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GOD WILL GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE! Bishop T.D. Jakes Powerful Sermon · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. While I got you standing, remain standing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go right into the word of God tonight.
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  Speaker 1: How y'all doing tonight? Y'all feeling good tonight? If you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling good, wave at me. Let me hear you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're online. I want to hear from you if God
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  Speaker 1: is blessing you tonight. We're going to the book of
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter number 49 verse 5 through 7. Genesis chapter 49.
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  Speaker 1: I heard Pastor Vinshart, he already knows what the story
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  Speaker 1: is when I said Genesis 49. Glory to God. That's good.
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  Speaker 1: When I was young, I could remember like that too.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 49, five through seven, when you have it, say amen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of unfair because in order to do this justice,
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  Speaker 1: I probably should have started at one and probably read
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter. Jacob has come to the point in
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  Speaker 1: his life that he's getting ready to die. And he
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  Speaker 1: has gathered his sons around the bed to deliver unto
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  Speaker 1: them a patriarchal blessing. And you have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: in the culture in which this scripture is extrapolated, the
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  Speaker 1: patriarchal blessing is important. It could decree and declare which
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  Speaker 1: way your destiny was going to go. You understand what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? It determined your birthright. It determined your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: To get the blessing of your father before he passed
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  Speaker 1: away was very important. After all, God has said that
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  Speaker 1: he was a God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is at the end of the line as far
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  Speaker 1: as being identified as Isaac and Jacob Jacob is about
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  Speaker 1: to die it's the end of an era it's the
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  Speaker 1: end of a patriarchal dynasty and the sons the 12
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  Speaker 1: sons have gathered around the bed and two grandsons have
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  Speaker 1: gathered around the bed to get the blessing from Jacob
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  Speaker 1: before he departs and he is dispensing that blessing but
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  Speaker 1: when he comes to Simeon and Levi it takes a
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  Speaker 1: turn And it reads like this. Simeon and Levi are brethren.
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  Speaker 1: Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul,
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  Speaker 1: come not thou into their secret. Unto their assembly, mine honor,
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  Speaker 1: be not thou united. For in their anger, they slew
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  Speaker 1: a man. And in their self-will, they digged down a wall.
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  Speaker 1: Can you say amen? Amen. Now, I'm going to teach
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  Speaker 1: tonight on a second chance at a blessing. A second
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  Speaker 1: chance at a blessing. Now, the scripture I just read
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound like much of a blessing. It was more
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  Speaker 1: of a curse. But if you've ever made a bad decision,
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever done something that got you in trouble
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  Speaker 1: and you needed a second chance at a blessing, Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: before the night is over, you will be ready to
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  Speaker 1: receive a fresh blessing. There is such a thing as
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  Speaker 1: a second chance at a blessing. Amen. Somebody say a
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  Speaker 1: second chance at a blessing. Father, in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: as we go into your word tonight, let our understanding
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  Speaker 1: be unlocked and open to receive the infallible word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for the treasure of your word and
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  Speaker 1: the power of your word. We thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: articulation of your word. We thank you, Lord, for the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for everything that is written therein. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you that it helps us to understand the very
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  Speaker 1: strategies and doings of God. Continue to unlock that treasure
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  Speaker 1: for us tonight as we study the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We do so because we don't want to be illiterate spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: We want to have a deep understanding of who we are,
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  Speaker 1: what we believe, why we believe what we believe, and
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  Speaker 1: understand how to do this both spiritually and intelligently. I
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  Speaker 1: believe you to open up the windows of heaven and
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  Speaker 1: pour us out a blessing we will not have room
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  Speaker 1: enough to receive. In the name of Jesus, we pray.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody shout amen. You may be seated in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God. Now, first of all, I want to start
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  Speaker 1: by saying, uh, I want to make a distinction between
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. The Bible said in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: was the word and the word was with God and
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  Speaker 1: the word was God. And it says all things were
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  Speaker 1: made by him. Without him was not anything made that
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  Speaker 1: was made. In him was life and the life was
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  Speaker 1: the light of men. The light shined in darkness and
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  Speaker 1: the darkness comprehended the night. If the word was in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, then the word existed before the Bible. Some
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  Speaker 1: people have reduced the word of God to just the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: but the word of God existed before there was anybody
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  Speaker 1: to write it down. The word of God deals with
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  Speaker 1: the character of God, the integrity of God, the promises
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  Speaker 1: of God, what God has said. God has said, not
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  Speaker 1: what man has written, what God has said. And what
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  Speaker 1: we have before us is a recording pieces of what
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  Speaker 1: God said down through history. And then we had that
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  Speaker 1: recorded Word of God, which we call the Bible, has
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  Speaker 1: been translated from ancient languages into contemporary languages. One of
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  Speaker 1: the first languages were the Word of God, which was
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  Speaker 1: originally written in Hebrew, is now written in English, the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament primarily in Hebrew, a little bit of Aramaic,
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  Speaker 1: but also in the New Testament, Aramaic and Greek, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And then it was translated eventually into English around 1611,
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  Speaker 1: actually 1525. And then the authorized King James Version comes
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  Speaker 1: in 1600. This is way before that. This is way
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  Speaker 1: before that. Now, the translations, we're going to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about translations so that we can do this intelligently.
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  Speaker 1: You have to understand King James Version was actually translated
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  Speaker 1: by a gentleman named William Tinsdale in about 1525. William
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  Speaker 1: Tinsdale translated the ancient scriptures into into English and then
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  Speaker 1: King James made it the official King James version of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. Okay. And so when I came along, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know any of that. All I knew is that
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  Speaker 1: the old folks taught us if it wasn't the King
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  Speaker 1: James version, it wasn't God. We didn't know where it
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  Speaker 1: came from. We didn't know where it started. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about it. The only word of God for
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  Speaker 1: me is the King James Version. That's all they knew.
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  Speaker 1: So what we learn is limited to the level of
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  Speaker 1: the teacher that's teaching. Come on somebody. And so some
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  Speaker 1: of the people who taught us early on couldn't even read. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And in lieu of revelation or information, they came up
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  Speaker 1: with rules and regulations. You know, you got this holiness
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  Speaker 1: of hell and don't wear makeup and don't wear earrings.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that was to fill in the blanks
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  Speaker 1: for not really being able to study the word as
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  Speaker 1: astutely as we can today. Now, as we look at
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  Speaker 1: these different translations, I'm going to show you different translations
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  Speaker 1: And as I show you, I want you to notice
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  Speaker 1: how the word of God becomes clearer and clearer with
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  Speaker 1: each translation. And I want you to understand that the
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  Speaker 1: translation is not just written so that you can have
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  Speaker 1: a contemporary version because you don't like old English. That's
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  Speaker 1: not just why it was done. The greater reason is
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  Speaker 1: as our understanding of the original language increases, we get
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  Speaker 1: a more clear translation of the word than we did
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  Speaker 1: at first. Okay. It's not just that we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: take old King James English and make it hip. It
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  Speaker 1: is that we are studying the word of God with
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  Speaker 1: more precision because we are living with more information than
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  Speaker 1: we ever had before. It's the same way with medicine.
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  Speaker 1: The way my grandmother treated a condition is a lot
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  Speaker 1: different from how my children treat a condition. Medicine has improved,
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  Speaker 1: and the doctors have said, oh, we don't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you don't even have to go through that
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  Speaker 1: many generations. You can wait five or ten years, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole procedure changes. Because as you get more information,
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  Speaker 1: you become better at this. Are y'all following me? I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to borrow Tore's statement. Y'all tracking with me? Did
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  Speaker 1: he kill us Sunday? Wasn't that amazing? Yeah, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to borrow from him tonight. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all tracking with me? Okay. So you read the
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  Speaker 1: first one and now I'm going to put it up
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  Speaker 1: in the NIV and it'll give you a little clearer
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  Speaker 1: understanding of because I really want to dig into this.
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  Speaker 1: So it says, Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords
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  Speaker 1: are weapons of violence. Let me not enter into their council.
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  Speaker 1: Let me not join their assembly for they have killed
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  Speaker 1: men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they please. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go further. Let's go to the American Standard Version.
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  Speaker 1: And let's see if we can get a clear vision
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  Speaker 1: of it. Oh, my soul, come not thou into their council,
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  Speaker 1: unto their assembly. My glory, be not thou united. For
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  Speaker 1: in their anger they slew a man, and in their
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  Speaker 1: self-will they hocked an ox. Okay, let's go deeper. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go into the next translation, which is the Young's literal translation.
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  Speaker 1: Each one's going to make it clearer. Now, clarity does
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  Speaker 1: not take away from the substance of the text, but
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  Speaker 1: it makes it more understandable because we have better clarity
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  Speaker 1: as to the original intent of what he said. Are
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  Speaker 1: you hearing what I'm saying? The Bible said in all
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  Speaker 1: thy getting, get an understanding. So the difference between preaching
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  Speaker 1: and teaching isn't whether I raise my voice or not.
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  Speaker 1: When I grew up, the difference between preaching and teaching
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  Speaker 1: was whether you could hoop or not. Oh, my God. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: They said, oh, he can preach. And if you got
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  Speaker 1: up and you start talking like that, they say he's
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, which was a nice way of saying you
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  Speaker 1: were boring. You see, but the difference between preaching and
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  Speaker 1: teaching isn't the voice inflection. It is the depth to
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  Speaker 1: which you study and delve down into the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: irrespective of your voice articulation. Okay, so when we get
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  Speaker 1: into the literal translation, into their secret come not ye. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my soul, unto their assembly be not united. Don't hook
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  Speaker 1: up with these guys. Oh, my honor, for in their
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  Speaker 1: anger they slew a man and in their self-will eradicated
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  Speaker 1: a prince. Oh, wait a minute. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: an ox. No, it's a prince. In ancient times, they
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  Speaker 1: referred to princes as oxes because the burden of leadership
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  Speaker 1: rested upon them. So the more you begin to understand
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the terminology, it is not a disagreement.
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  Speaker 1: with that which was written before. It is that now
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  Speaker 1: we have a clearer understanding that the word translated there
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  Speaker 1: should have been prince and not an ox. And in
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  Speaker 1: the process of knowing that we're not just talking about
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  Speaker 1: an ox and cutting loose a hamstring of an ox,
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  Speaker 1: that we're going deeper than that, we begin to understand
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  Speaker 1: that Jacob is still upset about what they did to Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: And even as he is dying, he's still angry about it.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? So as you can see from this,
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  Speaker 1: it can mean either uproot or to sever the hamstring
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  Speaker 1: in the hocks. It's in the hocks or back legs
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  Speaker 1: of a large four-legged animal. What he's really talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you've uprooted. You uprooted, you tore down, the King James
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  Speaker 1: Version says you tore down a wall. It seems that
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  Speaker 1: having decided that the Hebrew word means wall, the translator
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  Speaker 1: of the King James Version decided to render the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: word in the sense of digging up the roots of
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  Speaker 1: a plant as opposed to uprooting the wall resulting in
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  Speaker 1: the rather awkward, I mean, how do you uproot a wall?
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  Speaker 1: It's a poor translation, dig down a wall. What they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do was to understand that he had
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  Speaker 1: uprooted something. He had uprooted something. And Jacob is talking
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  Speaker 1: to them as he's getting ready to pass away. And
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  Speaker 1: he says, I don't have a blessing for you because
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  Speaker 1: I'm still upset about what you did. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: that Joseph is the beloved son of Jacob. He got
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  Speaker 1: the coat of many colors. He was favored by his father.
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  Speaker 1: Some Hebrew theologians suggest that Simeon and Levi, he's angry
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  Speaker 1: with them about two things. One, what they did to Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing he's angry with them about is
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  Speaker 1: what they did to the men of Shechem. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make that plain. I'm going to go into that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make that clear. Because Simeon and Levi
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  Speaker 1: got together, they was like bam and wham. When they
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  Speaker 1: got together, there was always some craziness going on. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew scholars suggest that it was Simeon and Levi
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  Speaker 1: primarily that led the deceitfulness that was bestowed upon Jacob
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  Speaker 1: in saying that Joseph was dead. So Joseph had lived
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  Speaker 1: all those years in pain, mourning over his son being dead,
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  Speaker 1: only to find out in his old age that his
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  Speaker 1: son was alive. And it's hard to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to title this because I almost called it Family Matters.
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  Speaker 1: Because anybody, how many of you got a family? If
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  Speaker 1: you got a family, you got some matters. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a declaration that even though this is a
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  Speaker 1: family of God, even though these people are chosen by God,
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  Speaker 1: they still have some issues and some emotions and some
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  Speaker 1: feelings and some pain. And they're held together, but they're
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  Speaker 1: still not really together because Jacob is angry with them
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  Speaker 1: and he's upset with them and even to his grave.
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  Speaker 1: He knows he's dying. He refuses to bless them because
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  Speaker 1: they have made him miserable. And when you study what
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  Speaker 1: they did, and we are going to study it in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, what they did with Dinah, which was Dinah
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  Speaker 1: was Jacob's daughter through Leah. And you begin to find
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  Speaker 1: out what happened to Dinah when she ended up getting
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  Speaker 1: raped and what they did to the men and killed
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  Speaker 1: out a whole group of men, a whole nation of men,
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  Speaker 1: utterly destroyed them deceitfully. Jacob is angry about that, the bloodshed,
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  Speaker 1: the loss, the deceit, the betrayal, just like in your family.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some betrayals and there's been some hurts. And
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  Speaker 1: you have to be a strong man of God and
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  Speaker 1: a strong woman of God to act like you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you know. Come on, somebody. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? That's why everybody's holiday is not a good holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Because when all them relatives come around, you got to
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  Speaker 1: act like you don't remember what you remember. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to keep it real in here tonight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and so they're all gathered around the bed and they're
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  Speaker 1: all related and they're all connected, but they're not really
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  Speaker 1: connected because the secrets get in the way of the connection.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob is angry with them because he has endured
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  Speaker 1: much pain all of his life because of what they did. Now,
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  Speaker 1: and consequently, he has now embarrassed them in front of
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  Speaker 1: all of their brothers. Everybody else, just about everybody else,
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  Speaker 1: is getting blessings now. And promises. And this, a blessing is,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to make you understand how important a blessing is.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob fought for his father's blessing. He wrestled in the
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  Speaker 1: womb for the blessing. He came out and fought off
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  Speaker 1: Esau and got his blessing for a bowl of soup.
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  Speaker 1: A blessing was a big deal. It was a big deal. Today,
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  Speaker 1: in our Western culture, it becomes difficult to translate it. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: in the African, in many of the African cultures, it
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  Speaker 1: is easier to translate it because there's still a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of respect for a patriarchal blessing. In our Western culture,
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  Speaker 1: we just run off without anybody's blessing. We don't think
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  Speaker 1: that we need covering. We don't think that we need
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. We don't think we need permission. We just
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  Speaker 1: kind of live our lives on our own, okay? So
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  Speaker 1: when we read this, we don't get the impact of
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  Speaker 1: what is being said here. In front of all of
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  Speaker 1: his brethren, now Simeon and Levi have to face the
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  Speaker 1: scorn of their dying father. It's traumatic enough that I'm
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  Speaker 1: losing my father, but in his last breath, he curses me.
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  Speaker 1: That means there's no more chance for me to fix
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  Speaker 1: this with him. This is over. It's done. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you something right now. It is much better to
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  Speaker 1: have grief than guilt. I'm going to say that again.
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  Speaker 1: It is much better to have grief than guilt. Grief
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  Speaker 1: is painful. I'm not underestimating it. It's real painful. But
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  Speaker 1: guilt will make you try to pull mama out of
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  Speaker 1: the casket. Yeah. come on, come on, come on. It'll
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  Speaker 1: make you scream and holler and fall out and pass
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  Speaker 1: out in the floor because a lot of times when
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  Speaker 1: you realize you're never going to get it straight. You're
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  Speaker 1: never going to get it worked out. You're never going
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  Speaker 1: to get the love you should have got. You're never
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  Speaker 1: going to resolve the issue. You're never going to get
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  Speaker 1: over it. And now she's gone. Now we're screaming and
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  Speaker 1: we're hollering and we're chasing behind the casket. And we
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  Speaker 1: used to watch a movie. You have to be a
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  Speaker 1: certain age to remember Imitation of Life. Come on, talk
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  Speaker 1: to me, somebody. And the girl is running behind her mama,
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  Speaker 1: screaming and crying because, see, dead people can't hear. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you ought to fix stuff while people are living.
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  Speaker 1: you ought to fix it while they're living because once
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  Speaker 1: they're gone they can't hear you they can't straighten things
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  Speaker 1: out you ought to forgive them while they're living you
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  Speaker 1: ought to straighten it out while they're living you ought
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  Speaker 1: to get it together while they're living you ought to
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  Speaker 1: pull it together while they're living so that you can
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  Speaker 1: get things straight if you love somebody tell them now
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  Speaker 1: If you were wrong, say it now. If you need
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  Speaker 1: to repent, do it now. Don't wait till they're gone
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  Speaker 1: and then live with the guilt and the grief of
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  Speaker 1: losing the person. I don't know who needs that, but
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  Speaker 1: somebody needs that tonight. And I'm going to give that
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  Speaker 1: to you for free. Thank you. Sometimes you can make
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  Speaker 1: a decision in your haste, in your youth, in your selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: From your point of view, you felt justified to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But then in retrospect, as you mature and you get older,
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  Speaker 1: you look back at it. If you are fair and
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  Speaker 1: wise and you see the other person's perspective and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you change your attitude because you get
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  Speaker 1: wiser about things. That's why y'all not write things in
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  Speaker 1: stone too early. You haven't lived long enough. You haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen enough. After a while, when it's your turn, things
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  Speaker 1: look different. One of the great joys about being a
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  Speaker 1: grandfather is that I get to watch my children try
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And I just sit there like that. Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: you won't believe what you did. I said, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. Yeah, I believe it. Do you do
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  Speaker 1: a sound, remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wonder
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  Speaker 1: where she got that from. Wonder where that came from.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me, somebody. See, now, what we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at is decisions and consequences. I'm going to move
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  Speaker 1: you along. We're looking at decisions and consequences. These boys
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  Speaker 1: have made some decisions. They made it with Joseph. They
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  Speaker 1: made a decision because they were jealous. They made a
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  Speaker 1: decision because Jacob, Jacob really, to me, this is just
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, was not a great leader. Okay, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: balance his love and he was very overt in letting
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  Speaker 1: the other brothers know that that's my favorite one right there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what am I, Swiss cheese? Yeah, I'm gonna feel some
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  Speaker 1: kind of way about that. Yeah, I'm gonna feel some
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  Speaker 1: kind of way. And they got so besides themselves that
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  Speaker 1: they started hating him and decided to kill him. And
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  Speaker 1: then they threw him in a pit in lieu of
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  Speaker 1: killing him and then dipped his coat of many colors
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  Speaker 1: into blood and animal's blood and brought it up. And
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  Speaker 1: when Jacob starts talking about you digged it up by
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  Speaker 1: the root, you messed with the root of the family.
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  Speaker 1: You messed with the root, the promise, the future, the legacy,
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  Speaker 1: the reason Jacob loved. See, there was a reason why
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  Speaker 1: Jacob loved Joseph so much because Jacob loved his mother, Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: She was the love of his life and he had
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  Speaker 1: worked 14 years to get this woman and Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: the love child of their connection. And every time he
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  Speaker 1: looked at Joseph, he saw his mama. And there they
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  Speaker 1: have dug up a wall. They have dug up a wall.
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  Speaker 1: They have uprooted him. They have destabilized him. They've broken
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  Speaker 1: him down. They put him in a situation and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: felt disrespected as a father. He felt betrayed. He felt
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  Speaker 1: deceived because all of this time you told me he
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  Speaker 1: was dead, you lied to me for years. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: are people listening at me right now who can relate
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  Speaker 1: to this because you were lied to for years. For
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  Speaker 1: years you didn't know. You didn't know who your daddy
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  Speaker 1: was for years. For years you didn't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: For years you didn't know what happened between grandma and grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: For years you didn't know the real story. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: died and didn't tell you. And it's a hard thing
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  Speaker 1: when you've been lied to for years. And it affects
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  Speaker 1: your heart and your self-esteem and your identity. And these
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  Speaker 1: decisions have consequences. I want you to write that down.
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  Speaker 1: Decisions have consequences. Decisions have consequences. It's not just about
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  Speaker 1: prayer and anointing yourself with oil. Decisions have consequences. Decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. Elections have consequences. Marriage has consequences. You get
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  Speaker 1: married to prove to your parents, I'm grown and I
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  Speaker 1: can do what I want to do. That's good on
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  Speaker 1: the short side. On the long side, that decision is
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  Speaker 1: going to have consequences. You showed the parents a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two, but now you got to live with that
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  Speaker 1: thing or two. Come on, talk to me, somebody. Decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. Just because you're saved doesn't mean that decisions
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  Speaker 1: don't have consequences. You can be saved and filled up
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost, but if you go out here
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  Speaker 1: and get on 30 and you start going 180 miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour, decisions have consequences. So when you get arrested,
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  Speaker 1: don't blame it on the devil. Because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times we spiritualize things as being demonic that aren't demonic
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  Speaker 1: at all. They are the consequences of decisions. And you
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  Speaker 1: can dance all over the church, but if you don't
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  Speaker 1: change your decisions, you can't change your consequences. You can
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  Speaker 1: fall out and be slain in the spirit. But if
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  Speaker 1: you go home and keep doing what you were doing before,
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  Speaker 1: your life is still going to be where it was.
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  Speaker 1: We can decree and declare a blessing all we want to.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't learn how to budget your checkbook
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  Speaker 1: and balance your savings account and handle your finances, then
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  Speaker 1: all the blessing of Abraham is coming upon me. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to do you any good because whatever comes
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  Speaker 1: upon you is going to go to the ball. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to kill your joy preaching like that. Yeah, decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. That's why it's good to be slow to
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  Speaker 1: make decisions. It's good to be slow to make decisions.
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  Speaker 1: It don't let nobody rush you into making a decision
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  Speaker 1: that you have to live with for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your life. Jacob was disrespected as a father. His consequential
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  Speaker 1: patriarchal curse is a result of the pain he has.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to understand that about it. But I wonder,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, could some of Jacob's dying wrath be fueled
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  Speaker 1: by his own guilt? Okay. First of all, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at this, we're going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the scripture and we're going to look at this a
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  Speaker 1: little deeper in a minute. In the Torah, it clearly
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  Speaker 1: says that when those two boys, Simeon and Levi, went
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  Speaker 1: out and decided to bargain with the men of Shechem
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  Speaker 1: and tell them they needed to be circumcised, what they
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  Speaker 1: did is told the men of Shechem, you can have
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  Speaker 1: our sister and marry her if all the men in
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  Speaker 1: your country get circumcised. And they did it. Now, listen, brothers. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: it probably ain't going to happen. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: If all of us have to get circumcised so that
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  Speaker 1: one of us, that just don't seem like no good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse us, sisters. We'll be back in a minute. But
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  Speaker 1: this is a brother's conversation. Just like y'all talk about
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  Speaker 1: having babies and stuff, brothers, talk back to me. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't about to do it, okay? You're going to live
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  Speaker 1: a lonely life, man, if I have to So all
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  Speaker 1: of the men got circumcised and while they were healing
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  Speaker 1: and hurting, they came in and killed them. God, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have time to get into this part too deep,
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  Speaker 1: but God always hates people who take advantage of other
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  Speaker 1: people's weaknesses. Amen. This is free. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: cost you nothing, but I'm just going to throw it
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  Speaker 1: out here at you. The reason God hated the Amalekites
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  Speaker 1: is that the Amalekites were known for coming in and
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of other people's disadvantage. That's why later in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, when David comes back and the Amalekites have
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  Speaker 1: taken all the women and children away, They captured the
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  Speaker 1: weakest part, the people who couldn't fight back. They took
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  Speaker 1: them captive and God hated. The Bible said God remembered
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  Speaker 1: Amalek and God hated Amalek. Anytime you take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: somebody's weakness, God is always on the side of the oppressed.
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  Speaker 1: So while these men are sore and trying to recover,
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  Speaker 1: they came in and killed all of them. And Jacob
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  Speaker 1: had made a deal with Donna's boyfriend. He had made
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  Speaker 1: a deal. And these sons came along and deceived them
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  Speaker 1: and caused them to be killed. And Jacob never got
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  Speaker 1: over it. But the thing that stands out to me
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  Speaker 1: when I studied it closely, in the Torah it says,
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  Speaker 1: explicitly it comes out and says that while they were
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  Speaker 1: doing it, Jacob said nothing. And though he didn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: is he not complicit? Is his silence part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason of his pain? has he transferred his guilt into
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  Speaker 1: their hatred oh y'all ain't talking to me now sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you know you are complicit You won't deal with
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  Speaker 1: your own complicity in the issue because you'd rather blame
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  Speaker 1: the other person than confront the fact that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: stand up like a man and speak up when you
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  Speaker 1: could have. And by the way, if Joseph was dead,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't you go down there and look for him?
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  Speaker 1: So while you're blaming them for killing Joseph, I don't
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  Speaker 1: read where you went to look for him as a man.
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  Speaker 1: You just accepted that he was dead. You didn't go see.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't ask for his body. You didn't have a burial.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have a funeral. You didn't have a service.
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  Speaker 1: How in the world can you sit up there and
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  Speaker 1: blame Simeon and Levi for something that you weren't man
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  Speaker 1: enough to investigate? See, and then while we're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's reaction and the guilt of it, let us not
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  Speaker 1: forget that Jacob was deceitful first. And what he is
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  Speaker 1: cursing in Simeon and Levi, he was guilty of himself.
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  Speaker 1: He tricked Esau out of his birthright. He put on
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  Speaker 1: Esau's garment and deceived Isaac into getting this blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: he was always deceitful. His mama, Rebecca, was deceitful. Her uncle, Laman,
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  Speaker 1: was also deceitful. This is a generational problem. So what
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at tonight is how do you cancel a culture? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know what it means in contemporary times, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean it this way. How do you cancel a culture
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  Speaker 1: that's running through your family? How do you break free
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  Speaker 1: of something that you can see that has been modeled
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, it's been demonstrated in front of you,
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  Speaker 1: your mama had too much mouth, your grandmama cusses everybody out,
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  Speaker 1: your Aunt Lucy barked away everybody and died by herself,
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  Speaker 1: and here you come, 17 years old, acting just like
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  Speaker 1: your family. There are certain things that have to be
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  Speaker 1: broken in your life, and if you don't break them
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  Speaker 1: off of your life, you will find yourself a victim
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  Speaker 1: of a culture that exists in your family there's a
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  Speaker 1: culture in your family there's a culture in your company
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  Speaker 1: there's a culture in your workplace there's a way things
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  Speaker 1: get done there's a culture in a church and every
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  Speaker 1: now and then there's a toxic culture and if you're
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  Speaker 1: not careful what was modeled in front of you you
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  Speaker 1: become now you become it but you want mercy but
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  Speaker 1: when I become it you're ready to stone me Come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on. Come on, y'all see
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So there are a lot of dynamics
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  Speaker 1: playing out here. I'm not excusing Simeon and Levi, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying they didn't get there by themselves. Jacob had
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  Speaker 1: been a con in front of them. And Rebekah, well,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, Jacob's name means trickster. So the old man
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  Speaker 1: who's laying there with the blessing, the only reason he
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  Speaker 1: got the blessing was through deceit. And now he's looking
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  Speaker 1: at it in his son and he's hating in his
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  Speaker 1: son what is a reflection of himself. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: This is Bible study. Let's study this. Sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: hate in other people what you see in yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: won't judge it in you, but you'll kill it in me.
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't have the gall or the gumption or
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  Speaker 1: the strength to confront it in you. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: do it and God covers it. But when I do it,
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  Speaker 1: I need to be put out. These dynamics, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: comes to us that we might learn lessons about life
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  Speaker 1: as well as discover our relationship with God. It also
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  Speaker 1: affects our relationship with one another. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? God is not just concerned about your relationship
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  Speaker 1: with him. The Bible said, how can you say that
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  Speaker 1: you love God whom you have not seen and hate
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  Speaker 1: your brother who you see every day? How can you
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  Speaker 1: praise God and cuss me? How can you say you
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  Speaker 1: love God and walk past me and not speak? That
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  Speaker 1: we only got two commandments, that we love the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God with all your heart, your mind, and your soul,
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  Speaker 1: and that you love your brother as you love yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Two commandments. Jesus said, if you get these two right,
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  Speaker 1: you got everything else right. If you learn to love
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  Speaker 1: God with all your heart, your mind, and soul, and
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  Speaker 1: if you love your brother as you love yourself, then
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  Speaker 1: all of the commandments are comprised in this one pill.
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  Speaker 1: You take this one pill, you got everything. It's a
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  Speaker 1: multifamily vitamin. You got C, you got vitamin D, you
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  Speaker 1: got vitamin E. You took one pill, you got all things.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you get these two things right, So
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to learn 10, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: learn 20, you don't have to learn 12. He said,
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  Speaker 1: if you just focus on loving God with all your
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  Speaker 1: heart and all your mind and all your soul. And
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  Speaker 1: then he said, when it comes to other people, I'm
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  Speaker 1: measuring that too, that you love your neighbor as you
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  Speaker 1: love yourself. If you wouldn't do it to you, don't
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  Speaker 1: do it to me. Now, Jacob has forgotten what he did.
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  Speaker 1: but he has not forgotten nor forgiven what they did.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get into this? Yeah, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Genesis 34, one through 13. This is where
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  Speaker 1: the plot thickens. First of all, Dinah, girl, if you
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  Speaker 1: had just stayed over there where you were supposed to stay,
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  Speaker 1: we never would have had this problem in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: So when the Bible brings it up, it says in
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  Speaker 1: verse one, and Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she
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  Speaker 1: bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
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  Speaker 1: the land. Hold it right there. Go back. Hold it
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  Speaker 1: right there. Dinah, the daughter of Leah. Let's stop right there.
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  Speaker 1: Because first of all, Her mama was wounded. Her mama
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  Speaker 1: was hurting. Her mama was rejected. Her mama had never
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  Speaker 1: been loved. Her mama had to give up mandrakes to
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  Speaker 1: get Jacob to go in to her tent to go
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  Speaker 1: to bed with her. So this wandering daughter comes from
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  Speaker 1: a wounded mother. I'm going to say that again. The
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  Speaker 1: wandering daughter comes from a wounded mother. So the Bible
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  Speaker 1: identifies Dinah as the daughter of Leah. That is no accident.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't waste words when it goes into letting
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  Speaker 1: you know Dinah, the daughter of Leah, not Bilhah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: not Rachel. It said, I want you to know that
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  Speaker 1: she is born from the tangled-eyed consolation prize that Laban
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  Speaker 1: tricked Jacob with. That was her mama. Now, the wounded
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  Speaker 1: woman produces a wandering child. Are you hearing what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to you? And when you're in pain over your own,
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  Speaker 1: see the whole reason she was in pain, every child
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  Speaker 1: she had, including Levi and Simeon, was an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: get Jacob to love her. Levi means joined. And she said,
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  Speaker 1: maybe now that I've given him another son, he will
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  Speaker 1: be joined unto me. Simeon hearing, if he hears that
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  Speaker 1: I've had a son, maybe he'll love me. This wounded
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  Speaker 1: woman who never got to any peace until she had Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Because Judah means now will I praise the Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: have given up on Jacob. Now will I praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: She had finally turned to God and given to God
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  Speaker 1: what Jacob wasn't interested in. You can sit here and
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  Speaker 1: act like you don't know what I'm talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: this is Old Testament stuff. But it is current to
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in life right now. And sooner or
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  Speaker 1: later you come to a point that if I can't
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  Speaker 1: give it to him.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me, somebody. The ages have changed. The clothes
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  Speaker 1: have changed. The skin tone has changed. But life is
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  Speaker 1: still life. And people are still people. And it don't
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  Speaker 1: matter what dispensation you're in. Humanity is still humanity. This
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  Speaker 1: woman has been rejected all of her life. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, what's wrong with me, daddy, that you use
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  Speaker 1: me as a trick? Dinah is the daughter of Leah.
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  Speaker 1: Leah was set up. Her daddy gave her to him.
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  Speaker 1: as a joke. So not only did she not have
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  Speaker 1: the love of a husband, she had never had the
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  Speaker 1: love of a father. Can I go deeper? And it
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to know how to love a husband if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't had an opportunity before. To love a father.
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  Speaker 1: You don't understand men's ways. So you talk to a
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  Speaker 1: man like he's a woman. And you read him like
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: he's a woman. And you jump to conclusions like he's
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  Speaker 1: a woman. And it may not even be your fault.
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  Speaker 1: It may be your daddy's fault that he never was
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  Speaker 1: in the house in the first place. And you're guessing
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  Speaker 1: at man. But regardless, it'll make you wander. And so
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  Speaker 1: you end up with somebody... that does more damage to
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  Speaker 1: you already wounded because you are a wandering woman born
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  Speaker 1: of a wounded woman through the rejection of a father.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're wandering out there amongst these strange people
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  Speaker 1: talking about you looking for the daughters of the land.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing, Dinah? You about to mess up wandering.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me tonight in this Bible class. Stop wandering.
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  Speaker 1: Stop wandering from pillar to post, from here to there.
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  Speaker 1: Be still and know that God is God and wait
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  Speaker 1: on God to put it together and straighten it out.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been hurt. I know you've been wounded.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been ostracized and I know it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: your fault. But if you wander, Dinah, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: make it worse. Stand still and see the salvation of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Stand still. I'm talking to somebody. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You've been running all your life. You're about to run
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  Speaker 1: into something you can't get out of. And God's got
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  Speaker 1: you logged on to this broadcast tonight to give you
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  Speaker 1: a warning to just stop running and be still. You
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  Speaker 1: run from job to job, from church to church, from
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: man to man. You keep going because you're wounded. And
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you learn how to handle your pain from your mama.
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  Speaker 1: Or perhaps your daddy. Regardless of where you got it from,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: it's handed to you. You don't speak English because you
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: were taught it in school. You speak English because they
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  Speaker 1: spoke it in your house. So you never had to
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: learn English like somebody from another country would have to
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  Speaker 1: learn it because it was modeled in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: So it was easy for you to speak it. You
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  Speaker 1: might have had to learn how to write it, but
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  Speaker 1: it was easy for you to speak it because it's
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  Speaker 1: all mama spoke to you in. Want some more milk, baby?
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  Speaker 1: After a while, the baby say milk, milk, milk, milk, milk, milk.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever is modeled in front of you is behavior that's
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: easy to repeat. If mama gets mad and throws stuff...
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Then you learn when you're angry, you should throw something
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: or cuss them out or go into a rage or
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: have a drink. So a lot of what becomes our behavior,
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  Speaker 1: we have adopted from the culture we are surrounded with.
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  Speaker 1: Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, let me go home,
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  Speaker 1: which she bare unto Jacob. See, this is code. This
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  Speaker 1: is code. I can't get off it. I got to
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  Speaker 1: stay here. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare
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  Speaker 1: unto Jacob is code. You have to know the story
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  Speaker 1: to understand what the writer is telling you. Went out
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  Speaker 1: to see the daughters of the land. It's bringing up
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  Speaker 1: everything I just taught. And when Shechem, the son of Hamer,
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  Speaker 1: the Habite, prince of the country, saw her, he took
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  Speaker 1: her and lay with her and defiled her. If she
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  Speaker 1: would have stayed her hips where she was supposed to be,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened. I know today you say, don't
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  Speaker 1: blame the victim. Yes, the victim is complicit. If you
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  Speaker 1: stay within boundaries, a lot of things won't happen. That
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  Speaker 1: does not absolve the guilt of the man in any
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  Speaker 1: way at all. What they did was horrendous and horrible
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  Speaker 1: and tragic and awful, but it is also a cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 1: You don't jump in everybody's car. You don't go to
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  Speaker 1: everybody's hotel room at three o'clock in the morning. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not popular. Nobody's saying this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get a lot of hateful emails,
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  Speaker 1: but it is true. We got to go back to
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  Speaker 1: raising our children You stay within boundaries. It's eight o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: go to bed. You get up in the morning, you
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  Speaker 1: brush your teeth. He don't bathe but once a week.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? No boundaries has created this situation.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing about it is when Hamer saw her
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  Speaker 1: and raped her, the next verse, his soul clave unto Dinah.
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  Speaker 1: The daughter of Jacob. He fell in love with the
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  Speaker 1: girl he raped. Let that sink in for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: He fell in love with this strange Hebrew girl. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe he saw her because she was strange. Come on, fellas.
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  Speaker 1: You know how we like... Strange. Strange. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: there weren't any daughters of Shechem, but they were used
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  Speaker 1: to the daughters of Shechem. Here comes this Hebrew girl
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  Speaker 1: with an accent. She talks funny. She walks different. She's
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  Speaker 1: a different culture. And he raped her, fell in love
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  Speaker 1: with her. And his soul clave unto Dinah, the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob. And he loved the damsel and spake kindly
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  Speaker 1: unto the damsel. And Shechem spake unto his father. How
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  Speaker 1: you go back and tell your daddy you raped this girl?
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, and Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying,
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  Speaker 1: get me this damsel to wife. Okay. He doesn't ask
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  Speaker 1: her to marry him. He goes to his father because
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  Speaker 1: of patriarchal blessing. And he says, these are arranged marriages. Yes. Many,
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  Speaker 1: many cultures today still arrange marriages. The parents make the decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And when he goes back to his father, he says,
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  Speaker 1: get me this daughter, the wife. And Jacob heard that
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  Speaker 1: he had defiled Dinah, his daughter. Now his sons were
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  Speaker 1: with his cattle in the field, and Jacob held his
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  Speaker 1: peace until they were come. Come on. And Hamor, the
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  Speaker 1: father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob. Here the two
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  Speaker 1: fathers are coming together to have a conversation about their kids.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. And the sons of Jacob came out of
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  Speaker 1: the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved.
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  Speaker 1: They were mad. And they were wroth, which means anger
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  Speaker 1: with fire. So they were past mad. They were wroth.
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  Speaker 1: They were angry with fire. Because he had wrought folly
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  Speaker 1: in Israel in line with Jacob's daughter, they understood that
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  Speaker 1: God had already commanded them not to fool with people
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  Speaker 1: who were idolaters. And now he has defiled her, ruined
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  Speaker 1: her from the possibility of a Hebrew man. Because now
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have any blood to ratify the covenant. Can
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  Speaker 1: I go there for a minute? She's given the blood
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  Speaker 1: to somebody with whom she has no covenant. Not because
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to, because he defiled her. That's what defile meant.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain this. In the Bible, on the night
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  Speaker 1: of your wedding, once the marriage is consummated, you would
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  Speaker 1: come out and wave the bloody sheets. And that was
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  Speaker 1: a part of the ceremony because marriage was not just
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  Speaker 1: a word covenant. It was a blood covenant. The whole
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  Speaker 1: purpose in the hymen in the body, the body works
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  Speaker 1: just as good with it as it does without it.
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  Speaker 1: But the purpose of the hymen in the body is
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  Speaker 1: to cut the covenant. Because the blood covenant is the
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  Speaker 1: strongest covenant possible. In many religions, in many traditions outside
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  Speaker 1: of Christianity and Judaism, it is still true. Blood covenants
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  Speaker 1: are the strongest covenants possible. Now, she has lost her
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  Speaker 1: blood without her permission at the whim of Hamer. And
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  Speaker 1: Hamer communed with them saying the soul of my son,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Shechem, went to his father Hamer. Now Hamer
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  Speaker 1: is trying to work this out because the kid's in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: How many parents in here have had to work something
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  Speaker 1: out because the kid's in trouble? And when the kid's
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, you're in trouble. Whether you ask for it
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  Speaker 1: or not, now you're in trouble. Now Hamer goes down
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  Speaker 1: here to meet with Jacob to try to work this out.
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  Speaker 1: The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: I pray you give her him to wife and make
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  Speaker 1: ye marriages with us and give your daughter to me.
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  Speaker 1: daughters unto us and take our daughters unto you. and
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  Speaker 1: ye shall dwell with us, and the land shall be
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  Speaker 1: before you. Dwell and trade ye therein, and get you
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  Speaker 1: possessions therein. He said, we're willing to become one with
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  Speaker 1: you and be connected with you and become one people.
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  Speaker 1: And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren,
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  Speaker 1: let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye
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  Speaker 1: shall say unto me I will give. He said, whatever
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  Speaker 1: I have to do to calm you boys down, I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to do it. I realize I messed up. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get this right. You just say what it's going to
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  Speaker 1: take to straighten it out. This is a family mess.
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  Speaker 1: And don't sit there and look at me like you
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  Speaker 1: ain't had no family mess. Because a family mess will
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  Speaker 1: keep you up all night. A family mess will have
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  Speaker 1: you walking the floor at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: A family mess, you can't get out of it. You
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  Speaker 1: can't ignore it. You can't turn your back on it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't act like you don't care because you do care.
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  Speaker 1: And love will make you have to get in there
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  Speaker 1: and deal with somebody that you wouldn't have to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for the fact that your cousin went
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  Speaker 1: down in 7-Eleven and got himself into this situation. And
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  Speaker 1: now there you are. I know you said you weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to get him out of trouble. But there you
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  Speaker 1: are at 2 o'clock in the morning trying to get
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  Speaker 1: up some bail money and waking people up. Sit there
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  Speaker 1: and act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to straighten out something. And now you're working overtime
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  Speaker 1: trying to get some money to pay a lawyer to
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  Speaker 1: straighten out. Ask me never so much diary and gift,
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  Speaker 1: and I will give according as ye shall say unto me.
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  Speaker 1: But give me the damsel to wife. He says, whatever
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  Speaker 1: I have to do to fix this and make it right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to do it. We can be one people.
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  Speaker 1: You can have part of our land. You can have
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  Speaker 1: our women. We can work together. We can do business.
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  Speaker 1: We can interact together. And the sons of Jacob answered
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  Speaker 1: Shechem and Hamer, his father, deceitfully. Wait a minute. This
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  Speaker 1: is where... Our Hebrew scholars say Jacob said nothing. Why
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  Speaker 1: are the sons talking when the fathers are speaking? Oh God.
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  Speaker 1: I could take off on that and go somewhere else. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the sons of Jacob answered. They wasn't even talking
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  Speaker 1: to you. Shechem and Hamer, his father, deceitfully and said,
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  Speaker 1: because he had defiled Dinah, their sister. Okay. Go back,
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  Speaker 1: go back, because I lost track of that. Go back,
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  Speaker 1: go back, go back, go back, go back. Go back
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  Speaker 1: to the next verse before it. Go back to verse 11.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have it? And Shechem said unto her father
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  Speaker 1: and unto her brethren, let me find grace in your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: And what ye shall say unto me, I will give.
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  Speaker 1: I will do whatever I need to do to make
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  Speaker 1: this right. Okay? That's where we are. We got a problem.
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  Speaker 1: We got a problem. Because I'm going to take you
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  Speaker 1: to the next verse and show you where the problem is.
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  Speaker 1: Go down to verse 25. Verse 25. And it came
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  Speaker 1: to pass on the third day. So let me explain
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  Speaker 1: what happened. So the boys told them, they said, if
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  Speaker 1: you're circumcised, it'll straighten it out. Now, circumcision is a
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  Speaker 1: sign of the covenant. Same thing as the hymen is
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  Speaker 1: the blood of the woman. The cutting of the foreskin
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  Speaker 1: of the man meant I have a covenant with God.
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  Speaker 1: And what is happening here, everybody's breaking covenants. Everybody's breaking covenant.
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  Speaker 1: The rape was a break of a covenant. And now
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  Speaker 1: you've got these men who have no relationship with Jehovah
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  Speaker 1: getting circumcised and wasting their blood like she wasted her.
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  Speaker 1: You see how this is going down a hole? And
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  Speaker 1: so all of the men of Shechem who are going
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  Speaker 1: to be prominent throughout the scriptures. So I hope you
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  Speaker 1: really listen to this because the men of Shechem end
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  Speaker 1: up in so many stories throughout the Bible. You need
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  Speaker 1: to know the backstory that led to it. All the
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  Speaker 1: men of Shechem are sore. Now, let me say something
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  Speaker 1: to you ladies. If a grown man gets circumcised and
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  Speaker 1: it's just three days, sore is not a good translation.
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  Speaker 1: Sore and sorry and swollen. and in pain unimaginable. And
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  Speaker 1: it is into this environment that the two sons of Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword,
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  Speaker 1: there's the sword that Jacob is talking about on his deathbed,
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  Speaker 1: and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males.
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  Speaker 1: Only one man raped her. They killed, y'all don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: They killed all the men in the country and they
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  Speaker 1: slew Hammer who did it and Shechem, his father, and Shechem,
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  Speaker 1: his son, with the edge of the sword and took
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  Speaker 1: Dinah out of Shechem's house and went out. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob came upon the slain and spoiled the city
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  Speaker 1: because they had defiled their sister. They took their sheep,
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  Speaker 1: their oxen, their asses, and that which was in the
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  Speaker 1: city and that which was in the field, they robbed them.
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  Speaker 1: They took all their wealth and all their children and
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  Speaker 1: their wives, took they captive and spoiled even all that
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  Speaker 1: was in the house. They wrecked the place. And Jacob
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  Speaker 1: said to Simeon and Levi, ye have troubled me to
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  Speaker 1: make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land.
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  Speaker 1: among the Canaanites and the Perizzites and I being few
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  Speaker 1: in number they shall gather themselves together against me and
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  Speaker 1: slay me and I shall be destroyed I and my
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  Speaker 1: house Jacob is scared Jacob is scared that they have
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  Speaker 1: gotten into something that they can't get out of and
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  Speaker 1: that all the surrounding nations will rise up against him
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  Speaker 1: and kill him but they didn't so why is he
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  Speaker 1: still angry on his deathbed He's still angry. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: should he deal with our sister as with the harlot?
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  Speaker 1: And the scandal stops there. I want you to see
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  Speaker 1: the backstory behind Jacob now being old, laying in the bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he's still angry. Are you still angry? Are you
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  Speaker 1: still angry? Jacob, who found the house of God and
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  Speaker 1: saw a ladder descend from heaven and saw angels ascend
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  Speaker 1: and descend, is still angry. Jacob, who wrestled with an
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  Speaker 1: angel to the breaking of day, is still angry. Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: who found out his name was Israel and he was
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  Speaker 1: a prince and had prevailed with God. He prevailed with God,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't prevail with his own temper. Are you
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  Speaker 1: dancing and angry? Talking in tongues but still angry. Laying
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  Speaker 1: hands on people but still angry. Jacob, you don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob got a blessing. He got a blessing from an angel.
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  Speaker 1: Actually a theophonic manifestation of Christ in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: He got the blessing. But he couldn't get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the burden of his own anger. And I'm teaching tonight
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  Speaker 1: not just so that you will understand another Bible story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm teaching tonight so that you will see what unmanaged
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  Speaker 1: rage will do to your destiny. Now Levi and Simeon
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  Speaker 1: are cursed in front of their brethren. And they live
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  Speaker 1: with this curse. Now, the reason this is important is
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  Speaker 1: because each one of Jacob's sons represents a tribe. And
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  Speaker 1: now they can't inherit like they should inherit because they
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  Speaker 1: are living up under a curse and denied a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: You see how problems produce problems, produce problems, produce problems,
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  Speaker 1: and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger and
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  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. And now they're still up under the
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  Speaker 1: curse until Exodus 32, verse 23 through 30. Go right there.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus 32, verse 23 through 30. This is hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: years have passed. Hundreds of years have passed. No massive victory,
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  Speaker 1: no conquering, no massive success. In fact, the tribe of
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  Speaker 1: Simeon ultimately converged with other people and became part of
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  Speaker 1: the lost tribes, disappeared, untraceable, can't find them, not sustained.
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  Speaker 1: Simeon never got it back. Not his descendants. Not his
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  Speaker 1: children's children's children. Not his children's children's children. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: We're not in Genesis anymore. We're in Exodus. If we're
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  Speaker 1: in Exodus. Exit us. Exit us. Exodus is where us exits.
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  Speaker 1: If this is where us exits, we have been slaves
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  Speaker 1: for 400 years. And we have been in Egypt for
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: 30 years. So we know at least 430 years have
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: gone by. 430 years. Am I boring y'all? 430 years
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  Speaker 1: is over 10 generations. And now they're coming out from
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: captivity with Moses. And I'm going, oh, let me see
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: how I'm doing. Yeah, I'm good, okay. Yeah, okay. And
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: now they're coming out of captivity with Moses. And we're
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: about to see the breaking of a curse. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason I want you to see it is because it
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: is possible. Touch your neighbor and say, it is possible.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I want you to understand it is possible to get
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: a second chance at a blessing. Yeah, you type it
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: on the line. It is possible to get a second
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: chance at a blessing. Now, this is the situation. Moses
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: has been in his own mess. He's been in his
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: own mess. Isn't it amazing how God uses messed up people?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Y'all ought to be shouting right now. You ought to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: be sad right now. You know why? Because you messed up.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: And isn't it amazing how God uses messed up people?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: What I love about Old Testament theology is that it
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: shows us how messed up they were. And then in
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the New Testament, it comes along to these were men,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: we are men of like passions. That God can use
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: people that are all messed up and their stories are
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: all messed up and there are contradictions in their life.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: And yet some kind of way, God's purpose prevails over
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: my pain. I'm going to say that again. God's purpose
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: prevails over my pain.
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  Speaker 1: Your latter day shall be greater than your former day.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I speak to you right now in the name of
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Jesus that you have a God that is able to
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: give you a second chance and a blessing. And if
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: you would just take 10 seconds and praise him for
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: a second chance. Yes. Everybody grateful. Everybody thankful. Everybody appreciative.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Thank God for a second chance. Thank God for amazing grace.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: Amazing grace. Thank God for a second chance. Thank God
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: for a second start. Thank God for a new beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God that God's purpose prevails over your pain. The
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  Speaker 1: purpose of God. He used harlots. He used hookers. He
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: used street people. He used idolaters to accomplish his purpose.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: If God could use Ruth. If God could use Rahab. Oh,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I... If God could use Tamar,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: then God can use me. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: God used Rebecca. God used her in spite of her treachery.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: God still used her. And if there's somebody in here
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: that wants God to use you, open your mouth and
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: begin to give God the praise. Now, let's go deeper.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I want to get something in. I want to get
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: something in. I want to get something in. Ooh, I
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: feel this. I feel this. I feel this. I feel this.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: I feel this. I feel this. Somebody's about to get
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: a second chance. This is a prophetic class. This is
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: a prophetic class. This isn't just a Bible class. I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: thought this was going to be a Bible class. But
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: this is a prophetic word. God is going to give
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: you a second chance at a blessing. You've lived in guilt.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: You've walked in shame. God's saying, I'm going to give
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: you a second chance at a blessing. That's why you
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: had to be here tonight. That's why you had to
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: be online right now. Because God is about to open
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: up a door and give you another opportunity to correct
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: and break curses. He's going to turn it all the
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: way around. He's going to spin it all the way around.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: God is about to turn some things in your life. Oh,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Somebody help me praise him. I feel
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: a yoke breaking. I feel a door opening. I feel
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: a curse being released. I feel the anointing of the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Somebody shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, I will be triumphant.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I will be triumphant. That's why I'm going to shout
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: unto God with the voice of triumph. I might not
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: look triumphant right now, but before it's all over, I
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: will be triumphant. I will get it back. I will
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: get a second chance. If I'm teaching what you need
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: to be receiving, give him some glory. Online, give him
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: a praise. Type of praise. Make a joyful noise. Make
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: a joyful emoji. Make a joyful sentence. Shout unto God
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: in this place. Okay, sit down. We got to go
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: back to work. Now, whoo. Now, this is what has happened.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Moses has been raised with the Pharaoh in the palace
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: for 40 years. He's raised up in finery. He's educated
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: in a way he would have never been educated. He
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: has a boldness that he never would have had in
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: his mama's house as a slave. He's raised up amongst
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  Speaker 1: kings and leaders and and he has a finesse and
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  Speaker 1: a strength because his environment was different. You see, his
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  Speaker 1: environment was different. And so, because God is raising him
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  Speaker 1: up to speak to kings, and he does not want
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  Speaker 1: Moses to end up walking up on Pharaoh talking about, yes, sir, boss,
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  Speaker 1: I sure is glad that you made time to To
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  Speaker 1: see me. I got a word from the Lord for you.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't mind me telling you, I am that
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  Speaker 1: I am sent me. No, he wants him to come
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  Speaker 1: boldly into it and say, I'm sent by God and
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  Speaker 1: I have a word from you. Thus saith the Lord
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  Speaker 1: God unto you. And some of you, God had to
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  Speaker 1: put you in a different situation. Amen. So that you
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  Speaker 1: would have a different attitude. And that's why you don't
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  Speaker 1: fit in with your friends. And that's why you don't
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  Speaker 1: fit in with your family. Because God is raising you
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  Speaker 1: up for a divine purpose. You don't think like them.
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  Speaker 1: You don't act like them. You don't walk like them.
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  Speaker 1: Because you got a different destiny. My God. Let me stop.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I talking to? I'm talking to somebody tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Down through the years, God has been good to you.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me show you something because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give you something. Sit down, sit down, sit down because
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  Speaker 1: you'll make me get happy. If I get happy, I
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  Speaker 1: won't get finished. Glory to God. How many glad you
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  Speaker 1: came to Bible class? Now I want you to think
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  Speaker 1: about this. Moses spent 40 years in Pharaoh's house. Then
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  Speaker 1: he tries to execute his destiny here. off schedule, and
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  Speaker 1: rises up and ends up killing an Egyptian and has
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  Speaker 1: to go on the run for 40 years in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: Now Moses is now in the desert with Jethro for
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  Speaker 1: 40 years. And he's in the desert as an outlaw.
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  Speaker 1: And he stays there until Pharaoh dies. And a Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: rises up that didn't know him. But even though he's
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  Speaker 1: an outcast from the palace, God has purpose in his pain.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's no accident that Moses has spent 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: He spent 40 years learning how to be a Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Now he spends 40 years learning how to survive in
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  Speaker 1: the desert. Because his destiny is tied to the desert.
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  Speaker 1: And he's going to end up leading the children of
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  Speaker 1: Israel through the desert. And the reason he can lead
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  Speaker 1: them through the desert is because he spent 40 years
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  Speaker 1: in the desert. When God is going to take you somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: he exposes you to the things. that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: yours before you get to it. Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: And so Moses, he's the only one that could have
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  Speaker 1: led them out of Egypt because he spent 40 years
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  Speaker 1: learning how to survive in the desert under the tutelage
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  Speaker 1: of Jethro, the Cushite, which means burnt face. So the
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  Speaker 1: burnt face Cushite man taught Moses, the Hebrew man, how
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  Speaker 1: to survive in a hot place. And all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden when Moses goes down there to tell Pharaoh to
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  Speaker 1: let my people go, he is releasing a people that
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  Speaker 1: he's kin to but estranged from. They haven't seen Moses
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  Speaker 1: for 80 years. And now Moses is leading them. away
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  Speaker 1: from the familiar into the unfamiliar. And they have seen
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  Speaker 1: the glorious power of God at the Red Sea and
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  Speaker 1: they've had a moment of encouragement, but it was tough
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  Speaker 1: to get it because until Pharaoh drowned, they were scared
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  Speaker 1: to death and they wanted to go back and rightfully
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  Speaker 1: so because they don't know nothing about Moses. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know nothing about Moses. Now, Moses has got them through
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. And now he's gone up on the
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  Speaker 1: mountaintop and he's gone a while. And while he's gone,
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  Speaker 1: they said this, verse 23. For they said unto me,
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  Speaker 1: make us gods which shall go before us. For as
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  Speaker 1: for this Moses, that's right. For as for this Moses,
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  Speaker 1: see that statement right there, I'm so glad you threw
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  Speaker 1: that back at me. As for this Moses, that you
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  Speaker 1: don't say that, this Moses, if you know the guy.
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  Speaker 1: If I say as for this Robinson, that means I
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  Speaker 1: don't know him. For as for this Moses, the man
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  Speaker 1: that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: we would not what has become of him. Moses is
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  Speaker 1: just some dude. who brought them up out of the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt and he has no roots with them.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime you're trying to lead somebody that you are
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  Speaker 1: not rooted in, it becomes difficult for trust to be
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  Speaker 1: sustained where there are no roots. And I said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: whosoever hath any goal, let them break it off. So
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  Speaker 1: they gave it to me. This is Aaron. Then I
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  Speaker 1: cast it into the fire. He lied. And there came
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  Speaker 1: out a calf. That's like a seven-year-old lie. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just walked past the kitchen and the kitchen door
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: came open and the ice cream just jumped out the freezer, mama.
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  Speaker 1: That's the stupidest lie. They gave me the earrings. I
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  Speaker 1: threw it in the fire and the calf came out.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, dude. And when Moses saw that the people
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  Speaker 1: were naked, for Aaron had made them naked unto their
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  Speaker 1: shame among their enemies, then Moses stood at the gate
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  Speaker 1: of the camp and said, who is on the Lord's side?
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  Speaker 1: Let him come unto me. And Levi said, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: this is my chance. All the 12 tribes of Israel
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  Speaker 1: were gathered around and Moses just left it open and said,
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  Speaker 1: who is on the Lord's side? And Levi said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to jump in right here. And I came to
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  Speaker 1: tell somebody tonight, you can jump in right here. You
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. You've been cursed
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  Speaker 1: all your life. Let me stop. You've been cursed all
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  Speaker 1: your life. You always had to take a backseat to
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. But God said, this is your chance. Who
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  Speaker 1: is on the Lord's side? Somebody holler, I am. Go
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: back to my who is on the Lord's side scripture.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, who is on the Lord's side? Let
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  Speaker 1: him come unto me and all the sons of God.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, that's right. All the sons of Levi gathered
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  Speaker 1: themselves together unto him. They said, we're on the Lord's side.
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  Speaker 1: And they said unto him, thus saith the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, put every man his sword by his side
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  Speaker 1: and go in and out from gate to gate throughout
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  Speaker 1: the camp and slay every man his brother and every
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  Speaker 1: man his companion and every man his neighbor. And wait
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: a minute. They reversed the curse. with the same thing
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  Speaker 1: that brought the curse in the first place. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: wanna talk to me. Y'all don't wanna talk to me.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Y'all don't wanna talk to me. Y'all don't wanna talk
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  Speaker 1: to me. God's gonna take what was working against you
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  Speaker 1: and turn it around and let it work for you.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I talking to tonight? And the children of
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  Speaker 1: Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there
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  Speaker 1: fell of the people that day about 3,000 men. For
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Moses has said, consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even
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  Speaker 1: every man upon his son and upon his brother, that
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  Speaker 1: he may bestow upon you a son. Y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: this word. Y'all don't hear this word. God bestowed on
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  Speaker 1: them a blessing that they couldn't get from their father,
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't get from their mother, that they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get from their brethren, that they couldn't get in captivity,
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't get from Pharaoh, but God has decided
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  Speaker 1: to bless you. Type on the line, God has decided
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  Speaker 1: to bless me. Say it to your neighbor, God has
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  Speaker 1: decided to bless me. Tell your other neighbor, God has
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: decided to bless me. Tell your haters, God has decided
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  Speaker 1: to bless me. Tell your neighbors, God has decided to
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  Speaker 1: bless me. And it came to pass on the morrow
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  Speaker 1: that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a
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  Speaker 1: great sin. And now I will go up unto the Lord. Peradventure,
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  Speaker 1: I shall make an atonement for your sin. And that
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  Speaker 1: was how they broke the curse. Now, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get in. I'm done. I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you this. Moses' problem is that
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  Speaker 1: he's leading a people with whom he's not been rooted.
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  Speaker 1: And when there is no root, every time you leave,
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  Speaker 1: they doubt you. When there is no root in the relationship,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: every time you step aside, they doubt you. And you
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: say they're needy. They're not needy, they're doubtful. They're doubtful
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: because there is no root. And you are in a
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  Speaker 1: position for which there is no root. Now you came
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: back into the boy's life and he's 30. And you
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: want to pick up where you left off. It's not
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: that he hates you. There's no root. You got to
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  Speaker 1: build a root system. You remember when they said that
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Levi and Simeon had digged up a wall. And then
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: the next translation came along and said that he had uprooted.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that? It said he had uprooted. See, when
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: you are not connected to who you're trying to lead,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: you uproot things. And a rooting system is important in
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  Speaker 1: order for there to be fruit. And some of you
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: are trying to get fruit out of a relationship where
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: you have no root. So Moses had no root with them.
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  Speaker 1: So every time he left, they wanted to leave. We
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: don't know what has become of this man called Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Let us make us some gods and go back to
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  Speaker 1: something that we have roots to. No root in the relationship.
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  Speaker 1: No root in ministry. You're trying to lead people that
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  Speaker 1: you're not rooted to. If there's no rooting system, if
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: there's no rooting system, if you can't talk to a
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: crowd like this, you can't talk to the stadium. People
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  Speaker 1: who have been in this church a long time know
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: that I taught for years and years and years every
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. And we would have fasts. of people in
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: here every Wednesday night because I knew that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: just lead a church from Sunday morning. You have to
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  Speaker 1: root it on Wednesday. See, right now, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing? I'm digging amongst the roots. I'm digging amongst
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  Speaker 1: the roots. Yeah, yeah. Sunday morning, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the branches and the fruit and the leaves and
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: everything else. Wednesday night, I'm digging amongst the roots. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening at me right now, you need a
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  Speaker 1: rooting system. You need to build a rooting system. Your
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: marriage isn't over, you just need a rooting system. Your
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: career isn't over, you just need a rooting system. You're
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, you need a rooting system. You can't be
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: uprooted and then every time you move away, they leave,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: you get mad, you can't figure out why they left.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: They left because they don't know you. They don't have
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: your spirit. they don't have they don't know your voice
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: my sheep know my voice a stranger they will not
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: follow in order for your sheep to know your voice
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: you have to stick around long enough for them to
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  Speaker 1: have some root you need roots in your marriage you
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: need roots in your family do you hear what i'm
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: saying to you i'm gonna give you one more scripture
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: and i'm gonna close can i give you one more
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: scripture go to the gospel of saint mark chapter 4
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: verse 1 through 9 and i'll be done this is
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  Speaker 1: good is this good I thought it was good. It
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: was good when I got it. Yeah, it was good
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: when I got it. Mark chapter 4 verse 1. This
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  Speaker 1: is important because this is what Jesus is teaching and
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: all of this is ultimately tied back to this blessing.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Why you get it or don't get it really comes
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  Speaker 1: down to how you're rooted. That's why the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: be ye steadfast, unmovable, and always abounding in the work
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Because in order to be rooted, you
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: got to be stable. You got to get someplace and stick.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: You got to stick it out when it's good and
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: stick it out when it's bad and stick it out
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: when it's working and stick it out when it's not working.
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  Speaker 1: Because even when it's not working on the surface, it's
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  Speaker 1: working underground. Amen. Oh, my God. I helped somebody. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who it is, but I helped somebody. You
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: up there looking for leaves and stuff, but let me
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: tell you something. Bad weather will kill all the leaves
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: and all the branches, but if it don't kill the roots,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to come back up again. You're trying to
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: produce fruit so you can put it on Instagram. Don't
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: worry about putting fruit on Instagram. Put roots underground. If
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  Speaker 1: you put roots underground, the fruit's going to take care
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: of itself. Listen to that Jesus teaching. Fourth chapter, Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of St.
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  Speaker 2: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: And he began to teach by the seaside. And there
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: entered into the ship and sat in the sea. And
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus sitting in the boat teaching. And he taught them
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken, behold,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: there went out a sower to sow. and it came
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: to pass as he sowed, some fell by the wayside,
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  Speaker 1: and the fowls of the air came and divided it up,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: and some fell on stony ground where it had not
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit of earth because it had no depth
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: of earth. Come on. But when the sun was up,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: It was scorched, and because it had no root, and
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: because it had no root, and because it had no root,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: it withered away. This time, if you're going to win,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to be rooted. I'm telling you
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the battle you lost before, you can win now if
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: you get the rooting system in place. You didn't lose
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: it because the seed was bad. You didn't lose it
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: because God didn't love you. You didn't lose it because
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: the devil had more power. You lost it because you
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: didn't have no root. And some fell amongst thorns, and
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: yielded no fruit. Come on. And others fell on good
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  Speaker 1: ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: and brought forth some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundredfold.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: And he said unto them, He that hath, let him
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  Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit is saying. That's what God wants
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: you to know. He that hath an ear, let him hear. Okay?
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: Let me do this. I'm going to take, sit down
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: for a minute. I'm going to take, I'm going to
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: follow Cora's lead. Pastor Cora did something last week. I'm
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: going to do it this week. Yeah, I know. I know.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: I saw it. I was watching too. I was watching too.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: She taught on the names of God, didn't she? Yeah,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: so what she did, somebody get a mic. What she did,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it for about 10 minutes. And
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: you that's online, if you get a good question online,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: you all send it to me. I'll answer a couple
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: of questions online. I'm going to take about 10 minutes.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Who's got the first question? Okay, where's the mic? Where's
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: the mic? I asked for the mic. Somebody ought to
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: be moving with the mic. Yeah, thank you. She's coming.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: She's coming. She's coming. I'm excited. Calm down. Okay, yeah.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I have everybody running. Yeah. Here we go. Yeah. Yes.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: How do we build a rooting system? How do we what?
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: How do we build a rooting system? You're teaching we
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: need a routine system.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: R-O-O-T-I-N-G. How do we build that? In what area? Are
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: we talking about families or business or?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Family, business, personal relationships, just kind of.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: Does it depend? The answer is different to every question.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of times in business, our businesses don't succeed
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: because we go for the glam and we don't have
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: the infrastructure. So you want to build an infrastructure and
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: if you only got limited resources, you want to put
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: it in the legal infrastructure of the business more than
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: the glam. There are delis that are open in New
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: York that still have the furniture they had 100 years
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: ago and they're still open. And if we owned it,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: we would have redecorated it and blinged it out and
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: put chandeliers in it, and they put it in the profit,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: and they have a rooting system. In a personal relationship,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm going to get there too.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: In a personal relationship, the rooting system has to be
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: built deep by not making demands before you're in demand. See,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: we go in making demands of people that we don't
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: have enough demand to make demands. And so you want
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: to build a rooting system of stability, of loyalty, of connectivity,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: of understanding and transparency. All of that is your underground
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: work that has to be built. So you know why?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: So when something goes wrong, you have something to hold
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: on to. You understand what I'm saying? Okay, so for example,
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  Speaker 1: you can go through midlife crisis. I can go through
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  Speaker 1: midlife crisis. You can go through menopause. We can withstand
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  Speaker 1: it if we had roots. I can love you now
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  Speaker 1: over who you used to be.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I know you would do different if you could. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's no, if I marry you in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the crisis, then I don't have enough roots
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  Speaker 1: to have anything to hold on to, to stabilize me
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  Speaker 1: in the storm.
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  Speaker 2: So would you say compatibility?
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Compatibility is a part of it, but longevity is better. See,
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  Speaker 1: longevity is better because trust takes time. We are never
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  Speaker 1: commanded to trust another person. We are commanded to forgive them,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: but we're not commanded to trust them because trust is
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  Speaker 1: not something I can make myself do. I can make
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  Speaker 1: myself forgive you, but I can't make myself trust you.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: You can make me trust you, By consistency. If you
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  Speaker 1: just be consistent, if you just be there long enough,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: eventually trust is going to be a result of your consistency.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Consistency is important. And you have to build a rooting system.
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  Speaker 1: You have to build a rooting system by being there
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  Speaker 1: when I'm in trouble. Being there when I'm in a
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: crisis and you have to build a rooting system, not
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  Speaker 1: only by giving love, because I can already see people
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: typing on the line, though I can't see it. I
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: can see them say, I did all that and it
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  Speaker 1: still fell apart. Not only is it important that you
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  Speaker 1: give it, but that you find somebody who can receive
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: it and reciprocate it. Because it has to be mutual.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: It has to be mutual. It can't be one-sided. This
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  Speaker 1: is not witchcraft. You can't make me love you. You see,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: and some of you have made good investments in bad ground. Okay,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: so the first thing in a relationship you want to
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: know from a companion, and you can't just ask them this,
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  Speaker 1: you have to observe this. Are you safe to love?
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  Speaker 1: Are you safe to love? And one of the ways
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  Speaker 1: you can observe it is watching how they handled other
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: people they say they love. If you've divorced everybody that
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: came into your life and you can't get along with
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: nobody else in your life, what in the world would
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: make me think that I'm going to be the one
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  Speaker 1: exception in your life that's going to beat the odds?
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: The best predictor of future behavior is past practice. If
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  Speaker 1: you see somebody who has had several long-standing, loyal relationships
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: that continued over a period of time, you begin to
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  Speaker 1: understand it is within your ability To be loyal. Some
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: people don't have the ability to be loyal. And Jesus said,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: in essence, you are casting your pearls before the swine.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: I'll take two more. Here's a question from online. How
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  Speaker 1: do I block out other voices and focus on God's voice?
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: That's a good question. That's a good question. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things, and I could spend a long time on this.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: One of the reasons we have worship services is to
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  Speaker 1: feed your spiritual ears to hear. We have spirit, just
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: like we have five senses in the flesh, we have
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: five senses in the spirit. He that hath an ear,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: let him hear what the spirit is saying to the church.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he that hath a physical ear, that's everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That means somebody who has an ability to hear what
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  Speaker 1: the spirit is saying. How do I get my spiritual
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: ear exercised? By worship. Because worship makes you practice communicating
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  Speaker 1: with somebody you cannot see with your natural eye nor
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: hear with your natural ear. And as that relationship becomes strong,
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  Speaker 1: prayer does it. Worship does it. Communication with God does
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  Speaker 1: it until he becomes more and more voluminous in your life.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: But you can't watch TV all day, scroll through Facebook,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: interact with friends, listen at crazy music all day, and
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: expect to hear God's voice. If you want to hear
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: God's voice louder than other voices, spend more time with God.
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  Speaker 1: Get a rooting system with God. Let's get you on
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  Speaker 1: a prayer diet. Let's get you on a prayer diet.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get you on a worship pattern where every day,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're busy. If you don't do it, but
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: when you're in the shower, let's make that time God's time.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: While you're driving to work, cut off the music and
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: start commuting with God until it becomes something that becomes
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  Speaker 1: routine to you. And then God's voice will be louder.
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  Speaker 1: The other voices will always be there. Because God intends
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  Speaker 1: for there to be a trial in your Garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 1: If you kill the other voices, then you don't choose him.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: So it's not about killing the other voices. It's about
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  Speaker 1: calming them down so that you can say, God, I
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  Speaker 1: hear them, but I prefer you. I'll take another, am
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: I helping somebody? How long did it take for the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: descendants of Levi to be blessed again? We know it
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  Speaker 1: had to be at least 400 and some years before,
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  Speaker 1: because they went into idolatry. They went into Egypt and
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: they started seeking other gods. It's not that it took
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: God 400 years to do it, but they had turned
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: away from God. And this is why. They had become
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  Speaker 1: enslaved by the Egyptians and they took on the ways
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: of the Egyptians. And so God had to separate them
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: from the environment that had infected them to purify them
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. The Bible said he proved them in
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: the wilderness. So the word prove is to test. He's
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  Speaker 1: pruning them. He's untangling their roots from their, they had
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: become so much like the Egyptians that when they got
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: ready to build a god, they built the Egyptian god
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  Speaker 1: as an image. You become who you hang around. Okay.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: And that's why it took so long. So there is
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  Speaker 1: no specific length of time. It's how fast do you turn?
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: God said, if you return unto me, I will return
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  Speaker 1: unto you and I shall be your God and you
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  Speaker 1: shall be my people. So it's not how long does
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  Speaker 1: it take God to do it? It's how long does
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: it take you to do it? Next question. I'll take
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: one more question.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: How do you truly surrender?
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: I am literally.
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  Speaker 2: the willing vessel. I'm the spiritual curse breaker.
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  Speaker 1: I am the one.
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  Speaker 2: And I always got blamed for things when I was
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: young because I didn't know certain things. I didn't have
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: that model before me. And so now in the last
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: past couple of years, it feels like I get all
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: the backlash. I get all the rejection. And I've been
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: independent for a while. But there get times where I
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: need help and I'm just tired of having to be
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: the strong friend all the time. I pour into people
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: every single day, even when I'm empty. And I know
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: that some people say you can't pour from an empty cup.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: It's just in me to pour into people no matter
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: of my circumstance. I've put myself in places, you know,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: where I aspire to be. I invest in myself even
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: when I can't even finish paying my bills. Like, I believe.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: But how do you truly, and I guess that's the
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: second question, but how do you truly keep believing when
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: your own family really just don't believe in you? They
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: see you for who you are now, but not who
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: you are becoming.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need them to believe it. You don't need
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: them to believe it. You really... A prophet is without
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: honor in his own country. And it's not unusual for
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: the people closest to you to not see you in
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: that light because that's not the relationship that they have
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: with you. The relationship that they have with you has
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with your destiny. It has something to
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: do with your history. And their connection to you is
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: as a family member, not a vision supporter. So stop
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: going to people who don't see it, trying to get
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: support from them. I'm not saying leave them alone. Still
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: love them as a family member, but don't connect your
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: spiritual destiny to somebody who is just a family member.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: And I hear pain in your voice. Yeah, I hear
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: pain in your voice. And there's two things I want
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: to say to you. Oh, glory. there's two things I
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: want to say to you. The reason everybody uses you
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: up is because you draw people who need you and
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: not people who feed you. When you get in a
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: room with people who can feed you, you don't feel
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: worthy of being in the room that you're in. So
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: you find yourself gravitating toward people who need you because
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: then you can lead them, but they leech off of you, okay?
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying to you, what I want you
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: to do is to go into rooms where people are
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: above you and resist the temptation to run until you
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: own the new you on the inside. You're trying to
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: get everybody else to believe something about you that you're
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: struggling to believe about yourself. And you're hurting for support
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: because you need reinforcement because the voice on the inside
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: says you're not worthy of what you believe in God
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: to do. And I want you to receive this for
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: yourself because I believe I can help you. I believe
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: I can help you. I believe I can help you.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: If you listen to what I'm telling you, it will really,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: really help you. You're going to go into the room
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: and you're going to feel unworthy and you're going to
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable and you're going to feel incapable and you're
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: going to feel scared. Stay anyway. Stay there. The only
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: reason you feel uncomfortable, unworthy, it's not because you're not
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: worthy of it, it's because you haven't rooted yet. If
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: you stay in the room long enough, it will become
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: your norm and you will have a rooting system to
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: support you. Instead, you're trying to root with your family
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: and not with your destiny. You don't have to try
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: to root with your family because your family is supposed
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: to love you for who you are, not what you have,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: not what you drive, not how many degrees you have.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: They're supposed to love you just because you are. Okay?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: We should never prostitute our family where we make our
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: relationship with them predicated on their performance. Amen. You don't
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: have to earn my love to be my child. I'm
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: going to love you anyway. I can't help it. I'm
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: going to love you if you're a drug dealer. I
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: might be hurt, but I'm going to love you if
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: you're a drug dealer because you're my child, okay? That's
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: a whole different relationship. I am not the supporting system
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: necessarily that's going to take you into your destiny. I
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: am the supporting system that got you here. What got
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: you here may not be what takes you there. You understand?
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: You see that? You see it, don't you? Okay? Now
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: watch this. The way you see yourself make certain types
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: of people drawn to you. And they are drawn to
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: you because they are reflecting how you see you. Okay? Now,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying get rid of all of those people
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: who need you because there's a certain degree of gratification
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: you get out of serving and helping and doing all that.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to irrigate your desert and put streams in
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: your desert By streaming water into those dry places. The
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: reason you are drying out is that you don't have
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: no water coming into your desert. And that water is
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: going to come from other places. But the funny thing
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: about the water when it comes, you're going to be
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: scared to drink it. Because it's unfamiliar. And you're a
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: little bit scared of it. And so you go back
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: and get more people who need you. And then you're
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: empty and you're draining. You say, I keep pouring out
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: and I keep pouring out. And you say, they say
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: you can't pour out, but I can. There's nothing wrong
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: with pouring out if you're taking in. So I want
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: you to be intentional. Here's your homework. I want you
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: to write down all the people in your life who
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: need you. And then I want you to write down
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: all the people in your life who feed you. And
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: I want you to notice how short the list is
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: of the people who feed you versus the people who
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: need you. And I want you to, here's your homework,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: is to lengthen that list of people who feed you.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't always mean that you have to be
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: in their face. It can come through podcasts. It can
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: come through going to operas and plays. It can come
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: through going through places off the beaten path where you
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: have never been before and wouldn't think to go. You
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: should go. And you should go and you should meet
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: people and you should make friends until you become comfortable
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: in the conversation in places where you've never been before. Okay?
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: I want you to remodel your life, your wardrobe, your appearance,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: your vernacular, your tone, your temperament to where you're going.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: Not where you've been. Amen. When you go back into
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: the areas where you've been, you can always speak that language.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: You know that language. You didn't have to learn that language.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: You know how to speak that language. But I want
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: you to adopt the language of your destiny and not
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: just your history. And this is going to take time.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: Here's the good news. It can start in church. You
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: know why? In a church like this, there's all kind
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: of people. There's people from the shelter. There's people that
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: are homeless. There are people that are entrepreneurs. There are
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: people who are coming up from the shelter going to
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: be entrepreneurs. There are people with degrees. There are people
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: with doctorates. There are people who can't read. In a church,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: there are all kinds of people. You get to choose
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: where you sit. You get to choose who you connect with.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: You get to choose who you go to eat with.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: And get in some small circles. If it's one or
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: two people, it don't need to be 20. Just one
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: or two people that are going in the direction you're
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: going and hop in the car. Hop in the car.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: Go along for the ride. Get into something that is positive.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to go a little bit deeper because
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: I think I'm talking to you and I'm talking through you.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: Get into an environment of people who feel whatever it
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: is that you're trying to be. If it's artsy, go
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: to art shows. You're entrepreneurs. Okay. Okay, give her the
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: mic back so they can hear.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, so I'm an entrepreneur. I actually did network marketing
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: starting in 2020 of a health and wellness franchise. I'm
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: a life coach getting my life together, but I have
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: been able to just grow in different aspects. I do
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: credit repair as well, and I just... I just became
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: a member not too long ago and I love you
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: because you are just so unorthodox. And I feel like
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: if I want to go be a doctor tomorrow and
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: I want to be able to be a photographer the
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: next day, then that's what you could do. God has
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: placed so many gifts in me that is like so amazing,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: you know, and I struggle sometimes with that because I
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: need to figure out how can I impact people through
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: what God has blessed me, but also how can I,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: how can it be sustainable?
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So you're a life coach and you're an entrepreneur.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Is that the entrepreneur part? What else do you do? Yes.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: So credit repair and a health and wellness franchise.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: Okay. Everything you're doing is fixing people. Right. Right. Okay.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: That's telling me something. That lines up with the profile.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: What you chose to go into is what you're complaining about.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: Because if you're a health and wellness coach and if
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: you're a credit repair person, you're making your money from
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: people who need you. I want you to pick something.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: Don't have to give that up. But I want you
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: to pick something that feeds you to balance that out. Okay,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: to balance that out, to balance that out. I don't
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: hear you talking about being connected with groups of people
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: that feed you, that you can be a little girl
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: in the room.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, so when I say I've been investing in myself,
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: I have literally been putting my, like two weeks ago
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: I went to Atlanta for a mastermind. Neil's mastermind, and
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: literally just uncomfortable. My last two years of my life
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: have been uncomfortable. Two years ago, I was homeless. I
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: lived in California, grew up in Compton on Proud Root Street,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: and literally took a step of faith and moved here
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: about almost two years ago. So, it's a long story.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to hold you. Hold up. Let
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: me tell you something that you are not getting. You
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: are doing good. You... are doing good. You are doing good.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: I want that to break through the wall that you
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: have built in front of yourself. You don't clap for you.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: You need to clap for you. You need to celebrate you.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: If you were homeless, you grew up in Compton, and
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: now you're doing all of that stuff, you are doing
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  Speaker 1: much better than you are feeling. Your emotions are still homeless. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Your emotions have not caught up with where you're at yet.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to bring your emotions into where you
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  Speaker 1: are right now. You are doing good. You deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be here. You belong here. You're in the place you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be. Your emotions eventually will get the memo.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get the memo at first because they're still
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  Speaker 1: carrying the scars of from all the things you said
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  Speaker 1: and didn't say that happened to you in your life,
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  Speaker 1: your emotions are still back there. And we're gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: them up here by celebrating where you are right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what your financial level is now,
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  Speaker 1: But when your financial level gets strong enough, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to get therapy. And I actually just.
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  Speaker 2: Hopped into the therapy here at T.D.
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  Speaker 1: Jake's Ministry. Good, good. I'm trying. Good, good. Get the therapy.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason you get the therapy is not to
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  Speaker 1: say you're crazy. No. It's not to say anything. I
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  Speaker 1: need to move on. Yeah, yeah. You need to move on.
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  Speaker 1: Your emotions need to come out of that. You know why?
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  Speaker 1: You've been traumatized. You've been traumatized. And the reason you
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  Speaker 1: don't clap for yourself is the walls that you built
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  Speaker 1: to keep the pain out also won't let the love in. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So you build the wall to protect yourself to survive
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  Speaker 1: the vicissitudes of life. The problem with the wall is
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  Speaker 1: now nothing comes in. Okay. Nothing comes in. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to tear down your own wall. Therapy
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  Speaker 1: helps you to brick by brick tear down the wall
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  Speaker 1: so that you can receive the sunlight on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: The wolves are gone, but the sunlight can't get in.
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  Speaker 1: Love can't get in and the clapping doesn't come from
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  Speaker 1: another person if it doesn't come from you. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: that's a process that's gonna take time, that's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: going back to the trauma and let's see how deep
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  Speaker 1: it is and how bad it is and why you
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  Speaker 1: can't cough that up and get that out and get
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  Speaker 1: you on wellness so that your emotions can catch up
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  Speaker 1: with where you are now. you got it clap your
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  Speaker 1: hands give God a praise how many people got something
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  Speaker 1: out of that yeah If you're watching online, you stayed
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  Speaker 1: online all this time, I must be speaking your language.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke something tonight that I pray touches your heart,
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  Speaker 1: touches your soul, touches your spirit, and changes your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you chose to watch tonight the
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  Speaker 1: Potter's House here in Dallas so I could teach you
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  Speaker 1: a second chance.
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  Speaker 1: My Father and my God, as
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  Speaker 1: I stand here tonight, I thank you for your goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for your mercy. I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your grace. I thank you for your word being sure
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  Speaker 1: and being absolute. I thank you for what we learned
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  Speaker 1: tonight about your word, what we learned, Lord, what we
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  Speaker 1: learned about Jacob, what we learned about Levi, what we
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  Speaker 1: learned about Simeon, what we learned about Moses. Most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: what we learned about you. And lastly, what we learned
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  Speaker 1: about ourselves. Amen. I pray, God, that we go home
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  Speaker 1: better than we were when we came in and that
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  Speaker 1: the word of God would dwell in our hearts richly
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  Speaker 1: by faith. In Jesus' name, amen. God bless you. Go
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  Speaker 1: in peace. Love you.