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TD Jakes Sermons Love Has No Loopholes Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: God said, if you'd stop approaching me as if I'm
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  Speaker 1: a police officer about to arrest you when you go
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  Speaker 1: over the speed limit and we could move beyond the
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  Speaker 1: negativity to the positivity. If you get positive and get
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  Speaker 1: this right, you won't break the law. Not because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to arrest you, but because you so love me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I want you to stop focusing on what
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  Speaker 1: you got wrong and get lost in what you get right.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to love me. with all your heart,
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  Speaker 1: all your mind, all your soul. Greetings in the name
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  Speaker 1: of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I must explain
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  Speaker 1: to you what I'm about to share with you. I
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  Speaker 1: started teaching on something that you hardly hear anybody teaching
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  Speaker 1: about in the church today. I don't know why. I
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  Speaker 1: started teaching on love. And I'm going to share it
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  Speaker 1: with you because it really transformed our churches. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it will transform your life, perhaps your marriage, your relationships,
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  Speaker 1: your walk with God. This series is called The Love Letter.
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  Speaker 1: As we go into the Word of God today, I
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  Speaker 1: believe this word, this series, is absolutely going to be life-changing.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Let's talk about love. At least 50%
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  Speaker 1: of the wars that have been fought in the world
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  Speaker 1: have been fought by religious people over religion and how
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  Speaker 1: they perceive God. Jesus received more persecution through religious people
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  Speaker 1: than he did anybody else. In our text, he is
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  Speaker 1: under this kind of scrutiny as he is trying to
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  Speaker 1: teach and minister. There comes in the crowd a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody said, uh-oh. And the lawyer begins to drill
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  Speaker 1: him about his philosophy about theology. I'm going to teach something,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully this morning, that if I can get it in you,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to give you a whole different perspective, not
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  Speaker 1: only on this scripture, but on the scriptures that come
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  Speaker 1: after it, which are much more common. So the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: says to him, you know, what are the laws? What
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  Speaker 1: are the greatest laws? Jesus said, read it for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So he takes up the Torah and he starts reading it.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you know, that you love the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy soul,
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  Speaker 1: and all thy spirit. And that you love your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: as yourself. He's absolutely right. Later in the scriptures you
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  Speaker 1: will see where Jesus said these two are the greatest commandments.
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  Speaker 1: They embody everything. Everything. Everything. Are comprised in two commandments.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stop right there. Can I have your head this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Got your head? Okay. Let's stop right there. Jesus says
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  Speaker 1: that these two commandments encapsule all of the others. So
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  Speaker 1: if we get these two right, we get credit for
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  Speaker 1: the whole test. Amen. Now that's a pretty good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know you're getting ready for end of the
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  Speaker 1: year exam and the teacher says, I got 175 questions.
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  Speaker 1: But if you get these two right, you get the
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  Speaker 1: credit for the 175. Is that a pretty good deal?
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  Speaker 1: You backed up 12 payments on your house note. They're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to possess the car, take the house from you.
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  Speaker 1: They say, but if you make two payments, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to make the other 10. Is that a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good deal? That's what is being said here. If you
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  Speaker 1: get these two things right, everything else is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Not because I overlooked the others, but these encapsule the
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  Speaker 1: premise through which all the others are talking about. You
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  Speaker 1: with me? So what are they? We got to get
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  Speaker 1: these two right. Tell somebody, we got to get these
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  Speaker 1: two right. He says, number one, that you love the
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  Speaker 1: Lord thy God. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. You mean after all these ceremonial washings and
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  Speaker 1: cleansings and feasts of weeks and feasts of unleavened bread,
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  Speaker 1: what I can wear and what I can't wear, what
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  Speaker 1: I can go, how far I can travel on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day, who I can, what I can build, what
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  Speaker 1: I can buy, what I can't covet of my neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: All of the descriptions, the criterias that bring about righteousness
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  Speaker 1: in the scripture. And the first most important thing to
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  Speaker 1: God is that you love him. Whether you washed your
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  Speaker 1: hands or not, or whether you bowed prostrate or not,
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  Speaker 1: or whether you mixed fabrics or not, or whether you
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  Speaker 1: did everything right or not, God says above everything else,
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing to me is that you love
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  Speaker 1: the Lord thy God with all thy heart, not part
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  Speaker 1: of it, with all thy mind, with all thy soul,
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  Speaker 1: with all thy understanding. That's cool. That's something. I did
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  Speaker 1: not know that love was that important. Nor are we
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  Speaker 1: often taught that love can be legislated. God commands us
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  Speaker 1: to love him. He doesn't beat around the bush. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could do that. I command you to love me.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be cool? Look at somebody and say, I
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  Speaker 1: command you to love me. God says, I command you.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that fix some marriages? That would fix some marriages
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  Speaker 1: right now. Wouldn't that solve some problems in the house
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  Speaker 1: right now? Wouldn't that change parents and children's relationship right now?
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that fix you and your sister right now? If
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  Speaker 1: you could just command it. Wouldn't you go to work
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning and walk in the office and slam down
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  Speaker 1: your book and say, I command you to love me.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be wonderful? That's what God does. He commands
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  Speaker 1: us to love him. But he's specific. He says, with
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  Speaker 1: all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,
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  Speaker 1: with all your understanding, I want you to love me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, that's the most important thing. Well, Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: worked over and I ran into the Sabbath. He said,
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  Speaker 1: love me. That's the most important thing. Lord, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: always done right. I've made some mistakes. I've had some sin.
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  Speaker 1: I've had some weakness in my life. He said, look,
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  Speaker 1: don't focus on what's wrong with you. In a world
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  Speaker 1: of thou shalt nots, the priority is on a thou shalt. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Y'all not ready for
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  Speaker 1: me today. Let me just go churchy and get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. In a world full of thou shalt nots,
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  Speaker 1: the priority is on a thou shalt. Because God says
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  Speaker 1: if you get the shall right, I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about the shall nots. I'm slipping a Mickey in
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  Speaker 1: on you right now. I'm feeding you intravenously. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even understand it, but it's coming to you. God said,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd stop approaching me as if I'm a police
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  Speaker 1: officer about to arrest you when you go over the
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  Speaker 1: speed limit and we could move beyond the negativity to
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  Speaker 1: the positivity, if you get positive and get this right,
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  Speaker 1: you won't break the law, not because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: arrest you, but because you so love me He said,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to stop focusing on what you got
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  Speaker 1: wrong and get lost in what you get right. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to love me with all your heart, all
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  Speaker 1: your mind, all your soul. In other words, if God
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  Speaker 1: were a woman, he would be saying to me, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to focus on not cheating on me.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to focus on loving me. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to focus on loving me with all your heart, mind,
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  Speaker 1: and soul. Well, it sounds like she's just a weak woman,
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  Speaker 1: but no, she's a really smart woman because the woman
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  Speaker 1: knows that if you master loving me with all your heart, mind,
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  Speaker 1: and soul, I don't have to tell you not to
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  Speaker 1: cheat because you're going to get lost. I'm just using
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  Speaker 1: these as metaphors, similes, comparisons to make you understand it. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: So love becomes, epitomizes what the commandments are lined out
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. He says, I want the priority to
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  Speaker 1: be loving me with everything. Oh, I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: time to really work this. Oh, look at what a
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  Speaker 1: big command that is. Have you ever loved anything, anyone,
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  Speaker 1: including God with your all? All your heart, all your mind,
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  Speaker 1: all your soul, all your understanding. You know how you've
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  Speaker 1: been loving people, but you got like... I love you, but...
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love you to a point, but if
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  Speaker 1: you push me... You know, you got brakes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in a car, you got brakes, and then you got
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  Speaker 1: the emergency brakes. And I fall in love, but I
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  Speaker 1: got breaks. And then I got the emergency breaks where
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  Speaker 1: you really done got crazy and I have to pull up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the only one. Y'all pray for me. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one in the whole church that got emergency breaks.
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  Speaker 1: It may take me all night to pull it up,
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  Speaker 1: but if you leave me alone in a room by
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  Speaker 1: myself for 24 hours by morning, I will pull the
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  Speaker 1: emergency break. You will know it because you will smell
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  Speaker 1: burning rubber. That means you are taking me somewhere that
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go and I've decided that the
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  Speaker 1: return is not as great as the investment. I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. Pray for me. God says, I challenge you
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  Speaker 1: to discover 100% love. Before you die, to know what
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  Speaker 1: it is To give all of yourself. That right there
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  Speaker 1: is a sign. Can you imagine what we might discover
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  Speaker 1: through all? I give up everything to follow you. You
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't give up a ham sandwich at 11 o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 1: But God says, I'm not going to bother you. Love
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  Speaker 1: the Lord thy God with all our heart and all
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  Speaker 1: our mind and all our soul. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: the second commandment is that you love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Still to come on The Potter's Touch. He legislates love.
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  Speaker 1: He commands you to love. Oh, I could spend all day.
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  Speaker 1: If you command me to do something, that means I
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  Speaker 1: can do it. Because it wouldn't be fair for you
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  Speaker 1: to command me to do something I can't do. I
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  Speaker 1: command you to be a white man with blonde hair
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  Speaker 1: and blue eyes. Come on, Lord. You know, the love
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  Speaker 1: of God constrains us. If you don't have the love
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  Speaker 1: of God, you'll go anywhere, do anything. You can just
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  Speaker 1: be anybody. But when you have love for God and
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  Speaker 1: the love of God, it constrains us. There's no way
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  Speaker 1: you can get out of it. Ultimately, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: your moods or feelings or attitudes may be, love will
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  Speaker 1: always ground you and pull you back in the fold.
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  Speaker 1: So many people show their Christianity by how they dance
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  Speaker 1: or shout or speak in tongues or lay out on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. But if you do all of that and
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  Speaker 1: have not loved Paul said you're nothing. I think he's right.
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  Speaker 1: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and
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  Speaker 1: all thy mind and all thy soul. And then he
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  Speaker 1: says the second commandment is that you love your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: as yourself. So I don't have to say thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: not steal. Because if you love me like you love you,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't steal from me because you love me too
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  Speaker 1: much to treat me like you treat me. Imagine how
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  Speaker 1: your personal relationships would change if you loved the people
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  Speaker 1: in your life like you love yourself. Wouldn't that be amazing?
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  Speaker 1: If you were as forgiving of them as you are
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  Speaker 1: of you. Isn't it funny how people who need forgiveness...
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  Speaker 1: don't give it. Isn't it funny how people can need
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  Speaker 1: you to understand their quirks, but they are unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: understand yours. They want you to, isn't it funny how
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  Speaker 1: people who want tolerance don't tolerate you. If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to ask me to tolerate you, then it's demonstrated by
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  Speaker 1: tolerating me. I can accept you being different, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't seem to understand. The reality is we always want
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  Speaker 1: to get more than we're willing to give. So this
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  Speaker 1: second scripture obliterates selfishness. You can't be selfish if you
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  Speaker 1: love your neighbor as you love yourself. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: A lady said to, was talking about my daughter's 20
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  Speaker 1: some years old. And she said, oh, you're old enough
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  Speaker 1: now to find out that your parents aren't stupid. That
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  Speaker 1: hits you like in your 20s. Some people it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hit them until 40s, but if you're lucky, it'll lay
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  Speaker 1: in about 20. Daddy didn't go to work because he
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  Speaker 1: hated me. He was trying to pay the rent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: mama wasn't wrong about that. Boy, he is crazy. You
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  Speaker 1: start finding out that experience does give you some sense.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a while. In your teen years, you're almost
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be selfish. You have to understand that because
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  Speaker 1: the teen is trying to separate from the womb of
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  Speaker 1: parenthood and find out who they are. And in the
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  Speaker 1: process of identifying who they are and what they want
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  Speaker 1: to do, they inadvertently become selfish because they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: find themselves. I got to be me. I got to
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  Speaker 1: be me. You're going to let me be myself. All
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I'm glad I'm done with that.
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  Speaker 1: So maturity is supposed to make you less selfish. But
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  Speaker 1: some people got stuck. And they never love anybody nowhere
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  Speaker 1: close like you love yourself. I've said this before and
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it again. It seems to have impact. It's
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  Speaker 1: based on my perspectives in life. For 35 years of
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  Speaker 1: ministering and counseling people, I have never met a man
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  Speaker 1: who beat his wife and liked himself. Never. In 37 years.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says love her as your own body. But
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  Speaker 1: if you don't love you, then it's easier to beat
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  Speaker 1: her Because you're really angry and guilty about you. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you're going to break through the bondage, you
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  Speaker 1: have to learn how to love yourself. Because people who
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  Speaker 1: love themselves are much easier to love and easier to
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  Speaker 1: be around than people who don't like them. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have time to get lost in that. That's not
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  Speaker 1: my point. You understand what I'm saying? When you feel
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  Speaker 1: good about you, whatever. Come here for a minute. Come
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  Speaker 1: here for a minute. Come on in. Come on in.
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  Speaker 1: Come in. Come in. Now, whatever's going on with me,
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  Speaker 1: whatever cologne I got on, whether I'm sweaty, whatever's happening
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  Speaker 1: with me, when you came into my circle, you got
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  Speaker 1: drawn into it. If I'm swinging, you got drawn into
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  Speaker 1: a punch. If I'm loving, you got drawn into love.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever's up with me, when you come into my circle,
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  Speaker 1: you become connected to it. So if I was crazy
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  Speaker 1: before you walked up here... You understand what I'm saying? Now,
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  Speaker 1: if I am a self-hater, guilty, complex, insecurity, and you
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  Speaker 1: come up and get connected in that, and now you
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  Speaker 1: are my body, the fight that I was having with me,
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  Speaker 1: I now get to have on you. So the healthiest
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  Speaker 1: people to love are people who love themselves. So the
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  Speaker 1: second commandment, Jesus says, these are the two priorities, loving
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  Speaker 1: God and loving your neighbor as you love yourself. Wow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at this. This is kind of, let me
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you. I probably shouldn't be preaching this
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  Speaker 1: morning because I'm really presenting an unfinished chair before you
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  Speaker 1: because he's still talking to me about this, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to let you eavesdrop on the conversation. Because how
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  Speaker 1: this relates to the elephant room and everything else is
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  Speaker 1: what are your priorities? What are the core values through
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  Speaker 1: which you let people in? Or God in? Or anybody in?
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  Speaker 1: Is it if you make a certain amount of money? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we can't fool with you. If you're a Democrat. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a Republican. Who did you vote for? What do
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  Speaker 1: you believe about the Godhead? How are you baptized? Do
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  Speaker 1: you wear pants? See, we can examine people today. What
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  Speaker 1: are your priorities? God says that you love the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God with all thy heart and mind and that
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  Speaker 1: you love thy neighbor as you love yourself. I want
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  Speaker 1: to go deeper. He legislates love. He commands you to love. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I could spend all day If you command me to
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  Speaker 1: do something, that means I can do it. Because it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair for you to command me to do
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  Speaker 1: something I can't do. I command you to be a
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  Speaker 1: white man with blonde hair and blue eyes. Come on, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I can scrub and scrub and scrub. If I had time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd tell you a joke. But they might have to
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  Speaker 1: edit it. A little kid up in the hill in
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia saw me. He hadn't seen nobody in my
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  Speaker 1: color in his life. And he looked at me he said, mister, mister,
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  Speaker 1: hi mister. I finally turned around, he said, are you
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  Speaker 1: like that all over? I said, everywhere I could see
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  Speaker 1: and everywhere I could get to mirror the point, it
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a 100% total job. Okay, I'm back
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  Speaker 1: on track. Okay. You take that home with you. That
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  Speaker 1: don't cost you nothing. It's one of my little crazy
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  Speaker 1: little stories happened to me when I was going along.
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  Speaker 1: If he commands me to do it, it must be
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  Speaker 1: within my power to accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: just to command me to do something that I cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: So that means that love is controllable. wow that opens
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  Speaker 1: up a whole another village over there because he commanded
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  Speaker 1: he legislated love love me he said this is how
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  Speaker 1: you love me what I like about God God tells
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  Speaker 1: you how to love him no guessing most people want
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  Speaker 1: you to guess how to love God comes right love
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  Speaker 1: me with everything all your heart want all your mind
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  Speaker 1: all your soul ain't core about it this is how
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  Speaker 1: I want you to love me he tells you straight
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  Speaker 1: up and then he says I want you to love
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor as you love yourself Now, if God now
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  Speaker 1: legislates love, then love now has indicted the lawyer. Love
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  Speaker 1: has brought an indictment against the lawyer predicated on the
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  Speaker 1: concept that he's guilty. Probably of never loving the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, and soul.
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  Speaker 1: But at a very minimum, he is guilty of not
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  Speaker 1: loving his neighbor as himself. And this is how I know.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking for a loophole. And anytime you look for
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  Speaker 1: a loophole, it's because you are guilty. Watch this, watch this,
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  Speaker 1: watch this. Y'all doing okay? Y'all good? Y'all good? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: watch this. He says, the Lord who is love made
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  Speaker 1: flesh says, love the Lord thy God with all thy
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind and soul. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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  Speaker 1: And then the lawyer says to the Lord, who is
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor? That's the loophole. He says, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: do you believe? What do you wear? What is your theology?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm gonna love you or not
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  Speaker 1: till I find out who is my neighbor. So this
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be smart. What he is saying is,
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  Speaker 1: do I determine by who lives next door to me?
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  Speaker 1: Do I determine by my ethnicity? Do I determine by
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  Speaker 1: my politics? Do I determine by my orthodoxy? Who is
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor? Okay, y'all with me? If you don't understand that,
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  Speaker 1: then you have never understood the story of the Good Samaritan.
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  Speaker 1: Because the story of the Good Samaritan is Jesus' answer
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  Speaker 1: to the lawyer's loophole. Jesus looks at him. Watch this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. I'm going to tell you this. I'll be gone.
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  Speaker 1: He says, who is my neighbor? And Jesus doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: answer him. He says, a certain man. Jesus is so cool.
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  Speaker 1: He's so cool. He's so cool. Jesus says, a certain
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  Speaker 1: man went down from Jerusalem. The very fact that he
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  Speaker 1: said he went down from Jerusalem says he's a Jew.
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  Speaker 1: To Jericho. And he says, he fell amongst thieves who
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  Speaker 1: stripped him and wounded him and left him half dead.
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  Speaker 1: He says... A Levite passed by and saw him. Levite,
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  Speaker 1: Levitical priesthood. Your pastors. Your religious orthodoxy. Those that epitomize
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  Speaker 1: the sacraments of your faith. The tenants, the one who
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  Speaker 1: handled the theology for you. Passed by, looked at him
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  Speaker 1: and turned and went away. You mean this guy who
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer would perceive to be an okay neighbor didn't
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  Speaker 1: help him? Let me break this down where it becomes
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  Speaker 1: relevant to you. Have you ever been shocked when you
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  Speaker 1: were in trouble at who didn't help you? The person
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  Speaker 1: that you thought for sure that you knew would be
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  Speaker 1: your ride or die? Ride or die is an African-American
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  Speaker 1: colloquial that means like total commitment. It just means to
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  Speaker 1: be totally committed. Now, that's enough about that. So, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And you find out that when the heat is on,
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  Speaker 1: the brother who said he would always be there for you,
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  Speaker 1: act like he don't even know you, looks at your
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  Speaker 1: predicament and crosses by on the other side. Hey, stay
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  Speaker 1: right where you are. We'll be right back after this.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many pastors who feel left behind. They
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  Speaker 1: feel frustrated. They feel like, I know God called me.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm anointed. Why am I stuck? My thing
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  Speaker 1: this year is no church left behind. God didn't start
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  Speaker 1: you for you to get stuck in a quagmire of
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  Speaker 1: pet religion. I want to show you how to break free.
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  Speaker 1: I want to teach practical, pragmatic stuff. The things that
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  Speaker 1: people do not tell you. I'm ready to pass the torch.
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  Speaker 1: Will you catch it? Come now to the Pastors in
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  Speaker 1: Leadership Conference. It's coming your way. Get ready, get ready,
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  Speaker 1: get ready. I am so excited to be able to
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  Speaker 1: offer something for your entire family. Yes, woman got loose
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  Speaker 1: and man power going to converge in the city of
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  Speaker 1: Dallas at the same time. But not only that, we
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  Speaker 1: are planning all kinds of activities for your children, for
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  Speaker 1: your grandchildren, activities for your family. Come to Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Megafest is going to be absolutely awesome where you can
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  Speaker 1: have good time. I gotta be bigger than this I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get out of this cage I gotta stop looking
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  Speaker 1: for loopholes to justify my own foolishness I gotta stop
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  Speaker 1: looking for loopholes to justify my own selfishness I gotta
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  Speaker 1: stop looking for loopholes to get me out of what
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  Speaker 1: God commanded me to do my soul says yes my
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  Speaker 1: mind says yes I know I'm a better woman than this.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm a better man than this. Created me
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  Speaker 1: a clean heart. Renew a right spirit. Listen, we're coming
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  Speaker 1: to a close. We're going to continue this. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to go deeper into it. It's really a huge subject.
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  Speaker 1: Love has no loopholes. I pray that it blesses you
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  Speaker 1: and challenges you. Maybe even change you a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to change, you know. It's okay to change.
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  Speaker 1: May God bless you. May heaven smile upon you. We're
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  Speaker 1: here to serve you. right here at the Potter's House.