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T.D. Jakes Sermons - The Secret to Elevation Part 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: The upward call, the downward craving. The pull between two experiences.
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  Speaker 1: That which is before me, that which is behind me,
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  Speaker 1: pulling my soul apart. If I stopped right here and
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  Speaker 1: made an altar call, the altar would be packed. If
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  Speaker 1: it was an honest altar call. Called to be married,
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  Speaker 1: craved to be single.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, I lost you. Breathe in, breathe out.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to make it. We're going to make it.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to make it. We're going to make it. See,
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  Speaker 1: the job of the teacher is to bring the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: to the level of the listener.
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  Speaker 2: I just landed.
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  Speaker 1: This is the part of time Greetings in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, our King. I am so blessed and
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  Speaker 1: delighted to have this opportunity to share the Word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with you. We're going to open up a
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  Speaker 1: series called View from the Top, and I believe it's
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  Speaker 1: going to illuminate in your heart the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: and give you revelation for such a time as this.
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  Speaker 1: The first message out is Secret to Elevation. May God
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  Speaker 1: open up your heart and bless you as we go
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  Speaker 1: into the Word of God. When we read the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of St. Mark, we are reading the A moment that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is teaching men that have not yet matured, have
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  Speaker 1: not yet mastered their faith. They will at best become clinicians,
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  Speaker 1: but for life students. Every teacher worth their salt is
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  Speaker 1: forever a student. You cannot teach further than you learn.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get a master's degree in faith. You've never
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  Speaker 1: mastered it. You follow on to know. You grow progressively.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a training moment. They're inquiring about the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom and Jesus is saying to them, some of you
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  Speaker 1: will not taste death until you have seen the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God come in glory. Some of you shall not
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  Speaker 1: taste death. Some people have trouble with the scripture because
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  Speaker 1: they say, well, all the apostles are dead and they
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  Speaker 1: have not seen the glory. They didn't see the glory.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you didn't read the Bible. Because some
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  Speaker 1: of the 12, he set apart and led them up
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  Speaker 1: on a mountain to see the glory of the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. But the glory of the kingdom of God
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  Speaker 1: for them came in glimpses.
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  Speaker 2: Glimpses.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word I really like, glimpses. I like that
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  Speaker 1: word personally because my life has been full of glimpses.
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  Speaker 1: At eight years old, I told my mother, sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the backseat of her car, coming back from her speaking
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  Speaker 1: at a Delta sorority meeting, I said, right now, I
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  Speaker 1: go to hear you speak, and they call me Miss
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  Speaker 1: Jake's son. But the time will come you'll come to
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  Speaker 1: hear me speak, and they will call you Tom Jake's mother.
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  Speaker 1: At eight, they're going to call you Tom Jake's mother.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty close. It wasn't Tom, it was T.D.,
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  Speaker 1: but it meant something. At eight years old, I caught
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse, a glimpse of what I would be doing
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  Speaker 1: all of my life. I wasn't sure I was going
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  Speaker 1: to be preaching, but I knew I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be in front of people. It was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, and she was going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd, and they would know my name more
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  Speaker 1: than hers at eight. The glory of God is revealed
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  Speaker 1: in glimpses, not details. He snatches you into it, he
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  Speaker 1: snatches you out of it, and you're out of it,
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  Speaker 1: and you're back to reality. Jesus says, some of you
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  Speaker 1: will not taste death until you see the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God come with power. And then he pulled three from
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  Speaker 1: the 12, and he pulled them apart. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to deal, first of all, with when you are chosen,
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  Speaker 1: you will forever.
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  Speaker 2: Be pulled apart.
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  Speaker 1: Try all you want to fit in with the 12,
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  Speaker 1: but you were meant to be in the three. The
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is that when God gives you glimpses,
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  Speaker 1: he sets you apart. Not for elitism, not for superiority,
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  Speaker 1: not for arrogance sake, but because of the uniqueness of
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  Speaker 1: your path, you can never be common in your associations.
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  Speaker 1: So don't think that the miracle begins at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain. The miracle begins down in the valley
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  Speaker 1: when he called the three from the 12 and said,
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  Speaker 1: leave the rest of them to operate on this level.
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  Speaker 1: And I set you apart. Some people don't pass that test.
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  Speaker 1: They are not willing to leave the pack. They prefer
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  Speaker 1: the associations with the familiar than the sacredness of following
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  Speaker 1: that that is divine. Living life is lonely business. It
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  Speaker 1: really is. We grin, we giggle, we smile, but it's
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  Speaker 1: lonely business. Because if you're really gonna follow Jesus, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna call you apart.
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  Speaker 2: By yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Everything big that ever happens to you that you go through,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, you go through it by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you lose a loved one and all of
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  Speaker 1: the family grieves together, we don't grieve alike. And we
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  Speaker 1: didn't all lose the same thing. What I lost is
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  Speaker 1: different from what you lost because what I had was
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  Speaker 1: different from what you had. And ultimately you face that
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  Speaker 1: grief by yourself. So I don't want you to think
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  Speaker 1: that faith is just proven on the mountain. Faith is
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  Speaker 1: proven in the valley. It is the faith proven in
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  Speaker 1: the valley that makes you eligible for the mountain. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not willing to leave the 12, then you cannot
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  Speaker 1: see the one. I think a lot of times people
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  Speaker 1: see things, but they don't look into what they see.
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  Speaker 1: They see on such a superficial level that they don't
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  Speaker 1: understand the dichotomy that occurs in the human soul when
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  Speaker 1: your situation is elevated above your mentality. This is the
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  Speaker 1: struggle of being called up. The struggle of being called
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  Speaker 1: up is to think on the level of your calling.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you have a degree and a big office
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make you professional.
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  Speaker 2: You can have all the accoutrements.
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  Speaker 1: That are necessary to function on this level, but all
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  Speaker 1: the cravings to live on that one. Imagine being stretched
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  Speaker 1: between two lovers. That is before me and that is
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  Speaker 1: behind me. He called them apart by themselves. The truth
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  Speaker 1: of the matter, if you be honest, everybody who's ever
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  Speaker 1: gotten an upward call has wrestled with a downward craving.
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  Speaker 1: And those two forces pulling you at the same time
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  Speaker 1: are enough to pull you completely apart.
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  Speaker 2: He called them apart. by themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And people say, what were you thinking? It's the same
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  Speaker 1: thing you was thinking when you did the stupid stuff
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  Speaker 1: you did. If I stopped right here and made an
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  Speaker 1: altar call, the altar would be packed if it was
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  Speaker 1: an honest altar call. Called to be married, craved to
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  Speaker 1: be single. Ooh, I lost you.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe in, breathe out. We're going to make it. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to make it. We're going to make it. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to make it.
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  Speaker 1: See, the job of the teacher is to bring the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures to the level of the listener.
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  Speaker 2: I just landed. He called them apart.
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  Speaker 1: What makes people implode and explode and nobody knows why
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  Speaker 1: is because they're.
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  Speaker 2: Pulled apart.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that Jesus led them up into
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  Speaker 1: a high place. The particular mountain that the Mount of
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  Speaker 1: Transfiguration is believed to be is 9,000 feet above sea level.
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  Speaker 1: It is the highest mountain surrounding the Sea of Galilee. 9,000
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  Speaker 1: feet in the air above sea level means that the
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  Speaker 1: tops of the mountain is covered with snow in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: And that means that on your way up, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to feel every type of weather. Sunny at the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: snowy at the top. You don't know what to pack
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  Speaker 1: for the journey because on your way to the top,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to feel everything.
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  Speaker 2: It is a high place.
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  Speaker 1: If you want same in weather, a homogeneous atmosphere, a
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  Speaker 1: climate that you can predict, stay down there. Because if
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  Speaker 1: you start following him up the hill, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to pack because you don't know what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to face.
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  Speaker 2: On your way to the top. Standing at the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Of the mountain looking at the top, it sure does
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  Speaker 1: look different. So Jesus led them into it. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give it to them all at once because it would
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  Speaker 1: be culture shock to take you too fast. So he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't beam you up. He lets you see where you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been and then he takes you step by step.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for the steps because if.
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  Speaker 1: If you got there too fast, you couldn't make the adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: Your body might go into shock. your mind might implode.
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  Speaker 1: You might crumble up under the pressure you're exposed to.
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  Speaker 1: So every step, he introduces it to you gradually so
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  Speaker 1: that you don't faint along the way. I would have
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  Speaker 1: fainted had not I believed to see the goodness of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord in the land of the living. Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the steps. I thank you for the steps.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for the steps. I do not despise
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  Speaker 1: the struggles Thank you for not giving it to me
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  Speaker 1: too fast. I wouldn't have been able to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: I underestimated how hard it is to be what I saw.
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  Speaker 1: He pulled them apart by themselves. He led them up
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  Speaker 1: to the tops of the mountain. And there he lets
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  Speaker 1: three out of 12 see the kingdom. They get to
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  Speaker 1: see the kingdom. They get to see who Jesus really is.
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  Speaker 1: They had walked with him and ate with him and
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  Speaker 1: talked with him. They had no idea who he really was.
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  Speaker 1: They knew of him. But they did not know him.
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  Speaker 1: Because who he really is is revealed In the high place.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot know him.
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  Speaker 2: In the valley.
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  Speaker 1: But as you go up to the high place. He reveals.
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  Speaker 1: His splendiferous glory. His wondrous grace. His phenomenal essence. His divinity.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the high place.
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the high place. It's in the struggle. It's
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  Speaker 1: in the storm. It's in the blowing of the wind.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the test. It's in the trials. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the frailty of life. It's in the fickleness of people.
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  Speaker 1: It's in It's in the brokenness of circumstances. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the fragment of the human heart. That's where God reveals himself.
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  Speaker 1: Just glimpses of his glory. Just glimpses of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: Just traces of his essence. Just a whiff of his
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  Speaker 1: fragrance is revealed as the storms of life cascade your soul.
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  Speaker 1: And you think, God, I'm being pulled apart. It is
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  Speaker 1: in the stretch that we beheld the wonder of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
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  Speaker 1: And I wanted to see the kingdom of God, but
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea what it looked like until I
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  Speaker 1: started the journey. And then I saw the kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: not meat and drink, but joy and peace in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. It's not natural meat and drink. It's not
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  Speaker 1: carnal meat, carnal, carnal. It's not meat and drink. It's spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in my circumstances. It's in my tenacity. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you know I'm in the kingdom, because I'm tough.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll never know that I'm tough until I'm tried.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: It is a change in me. Biologically, it is me,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not me. Genetically, it is me, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not me. Same DNA, but different presentation. Some people will
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  Speaker 1: stop you in the middle of your metamorphosis and not
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  Speaker 1: allow you to complete your turn. And when people meet
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  Speaker 1: you in the turn, they tend to define you by
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  Speaker 1: the twist, but they don't understand. What's pulling me down
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  Speaker 1: to the mountain when I have an opportunity to go
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  Speaker 1: to the top?
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  Speaker 4: If you've ever climbed a mountain, You know that reaching
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  Speaker 4: the summit requires perseverance, determination, and struggle. In your journey
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  Speaker 4: with Christ, He's often pushing you to a new and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes uncomfortable place. But there's always purpose in the pain.
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  Speaker 4: And when you reach the destination that He leads you to,
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  Speaker 4: few is worth.
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  Speaker 1: It if he's got the key to me to who
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  Speaker 1: i am to what i am and i had no
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  Speaker 1: chance of unlocking the door to myself without getting to
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  Speaker 1: the key and he took the key and hid it
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  Speaker 1: in his garments and started up the hill and told
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  Speaker 1: me you'll never know if you don't chase me.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever been to a high mountain and tried
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  Speaker 1: to walk, the breathing is different. People at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: will tell you how you ought to breathe, but But
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand that the air is so much thinner.
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  Speaker 2: Up here.
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  Speaker 1: Than it is where we begin. And they walked up
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  Speaker 1: where the air was thin and the climate was cold.
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  Speaker 1: And they did it because they were following Jesus. Following
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  Speaker 1: Jesus will take you where the air is thin and
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  Speaker 1: the climate is cold. but I'd rather have thin air
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  Speaker 1: on the mountain than full air in the valley. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: asked me, if you had it to do all over again,
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  Speaker 1: would you do it again? What was the motivating force
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  Speaker 1: that moved you along? I said, I had to find
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  Speaker 1: out what was in me. I could not bear to
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  Speaker 1: live and die and wonder what was in me. It
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  Speaker 1: is not for him alone that I chase him. It
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  Speaker 1: is selfishly for me because he has the secret to
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  Speaker 1: my potentials and he has hid it in his person
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  Speaker 1: and I had to chase him to find out who
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  Speaker 1: I was. He had the key, oh y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He had the key to the mystery
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  Speaker 1: of me. And I had no chance of unlocking the
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  Speaker 1: door to myself without getting to the key.
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  Speaker 2: And he took the key and hid it in.
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  Speaker 1: His garments and started up the hill and told me,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never know if you don't chase me. So I
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  Speaker 1: had to go outside of my comfort to catch him.
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  Speaker 1: I had to overcome my fear to chase him. I
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  Speaker 1: had to fight off my inner reservations and my timidity.
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  Speaker 1: And he kept going higher and higher. Many times I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go back, but I reminded myself he's got
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  Speaker 1: the key in his garment. The key to me, to
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  Speaker 1: who I am, to why I am, to what I am,
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  Speaker 1: to where I am. I had to chase him. I
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  Speaker 1: had to chase him. Orpah could go back home, but
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  Speaker 1: I had to chase. I had to go with Naomi
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  Speaker 1: because Naomi had the key to me. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: she has the key to her.
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  Speaker 2: She has the key.
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  Speaker 1: To me. They said, why would you hook up with Paul? Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: you're a young man. You could go in on your own.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I got to follow Paul because Paul has the key
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  Speaker 1: to me. So the three went up with the one
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  Speaker 1: because the one held the key. Where the air was
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  Speaker 1: thin and the climate was cold, they went up almost
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  Speaker 1: two miles in the air to see not only who
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  Speaker 1: he was, but who they were. And there they beheld
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  Speaker 1: the wonder of his glory. In the place of unity.
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  Speaker 1: In the source of water. There on the mountaintop. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time they saw him chained. They saw the
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  Speaker 1: same Jesus that they saw at the mountain, but in
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  Speaker 1: a different way. This is a new idiom of thought.
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  Speaker 1: It is a new realm of existence. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the same place that it was down low. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the same place up high. Geographically, it's in the same space.
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  Speaker 1: But because it is elevated, it is different. Becoming what
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  Speaker 1: you see is a difficult thing. And if you've never
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  Speaker 1: seen it, it becomes even more difficult because some never
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  Speaker 1: had the benefit to even see anybody be where you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to go. But Jesus didn't push them, he led them.
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  Speaker 1: So they got to see somebody do it. And if
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  Speaker 1: you see somebody do it, I can follow in your footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a few minutes, y'all. And so they come
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  Speaker 1: to this high place and there Jesus changed before them.
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  Speaker 1: He just, the Bible says he transfigured himself. When you
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  Speaker 1: get to a certain level, you see everything different. Everything
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  Speaker 1: looks different. It's so amazing. It's the same Jesus that
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  Speaker 1: you had down on the bottom, but up here, he's
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  Speaker 1: now shown them the price it pays to see the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and now he reveals himself with glimpses, and he changes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he changed before them, before his reignment. Don't rush to
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  Speaker 1: the reignment before you recognize that the changing of the
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  Speaker 1: reignment is a reaction to the changing of Jesus. That
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  Speaker 1: when you change, everything connected to you changes too. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have a changing Raymond if you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: changing Jesus. The clothes didn't make the man, the man
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  Speaker 1: made the clothes. When the man changed, then the clothes changed.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that touched him changed because it was connected to him.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus changed before their eyes. The Greek word is metamorphosis.
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  Speaker 1: It is to go through a metamorphosis. It is me,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not me. I am the same, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the same. It's going to be familiar, but it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be different. You're going to recognize me, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to know me. Transfigured metamorphosis to go
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  Speaker 1: from the silkworm to the butterfly, from the caterpillar to
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  Speaker 1: the frog. It is a change in me. Biologically, it
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  Speaker 1: is me, but it's not me. Genetically, it is me,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not me. Same DNA, but different presentation. Some
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  Speaker 1: people will stop you in the middle of your metamorphosis
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  Speaker 1: and not allow you to complete your turn. And when
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  Speaker 1: people meet you in the turn, they tend to define
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  Speaker 1: you by the twist, but they don't understand Don't judge
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  Speaker 1: me yet, because I'm still spinning. I'm still spinning. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still spinning. I'm still spinning. I'm still spinning. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: coming out of my grave clothes. I'm still wrestling with
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  Speaker 1: where I came from. I'm still becoming what he called
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  Speaker 1: me to. I'm still.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anybody in here still spinning?
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  Speaker 1: Just.
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  Speaker 2: Just spinning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm 40 and I'm spinning. I'm 50 and I'm still spinning.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it'd be over by now. I'm 55 years old,
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  Speaker 1: still spinning, still spinning, coming out of my cocoon. Finding
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  Speaker 1: my wings. Figuring out that I can fly in this
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  Speaker 1: dimension where I crawled in that dimension.
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  Speaker 2: I am becoming. I am becoming. I have not become.
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  Speaker 1: I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one
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  Speaker 1: thing I do. I'm forgetting those things which are behind
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  Speaker 1: and reaching to those things which are before.
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  Speaker 2: You will hear no more talk. about the valley.
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  Speaker 1: Now that I'm up on the mountain because I'm wrestling
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  Speaker 1: with what I see before me. I'm not wrestling now
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  Speaker 1: with where I came from. I'm wrestling with what is
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  Speaker 1: before me. Jesus is not who I thought he was.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't look like I thought he looked. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like I thought he felt. He doesn't care about
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  Speaker 1: what I thought he cared about. Oh, I apologize to
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  Speaker 1: all the people I kill with the religion I used
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  Speaker 1: to have. Amen. Yeah, I must apologize to all the
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  Speaker 1: people that when I majored on the minor and minored
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  Speaker 1: on the major, I spoke it because on the level.
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  Speaker 2: I was on, I thought it was true.
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  Speaker 1: But on the level I am now, I've realized that
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  Speaker 1: the Jesus I knew at the bottom is not the Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I know at the top.
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  Speaker 1: And he has transfigured himself before me. Hey, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back after this. What's pulling me down to the
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  Speaker 1: mountain when I have an opportunity to go to the top?
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  Speaker 4: If you've ever climbed a mountain, you know that reaching
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  Speaker 4: the summit requires perseverance, determination, and struggle. In your journey
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  Speaker 4: with Christ, he's often pushing you to a new and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes uncomfortable place. But there's always purpose in the pain.
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  Speaker 4: And when you reach the destination that he leads you to,
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  Speaker 4: few is worth it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the key to me, to who I am,
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  Speaker 1: to what I am. And I had no chance of
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  Speaker 1: unlocking the door to myself without getting to the key.
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  Speaker 2: And he took the key and hid.
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  Speaker 1: It in his garments and started up the hill and
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  Speaker 1: told me, you'll never know if you don't chase me.
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  Speaker 3: with us anywhere, at any time.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't been hanging out with us on social media,
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  Speaker 1: you've been missing it. I'm there for you. Ministering, sharing
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, encouraging you, and sometimes answering you. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: with us today. You're gonna spend holidays with your grandparents.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of parents are you? We're the broken hearted kind.
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  Speaker 5: The story of Black Nativity revolves around a 15 year
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  Speaker 5: old boy named Langston who's living with his single mother
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  Speaker 5: in Baltimore and they've fallen extremely hard times. She hasn't
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  Speaker 5: been able to keep her house payments together. She sends
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  Speaker 5: him for Christmas to stay with her parents.
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  Speaker 2: I was told to expect my grandson, not some pickpocket.
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  Speaker 3: Their world is changed for the better.
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  Speaker 4: We are mindful of the needs of this youth, be
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  Speaker 4: he in need of guidance or simply a belt to
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  Speaker 4: hold his loose-fitting pants up.
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  Speaker 6: It shows that God can do anything.
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  Speaker 5: You know, all his life he was searching for his family,
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  Speaker 5: and he found.
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  Speaker 3: His family.
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  Speaker 1: You guys on the way to Harlem?
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  Speaker 4: Am I the cause of all my mother's misery?
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  Speaker 5: Did my very birthday destroy my whole family?
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  Speaker 2: You meld and move through realities.
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  Speaker 3: The play that we're doing inside of it, and then
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the fantasies of the main character, Langston.
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  Speaker 5: It's just really bringing back family on that Christmas day.
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  Speaker 3: There's something for everyone and for every generation.
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  Speaker 6: I want this to be like the Christmas movie of
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  Speaker 6: all Christmas movies, like Home Alone is to me.
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  Speaker 3: I want Black Nativity to be played. It's such a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful project.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on it.
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  Speaker 1: I would to God that I could spend more time
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  Speaker 1: with you, but I am absolutely out of time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not out of word. I'm just simply out of time.
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  Speaker 1: May God bless you and strengthen you. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: that the things that you have heard today have helped
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  Speaker 1: to propel you toward your destiny, your purpose in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Know that we here at the Potter's House are praying
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  Speaker 1: for you and with you that God's best might be
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  Speaker 1: accomplished in your life.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless you and may heaven smile upon you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look for you same time, same station.
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  Speaker 2: Be there. This is the Potter's Touching End