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The-Courage-to-Change-Course-Bishop-T-D-Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: This morning the Holy Spirit has spoken to me. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to go to Genesis 21, 4 through 14.
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  Speaker 1: And there you will find the assignment that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: has espoused for me to share with you on this
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Genesis chapter 21, verse 4 through 14. It's
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  Speaker 1: our custom to stand for the reading of the word.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a visitor and everybody stood up, you thought
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  Speaker 1: they were leaving, but they're not. Genesis 21, beginning at
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  Speaker 1: verse 4, going through verse 14. And Abraham circumcised his
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  Speaker 1: son Isaac, being eight days old, as God commanded him.
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  Speaker 1: How old was he? He was eight days old. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac
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  Speaker 1: was born unto him. And Sarah said, God has made
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  Speaker 1: me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh
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  Speaker 1: with me. And she said, who would have said unto
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  Speaker 1: Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck? For I
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  Speaker 1: have borne him a son in his old age. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether that's so good or not, but... And
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  Speaker 1: the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham said, party.
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  Speaker 1: He made a great feast the same day that Isaac
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  Speaker 1: was weaned. He threw a party. And Sarah saw the
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  Speaker 1: son of Hagar, the Egyptian, which she had born under Abraham, mocking.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore she said unto Abraham, cast out this pawn woman.
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  Speaker 1: and her son. For the son of this bondwoman shall
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  Speaker 1: not be heir with my son, even Isaac. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
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  Speaker 1: And God said on Abraham, let it not be grievous
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  Speaker 1: in thy sight because of the lad and because of
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  Speaker 1: thy bondwoman. In all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
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  Speaker 1: hearken unto her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed
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  Speaker 1: be called. And also the son of the bondwoman will
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  Speaker 1: I make a nation, because he is thy seed. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread
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  Speaker 1: and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar,
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  Speaker 1: putting it on her shoulder. And the child and sent
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  Speaker 1: her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: of Beersheba. Today I want to talk to you about
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  Speaker 1: the courage to change course. The courage to change course.
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  Speaker 1: Don't minimize that. Don't sleep on that. That's not easy
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  Speaker 1: to do. The courage to change course. I do sense
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  Speaker 1: a prophetic utterance. I do believe that somebody is going
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  Speaker 1: to get a word from the Lord that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be cut to the continuity of your situation that
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  Speaker 1: will begin to liberate strongholds and yokes in your life
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  Speaker 1: in an area that we seldom touch the courage to
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  Speaker 1: change course. Shout hallelujah. Spirit of the living God fall
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  Speaker 1: fresh on us today. We don't want to operate in
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday's anointing or Sunday's anointing. We want a fresh anointing.
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  Speaker 1: Let fresh oil flow upon us in this moment in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. And I thank you in advance
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  Speaker 1: for what you're going to do. I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: to see you do it. I'll praise you now. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it later. Have your way in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way in this place. Break some yokes in
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  Speaker 1: this place. Heal some bodies in this place. Change some
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  Speaker 1: lives in this place. Reach out, Lord, through the internet
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  Speaker 1: and let the power of the Holy Spirit sweep over
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  Speaker 1: the viewing audience that's watching us through cyberspace. I thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You can cast out a demon online. I thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You can rebuke a disease online. I thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You can give divine direction. Do it for your people today.
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  Speaker 1: Do it for your people today. Do it for your
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  Speaker 1: people today. In the name of Jesus, give him the
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  Speaker 1: best praise you've got. Amen. You may be seated. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to work. It has been said about people
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  Speaker 1: that when people know better, they do better. And that
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  Speaker 1: sounds really, really profound. But over the years of my life,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, is it true? Because everything that sounds good
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  Speaker 1: isn't always true. When people know better, they do better.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even say that's always true in my own life.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a difference between knowing better and doing better.
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  Speaker 1: I know I don't have no business with desserts. I
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  Speaker 1: said I was going to watch my carbs. I know
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  Speaker 1: I should get up every morning early and exercise about 5.30
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  Speaker 1: and jog about three miles. I know better. I know
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  Speaker 1: what to eat and what not to eat. I know
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  Speaker 1: what is healthy, what is not healthy. I have been informed.
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  Speaker 1: I have been educated. I know not to eat those oxtail.
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  Speaker 1: I know better. Uh-oh, y'all not gonna talk to me
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I know I don't need those barbecue ribs
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  Speaker 1: and the french fries. The waitress even asked you, do
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  Speaker 1: you want salad? And sometimes I just say, no. I
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  Speaker 1: know not to let them bring bread to the table
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  Speaker 1: because I know if it gets to the table, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to, you know, especially if it's hot and it's
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  Speaker 1: warm and they've got good, but I know not to
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  Speaker 1: even risk bringing it that close to me because I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm not strong enough to resist it. When people
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  Speaker 1: know better, they say they do better, but it is possible.
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  Speaker 1: I know how to do curls. I know how to
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  Speaker 1: bench press. I know how to do lat pulldown. I
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  Speaker 1: know how to do it. I know the form. I
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  Speaker 1: know what I ought to be doing. I know I
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  Speaker 1: should stretch every morning. It is not the absence of
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  Speaker 1: knowledge that always deters the activity. But the gulf between
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  Speaker 1: what we know and what we do is often a
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  Speaker 1: wide gulf and we don't always reach across. While it
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  Speaker 1: is impossible to do better if you don't know better,
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible. You can't do better if you don't know better.
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  Speaker 1: Often we still know better than we do. The truth
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is, doing better isn't always easy. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's real tough. Doing better isn't always easy. Doing better
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  Speaker 1: as a husband or wife isn't always easy. We know
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  Speaker 1: what we should be doing, but we don't always do it.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't do better until we get in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't do better until we're under threat. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we don't do better until we have competition. Oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be quiet this morning, Jesus. Angels, y'all shout
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  Speaker 1: for me this morning because the people are going to
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  Speaker 1: be quiet. Doing better on the job. We know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. We used to do it when we first
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  Speaker 1: got the job and we didn't take it for granted.
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  Speaker 1: We knew not to take a two and a half
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  Speaker 1: hour lunch. We knew how to be in our place.
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  Speaker 1: We knew not to be on the phone and playing
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  Speaker 1: video games in our office. We knew better. Yeah. You
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  Speaker 1: should wear some strong shoes because I'm going to step
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  Speaker 1: on some toes today. But whether we know better and
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  Speaker 1: what we do is two different things all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when you realize that the people we admire the
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  Speaker 1: most were people who put into action what they knew.
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  Speaker 1: who grew and changed and made corrections. They became our
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  Speaker 1: heroes because they had the courage to change course. All
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  Speaker 1: of the people that we highlight in our country and
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  Speaker 1: our history are people who had the courage to change course.
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  Speaker 1: Leaders like Abraham Lincoln had the courage to change course.
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  Speaker 1: We always honor people after they're dead. But in real
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  Speaker 1: time speed, our heroes were not popular because they went
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  Speaker 1: against the course and they swam upstream against the grain
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  Speaker 1: and they had to have courage to change the course.
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  Speaker 1: That's not easily done. Dr. King had to have courage
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  Speaker 1: to change the course. Nelson Mandela went to jail to
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  Speaker 1: change the course. You can get in trouble to change
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  Speaker 1: the course. Corrections can often have severe consequences. Corrections can
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  Speaker 1: often have severe consequences. Getting it right can have severe consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Because see, you make a decision at one stage in
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  Speaker 1: your life, and then later you know better, but you're
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  Speaker 1: already in the situation. I never will forget, I was
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  Speaker 1: teaching a Bible class one time and I was doing
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  Speaker 1: Q and A right here at this church and a
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  Speaker 1: young man said something to me I will never forget.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I am the world's best at getting into
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  Speaker 1: situations and the world's worst at getting out. And I
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  Speaker 1: think the reason it becomes so difficult to get out
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  Speaker 1: is because sometimes it's become so complicated. It requires humility
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  Speaker 1: that some people lack the ability to quiet their ego
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  Speaker 1: enough to achieve the ability of change, because sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: have to go against what you said at this stage
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  Speaker 1: to correct where you are at that stage. And until
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  Speaker 1: you become strong enough to admit, yes, I said it,
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  Speaker 1: but I was wrong, you can't bring about change. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes your ego will make you be loyal to a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's anybody in here who's ever been
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  Speaker 1: loyal to a mistake. And you, it was a mistake
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  Speaker 1: and you knew it was a mistake, but you counted
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  Speaker 1: up the cost to fix it and you decided you
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  Speaker 1: would just take the easy way out and live with it.
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  Speaker 1: Our decisions, you see, to correct our mistakes can create disruption.
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  Speaker 1: And not only disruption for us, disruption for other people.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at what it's going to take
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  Speaker 1: to straighten it out, sometimes you just don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: And when you don't do it, you become trapped in
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  Speaker 1: a nightmare of regret. You'd be surprised how long you
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  Speaker 1: can live in the prison of your problems You'd be
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  Speaker 1: surprised how long you can live a life where you
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  Speaker 1: clap like you're free, you talk like you're free, you
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  Speaker 1: move like you're free, but you're really not free at
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  Speaker 1: all because you are trapped in a complicated situation. You
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  Speaker 1: can't get out and you can't get in. You're just stuck.
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  Speaker 1: And so you clap stuck, and you sing stuck, and
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  Speaker 1: you go to choir rehearsal stuck, and you go to
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  Speaker 1: work stuck, and you come home stuck, and you go
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  Speaker 1: to church stuck. And yes, you get your dance in
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  Speaker 1: every now and then, but you go back to a
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  Speaker 1: situation that's stuck because dancing doesn't bring about change. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how much you praise the Lord until you
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  Speaker 1: correct your past decisions, you are not going to get
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  Speaker 1: the breakthrough that you need. Until you stop using shopping
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  Speaker 1: for therapy, you're never going to have the credit rating
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  Speaker 1: that you should have. No matter how much he's Jehovah-Jireh,
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  Speaker 1: he can't be Jehovah-Jireh to you because as fast as
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  Speaker 1: he pours it in, you leak it out. And God
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  Speaker 1: is too much of a businessman to keep investing in
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  Speaker 1: a bankrupt system. And you know what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: fix it. And you know the discipline that's required to
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  Speaker 1: get your life together. But it's not always true that
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  Speaker 1: people who know better do better. And not doing better
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  Speaker 1: simply leaves you stuck. People often like the stomach for it,
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  Speaker 1: I think. To risk the pain of changing course. The
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  Speaker 1: uncertainty of what would life be like outside of the
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  Speaker 1: bubble of my normal. I hate my normal, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: afraid of change. So I'd rather stick with the devil
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  Speaker 1: I know Oh, y'all not gonna talk to me this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever grown up and rethought your choices? Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever got more information and rethought your choices? Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever looked back at your life in retrospect and
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  Speaker 1: found yourself in situations that were based on bad information,
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  Speaker 1: immature decisions, selfishness, emotionalism, pride, discontentment and restlessness and now
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  Speaker 1: you're more mature and you're wiser and you wonder what
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  Speaker 1: you could have been had you started earlier on the
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  Speaker 1: right road. Maybe it's somebody that's streaming that needs what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about and you lay down at night and
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  Speaker 1: live with the frustration. Wonder what would have happened had
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  Speaker 1: I not got myself stuck. We're almost like the woman
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  Speaker 1: in the commercial, help, I've fallen. And I can't get up.
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  Speaker 1: I changed churches and I can't get up. I changed
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  Speaker 1: spouses and I can't get up. I changed jobs and
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  Speaker 1: I can't get up. I changed my major and I
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  Speaker 1: can't get up. I changed my hairstyle and I can't
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  Speaker 1: get up. I changed the way I dress and I
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  Speaker 1: can't get up. It doesn't matter what I got on.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what I look like. I cannot seem
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  Speaker 1: to get up. So you give up when you can't
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  Speaker 1: get up. And you decide to yourself, Maybe I just
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  Speaker 1: have to make the best of a bad situation. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm really talking about making a decision to live
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  Speaker 1: with regret. And you'd be surprised how many people in
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  Speaker 1: this room are living with regret. That they could clean up,
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  Speaker 1: that they could fix it, they could change it, they
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  Speaker 1: could alter. But sometimes the dilemma is, is it easier
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  Speaker 1: to live with regret or live without it and cause
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  Speaker 1: the disruption that is necessary in my normal to see
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  Speaker 1: the growth that I long to see in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying about? Either way you go.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a situation where either decision
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  Speaker 1: you made is going to cause pain? Where are my
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  Speaker 1: real people at? Have you ever been weighing the pain?
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I got ready to have back surgery,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had back surgery if I wasn't in pain.
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  Speaker 1: But I had to weigh the pain that I had
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  Speaker 1: before the surgery against the pain of having the surgery.
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  Speaker 1: And it took me a long time to make up
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  Speaker 1: my mind to have the surgery because either way I went,
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna be pain. And I had to decide,
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  Speaker 1: I ultimately decided that I would rather live with the
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  Speaker 1: pain of recovery Rather than to live with the pain
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  Speaker 1: of ambivalence and indifference and the pain of ignoring and
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  Speaker 1: the pain of looking the other way and the pain
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  Speaker 1: I never will forget. I was in Washington, D.C. and
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  Speaker 1: I was in the hotel room and I was walking
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  Speaker 1: across the hotel room and fell and hit a glass
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  Speaker 1: coffee table and shattered the table. And I said, that's it?
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do something about this, this is unbearable. I
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  Speaker 1: had been laying on the floor in the back before
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  Speaker 1: I went out to speak each night at the New
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  Speaker 1: Year's revival because my back was in such pain that
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't hardly take it. One time I sat down
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  Speaker 1: in the service And I couldn't get up. And my
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  Speaker 1: security had to come get me up out of the seat.
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  Speaker 1: And I was in front of people. And little by
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  Speaker 1: little by little by little, I thought this pain is
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  Speaker 1: too much. The pain of ignoring it. The pain of
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  Speaker 1: looking the other way. The pain of making the best
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  Speaker 1: out of a bad situation. The pain of not wanting
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  Speaker 1: to make any waves. The pain of dealing with my
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  Speaker 1: inability to walk into the unfamiliar. to walk into the unknown.
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  Speaker 1: I had never had surgery. I couldn't imagine what it
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  Speaker 1: would be like. It didn't sound good when they described
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  Speaker 1: it to me. They said, we're going to cut into
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  Speaker 1: your back four inches. I thought, not mine, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to cut me up like you're slicing
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  Speaker 1: ribs at a barbecue. The devil is alive. But the pain,
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  Speaker 1: the pain, you're weighing pain. I wasn't weighing promises. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't weighing miracles. I wasn't weighing God's purpose. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: weighing what God was going to do in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to go the way of least resistance.
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  Speaker 1: The real truth of the matter is we get trapped.
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  Speaker 1: We get trapped. We get trapped in our relationships. We
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  Speaker 1: get trapped in our health. We get trapped in the argument, mask,
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  Speaker 1: no mask. Vaccine, no vaccine. I heard this, I heard that,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the other. We get trapped until being trapped
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  Speaker 1: makes us sick. And somewhere with a respirator in our mouth,
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me, because we're the ones that bury people,
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  Speaker 1: so we know. We know, we talk to the families,
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  Speaker 1: we deal with the people who didn't have the courage
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  Speaker 1: to change course. In fact, you have to have the
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  Speaker 1: adaptability in life. to be able to change course. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like you get it right and it stays the
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  Speaker 1: way you left it. Life keeps changing and as life
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  Speaker 1: keeps changing and seasons keeps changing and circumstances keep changing,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be flexible enough to change on a
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  Speaker 1: dime and switch this way and turn back this way.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't make the right switch at the
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  Speaker 1: right time, you find yourself stuck. And you wake up
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  Speaker 1: one morning and you realize I'm getting older and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it feels like to have lived my
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  Speaker 1: best life. I've not lived my best life. I've not
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  Speaker 1: lived at the top of what my potential was. I've
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  Speaker 1: not reached the zenith of possibilities of what I could be.
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  Speaker 1: I've not fulfilled my purpose. I've not finished my core.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get any crown for me because I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: living my best life. I was surviving my old life.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's hard to shout this morning, but just
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  Speaker 1: keep breathing. And rather than to be free, we peer
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  Speaker 1: through the bars of depression, watching others move forward while
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  Speaker 1: we are stuck going in circles. In our text today,
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  Speaker 1: we step into the text that reads like a dream
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  Speaker 1: come true. A dream deferred and finally realized that Abraham
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  Speaker 1: in his old age would finally have a son. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely amazing. It's exciting. It's invigorating that this old
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  Speaker 1: man whose body was as good as dead And his
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  Speaker 1: wife with her wrinkled knees has got in the birth
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  Speaker 1: position and delivered him a baby at a season in
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  Speaker 1: her life that it was illogical. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to, but whoever I'm preaching to today, what
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  Speaker 1: is at stake in this message is that God wants
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  Speaker 1: to give you a blessing that doesn't even fit the
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  Speaker 1: season of life you're in. He's going to give you
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  Speaker 1: a blessing out of season. He's going to give you
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  Speaker 1: a blessing that's out of step. He's going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a blessing that's going to make people laugh when
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  Speaker 1: they hear it because nobody's going to believe that a
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  Speaker 1: person like you could be in a position. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: some of you right now are in a position that
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  Speaker 1: would blow people's mind because you haven't always been Elder
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  Speaker 1: Flip-Flop and you haven't always been Deacon Wonderful and you
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  Speaker 1: haven't always been Missionary Price And if your old friends
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  Speaker 1: could see you now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody shout, it's late,
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  Speaker 1: but it happened. Type it on the line, it's late,
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  Speaker 1: but it happened. It's late, but it happened. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: come when I thought it would. It didn't come through
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  Speaker 1: who I would like for it to come through. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't even come how I would like for it to come.
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  Speaker 1: Let me say it like the old folks do. He
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  Speaker 1: may not come when you want him. Oh, but he's...
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about a finally moment here. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a finally moment. We're talking about a finally moment that
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  Speaker 1: happened to a man that's a hundred years old. He
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  Speaker 1: has waited a long time. When you have waited a
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  Speaker 1: long time for a blessing, it will make you give
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  Speaker 1: God the praise. See, some of y'all get stuff too
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  Speaker 1: easy and you get it too quick. But after you
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  Speaker 1: suffered a while, when God comes through for you, it'll
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  Speaker 1: make you want to I want those of you that
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  Speaker 1: have been waiting on a blessing to get this Word
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  Speaker 1: from God, it's still going to happen. All y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it, but the Lord said it's still going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Just because it didn't happen when you planned for it
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  Speaker 1: to happen doesn't mean that God's not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's still going to happen. Tell your wrinkled knees, it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: still going to happen. Tell your birthdays, it's still going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Tell your situation, it's still going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Go back into that raggedy house and say, it's still
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: going to happen. I'm gonna give about 15 seconds for
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  Speaker 1: somebody to praise him like you got a determination that
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  Speaker 1: it's not too late. It's still gonna happen. It's still
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's still gonna happen. It's still gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's still gonna happen. It's still gonna happen. It's still
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's still gonna happen. It's still going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You need to get your faith out of jail and
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  Speaker 1: say it's still going to happen. Look at somebody and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: say it's still going to happen. Type it on the line,
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  Speaker 1: it's still going to happen. Yes! Yes! Yes! Shout yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 1: Make you want to celebrate. Make you want to celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: Make you want to clap your hands. Make you want
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  Speaker 1: to do your dance. Make you want to turn around
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  Speaker 1: in a circle. Make you want to do the shuffle.
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  Speaker 1: Make you want to jeep and shout. Make you want
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  Speaker 1: to run all about. It's still going to happen. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, sister. Praise him up there. Praise him. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need no music. You don't need no handcuffs. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you got to throw your own party because God just
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  Speaker 1: spoke to you. He spoke in your spirit. He spoke
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  Speaker 1: in your belly. He spoke in your heart. It's still
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. So look here, sit with me a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So Sarah is having a party because she said, who
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  Speaker 1: would believe that God would do it for me? That
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I would give Abraham a child in his old age.
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  Speaker 1: She said, God has made me the lamb. Woof. She said,
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  Speaker 1: who would have thought that at this stage in my life,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: God would make me to laugh and all that hear
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  Speaker 1: it will laugh with me. And while she's laughing, Abraham
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  Speaker 1: is going through the ritual of circumcising his son. Pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to that. I'm going to deal with that a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: little bit more in a minute. Abraham according to the
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  Speaker 1: customs of the time, circumcised his son as God had
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  Speaker 1: commanded him to do when he was eight days old. Okay?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Eight days old. Eight days old. I told you last week,
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  Speaker 1: eight is the number of new beginnings. This is a
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  Speaker 1: happy moment. He's eight days old And Abraham circumcises him.
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  Speaker 1: And he finally gets to circumcise his son, born of
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  Speaker 1: his wife, in his house. And he's eight days old
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  Speaker 1: when he did it. And I was studying it and
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about it being his first son by Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: And it was eight, and he was eight days old.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought about this being the eighth month and
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  Speaker 1: the first day of the eighth month, and we're in
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  Speaker 1: it today, and God gave me this word for this
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  Speaker 1: day at this time, eight days old, first son, eight one,
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  Speaker 1: God is about to, oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Tell everybody around you something's gonna happen in here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's the eighth month. It's the first day. It's the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: eighth month. It's the first day. Something is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in here today. And when the child was eight
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  Speaker 1: days old, Abraham circumcised his son. The interesting thing, Sid,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I'm just talking to you. The interesting thing. Yeah. The
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: interesting thing about the text is when you read the text,
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  Speaker 1: it reads it as if it is all one occasion,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: but there's a time lapse here. Because we know that
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  Speaker 1: Isaac is eight days old when Abraham circumcises him. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: then we read that when he was weaned, God, Abraham
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  Speaker 1: circumcised through a party. And we know he wasn't weaned
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  Speaker 1: at eight days. So there's a time lapse in the text.
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  Speaker 1: So the writer is only gleaning highlights of significant moments
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  Speaker 1: in the life of Abraham. And that's all life is.
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  Speaker 1: is significant moments. It's not hours or days or weeks
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  Speaker 1: or months. All that matters is significant moments. From eight
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  Speaker 1: days old when he circumcised him to however old he
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: was when he weaned him, nothing significant happened. But when
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: he was weaned, Abraham throws a party. And it was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: an amazing party. He threw the party no doubt quite
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a distance from when he circumcised his son. Now circumcision
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  Speaker 1: is the cutting away of the part of the flesh
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  Speaker 1: on a man that was originally a religious sign of
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  Speaker 1: being a Hebrew. It is not the covenant that God
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: made with Abraham, but it is the sign of the covenant.
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  Speaker 1: So God made a promise to him and then used
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  Speaker 1: the sign of circumcision to indicate that he had a
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: contract with God. The circumcision put blood on it. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was doing some real estate business with some investors and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: they asked me, do you have any skin in the game?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: What God wanted you, God's going to do the work,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: but he wants you to have some skin in the game. Oh,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Because when you got
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: some skin in the game, you don't violate the covenant
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: when things get tough because you got some skin in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the game. And God says, I'm going to do it
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: for you, but I want you to have some... Y'all
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna talk to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you won't quit when you got some skin in the game.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: You won't just walk away easy when you got some
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: skin in the game. When you don't have nothing invested,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: it's easy to walk away when there is no... No
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: skin in the game. This circumcision that starts the text...
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: permeates the text itself I'm going to pick it up
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: later and weave it into the text to show you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that the text is all about circumcision the text is
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: all about circumcision the courage to change course is all
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  Speaker 1: about circumcision and I'm going to tell all the women
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: so you can know and understand this Circumcision hurts. Not
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit. A whole lot. Yeah, circumcision hurts. Change.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. I've been waiting on him to come
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: back to church. I need him. Changing course hurts. There's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: no way for you to make significant change and not hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Because you got to have some... He did it on
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  Speaker 1: the eighth day. And then he begins to celebrate and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: he throws a party and things couldn't be better. He
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: got his promised seed. His wife is happy. Life is good.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: It's hard for life to be good when y'all girls
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: ain't happy. It's not that we not happy, but when
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: y'all are not happy, it's contagious. An unhappy woman is
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: worse than COVID. Because you can vaccinate for COVID for
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: an unhappy woman. They steal in the laboratory trying to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: fix something to make it easier to live with an
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: unhappy woman. You can be happy, but when you come
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: home and she's not happy, all of a sudden, I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: know you can't say amen because you're sitting beside her
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: but just wiggle your toe and I will hear it
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I will hear the vibrations on the rug it couldn't
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: be better Sarah is happy she laughing ain't nothing like
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the laughter of a happy woman She's laughing. He's got
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: his son, his promised seed. He's got it in his
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: old age. God has strengthened his loins. I don't blame
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: him for throwing a party. Anytime you're that old, no Cialis, no...
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: It's time to get the popcorn out, roast you some
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: hot dogs, have you a barbecue, blow a whistle. It
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: is a happy moment. Everything is going wonderful. And then Sarah,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the Bible says, looked out and saw Ishmael, Hagar's son,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: by Abraham. Mocking Isaac. And the party was over. She
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: stopped laughing. Put the cake back. Take the hot dogs
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  Speaker 1: off the grill. Put the party hat away, stop the music.
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  Speaker 1: She mad again. What you mad about now?
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I looked out the window. And do you not know
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: what I saw? That woman's son was mocking my child.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Now if you want to make a woman mad, I mean,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: even them little quiet, nice, dainty little women who walk
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: around with lace on their toes and got their fingernails
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: with glitter on it, they turn into guerrilla warfare if
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: you mess with one of them kids. Sarah said, put
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  Speaker 1: the cake up. Something's got to be done. This girl
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: have lost her mind. Her boy is out there mocking
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: my boy. You got to do something. What you going
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: to do? What you going to do? I just want
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to know what you going to do. I just want
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: to know what you going to do about this. What
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you going to do about this? No, I'm going to
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: tell you what you going to do. Let me tell
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you what you are going to do about this. Cast out,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: put her out. Her and her lappy head child. Put
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: both of them out. I don't care where they gonna stay.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I don't care where they gonna live. But she gonna
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: get up. I ebonized it just a little bit, but.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden. All of a sudden, he
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: has gone from cutting to casting. He has gone from
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: cutting to being asked to cast out the bondwoman and
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: her son. which incidentally is his son. When Sarah says it,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: she says, cast out the bondwoman and her son, but
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: she knows that's his son. But Sarah don't have no
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: skin in the game. And when you don't have no
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: skin in the game, it's easy to tell people what
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: they ought to do about their situation because you don't
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: have no skin in the game. Now, if this would
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: have been me, this text would have been longer. Because
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: when she said, cast out the bond woman and her son,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I would have got right back up in her face
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and said she wouldn't have been here in the first
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: place if you hadn't have brought her in here. It
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: ain't like I asked you for this woman. This was
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: your idea in the first place. And now you want
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: me to fix what you wanted me to do. You see,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Hagar was never Abraham's idea. It was Sarah's idea because
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: she thought it wasn't going to happen. And when she
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: thought it wasn't going to happen God's way, she said,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I'll do it my way. Henceforth, Israel becomes a child
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: of the flesh. How many things have been born in
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: your house out of the flesh? Out of your unwillingness
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: to wait? Out of your impatience? Out of your frustration?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: How many decisions did you make without God? And by
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the way, wouldn't you hate to live in this house?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: You got two women in this house. Yeah, yeah, I
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: can stop right there. That's the end of it right there.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I got two women in the house. They don't like
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: each other. And I got two sons in the house.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: One is born of the flesh and one is born
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: of the promise. And this just sounds like a mess.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: But Abraham lived with it because sometimes change creates such
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: disruption that you just make the best of a bad situation.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: How did Abraham go from throwing a party for his
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: son to the biggest fight with his wife ever recorded.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: The fight was so big, they didn't have to call
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the police. God had to come. Now, you know that's
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: domestic violence. When God has to come, y'all are really
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: fighting when the only one who can break up the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: argument is God. Because Sarah has asked him to cast
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: out the bond woman and her son. And I believe
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that Abraham was bond to the bond woman. Bond woman
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: actually means that she was a servant, a slave. But
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that you can't spend that
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: much time with somebody You can't spend that many nights
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: with somebody listening at them talking about their dreams and
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: their hopes of what happened to them when they were
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: seven and when I was 12, my dog died and
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: all of that. And after a while, there's a bond
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to what you bond with, you become bond to. Oh,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: it's only 12 that could say amen. The rest of
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: them is using that mask as an excuse. Because as
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: long as you got your mask over your mouth, you
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: don't have to say nothing. You can say, I said
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: it under my breath. What you bond with, you become
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: bond to. And Hagar had become unnecessary flesh. She was attached.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Ishmael was his flesh. And God is now doing to
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: him what he started out doing to his son. For
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: to cast out the bondwoman and her son is circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: And Abraham is good at giving it, but now he's
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: got to receive it. Oh, he's been circumcised in his body,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: but not in his relationships. And there is no way
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to get out of this without blood. This is gonna hurt.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: And yet in order to get his house together, he
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: had to have the courage to change course. In fact,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: in all fairness, I have to give Sarah some credit.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Sarah is making a correction Because she is no longer
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: the woman she was before. I want to talk to
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: some people who are no longer the woman you were before.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: And yet you've got kids angry with you about what
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: you did before. before. You've got spouses angry with you
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: over what you did before. That ain't just for women.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Let's talk to some men who have got some wives
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: that are angry with you over what you did before.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And the kids don't like you over who you were before.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: The problem is people never give people room to change,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: to grow. to evolve. And even though we are Christians,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: we are the world's best at alienating people over what
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: they did before. And it takes courage to correct or
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: to change course. Because if he changes course, what will
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: become of Hagar? Where will Hagar go? Where has the
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: ring of Isaac's flesh gone? Hagar is cast into the wilderness.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And when God comes down, God does not talk like Sarah. See, sometimes, sisters...
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: You can be right about what you said, but wrong
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: about how you said it. You said, cast out the woman,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: the bum woman and her son. God comes down and says,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I know Ishmael is your seed. Understanding is important to
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: bring about change. You can't just look at it from
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: your perspective just because you don't have no skin in
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the game. Abraham has skin in the game. Ishmael is
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: his son too. Ishmael is his son, but Ishmael is
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: your mistake. Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Stay with me, I'm going somewhere. I'm gonna get it
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: back to you in a minute. Because everybody in here
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: has an ish male. Everybody in here, male or female,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with gender, has something that you
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: would bond to because you bond with that created a
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: problem that you live with. Whether it's baby mama drama
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is or baby daddy drama, you went
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: out with him. He a dog. You went out with
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: a dog. You picked the dog. You liked the dog.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: You brought the dog home. You went to bed with
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the dog. You had a baby with the dog. Now,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: all you can see is he a dog. Well, what
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: does that make you? I guess you're a dog lover.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Because save he raped you. See, until we take responsibility,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: For the mistakes we made, we cannot change course. As
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: long as you push it off and act like it
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: was just them and you tell the story where you
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: are always the hero, this woman would have never been
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: in Abraham's life. You brought the woman into his life.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: You came up with the strategy of them sleeping together.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: You told him to have a baby. You made this
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: woman your slave and made her sleep with a man
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: that she never picked to sleep with. And now it's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: all blown up in your face and you want to
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: act like it's his fault. But what is amazing about
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: the text is God comes down and says to Abraham,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: hearken unto the voice of your wife Sarai. Because a
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: woman is right even though she said it wrong. She
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: is right. And what is happening here is correction. Now
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. In order to have correction, you have
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: to have the challenging responsibility of trusting God to handle
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: our mistakes. God says to Abraham, leave Hagar to me.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: I know Ishmael is your son. I will make of
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: him a great nation. But you can't take your mistake
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: and your miracle and put them all in the same
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: house and make it work. There has to come a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: cutting away. A cutting away. You can't change course if
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: you can't cut. You can't change course if you can't
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: cast out. And the challenge is to trust me with
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the collateral damage. Who am I preaching to? Trust me
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: that I don't need you to take care of Ishmael.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: God says, my grace is sufficient for your mistakes. My grace,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: my grace, my grace, my grace is sufficient. You don't
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: have to live in this chaos. Your spirit has been
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: in a state of constant disruption. Because you won't change course.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: And I don't want you to live in this constant, chaotic,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: stressful environment of forlornment because your mistakes and your miracles
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: are cohabitating in the same space. All I need from
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: you is the courage to change.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Course.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: If you don't change course, you're gonna mess up your destiny.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: If you don't change course, you're gonna mess up your future.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: If you don't change course, you're not gonna be in
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the place you need to be to become who I
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: created you to be. If you don't change course, you're
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: gonna spend the latter years miserable because you won't own
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  Speaker 1: up to your mistakes and acknowledge that you were wrong
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  Speaker 1: and you won't fix it. And all the dancing and
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  Speaker 1: all the shouting and all the giving you do over
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  Speaker 1: top of it will not take away from the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you still need the courage to change course. Who
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: in here needs the courage to change course? You know
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  Speaker 1: what they say? The definition of lunacy is to continue
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: to do the same thing expecting a different result. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be the woman you want to be and the
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  Speaker 1: woman you used to be at the same time. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot be the man you were created to be and
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  Speaker 1: the man you used to be at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that now. But the problem is you
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  Speaker 1: just can't bring yourself to change course because of all
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  Speaker 1: the people that it would hurt for you to change.
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  Speaker 1: And how long will you make those people more important
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  Speaker 1: than your destiny? God said, turn them over to me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. See, the Lord sent
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  Speaker 1: me here to lose somebody this morning, to liberate somebody
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You've been in bondage. You can't even be
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  Speaker 1: your best self. You can't do your best work. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be who you were created to be because you're
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: stuck in a situation that you helped to create and
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  Speaker 1: you're guilty. and you feel guilty, and you overcompensate because
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: you're guilty, and you're in this situation because you're guilty,
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  Speaker 1: and you're stuck because either way you move, somebody's going
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  Speaker 1: to get hurt, and if you don't move, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be you. Lift your hands up and say, God,
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  Speaker 1: give me the courage. to change course. That means I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: might not get to say everything I wanna say. That
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: means I gotta hold my peace sometimes. That means sometimes
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I gotta bite my lip. That means sometimes I've gotta
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: learn another discipline. That means sometimes I gotta bleed. But
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  Speaker 1: if I have to bleed to be better, I'm willing
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  Speaker 1: to bleed. I'm willing to bleed a little while to
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  Speaker 1: be better for a long time. See, I realized that
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't have the surgery, the pain would never
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  Speaker 1: go away. And if I had the surgery, I would
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: have pain for a little while, but eventually the pain
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: of recovery will go away. See, circumcision hurts real bad,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't hurt real long. Putting out the bomb
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: woman hurt real bad, but it didn't hurt real long.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to decide, are you willing to have
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  Speaker 1: a little momentary discomfort to be where you are called
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  Speaker 1: to be? Or are you so concerned about the disruption
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  Speaker 1: that your change creates that you're willing to be a
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  Speaker 1: prisoner in your own life the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this text says to be. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: get out of this text. That's why this text is
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  Speaker 1: important to me. Because every time I ever made a change,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: somebody got hurt. When God called me to come to Dallas,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: somebody got hurt in West Virginia. There are people who
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: don't like me now. I've been here 25 years and
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: they still mad. There are other people that accept it
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and they're glad about it. They see it, they get it.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: But there are some people that just simply refuse to
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  Speaker 1: get over. And I had to decide, am I going
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  Speaker 1: to spend the rest of my life honoring your expectations
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: of me? Or do I get to live my life
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  Speaker 1: the way God called me to live my life? You
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: leave when you want to leave. You come when you
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: want to come. You miss church when you feel like missing.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: But if I'm not here, you say... I came to
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: church and you wasn't there. Don't I get to be
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  Speaker 1: a person too? I'm going to break your chain today.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: The chain that ties you to living up to other
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: people's expectations all of your life. The chain that circumvents
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: you from reaching your destiny and your purpose so you
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: can go ahead and fulfill what God created you to fulfill.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: We are going into a week of change. We're going
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to change course. We're going to change direction. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to change our focus. We're going to change our attitude.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: I don't care whether we get to have worship or
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: preaching or whether we just come in here and lay
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: flat out on the floor. I want a gully washing,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, anointed, supernatural revival. Revival is to wake up
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: what's dead. to bring back to life that that has
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: gone away, to restore, to bring back the luster of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: really knowing God. I don't want to pastor church people.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I want to pastor saints, real believers who are washed
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: in the blood of the Lamb, who really want to
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: serve God. I don't want to pastor people who just
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: want to take God on a weekly date on Sunday.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Some of you all don't love God, you date him.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Y'all got a weekly date on Sunday. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Saturday belong to you. And if it's not Sunday, you
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: don't have no skin in the game. And you're asking
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: God for a seven-day blessing with a one-day commitment. And
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: you've lost your ability. And God sent me to say
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: to you that in order for him to do what
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: you have been praying about, you are going to have
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: to be disciplined enough to put some skin in the games.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: If you don't put any skin in the game, God
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: cannot do what he wants to do in your life.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: But if you present your body, a living sacrifice before God,
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  Speaker 1: God said, I will do a new thing in you.
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  Speaker 1: And the former things in your life will be passed away.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I hear God talking to somebody. I don't know who
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: it is. But if you're ready for change, give Him
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds of crazy praise. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 1: Yes again! Yes! Yes Lord! Yes Lord! Yes Lord! Yes Lord!
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  Speaker 1: Elbow somebody and tell them I want change. I want change.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: I need change. I need change on the inside. I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: need change on the outside. I need change in my heart.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: I need change in my spirit. Give me my anointing back.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Give me my power back. Give me my consecration back.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I gotta have some change. For the devil I'm fighting
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: right now, I need a real Holy Ghost change. I
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: can't hear you praising God. I can't hear you. I
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. See, the problem with the church,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: we want to have a good service, but we don't
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: want to put any skin in the game. Open your
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: mouth and praise him till you got skin in the game.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put some skin in the game. I'm going
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: to put some skin in the game. For the breakthrough
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: I've been praying for, I'm willing to put some skin
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: in the game. I'm willing to invest in it. I'm
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: willing to sow into it. I'm willing to work on it.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to labor for it. I'm willing to hurt
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  Speaker 1: for it. Lord, here I am, just as I am.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I put skin in the game. Open your mouth and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: give God some praise. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It costs
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: what it costs. It costs what it costs. It costs
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: what it costs. It costs what it costs. Whatever it takes.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. This is how bad
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: I want it. This is how bad I want it.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: This is how bad I want it. I'll rearrange my schedule.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: I'll move if I got to move. I'll change if
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I got to change. Whatever it takes, I'll apologize. I'll
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: lay on my face. But whatever it takes, I won't change.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Somebody holler with all your might. Yeah, yeah, yeah Tell
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  Speaker 1: eight people I'm getting ready to change course. Go to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: eight people and tell them I'm getting ready to change course.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to change course. I'm going to change course.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Before the week is over, I'm going to change course.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Before the week is over, I'm going to change course.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Before the week is over, before this week, before this week,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: before this week, before this week, I'm gonna change. I'm
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: gonna change it. I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna break
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: that chain. I'm gonna break that yoke. I'm gonna change.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: I got to change it. Look at somebody say, I
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: got to change it. I got to change it. The
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: angels ain't going to change it. The prophet ain't going
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: to change it. The bishop ain't going to change it.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: The choir ain't going to change it. The potter's house
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: ain't going to change it. I got to change it.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to change it. I'm going to change it.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to change it. If you don't change, the
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: rocks will cry out. If you don't change, the rocks
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: will cry out! Change it! Change it! Change it! Change it!
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Change it! Change it. Change it in my heart. Change
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: it in my life. Change it in my spirit. Change
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: it in my heart. Change it in my life. Whatever
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: it takes. Get me behind me. A change. A change.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. Change is coming. It's coming. It's coming.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. Change is coming. It's coming. Change
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: is coming. It's coming. Move out of your way. It's coming.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. Change is coming. Yeah! It's coming. Yeah!
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: It's coming. Change is coming! Change is coming!
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: Change is coming! Change is coming! Change is coming!
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Change is coming! Change! Change! Change! Change! Change! Change! It's coming!
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: It's coming! It's coming! It's coming! It's coming! It's coming!
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Change is coming! Change is coming! Change is coming! Change
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: is coming! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 1: I dare you! I dare you! I
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: dare you! Make that change! Make that change! Make that change!
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Make that change! Change it! Change it!
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  Speaker 2: Change it!
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  Speaker 1: Change it! Oh! Change is coming! Change is coming! It's coming, coming!
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: It's coming, coming! It's coming, coming!
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Change is coming! Change is coming!
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: Change is coming!
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: Change! Change is coming! Change! Change is coming! Yeah!
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Change is coming!
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Change is coming! Yeah!
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, it's coming.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Get ready, get ready, it's coming.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, it's coming.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: Get ready, get ready, it's coming.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, it's coming.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Get ready, get ready, all right, it's coming.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, it's coming. Get ready, get ready.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Shades! Shades! Shades! Shades! In the balcony! Shades! In the back! Shades!
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  Speaker 2: On the stage!
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  Speaker 1: Shades!
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  Speaker 2: In the front!
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Shades! Shades! Shades! Shades! Shades! Change is coming. Change is coming.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Change is coming.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. Change is coming.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Change is coming. Change is coming.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming. Change
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming.
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  Speaker 2: I can see it.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: I can see it. Change is coming. I can see it.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. I can see it. Change is coming.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: I can see it. Change is coming. I can see it.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: Change is coming. I can see it. Change is coming.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: I can see it. Change is coming.
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  Speaker 2: I can feel it!
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: I can feel it! I can feel it! I can
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: feel it! Yeah! Change has come! Yeah! Change has come! Ooh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Where's Antark? Shane is coming. Where's Antara? Come here. I
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: don't want anybody to do this before I do. I
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: want an 8-1, a new beginning, a season of change.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Take 81 out of there. I don't want anybody to
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: do it before I do it. I dedicate this week
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: to God. August the 1st, 8-1. The baby was eight
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  Speaker 1: days old. I decree and declare There will be change.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: There will be a cutting away. There will be a
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: casting out. There will be a singleness of heart. A
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: wholeness in spirit. I'm not just talking about you. I'm
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: gonna do this for myself. I want the courage. The courage.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: The courage. The courage. The courage. The courage. The courage
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  Speaker 1: to change. The courage to change. I'm running out of time.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: I don't have time to play games. The courage to change.
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  Speaker 1: You're watching online. Join me if you want to. You're
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: in the building. Join me if you will. But I
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: send this up, this little seed. It ain't much as
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: a little seed. A little seed offering to God. I
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: offer up a sacrifice. There will be change. I decree
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: and declare a new beginning. I decree and declare a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: new beginning in the midst of all of this chaos
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: and political antics and racial indifference, in the midst of
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: all of this turbulence. In the midst of this pandemic,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I decree and declare a change in the name of Jesus.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: This is my garden of Gethsemane. This is a place
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: where I make up my mind. Not my will, but
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: thine be done. This is a place that I cast
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: out the bondwoman. This is a place that I cut
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: away the flesh. This is a place where I put
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: some skin in the game. This is a place where
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: I decree and declare for discipline. How many of you
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: struggle to be disciplined? I decree and declare for a
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: greater discipline in your life, in your business, in your affairs,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: in your finances, in your relationships. You're going to stop
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: being guided by your emotions and you're going to be
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: guided by the promise of God. No more guilt. No
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: more shame. No more incarceration to your past. No more
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: nursing people's feelings. They shouldn't even be in the house.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: Cast out the bond woman. I wanna be new. You
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  Speaker 1: the pastor, what you're talking about, you want to renew. Yes,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: pastors need to be renewed. Singers need to be renewed.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: You can't keep giving out to people and not become depleted.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: You need to be renewed. Deacons need to be renewed.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: The elders need to be renewed. The saints online need
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: to be renewed. The people in this building need to
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: be renewed. We need a renewal. Somebody shout yes. And
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: it's just a little seed. But I'm going to sow
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: it as a sign, as a sign that I'm committed
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  Speaker 1: to the discipline that's necessary. I'm going to stop running
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: a nursery. for everybody else's feelings but mine. Today God
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: liberates us from people, from the bondage of their expectations,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: from the fear of their criticisms, from the pain of
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: their remarks. Today we come into a new place Of alignment.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: Admittedly we've made some bad choices. Admittedly we've made some
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: poor judgments. But now that we know better. Knowing better
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: don't mean a thing if you don't do better. Knowing
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: that you should eat right ain't eating right. Knowing that
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: you should save ain't saving. Knowing that you should shut
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: your mouth don't shut your mouth. It don't count till
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: you do it. How many are making a commitment, I'm
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: going to do this thing? I'm going to do this thing. 8-1.
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  Speaker 1: A new beginning. And in fact, in fact today, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: as other people are sowing and as they're giving, if
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: there's a person in this room and you need newness,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Jesus came to make us new. And he put skin
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: in the game. He went to Calvary and he put
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: skin in the game. But if you don't put yours in,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: you can't have new life. I cannot dwell in a
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: tent with the wicked. Today, whether you're online or Whether
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: you're watching in Houston or Atlanta, New York or DeSoto,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: whether you're in South Dakota or South Africa, whether you're
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: in Nigeria or Birmingham, Alabama, I decree and declare there
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: will be change. There will be change. I'm not waiting
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  Speaker 1: on nobody to come save me. I'm not waiting on
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  Speaker 1: nobody to come get me. I decree and declare there
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: will be change. It may hurt a while while I
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: get the discipline to commit my way unto the Lord,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: but whatever it takes, there will be change. If there's
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: a person in this room The only one I know
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: who can help you to really change your life is Jesus.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: Abraham and Sarah argued all the way until God came
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: in the tent. When God came down and came in
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: the tent, he straightened everything out. He put everything in order.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: He moved the flesh out. He moved the spirit in,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh out, and the promise came in. And he
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  Speaker 1: gave Abraham the thing that you can't buy in a
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: store and you can't get with a degree. He gave
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: him focus. When the eye is single, the whole body
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: is full of light. But a house divided against itself
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: shall not stand. We praise you with singleness of heart.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: We've had too many distractions. Trying to keep this one
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: and please that one and please that one and satisfy
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: that one and not make waves and trying to compensate
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  Speaker 1: and overcompensate, overdoing it, giving out of guilt. But today
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  Speaker 1: we make a change. Friend, if you're in this room
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know Jesus, if you're in this room
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  Speaker 1: and you've had New Year's resolutions and you've had moments
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  Speaker 1: where you felt guilty and cried, but you're tied to
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  Speaker 1: an addiction and you're tied to a problem and you're
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  Speaker 1: tied to a way of living and a way of
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  Speaker 1: thinking and a way of doing things that's just dragging
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  Speaker 1: you down. You got to decide which pull is stronger,
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  Speaker 1: the pull of the Holy Spirit or the pull of
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  Speaker 1: your flesh. It is enough. gift to come to God.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says nobody can come to God save the
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  Speaker 1: spirit draws him. It's a spirit. If you are here
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  Speaker 1: and you are an unbeliever or a backslider and the
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  Speaker 1: spirit is calling you home, hold your hand up right
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  Speaker 1: where you are. Hold your hand up. I see you.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. I see you. Where else? I see you.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. I see you. Hold it up high.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be ashamed. Hold it up. I see you all
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  Speaker 1: the way in the back. I see you. I see you.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. If the Holy Ghost is saying change
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  Speaker 1: your life, hold your hand up. I see you. I
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  Speaker 1: see you. The Spirit of God sees you. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to leave. Put the other hand up with it.
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  Speaker 1: It means I surrender. The fight is over. I give up.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to pray with you with both your
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  Speaker 1: hands up. Father, you see those raised hands? You see
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  Speaker 1: the ones that are online. You see the ones that
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  Speaker 1: I cannot see. You know that their hearts are open
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  Speaker 1: and they need a touch from you. And right now,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, in the middle of a pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a world gone crazy, in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of tough times and personal problems and past pain
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  Speaker 1: and trauma and abuse and all types of things, We
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  Speaker 1: confess our sins. We've been wrong. We've made some bad choices.
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  Speaker 1: We've done some dumb things. Some of this trouble wasn't Satan.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it was us. But be that as it may,
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  Speaker 1: we come clean right now. Come into their hearts. We
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  Speaker 1: believe that you died for our sins and that you
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  Speaker 1: rose for our justification. And right now, right where I
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  Speaker 1: stand with my hands up, I invite you into my life,
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  Speaker 1: into my crazy house, into my chaotic situation, into my
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  Speaker 1: contradictory circumstances. I invite you in right now with my
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  Speaker 1: whole heart. I say yes to you. I say yes
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  Speaker 1: to your will and yes to your word. I say
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  Speaker 1: yes to you. I say yes to your ways. And
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  Speaker 1: whether I'm weak or whether I'm strong or whether I'm
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  Speaker 1: right or whether I'm wrong, I commit to you right
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  Speaker 1: here and now, I'm going to walk with you all
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  Speaker 1: the way back home. Lord, it sure feels good to
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  Speaker 1: have a new beginning. Amen. This is my eighth day.
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  Speaker 1: This is my new beginning. This is my fresh start.
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  Speaker 1: This is the day that I cut away my flesh
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  Speaker 1: and my fleshly choices. This is the day I say
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  Speaker 1: yes to God. Now I want you to praise Him
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  Speaker 1: right where you are and accept what He did in
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  Speaker 1: your life in Jesus' name.