and say, cut it off.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: You do it, you just don't do it as frequently
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: as you used to. Look at somebody and say, cut
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: it off. Because God is about to give you, listen
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: to this, everybody stand. If you learn the principles of circumcision,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I have noticed in my life, every time I get
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: close to something major, every time, I mean every time,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: unrelated to the thing I'm about to possess. Something that
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: don't have anything to do with it. Something that's designed
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: to distract me, to discourage me, to humble me, to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: break me.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Happens in my life.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Every time. Gilgal is important to Jericho. Gilgal is 50
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: miles from Jerusalem. Jerusalem will become the base and still
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the spiritual base for three major religions. They're 50 miles away.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, when Jesus.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: Went up in the clouds....
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Then Moses was gone. Fifty days later, he came in
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: the form of the Holy Ghost. and sat upon each
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: They are 50 miles from Jerusalem. So if they cut
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: at Gilgal, they can live in Jerusalem. So Jesus says
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: to his disciples, he brought them out as far as
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Bethany and blessed them and told them to go on
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. Pentecost, penta means 50, five, 50. Pentecost means
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: 50 days. They were 50 miles from Jerusalem. When Jesus
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: went up in the cloud, that was a circumcision they'd
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: lost to Moses. they stayed in Jerusalem while they were
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: healing from the pain of losing Jesus. But when the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: dead Pentecost was fully come, they were in one place
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: with one accord. Suddenly there came a sound from heaven
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: like a mighty Russian wind Cloven tongues appeared like as
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: a fire, sat upon each of them, and they were
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: all filled with the Holy Ghost. 50 days, 50 miles.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: Shake your neighbor and say, you're close. You're close. You're close.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: When I was studying to preach this message, the Lord
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: let me imagine, because I can't remember being circumcised, he
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: let me imagine, imagine the intense, uncomfortable pain of circumcision.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: The danger of infection. In the vulnerable state of having
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: just bled. You know, when you just lost somebody, you're
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: vulnerable to infections. People who come and look like answers.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: I'm almost done. If you have a good experience at Gilgal,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: you will make it to Jerusalem.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: If you.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Can be grief-stricken, heartbroken, teary-eyed, and still keep walking, The
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Lord told me if I would preach this message that
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: there would be somebody here who's been in pain in
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: a secret place. And it's been hard. And it's been tough.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Because not only have you lost people that you love,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: you've been hidden places you can't talk about. And God
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: told me to teach on the principles of of circumcision.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: You might be limping now, but you won't be limping long.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: When you get to where God's going to take you,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: the first city belongs to God. The first fruits. Stop
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: giving him what's left. Stop giving him what's last and
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: put him in his rightful place because it is not
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: the amount that moves God. It's not the amount that
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: really moves God. What really moves God is the order.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Putting him first. Putting him first, the priority. So the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: first city belonged to God. And God said, if you
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: give me the first city, I'll give you every other
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: city that comes after it. And you will dwell in Jerusalem,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: the house of the Lord.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: Forever.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Now there's a lot of talk about pain and emotions
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: and feelings and how we deal with them and how
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: we handle them or shouldn't handle them or should handle
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: them or There's a lot of devices and therapy and
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: tools and medication and diagnosis and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to call it, but when it hurts,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: it just hurts. And I want to talk to somebody
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: who's been hurting in a hidden place. And you come
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: to church and you go back home and you come
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: to church and you go back home, but God brought
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  Speaker 1: you here this morning because he wants you to get healed.
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  Speaker 1: Some scholars say that when he said we rolled away
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  Speaker 1: the reproach of Egypt, that there were some men who
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  Speaker 1: had been circumcised by the Egyptians. This was their first
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  Speaker 1: time to be circumcised under covenant. And it rolled away
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  Speaker 1: the final reproach that this is not just an action
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  Speaker 1: done by the Egyptians. This is a covenant relationship that
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  Speaker 1: started with your father Abraham. And I know it's been
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  Speaker 1: 400 years that you haven't worshipped me. So if you
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  Speaker 1: came out of Egypt circumcised, it's in all likelihood The
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians that circumcised. Let's get it right this time. So
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  Speaker 1: I can roll away the reproach of Egypt. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: How could I have reproach of Egypt if everybody was
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  Speaker 1: born in the wilderness? Not everybody. There is a remnant.
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  Speaker 1: that remains, perhaps with an Egyptian circumcision, praising a Jehovistic God.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the place where we become one. This
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  Speaker 1: is where we stop being boomers and millennials and Gen
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  Speaker 1: Xs and Gen Zs and Gen Ys. This is the
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  Speaker 1: place where we become one. So that when we get
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, we are not many different groups. We are one.