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The Hidden Side Effect of Being Strong Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Bible and turn to Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 8.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Judges chapter 13, verse 1 through 8.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have it, say amen. And I want
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  Speaker 1: you to listen very closely, attentively to To what is
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  Speaker 1: being said here, because it recognizes and acknowledges the end
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  Speaker 1: of an era and the beginning of another one. And
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  Speaker 1: we are standing right at the hinge of a door
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  Speaker 1: of a great shift, as we are now. as we
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  Speaker 1: are right now. And again, the Israelites did evil in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Philistines 40 years. I got to stop
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  Speaker 1: there and thank God that God has a beginning and
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  Speaker 1: an end of trouble. That trouble don't last always. That
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  Speaker 1: if you had a going in date, you got a
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  Speaker 1: coming out date. Come on with me, somebody. Okay, there
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  Speaker 1: was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of
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  Speaker 1: the Danites, and his name was Manoah. His wife was
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  Speaker 1: infertile and did not bear children. And an angel of
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh appeared to the woman and he said to her, behold,
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  Speaker 1: you are infertile and have not born children. But, oh,
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  Speaker 1: God will put that but in there in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: but you will conceive and bear a son. So then
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  Speaker 1: be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink
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  Speaker 1: and do not eat anything unclean because you will conceive
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  Speaker 1: and bear a son. No razor will touch his head
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  Speaker 1: because the boy will be a Nazarite of God from birth.
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  Speaker 1: And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel
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  Speaker 1: from the hand of the Philistines. And the woman came
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  Speaker 1: and told her husband saying, a man of God came
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  Speaker 1: to me and his appearance was like the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: an angel of God. Very awesome. I believe it's a theophany.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime it looks like a man of God, yet she
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  Speaker 1: calls it an angel. A theophany is just a manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. I did not
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  Speaker 1: ask him from where he came, and he did not
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  Speaker 1: tell me his name. Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: to something. And he said to me, look, you will
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  Speaker 1: conceive and bear a son, so then do not drink
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  Speaker 1: wine or strong drink and do not eat anything unclean,
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  Speaker 1: for the boy will be a Nazarite of God from
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  Speaker 1: birth until the day of his death. Good God. Then
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  Speaker 1: Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, excuse me, my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: please let the man of God whom you sent again
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  Speaker 1: come to us and teach us what we should do
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  Speaker 1: concerning the boy who will be born. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to preach from a subject that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even seem relative to the text, but when I finish
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  Speaker 1: with it, it's going to make sense. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: preach side effects. Side effects. Let's pray together while we're standing.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on us now
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  Speaker 1: as we delve into the word of God. We thank you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for what you have prescribed for us, for what you
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  Speaker 1: have designated for us will shortly come to pass. You
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  Speaker 1: are God and God all by yourself. You need no
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  Speaker 1: one to vote you in and can't nobody put you out.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot impeach you. You are sovereign. You are Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: You are the absolute God. You are before there was
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  Speaker 1: where or when or this or that or Alpha or Omega.
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  Speaker 1: You alone are God. Nobody can take you. Nobody can
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  Speaker 1: move you. Nobody can break you. You are our God
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  Speaker 1: and you dwell amongst us. Have your way as we
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  Speaker 1: tabernacle up under the tent of your word, that we
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  Speaker 1: might hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying
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  Speaker 1: to the church, because we need a word for you.
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  Speaker 1: We wrestle with unreasonable men. We live in unreasonable times.
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  Speaker 1: We live in times, Lord, where the Philistines are upon us,
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  Speaker 1: and we need the anointing to break the yoke. Step in,
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  Speaker 1: great God that you are, and move in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of your people. We have no other God to call
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  Speaker 1: on but you. If there be any ratification, if there
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  Speaker 1: be any justice, if there be any righteousness, it must
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  Speaker 1: come down from heaven above. And so therefore, God, we
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  Speaker 1: commend our future into your hands. Have your way, God,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. I thank you in advance
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  Speaker 1: for what you're going to do. Do it, do it
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  Speaker 1: like nobody else can do it but you. Do it
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  Speaker 1: till we're praising God all the way home. Do it
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  Speaker 1: till we've got tears running down our face. Do it
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  Speaker 1: until yokes are broken and demons are defeated. Do it
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  Speaker 1: until witches are pulling their hair out. Do it until
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  Speaker 1: curses are broken. Do it in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for it. In Jesus' name, somebody shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated. Great God, great God, great God,
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  Speaker 1: great God. Great God, there's been some moment lately I
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  Speaker 1: just can't hardly control it. I've been feeling God pushing
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  Speaker 1: me in the back. My God, I feel the anointing
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord in here right now. Right now. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to notice first of all that this presence,
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  Speaker 1: this man that she said appeared as an angel of
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  Speaker 1: God reminds us and is reminiscent of the theophonic manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ himself. Not only that, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know that not only is the messenger a
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  Speaker 1: theophonic representation of Jesus Christ himself, the situation reminds us
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  Speaker 1: of something that will later be acted out in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ because the woman that he's talking to is barren
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  Speaker 1: and she has not been able to produce a child
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  Speaker 1: and God overrules the barrenness. And you will notice the
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  Speaker 1: story repeated over and over in the Bible with Abraham
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah and various characters in the Bible where God
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  Speaker 1: opens up that which is shut down. With Hannah, God
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  Speaker 1: opened up that which is shut down. With you, God
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  Speaker 1: opens up that which is shut down and causes the
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  Speaker 1: unfruitful to become fruitful. And one of the signs of
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God is that when an area of
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  Speaker 1: your life that is unfruitful suddenly becomes fruitful and you
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  Speaker 1: can give nobody credit for it but God, you have
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  Speaker 1: a different kind of praise. You have a different kind
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  Speaker 1: of praise. Penina couldn't praise God like Hannah did because
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  Speaker 1: Hannah knew that that that was in her was there
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  Speaker 1: by the power of God. And when you know it
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  Speaker 1: was there, when you know God did it, when you
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  Speaker 1: know God did it, When you know God did it,
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  Speaker 1: come hell or high water, you will stand on the
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  Speaker 1: integrity of God's word and watch him perform it in
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  Speaker 1: your life. And like Jesus' mother who encountered an angel alone,
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  Speaker 1: this woman encounters the angel alone and receives the word
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  Speaker 1: and brings it back to her husband. And she tells him,
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  Speaker 1: there's something that God does with women that are willing
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  Speaker 1: to be alone. I know y'all like to run in packs,
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  Speaker 1: but I noticed something throughout the Bible that when God
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  Speaker 1: catches you by yourself and you're not influenced by the
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  Speaker 1: voices of other people and other women in your life,
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  Speaker 1: there's a way that God will speak to you. He'll
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  Speaker 1: speak to you while you're driving the car. He'll speak
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  Speaker 1: to you after everybody's gone to bed. He'll speak to
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  Speaker 1: you early in the morning. and talk to you he
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  Speaker 1: has a way of showing up with women on the
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  Speaker 1: lawn like he did when he said hell Mary you
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  Speaker 1: have been highly favored amongst women you shall bring forth
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  Speaker 1: a son and his name shall be called Jesus he
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  Speaker 1: speaks to you in a way that causes other people
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  Speaker 1: not to believe that he spoke to you But their
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  Speaker 1: unbelief does not make God's word of no effect. If
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  Speaker 1: God has spoken to you, he's spoken to you. Manoah
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  Speaker 1: came along and said, speak once again. He wanted to hear.
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  Speaker 1: But what God has for you is for you. And
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  Speaker 1: God has a way of speaking to you. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're smart in a man... and a woman speaks something,
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  Speaker 1: especially if she's a praying woman, you pay her some attention.
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  Speaker 1: You pay her some attention even if you act like
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  Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. You pay her some attention because
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  Speaker 1: she's been right so many times. that you at least
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  Speaker 1: give some consideration to her perspective because she's a praying woman.
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  Speaker 1: If you got a praying woman, give her a hug
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  Speaker 1: right now. Because a praying woman is a treasure. A
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  Speaker 1: praying woman is something special. A praying woman can produce
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  Speaker 1: things that couldn't be produced any other kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: A praying woman can have doors open up for her
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  Speaker 1: by herself because she's a praying woman. If you got
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  Speaker 1: a praying woman, You can be sick in your body
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  Speaker 1: and God will heal you. will heal you. When I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to my wife, her knee didn't get healed
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  Speaker 1: until I collapsed. And the moment I collapsed, she got
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  Speaker 1: healed right on the spot. When you got a praying woman,
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  Speaker 1: God will give you a miracle immediately. Amen. Suddenly, without reservation,
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  Speaker 1: she's been walking ever since, wearing heels ever since, doing
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  Speaker 1: what she wanted to do ever since. When you got
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  Speaker 1: a praying woman and the odds are all against you,
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  Speaker 1: if you got a praying woman, she'll turn that thing
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  Speaker 1: around and all of a sudden God will do a
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  Speaker 1: new thing in you.
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  Speaker 1: I use the term side
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  Speaker 1: effects because I was watching TV and it used to
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  Speaker 1: be when you watch TV, they would advertise the medicine,
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  Speaker 1: but not the side effects. But they started getting sued
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  Speaker 1: so much that now at the end, even if they
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  Speaker 1: have to speed up the voice and talk real fast,
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  Speaker 1: they make sure that you understand that with the prescription
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  Speaker 1: comes side effects. And I'm glad they do it because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the side effects are worse than the problem. They
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  Speaker 1: say if you got dry eyes and a runny nose,
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  Speaker 1: you take this pill, you may experience bleeding. You may
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  Speaker 1: have insomnia. You may break out in sweats in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the day. You may not be able to walk.
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  Speaker 1: You may only have two toes. And I started thinking
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather go ahead and have the dry eye than
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the side effects. My God, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: just me. But them side effects, the side effects of
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  Speaker 1: the things that people try to leave out, they go
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  Speaker 1: along with the prescription. Prescription is a term that is
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  Speaker 1: used to where the doctor has written out in advance
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  Speaker 1: something that you're going to take that's going to change
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  Speaker 1: your tomorrow. You take it today, it changes your tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It is a prescription. In theology, we would call it
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  Speaker 1: a prophecy. Yeah. Yeah. a word that over time it
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  Speaker 1: begins to work in your life. But even with the prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: understand that God doesn't always give detail. Even God didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you about the side effects. Abraham, Abraham, take now
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  Speaker 1: thy only son to a place that I will show you.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't tell him about the side effects. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell him about the trouble he would run into. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell him that the servants would leave him halfway
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  Speaker 1: up the mountain. He didn't tell him that he'd have
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  Speaker 1: to tie him down and raise his knife to slay
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  Speaker 1: his son. He didn't tell him about the ram in
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  Speaker 1: the bush because the trying of your faith doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: you details. Amen. The trying of your faith doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: you details. He just gives you the purview, but he
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  Speaker 1: just gives you the preview, but he doesn't give you
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  Speaker 1: the details, the prescriptions, the side effects, the circumstances, and
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And I read this text, and I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't tell them about the side effects. You told
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  Speaker 1: this barren woman that she would bring forth the sons.
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  Speaker 1: and that her son would save his people from 40
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  Speaker 1: years of Philistinian domination. But you didn't tell him, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell them that they were going to have all
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  Speaker 1: kind of trouble out of that son. You didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: him that that son was going to have to fight
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  Speaker 1: for it, that he was going to have to prove himself,
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to be tested. You didn't tell him.
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  Speaker 1: And so we are so preoccupied with the prescription that
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  Speaker 1: we don't notice the side effects. I went to Sunday school.
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  Speaker 1: They taught me about Samson when I was a little boy.
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  Speaker 1: And they had this big burly guy standing up there
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  Speaker 1: as a picture. He had triceps and biceps and muscles
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  Speaker 1: and everything. And he looked all muscular. And they showed
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  Speaker 1: him lifting up gates and throwing gates on people and
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  Speaker 1: taking the jawbone of an ass and killing 10,000 Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: And they showed him like he was a superhero. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: like he was a Marvel character. But that diminishes the
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  Speaker 1: power of the text. Because if Samson had been powerful outwardly,
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  Speaker 1: then Delilah would have never had to ask him, where
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  Speaker 1: does your strength come from? That means that there is
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  Speaker 1: a strength that you can't see. That means that he
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  Speaker 1: might have been tiny and scrawny because she couldn't figure
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  Speaker 1: out how a man that looked like him could do
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  Speaker 1: what he did. Just like your haters can't figure out
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  Speaker 1: how a person like you can do what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is not obvious to people That you have
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  Speaker 1: as much as you have. You don't walk in arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: Your nose is not up in the air. You don't
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  Speaker 1: flaunt your ability in front of anybody. But when it
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  Speaker 1: is needed, you have a way of rising to the
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  Speaker 1: occasion and the enemy doesn't understand you. Shame on you
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  Speaker 1: for confusing the devil. Shame on you for shocking the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you for coming up just when he thought
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  Speaker 1: he had you down and you fooled him, you popped
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  Speaker 1: back up again. Just when he thought you was going
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  Speaker 1: to die, you jumped up and lived again. Just when
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  Speaker 1: he thought he had you truly depressed, you got joy
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  Speaker 1: and started laughing, didn't even know what you was laughing about.
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  Speaker 1: But the joy of the Lord is your strength. And
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't understand why you're happy. Hallelujah, because God has
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  Speaker 1: a way of doing things that boggles. It boggles the
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  Speaker 1: human mind. It leaves speechless the most talkative person. It
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  Speaker 1: has a way of shocking people how you can find
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  Speaker 1: strength in strange places. And it's something to be a
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  Speaker 1: strong person, to be a strong person. It frustrates the
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  Speaker 1: devil when you're a strong person. Because what should have
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  Speaker 1: broke you didn't break you. What should have killed you
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill you. What should have made you collapse didn't
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  Speaker 1: make you collapse. What should have made you an alcoholic
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  Speaker 1: didn't make you an alcoholic. What should have made you
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  Speaker 1: blow your brains out didn't make you blow your brains out.
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  Speaker 1: It's something about being a strong person. That's the prescription.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell you about the side effects. There
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  Speaker 1: are side effects to being a strong person. People take
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  Speaker 1: you for granted when you're a strong person. People put
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  Speaker 1: more weight on you when you're a strong person. People
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  Speaker 1: bring you your problems and their problems and somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: problem when you're a strong person. People don't comfort you
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  Speaker 1: when you're a strong person. Oh, you just made like that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you just can handle it. That's just how you are.
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  Speaker 1: The side effects of being a strong person means that
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  Speaker 1: many times you have to encourage yourself in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: because you're a strong person. Are there any strong people
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  Speaker 1: in the room? You're the one the whole family calls on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what goes wrong. When things go bad,
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  Speaker 1: they call you because you're the one that comes in
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  Speaker 1: with the sobriety of mind and a stillness of spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And you make decisions and you execute judgment because you're
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  Speaker 1: a strong person. They don't think that the weight bothers you.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think that the weight intimidates you. They don't
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  Speaker 1: think that the weight is powerfully powerful. applied to your shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think that you have any pain. They don't
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  Speaker 1: think that you have any problem. They don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you stay up at night at two and three o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. They don't know the things that you
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  Speaker 1: endure because you make hell look easy. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it again since I'm out there. You make hell
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  Speaker 1: look easy. You make it look like it doesn't bother you.
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  Speaker 1: It's the side effects of being a strong person. They
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  Speaker 1: don't ever cuddle you. They don't ever comfort you. They
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  Speaker 1: call you and start immediately telling you about their problem.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even ask you how you are. How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel? What's going on in your life? These are
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  Speaker 1: the side effects. of being a strong person to him
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  Speaker 1: who much is given much is required because you are
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  Speaker 1: a strong person are there any strong people in here
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  Speaker 1: the problem with being a strong person is strong people
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  Speaker 1: get tired too strong people hurt too strong people bleed
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  Speaker 1: too You can be strong and sensitive. You can be
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  Speaker 1: strong and be weary. You can be strong and be empty.
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  Speaker 1: You can be strong and be isolated. You can be
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  Speaker 1: strong and be in a struggle that nobody even understands
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  Speaker 1: that you have a struggle because they're so busy getting
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  Speaker 1: you to take care of their struggle that they don't
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  Speaker 1: even worry about your struggle. Samson did not ask for
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  Speaker 1: this fight with the Philistines. He wasn't even asking for
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  Speaker 1: it when he got born and it was decided before
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  Speaker 1: he got there. It was pre-scripted. For this cause he
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  Speaker 1: came into the world. The fight was picked out for
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  Speaker 1: him before he made his first sound. Some of you,
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  Speaker 1: the fight was picked out for you before you made
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  Speaker 1: the first sound. You didn't pick your mama. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: pick your daddy. You didn't pick the age you were
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  Speaker 1: born into. You didn't pick the city you were in.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't pick the rape. You didn't pick the trauma.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't pick the situation. You were chosen for adversity.
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  Speaker 1: God told Jeremiah, before I formed thee in the belly,
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  Speaker 1: I knew thee and I ordained thee to be a
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  Speaker 1: prophet unto the nation. Before you cried your first, I cried.
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  Speaker 1: Before you took your first step, before you took your
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  Speaker 1: first swallow of milk, I had already ordained your step.
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  Speaker 1: I had already chosen you. I had set you aside.
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  Speaker 1: In that same way, Samson was chosen and his enemy
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  Speaker 1: was chosen and the fight had started before they ever met.
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  Speaker 1: My God. There was a fight that was picked out
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  Speaker 1: for you before you ever even came here. You don't
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  Speaker 1: understand why you go through what you go through, why
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  Speaker 1: you feel what you feel, why you endure what you endure.
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  Speaker 1: It was picked out for you before you got there.
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  Speaker 1: The Philistines were waiting for you to be born. You
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  Speaker 1: were born into a struggle. You were born into a test.
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  Speaker 1: You were born into a dilemma. You were born into
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. It was set aside for you, but God
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  Speaker 1: equipped you before he birthed you God equipped you Before
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  Speaker 1: he birthed you. And you can walk through hell and
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  Speaker 1: not get burned. You can stand in the fiery furnace
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  Speaker 1: and not be sinned. You can lay down and go
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  Speaker 1: to bed with lions and wake up in the morning yawning.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't even understand how you can do it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But God equips you for it. He built you for it.
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  Speaker 1: He built you to raise that child. He built you
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  Speaker 1: to handle that circumstance. He built you to handle that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're a strong person. But the side effect is,
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  Speaker 1: just because you're strong, don't mean you don't get tired.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is often perceived as weakness. People who talk a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot, and they talk a lot of stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: learned a long time ago, I didn't learn this in
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  Speaker 1: the church, I learned this in the street, don't watch
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  Speaker 1: the guy Who keep talking, talking about if you walk
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  Speaker 1: over here, you're going to limp back. You want some
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of this? You come over here, you're going to run
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  Speaker 1: into something. Don't watch that guy that's putting on a
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  Speaker 1: big show and breaks a beer bottle in the club
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  Speaker 1: and says, I wish you would. Don't watch him. Watch
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's sitting over there calm. And he ain't
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  Speaker 1: saying nothing. That's the one you need to watch out for.
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  Speaker 1: Because even though silence is often perceived as a weakness,
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  Speaker 1: actually it takes great strength to hold your peace. It
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  Speaker 1: takes a great deal of strength not to speak your mind.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I listen to people talk to me sometimes and I
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  Speaker 1: thought of a thousand things to say back while they
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  Speaker 1: were saying their 10. And it took all of my
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  Speaker 1: strength just to sit there and go, Because if I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: let that thing rip, you'd be crying for two years.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: If I told you what I thought, if I told
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  Speaker 1: you what came across my mind, if I told you
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  Speaker 1: what I really thought, you don't want me to open
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. You don't want me to open my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Because while you was drawing your breath, I had already
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  Speaker 1: thought of a hundred things I could have said back.
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  Speaker 1: Silence does not mean weakness. It does not mean ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean intimidation. It takes great power. to
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  Speaker 1: be silent. It takes great power to hold your peace.
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  Speaker 1: It takes great power to go through a storm and
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  Speaker 1: not retaliate. It takes great power not to defend yourself
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  Speaker 1: when you go to war. Silence is a great strength. Silence. Silence.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said in quietness and in confidence shall be
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  Speaker 1: your strength. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
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  Speaker 1: When you are quiet and you are confident, you have strength.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. I went into a building.
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  Speaker 1: They were trying to make a seat for me on
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  Speaker 1: the stage. I said, that's all right. I said, I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: can sit anywhere. Because I am no more sitting on
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the stage than I am sitting on the floor. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: can sit anywhere. Because I knew who I was when
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  Speaker 1: I came here. You don't have to give me a
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  Speaker 1: certain seat in order for me to be what I
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  Speaker 1: already am. I know who I am. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't call my name, my name still got power in it.
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  Speaker 1: It still got authority in it. Y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Silence is a great strength. Don't let people
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  Speaker 1: make you because if you let people make you, they'll
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  Speaker 1: turn around and break you. But you got to know
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  Speaker 1: when you walk in the door who you are. You
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  Speaker 1: got to know you bad before they ever start talking.
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  Speaker 1: You got to know you strong before they ever start talking.
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  Speaker 1: And I need not the commendations of men to define
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  Speaker 1: what God has already declared. If God declared it, it
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  Speaker 1: is so. If God declared it, it is what it is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Hallelujah to God. I went to one place to preach
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  Speaker 1: years ago and I preached. I didn't do that good
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  Speaker 1: because I was nervous because they had all these titles
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  Speaker 1: and made me kind of nervous. I didn't do that good.
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  Speaker 1: I came back about several years later. I said, when
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  Speaker 1: I came the first time, I was nervous because I
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  Speaker 1: thought I needed you. I said, but now I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: for you because I realize you need me. Once you
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: start to understand who you are and you understand your place,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about arrogance. I'm quoting scripture, in silence
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  Speaker 1: and quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't scared of none of you. In quietness and in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: confidence shall be your strength. You got an opinion, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: got one too. You think this, I think that. I
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  Speaker 1: got just as much right to think that as you
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  Speaker 1: got to think this. Glory to God, I'm a grown man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm as grown as I ever gonna be. I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly who I am and I don't have to tell
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  Speaker 1: you who I am. I can show you who I
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  Speaker 1: am and I don't have to prove who I am
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: because that that is doesn't have to be proven. It
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just is. It just is. Can I get a witness
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in here? Y'all can't handle this kind of preaching, but
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: some of y'all need this kind of preaching because you're
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: always trying to prove something to people that don't even matter.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Always trying to impress people that don't even matter. Always
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: trying to move people who aren't going to help you
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other. They're not going to be
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: there one way or the other and ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: need you saying nothing because they're not going to do
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  Speaker 1: nothing anyway. Hold your peace and let the Lord fight
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: your battles. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: The enemies that you see today, you shall see them
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: no more. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm preaching to somebody. Oh my God,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: my God, my God. High five somebody and say, you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: ain't got to say nothing. It is what it is.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: You ain't got to say nothing. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't got to say a word. The truth is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: going to stand when the world's on fire. It is
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: what it is. Hold your peace and watch God work
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  Speaker 1: it out. You ain't got to say nothing. High five
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: somebody else and say you ain't got to say nothing.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Don't write no note. Don't send no email. Don't send
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: no text. Just stand still. You ain't got to say nothing. Now,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Samson was prescribed a battle he didn't cause. In fact,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the Bible said the Lord had sent the Philistines to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: attack Israel. I'm not going to say a lot about this.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't say nothing. But it is not true
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: that just because Israel is God's chosen people that God
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: didn't ever punish them. He was always for them, but
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that didn't mean he didn't punish them. That didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't send armies to chastise them. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that he doesn't send armies to chastise us. Just
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: because you got the favor of God doesn't mean that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: God won't correct you sometime. Where are my real people at?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Where are my real people at? You know you belong
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to God. You know you've been washed. in his blood.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: You know you're chosen of God, but won't he get
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you together? Won't he humble you and bring you to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: your knees? Won't he bring you down to the floor
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and make you call on his name? Just because you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: have his favor doesn't mean you don't have correction. In fact,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Bible says, spare the rod. and you'll spoil the child.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: And the more you belong to God, the more God
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: will get you together. Other people can do it, and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: it's just fine. But when you do it, you have
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. You can't figure out why. It's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: because you are God's. And the chastening of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: proves that you are His. He will get you together.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you know you're saved. It's not your tongues.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your dance. It's not your clothing. It's not
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: your outfit. It's not your jerking and shaking. It's how
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: he corrects you. It's how he pulls you in. It's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: how he gets you together. It's how he brings you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to your knees. That's how you know you've been chosen. God!
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I better hold it because I feel something. I feel something.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I feel something. I feel something. I feel something. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: feel something. I feel something. I feel something. Now Samson
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  Speaker 1: was chosen to deliver the Israelites, to start the deliverance
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of the Israelites from the Philistines. He was chosen for that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: The problem is Samson also is attracted to Y'all don't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: want to hear the truth. Let me give you the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday school class. I can give you the Sunday school class,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you can have it. The problem is, Samson is attracted
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  Speaker 1: to the people he's supposed to defeat. This conflict is
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the issues of life. Because on one hand, he's supposed
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to destroy them, but he thinks they're kind of cute.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: There was a woman from Timnah and he saw her
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and he came home and told his parents, he said,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I met this girl from Timnah and I want to
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  Speaker 1: marry her and I want to make her my wife.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, of all the daughters of Israel, couldn't
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you find one of your own people? He said, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now look at the conflict. The conflict. I am created
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to destroy what I am also created attracted to. It's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: easy to kill what you don't like, but when God
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: calls you to kill what you are attracted to, it
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: creates a dilemma. I ain't going to bother you because
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I know you can't act real. I know you got
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to fake and be phony and act like you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand when you get confused and you don't know whether
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to slam or hug them. You're in a situation. You're
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in a dilemma. You're in a situation. You're in a dilemma.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I'm attracted to a Philistinian woman. The Bible doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: give her name because her name is not important. Her
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  Speaker 1: ethnicity is important because it proves a point that we
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  Speaker 1: can have mixed feelings about any situation. I love the job.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I hate the job. Come on. Come on, real people.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Real people talk to me. Real people talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Real people talk to me. You get on my nerves,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: but I feel sorry for you. And I'm in a conflict.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I'm in a strait. I don't know how I feel
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: about it because I'm supposed to be, I was prescribed
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to attack. But I'm trying to attack what I am
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: attracted to. And he was going to marry her. Say,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: but for the riddle, he would have married her. He
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: was going to make her his. Right. In spite of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: his parents' dissent, he was going to still marry her,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: but he gave a riddle, and a riddle caused a
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  Speaker 1: rift to break out amongst the Philistines because Samson gave
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: them a riddle about the honey and the lion that
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: brought them into a place of confusion, and it broke
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: up the whole thing. Look at the things that almost
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: happened to you. Can I talk to somebody? Can I
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: talk to anybody? about the stuff that almost happened to you.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: The decisions you almost made. If it wasn't for the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: grace of God, you wouldn't even be sitting by who
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you sitting beside. You wouldn't even be standing where you're standing.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: You almost, you almost, you almost fainted. You almost collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: You almost gave in. That's why I don't understand why
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you looking down your nose at other people. Because there
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: but for the grace of God, There but for the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: grace of God. There but for the grace. There but
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: for the grace. There but for the grace. There but
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  Speaker 1: for the grace. There but for the grace go you
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and I. Because you were drawn to a girl from Timnah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a Philistine. You were born to destroy what you were
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: drawn to keep. In between that We keep showing his strength.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He's throwing gates on Philistines. Y'all didn't get it. He
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: likes a Philistinian girl and yet he's throwing gates on Philistines.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: He crazy. He took a jawbone of an ass. and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: destroyed thousands of Philistines, but he was drawn to the Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear me. He was crazy. He was strong,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: but he was weak. Oh, y'all not saying much to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: me now. When I was asking who was strong, y'all
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was jumping up and y'all was hollering. Y'all was making
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: all kind of noise. You was doing jumping jacks. You
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: did a flip and a cartwheel and landed in the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: middle of the floor. But every person, every Superman got kryptonite.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Every Superman got kryptonite. And if they find out what
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the kryptonite is, it puts you in a dilemma because
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you can be strong with a gate. and turn around
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and be weak as water. In another situation, the paradoxical
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: reality of the psychological existence of humanity creates complications that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: makes you hard to know. Because if I catch you
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: throwing gates, all I think you are is strong. But
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: if I see you peeking over the fence at Timnah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: all I think you are is weak. And both assessments
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: are wrong because you're not as strong as they think
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: you are. And you're not as weak as they think
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you are. You are somewhere between strong and weak. And
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: how can you live in your strength and deal with
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: your weakness because they both exist in the same person
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: at the same time? Can I go deeper? Can I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: go a little bit deeper? Because the truth of the matter,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the reason you done got quiet, because I hit you
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: right in the gut. I hit you right in the
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  Speaker 1: belly because when I was talking about strength, you was
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: proud to stand up. But when I exposed that strong
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: people have weaknesses, you sat up and sat down because
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: you don't want to acknowledge to anybody because half of
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: your strength is used trying to prove to them that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you ain't nothing but strong. But in reality, you're looking
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: for somebody, not who can deal with your strength, who
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: can deal with your weakness. Because everybody's drawn to your strength,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: but not everybody's drawn to your struggle. And you don't
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: want anybody to know that there's a soft spot in you.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: There's a spot in you that cries at night. There's
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a spot in you that wants to give up. There's
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: a spot in you that wants to collapse. There's a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: spot in you that wants to cry. There's a spot
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in you that does dumb stuff, makes foolish decisions, trusts
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  Speaker 1: bad people, has bad ideas, gets yourself in trouble, and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you show me how strong you are. But a friend
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: of somebody, you can show how weak you are, how
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: unsure you are, how tired you are, how scared you are,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: how worried you are. I didn't go to bed till
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning. And you think I got
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it all together. You think I got all the answers.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And there I am at 2.30. 2.30 trying to figure
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: out which way to go which door do I move
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: in which direction should I take I'm not as strong
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: as I think I am as you think I am
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: but we are spending our strength trying to prove something
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: that ain't true We're spending our strength trying to show
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: everybody that we can handle everything. And you're exhausted because
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the camouflage of your strength only serves as a conduit
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: to hide your frailty. And the person who can deal
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: with both sides is the person you talk to the most.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Because if I got to always be strong, I'm going
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to get tired of talking to you. And if I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: got to always be weak, I'm going to be tired
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: of talking to you. But if I could give you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: three strong sentences and two weak sentences, we can make
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a paragraph. Come on, come on somebody. We can make
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: a paragraph because I ain't lying about neither one of them.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I know exactly what to do and I wish
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you would. If you come over here, I wish you would.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: But on the other hand, I don't know what to do.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know where to go. And it's much easier
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: to find somebody who can deal with the strength in
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: you than it is to find somebody who can deal
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: with the weakness in you because as soon as they
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: find the weakness in you, they drop you like you trash.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: The Philistines sent their army against Samson and he ate
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: their lunch. He tied the tails of the foxes together
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: and set them on fire and burned their fields. He
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: lifted up gates and threw it on them. See, if
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: you throw the right thing on me, I'll tear you up.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I'll tear you up. I'll tear you up. And then
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: they got together and they had a meeting and said,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: none of that strong stuff is working. And they hired
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Delilah He laughing at me, he made me laugh. Here
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Delilah come switching in. Everybody else come in. They got
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: all kind of armor. They got swords. They got shields.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Delilah come in. And all of a sudden the strong
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: man has to admit that his strength has side effects.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Did you know that your strength has? In fact, you
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: cannot find intimacy until you can show your side effects.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: As long as you can only handle my camouflage, then
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I have to be a hero 24 hours a day.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: You know what's wrong with most of our women? They've
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: had to be heroes 24 hours a day. They are
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: so tired of being heroes that they have lost their
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: ability to be vulnerable. They don't even respect vulnerability. You're
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: only respected the more you don't need nobody, the more
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you can do it for yourself, the more you can
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: buy your own car, your own house, your own stuff,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the more you can do it, the more you are
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: respected when you don't understand that sometimes your strongest strength
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: is in your vulnerability. Can I go deeper? If Christ
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: would have came as the lion from the tribe of Judah,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have redeemed anybody. But because he knew that
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: his greatest strength was in his greatest weakness, he became
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God. And when he became the Lamb
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: of God, he delivered more people as a lamb than
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: he could as a lion. And what's wrong with our
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: men is that all we want to do is roar,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and we don't know that sometimes a soft answer turneth
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: away wrath. And we don't know how to understand how
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  Speaker 1: to be vulnerable sometimes and say, I'm tired. Ooh, they
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  Speaker 1: quiet on me, Jesus. You didn't tell me that one
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  Speaker 1: of the side effects of preaching this message was going
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  Speaker 1: to make people get quiet. But I don't care. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care because you're not balanced until you can operate
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  Speaker 1: in both graces. Amen. Until you can operate in both graces.
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  Speaker 1: When you can still be strong and that's true. And
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, you can be vulnerable and that's
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  Speaker 1: still true. And you don't think any less of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Because you understand that sometimes it takes more power to
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  Speaker 1: be vulnerable than it does to be powerful. And you
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  Speaker 1: never learned that because nobody modeled it in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: They either were extremely powerful and showed no mercy or
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  Speaker 1: extremely merciful and showed no power. And now you got
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  Speaker 1: a lopsided fight. You're not using the fullness of what
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  Speaker 1: you got. So they hired Delilah because they knew that
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't handle the side effect. Can I preach this text? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like preaching this text. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody. The strong display
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  Speaker 1: of power was in the prescription, his ability to be vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: the character weakness, his side effects. The great deception is
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't the big stuff. It was the little things.
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  Speaker 1: The things, isn't it funny how you can get in
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  Speaker 1: an argument, they can cuss you out and you can
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  Speaker 1: handle it? But if they said you wasn't a good mama?
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  Speaker 1: You would rather them call you a tramp and you
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  Speaker 1: come right back at them. Your mammy was a tramp.
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  Speaker 1: Your grandmama was a tramp. But when they said you
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a good mama, it hit a soft spot. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, hit a soft spot. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: a tear's over in the corner. What do you mean
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a good mother? I was always a good mother.
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  Speaker 1: I did side effects. And they hired Delilah to be
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  Speaker 1: a side effect. And it brought him to his knees.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the killer part. I assumed that the coming
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  Speaker 1: of Delilah was about sex. But I cannot find in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures where Samson and Delilah had sex. Maybe they did,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't tell us. Every time I see Samson
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah, he is laying his head Come on, I
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  Speaker 1: know this word. I know this word. He is laying
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  Speaker 1: his head in her lap. So he compromised all that
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  Speaker 1: he was as a judge for now. Y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. See,
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  Speaker 1: he found some place. She could have took all that
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  Speaker 1: switching back home. He found the place where he could
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  Speaker 1: lay his head. And I don't know who I'm talking to,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm after somebody that your real problem is not
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  Speaker 1: your carnality. It's your weariness. You don't have a safe
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  Speaker 1: place You don't have a place that won't criticize you
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  Speaker 1: and tell you you just need to man up. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have a place where you can be a girl again.
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  Speaker 1: You're scared to death to be a girl again because
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  Speaker 1: you don't trust anybody else to take care of you
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  Speaker 1: But you because you've always had to take care of
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  Speaker 1: you and it's the only role that you've learned the
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  Speaker 1: script to And if you've learned the script for one
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  Speaker 1: role you can only play one part You have never
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  Speaker 1: had the luxury of being scared the luxury of being tired.
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  Speaker 1: The luxury of being vulnerable. And you do good with
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  Speaker 1: God because you can't see him. But to make yourself
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable to somebody you can see, you can't, you just,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't hearing it. Because you never were scripted to
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  Speaker 1: be human. And you know what the problem is? You're tired.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't understand being tired is a side effect
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  Speaker 1: of being strong. When you've been strong too long. When
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  Speaker 1: you've been tough all your life. When every morning you
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  Speaker 1: had to fight, you don't know how to just relax
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  Speaker 1: and say I'm tired. He knew, watch this, I'm almost done.
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  Speaker 1: He knew she was trying to kill him. Still, he
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  Speaker 1: laid his head in her lap. She asked him where
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  Speaker 1: his strength was. He lied to her over and over again. Now,
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  Speaker 1: once I find out you're trying to kill me, all
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  Speaker 1: attraction goes. Okay? All attraction goes. As long as I
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: don't think you're trying to kill me, I'm good. But
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: when I find out that you're really trying to hurt
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  Speaker 1: me for real, you ain't nearly as cute as you
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  Speaker 1: was a minute ago. You're not, no, no. All of
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  Speaker 1: that goes away. All of that dries up because you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill me. But he was so desperate. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear. God, make them hear it because I can't
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  Speaker 1: do it without you. Make them hear it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: hear how desperate he was for a place to lay
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  Speaker 1: his head. And my assignment this morning, what God called
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  Speaker 1: me to preach to you this morning, is that there
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  Speaker 1: would be many people in this room and watching on
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  Speaker 1: stream right now who do not have a safe place
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  Speaker 1: to lay your head. And it's been so long since
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  Speaker 1: you've had it, you convince yourself you don't need it.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you got it, you don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to treat it. And now you push away what you
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: could rest in. Because you don't know how to be tired.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how to be tired. You know how
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  Speaker 1: to fight. You know how to kill. You know how
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  Speaker 1: to destroy. You know how to attack. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to be tired. And for a moment of laying
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  Speaker 1: his head, he risked his life to lay his head.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He lost his eyes to lay his head. He went
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  Speaker 1: blind and lost his vision to lay his head. And
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering how many people in here are praying for
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: vision but you can't get vision because you are so
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: desperate to find a place to lay your head that
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you've lost your vision. And I'm wondering how many people
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  Speaker 1: in here are treading at the mill with the oxus
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  Speaker 1: when you are a judge over Israel. You are the
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  Speaker 1: end of an era. You are the last judge before
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: we see kings. And you cannot be the judge that
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  Speaker 1: brings us into kings because you've lost your vision. And
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: when Hollywood does it, they try to make it lurid
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  Speaker 1: and sexual and vivacious and all of these kinds of things.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: They try to make it salacious. They try to appeal
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  Speaker 1: to our human lusts when they don't realize that this
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: is about not lust. This is about a lingering tiredness
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: that will not go away. And the Lord told me
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  Speaker 1: if I would preach this that he would crack through
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  Speaker 1: You're camouflaged. And he said, if you would open up
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  Speaker 1: and admit that you're tired, Delilah would not be your
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  Speaker 1: side effect. Delilah would not be your side effect. Delilah
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: is more than a woman. Don't think about her as
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  Speaker 1: a woman. She's a woman, but she's more than a woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's a spirit. She's a spirit. She's anything you have
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  Speaker 1: to lay in to lay in. She's anything you got
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  Speaker 1: to rest in. She's anything that you're willing to give
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  Speaker 1: up everything Just for a moment of rest. And you
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  Speaker 1: know it's killing you. She's a drug. She's an addiction.
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  Speaker 1: She's a high. She's anything you go to to lay
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: your head. She's the kryptonite. You go to where life
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: is killing you. And that's why church is not working
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: for you. Because when you get ready for church, the
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: last thing you put on before you leave is your camouflage.
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  Speaker 1: And you know why we can't have real worship? Because
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  Speaker 1: real worship will strip you. Real worship will bring you
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  Speaker 1: down to your knees. Real worship will make you lay
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  Speaker 1: prostrate on the floor. Real worship will bring tears gushing
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  Speaker 1: out of your eyes. Real worship will make you cry
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  Speaker 1: out before God. Real worship will make you open your
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  Speaker 1: mouth and scream. Real worship will make you expose the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you hide from everybody else. Real worship will
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: make you say, I don't know which way to go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to fix it. Real worship. will make elders collapse on
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: the floor like sinners. There won't be anybody to pray
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: for anybody because the elders will collapse just like a sinner.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Real worship will bring you down to your knees until
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  Speaker 1: the singers sit down beside the prostitutes and the prostitutes
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  Speaker 1: start sitting down beside the deacons, and they're all laying
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  Speaker 1: out on the floor because real worship will get down
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  Speaker 1: in you. But you can't take off. Watch it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at you right now. You can't come out of
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: your Superman suit. I'm challenging you this morning to find
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: your phone booth. so you can stop being Superman. I
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: came to preach to Clark Kent. I didn't come to
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: preach to Superman. I came to preach to somebody who's tired.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I came to preach to somebody who's dry. I came
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: to preach to somebody who's empty. I came to preach
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to somebody who's frustrated. I came to preach to somebody
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: who's tired of acting like you got it all together
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: when you ain't got nothing together. You can handle scriptures,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: but you can't handle money. You can handle money, but
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: you can't handle your own kids. You can handle your kids,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: but you can't handle your job. I came to preach
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  Speaker 1: in a phone booth. I didn't come to preach at
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the potter's house. I came to preach in a phone booth.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to find a safe place where you
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  Speaker 1: can change out of your boots and leave your cape
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  Speaker 1: off and come before God just as I am. I
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  Speaker 1: came to preach till you're naked and not ashamed. I
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  Speaker 1: came to preach until tears are flushing down your face.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach till you find someplace you can
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  Speaker 1: lay your head. I came to preach till you feel
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: the glory of God. Fill up a room. I came
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: to preach till something gets down in your spirit and
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: makes you fall on your knees. I came to preach
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: till you don't care who's looking at you and you
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: don't care what they think about you and you don't
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: care what they call you. I came to preach till
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: you don't care about your title. I came to preach
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: till you don't care about your position. I came to
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  Speaker 1: preach till you don't care what your husband thinks. I
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  Speaker 1: came to preach till you don't care what your wife thinks.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach till something in your belly opens
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  Speaker 1: up and cries out before God. I came to preach
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  Speaker 1: until you say I won't let you go. till you
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  Speaker 1: bless my soul. I won't let you go till you
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  Speaker 1: fix me. I won't let you go till you heal me.
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  Speaker 1: I won't let you go until you touch me. I
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  Speaker 1: came to preach till something opens up in your belly.
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  Speaker 1: I came to preach until you feel the power of
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: God fall. I came to preach until the anointing falls
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: in your severe. I came to preach until the Holy
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Ghost touches you from the crown of your head. to
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: the soles of your feet. I came to preach. I
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: came to preach until glory hits you. I came to
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: preach till the anointing of God begins to fall. I
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: came to preach until you come out of all of
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: this hard stuff, this tough stuff, this stony stuff, this
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: vicious stuff, this angry stuff. I came to preach until
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: anger goes away. I came to preach... until you lose
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: your anger and you lay on your face and say, God,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I need you like I never needed you before. I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: came to preach, hallelujah, until your side effects get out
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: of your way. I came to preach you. So you
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: can find at least one place, one day out the week,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: one hour where you can lay before God and say,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: before I go to work Monday, I got to have
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: this moment where I can lay my head. I came
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: to preach. I left my house. so I could lay
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: my head. I left my car so I could lay
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: my head. I left my job so I could lay
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: my head. I left my business so I could lay
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: my head. The truth is... I'm tired, God. I'm tired, God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired, God. I'm tired of everybody calling me. I'm
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: tired of everybody pulling on me. I'm tired of everybody
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: needing me. I came to preach until something gets down
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: in your belly and you say, I'm going to get
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: the blessing. I don't care what it costs. I'm going
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: to get the blessing. Are you in this place today? Amen.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to count to three and you got to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: decide either I'm going home like Superman or I'm coming
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to the altar like Clark Kent. One. You got a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: few minutes to make up in your mind. Either I'm
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: going to get what God has for me or I'm
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: going to stand here and be cute and walk around
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: in my high heels and try to be important and
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: try to impress people. Two, either I'm going to open
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: up my spirit and cry out to God until he
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: blesses my soul, blesses my mind, blesses my spirit, until
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: sleep comes back, until rest comes back, until joy comes back.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Truth is, I'm not happy. Truth is I'm not happy.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Truth is I'm not happy. Truth is I got joy,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: but I'm not happy. Truth is I don't have peace.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Truth is I need a touch from God. Truth is
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: I need a move from God. Truth is I need
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: a move from God. Truth is I need a move
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: from God. Truth is I need a move from God.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna stand here until I get a touch
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: from God. I'm gonna stand right here until he blesses
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: my soul. I'm gonna stand right here if I gotta
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: lay on the floor, if I gotta get on my knees,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: if I gotta lay prostrate. I'm gonna stand right here
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: until heaven opens up above my head. I'm gonna stand
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: right here until I walk into my promised land. I'm
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: gonna stand right here until heaven moves. until hell shakes,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: until demons tremble. I'm going to stand right here until
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the power of God moves all over my body. I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: want my anointing back. I want my power back. I
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: want my glory back. I want a touch from God.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Just touch me. If you touch me one time, If
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: you touch me one time, if you touch me, you'll
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: heal me. If you touch me, you'll bless me. If
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: you touch me, you'll deliver me. God, if you just
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: touch me, I'll be all right. One touch from you.
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  Speaker 1: One touch from your Lord. One touch from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm down to my last one. One touch. How bad
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: do you want it? How bad do you want it?
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Do you want it bad enough to move? Do you
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: want it bad enough to come out the balcony? Do
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: you really want it? Here it is, three. Everything in
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: here that wants something from God, come out wherever you are.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Come out with your hands up. Come out in total surrender.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Come out saying yes to God. Come out saying yes
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to God. Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: saying yes. Come out saying yes. Come out saying yes.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: You're watching online. The anointing is in this house. It's
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: in your house. It's in your living room. It's in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: your car. It's in your spirit. Glory to God. I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: want every tough guy to fall out on his face
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: and I want every hard woman to break down on
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: your knees. I came to preach to Samson. I came
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: to preach to Samson. Come out wherever you are. Come
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: out wherever you are. Come out wherever you are. Come out.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: If you come out the Philistines will die. The Bible
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: said that he killed more Philistines in his death than
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: he did in his life. And it's just like Jesus.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Jesus was at his greatest hour when they hung him
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: high and they stretched him wide and his flesh died.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: If your flesh dies right now, you're going to kill
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: every demon in your house. If your flesh dies, every
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: yoke will be destroyed. If your flesh dies, every disease
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: is going to leap out your body. If your flesh dies,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: God's going to do a new thing in you. I
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: want you to open your mouth and holler like you
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: lost your mind. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Help me holler.
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  Speaker 2: Help me holler.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Help me holler. Help me holler. Help me holler. Help
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: me holler. I got to break out of this. I
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: got to break out of this. I got to break
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  Speaker 1: out of this. I got to get out. I'm tired
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: of being a prisoner. I'm tired of being an inmate.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: out at midnight. Paul and Silas prayed, and suddenly there
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: was a noise, and suddenly there was a shaking. Come out,
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  Speaker 1: come out, wherever you are. Come out, come out with
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: your hands up. Come out with a surrender. Come out
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: with a praise. Come out, shout unto God with the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: voice of triumph. Oh, clap your hands. Oh, ye people,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: shout unto God with the voice of triumph. I feel victory.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Victory is coming in this place. I feel victory coming
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: in this place. I feel victory coming in this place.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I feel victory coming in this place. If you shout,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: victory is coming. If you shout, Victory is coming. Open
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. Stop being cute and shout. Stop
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: being fancy and shout. Shout till the walls come down.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Shout till the walls come down. Shout till the walls
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: come down. Shout till the walls come down. Shout. Shout.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: I said shout. I said, shout, shout to the wall.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Shout to the wall. Shout to the wall. I can't
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Shout if you're living, Lord. Shout
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  Speaker 1: in your car. Shout in your house. Shout in your bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Get in your kitchen and shout. Get in your car
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  Speaker 1: and shout. Open up your mouth and begin to shout.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Shout. Demons
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  Speaker 1: are trembling. Shout. Hell is leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout. Depression is headed out of here. Shout, shout I say,
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  Speaker 1: shout I say, shout, shout, shout till it breaks, shout
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  Speaker 1: till it cracks, shout till it rips open, shout till
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  Speaker 1: it rips open, shout Hey, shout. Shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna shout till it rips. I'm gonna shout till
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  Speaker 1: it rips. I'm gonna shout till it rips. Shout till
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  Speaker 1: it rips. Shout till it rips. Shout till it rips.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till your roof comes off. Shout till your living
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  Speaker 1: room flies open. Shout till your kids come home. Open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. Open your mouth and shout. Open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and shout. I can't hear you. Shout it out.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout
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  Speaker 1: it out. Every stain, shout it out. Every pain, shout
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  Speaker 1: it out. Every bit of trouble, shout it out. I
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  Speaker 1: can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Shout it out. Shout it out. Shout it out. Something
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  Speaker 1: is leaving your body. Something is leaving your mind. Something
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  Speaker 1: is leaving your heart. I can't hear you. Shout in
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  Speaker 1: your living room. Shout in your living room. Fall out
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  Speaker 1: by your couch. Fall out of your bed. Slide out
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  Speaker 1: in the floor. Lay down in the kitchen and shout
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  Speaker 1: it out. Somebody that believes God all the way in
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  Speaker 1: the balcony, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout. Somebody help me.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody help me. Somebody help me. The walls are coming down.
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  Speaker 1: The walls are coming down. The walls are coming down.
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  Speaker 1: The walls are coming down. Shout choir. Shout. Shout church.
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  Speaker 1: Shout deacons. Shout preachers. Shout pastors. Shout. Shout.
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  Speaker 2: Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout. Shout. Shout. Shout. The devil don't like it, but shout.
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  Speaker 1: The devil don't like it, but shout. Shout in this place.
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  Speaker 1: I feel victory. I feel victory. I feel victory. I
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  Speaker 1: feel victory. I dare you to shout. I dare you
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  Speaker 1: to shout. I dare you to shout. I dare you.
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  Speaker 1: I dare you. I dare you. I gotta quit. But
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  Speaker 1: I feel the power of the Holy Ghost in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost said shout. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Hey! Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Hey!
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  Speaker 2: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Hey! Hey! Hey! Yes. You gonna get loose. You gonna
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  Speaker 1: get loose. You gonna get loose. You gonna get loose today.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna get loose today. You gonna get some help today.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna get deliverance today. You gonna get a breakthrough today.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna get a call with today. You gonna get it.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna get it. You gonna get it. You gonna
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  Speaker 1: get it. This is for you. God did this for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is your Sunday. This is your Sunday. This is
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  Speaker 1: your Sunday. Shout hallelujah. Shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My God,
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  Speaker 1: my God, my God, you thank you. Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Whoo! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, oh, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: My God, my God, my God, what I want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand is that you've been predestined, predetermined, prescripted to
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  Speaker 1: drive out the Philistines that are in your life. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't drive it out till you get honest. You
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  Speaker 1: can't hurt what you're trying to kill. You either got
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  Speaker 1: to be hot or you got to be cold. You
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  Speaker 1: got to make up in your mind, do you love
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  Speaker 1: your image or do you want to be changed? Lift
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  Speaker 1: your hands up right where you are. Lift them up.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment of surrender. You're watching on television.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment of surrender. It's a moment of
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  Speaker 1: complete surrender. It's a moment of complete surrender. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize you had side effects. But the very thing, it's
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  Speaker 1: good to be strong. It's wonderful to be strong, but
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  Speaker 1: you didn't OD'd your deeds and you lost part of
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  Speaker 1: yourself because Christ is just as much lamb as he
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  Speaker 1: is lion and he wasn't afraid of his lamb and
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't afraid of his lion and you gotta be
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  Speaker 1: good with opening up your heart When the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: none but the pure in heart shall see God, the
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  Speaker 1: word pure there is where we get the word catheter.
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  Speaker 1: It means that God wants to clean out your heart
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  Speaker 1: so you can see God. None but the pure in
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  Speaker 1: heart shall see God. You hear me? On television, you
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  Speaker 1: hear me? On your phone, do you hear me? On
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  Speaker 1: your iPad, do you hear me? On your computer, do
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  Speaker 1: you hear me? Number the pure in heart. And hell
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  Speaker 1: is doing everything it can to take away your purity.
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  Speaker 1: Because you used to be pure. You used to know
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  Speaker 1: how to be sorry. You used to know how to
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  Speaker 1: say yes. You used to know how to open up.
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  Speaker 1: And you could see God. But your vision is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I prophesy to you right now that your vision is
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  Speaker 1: coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back. You hear me?
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  Speaker 1: It's coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back. This
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  Speaker 1: thing is real, it's coming back. It's coming back. These
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  Speaker 1: things that keep coming up in you, this stress, this anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: this insomnia, these bouts of anger, these mood swings, these
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  Speaker 1: depressions are nothing but side effects All you got to
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  Speaker 1: be is who you really are. That's all you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is what you really do. That's all you
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  Speaker 1: got to do is open up your heart to God
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  Speaker 1: and say, I'm going to rest in you. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to rest in you. If you don't do it, it
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  Speaker 1: can't be done. I'm going to rest in you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to rest in you. Do you feel that peace
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  Speaker 1: coming in this room? right now? There's a peace. There's
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  Speaker 1: a peace coming in this room right now. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: I wish you was in here. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: you can feel it where you are, but there's a
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  Speaker 1: peace coming in here. There's a peace coming in here.
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  Speaker 1: There's a peace coming. There's a peace coming. For you,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming right now. It's coming for you. Lift your hands,
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  Speaker 1: my Father and my God. It is in the invincible, all-powerful, eternal, everlasting, immutable,
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  Speaker 1: unchanging name of Jesus Christ we pray. We all, like sheep,
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  Speaker 1: have gone astray. We've gotten turned out of the way
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  Speaker 1: We've forgotten what matters most. We've turned into what we
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  Speaker 1: thought we had to be because of the onslaught of
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  Speaker 1: what we've been through. But today we shake it off.
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  Speaker 1: Today we shake off the side effects of being who
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  Speaker 1: we were called to be. And today Right now. We
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  Speaker 1: receive your peace. We receive your power. We receive your love.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a Sunday we don't ever forget.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is going to be the Sunday that I
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  Speaker 1: drop my camouflage. And I came to Jesus just like
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was weary. I was worn. And to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, Lord, I was sad. I was sad.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't know how to get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I found in you a resting place. It's not
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  Speaker 1: in my Delilah. It's not in my coping mechanisms. It's
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  Speaker 1: not in the pseudo things that I take on to
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  Speaker 1: help me get through the moment. I found in you
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  Speaker 1: a resting place. I found in you a resting place.
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  Speaker 1: There's somebody in the balcony. God is touching you right
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  Speaker 1: in the balcony right now in a special way. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't even come down in the prayer. but God is
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  Speaker 1: touching you right where you are. I found in you
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  Speaker 1: a resting place. This stuff I've been carrying is too heavy.
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  Speaker 1: It's too hard. It's too much. I cast my cares
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  Speaker 1: on you because you care for me. Amen. I will rest, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for my rest. Thank you for my rest.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for my rest. Thank you for my rest.
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  Speaker 1: Right in your living room, right where you're watching, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to rest. I'm going to rest. I'm going to rest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to practice it. I'm going to practice it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to work on it. I'm going to practice
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  Speaker 1: it until I get good at it. I will rest
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. If you're around this altar or out
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  Speaker 1: in the pews and you don't know Jesus, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: come unto me all ye that are weak and heavy laden.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, I will give you rest, not worry.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you rest. And if you want Christ
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  Speaker 1: to come into your life right now, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: whether your back's slid. I don't care if your back's broken.
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  Speaker 1: If you raise your hand, I'll pray for you that
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  Speaker 1: Christ will come into your heart right now, right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Father, hold that head up right now. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of being my own savior, being my own doctor,
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  Speaker 1: being my own lawyer. I'm going to rest in you.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest. I will rest. I pray salvation would
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  Speaker 1: fall on every raised hand. That the blood of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: would wash away all sins. We confess our sins. We
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  Speaker 1: forsake them. And we open up our heart to you.
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  Speaker 1: Leave your hand up. We open up our heart to you.
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  Speaker 1: Come in, Jesus. If you don't do it, it can't
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  Speaker 1: be done. Come in, Jesus. Come in, Jesus. that spirit
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  Speaker 1: that encamps about me, that angry spirit, that bitter spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that distrusting spirit, that jilted spirit. I'm not going home
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  Speaker 1: with that today. I will rest. I will rest. I
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  Speaker 1: will rest. Now I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours. Before
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  Speaker 1: I close this service, I want to ask you, do
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  Speaker 1: you have a church home where you can come and
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  Speaker 1: get the word? I'm not asking you were you ever
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  Speaker 1: baptized somewhere when you were 12. I'm asking you, do
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  Speaker 1: you have a place where your soul can rest in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord? Where you can come in heavy and leave
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  Speaker 1: out light? The doors of this church are open. If
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  Speaker 1: you make your way to my left, your right, you
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  Speaker 1: will find a lap you can rest in. Go right
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  Speaker 1: now Make your way through the crowd and come to
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  Speaker 1: my left. The doors of this church are open. I
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  Speaker 1: will rest. I'm coming home, Lord. Come on. I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: I want everybody to clap your hands and say, come.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest.
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  Speaker 2: I will rest.
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  Speaker 1: I will rest. How many people are glad you came
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  Speaker 1: to church this morning? Lift your hands up because I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go home with this anointing on you.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to go home with this anointing on you.
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  Speaker 1: You that are walking, can you wait one second for
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  Speaker 1: me to pray over you before you go? Just one second.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My Lord God, it's
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  Speaker 1: so much easier to live for you in here than
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  Speaker 1: it is out there. The phone isn't ringing. The people
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: aren't talking. The bills aren't coming. Life isn't life. But
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: I pray that as we walk out of this place,
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  Speaker 1: that we will take this with us in the car,
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  Speaker 1: to the house, to the restaurant, to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: We will take this rest. We're going to leave Delilah
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  Speaker 1: at the altar. We're going to leave her at the altar.
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  Speaker 1: in whatever form she comes in. And let the rest
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  Speaker 1: of God and the peace which passes all understanding rest, rule,
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  Speaker 1: and abide now, henceforth, and forevermore until we meet again.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen. I love you, Father's House. love you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.