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The Blame Game - Part 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: The year was 1980.
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  Speaker 2: I was driving a 1979 Silver Anniversary Trans Am T-Top
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  Speaker 2: with the infrared dash.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was cool back then.
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  Speaker 2: Having driven back and forth to the embryonic church that
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  Speaker 2: I was starting up in the hills of West Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery specifically, I was coming back down the road from
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  Speaker 2: my hour or so trek up.
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  Speaker 1: There to minister and was.
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  Speaker 2: Just coming up over the hill when I came up
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  Speaker 2: over the crest and there was a horrific car wreck.
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  Speaker 1: A terrible car wreck.
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  Speaker 2: One was coming eastbound, the other car was coming westbound.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow they had gotten, and one had gotten, and the
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  Speaker 2: other was laying. I don't know what happened exactly, but
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  Speaker 2: it was a terrible car wreck just on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the hill. I hit my brakes to avoid
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  Speaker 2: being included in the car wreck, pulled over to the
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  Speaker 2: side of the road, and ran over to a victim
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  Speaker 2: who was slumped over in the seat. I was a
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  Speaker 2: young man, I'd never seen such a horrific car accident.
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  Speaker 2: And I ran over to the window. The glass was shattered.
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  Speaker 2: Glass was everywhere. The man was bleeding. His head was
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  Speaker 2: against the steering wheel. And I asked him a question.
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  Speaker 2: I said, do you want me to call the police?
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  Speaker 2: And he turned his head, blood running down his face.
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  Speaker 2: He said, no, call an ambulance. I ran away and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, yes, I'll call an ambulance. And I did
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he told me to do. I never forgot
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  Speaker 2: that moment. I knew when I asked him, do you
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  Speaker 2: want me to call the police? I knew I had
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  Speaker 2: said something foolish, but I didn't exactly know why. Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever said something and as the words were coming.
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  Speaker 1: Out of your mouth, you thought, catch them.
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  Speaker 3: Catch them.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting away. They're getting away. They're getting away. Send
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  Speaker 2: your horses out and bring them in so nobody will
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  Speaker 2: know that you are stupid. I did not realize in
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  Speaker 2: my youthful exuberance and the lack of experience, I'll blame that.
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  Speaker 2: I did not realize that to a person who is
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  Speaker 2: bleeding on the side of the road, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: who was at fault. I called the police. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: concerned about who would get a ticket or who was
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  Speaker 2: responsible for the accident. But the level of accidents that
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  Speaker 2: I had experienced had afforded me the luxury of being
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  Speaker 2: preoccupied with.
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  Speaker 1: Who was at fault.
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  Speaker 2: But when the injury is severe enough, when the damage
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  Speaker 2: is overwhelming, when it is intense and life-threatening, no one
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  Speaker 2: cares really about me. who is to blame, they want
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  Speaker 2: somebody who is solution-oriented, who can solve the problem. And
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  Speaker 2: I didn't understand, but I came to reflect on that statement.
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  Speaker 2: I can still see him looking at me saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: call an ambulance. It occurs to me, are we calling
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  Speaker 2: the police to hand out citations when we should be
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  Speaker 2: calling an ambulance? Greetings in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: We have been talking about blind faith and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to continue that conversation today, but we're going to take
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  Speaker 2: it on from another perspective. Whenever things get derailed and
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  Speaker 2: they go crazy, the first human propensity, the question that
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  Speaker 2: we ask more often than not is, Lord, why? I
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  Speaker 2: want you to understand that some things are unexplainable, so
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  Speaker 2: you cannot waste time blaming this one or that one
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  Speaker 2: or whose fault it is. You just got to deal
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  Speaker 2: with it and go for it. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking about the blame game. Watch those toes. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to step on some today. Take a look. There are
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  Speaker 2: some things that just happen. Beyond reasoning, as much as
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  Speaker 2: you worship your intellect and your ability to understand and
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  Speaker 2: how smart you think you are and how much you
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  Speaker 2: think you need to understand, there are some things that
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  Speaker 2: just happen that are beyond intellectual resolution. You will not
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  Speaker 2: get closure trying to understand it. There are some calamities, disaster, destructions, hurricanes, tornadoes,
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  Speaker 2: calamities that just happen. The Bible says indiscriminately it falls
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  Speaker 2: on the just and the unjust. It doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 2: holy you live. It doesn't matter how wild you are.
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  Speaker 2: Some stuff just happens to you. Stop trying to rationalize everything.
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  Speaker 2: They looked at this man born blind. And it says
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus, who sinned? This is the human attempt to rationalize,
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  Speaker 2: how did I end up like this? If my father
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  Speaker 2: would have raised me, I wouldn't have been like this.
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  Speaker 2: If my mother wouldn't have given me to my grandmother,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. You would be surprised at the questions lurking
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  Speaker 2: over the heads of the people in this room about
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  Speaker 2: how did I end up right here? And you'd be
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  Speaker 2: surprised how many people get the blame for the disappointments
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  Speaker 2: you face every day and for your lack of vision.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the great things about getting older. You
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  Speaker 2: get to go to the adult level of having children
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  Speaker 2: and watch them blame you. Like you blamed. Isn't it
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  Speaker 2: funny when the shoe is on the other foot? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can't say anything, just, that's gonna have to soak
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  Speaker 2: in on you, silah. still having this discussion about a
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  Speaker 2: blind man who has said nothing at all. This blind
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  Speaker 2: man is not to be confused with other blind men
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. For other blind men cried out, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: thou son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Speaker 1: That I might receive my sight. But this blind man
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  Speaker 1: said nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't even ask to be healed. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: Jesus just came upon him. It's almost like he stumbled
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  Speaker 2: upon him. The blind man is standing there in his
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  Speaker 2: blindness and they are having a discussion about him that
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  Speaker 2: does not even include him. Have you ever had people
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  Speaker 2: have a discussion about you that doesn't even include you
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  Speaker 2: like you're not even there and they're having this big
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  Speaker 2: debate and they're standing there now the man is blind
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  Speaker 2: but he's not.
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  Speaker 1: Not deaf.
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  Speaker 2: And they are having a discussion about him as if
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  Speaker 2: he could not.
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  Speaker 1: Hear what they're saying. Whose sin?
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  Speaker 2: They're having a discussion, a learning moment about a personal
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  Speaker 2: crisis in his life. Isn't it funny how people will
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  Speaker 2: banter easily about things that cause you great pain? And
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  Speaker 2: they'll discuss with frivolity things that put you in a
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  Speaker 2: crisis mode. And they'll do it so cheaply as if
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  Speaker 2: you had nothing invested in your own life. What gives
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  Speaker 2: them the right to have this conjecture as to how
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  Speaker 2: I got there? Have you ever been blind? What did
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  Speaker 2: your mama do? What gives you the right to make
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  Speaker 2: assumptions about my mother and father? You have not even
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  Speaker 2: met my mother and father. How dare you be an
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  Speaker 2: authority as to how I got in here? You're not
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  Speaker 2: even blind.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know?
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  Speaker 2: But the problem with the world today is everybody is
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  Speaker 2: an expert on everybody else's life except their own. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus rebuked him. He told him, you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about. Look at your neighbor and say, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about. You think you got
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  Speaker 2: my situation all figured out? You don't know what you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. I don't even know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I can't figure it out and I'm the one living
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  Speaker 2: in it. Ain't no way you could know me two
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  Speaker 2: or three years and figure out something that I'm still
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  Speaker 2: scratching my head at 55 trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is, The answer to the
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  Speaker 2: mystery of how you came to be where you are
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  Speaker 2: is not in your head nor in the heads of
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  Speaker 2: the people who speak into your life, but in the
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  Speaker 2: mind of God there is an answer to every situation
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  Speaker 2: that you face in your life. That's why you don't
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  Speaker 2: have time to worship me or him or her because
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  Speaker 2: they don't know what they're talking about. Only God knows
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  Speaker 2: how you ended up where you are. And there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: like being the victim of somebody else's rage, misallocated toward you,
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  Speaker 2: because they.
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  Speaker 1: Want to blame you for their dilemma.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be surprised at the people in this room who
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  Speaker 2: are living with somebody else's blame.
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  Speaker 1: Subtle, subtle blame.
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  Speaker 2: Subtle blame, not the kind of blame that causes a fight,
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  Speaker 2: It's just the kind of blame that makes you know
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  Speaker 2: not to stay over there too long on Thanksgiving. Because
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  Speaker 2: y'all can enjoy a meal, but if we stay over
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  Speaker 2: there too long, somebody's going to say something that sets
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  Speaker 2: it off in here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nobody knows what I'm talking about. That's all right.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. See you next time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the only person who understands these careful little relationships
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  Speaker 2: where you got to tip on the eggshell. Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been in a room and you wanted to say
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  Speaker 2: something and you went.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you really said what you really thought, it
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  Speaker 2: would turn the entire evening out. These little relationships are
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  Speaker 2: laced with the strychnine of secret blame. You can't taste it.
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  Speaker 2: You just feel the effects. The loss of intimacy. The
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  Speaker 2: lack of connectivity. The loss of genuine love and admiration.
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  Speaker 1: Swallowed up.
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  Speaker 2: Because you blame me for something that I should not
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  Speaker 2: be blamed for. Who sinned? Who sinned, his mother or
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  Speaker 2: his father, that he should be born blind? If sin
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  Speaker 2: would make babies go blind, every kid in here would
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  Speaker 2: black out. Now see, people don't like me because I
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth. Every kid in here would be walking
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  Speaker 2: around talking about, oh, mama, I can't see. Yet people
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  Speaker 2: can become so self-righteous. How can you say that my
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  Speaker 2: parents' sin made me blind? Are your kids blind?
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  Speaker 2: If you got too much going for you, I can't
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  Speaker 2: show off. But when all hell is breaking loose and
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  Speaker 2: you're down for the count and there's no way in
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  Speaker 2: the world you can get up, God said, that's when
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  Speaker 2: I can show up and show them that I have.
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  Speaker 1: Been with you all your life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I wish I had some help this morning.
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  Speaker 2: The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
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  Speaker 2: God to fill, but a closed mind never receives anything.
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  Speaker 2: The only difference between you and the person you admire
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  Speaker 2: is the perspective they have on life.
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  Speaker 3: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
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  Speaker 3: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
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  Speaker 2: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
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  Speaker 2: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
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  Speaker 2: can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
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  Speaker 2: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
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  Speaker 2: your outcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is arrogant for a finite mind to think that
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  Speaker 2: you understand an infinite God. You must go back for
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  Speaker 2: the second touch and sometimes the third touch. If you
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  Speaker 2: think about Jesus going back into the Garden of Gethsemane
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  Speaker 2: over and over again so that he could walk away
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  Speaker 2: saying to his disciples, sleep on, I've got it. We
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  Speaker 2: can't go in and pray one time and walk away
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  Speaker 2: and think that we've got orders from headquarters. You have
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  Speaker 2: to really go before God every day. To get new
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  Speaker 2: information and new insights and more clarity. Because sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: walk away and you heard what he said, but you
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  Speaker 2: didn't get what he meant. And I encourage people to
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  Speaker 2: be humble enough to admit you don't know everything. The
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  Speaker 2: emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for God
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  Speaker 2: to fill. But a closed mind never receives anything from God.
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  Speaker 2: Going back a second time and a third and a fourth.
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  Speaker 2: is what separates champions and conquerors from failures and defeatists.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, you ought to be blind too.
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  Speaker 2: Because I knew your mama.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm back. Come back, that got away.
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  Speaker 2: I have to catch up where, as I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: they will run away from me. Jesus says, Jesus rebukes
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  Speaker 2: the accuser.
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  Speaker 1: There are always accusers in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Now you must understand the spirit of accusation does not
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  Speaker 2: start with men. It starts with Satan because Satan is
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  Speaker 2: an accuser of the brethren. And you must understand the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of accusation hovers over the head of every human
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  Speaker 2: being in this room, accusing you of something, blaming you
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  Speaker 2: of something, creating, suggesting, sowing seeds in your mind for
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  Speaker 2: which you have to deal with guilt over things you
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  Speaker 2: had no real control over.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you anyway? Are you God?
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  Speaker 2: That your actions could control somebody else's outcome. But when
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of accusation comes, people will accuse you as
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  Speaker 2: if you had more influence than you actually did. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you contributed to the problem, but there are other people
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  Speaker 2: who contributed in like manner and they didn't turn out
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  Speaker 2: like that. There are other people who walked away. There
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  Speaker 2: are other people who were irresponsible. There are other people
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  Speaker 2: who didn't spend as much time with their kids and
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  Speaker 2: their kids turned out right.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't want to talk to me. Y'all don't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: It's so easy to say, I'm like this because. And
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  Speaker 2: as long as you assign blame to other people, you
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  Speaker 2: can never regain control. The moment you say that it's
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  Speaker 2: something his mother or father did, then he cannot do
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  Speaker 2: anything to fix it. Now the miracle must move from
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  Speaker 2: the blind man to a discussion with his parents because
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  Speaker 2: if what they did cost him to be blind, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to do something to undo it. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you brought your brain with me this morning because
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  Speaker 2: I just said something heavy.
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  Speaker 1: If you ended up where you.
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  Speaker 2: Ended up because of somebody else, then you can't fix
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  Speaker 2: where you are. They have to fix it. Isn't that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of power to give to somebody else? Jesus
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  Speaker 2: rebuked them, recognizing the spirit of accusation comes from the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren.
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  Speaker 2: And there is an accuser in your life right now.
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  Speaker 2: accusing you every time you get up, accusing you every
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  Speaker 2: time you have a happy moment that you don't deserve it,
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  Speaker 2: that you have no right to it, that you should
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  Speaker 2: be ashamed of where you are. There is an accuser
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  Speaker 2: that reigns on every good day, threatening you of a
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  Speaker 2: bad day, holding you hostage in your own mind, bringing
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  Speaker 2: up things for which you cannot change and have no
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  Speaker 2: control over in your life to torment you. And every
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  Speaker 2: time you go down, There is an accuser saying, you
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  Speaker 2: brought that on yourself. There's always a voice that you
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  Speaker 2: wrestle with. See, I don't have time to fight with you.
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  Speaker 2: I got to fight off all them voices that are
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  Speaker 2: talking in my head, telling me to give up and die.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm so glad that the blind man didn't have
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  Speaker 2: to rebuke the accuser. Jesus rebuked the accuser and said,
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  Speaker 2: you're wrong. I have an attorney. that will plead my case.
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  Speaker 2: When you make assumptions about me, I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: fight for myself. Jesus rebuked his own disciples and said,
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  Speaker 2: neither sinned.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. But it was done for the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: How can God get glory out of blindness? I made
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  Speaker 2: him like this. so I could be glorified in this.
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  Speaker 2: My strength is made perfect. That's what God said. My
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  Speaker 2: strength is made perfect in your weakness. If you're too strong,
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  Speaker 2: I can't show off. If you got too much going
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  Speaker 2: for you, I can't show off. But when all hell
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  Speaker 2: is breaking loose and you're down for the count and
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  Speaker 2: there's no way in the world you can get up,
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  Speaker 2: God said, that's when I can show up and show
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  Speaker 2: them that I have been with you all your life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I wish I had some help this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I thought when God got ready to show his glory,
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  Speaker 2: he would show it through perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when he called me to preach, I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: you should get one of the good people. Don't be
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  Speaker 2: calling me because you know me. Come on, man, you
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  Speaker 2: know me. You know I'm about to mess this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Up real good fashion up in here. Get one of
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  Speaker 1: those good people.
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  Speaker 2: One of them little goody two-shoes, nice people who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of them. That was back when I still believed
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  Speaker 2: that they existed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I did not know that God could be glorified through
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  Speaker 2: something that was not beautiful. to something that was not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: He said, this man is like this not because of
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  Speaker 2: what his mother did, not because of what his father did,
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  Speaker 2: but I planned his blindness for my glory. That's why
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  Speaker 2: you're single. So I could be glorified. in your singleness.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you're married. So I could be glorified in
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  Speaker 2: your marriage. That's why your home isn't perfect. So I
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  Speaker 2: could be glorified in the imperfection. I made it what
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  Speaker 2: it is so you could see glory in a way
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't see it. Don't fix it, be glorified in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, y'all don't want to talk to me. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had some help this morning. I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: some help. I wish I had some help.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason we have a need to blame is
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  Speaker 2: because we're disappointed in the outcome. And the disappointment in
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  Speaker 2: the outcome suggests there's something wrong with where you are.
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  Speaker 2: So the way you cope with the disappointment with you
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  Speaker 2: is by blaming me. So you make me your scapegoat.
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  Speaker 2: But Christ already is. That's too theological, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: bother that. I'm not gonna drop over into that. Christ says,
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  Speaker 2: don't blame his mother, don't blame his father. Whatever was
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  Speaker 2: wrong with them, I could've made that work. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna blame anybody, blame me. Because I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to use his blindness for my glory. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: use her brokenness for my glory. I'm going to use
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  Speaker 2: his emptiness for my glory. for my glory, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: use her thirstiness for my glory. Don't make them over,
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  Speaker 2: leave them alone, stop trying to fix them, that's my child.
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  Speaker 2: Leave her alone, I made her this way because I
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  Speaker 2: have an appointment with her and when the time is
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  Speaker 2: right and the stage is set, I'm gonna heal her
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  Speaker 2: where I can get the most glory. Somebody help me
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  Speaker 2: pray them just 10 seconds. Touch five people and say,
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  Speaker 2: you have an appointment. You have an appointment. You have
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  Speaker 2: an appointment. You have an appointment. You have an appointment.
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  Speaker 2: You have an appointment. Yeah, you have an appointment. You
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  Speaker 2: have an appointment. You don't even know it. You don't
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  Speaker 2: even know it. You don't even know it. You don't
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  Speaker 2: even know it. You're just sitting on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the road, minding your own business, not even realizing that
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  Speaker 2: you have an appointment with destiny. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: fast for it. You don't have to pray for it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to beg for it. All you got
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  Speaker 2: to do is do you. And while you do you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to meet you in the middle of the road. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but this is
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  Speaker 2: for somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down, sit down. We're just talking about it. We're
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  Speaker 1: just talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why y'all keep jumping up, but I
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  Speaker 2: feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the spirit of the living God. I feel
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The blind man said nothing, and the miracle came to him.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this.
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  Speaker 2: The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
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  Speaker 2: God to fill, but a closed mind never receives anything
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  Speaker 2: from God. The only difference between you and the person
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  Speaker 2: you admire It's the perspective they have on life.
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  Speaker 3: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
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  Speaker 3: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
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  Speaker 2: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
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  Speaker 2: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
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  Speaker 2: can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
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  Speaker 2: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
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  Speaker 2: your outcome.
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  Speaker 2: I have to stop there, but it's been delightful to
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  Speaker 2: share the Word of the Lord with you. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about where God is taking you. I believe God is
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  Speaker 2: going to do great things in your life. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to deter your steps by getting caught
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  Speaker 2: up in excuses and issues and problems, the blame game.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get beyond it and start walking out
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  Speaker 2: your destiny. Even when you can't see your way clear,
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  Speaker 1: Take care now.