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Love Has No Loopholes - Part 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been shocked when you were in trouble
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  Speaker 1: at who didn't help you? The person that you thought
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  Speaker 1: for sure that you knew would be your ride or die?
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  Speaker 1: Ride or die is an African-American colloquial that means like
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  Speaker 1: total commitment. This is the part of time. Greetings in
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  Speaker 1: the name of our Lord. We started it last week.
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  Speaker 1: We might as well get down into it. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about love. The series is called The Love Letter. And
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  Speaker 1: this particular message, I'm continuing. It says love has no loopholes.
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  Speaker 1: Fasten your seatbelts. This is going to be a ride.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out. If you command me to do something,
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  Speaker 1: that means I can do it. Because it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: fair for you to command me to do something I
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  Speaker 1: can't do. I command you to be a white man
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  Speaker 1: with blonde hair and blue eyes. Come on, Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: can scrub and scrub and scrub. If I had time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd tell you a joke. But they might have to
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  Speaker 1: edit it, but Little kid up in the hill in
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia saw me. He hadn't seen nobody in my
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  Speaker 1: color in his life. And he looked at me. He said, Mr. Mr. Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: I finally turned around. He said, are you like that
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  Speaker 1: all over? I said, everywhere I could see and everywhere
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  Speaker 1: I could get the mirror to point, it seems to
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  Speaker 1: be a 100% total job. Okay, I'm back on track. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You take that home with you. That don't cost you nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of my little crazy little stories happened to
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  Speaker 1: me when I was going along. If he commands me
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  Speaker 1: to do it, it must be within my power to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be just to command me
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  Speaker 1: to do something that I cannot do. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that love is controllable. Wow, that opens up a whole
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  Speaker 1: nother village over there. Because he commanded, he legislated love.
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  Speaker 1: Love me. He said, this is how you love me.
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  Speaker 1: What I like about God, God tells you how to
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  Speaker 1: love him. No guessing. Most people want you to guess
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  Speaker 1: how to love him. God comes right up. Love me
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  Speaker 1: with everything. All your heart, want all your mind, all
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  Speaker 1: your soul. Ain't core about it. This is how I
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  Speaker 1: want you to love me. He tells you straight up.
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  Speaker 1: And then he says, I want you to love your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor as you love yourself. Now, if God now legislates love.
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  Speaker 1: then love now has indicted the lawyer. Love has brought
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  Speaker 1: an indictment against the lawyer predicated on the concept that
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  Speaker 1: he's guilty. Probably of never loving the Lord thy God
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  Speaker 1: with all thy heart, thy mind, and soul. But at
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  Speaker 1: a very minimum, he is guilty of not loving his
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  Speaker 1: neighbor as himself. And this is how I know. He's
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  Speaker 1: looking for a loophole. Watch this, watch this, watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all doing okay? Y'all good? Y'all good? Okay, watch this.
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  Speaker 1: He says, the Lord who is love made flesh says,
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  Speaker 1: love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and
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  Speaker 1: mind and soul. Love thy neighbor as thyself. And then
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer says to the Lord, who is my neighbor?
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  Speaker 1: That's the loophole. He says, you know, what do you believe?
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  Speaker 1: What do you wear? What is your theology? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whether I'm going to love you or not until
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  Speaker 1: I find out who is my neighbor. So this is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be smart. What he is saying is, do
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  Speaker 1: I determine by who lives next door to me? Do
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  Speaker 1: I determine by my ethnicity? Do I determine by my politics?
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  Speaker 1: Do I determine by my orthodoxy? Who is my neighbor? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: y'all with me? If you don't understand that, then you
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  Speaker 1: have never understood the story of the Good Samaritan. Because
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  Speaker 1: the story of the Good Samaritan is Jesus' answer to
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer's loophole. Jesus looks at him. Watch this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. I'm going to tell you this. I'll be gone.
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  Speaker 1: He says, who is my neighbor? And Jesus doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: answer him. He says, a certain man Jesus is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: He's so cool. He's so cool. Jesus says, a certain
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  Speaker 1: man went down from Jerusalem. The very fact that he
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  Speaker 1: said he went down from Jerusalem says he's a Jew.
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  Speaker 1: To Jericho. And he says, he fell amongst thieves who
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  Speaker 1: stripped him and wounded him and left him half dead.
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  Speaker 1: He says, A Levite passed by and saw him. Levite,
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  Speaker 1: Levitical priesthood. Your pastors. Your religious orthodoxy. Those that epitomize
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  Speaker 1: the sacraments of your faith. The tenants, the one who
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  Speaker 1: handled the theology for you. Passed by, looked at him
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  Speaker 1: and turned and went away. You mean this guy who
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer would perceive to be an okay neighbor didn't
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  Speaker 1: help him? Let me break this down where it becomes
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  Speaker 1: relevant to you. Have you ever been shocked when you
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  Speaker 1: were in trouble at who didn't help you? The person
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  Speaker 1: that you thought for sure that you knew would be
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  Speaker 1: your ride or die? Ride or die is an African-American
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  Speaker 1: colloquial that means like total commitment. It just means to
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  Speaker 1: be totally committed. And that's enough about that. So, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And you find out that when the heat is on,
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  Speaker 1: the brother who said he would always be there for you,
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  Speaker 1: act like he don't even know you, looks at your
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  Speaker 1: predicament and crosses by on the other side. The priest comes.
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  Speaker 1: Your holy friends. See you in trouble. Saying, girl, if
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  Speaker 1: you need anything, call me. Ain't it funny how you
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  Speaker 1: can be bleeding to death and folks say, if you need.
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  Speaker 1: And they pass by on the other side. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand what Jesus is saying to him. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: He says, and then the good Samaritan. Now, you have
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  Speaker 1: to understand, Jesus is setting the lawyer up. Using an oxymoron.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the lawyer's mind, there is no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as a good Samaritan. The Jews had no dealings with
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  Speaker 1: the Samaritans. In fact, one time when they got ready
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  Speaker 1: to insult Jesus, they called him a Samaritan. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came down to the well to meet the Samaritan woman,
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  Speaker 1: she said, you know your people don't talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how you can limit love to lackness?
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  Speaker 1: Only to find out the old Negro adage, everybody skin
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  Speaker 1: to me and kin to me. So Jesus says, who
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  Speaker 1: is your neighbor? Was it the priest? Was it the Levite?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it the good Samaritan? who got down off
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  Speaker 1: his beast, poured in the oil and the wine, set
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  Speaker 1: you on his own beast, and brought you to the
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  Speaker 1: innkeeper's house, and all of the help came through somebody
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  Speaker 1: that you wouldn't have thought was your neighbor. All the witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: clap your hands. So here are your takeaways. God is
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  Speaker 1: saying that if you are going to be like him,
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  Speaker 1: you have to love like him. You have to love
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  Speaker 1: people who don't think like you, who don't look like you,
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  Speaker 1: who don't vote like you, who don't dress like you.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to take down the tribunal whereby you
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  Speaker 1: try people before you love them and begin to understand
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  Speaker 1: that love has no loopholes. Don't dress it up in
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  Speaker 1: political clothes. Don't dress it up in religious clothes. Don't
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  Speaker 1: dress it up in tribal clothes. Don't dress it up
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  Speaker 1: in ethnical clothes. Don't dress it up in status. Love
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  Speaker 1: has no loopholes. Now, I'll tell you how to begin
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  Speaker 1: to learn that is have some children. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: fool around and have some children, you will begin to
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  Speaker 1: understand that love has no loopholes. You will tell them
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking bad, if you do it again, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to ever do such and such. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to help you. I'm going to call me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to loan you no money. If you walk
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  Speaker 1: out that door and get into this, you are in
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  Speaker 1: it by yourself. That's what you said. But because you love, Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tell somebody, say, it's about love. It's about love. It's
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  Speaker 1: about love.
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  Speaker 2: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: A demand is being placed on your ability to love,
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  Speaker 1: your ability to understand, your ability to broaden your perspective
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  Speaker 1: beyond your comfort zone. I may not sing the songs
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  Speaker 1: you grew up singing. I may not preach the way
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  Speaker 1: you're used to hearing it. But if you get hungry enough...
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  Speaker 1: You learn to look past his sweat rag and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that man helped me. If he commands me
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  Speaker 1: to do it, it must be within my power to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be just to command me
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  Speaker 1: to do something that I cannot do. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that love is controllable. I give up everything to follow you.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't give up a ham sandwich at 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at night. Imagine how your personal relationships would change if
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  Speaker 1: you loved the people in your life like you love yourself.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is we always want to get more than
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  Speaker 1: we're willing to give. So this second scripture obliterates selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: It's not what we did yesterday that's messing us up.
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  Speaker 1: It's that you won't grow with me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so many of us have been abused and misused, ostracized.
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  Speaker 1: They say about us that we have no use at all.
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  Speaker 1: Like Onesimus, they find themselves in predicaments where people have
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  Speaker 1: categorized them and filed them away and said you'll never
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  Speaker 1: be anything. And we become imprisoned by their opinion. I
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  Speaker 1: want to break the chains that bind you, open up
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  Speaker 1: the door out of your prison, and cause you to
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  Speaker 1: experience the glorious liberty that comes when you are completely free.
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  Speaker 1: The word liberates. Take it in. See, love will make
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  Speaker 1: you change your mind. Love will make you go back
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  Speaker 1: on your word. Love will make you go an extra mile.
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  Speaker 1: Love will make you apologize even though you thought you
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  Speaker 1: was right. Love will make you feed somebody who cusses
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  Speaker 1: you out. Love will make you call somebody even though
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  Speaker 1: it makes you look like the weaker one. Does anybody
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  Speaker 1: understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and say, love don't have no loopholes.
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  Speaker 1: It don't have no loopholes. I don't care what they did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who they did it with. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how much you don't agree with it. If you
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  Speaker 1: really are a lover, love will find a way. It'll
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  Speaker 1: climb over top of stuff and find a way. Love
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  Speaker 1: will find a way to get you love. Glory to God,
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  Speaker 1: glory to God, glory to God. Hear three people say,
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  Speaker 1: ain't no way out, ain't no way out. Ain't no
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  Speaker 1: way out, ain't no way out. You can't get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. You got to go through with it. You
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  Speaker 1: may have to cry, but you got to go through
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  Speaker 1: with it. You may look weak, but you got to
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  Speaker 1: go through with it. Your mama may talk about you
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  Speaker 1: and say, you ought not take that, but you got
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  Speaker 1: to go through with it. Love has no loopholes. Ten,
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  Speaker 1: three people say, no way out. No way out. No
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  Speaker 1: way out. Ironclad. Irrevocable. Immutable. Unchangeable. Love has no loopholes.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I'm right about it because Jesus himself
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  Speaker 1: tried to find a loophole. For the Bible said that
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  Speaker 1: he went in the garden of Gethsemane and he said, Father,
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  Speaker 1: if it be thy will, pass this bitter cup for me.
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  Speaker 1: It costs too much to love these people. They're all
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  Speaker 1: messed up and confused. And he had to pray three
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  Speaker 1: times trying to find a way out of the contract.
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  Speaker 1: But finally he said, not my will, but thine be done.
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  Speaker 1: And they hung him high. And they stretched him wide
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  Speaker 1: until the sun refused to shine. And the ground began
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  Speaker 1: to tremble. And he died till the veil in the
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  Speaker 1: temple was ripped from the top to the bottom. And
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  Speaker 1: he died till law fell over on grace. He died. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he did. Yes, he did. The street people say
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't get out of it. He couldn't get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. He couldn't get out of it. He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get out of it. He couldn't get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Love didn't have a loophole. It was not the nails
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  Speaker 1: that held him to the cross. He could have pulled
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  Speaker 1: the nails out. It wasn't the cross because he made
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  Speaker 1: the tree. It wasn't the mountain because he hollered the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: But for the love that was set before him, he died.
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  Speaker 1: Shake your neighbor by the hand and say, neighbor, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to shake your hand, but you can't shake your responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: You can't shake your responsibility. You can't shake what you
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  Speaker 1: got to do. Love has no loopholes. You got to
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  Speaker 1: love everybody with all your heart. So. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm trying to get you to see. Join hands
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  Speaker 1: with somebody. What I'm trying to get you to do.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm trying to get you to see. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get you to understand. What I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get you to think. You got to be bigger than this.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just love the folks in your zip code.
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  Speaker 1: The folks in your denomination. Or the folks in your house.
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  Speaker 1: Love has no loopholes. The person you touch may have
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  Speaker 1: been taught wrong. They may have been taught to only
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  Speaker 1: love when the circumstances are right, when the conditions are right,
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  Speaker 1: or if you think like I think. But life keeps
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  Speaker 1: demanding that you broaden your ability to love. Working with
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  Speaker 1: people will demand that you broaden your ability to love.
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  Speaker 1: Even people, can I be honest, that you normally wouldn't like.
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  Speaker 1: These are not the people that you would invite over
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  Speaker 1: to eat hot dogs with. But for a paycheck, you
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  Speaker 1: learn how to... After a while, you do invite them over.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot be a big person with a small heart.
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  Speaker 1: We can teach you all kinds of principles. about being
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  Speaker 1: blessed and prosperous and overcoming and victory life can take
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  Speaker 1: you to the opiate of success but if you end
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  Speaker 1: up behind a big desk in a corner office with
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  Speaker 1: a small mind and a small heart you will lose
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  Speaker 1: everything you have Because you cannot determine who is your neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Now the person you're touching right now, they may not
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  Speaker 1: tell you. But every last one of us, our love
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  Speaker 1: is being tested in some area. A demand is being
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  Speaker 1: placed on your ability to love. Your ability to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Your ability to broaden your perspective beyond your comfort zone.
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  Speaker 1: I may not sing the songs you grew up singing.
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  Speaker 1: I may not preach the way you're used to hearing it.
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  Speaker 1: But if you get hungry enough, you learn to look
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  Speaker 1: past your sweat rag and say, you know, that man
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  Speaker 1: helped me. I want you to pass the test. And
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  Speaker 1: the only way you're not going to pass it is
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  Speaker 1: if you continue to be a self-enthroned, egotistical maniac. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? Everything's about you? Years ago, I met
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  Speaker 1: a woman who'd written a book that stayed in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: never left. It said that the root of all sin
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  Speaker 1: is selfishness. And because I am a thinker, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get away from the thought. Look at your sins. Are
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  Speaker 1: you selfish? Is your love dwarfed Are you loving like
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  Speaker 1: an adolescent in the middle of your life? Is everything
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  Speaker 1: always got to be about you? And if any of
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  Speaker 1: that pierces you, if there's any part of you that's
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  Speaker 1: not so calloused that you can't hear truth, if the
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  Speaker 1: word was sharp enough to pierce, dividing us under bone
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  Speaker 1: and marrow, soul and spirit, and got down in your
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  Speaker 1: heart and challenged you and you say, yes, I admit it,
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  Speaker 1: I am selfish. I understand that because I've been selfish too.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is everybody in here
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  Speaker 1: at one time or another didn't play by the rules,
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  Speaker 1: went for yourself and said, I got to be me
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  Speaker 1: and you were selfish. But I'm telling you, There is
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  Speaker 1: no loophole. If you flunk the test, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to take it again. Stay right there. I'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: If he commands me to do it, it must be
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  Speaker 1: within my power to accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: just to command me to do something that I cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: So that means that love is controllable. I'd give up
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  Speaker 1: everything to follow you. You wouldn't give up a ham
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  Speaker 1: sandwich at 11 o'clock at night. Imagine how your personal
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  Speaker 1: relationships would change if you loved the people in your
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  Speaker 1: life like you love yourself. The reality is we always
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  Speaker 1: want to get more than we're willing to give. So
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  Speaker 1: this second scripture obliterates selfishness. It's not what we did
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that's messing us up. It's that you won't grow
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  Speaker 1: with me. If you can't grow with me, you can't
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  Speaker 1: go with me. And you're going to drown trying to
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  Speaker 1: follow me into my destiny if you don't see who
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  Speaker 1: I am now.
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  Speaker 2: in Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: That person you're touching has got to leave this place
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  Speaker 1: and go on a love mission. They've got to go
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: on a love mission. They may not ever go to Africa.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: They may not ever go to South America, but they
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  Speaker 1: have got to go on a mission field of love.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And they've got to be selfless enough to swallow the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: way they think and the way they've been trained and
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  Speaker 1: their own fears and their own insecurity and go on
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a mission of love. That person you're touching right now
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: will be trapped in a vicious cycle. They'll never embrace
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of what God has for you because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God puts your healing first. in the hands of a Samaritan.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Sometimes God puts your healing in the hands of somebody
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: whose theology is different from yours. Sometimes God puts your
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: healing in a place that's unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: gives you a child who doesn't believe like you believe
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  Speaker 1: or live like you live or think like you think
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  Speaker 1: or act like you want them to act. You got
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to go on a love mission and say, you're still
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  Speaker 1: my child. You're still my baby. Come on in this
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  Speaker 1: house and get something to eat. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to think about what you're doing, but I know I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: love you. Your love has got to go on a
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: mission field. Squeeze that hand. And I come against all
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: arrogance and all areas in your life that have lifted
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: this stuff up as being a greater priority. I want
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to challenge you to love the man you got like
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  Speaker 1: you love your sons. Because he's somebody's son. To love
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  Speaker 1: the woman you got like she's somebody's little girl. Because
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: she is somebody's little girl. I don't understand how you
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  Speaker 1: can have so much mercy for your own children and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have any mercy for mine. I don't understand that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I don't understand. I don't understand that you don't realize
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  Speaker 1: that I'm somebody's baby. Somebody cradled me and nursed me
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  Speaker 1: and held me and fed me and raised me the
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  Speaker 1: best they could why can't you love me too we've
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: got to close but I dare not close without taking
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a moment to thank God for our many partners who
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: support us you mean so much to us you come
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  Speaker 1: to our meetings you're behind me in my endeavors you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: help me dig the wells and reach around the world
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  Speaker 1: and build homes for the homeless you're wonderful people may
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: God bless you may heaven smile upon you why don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you consider being a partner doesn't take very much but
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  Speaker 1: it does make a difference. Until next week, may God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. May heaven smile upon you. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Take care.