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The Master, The Men, and The Moment - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Yo, what's up family? Welcome back to the house. Glad
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  Speaker 1: you clicked play today.
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  Speaker 2: And that wasn't random. God's got a word lined up
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  Speaker 2: just for you.
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  Speaker 1: This house speaks louder than these walls.
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  Speaker 3: You're not just watching, you're family.
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  Speaker 2: However you got here today, we're just glad you showed up.
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  Speaker 2: Get comfortable and get ready to receive.
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  Speaker 1: Let's worship in spirit and truth together. Drop a comment
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  Speaker 1: and let us know where you're tuning in from.
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  Speaker 2: We see you, we love you, and we believe this
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  Speaker 2: word is about to change something.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to Acts chapter 15, verse 13 through 18.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be reading out of the New King James Version. Stand,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, as we read from the word of
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  Speaker 3: the Lord. And after they had become silent, James answered, saying,
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  Speaker 3: Men and brethren, listen to me. Simon has declared how
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  Speaker 3: God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out
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  Speaker 3: of them a people for his name. And with this,
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  Speaker 3: the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written.
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  Speaker 3: After this, I will return. Watch closely. After this, I
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  Speaker 3: will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which
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  Speaker 3: has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins and I
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  Speaker 3: will set it up. My God. Oh, my God. God's
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  Speaker 3: getting ready to set some things back in place that
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  Speaker 3: have been torn down. Can I get a witness? so
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  Speaker 3: that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even
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  Speaker 3: all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says
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  Speaker 3: the Lord who does all these things known to God
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  Speaker 3: from eternity are all his works. James quotes this prophecy
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  Speaker 3: during the Jerusalem council to explain God's inclusion of Gentiles
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  Speaker 3: in the early church. Can you say amen? Let us pray. Lord,
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  Speaker 3: use us in this moment that we might be endowed
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  Speaker 3: with all of your grace to declare more definitively and
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  Speaker 3: absolutely the word of the Lord in such a supernatural
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  Speaker 3: way that we are transformed By the hearing of the word,
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  Speaker 3: in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Shout amen, somebody. Can
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  Speaker 3: you shout it like you're happy one more time? You're good,
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  Speaker 3: you're good. You may be seated. Let's go to work. Yeah. Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody might ask, why do you labor for us to
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  Speaker 3: understand the tabernacle seeing as it was in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand till you read the book of Hebrews
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  Speaker 3: how relevant the old is to the new. The Old
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  Speaker 3: Testament is the New Testament concealed. The New Testament is
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  Speaker 3: the Old Testament revealed. Are you hearing what I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: to you? And you must understand that until you understand
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  Speaker 3: your foundation, you can't build your roof. was reading something
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  Speaker 3: that Barna had put out, Barna of the statisticians that
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  Speaker 3: do data reports, particularly on religious trends and issues. And
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  Speaker 3: there had been a sharp decline of which there's starting
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  Speaker 3: to be a change that we're starting to see in
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  Speaker 3: Bible reading amongst believers. I'm excited about that. I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about that because I recognize that we live in one
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  Speaker 3: of the most biblically illiterate civilizations that we have ever
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  Speaker 3: been in since the beginning of this country. And I think,
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  Speaker 3: I think, this is a hypothesis, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: because everything we learn about the Bible comes from our preachers.
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  Speaker 3: So if it's not in a sermon, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: anything about it. Worse still, many are learning off the
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  Speaker 3: Instagram or TikTok. Pieces of messages and pieces of truth
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  Speaker 3: rather than to recognize the orchestrated quilting truth and how
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  Speaker 3: it overlaps one with the other to create the infinitive
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  Speaker 3: word of God which passes all human understanding. I make
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  Speaker 3: a delineate distinction between Bible reading and Bible study. You
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  Speaker 3: can read a novel, but it doesn't mean you studied it.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, talk to me, somebody. The comprehension level of
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  Speaker 3: reading the Bible is hindered, first of all, because most
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  Speaker 3: of the translations are in an archaic language that you
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  Speaker 3: can't relate to. Second of all, you are reading about
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  Speaker 3: an Eastern civilization with Western adaptation. Anytime your Western eyes
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  Speaker 3: look at Eastern truth, you're going to miss some things
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  Speaker 3: because you interpret things through the lens of your experience.
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  Speaker 3: And if it didn't happen in your experience, you don't
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  Speaker 3: understand it. If your old pastor didn't say it when
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  Speaker 3: you was in the seventh grade at the Bible school
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  Speaker 3: camp in the summertime, you don't know that it even happened.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of things that are unfamiliar to you
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  Speaker 3: are unfamiliar to you because you are derelict of your
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  Speaker 3: responsibility to study the word of God that you need
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  Speaker 3: not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth. If
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  Speaker 3: all you know about the Ten Commandments is that you
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  Speaker 3: saw the movie. You are depending on the producers of
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  Speaker 3: the movie to educate you about the doings of our God. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: come on, somebody. Come on. Come on. Come on. Stick
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  Speaker 3: with me, somebody. This is a problem of our society.
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  Speaker 3: We learn most of what we know through that which
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  Speaker 3: is passed down through orators, through moments, through artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: Through glued together pieces of things and we walk away
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  Speaker 3: and form our whole thesis around an idea that came
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  Speaker 3: through a 60 second spot. We have to do better
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  Speaker 3: than that. Especially when the enemy ceases not to study you.
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  Speaker 3: How he may attack you. He's listening at you all
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  Speaker 3: the time, trying to figure out where you are vulnerable
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  Speaker 3: that he might perceive your weakness. The Bible said we
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  Speaker 3: are not ignorant of his devices. And in order not
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  Speaker 3: to be ignorant, you can't just jump on the bandwagon
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  Speaker 3: with every fairy tale that passes by and accept it
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  Speaker 3: for absolute truth because you don't know who posted it.
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  Speaker 3: The person who posted it might be sleeping under a
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  Speaker 3: bridge and smoking a joint, but you can't tell the
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  Speaker 3: difference if you don't study to show yourself approved. As
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  Speaker 3: a pastor, I called it wolf-proofing my church. I've been
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  Speaker 3: saying that for years. My wife just hollered back at me.
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  Speaker 3: I've been teaching that for 35 years. The more you
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  Speaker 3: educate your members, the less they are vulnerable to wolves.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth
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  Speaker 3: shall set you free. So I can't just preach the
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  Speaker 3: 10 Bible stories you heard in Sunday school. I can't
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  Speaker 3: just find new ways and new slants to produce old
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  Speaker 3: truth like you took leftovers and made goulash. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of people are preaching what somebody else said, what somebody
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  Speaker 3: else heard, what somebody else thought, and they're serving you garbage.
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  Speaker 3: It's got mold on it. It's got leftover fungus on it.
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  Speaker 3: It is not good for the nutrition of the church,
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  Speaker 3: but we labored in the word Oh, somebody knows what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. The labor in the word of God. We
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  Speaker 3: wrestle with text. We read it in the Hebrew. We
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  Speaker 3: read it in the Greek. Trying to get a deeper understanding.
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  Speaker 3: I speak neither Hebrew nor Greek. So I had to
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  Speaker 3: labor in it in order to make sure that when
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  Speaker 3: I serve something, it is well thought out and to
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  Speaker 3: the best of my ability, I do my best to
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  Speaker 3: serve the people of God. That's how I made 50 years.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't make 50 years being nonchalant about truth. I
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  Speaker 3: made 50 years and have preached in nine different countries
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  Speaker 3: because I was serious about the word of God. I
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  Speaker 3: preached with translators in the bush in Africa. I preached
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  Speaker 3: all over in Venezuela for weeks at a time preaching
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  Speaker 3: the word of God. I preached in Kyiv. where they're
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  Speaker 3: dropping bombs, right where they're dropping bombs. I had preached
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  Speaker 3: there in revival and gone there and ministered the word
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  Speaker 3: of God. I have gone into South Africa. I have
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  Speaker 3: gone into Australia. If you'd have been here at our conference,
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  Speaker 3: we had four or five different nations represented. Because the
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  Speaker 3: truth is the truth. Whether you're speaking in Spanish or
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  Speaker 3: Swahili or Japanese or Mandarin, God's word is God's word.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, upon this rock, I will build my
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  Speaker 3: church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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  Speaker 3: Shout back at me, somebody. And if you are a
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  Speaker 3: child of God, you are not a spectator of the word.
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  Speaker 3: You are a hearer of the word. You are a
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  Speaker 3: hearer of the word. In other words, we see with
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  Speaker 3: our ears. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
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  Speaker 3: word of God. How shall they hear without a preacher?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not just talking about somebody who wears a collar.
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  Speaker 3: How shall they hear without a preacher? A preacher is
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  Speaker 3: that one that has that thing down inside of him
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  Speaker 3: that's squirming in his belly that makes him preach in
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  Speaker 3: season and out of season. That makes him stand there
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  Speaker 3: and declare God's word. How shall they hear without a
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  Speaker 3: preacher and how shall they preach? Save they be sent.
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  Speaker 3: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 3: word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I don't like to sit beside nobody who's whispering
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  Speaker 3: to me. If you're going to text me, text me later.
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  Speaker 3: Because when it comes down to the word of God,
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  Speaker 3: I got to live by this. I got to live
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  Speaker 3: by this. I'm listening for things I can live by.
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  Speaker 3: I'm listening to see if God is talking to me
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  Speaker 3: and how does that apply to my life and how
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  Speaker 3: can I face tomorrow. So when I demonstrate like I
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  Speaker 3: did Wednesday night with the Ark of the Covenant, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, it was Bible class, not Bible reading. It
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  Speaker 3: was Bible study, not a worship service. And that means
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  Speaker 3: I can dig a little deeper and I can go
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  Speaker 3: a little further in the word of God. I wanted
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  Speaker 3: you to understand what it represents. This is just a
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  Speaker 3: representation of the Ark of the Covenant. It is not
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  Speaker 3: the Ark of the Covenant. It is a representation of
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  Speaker 3: the Ark of the Covenant. Just like on Easter Sunday
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  Speaker 3: when you have representations of the crucifixion. You know that
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  Speaker 3: ain't Jesus on the cross. You know that's Jimmy Lee.
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  Speaker 3: You know there ain't no nails in his hands. You
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  Speaker 3: know they got ropes tied around his wrists. You're not stupid,
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  Speaker 3: but you're using representation and illustration to teach deeper truths
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  Speaker 3: and levels of understanding. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: So I use this imagery because many people learn better
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  Speaker 3: by imagery than they do just by reading or hearing.
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  Speaker 3: They learn by seeing in a way that lessens their
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  Speaker 3: time to be able to understand the word of God.
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  Speaker 3: I use this as an opportunity to declare the word
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  Speaker 3: of God that even the heathens were terrified when they
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  Speaker 3: saw the Ark of the Covenant coming. The Bible says
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  Speaker 3: their hearts melted with fear when they heard that the
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  Speaker 3: children of Israel were coming, for they had heard of
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  Speaker 3: their God. And wherever the Ark of the Covenant went,
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  Speaker 3: there were miracles and healings and deliverance. The children of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: the Hebrews, wherever the Ark of the Covenant went, the
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  Speaker 3: power of God moved in a supernatural way, changing lives
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  Speaker 3: and setting them free. I will labor it over the
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  Speaker 3: Word of God. I've been teaching this for at least
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  Speaker 3: three 40 years that I've been teaching the Ark of
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  Speaker 3: the Covenant. My sister will tell you, I was teaching
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  Speaker 3: the Ark of the Covenant when we had overhead projections.
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  Speaker 3: And we were putting them little silver slides up on. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: all of y'all ain't 21. So don't be sitting there
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  Speaker 3: looking all new like you just got here. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean by projector, overhead projector and slides and
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  Speaker 3: chalkboards and erasers. I was teaching the word of God
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  Speaker 3: way back. I was teaching the word of God when
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  Speaker 3: I was the only youngest person in my church and
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  Speaker 3: I was the pastor. I was teaching the Word of
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  Speaker 3: God way back then when everybody around me was older
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  Speaker 3: than me. I was teaching this same truth out of
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  Speaker 3: the Word of God. Pastor Fraser can tell you he's
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  Speaker 3: in the service today. I was teaching the Word of
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  Speaker 3: God when he was a teenager. I was preaching this Word.
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  Speaker 3: But never in the history of my ministry has it
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  Speaker 3: been controversial to educate people about the God they serve
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  Speaker 3: so that you can dance with an understanding. You can
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  Speaker 3: praise him understanding who he is and what he's able
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  Speaker 3: to do so that when the enemy comes in like
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  Speaker 3: a flood, the spirit of the Lord can lift up
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  Speaker 3: a standard against it. This is just a model. This
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  Speaker 3: is just something that's set up like your crucifixion service
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  Speaker 3: on Easter is not the crucifixion, but it helps people
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  Speaker 3: to visualize that God is with you and what that means.
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  Speaker 3: what that means about the altar of incense, what that
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  Speaker 3: means about the table of shoe bread, what that means
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be foreign to you if you were a student
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  Speaker 3: of the word. So let me move quickly. You must
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  Speaker 3: understand then that the process of understanding Moses' tabernacle is
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  Speaker 3: complicated because you have to deal with the three parts
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  Speaker 3: of the tabernacle. You have to use all seven pieces
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  Speaker 3: of the furniture. You have to use the altar of incense.
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  Speaker 3: You have to use the brazen labor. You have to
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  Speaker 3: use the table of shoe bread. You have to use
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  Speaker 3: all of that. You have to talk about the veil
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  Speaker 3: in the temple. You have to talk about the candlesticks.
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  Speaker 3: How would you appreciate the New Testament truth that when
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  Speaker 3: Jesus was crucified, the veil in the temple was ripped
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  Speaker 3: from the top to the bottom? Or in the Hebrew says,
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  Speaker 3: you can come boldly. to the throne of grace that
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  Speaker 3: you might obtain mercy and find grace to help in
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  Speaker 3: the time of need ain't nothing blocking me Cora I
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  Speaker 3: can come boldly the veil has been ripped down everything
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  Speaker 3: that stood between me everything that partitioned God from me
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  Speaker 3: has been torn down I'm living in the day of
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  Speaker 3: atonement I'm walking in the day of atonement. I'm shouting
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  Speaker 3: in the day of atonement. So you can't bring up
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  Speaker 3: my past because I am living in the year of
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  Speaker 3: jubilee and the blessings and the power of the Lord
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  Speaker 3: are all over me and he's keeping me alive. I
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  Speaker 3: can't help it. I like them old songs. We used
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  Speaker 3: to sing, he's all over me and he's keeping me alive.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anybody in here that God is all over
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  Speaker 3: you and he's keeping you alive? Tell cancer he's all
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  Speaker 3: over me and he's keeping me alive. Tell diabetes he's
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  Speaker 3: all over me and he's keeping me alive. Tell witchcraft
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  Speaker 3: he's all over me and he's keeping me alive. I
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  Speaker 3: better stop that. I feel something pushing me in the back. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: A rip veil. A torn open space takes me into
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  Speaker 3: the holies of holies that I can receive the power
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  Speaker 3: of God in my life. You won't hear that kind
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  Speaker 3: of teaching when all they're talking about is the woman
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  Speaker 3: with the issue of blood, the woman at the well,
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  Speaker 3: the prodigal son. That's good stuff, but that's not the
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  Speaker 3: only stuff you need to know. You need to know
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  Speaker 3: what the power was that when the woman with the
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  Speaker 3: issue of blood came Touched the hem of his garment.
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  Speaker 3: She was touching the pomegranates and the bells. And because
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  Speaker 3: she recognized that priestly anointing, the glory of the Lord
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  Speaker 3: fell on her. She didn't just grab him by the
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  Speaker 3: hem of his clothes. She grabbed him by the bells
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  Speaker 3: that were ringing. Hallelujah. Touch somebody and say, reading is fundamental. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can do it. You can do it. You can
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  Speaker 3: do it. Crack the book and you'll find eternal life.
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  Speaker 3: Crack the book and you'll get your healing. Crack the
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  Speaker 3: book and you'll get your restoration. Crack the book and
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  Speaker 3: the doors of hell will have to swing. Lift up
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  Speaker 3: your head, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up,
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  Speaker 3: ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
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  Speaker 3: Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty.
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  Speaker 3: Who is the King of glory? The Lord mighty and vital.
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  Speaker 3: I was teaching it at Regent University. I was teaching
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  Speaker 3: it when I went to Howard. I was teaching it
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  Speaker 3: in every door that God had opened. ever opened up
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  Speaker 3: for me and I refuse to stop teaching the word
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  Speaker 3: of God because you're confused. I refuse to allow your
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  Speaker 3: confusion to control my message. Somebody give him 30 seconds
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  Speaker 3: of crazy This is the Lord's church and Jesus is Lord.
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  Speaker 3: This is a church that's being established on God's word.
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  Speaker 3: This is a church that love is building. The gates
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  Speaker 3: of hell shall not prevail. This is the Lord's church
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  Speaker 3: and Jesus is what? Oh, I feel something about to
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  Speaker 3: happen in this place. I feel a glory about to
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  Speaker 3: break out in this place. And it's hard for you
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  Speaker 3: to get it if you're not one of us. For
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  Speaker 3: if the gospel be hid, it is hidden from them
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  Speaker 3: that are lost. So what are we doing allowing sinners
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  Speaker 3: to teach us how to have church? Backsliders to teach
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  Speaker 3: us how to have church. The devil is alive. Greater
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  Speaker 3: is he that is in me than he that said
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  Speaker 3: the word. Hallelujah. And if the word kill a man,
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  Speaker 3: let him die. Hey, if the word kill a man,
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  Speaker 3: let him die. If the word kill a man, let
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  Speaker 3: him die. When you understand this, you understand the uniqueness
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  Speaker 3: between David and Saul. Saul was happy to rule without
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  Speaker 3: the presence of God. Because he had the position of God.
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  Speaker 3: David didn't want the position without the presence of God.
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  Speaker 3: So the Bible said, good God Almighty. Boy, I feel
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  Speaker 3: my preacher preaching down inside me. The Bible said, hallelujah,
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  Speaker 3: that David wasn't satisfied until he got the presence of
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  Speaker 3: God back. He wasn't satisfied to be king of Judah
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  Speaker 3: when God had promised him king of Israel. He wasn't
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  Speaker 3: satisfied with half the blessing. Some of you ought not
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  Speaker 3: be satisfied with getting better. You ought to get well.
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  Speaker 3: You ought to get whole. You ought to get strong.
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  Speaker 3: You ought to not be satisfied with just getting by.
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  Speaker 3: You ought to get so fixed up that if people
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  Speaker 3: leave you, you can still stand. If they walk out
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  Speaker 3: the door, you know who you are. My car doesn't
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  Speaker 3: make me. My house don't make me. My friends don't
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  Speaker 3: make me. He that hath began a good work in
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  Speaker 3: me shall perform it to the day of redemption. He
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  Speaker 3: miles on high. My Amiga, the beginning and the end,
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  Speaker 3: the first and the last, he which was and is
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  Speaker 3: and is to come. Slap somebody and tell them he's
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  Speaker 3: talking about Jesus. So my Bible students understand. Y'all pray
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  Speaker 3: for me. My Bible students understand that when the Hebrews
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  Speaker 3: apostatized and walked away from the Lord, it caused the
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  Speaker 3: Philistines to take control of the Ark of the Covenant.
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  Speaker 3: For 20 years, the Ark of the Covenant lived in
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  Speaker 3: the presence of the Philistines, controlled by the men of Kirjath-Jerim,
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  Speaker 3: until David decided, I'm getting it back. All God is
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  Speaker 3: waiting on is for you to make a decision. I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting it back. Touch somebody and say, I'm getting it back.
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  Speaker 3: taking it back I'm taking it back ready or not
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking it back if you don't like me I'm
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  Speaker 3: taking it back so David went to the house of
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  Speaker 3: Abinadab to take back the covenant and the ark of
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  Speaker 3: the covenant to bring it back with him to Israel
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  Speaker 3: So that this would be the hallmark of his reign,
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  Speaker 3: he started it off with the presence of God, not
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  Speaker 3: worried about titles. I don't care nothing about titles. I
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  Speaker 3: never did. I don't worry about whether you call me doctor, chairman, lieutenant, corporal, elder, minister.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what you call me. Just be sure
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  Speaker 3: you call me because God didn't promise to make my
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  Speaker 3: title great. He promised to make my name great. And
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  Speaker 3: when you say that name, tell your neighbor God's going
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  Speaker 3: to make your name great. Your enemies are going to
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  Speaker 3: tremble before you because God's going to give you a
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  Speaker 3: name not marked by your talent, not marked by your education.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be marked by the presence of God.
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  Speaker 3: And he walks with me and he talks with me
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  Speaker 3: and he tells me I'm his owner and the joy
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  Speaker 3: we share. And we tear it there. None of us
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  Speaker 3: have ever known. Can I get a witness in here?
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  Speaker 3: Is there a sanctified witness in here? So let me
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  Speaker 3: move quickly. So by the time David brings the Ark
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  Speaker 3: of the Covenant back and brings it to Zion, it
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  Speaker 3: does not negate the fact that That Moses' tabernacle still exists,
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  Speaker 3: but it has no glory. Ichabod. Come on, somebody. Ichabod.
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  Speaker 3: The glory of the Lord is departed. They still had
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  Speaker 3: the process. going in Moses' tabernacle. They were still eating
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  Speaker 3: off the table of two bread. They were still burning
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  Speaker 3: the altar of incense, but they didn't have any glory
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  Speaker 3: behind the veil. So they were bringing their gifts before
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  Speaker 3: a veil where there was no glory. I can't be
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  Speaker 3: in a church where there is no anointing. When I
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  Speaker 3: get ready to bring my gift, all I need to
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  Speaker 3: know is that there's an anointing in that place. I
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  Speaker 3: refuse to worship where there is no glory. Somebody throw
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  Speaker 3: your head back and shout, glory! Glory! Glory! Glory. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I feel glory. I feel it in my hands. I
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  Speaker 3: feel it. Oh, God, let me stop. Excuse me. I
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  Speaker 3: almost went back to my storefront days. I feel the
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  Speaker 3: power of God in this room right now, right here
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  Speaker 3: in this place. And if I got to drag it back,
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  Speaker 3: if I got to pull it back, if I got
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  Speaker 3: to put it on my shoulders, I'm bringing the glory back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to shout till shouting. goes back in style
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  Speaker 3: i'm gonna praise god till i do it in my
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  Speaker 3: kitchen if i have to do it in my basement
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  Speaker 3: let everything that have breath praise ye the lord praise
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  Speaker 3: him in the sanctuary praise him in the firmament of
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  Speaker 3: his power lift up your voice and cry unto god
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  Speaker 3: i feel like praising him Demons tremble when you praise
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  Speaker 3: God Satan don't mind you sitting there with your arms
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  Speaker 3: folded and your lips closed because he knows the power
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  Speaker 3: of life and death is in your tongue but I
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  Speaker 3: dare you to open your mouth if you open your
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  Speaker 3: mouth the power somebody shout out of that balcony somebody
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  Speaker 3: shout in the back of the church somebody take a
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  Speaker 3: run for God the power So I want you to
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  Speaker 3: see this. Davis Tabernacle is a one-room tent. It don't
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  Speaker 3: have an outer court. It doesn't have an inner court.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't have a labor. It doesn't have a table
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  Speaker 3: of shoe bread. It's just one little raggedy tent that
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  Speaker 3: he brought back to Zion. And he brought it back
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  Speaker 3: a place where if you touch the ark, you could die.
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  Speaker 3: But David learned something while he was bringing it back.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you got to bring back your own glory.
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  Speaker 3: Stop bothering other people's anointing. Because when you bring it
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  Speaker 3: back yourself, you know what it takes to keep it.
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  Speaker 3: Like you brought it. And the Bible says that when
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  Speaker 3: he brought back the Ark of the Covenant, he lost
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  Speaker 3: other because other reached out and touched. Something that God said,
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  Speaker 3: don't touch. And other's name means strength. But God doesn't
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  Speaker 3: use your strength. He uses his strength. For the Bible
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  Speaker 3: said it's not by might nor by power, but by
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  Speaker 3: my spirit strength. Sayeth the Lord, you can be weak
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  Speaker 3: as water, but God says when you're weak, then am
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  Speaker 3: I strong. When you are bound, then I'll loose you.
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  Speaker 3: When you're down, I will raise you. And David found
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  Speaker 3: out after a three-month sabbatical of the Ark of the
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  Speaker 3: Covenant being in the house of Obed-Edom, David found out
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  Speaker 3: that all he needed was to bring him back with
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  Speaker 3: the praise. And the praise of David becomes the key
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  Speaker 3: of David. Anytime you're locked out of something and you
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  Speaker 3: want to break it loose, I dare you to insert
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  Speaker 3: the key of praise. You might be in your hospital bed.
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  Speaker 3: You might be watching me right now on life support.
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  Speaker 3: But if you can get a praise to come up
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  Speaker 3: out of your mouth, God will come by and sit
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  Speaker 3: with you. Shout amen somebody. The Bible said, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to jump over to Hezekiah for a minute. The Bible
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  Speaker 3: said when it had come time for Hezekiah to die,
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  Speaker 3: he turned his face to the wall. And he said, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: if you kill me, the grave cannot praise you. And
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  Speaker 3: when God heard that he would praise him, he added
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  Speaker 3: 15 more years to his life. And there you sit
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  Speaker 3: and won't praise the Lord when God will add years
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  Speaker 3: to your life. I don't know who I'm preaching to.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what room in your house you're in.
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  Speaker 3: But God said, I'll add years to your life if
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  Speaker 3: you learn the key of David and you learn to
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  Speaker 3: praise him. Praise him when you're down. Praise him when
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  Speaker 3: you're depressed. Praise him when you're sick. Praise him when
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  Speaker 3: you're blue. Praise him in the middle of a divorce.
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  Speaker 3: Praise him in the middle of a storm. Praise him
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of a hurricane. If you can give
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  Speaker 3: God a praise, he'll come in and sup with you.
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  Speaker 3: And the Bible said, I shall be your God and
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  Speaker 3: ye shall be my people. Can I get 30 seconds
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  Speaker 3: of crazy praise in this place? Come on, you can
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  Speaker 3: do better than that. Come on, you can do better
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  Speaker 3: than that. One of the things I want you to
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  Speaker 3: understand is the reason my text came out of Acts.
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  Speaker 3: Because James is writing in the book of Acts. When
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  Speaker 3: the disciples were in a religious dispute, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to start a fight, bring up religion or politics. And
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: religion's got both. It's got religion, but it's also got politics.
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  Speaker 3: It's got internal politics. It's got internal politics. People jockeying
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  Speaker 3: for position and fighting for first place. It's got external
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  Speaker 3: politics because politicians don't really get saved till they're running
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  Speaker 3: for office. And the moment they start running for office,
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden they're born again. And once they
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  Speaker 3: get in office, they forget all about Jesus because they
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  Speaker 3: think you're stupid. That you forgot what they did and
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  Speaker 3: you forgot what they said. And they'll visit your church
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  Speaker 3: for about 15 minutes and get a photo op and
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  Speaker 3: walk away. They won't even stay for the end of
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  Speaker 3: the message. They just want to mix a little religion.
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  Speaker 3: into their politics to persuade you to vote for them.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't raise no dummies in this church. We've
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  Speaker 3: not forgotten what you did in our community. We've not
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  Speaker 3: forgotten what you did with our finances. We've not forgotten
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  Speaker 3: what you did with our sons. We've not forgotten how
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  Speaker 3: you taught people's families. We've not forgotten how you raised
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  Speaker 3: our taxes. We've not forgotten. My God, I feel something
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  Speaker 3: in this place. I feel something about to break loose
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: in this place. I feel something about to break loose
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  Speaker 3: in this place. Hell is nervous and demons are trembling
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  Speaker 3: because the enemy wants us to be so distracted with
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  Speaker 3: fighting each other that we pass through this season without
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  Speaker 3: an awareness of what is going on. Have you not
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  Speaker 3: noticed that every time we get close to an election,
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  Speaker 3: some kind of scandal breaks up? so that we'll be
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  Speaker 3: distracted and we become more interested in what the celebrities
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  Speaker 3: are doing and what the preachers are doing and what
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  Speaker 3: the enemy is doing. But the devil is alive. We
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  Speaker 3: are wide awake. Amen. Our eyes are open. I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: at your policies. I don't care about your hairdo. I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at your policies. And I'm not about to fall
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  Speaker 3: asleep on what you did. Shout yes! If I go
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  Speaker 3: to jail, you come get me. Slap three people and
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  Speaker 3: tell them I'm tired of this. I refuse to be distracted.
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  Speaker 3: I refuse to look the other way. I refuse to
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  Speaker 3: get amnesia. I don't have Alzheimer's. I'm in my right mind.
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  Speaker 3: I know everything you did. I remember everything you said.
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  Speaker 3: And when I get in that box.
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  Speaker 3: So I want you to look at this. I want
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  Speaker 3: you to get the picture. On one side, David has
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  Speaker 3: brought the tent to Zion. But Moses' tabernacle was still
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  Speaker 3: in Gibeon. And the priests were going around doing their routines.
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  Speaker 3: But there was no glory behind the ark. The ark
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  Speaker 3: of the covenant was not there because they can't be
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  Speaker 3: in two places at the same time. So if it
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  Speaker 3: exists in David's tabernacle, it no longer is dwelling in
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  Speaker 3: Moses' tabernacle, though the ceremonies are going on simultaneously. And
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  Speaker 3: one of the things that David had learned when he
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  Speaker 3: brought back the ark of the covenant, that if you
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  Speaker 3: praise God, he wouldn't kill you. So the Bible said
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  Speaker 3: that David danced out of his clothes. And the more
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  Speaker 3: he danced, the more the priest could touch the ark
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  Speaker 3: and bring it back to his rightful place. So David said,
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  Speaker 3: if it worked on my way there, watch this. If
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  Speaker 3: it worked on my way there, it'll work after I
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  Speaker 3: get there. Somebody talk back to me right now. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to leave what brought me through. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to leave what raised me up. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to leave what brought my mama through and my grandmama
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  Speaker 3: through and my great-great-granddaddy through. I'm not going to leave
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  Speaker 3: it behind me. If it worked for my ancestors, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to work for me. If mama had to shout hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: I got to shout a hallelujah to somebody that knows
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  Speaker 3: who your God is. Give him a praise right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to praise him. I'm going to praise him
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  Speaker 3: in church. I'm going to praise him. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: praise him when I get home. I'm going to praise him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to praise him in the hospital. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to praise him. I'm going to praise him in the
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  Speaker 3: ballot box. I'm not going to sit this one out.
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  Speaker 3: The devil is alive. If I got to dance, if
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  Speaker 3: I got to scoot and slide. So you got David's
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  Speaker 3: tabernacle on one side and Moses' tabernacle on the other.
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  Speaker 3: The distinctions are the following. David developed instruments of praise
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  Speaker 3: that relaxed the Holy Spirit to go with him into Zion.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, David's tabernacle encapsulated and incorporated Gentiles. So David's
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  Speaker 3: tabernacle was a place of diversity. And Moses' tabernacle was
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  Speaker 3: a place of exclusivity. If you weren't circumcised, if you
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  Speaker 3: weren't a Hebrew, if you didn't have the lineage, you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be there in the holies of holies. You couldn't
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  Speaker 3: be there at all. Fast forward on the basis of
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  Speaker 3: what you just learned. Understand that when I write to
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  Speaker 3: you out of the book of Acts and quote to
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  Speaker 3: you out of the book of James, who is quoting
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  Speaker 3: from the book of Amos, That's why you can't leave
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  Speaker 3: all of this behind, because this is the foundation that
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  Speaker 3: gets you ready for what's next in your life. And
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  Speaker 3: if you don't understand this, you can't read the book
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  Speaker 3: of Hebrews. If you don't understand this, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: what it means when it says, we have not a
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  Speaker 3: high priest who cannot be touched by the feeling of
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  Speaker 3: our infirmity, tempted in all points, like as we are.
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  Speaker 3: yet without sin. You don't know what it means when
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  Speaker 3: it says we have a priest after the order of
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  Speaker 3: Melchizedek that ever liveth to make intercession for us. You
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  Speaker 3: know that your God is not dead. He's still alive.
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  Speaker 3: He's seated on the right hand of the majesty on
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  Speaker 3: the Father on high. And if don't nobody else pray
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  Speaker 3: for you, Jesus prayed for you. He prayed for you
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  Speaker 3: that you'd be able to stand. So when James starts teaching,
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  Speaker 3: he's teaching in the middle of dispute. The disciples were
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  Speaker 3: so confused when Jesus left because there were so many
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  Speaker 3: things that Jesus didn't address in the gospels. They had
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  Speaker 3: the Septuagint, but there were certain things that were not
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  Speaker 3: addressed in the Septuagint. They had the Pentateuch, but there
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: were certain things that were not addressed in the Pentateuch
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  Speaker 3: that they did not know how to handle it. They
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: had the Holy Spirit, but they didn't know how to
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  Speaker 3: hear the Holy Spirit. They could speak in tongues, but
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  Speaker 3: they didn't know how to hear the Holy Spirit. So
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  Speaker 3: they did what all people do when they're confused. They
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  Speaker 3: went to fight. Look it up on your spare time.
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  Speaker 3: It's called the Antioch Incident. They about came to blows
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out whether the Gentiles could worship and
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  Speaker 3: eat with Jews without being circumcised. And James has gone
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  Speaker 3: all the way back to David's tabernacle to prove that
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  Speaker 3: a new order is coming while an old order is
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  Speaker 3: yet existing and the new order is wide enough to
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  Speaker 3: engulf people from every nation and every tongue and every kindred.
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear what I'm saying to you? And he
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  Speaker 3: wanted them to understand that with God, you can do anything.
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  Speaker 3: And he has built his New Testament case on the
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  Speaker 3: Old Testament truth that David illustrated in the tabernacle. And
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  Speaker 3: he did it to authenticate the fact that if King
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  Speaker 3: David did it and it worked for him, it will
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  Speaker 3: work for us. And it stopped the fighting. When you
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  Speaker 3: know your stuff, people don't have to like you, but
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  Speaker 3: they show God got to respect you. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: if you don't like me, but you sure better respect me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Where were you 50 years ago? What was you doing
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  Speaker 3: when I was preaching my trial sermon? How many years
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  Speaker 3: did you study to get where you are? See, we
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: want everything to come instantly, but certain things come gradually.
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  Speaker 3: And after you've struggled a while, you learn something in
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  Speaker 3: the struggle that you don't learn if I just give
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  Speaker 3: it to you. The Bible said after you've suffered a while,
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  Speaker 3: God will establish you and make you perfect. So here
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  Speaker 3: in Acts, James is quoting out of Amos to understand
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  Speaker 3: the times that he's in. He has to validate his history.
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  Speaker 3: That's why if you let anybody take your history away,
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  Speaker 3: you will no longer be able to regulate your destiny
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: because your destiny is built on your history. If they
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  Speaker 3: don't teach it in school, do like my mama did
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  Speaker 3: and teach it in the living room. Teach it in
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  Speaker 3: the house. I grew up listening to her quote Paul
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  Speaker 3: Lawrence Dunbar. I grew up listening to her recite poetry
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  Speaker 3: of all types and all kinds. I grew up understanding
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  Speaker 3: who I was and where I came from. Parents, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to go back to parenting. We done
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  Speaker 3: got too busy. We're going to have to go back
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  Speaker 3: to parenting our own children and bleeding the blood over
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  Speaker 3: their head. Because I see too many young people committing suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know who they are. Don't know where they are.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know what they are. It's your job to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that they have some understanding of where they came from.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody shout yes. The last thing I said to my
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  Speaker 3: baby boy as I dropped him off at college, I said,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't come here to find out who you are.
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  Speaker 3: You learned that at home. And I want you to
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  Speaker 3: come back like I sent you. And don't you forget
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  Speaker 3: who you are. And I hit the gas and drove home.
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  Speaker 3: And after college, he came back and handed me the
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  Speaker 3: degree and said, Daddy, you kept your word. And I
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  Speaker 3: kept mine. Hallelujah. That is a covenant. That is something
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  Speaker 3: you have to do as a parent. You can't delegate
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  Speaker 3: that off to the preacher. You can't delegate that off
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  Speaker 3: to the Sunday school teacher. You can't delegate that off
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  Speaker 3: to the school system. You have to teach your children
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  Speaker 3: who they are. Somebody shout yes. So as I come
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  Speaker 3: to a close this morning, as I come to a close,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to understand that what God has put
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  Speaker 3: in you didn't start with you. You've learned a lot
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  Speaker 3: about generational curses, but you need to learn more about
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: generational blessings. You need to understand your epigenetics. I've gone
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  Speaker 3: from theology to biology. In your epigenetics... In your DNA
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  Speaker 3: code is a predisposition to certain things right or wrong.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you can't forget about the past because
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  Speaker 3: you're standing on the past to reach out to the
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  Speaker 3: future as I close I didn't finish I'm just going
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  Speaker 3: to stop I leave you with this parting interesting, tradition-breaking concept.
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  Speaker 3: David became king and priest and functioned as prophet all
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  Speaker 3: in the same time. He delivers to us a paradigm
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  Speaker 3: shift where he honors God as a royal priesthood. He
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  Speaker 3: stands in that position and he intertwines his faith with
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  Speaker 3: his position in a way that we need to do
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  Speaker 3: in times like these. I'm not using code phrases here,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not doing dog whistles. I'm telling you that you
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  Speaker 3: cannot stand up to the pressure of leadership without being
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  Speaker 3: undergirded by your faith and your religion. You need God
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  Speaker 3: in your life. So when you allow the Lord to
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  Speaker 3: be ruler in your life, Not about being perfect. We're
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  Speaker 3: all working on that. We haven't mastered that yet. But
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  Speaker 3: when I was studying this, I wrote down the master,
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  Speaker 3: the men, and the moment. The master who would rather
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  Speaker 3: live in a tent than to dwell in a tabernacle
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  Speaker 3: that he designed. And David chose the glory over tradition.
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  Speaker 3: All of the men from every nation came with him
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  Speaker 3: because when the anointing falls, culture, color, everything fades away.
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  Speaker 3: And if you are really born again, when the anointing moves,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: you can feel it in your spirit and you can
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  Speaker 3: feel it in your soul. I don't care how introverted
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  Speaker 3: you are. I don't care how quiet you are. Every
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  Speaker 3: now and then something's going to break out. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever jumped up and didn't know you was going to
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  Speaker 3: do it? The master, the man, and finally, the moment.
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  Speaker 3: This is the moment. This is the moment where we stand,
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  Speaker 3: lock arms, unify, refuse to be distracted, refuse to be confused.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: Some of the things that we are arguing about are
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  Speaker 3: not even coming from this country. They will borrow pictures
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  Speaker 3: that look like us. And they have studied what ignites us.
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  Speaker 3: And they will ignite us to rage. I know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about. I know. I'm not just guessing about it.
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  Speaker 3: I did the research. I did the background stuff. I
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  Speaker 3: had the right people to search it out. Some of
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  Speaker 3: these conflicts don't even come from our country. And just
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  Speaker 3: because the picture looks like you... Doesn't mean it's our fight.
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  Speaker 3: But they will play on our weakness... To divide us
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  Speaker 3: because they know that a house divided against itself shall
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  Speaker 3: not stand. Lock arms with somebody. And the reason I
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  Speaker 3: ask you to lock arms with somebody is because whether
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  Speaker 3: we admit it or not, most of us feel so alone.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that we don't have people around us. It's
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  Speaker 3: not that we don't have God. But might I remind
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  Speaker 3: you that Adam had God and God still said it's
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  Speaker 3: not good for man to be alone. We are a
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  Speaker 3: species biologically that draws strength from socialization. Isolation causes our
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  Speaker 3: brain to shrink. All the doctors in here are knocking
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  Speaker 3: at me. That's why the enemy wants to isolate you.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Because the more you are isolated, you are living in
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  Speaker 3: the death chamber of your own opinion. And in that
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  Speaker 3: echo chamber, no fresh ideas can get in. So you
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  Speaker 3: keep rehearsing the same images over and making the same
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  Speaker 3: statements that you always made, because when you get other
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  Speaker 3: people's opinions and ideas, it irrigates you with fresh oil.
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  Speaker 3: The person that you're touching right now, no matter how
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  Speaker 3: blessed they are, no matter what they look like and
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  Speaker 3: how they smell and what they got on, they might
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  Speaker 3: have a wave, curl, flips, fade, all at the same time.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: But that does not mean that they don't feel alone.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: They could be married with children or single in a
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  Speaker 3: one-bedroom apartment, but there are days they feel alone. In
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  Speaker 3: this age where we're all streaming, we are becoming increasingly
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  Speaker 3: isolated and they are trying to talk us into isolation
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  Speaker 3: when our fellowship and our congregation is what gave us
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  Speaker 3: the strength to survive everything that our history took us through.
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  Speaker 3: In spite of all of the stuff that you say
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  Speaker 3: is wrong with the church and some of it, you're
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  Speaker 3: really right about. When you die, Church people cook. When
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  Speaker 3: you're in the hospital, they come see you. When you're
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: going to jail, they come comfort you. You are not
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  Speaker 3: in this alone. Whether you know it or not, whether
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  Speaker 3: your arrogance has intoxicated you to the point that you
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: think that you are enough by yourself, you need somebody.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't get somebody, you're going to drink
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  Speaker 3: yourself to death or shoot up or snort yourself to death,
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  Speaker 3: making a fake friend out of a chemical to pacify
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  Speaker 3: the pain of your problem. The person you touch and
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  Speaker 3: tell them, I'm not perfect. I'm still trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: some stuff out. But I'm here with you. And you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to face your tomorrow alone. The warmth of
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  Speaker 3: your words and the touch of your skin does something
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  Speaker 3: to them biologically that releases endorphins of comfort and peace
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: and tranquility. You can literally make their blood pressure drop.
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  Speaker 3: You can literally calm their fears. You can arrest a
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  Speaker 3: stroke before it takes hold just by creating an atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: where they calm down and their blood flows effectively. It
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  Speaker 3: is proven that old people live longer if they got company.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't have company and they got a pet,
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  Speaker 3: they live longer. They got somebody, something in the house
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  Speaker 3: to talk to. Get a clue. There's a reason the
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Bible said forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. I'm
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: all for shouting in your house. I'm all for streaming online.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: We pay all kinds of money to stream online so
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: that people who could never get here and live far
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: away could experience the anointing that's in this place. But
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: every now and then you need somebody that touches you
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: and you are not alone. I know I can't stop
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  Speaker 3: it all, and I know I can't fix it all,
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: and I can't preach it all. And I can't change
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  Speaker 3: it all. But I'm determined to do all I can.
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  Speaker 3: To stop you from committing suicide. To stop you from
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: throwing in the towel. to stop your children where suicide
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: rates are soaring from driving the car off the bridge.
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  Speaker 3: And right here and right now in this place on
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: a Sunday morning, I'm telling you that if God could
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  Speaker 3: make it in a raggedy tent, if he could be
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  Speaker 3: born in a barn, if he could be wrapped in
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: swaddling clothes, which ain't nothing but milk rags, This temporary
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: circumstance that you are in right now is not going
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: to take you out. Father, I pray for every person
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  Speaker 3: touched in this building. I pray for people in other
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: countries and other languages around the world that are experiencing
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: the unique presence of God as it flows through the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: potter's house. I arrest the demons of suicide. I arrest
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: the mental health conditions that are bombarding your mind. I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: arrest the pressure that makes you think you're not good
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: enough and has tormented you and afflicted you and caused
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: you to be in the state you're in. I speak
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: right now in the name of Jesus. and tell you
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: that the glory of God, the ark of the covenant,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: the presence of God will come into your house and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: God will restore everything that's broken, everything that's lame, everything
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: that's turned out of the way. If you live long enough,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: you're going to see God bring it back, pressed down,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: shaken together and running over. And I've lived long enough
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: to see it happen. That the things that I prophesied
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: and spoke in my 30s are coming to pass on
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: the verge of my 70s. And this too shall pass.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: It might seem horrible, but this too shall pass. Now,
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  Speaker 3: while every head is bowed and every eye is closed
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  Speaker 3: and everyone is touching somebody, I only want you to
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: break loose if the word found you this morning And
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: you're coming for prayer. And the reason I want you
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: to come is the same reason I want you to vote.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: It's the same reason I want you to speak back
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: to all the naysayers. It's because this is the moment.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: The master, the man, the moment. If the woman with
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: the issue of blood would have waited another moment, she
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: would have missed her healing. If blind Bartimaeus hadn't screamed
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: out when he did, Jesus was headed to the cross,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: never to pass down that same road again. This is
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  Speaker 3: the moment. Put away your fear, your doubt, your pride,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: your worry about what other people think. Put it all
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  Speaker 3: away and come to this altar and say, God, I
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: need you. to dwell with me, to talk to me,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: to help me. I may not feel worthy. I may
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: be dressed in shame, but I'm coming. Because the veil
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: in the temple was ripped. It was ripped so I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: could have access into a mercy and a grace that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: I don't deserve. I'm not going to let you die
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: on the cross, shed your blood, raise from the dead,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: rip the veil in two, giving me access and me
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  Speaker 3: not take it. It's not enough for me to get
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  Speaker 3: this close to the church and not receive the precious
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  Speaker 3: blood of the Lamb. So, O Lamb of God, I come.
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  Speaker 3: Just as I am without one plea, but that thy blood...
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  Speaker 3: but shed for me. Lamb of God, I come. I
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: come with tears running down my face. Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 3: I come confused. I come tired. I come angry. I
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: come broken. I come feeling unseen and unheard, but I'm coming.
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  Speaker 3: Lamb of God, I come. Just as I am without
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  Speaker 3: one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me
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  Speaker 3: and that thou bidst me come to thee Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 3: I come just as I am and waiting not to
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  Speaker 3: rid my soul of one dark blood and to the
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  Speaker 3: one that can cleanse each spot. Oh, Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 3: I come. I come out of the balcony. I come
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  Speaker 3: out the back. I come out the crowd. I come rich.
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  Speaker 3: I come broke. I come educated. I come illiterate. Lamb
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  Speaker 3: of God, I come. I come guilty. I come embarrassed.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: I come ashamed. But Lamb of God, I come. I
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  Speaker 3: will not let this moment pass me by. I will
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  Speaker 3: not put on an air and walk around In a
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  Speaker 3: temple that has no glory, O Lamb of God, I come.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. There you go. Thank you. I come.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: I want him to play it one more time. Last call.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: Last call. I'm shorter than a football game. I'm shorter
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  Speaker 3: than In a boxing match, we can't rush through an
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: altar call and then fly in for a funeral. I come.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: I throw my hands up and I come. I come
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  Speaker 3: in a wheelchair. I come broken. I come on line.
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  Speaker 3: I come hurting. I come flawed. I come HIV positive.
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  Speaker 3: I come guilty. I come jilted. I come betrayed. I
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: come lied on. O Lamb of God, I come. Uh-huh.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: And that thou biddest me come to thee. O Lamb
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  Speaker 3: of God, I come. hold me just one moment before
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: I pray for these that have come are you sure
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to be up here because this is
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: the moment and time is fleeting and nobody can come
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: for you I can call to you but I can't
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  Speaker 3: come for you I'm going to pray for you. Drop
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: your pride. Drop your pride. Drop your pride. Drop your pride.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: I don't care who you are and what you did
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: and what happened to you. Drop your pride. Drop your pride.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: And come to this altar I don't care what you've
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: been tied up into. I don't care what the press
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  Speaker 3: is saying. I don't care what lodge you belong to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: or what you came from, what sorority. Let them fight
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: about all that stuff. I'm going to win people to Jesus.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going to win people to Jesus. I'm going to
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: do what I've been doing for 50 years. I'm going
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: to call you to Jesus. I'm not going to call
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: you to my opinion. I'm not going to call you
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  Speaker 3: to my ideas. I'm not going to call you to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: my concepts. I call you to Jesus. Going once. This
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: is the moment. Going twice. Going three times. As I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: pray for you today, I do not know your details.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: I do not know your circumstances. I don't have to
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: know them. God knows them. God knows where you came from.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: God knows what happened to you. God only knows what
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: you've been through. God brought you through to bring you
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: here for this moment. This is your time. This is
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: your moment to receive what God has for you. I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: don't care about none of it. This is your moment.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: You were born for more than what you're going through.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: You were created for more than this. God brought you
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: into this world so that you could have peace and
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: joy and love. He does not want you miserable. He
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: does not want you broken. He does not want you hurting.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: God wants to set you free. Yeah. Yeah. My God.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: My God. My God. Somebody shout glory. That's what's going
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: home with you. That's what's getting in the car with you.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: That's what's going in the house with you. Somebody shout glory.
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  Speaker 3: My God. My God. My God. My God. We thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now spirit of the living God. falls fresh on us today.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: Give us the kind of anointing that gets in the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: car with us, that goes home with us, that walks
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: us to sleep tonight, that gives us peace of mind.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: I thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Have your way, great God, that you are. I believe
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  Speaker 3: you for miracles. Amen. I thank you for healing. I
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: thank you for filling somebody with the Holy Ghost. Hey, hey, Jesus.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: I thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord. You're bigger
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: than titles. You're bigger than politics. You're bigger than problems.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: You're bigger than diseases. I thank you, Lord. You're the
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  Speaker 3: God of all flesh. There's nothing too hard for you.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody that agrees with that prayer, shout amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Shout amen again. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Before you go, family, at the house, we're invested in you.
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  Speaker 1: Not just what you do, but who you're becoming.
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  Speaker 2: And that means we need each other to stay accountable,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: stay held, and keep growing together.
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  Speaker 1: If today's word moves something in you that's not a coincidence,
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  Speaker 1: it's an invitation.
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  Speaker 2: There's a group, a serving team, and an event with
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: your name on it. Or, if you're ready, go ahead
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: and become a member.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Your giving isn't just support, it's ministry. It's you saying,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: I'm in on what God is.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: Building in this house.
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  Speaker 2: And if this word did something for you, don't sit
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• 1:12:47
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  Speaker 2: We love you.
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  Speaker 3: We see you.
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  Speaker 2: And we can't wait to do life with you.