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The Pain of Believing - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the house. We're so glad you joined us today.
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  Speaker 1: Choosing to tune in to dis serment was not by accident.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe God has a word just for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: God is always using the people of this house to
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  Speaker 3: speak his word. So, whether you're watching from across the street,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe you are across the world, if you are not,
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  Speaker 3: just if you are, you are our family.
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  Speaker 1: And we believe that worship doesn't have walls, and experiencing
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of God's spirit doesn't always require a commute.
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  Speaker 3: So are you ready to join us as we fellowship
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  Speaker 3: and unite in spirit and in truth. I want your
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  Speaker 3: hearts to be open because we are going to encounter
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  Speaker 3: God together.
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  Speaker 1: Heymen, we see you, we love you, and we believe
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  Speaker 1: this word is going to change your life.
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  Speaker 4: Jump up to your feet. We're going to the Word
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  Speaker 4: of God. The Gospel of Saint John, chapter twenty, verse
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  Speaker 4: twenty five through twenty eight. There you will find my
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  Speaker 4: assignment for this morning. The Texas brief and simple, but
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  Speaker 4: the message behind it is profound and prolific. It comes
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  Speaker 4: at a moment in history that Jesus has gone to
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  Speaker 4: the cross. Jerusalem is in total chaos and confusion. The
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  Speaker 4: Romans are trying to manage it. The Temple is trying
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  Speaker 4: to diminish it. The Disciples are trying to dodge it.
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  Speaker 4: Because their leader is gone, or so they thought, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things that look gone on Friday resurrect on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday morning. The devil will try to talk to you
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  Speaker 4: into thinking it's over. And this is somebody that the enemy,
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  Speaker 4: in some area of your life has convinced you that
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  Speaker 4: it's over. But it's not over. Just because it's hard
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean it's not over. Just because it's difficult doesn't
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  Speaker 4: mean it's not over. One of the disciples in particular,
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  Speaker 4: had a hard time with it, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: focus on him today. The other disciples therefore said, unto him,
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  Speaker 4: we have seen the Lord. But he said unto them,
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  Speaker 4: except I shall see in his hands the print of
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  Speaker 4: the nails, and put my finger into the print of
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  Speaker 4: his nails, and thrust my hand into it side. I
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  Speaker 4: will not believe repeat those last words. I will not believe.
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  Speaker 4: That is a strong statement coming from a person who
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  Speaker 4: has given their life over to the Lord. Fully, I
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  Speaker 4: don't mean just gotten a conversion core card and gone
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  Speaker 4: on about their life. These people drop their jobs, walked
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  Speaker 4: away from their families, did everything to walk with Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to explain a little bit why their dedication
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  Speaker 4: was so intense and so powerful, and what their expectation was,
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  Speaker 4: because sometimes we expect one thing from God and God
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  Speaker 4: does something else. God doesn't always answer in the way
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  Speaker 4: that you think he should answer, and it leaves you
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  Speaker 4: with questions in your mind. If I'm talking to you,
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  Speaker 4: say man, and after eight days again, his notice how
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  Speaker 4: many days it was? Somebody say eight days? After eight
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  Speaker 4: days again, his disciples were within, and Thomas with them.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't with them before, he wasn't with him. Then
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  Speaker 4: came Jesus, the door being shut, and stood in the
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  Speaker 4: midst and said, peace be unto you. Then said he
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  Speaker 4: to Thomas, reach hither thy finger and behold my hands.
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  Speaker 4: And reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side.
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  Speaker 4: And be not faithless, Be not faithless, but believing. And
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  Speaker 4: Thomas answered and said, unto him, my Lord and my God,
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  Speaker 4: this is restoration at his finest. Remained standing for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: I want to pray with you. But my subject this morning,
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  Speaker 4: it's the pain of believing.
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  Speaker 5: The pain.
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  Speaker 4: Of believing. We know about the power of believing, but
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  Speaker 4: nobody prepares you for the the pain, the difficulty, the struggle,
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  Speaker 4: the pain of believing, the misunderstanding that comes. The pastor
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  Speaker 4: Torre has talked to you a little bit about believing,
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  Speaker 4: and he's going on to talk to you about knowing.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to digress for a moment and talk
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  Speaker 4: just a moment about the pain of believing. Because while
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  Speaker 4: others rush in to believing and go on to knowing,
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  Speaker 4: there are stragglers that are left behind because of how
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  Speaker 4: much it costs them to believe in the midst of
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  Speaker 4: the pain that they went through. And it is easy
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  Speaker 4: to judge other people for their pain when you haven't
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  Speaker 4: gone through what they've gone through. It's easy to quote
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  Speaker 4: scriptures and tell them what they ought to do and
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  Speaker 4: how they ought to handle it. Until it's your child
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  Speaker 4: laying in a casket up front, until it's until your
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  Speaker 4: house has been foreclosed on, until you've been snatched out
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  Speaker 4: of a car, you should kind of be quiet sometime. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And when you see me crying, just hand me a handkerchief.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you don't have a word for me, just hand
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  Speaker 4: me a handkerchief and keep your mouth shut, because I
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  Speaker 4: may be going through the pain of believing. Father God.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus, I stretch my hands, my
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  Speaker 4: heart and my spirit, my soul, my bones, my toes,
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  Speaker 4: my corpuscles, my blood, my hemoglobe, and every thing that
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  Speaker 4: I have I yielded over to you. Come into this
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  Speaker 4: place and be made manifest, and show the devil who's boss.
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  Speaker 4: Throw your weight around this room. Reach into somebody's chest
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  Speaker 4: and do surgery. Reach into somebody's heart and give release.
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  Speaker 4: Reach into somebody's mind and fix their mind in such
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  Speaker 4: a way that they can go from faith to faith
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  Speaker 4: and from glory to glory.
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  Speaker 6: And we're not.
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  Speaker 4: Afraid to give you the praise in advance. We're not
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  Speaker 4: afraid to thank you for it at advance. We believe
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have your way. Great God, that you
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  Speaker 4: are have your way in this place. In the name
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  Speaker 4: of Jesus. Somebody with the voice that you use when
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  Speaker 4: you hollered at your kids, shout a man, you may
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  Speaker 4: be seated. God, bless your children.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna bake a banana pudding, but because Pastor
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  Speaker 4: Torrey put us una fast, he didn't say how long
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  Speaker 4: it would be Yeah. Yeah, I'm teasing you. I'm teasing you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just a couple of days, come back to this, a
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  Speaker 4: couple of days. I looked at doctor Jeli started laughing.
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  Speaker 4: Thought about all the times we've been sitting down there,
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  Speaker 4: fellowship and around the table, eating peach cobbler and banana
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  Speaker 4: pudding and all that. But that's the past forgetting those
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  Speaker 4: things which are behind us, and reaching to those things
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  Speaker 4: which are before. We pressed forward the mark of the
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  Speaker 4: prize of the high calling of God in Christ. You
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  Speaker 4: I ain't bother nobody this morning. There's an argument to
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  Speaker 4: be made about Thomas. It is only in the last
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  Speaker 4: few centuries that he has been nicknamed doubting Thomas. The
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  Speaker 4: early Church did not trivialize his experience down to a nickname.
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  Speaker 4: There was a spirit of Thomas that we need to
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  Speaker 4: contextualize in the texts, and we can only do that
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  Speaker 4: if we understand the times. The times that they were
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  Speaker 4: living in were times that are almost mirrored to the
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  Speaker 4: times we are living in today. They are controlled by
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  Speaker 4: a sovereign nation that has come into their country and
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  Speaker 4: taken complete control. They are at home, but they're not
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  Speaker 4: at home. The Romans rule with an iron hand, they
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  Speaker 4: were a sovereign kingdom, generally taking over by dominants, taking
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  Speaker 4: whatever they wanted, doing whatever they wanted to do. They
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  Speaker 4: weren't the first ones by any stretch of the imagination
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  Speaker 4: the way of the world. If you study the way
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  Speaker 4: of the world, only the strong survive, and people will
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  Speaker 4: take a moment of a vulnerability or moment of weakness
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  Speaker 4: not only to attack you, but to take over your
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  Speaker 4: whole country. If you're not careful, you we're just one
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  Speaker 4: step away. Because country survive off of ideas like democracy.
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  Speaker 4: It's just an idea, it's just a thought. And if
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  Speaker 4: you don't support it, and you get a writhe up
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  Speaker 4: of people who think their voice is doesn't matter, and
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  Speaker 4: their vote doesn't matter, and their counsel doesn't matter, nobody
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  Speaker 4: says anything about it. It is easy to take over.
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  Speaker 4: If you read about World War One, you read about
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  Speaker 4: what Hitler did, you'll see how he gradually, in stages,
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  Speaker 4: took them deeper and deeper till they ended up in oswitch.
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  Speaker 4: And I know it's hard for you to imagine, but
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  Speaker 4: it's not as hard as it used to be. As
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  Speaker 4: we turn on our TV sets and we see people
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  Speaker 4: snatched out of cars and woke up at four o'clock
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  Speaker 4: in the morning and nicked babies and pregnant women drug
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  Speaker 4: out of cars. It's not easy. It doesn't take long
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  Speaker 4: for power to get out of control. And besides, in
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  Speaker 4: order for Rome to be the empower that it was,
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  Speaker 4: it became an empower and not just a great country
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  Speaker 4: by its ability to come in and take over other
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  Speaker 4: geographical areas. And the more areas they took over, the
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  Speaker 4: stronger they became, the more taxes they took in, the
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  Speaker 4: more money they made, the more influence they had, the
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  Speaker 4: more they were revered. But once they took over those countries,
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  Speaker 4: they had to manage those countries to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: those countries were submissive to their will. The same thing
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  Speaker 4: happened with Senegal. Sentagal has been systematically closing French military
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  Speaker 4: sites and plans to complete the withdrawal of all French
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  Speaker 4: forces by the late twenty twenty five. Is having them
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  Speaker 4: right now? You don't feel it because it's not having
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  Speaker 4: any in your house. You don't feel things that are
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  Speaker 4: going on in other cities until it happens to you,
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  Speaker 4: until they drag your daughter out of the car pregnant.
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  Speaker 4: You will keep on singing and clapping and going about
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  Speaker 4: your business and be totally blind to the turmoil that
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  Speaker 4: goes on when one person, or one group, or one class,
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  Speaker 4: or one creed of people any kind take over another person.
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  Speaker 4: The other persons become subjective to their own malicious will
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  Speaker 4: and purpose. They become submissive is a better word, to
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  Speaker 4: their own will and purpose of the perpetrator who is
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  Speaker 4: set out to destroy them. And you don't feel it
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  Speaker 4: until it's you. And it's not just the abuse. Alan
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  Speaker 4: It is the feeling of being home and not at home.
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  Speaker 4: It is the feeling of laying in your bed and
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  Speaker 4: wondering will you make it through the night. It is
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  Speaker 4: the feeling of now. When I grabbed my wallet, I
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  Speaker 4: grabbed my passport. Yeah, I don't go too far without
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  Speaker 4: it anymore. I just keep it with me, just in
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  Speaker 4: case some lone ranger, some overdoor, some perpetrator, some obsessive
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  Speaker 4: person comes along and tries to make a lesson out
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  Speaker 4: of me. I know that I am not an illegal immigrant.
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  Speaker 4: I know that I'm not a murderer. I know that
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a killing But I don't know what you
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  Speaker 4: think of me. And so for fear of what you
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  Speaker 4: think of me, I have to walk with a certain
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  Speaker 4: kind of fear that I didn't have to walk into
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  Speaker 4: five years ago. Senacol has completely disrupted France. Nage has
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  Speaker 4: also disrupted France. Francis military presidence has ended, their diplomatic
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  Speaker 4: ties were reduced with French forces departing the country. The
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  Speaker 4: French people were marching in the streets just a couple
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  Speaker 4: of months ago because they were.
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  Speaker 5: Losing power over all.
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  Speaker 4: Of the colonies that they had made in Africa and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Are you following what I'm saying. America was originally meant
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  Speaker 4: to be under the rule of Greatness and under the
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  Speaker 4: control of the UK. That's why we celebrate July the fourth,
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  Speaker 4: That's the moment that we declared our independence and their
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to celebrate two hundred and fifty years of
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  Speaker 4: separating ourselves from them controlling us, or we would have
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  Speaker 4: been subjugated and controlled by the ethics of Parliament in
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  Speaker 4: the UK and still had to function and still had
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  Speaker 4: to deal with it. But we would have had to
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  Speaker 4: deal with it as second class citizens. And some about
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  Speaker 4: being a second class citizen. People have a way of
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  Speaker 4: making you know that you're second class. They treat you
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  Speaker 4: with an air of second class. There's a certain way,
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  Speaker 4: a little side eyed way that they look at you.
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  Speaker 4: Power power corrupts, but total power totally corrupts. And you
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  Speaker 4: can tell that power, when it gets out of control,
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  Speaker 4: will be little you and demean you. And it's not
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  Speaker 4: just one group of people, it's anybody that gets too
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  Speaker 4: much control over you. You got to be careful about
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  Speaker 4: who you let have control over you. You got to
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  Speaker 4: be careful about who you married. You're not going to
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  Speaker 4: talk to me. You got to be careful about where
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  Speaker 4: you go to work. You can be subjugated to submissiveness
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  Speaker 4: in your own house, and little by little they're telling
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  Speaker 4: you what to wear and don't wear those shoes with that,
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  Speaker 4: don't do this, and don't go over there, and don't
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  Speaker 4: take the car, and little by little power Kenny road
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  Speaker 4: until you have no control or say so over yourself,
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  Speaker 4: and you'll have to do a revolution in your own
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  Speaker 4: living room to get back control of what you eat
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  Speaker 4: and where you drive and where you live. You understand
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I want you to see the spirit
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  Speaker 4: of the times that they lived in. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to understand that they were besieged by the Roman empower,
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  Speaker 4: and not just Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 5: But all across the world.
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  Speaker 4: Rome had stretched out its arms and was controlling more
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  Speaker 4: and more geographical locations, and the whole city, and the
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  Speaker 4: whole nation of Israel, and the city of Jerusalem was besieged.
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  Speaker 4: They had leaders that were not like them, that didn't
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  Speaker 4: share their background, that didn't share the things that they
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  Speaker 4: thought about. They had language issues, they had cruel beatings
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  Speaker 4: and muggings and horrible things happening to them, and they
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  Speaker 4: had to become used to had to become used to abuse.
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  Speaker 4: I know all of you tell me what you would
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  Speaker 4: do if you were born in the enslavery time, and
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  Speaker 4: what you would do. I hear all the stuff you said.
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  Speaker 4: But if you see enough people hanging from trees, and
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  Speaker 4: enough people be headed, and enough people beating to death,
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  Speaker 4: you're not quite as bad as you think you are.
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  Speaker 4: You're not quite as tough as you think you are.
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  Speaker 4: As any woman in here that's been a victim of
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  Speaker 4: domestic violence, sometimes it's not as easy to get away
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  Speaker 4: from power out of control. As the neighbors next door said.
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  Speaker 4: If that was me, I would do such and such
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  Speaker 4: a thing. But she has to consider her kids, her livelihood,
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  Speaker 4: her future, where she's gonna move, where she's gonna live.
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  Speaker 4: Power can be a dangerous thing. It can be a
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  Speaker 4: disruptive thing. It can be a painful thing. That's why
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad I'm not a child anymore. I didn't like
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  Speaker 4: being a child because you don't have much control. As
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  Speaker 4: a child, I had to eat what they ordered, I
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  Speaker 4: had to wear what they laid out, I had to
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  Speaker 4: do what they said. When I grew up, I was
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  Speaker 4: so glad to be able to dress myself. I dressed
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  Speaker 4: myself this morning. I put on what I like, I
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  Speaker 4: wear what I like to wear. I go where I
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  Speaker 4: want to go. I do what I want to do
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  Speaker 4: and much. I didn't have a bad childhood, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to go back to it. I enjoy the
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  Speaker 4: freedom of being able to make my own choices. How
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  Speaker 4: many people in here enjoy the freedom of making your
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  Speaker 4: own choices. I don't care what you got on, blue
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  Speaker 4: jeans and a T shirt or rag around your head.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you got on. What you put on,
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  Speaker 4: what you wanted to wear, and you did it. There
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  Speaker 4: was nobody controlling you, telling you what to do and
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  Speaker 4: where to sit and where to go and when to
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  Speaker 4: leave and how to move. It's important to if you're
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  Speaker 4: going to have dignity, to have a degree of control,
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  Speaker 4: or if you're going to have self esteem, you have
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  Speaker 4: to have a degree of control.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want control of the world.
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  Speaker 4: But over my decisions and my choice choices.
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  Speaker 6: In my house.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get to come in and paint my house
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  Speaker 4: because you don't like the color of my living room.
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  Speaker 4: I painted in that color. I don't care if I've
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  Speaker 4: made it stripe and it's my living room. If I
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  Speaker 4: can live there, you can visit there. Keep your mouth
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  Speaker 4: out of my business. Come on, talk to me, somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Keep your mouth, Keep your mouth, your mouth mut out
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  Speaker 4: of my business. You paint your house with polka dots,
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  Speaker 4: and I won't say nothing about it. I might not
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  Speaker 4: stay long, but I won't say nothing about it. But
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  Speaker 4: that was not the circumstance for the Jews, That was
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  Speaker 4: not the circumstance for Jerusalem, that was not the circumstance
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  Speaker 4: for Issue. So when John the Baptis came along and
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  Speaker 4: said repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,
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  Speaker 4: first thing to come across their mind was liberation from
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  Speaker 4: the abuse and the turmoil that they were under the
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  Speaker 4: first scene to come to their mind with being free
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  Speaker 4: from Caesar and his control and his dominance. The first
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  Speaker 4: thing that came to their mind. The dominance had become
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  Speaker 4: so strong that he had even infiltrated their religion. That's
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  Speaker 4: why the temple is called Herod's temple. And Herod wasn't
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  Speaker 4: even fully a Jew, and yet he has taken over
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  Speaker 4: the temple, and he's taken taxes and making money from
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  Speaker 4: the church people to support taxes in the government. And
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  Speaker 4: that's why Jesus kicked over the tables. It was not
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  Speaker 4: because they were frying chicken and selling chocolate bars at
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  Speaker 4: the door. It was because the government had come in
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  Speaker 4: and taken control over their religious freedom and their faith.
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  Speaker 4: Power gradually eats you up like cancer. It don't start
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  Speaker 4: with big stuff. It starts with It starts with little things.
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  Speaker 4: Where you're going, What time you're going to be back.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you'd be back at nine o'clock. Is nine fifteen?
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  Speaker 4: Tell me where you've been. I don't like your hair
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  Speaker 4: cut like that. Little by little, it just escalates. It
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  Speaker 4: don't start out with physical abuse and punching you in
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  Speaker 4: the mouth. It starts out with shoving you just a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. It starts out with insults and verbal attacks,
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  Speaker 4: and little by little, I want to give you some
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  Speaker 4: signs this morning so that you can begin understand when
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  Speaker 4: you're being besieged, when you're being attacked, when you're being overridden.
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  Speaker 4: So when John the Baptist came along, it was important
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  Speaker 4: because John the Baptist was one of the few remnants
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  Speaker 4: left of their faith. They had already lost their kings
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  Speaker 4: and they were about to lose the lineage of their priesthood.
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  Speaker 4: And when Elizabeth God used an old woman to have
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  Speaker 4: a baby because he thought it was so important that
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  Speaker 4: they have a lineage to continue that when he was born,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: it had been a whole lot to them. Can I
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: take my time this morning, because they were trying to
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  Speaker 4: hold on to their preach toood. But the problem was
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  Speaker 4: he was not like his father. Okay, and we're living
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  Speaker 4: in a time that we cannot just be like our fathers.
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  Speaker 4: We can't just have a Zachariah annointing. That's why the
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  Speaker 4: Bible his name should be called John, because none of
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  Speaker 4: his candid have been called by that name. To the
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  Speaker 4: young people, I want you to hear me for a minute. Well,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: the other Sunday, I got something came over me so
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: strong I almost interrupted the service. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: do more than we did. You're gonna have to withstand
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: more than we would stand. The situation is different, the
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: times are different, the demons are different, the level of
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: attack is different. The financial components are different, the economics
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: are different, the emotions are different. You weren't shaped out
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: of the same clay we were shaped out of. You
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: have a different clay. You have certain comforts you're accustomed to,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: and you're not used to being up under attack, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: therefore you are emotionally fragile in ways that we grew
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: up in turmoil and pain, and so you have to
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  Speaker 4: have a little different approach. You're gonna have to fight
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  Speaker 4: things that we didn't have to fight. Some of the
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  Speaker 4: things that you were fighting are things that weren't even
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: talked about when we came along, and you have to
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: fight that. Fighting older folks, you got to be a
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: little bit tender with them and a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: understanding because they didn't come up with washboards and clothes lines.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't come up with without houses and circumstances that
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  Speaker 4: that we grew up that we called normal. They don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to make corn bread without Jiffy.
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  Speaker 5: They don't know.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know how to freeze green beans. They don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to canned corn.
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  Speaker 5: They don't know.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know how to make jelly out of skins
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: of apples. Talk to me, somebody, You know I'm telling
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  Speaker 4: the truth. The times you're living in affects how you
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: puts and how you move and how you deliver. So
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: when John the Baptist came along and said, repent, the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: kingdom of Heaven is at hand, they're thinking about an
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  Speaker 4: earthly kingdom. They're wanting to crown Jesus as king. They're
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: wanting to see Jesus rule. They want to see Jesus
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: overthrow the Roman besiege and the Roman power and the
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Roman autocracy that has taken over their land, because they
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: You must understand that these are people who walk forty
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  Speaker 4: years to get to their land, only to get in
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  Speaker 4: their land and not be free in their own land.
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  Speaker 5: I might not be free in.
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  Speaker 4: The grocery store, I might not be free at the
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: gas station. I might not be free at the school,
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  Speaker 4: But I be dug gone if I'm not going to
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: be free in my own house and they had learned,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: come on, somebody, when I go into my yard and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: close that gate, it ain't none of your business. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: get to be who ever I want to be. That's
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: why I'm making the payments every month, so that I
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: can be free somewhere. But they weren't safe anywhere. They
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: were snatched out of their houses. Doesn't sound familiar. They
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: were abused in the street. And I hate to shock
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: you like this, but Jesus was not nearly the first
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: person to be crucified. Crucifixions were as common as hangings
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: were during slavery. And then Nina Simone, I believe it
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: was some strange fruit how you could walk down the
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: forest anywhere and see bodies hanging under the abuse of
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  Speaker 4: slavery in the same way you could see crosses anywhere.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: And they meant for it to bring you to an
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: open shame, because terrorists always go not by the attack,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: but by the terror that it costs. It gives you control,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: It makes you submit, it makes you hush your mouth,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It reminds you that I have control over your life.
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  Speaker 6: Those were the times.
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  Speaker 4: That they were living in up again, those obstacles, and
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: when John the Baptist said repent, for the Kingdom of
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Heaven is at hand. I don't blame him. I would
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: have jumped into Jordan. I would have swam into Jordan
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  Speaker 4: if you told me that all you had to do
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: is dunk me. And the kingdom was at hand, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I was gonna get control of the land. My father's
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  Speaker 4: march forty years for I would be baptized right now
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  Speaker 4: hides in any name, baptized in any circumstance. I would
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: go through anything just to be free. John the Baptist
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: had a full congregation because they were looking for liberation.
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  Speaker 4: God is always on the side of the old pressed.
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  Speaker 4: Talk to me, somebody. God is always on the side
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: of the old pressed. He's always on the one that's
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: down trodden. He walks past the person that's well to
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: lay hands on the person that's sick. God is always
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: for the one that's oppressed. God is on your side
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: because of the oppression and the inequities of power that
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: exists in your life and your house, and your community
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  Speaker 4: and your marriage. God is always on the side of
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: the oppressed. Now, if you've never been oppressed, that don't
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  Speaker 4: mean nothing to you. But if you've had to live
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: in a situation of oppression. You are to shouting me
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: down right now. The disciples had given up everything to
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: go with Jesus. Thomas was not weak, he was very powerful.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: When Jesus made up his mind to go to Jerusalem,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: there was a plot that had been set off to
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: kill him, and Thomas was the one who said we
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  Speaker 4: must go and.
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  Speaker 6: Die with him.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't sound like a doubter if you're willing to
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: die for a cause. But sometimes people will forget all
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: the good things you said and hold on to the
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  Speaker 4: bad thing that you said and define you by a
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: weak moment. But the truth of the matter, Thomas was courageous,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: he was strong, He was poper.
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  Speaker 6: The very fact that Thomas was not in.
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  Speaker 4: The upper room with the other disciples because they were
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: hiding for fear of the Jews, and Thomas was walking
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  Speaker 4: up and down the street tells you he's a bad negro.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Anytime you can walk down y'all ain't gonna talk to me.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Anytime you can walk down the street where other people
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: are fred to go, you gotta be some kind of bad.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: There's some bad folks in here that will go someplace
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: that other people wouldn't go, and you'll go because you
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: got the courage to do whatever you gotta do to
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: get wherever you gotta go. There's some bad sisters.
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  Speaker 6: In this room. Don't let the hair fool you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: They will pull that hair down, take that wig off,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: pull them nails off, yank them eyelashes, and fight you
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: like a dog in the street. See, it don't have
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: nothing to do with size. It's not the size of
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the dog in the fight. It's the size of the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: fight and the dog, oh holly looke. Thomas was a
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  Speaker 4: strong fighter. He was a liberator. He was an emancipator.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: He was a deliberate those that were bound, and he said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna stay locked up like a dog in
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: a cage. I'm going to and fro as I will.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: So when Jesus came there, and they were shocked because
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Thomas was not there. The others were hiding, but Thomas
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: was going on about his business and he was not there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: What I liked about the texts. What I like about
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: the text is that Jesus came back eight days later.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Somebody say, eight days later, you're eight days away from
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: a new beginning. You're eight days away from a mighty James.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: You're eight days away from a resurrection. You're eight days
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: away from a phone call, You're eight days away from
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: an email, You're eight days away from a complete resurrection.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Your situation is eight days away. That's why the demo's
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: trying to kill you while you're in the way. But
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: the devil is a liar. Eight is the number of
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: new beginnings in the Bible. Whenever you see eight, it
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: symbolizing new beginnings. When you see seven, you come down
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  Speaker 4: to the end. But when you see eight, it's gonna
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: start all over again.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know who I'm talking to.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know who I'm talking to, but I feel
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: an eighth Day spirit in this play. I feel an
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: eighth Day spirit in this place. I feel an eight
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: day spirit in this play. Somebody's about to get a turnaround.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: The bhivor said that Thomas came along on the eighth day.
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  Speaker 4: He comes back in the room. You must understand, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: sit down, because you're gonna make me. You're gonna make me,
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  Speaker 4: you gonna make me, You gonna make me, You gonna
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: make me, you gonna make me, you gonna make me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Slap somebody and say eight days. Your whole life can
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: turn around in eight days. Your circumstance can change in
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: eight days. Your breakthrough can happen in an eighth days,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Your deliverance can happen in an eight day. Don't kill
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: yourself till you have your age day. God can fix
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: it in eight days. God can fix it and make
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: it new all over again in eight days. And the
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: imst said that when it was eight days, the way
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Thomas comes back in the room.
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  Speaker 6: Might I remind you.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: That the Bible teaches, according to levitical law, that children
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: male children weren't support to be circumcised till the eighth day.
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  Speaker 4: On the eighth day, God cuts away the flesh. On
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: the eighth day, God takes away what is not needed.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: On the eighth day, God brings about a mighty delivering eighth.
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  Speaker 4: It's the number new beginning. So Thomas waited till it
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  Speaker 4: was the eighth day. And the Bible says the Bible,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: the Bible, the Bible. The Bible says, the Bible says
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: the Bible, the Bible, the Bible. The Bible says the Bible,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the Bible, the Bible says, the Bible. The Bible says.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: The Bible says, on the eighth day, he come walking
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  Speaker 4: in the room, nobody drugging nobody, snatched in nobody, handcuffing, nobody, changing.
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  Speaker 4: He was walking in freedom while they were walking in bondage.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Fear makes you be in bondage. But faith will liberate you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Faith will cause you to walk around like ain't nothing
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: hottening when there is something hottening. And he walked in
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: the room on the eighth day, and he in the room.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: But that is not what excites me. What really excites
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: me about the text is that Jesus came back for
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: an audience of one. Now I understand what he meant
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: about the prodigal son and leaving the ninety nine and
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: going after the one, and the widow who swept the
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: house looking for one coin even though.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: She had nine.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Now I understand. While the father ran off the front
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: porch to meet his one son, God cared about you
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: as an individual. He cared about you. He knows your name,
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: he knows your background, he knows your circumstance. The hairs
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: on your head are numbered, not counted, numbered their number.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: He got a number. If it gets caught in a comb,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: he knows. That's hair number five hundred and forty eight
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: and ninety two. God so cared about you. If his
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: eye is on the sparrow, then he watches over you.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: How dare you sit there and think that you are forsaken, forgotten, rejected,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: and cast aside the devil ledits like, God knows exactly
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: where you are. If you make your bed in hell,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: God is there. If you take the wings of the
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: morning and sell to the other old God. I feel,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: like he said, I got to watch myself and sail
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: to the outermost part of the earth. God is still there.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: The church calls, doubting Thomas that but Heaven knew him
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: as disappointed Thomas. Thomas was disappointed the king. He had
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: to watch his king die to be said this way,
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: he had to watch his dream die to you do
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: realize that Jesus was the first one to die on
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: the cross in that setting. All the other men that
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: were crucified that day, when they came to check them,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: they were already dead. But when they came to Jesus,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, when they came to check they were still alive.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: When they came to Jesus, he was already dead. That's
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: why they didn't break his legs, or at least that's
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: why they thought they didn't break his legs. The truth
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: of the matter is they didn't break his legs because
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Leviticus has said that in order for him to be
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: a lamb, not one bone in his body would be broken.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Good God a mighty So when they came to Jesus,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Jesus died first, so no bones could be broken. If
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: the bones had been broken, it would nullify his right
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: to be the lamb of God. But he presented himself
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: holy and spotless before his father. I feel a preaching
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: annoying and coming in this place. I feel the spirit
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: of the Living God coming in this place. And he
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: stayed there and they found him dead. He was the
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: first one dead, and Thomas and the disciples had to
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: watch him die. They took him down off the prosts
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: and put him in a tomb that Nicodemus helped to
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: bring about. It was a burrowed tomb. You don't borrow
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: nothing that you're not gonna give back. It was a
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: burrowed tomb. And they put him in the tomb, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: they thought it was over. They had to take his
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: rigor mortis ridden body down off the cross and take
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: his stiff hands and form pushed them.
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  Speaker 5: Down on the side.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: They had to push his left hand down on the side.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: They had to put his legs together and wrap him
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: in one inch strips, as as the custom of the time,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: to rap him till he looked like a mummy. They
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: knew he was dead. He couldn't move, he couldn't walk.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Blood and water came out of his body, which means
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: that his body's blood had separated because it had been
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: up there so long that the clear part of it
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: blood had separated from the red corpuscles in his blood.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: They knew he was dead because he lost all heat
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: in his body. All the temperature was gone out of
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: his body. He was fragmented, he was broken, and most
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: of all, he was silent. Had he spoken, the angels
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: would have come and delivered him and brought back the
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: kingdom and ushered in the millennium too soon. Had he spoken,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: the warring angels were stronger than the Roman empower. They
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: were greater than Caesar. They were greater than Rome. They
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: were greater than Herod, they were greater than Herod the Great.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: They were greater than anything. But he was gone and
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: his words were gone. Peter said, in your hands are
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: the words of eternal life. And they saw blood come
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: out of those hands, and they saw blood come out
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: of his side. And they saw the nail that was
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: in one nail in two feet, representing the jew and
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: the Gentile coming together up under one gospel. And they
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: nailed them with one nail, and they had to pull
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: that nail out. They felt the thud of the nail
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: coming out of his feet, in between his foot joints,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: it came out. They knew he was dead because they
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: prepared his body for burial. And Thomas had every right
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: to doubt the rumor that Jesus was still alive. Some
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: people said that they stolen his body. Some people said
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: that they had robbed the grave. It was not uncommon
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: to rob the grave in the days of Jesus. They
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: thought that he had robbed the grave. And so when
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Thomas comes in on the eighth day and they tell
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: him he's alive, he's alive. I know that, Thomas. I
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: That's what got me in trouble. Believing that's what broke
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: my heart. That's what upset me. That's what caused me
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: to quit my job. That's what caused me to be
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: away from my children. It hurts to believe. It hurts
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: to believe once you've been disappointed. It hurts to believe
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: once your heart has been broken. It hurts to believe,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: once you've been tied down. It hurts to believe. Once
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: you see somebody you put all your trust in, nail
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: to a tree, it hurts to believe. He said, I
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: don't want to hear your message because I don't want
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: to go through the disappointment of another loss in my life.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: And he said, I will not believe. The same one
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: who said I will die with him turns around now
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: and says, I will not believe because believing hurts. Believing
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: hurts when you are disappointed. Somebody in here knows what
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: it's like to believe in somebody and they disappoint you
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: so bad that your heart is broken. Somebody in here
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: knows what it's like to cry yourself to sleep. Somebody
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: in here knows what it's like for your dreams to
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: be dashed against the rock. Somebody in here knows what
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: it's like to go through hell and high water, go
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: to work and smile and go home and cry and
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: get in the car and let tears running. Somebody in
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: here understand what it's like to deal with disappointment. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: thought it was gonna happen, and it didn't happen. You
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: thought you'd be there by now, and it didn't happen.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: You thop you could count on them, and it didn't happen.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: You thought everything would be all right, and it didn't happen.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: And in other words, he was saying, like the old
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: song they sung in my day, now that I've cried
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: and my love to sleep, don't wake it up. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: don't want to believe anymore. It reminds me of the
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: shun of myite woman when Elijah told her that she
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: was gonna have a baby, and he said, she said,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: don't play with me, don't play with me, don't play
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: with me. It hurts too much to believe. And now
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: that I've finally got used to the fact that I'm
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: gonna have to go through the rest of my life alone,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: don't you come along and give me a promise? But
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: God has a way of giving you a promise, even
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: after all hell has broken loose. I got a message
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: for somebody in the room today. God has a way
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: of resurrecting your faith even though it hurts. God has
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: a way of restoring your mind and your heart. Even
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: when you're backed up in a corner and shoved to
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: the wall. God has a way of making you take
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: it back.
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  Speaker 2: You see.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Thomas's name is also called Didimus in the Greek diitidness
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: means twin. One part of him wants to quit, the
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: other part of him keeps coming back again. One part
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: of him says, I'm through with it. The other part
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: of him keeps reaching back again. It feels like he
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: skits aphrentic because on one hand he left the room,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: on the other hand, he came back to the room.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Because all of us got a twin, and one twin
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: wants to go one way and the other twin wants
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: to go the other way. Paul said it this way.
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  Speaker 4: When I would do good, evil is present with me.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: That which I would do I do, not that which
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: I not do. I do, Old wretched man that I am,
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: who shall save me not from demons, not from devils,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: not from witches, but save me from my twin. I
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: got a twin. I gotta control. Is there anybody else
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: in here that got a twin, You gotta control my
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: twin don't want to go to church. My twin don't
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: want to live right. My twin wants to cuss you out.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: My twin will bust you in your mouth. My twin
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: will drive the car right through your living room. My
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: twin will I act to fool like you ain't never seen.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: And I have to watch my twin because if I'm
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: not Carol, we look alike, we wear the same code,
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: we dress alike, we even walk alike. But I got
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: a twin that will freak out in here. I got
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: a twin that will go slap off in here, And
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: if I don't keep him in his cage, he'll get loose,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: and you'll see somebody you have never met before you
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: met Bishop Jakes. But my twin is not Bishop Jakes.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Is there anybody else in here that's been dealing with
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: your twin struggling with it? One day I'm in, one
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: day I'm out. One day I'm okay, one day I'm
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: not okay. One day I can take it, one day
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: I can't stand it. Is there anybody in here that's
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: had your twin? Wait till you got in the bed
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: and be waiting for you. And there you are crying
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: in the bed. There you are frustrated into the bed.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: Thomas had a right.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: To be disturbed, because it is painful to be leaving.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: He didn't want to go through that again. He didn't
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: want to have his hopes dashed against the rocks. He
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: loves me Jesus. He absolutely adored Jesus. He had given
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: up everything to follow Jesus. He thought Jesus was going
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: to be the answer to Jerusalem's problem. He thought Jesus
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: was going to be the liberator that set them free
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: from their oppressive He was going to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: He was going to be the Harriet Tutman of their situation.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: He was going to bring them out of trouble. Judas
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: was so disappointed that he hung himself because in his
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: own mind, according to the Book of Jesus, which is
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: not a canonical book of the Bible, Judas thought, yeah, baby,
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. Judas thought. Judas thought that if he
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: forced Jesus' hand, that Jesus would force himself out and
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: show them who he really was. But instead of calling
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: ten thousand angels, he never said a mumbling word, and
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: when Judas saw him crucified, he went out to the
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: potus field and hung himself. He couldn't take it because
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: it's plan backfar it. Watch out for your plan, watch
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: out for your scheme, Watch out for your trick. Sarah
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: will tell you that your plans will go awrise. Don't
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: get a hag out to have your baby though it hurts,
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: have your own baby, though you're grown. Have your own baby.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: There's some people in here that regret the mistake you
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: made because you had a plot, and you had a plan,
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: and it went wrong, and it went wrong, and you suffered.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: You lean not to thine own understanding, but trusting the Lord.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know who I'm talking to, But you gotta
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: trust God when you can't trace him. You gotta trust
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: God when you can't see him. You gotta trust God
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: when it looks like he's not working. You gotta trust
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: God when it looks like you're losing. You gotta trust
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: God when it looks like you're going backwards. You gotta
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: trust God when people are laughing at you. You gotta
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: trust God when you're twin is marketing you. You gotta
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: trust God when you're running.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Out of food.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: You gotta trust God when you're running out of time.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: Somebody watching online this word it is for you. You
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: gotta trust him now like you've never trusted him before.
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Thomas said, I will not believe. You've been wrestling in
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: your mind. You're scared to believe God. For that job,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: for that house, for that car, for that entrepreneurship.
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: You're afraid.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: But you've got to trust God because God is about
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: to do something. Slap three. People are saying, show eighth day,
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: It's show eighth day. It's show eighth day. This is
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: the day that something happens. This is the day that
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: the story changes. This is the day that the yoke
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: is broken. This is the day that the han tufts
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: fall off. This is the day that you get liberated.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: This is the day that God does impossible. And the Bible,
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: the Bible, the Bible of the Bible, the Bile, the Bible,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: the Bible, the Bible took the time to tell us
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: that on the eighth day, the door was closed. It
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: was shut, but Jesus came in anyway. Look to show
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Jesus who's God enough to walk through the door and
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: man enough to eat fish. Once he gets inside the door,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: he said, don't live in what I can do. You
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: can't lock me out of your room. You can't lock
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: me out of your business. You can't lock me out
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: of your plan. And just to show you that I'm
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: more than a ghost, I think I'll sit down and
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: have me a little fish sandwich to remove all doubt
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: that I got.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: All power, all power.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Can I preach like I want to preach it? I
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: got all power down.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: In my hand.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Turn around and tell somebody he's got all power. I
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: don't care if you're on a kidney machine, he's got
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: all power.
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: I don't care.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: If you're suffering from leukemia, he's got all power. I
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: don't care if they say you got four stage cancer.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: He's got all power. I don't care if you've got
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: a heart that skips beach. He's got all power. I
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: don't care if you're on a respirator, he's got all power.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I don't care. If your son's in jail, he's got
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: all power. I don't care if your daughter's living on
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: the street, he's.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: Got all power.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: I don't care if they curse you to your faith.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: He's got all power. He walks through doors whenever he
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: wants to Lord walk through him door this morning. I
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: feel God walking through door this morning where the enemy
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: has set up a road, blocked and tried to shut
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: you down from what God said he'd give you. God
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: is about to walk through the door. He's coming in
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: your direction.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question. Who am I preaching to.
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: You've been standing at the.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Door, crying because the door is shut. But you've forgotten
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: that Jesus can walk through a door. He'll come and
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: get you. Even if they put you in the prison,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: if they put you in the inner sanctum of the prison,
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: even if they got several dates before you get out,
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: He'll lead you out of every date in every wall.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Don't let your other twin tell you that all hope
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: is gone, because God's got a plan. Help me preach
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: this word, touch three people and say, God's got a plan.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: God's got a plan. God's got a plan. God's got
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: a plan. God's got a plan for you. God's got
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: a plan for you. I'm not talking about the group.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: God's got a plan for you. I'm not talking about
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: all the disciples. God's got a plan for you. The
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: reason you got out of the bed this morning is
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: because God's got a.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Plan for you.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: He's got a plan for your life, and no weapon
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: formed against you shall be able to prosper. They might
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: shut it, but it won't work. They might curseh you,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: but it won't work. They made back to you in
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: a corner, but it won't work, because when it's your
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: time to come out, you're coming out to tell you
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: they excuse me, I'm coming out. I'm coming out this morning.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: I'm coming out this morning. I decree and declare that
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: I'm coming out this morning. On it, how decreate and
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: declare that I'm coming out of this situation right now
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: in the name of Jesus. Jesus came back for one person.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: If there's only one person in this room that believes God,
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: he'll come to you. Is this one person in the city,
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: he'll save the whole city? Is there one person in
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: the potter's house that's got enough faith to see God
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: bring things out? Is there one person in the balcony
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: that believes God for a miracle? Is there one person
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: in this house? Does not a friend to lift your.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Hands and open your mouth, and shall.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: Jesus thou son of David, have mercy on me Jesus,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: I've been blind all my life, but Jesus the little me,
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: I've been rocked in the porter, but I can still.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Open my mouth.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: My eyes don't work, but my mouth does work. Don't
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: you know if your mouth works, you can get out
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: of anything. You shall have whatever you say. The power
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: of life and death is in your talk. That's why
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: the moment you get depressed, the first thing the devil
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: tries to do is to get you to shut up.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: But the devil is a lie. I've been quiet long enough.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna open my mouth. I don't care what the
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: demons do. I don't care what hell does. I don't
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: care what the witch does. I'm gonna open my mouth.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: I need a crazy person that'll open your mouth.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Open your mouth.
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: Open your mouth, open your mouth, open your mouth, open
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: your mouth, open your mouth, open your mouth.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Break the silence, break the quiet, break the pain, break
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: the curse. When you open your mouth. Having a symbols
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: when you open your mouth, healing hits yourbody when you
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: open your mouth, gor swing over the When you open
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: your mouth, God will supply every need. The power of
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: life and death is not in his tongue. It's in
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: your tongue. You shall have whatever you say. If you
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: confess death, you're gonna have death. If you confess life,
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have life. One more time. Let me hear
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: you holler in this room.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Let me hear you, Let me hear you, Let me.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Hear you, Let me hear you, Let me hear you,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Let me hear you. Let hell here you, Let hell
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: hear you, Let hell here, Let hell here.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: Let demons hear you.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: Let depression hear you.
• 54:19
  Speaker 8: Let sickness hear you.
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: Let hear hear you. That thing that's been ceping you
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: up at night, let it hear you. Open your mouth.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: You might have tied me up at night.
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: But joy is.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Coming in the morning. It's coming in the morning. It's
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: coming in the morning. Somebody that's been having a series
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: of rough nights, open your mouth, and the clays morning,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: it's morning.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: It's morning. It's fawning.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: And the Bible said, can I finy preaching this? The
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: Bible said that Jesus came in and spoke to Peter.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: He didn't wait for Thomas. He didn't wait for Thomas
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: to speak to him. He spoke to Thomas. He said,
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: reach hither your hand and feel the nail prince in
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: my hand, and to reach hither your hand and see
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: where they pierced me in the side. That represents outside wolves,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: that represents the wolds you had that everybody saw, that
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: represents public wolds, that represents public scandals, that represents public pains,
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: that represents public divorces, that represents being trapped in that wheelchair.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna let you touch what you already saw, the
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: nail prince in my hands and the piercing on my side.
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: And when you feel, when you feel the prince in
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: my side, you can see.
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: Whether they whipped my back all night long.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't when they beat me.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: But I took whips for this. I took pain for this.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Paul said, I bury in my body the box of
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: the Lord Jesus. And he said, when you see what
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: I went through, you'll understand who I am. When you
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: see how I stood, you'll understand who I am. You
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: think I'm just sister.
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: Sally had brother Joe. But I've been through hell and
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: high water.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: I wish I.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: Had a miracle in this room, somebody that survived the scarging,
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: somebody that withstood the beatings. Somebody that still got the scars.
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: Somebody that still got the scars. The poon is gone,
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: the pain is gone, but the scar is still there.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: You still got the scars. Use your scars, because whatever
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: hurts you, God's gonna use it to bless you. Whatever
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: hurts you, God's gonna bring ministry out every wound in
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: your life. Every time you suffered, God's gonna give you
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: no more power. Jesus said, I am here that was dead,
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: but I'm alive forevermore. Look at somebody and said I was,
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: But I am. I was, but I am. I was dead, but.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: I am alive. I'm alive.
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: The devil didn't want me to be here this morning.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: But the devil is a liar.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I'm alive.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: I'm alive in the balcony, I'm alive, watching on lie.
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: I'm alive in the christ there.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: I'm alive.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: On the minister's board, i am alive. I been beating
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: bad enough. I should have been dead, but I'm still alive.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: Y'all got to come get me because I can't stop preaching.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: I feel the anointing about a break of yo get here.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: I feel chains about to drop in here. I feel
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: doors opening up in here. I feel the spirit of
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: revival about to break loose in this place. If you
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: feel revived down in your soul, give God thirty seconds
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: of crazy pray. Give God thirty suckonds. Give God thirty seconds.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: Give God thirty seconds. Give God thirty suckonds. Give God
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: thirty seconds. If you gotta do it in your seat,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: if you got to do it in a chair, if
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: you got to do it on the floor, don't worry
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: about your hair. Give Fud the praise. Then that's the devil.
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: Al I'm alive, I'm alive, alive.
• 58:53
  Speaker 8: I'm alive. Jeesuz, Yes Lord, jees yes Lord. I got equipment. Yes, yes, Lord,
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Hop your hands and give him crazy praise. I'm about
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: to pose, but I need about a hundred people that
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: will jump out in the aisle and do a victory
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: dance for Jesus. I need about a hundred people that's
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: been through hell, but you got a victory dance.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I'm alive. I'm back.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: I've been in the grave, I've been in the tomb,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: I've been in the fire. I've been beat, i've been torn,
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: I've been nailed down.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: But I'm alive forever, for I.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Need about a hundred people. I need about a hundred
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: people that feels a holy ghost stirring in the shoul.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Open your mouth, move your feet, top your hands, and give.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: God a praise.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: I hear God moving.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: I hear God moving. I hear God moving. Somebody's coming
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: out of that tomb. Somebody's coming out of that grave.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: Somebody's coming out of that hole. Somebody's coming out. I
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: hear stones rolling away. I tell you the crasy, I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: tell you the praising. Tell the stone moves out of
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: your life. I tell you the praising, Come on craising back.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: You lost your mine? What did you do?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: What you.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Here? Here? Anything? What we have?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: You?
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Where? Where?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: Where?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 9: A crazy?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: Crazy?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: Wh As I bring this message.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: To a close.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: The Bible said that Thomas druck down on his knees
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: and said, my Lord and my God. It may hurt
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: to believe, but when God gets through finishing what he's
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: doing in your life, your faith is gonna pay off.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: You're watching right now. Your faith is gonna pay off.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: You're in the balcony right now. Your faith is gonna
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: pay off. But you've been through hell and hogh water.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: Your faith is gonna pay off. He drumped down on
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: his knees and said, my Lord, and my God, you're
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: still lord over my situation. You're still lord over my circumstance.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: And I've got a feeling that everything is gonna be alright.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: I've got a feeling it that everything's gonna be alright.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: I can't hear you. I gotta feeling that.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: Everything he's gonna I gotta feeling that. I just got
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: a feeling. I don't know where it's gonna come from,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: but I got a feeling everything is gonna be.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: There's somebody in this room. God meant for you to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: hear this word. You have gone through the pain of believing,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: to the point that you have anesthetized your faith to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: avoid the pain. You just want the pain to stop
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: more than you want your prayer answer. The pain has
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: taken center stage over the answering of your prayer. And
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: now you think victory is the end of pain, and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: you call it peace, but it's really anesthesia because you
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  Speaker 4: don't want to believe because you don't see it. And
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: Jesus said to Thomas, you have believed because you have seen,
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  Speaker 4: but blessed of aids who have not seen and yet
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  Speaker 4: they believe you haven't seen a thing. But you've got
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  Speaker 4: that stubborn faith that says He's still gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: He's still gonna do Who am I talking to He's
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  Speaker 4: still going to do it. I don't want people who
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  Speaker 4: like the message. I don't even want people who like me.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to like me at all. I want
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  Speaker 4: people on this altar who know the Word was for them.
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  Speaker 4: And God was talking to you while I was preaching
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  Speaker 4: about certain things going on in your life. And as
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  Speaker 4: the lady said, I was reading your mail, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: delivering this mail to you today. I came like fed
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  Speaker 4: Ex to drop off a package to you so that
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  Speaker 4: you could believe and watch God move in your behalf.
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  Speaker 4: It is it is. That's where I clap your hands
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  Speaker 4: from clap your hands.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Fearful, it's frightening to keep believing. Disappointment don't feel good.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes we run from the things God gave us
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  Speaker 4: because they get hard, rigamorous, hardy, mummy, Harry, and we
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  Speaker 4: don't want to go through the process of having the
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  Speaker 4: resurrection of our faith. But why come to church if
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  Speaker 4: something's not gonna jump start your faith. I look on
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  Speaker 4: Facebook and Instagram and Twitter at all the stuff they
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  Speaker 4: say about the church, and most of 'em who are
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: talking about the church don't even go to church. I
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  Speaker 4: know they don't go to church they be talking about.
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  Speaker 4: And if you build a mega church, how can you
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  Speaker 4: build a mega church? How can you make a megachurch?
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  Speaker 4: People make a megachurch? What you gonna do. Come in
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  Speaker 4: the city and build a big building and declare yourself
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  Speaker 4: a megachurch. God makes it mega.
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  Speaker 6: God makes it mega.
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  Speaker 4: I did not come, regardless to build a megachurch. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't even expect it to be a megachurch. I was
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: coming to Dallas because they said, come to Dallas. And
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: if I had to play the piano and preach with
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  Speaker 4: a microphone up against the piano, I was going to
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  Speaker 4: preach this word because that's what I'm used to. I'm
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  Speaker 4: used to a fight. Hit me if you want it.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: I'm used to a fight. I'm used to a fight.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: I'm so used to a fight that when people started coming,
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  Speaker 4: it scared me. Fifteen hundred people during the first Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: it scared me to death. I thought, Lord, I don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what to do with fifteen hundred people. By
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  Speaker 4: the end of two years, I had ten thousand people.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, oh God, I didn't have ten thousand roaches
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  Speaker 4: in my church. People were driving from Longview and coming
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: from around the world, moving from other cities to be
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  Speaker 4: in this church. You're not at all shocked. I'm telling
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  Speaker 4: you your dream will exceed your vision. It'll be more
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  Speaker 4: than you expected. The trying of your faith. Work with patience,
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  Speaker 4: and patience, work with hope, and hope maketh itself not ashamed.
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  Speaker 4: You're not gonna be ashamed. You're not gonna be ashamed.
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  Speaker 4: Lift your hands right where you are you're watching online,
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  Speaker 4: lift your hands. And if you've been trying to back
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  Speaker 4: away from your dream, if you've been like Sarah and
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: trying to find a hagar to fill in for the dream,
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  Speaker 4: God don't need your help to give you your baby. And
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  Speaker 4: I want you, with your hands raised and your heart open,
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  Speaker 4: to let God know I'm sorry that I tried to
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  Speaker 4: do it by myself. I'm sorry that after you endured
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  Speaker 4: such pain, I gave up so easy. You see, when
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  Speaker 4: Thomas and Jesus came together, they both had scars. Jesus
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  Speaker 4: had scars on the outside, but Thomas had scars on
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  Speaker 4: the inside. He had scars on the inside. He had
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  Speaker 4: walked with Jesus three years, only to find out that
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  Speaker 4: you didn't have a clue what Jesus was going to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: your doctrine, Yeah, your doctrine, your ideology has made the
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  Speaker 4: Word of God of no effect. We're gonna kick open
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  Speaker 4: that door and say, Lord, come in. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: tell you how to do it. I'm not gonna tell
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  Speaker 4: you who to use, I'm not gonna tell you when
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  Speaker 4: to do it. But I'm gonna keep on believing you
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  Speaker 4: from your heart, now, from your heart, because the enemy
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  Speaker 4: gonna try this. He's gonna try you. He's going to
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  Speaker 4: try you this Sunday morning. I confess that it hurts
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  Speaker 4: to believe, and I confess that sometime I've been double minded.
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  Speaker 4: My other twin, my other twin walks away. But at
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  Speaker 4: this altar, I'm calling them together to a place of
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  Speaker 4: wholeness and oneness, and I seek unity within myself. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not seeking unity with other people. I'm seeking unity within myself.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: And I'm not ashamed to say, Lord, I believe you,
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  Speaker 4: I still believe you, I still trust you, I still
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  Speaker 4: expect you to move in my behalf. Whenever you get ready,
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  Speaker 4: I believe you're gonna move. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 4: we praise, giving the best praise you got, Honey. I
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  Speaker 4: want you where my wife's gout.
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  Speaker 5: Honey. I want you.
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  Speaker 4: To write a check for eighty dollars. I'm believing God
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  Speaker 4: for an eighth day. I'm believing God for eighth day.
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  Speaker 4: You know there are certain things that we're expecting God
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  Speaker 4: to do. I'm believing God for an eighth day, and
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  Speaker 4: I want to challenge as many of you as can
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  Speaker 4: to follow us in connecting with the seed with an
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  Speaker 4: eighty dollars seed. If you can't give that anything that
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  Speaker 4: got to aid in it twenty eight thirty eight eighteen,
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  Speaker 4: anything that's got to aid in it. I am expecting
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  Speaker 4: a new beginning, and I'm expecting a new beginning. If
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to leave, wait just a moment. I
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  Speaker 4: know some of you go into your parfort book. But
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: if you don't have to leave, wait just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: If there's anybody in this room that wants to be saved,
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  Speaker 4: come and stand right up front over here, Come through
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  Speaker 4: the crowd like the woman with is your blood, and
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  Speaker 4: say I want to be saved. If there's anybody, do
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  Speaker 4: you all mind standing up for just a moment. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't pay you to word them high heels.
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  Speaker 5: Down.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be saved, you stand right there. Somebody else,
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  Speaker 4: don't leave it standing by yourself. Come on down. If
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  Speaker 4: you're here and your backslider and this message touched you
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  Speaker 4: and you want to come back to the Lord, come
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  Speaker 4: stand right here, right now. If you're watching online, there's
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  Speaker 4: a prayer number on the screen. See the Bible said
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  Speaker 4: they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the
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  Speaker 4: word of their testimony. Don't just keep it in your head.
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  Speaker 4: You got to bring it out where you say so,
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  Speaker 4: Is there anyone else?
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  Speaker 5: Come right now?
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  Speaker 4: You may be in the balcony. Will wait, or the
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  Speaker 4: devil will create any excuse he can to keep you bound.
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  Speaker 4: But Satan is a liar. I wait on you, come
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  Speaker 4: on down.
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  Speaker 5: I wait.
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting ready to pray. But I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: leave anybody out of this prayer. Anybody that the Holy
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  Speaker 4: Spirit is nudged to get down here.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to come.
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  Speaker 4: M Suppose Thomas had not come on that eighth day,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: that was his moment that Jesus came just for him,
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  Speaker 4: and I believe God gave me this word for somebody.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to give you a chance to change your view.
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  Speaker 4: Fat four as she comes, I have no judgment.
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  Speaker 5: To pass on you.
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  Speaker 4: I know what it is to be discouraged, stand what
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  Speaker 4: it is to get tired. I understand what it is
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  Speaker 4: to want to quit. I understand that little voice and said,
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  Speaker 4: ain't nothing gonna ever happen for me. I understand secret heartbreaks.
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  Speaker 4: But you won't leave here like you can. M God
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  Speaker 4: is gonna do something so real in your life. There's
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  Speaker 4: some of your friends. I don't like you no more
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  Speaker 4: because the old you is gonna die. This all to right,
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  Speaker 4: that the new you is gonna be resurrected.
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  Speaker 5: Right now. I don't care what you've been bound by.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: What you've got all about is greater than anything that
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  Speaker 4: had you bound. Still coming, y'all, they're still coming. They're
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  Speaker 4: still coming. They're still coming, grown men, I mean coming
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  Speaker 4: to this hog. Give me just a few more minutes,
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  Speaker 4: Just a few more minutes. I'm still earlier than you
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  Speaker 4: know them to get out. I want to give one
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  Speaker 4: minute for that soul that hell is holding back. Fifty seconds.
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  Speaker 4: I know the devil don't want you to come, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm waiting thirty five seconds. Twenty five seconds. That word
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  Speaker 4: was for me. Come on down, young man. Twenty five
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  Speaker 4: cercond That word was for me. Twenty seconds, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna break twenty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Are
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  Speaker 5: you sure? Come on down? Fifteen seconds?
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  Speaker 6: Come on down.
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  Speaker 4: Hold it for just one second. It's beautiful, it's beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: but hold it for just one something. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to hear this secret. I know you're his before you
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  Speaker 4: ever started walking, because the Bible said, and no man
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  Speaker 4: can come to the Father save the spirit drawing him.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I know them that are mine. He knows you,
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  Speaker 4: He wants you to know him. You don't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about rejection because you are accepted in the beloved.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus cares about you, or you wouldn't have felt that
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  Speaker 4: pull to be here. There are still some people in
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  Speaker 4: the crowd that don't feel a pull. They've moved so
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  Speaker 4: far away that they don't feel a pull. They've been
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  Speaker 4: bound by curses and they don't feel the pull. The
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  Speaker 4: very fact that you can feel the poor, the very
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  Speaker 4: fact that you got tears running down in your face,
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  Speaker 4: the very fact.
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  Speaker 5: That you came. I don't care if he was the
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  Speaker 5: last person to come.
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  Speaker 4: You belong to him. You belong to him. Your life
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  Speaker 4: is not your own. And God has a plan for you.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm happy this morning because when God gave me
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  Speaker 4: this word, I got so happy. I couldn't wait for
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  Speaker 4: Sunday to come. I just couldn't wait for Sunday to come.
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  Speaker 4: I preached to my wife. I called people up on
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  Speaker 4: the phone and started preaching to him. I know my
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  Speaker 4: friends were sick of me because I was just preaching.
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  Speaker 4: I had to get it out. I had to get
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  Speaker 4: it out, the pain of believing you'd still come, the
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  Speaker 4: pain of believing I would never try to stop you
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  Speaker 4: from coming. To Jesus, you can steal come. I just
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  Speaker 4: want you to know that you can't come if he
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  Speaker 4: don't draw you. And he doesn't draw everybody. He draws
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  Speaker 4: those that are kids. He said, My sheep know my voice,
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  Speaker 4: and a stranger they will not follow. You know his voice,
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  Speaker 4: and you don't. There's still some people standing back there
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  Speaker 4: who don't hear nothing. But you heard him calling it,
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  Speaker 4: and you'll come, and said yes, and it's a gift
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  Speaker 4: from God to be able to hear him that I
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  Speaker 4: didn't do anything so bad that I went deaf. It
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  Speaker 4: means he loves me. It means he cares about me, no,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what.
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  Speaker 5: He wanted you.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna pray with you, and you're gonna pray
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  Speaker 4: with me. But if the truth be told, it's already done.
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  Speaker 4: It was done when you made up your mind to
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  Speaker 4: start walking. By the time you got down here, the
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  Speaker 4: door was open and the Lord was in your room.
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  Speaker 4: Right then, because you have heard his voice, Bow your
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  Speaker 4: heads with me, Father, Repeat it with me. Father, I
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  Speaker 4: repent of my slowfulness, of my sinfulness, of all of
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  Speaker 4: my doubts, and all of my brokenness. You went through
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  Speaker 4: all of that to get me out. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: that right here and right now, in front of all
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  Speaker 4: of these people, I accept.
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  Speaker 5: You as Lord in my life.
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  Speaker 4: Do what you want to do, change what you want
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  Speaker 4: to change, fix what you want to fix. I'm giving
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  Speaker 4: my life to you. I decree and declare that I
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  Speaker 4: will never ever be the same again. In Jesus' name. Amen,
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  Speaker 4: give him all the praise you can give him. Come on,
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  Speaker 4: come on, come on, come on, give him all the brain.
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  Speaker 4: We can give him all the praise. Okay, we're getting
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  Speaker 4: ready to go home. I know y'all try to be
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  Speaker 4: the first one in the parking lot to be stuck.
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  Speaker 4: H you be just running out the door.
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  Speaker 5: I know it.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that. I just know it don't work. Let
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  Speaker 4: me do something before I dismiss you, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: time we've done it. It maybe to get on some
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  Speaker 4: of your nerves. If there's somebody still standing there and
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  Speaker 4: you're fighting with yourself because you didn't come, you almost
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  Speaker 4: think you're cursed. I'm gonna call you again, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna lay hands on you myself. I want you to come.
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  Speaker 2: How could your side.
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  Speaker 5: Correct you?
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  Speaker 4: You must be mighty special to God. Oh right, you
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  Speaker 4: must be mighty special to God, cause I was gonna
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  Speaker 4: give the benedicttionin he shaid, give her one more chance.
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  Speaker 4: As I lay my hands on you. How as I
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  Speaker 4: lay my hand from you, every chain be broken, every
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  Speaker 4: barrier be moved. As I lay my hands on you,
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  Speaker 4: I break up a general curse. As I lay my
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  Speaker 4: hands on you, I go all the way back into
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  Speaker 4: your ancestry, and I command the deliverance right now in
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  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus. You will never be the same again.
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  Speaker 4: God brought you here this morning. You will not be
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  Speaker 4: the same again. In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 9: Now tell God yes, tell him yes, tell him yes,
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  Speaker 9: Tell God yes, Tell God yes, tell him yes.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Here come their tongues back about their tongues.
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  Speaker 2: He's coming back. It's coming back.
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  Speaker 6: It's coming back.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming back.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming back.
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  Speaker 9: It's coming back.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody help her, just for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody help her. He bore shun the dead.
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  Speaker 9: Say God, oh my God, I love you. Somebody help me,
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  Speaker 9: pave him. Somebody helped being praising. Somebody help me praising.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody help me praising sence your hands is praising you,
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  Speaker 9: free woman, you loose woman, you the living woman right
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  Speaker 9: now in the name of the Cheesa get his Finnish.
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  Speaker 5: Pap your hands and praised him.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody everywhere, everybody everywhere, r Church.
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  Speaker 5: I guess he gonna let me. Let you go now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's right. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: The people who gave me in the envelopes, passed it
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  Speaker 4: all the way down to the left, pass it all
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  Speaker 4: the way down to the left. Pmt's service. I pray
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  Speaker 4: God give you a special blessing because you were so
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  Speaker 4: anxious to give that you would not let me forget
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  Speaker 4: to collect that offer. I pray a double portion on
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: your life right now, in the name of Jesus. Is
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: you online that blessing goes to you too, right now,
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  Speaker 4: in the name of Jesus, pass it all the way
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  Speaker 4: down to the left. P and T served the people
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  Speaker 4: of God. How many people glad? You came to church
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 4: this morning? I said, how many people are glad? I said,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 4: how many people are glad? Whoa I feel?
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  Speaker 2: I preach your boy?
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  Speaker 4: I said, how many people are glad?
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  Speaker 2: My God?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody in the in the pewse touch somebody. We were
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to go home. We're gonna touch. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: leave nobody untouched. If you're standing up here, touch somebody,
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna leave nobody untouched. Nobody's gonna come to the
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  Speaker 4: party's house and remain untouched. Nobody, nobody. I care more
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  Speaker 4: about your souls than I do anything else. I listened
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  Speaker 4: to a man lie on the Instagram saying we want
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 4: your tax returns and all the kind stuff never happened
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: in my life. Our first revival was for homeless people.
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  Speaker 4: We went in the prisons. We went in the jails.
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  Speaker 4: We got people who were castaways, We got people who
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  Speaker 4: were team moms, we got people who were abused. We
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  Speaker 4: made a partnership with the House and the Dallas so
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: that abused women could escape. Never did it, but they said,
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  Speaker 4: in my life, but we are living in a time
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  Speaker 4: where you can hardly tell a lie from the truth.
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  Speaker 4: It was, I'm gonna be honest with you. It was
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  Speaker 4: hard for me not to say nothing back. That other twin.
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  Speaker 6: Jumped down off of my shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: That twin told me, you are to just let them
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  Speaker 4: have it one good time, just one good time, just
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  Speaker 4: one good time. God ain't looking. You ought to just
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  Speaker 4: let them have it one good time. In the fifty
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  Speaker 4: years I have been preaching, I have never seen or
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  Speaker 4: asked anybody for a tax return. I have never counted
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  Speaker 4: an offering.
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  Speaker 5: Ever.
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  Speaker 4: I'd never touch it, never, never. I've had fifteen New
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  Speaker 4: York Times bestsellers. I had executive produced over six books.
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  Speaker 4: I mean movies. They're playing my stuff now. I made
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  Speaker 4: some money, y'all. I didn't give it to him.
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  Speaker 5: I made some.
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  Speaker 6: Money and then came back home.
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  Speaker 4: And taught my people how to make money, how to invest, money.
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  Speaker 5: How to save money.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I d I came back, got out in
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  Speaker 4: the community and fed people and had people wrapped all
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  Speaker 4: the way up to thirty feeding people when nobody else
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  Speaker 4: would feed 'em. I preach almost three years in this
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  Speaker 4: church with nobody in this building. But I stood there
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  Speaker 4: and preached the gospel all through Kobea. I preached the gospel,
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  Speaker 4: and I started to let him have. I would have
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  Speaker 4: wrote a book in that little line. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: when they run out of word. I would have wrote
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  Speaker 4: a book and still been talking. And then God said
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  Speaker 4: to me, what good would it do? People believe what
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  Speaker 4: they like to believe. You are my witnesses. You are
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  Speaker 4: my witnesses. You are my credentials. You are my living
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  Speaker 4: epistles to the authenticity of my linitsy and I don't
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  Speaker 4: need nobody else. I got you.
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  Speaker 5: I got you now.
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  Speaker 4: With everybody touching. You said, where two or three are
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  Speaker 4: gathered together in my name, there am I in the
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  Speaker 4: midst of them. We are gathered together in your name.
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  Speaker 4: You said, if any two or three agree as touching
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  Speaker 4: anything on earth to be done, I pray God in
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  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus, that not one of these words
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  Speaker 4: would fail, but that you would manifest yourself in everyone's
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  Speaker 4: life in a different way, in an unexpected way, in
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  Speaker 4: a supernatural way. Let many testimonies come out of this
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  Speaker 4: word and bless our pastors as a servant and all
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  Speaker 4: the way across the country. Bless them right now and
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  Speaker 4: bring them back home safely to us. Bless the Jackson
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  Speaker 4: family in a very special way, and give them peace
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  Speaker 4: and power. In the name of Jesus, Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: every gift you gave our generation. Thank you for every
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  Speaker 4: voice or cried loud and spare not. Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: everyone that names the name of the Lord. And most
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  Speaker 4: of all, we thank you for these souls that come
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  Speaker 4: to this altar today. Oh my God, thank you for
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  Speaker 4: these souls. If all of them could tell what they've
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  Speaker 4: been through, we still be shouting. We thank you in
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  Speaker 4: Jesus' name. Amen, I love you. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: At the Podles House, we are invested in you, not
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  Speaker 1: just what you do, but who you're becoming.
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  Speaker 3: We believe that in this house we are better together.
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  Speaker 3: We need one another to be holy, to hold each
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  Speaker 3: other accountable, and to keep growing.
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  Speaker 1: As God positions us to serve every soul. We believe
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  Speaker 1: that an act of sowing is an act of faith
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  Speaker 1: and agreement right where God is spreading.
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  Speaker 3: Up and we're honors that we get to partner with
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  Speaker 3: you in reaching lives near and far. This is your
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  Speaker 3: official invitation to not just be a spectator, but to
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  Speaker 3: be a partner, be a member of our family that
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  Speaker 3: seeks Kingdom solutions during the challenges of every amen.
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  Speaker 1: Your giving, your service, and your love to this house
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  Speaker 1: isn't just generosity, it's ministry.
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  Speaker 3: If this message spoke to you and you believe what
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  Speaker 3: God is doing in this house, we invite you to become.
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  Speaker 8: A member today.
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  Speaker 3: We want to do life with you and.
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  Speaker 1: Share this message with someone you care about, someone who
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  Speaker 1: needs it the most. I believe that it could be
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  Speaker 1: the catalyst for the breakthrough that they're seeking. No matter
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  Speaker 1: where you are, remember God sees you, He loves you,
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  Speaker 1: and so do we