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Believing Matters - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Remain standing for a moment. I want to pray with
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  Speaker 1: you as we go into the Word of God. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about believing matters. Believing matters. Father,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, we approach thy throne, O God,
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  Speaker 1: asking you for grace to minister to your people tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you in advance for what you're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: and we trust you.
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  Speaker 2: To do it.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name we pray. Shout amen. You may be seated.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to work on this. Believing such a nebulous, indescript,
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  Speaker 1: hard to define, untouchable thing is very, very important. Before
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  Speaker 1: we apply it to spiritual things, let's look at the natural.
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  Speaker 1: There's a fight going on right now over what you believe.
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  Speaker 1: People in the same family don't believe the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Different ideologies and different ideas have become so pervasive that
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  Speaker 1: wars have been fought over what you believe. Believing absolutely matters.
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  Speaker 1: When I came up in the church, we focused a
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  Speaker 1: lot on behavior and behavior is important, but believing trumps behavior.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I would suggest to you before we get
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  Speaker 1: very deep into this, that you can't change your behavior
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  Speaker 1: until you change your belief. What you believe about yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what you believe about your God, what you believe about
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  Speaker 1: your house, what you believe is going to affect how
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  Speaker 1: you behave. It's so strong that the Bible said, with
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  Speaker 1: the heart man believeth unto salvation.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: With the heart man believes. Just what a heart believes
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  Speaker 1: constitutes salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Not what a hand does, what a heart believes.
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  Speaker 1: And if you begin to study and to understand the
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  Speaker 1: importance of believing, which we're going to try to dissect
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  Speaker 1: it a bit tonight, I think it's important that you
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  Speaker 1: understand while... Go to John 3.16 for a minute. Go
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  Speaker 1: to John 3.16. And let's go to John 3.16. And
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  Speaker 1: let's just set a base for a discussion. For God
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  Speaker 1: so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
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  Speaker 1: You could probably just quote it. That whosoever believes in
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  Speaker 1: him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait. For God so loved the world that
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  Speaker 2: he gave it.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes knowing something and being able to quote it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that we really hear it.
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  Speaker 3: For God so loved the.
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  Speaker 1: World It's the king falling in love with a harlot.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't say for God so loved the church. It
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  Speaker 1: says for God so loved the world. God has fallen
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  Speaker 1: in love with something that is so beneath him.
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  Speaker 2: Think of that.
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  Speaker 1: For God so loved the world. That he had to
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  Speaker 1: fix her up. He gave his only son that whosoever believes, believes.
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  Speaker 1: I almost said underline that because I'm used to people
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  Speaker 1: having Bibles, not phones.
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  Speaker 2: But whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life. It's all based on what you believe.
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  Speaker 3: For God did.
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  Speaker 1: Not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 1: but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in
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  Speaker 1: him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
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  Speaker 1: condemned already.
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  Speaker 2: Now I want you to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: Whosoever believes in him is not condemned. But whoever does
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  Speaker 1: not believe stands condemned already because, because, because, not because
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  Speaker 1: of what they did, not because of who they slept with,
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  Speaker 1: not because of what they drank, not because of what
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  Speaker 1: they shot in their arm, but because they have not
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  Speaker 1: believed in the name of God's one and only son.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the charges are that are brought against you.
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  Speaker 1: Not your behavior, your belief system. Because God understands that
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  Speaker 1: you can't change your behavior until you change your belief system.
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  Speaker 1: So in the NIV it says, this is the verdict.
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  Speaker 1: Light has come into the world, but people love darkness
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  Speaker 1: instead of light because their deeds were evil. Now if
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  Speaker 1: light were not in the world, you had no option.
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  Speaker 1: But when light comes into the world, now you have
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  Speaker 1: an option. You choose to be in darkness. Everyone who
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  Speaker 1: does evil hates the light and will not come into
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  Speaker 1: the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
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  Speaker 1: But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light
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  Speaker 1: so that it may be seen plainly that what they
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  Speaker 1: have done has been done in the sight of God.
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  Speaker 2: So says the word of God. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Amen. I want you to see that believing is the
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  Speaker 1: pivotal point of what defines you as a Christian, as
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  Speaker 1: a believer, as a person of faith, as a child
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  Speaker 1: of the king. And so if there's anything that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy wants to attack, he wants to attack what you believe. Now,
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  Speaker 1: intellectualism is extremely important. And research should never be discounted.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be as smart as you can be.
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  Speaker 1: Learn all you can. Read all you can. Develop all
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  Speaker 1: you can. Evolve all you can. That's very important. But
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  Speaker 1: believing is our only gateway to God. Not intellectualism. Believing
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  Speaker 1: is our only.
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  Speaker 1: It's our only... It's not baking pies... It's not paying tithes.
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  Speaker 1: You can't buy it. It's not singing in the choir.
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  Speaker 1: It's not preaching the word. Believing is our only gateway
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  Speaker 1: to God. Now there have been many groups that have
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  Speaker 1: had ideas that were different from this. One of them
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  Speaker 1: is Gnostics and they had a philosophy called Gnosticism. And
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  Speaker 1: Gnosticism assumes that the more one knows, the closer one
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  Speaker 1: is to God. That's one of the things they believe.
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  Speaker 1: They believe in a hierarchy of angels, lots of things.
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  Speaker 1: If this were so, then the illiterate would be at
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  Speaker 1: a severe disadvantage, maybe condemned. Babies would have no hope
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  Speaker 1: of heaven because they don't know yet. And the senile
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  Speaker 1: would have lost their way to God. So if intellectualism
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  Speaker 1: is the method through which we embrace God, then it's
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  Speaker 1: not fair because we don't all have the same IQ.
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  Speaker 1: We don't all have the same exposure. We don't all
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  Speaker 1: have the same intellectualism. And so God had to reduce
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  Speaker 1: it to something that we all have in common, which
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  Speaker 1: is a belief system. Gnosticism is the idea of knowing.
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  Speaker 1: Think of our contemporary term agnostic.
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  Speaker 2: Which means not to know. Agnostic. Gnostic is to know.
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  Speaker 2: Agnostic is not to know.
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  Speaker 1: And through gnosticism had many beliefs and ideas, but the
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  Speaker 1: substratum of the term evolves around one idea. We are
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  Speaker 1: still in a fight between knowing and believing. We see
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  Speaker 1: it in every sphere of our contemporary society. Take it
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  Speaker 1: out in the context of the scriptures for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: And we're fighting about mask. We're fighting about the vaccine.
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  Speaker 1: We're fighting about politics. We're fighting about racism. We're fighting
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  Speaker 1: about everything. There's all kinds of arguments going on between
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  Speaker 1: knowing and believing. Take it out of society and take
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  Speaker 1: it down to yourself. The enemy comes against what you
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  Speaker 1: believe and what you know about God. Because Satan knows
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  Speaker 1: it is with the mind that we serve the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the things you're worried about that the enemy
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  Speaker 1: is playing with, he doesn't need. Satan doesn't need your apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Satan doesn't need your house. Satan doesn't need your car.
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  Speaker 1: What's Satan going to do with your car? The devil
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  Speaker 1: took my car. What is he going to do with it?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see the devil driving down 30, breaking
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  Speaker 1: his lead limits, talking about I'm the devil. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need your car. He needs you worried. He needs you upset.
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  Speaker 1: He needs you emotionally frustrated. So any way he can
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  Speaker 1: get to your mind, The enemy is after your mind.
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  Speaker 1: So God says that he has given us peace to
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  Speaker 1: guard our heart and mind. Because you got to put
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  Speaker 1: up a defense against what you allow to infiltrate.
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  Speaker 2: The context of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is with the mind that we serve the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: then your mind has to be healthy, and your mind
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  Speaker 1: has to be free, and your mind has to have
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  Speaker 1: a conviction about what it believes. Even if the person
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  Speaker 1: sitting next to you believes something contrary, you cannot allow
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  Speaker 1: your affection for the individual to override your fidelity to
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  Speaker 1: what you believe.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, somebody. You must understand this.
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  Speaker 1: When we start talking about God so loving the world
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  Speaker 1: that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes
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  Speaker 1: in him should not perish but have everlasting life. He
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  Speaker 1: did it so that we would all have an equal
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  Speaker 1: playing field. He did it so that we would all
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  Speaker 1: have an equal footing, an equal place. He did it
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  Speaker 1: so that we would understand that the problem in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, in the first place in the book of
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  Speaker 1: Genesis starts with unbelief. The original sin is really unbelief.
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  Speaker 1: At the root of the forbidden fruit.
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  Speaker 2: Is unbelief. Does not believe, have God said?
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  Speaker 1: Questioning what God says is an attempt to tear down
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  Speaker 1: the belief system that was constructed that allowed them to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the garden. So the enemy doesn't try to
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  Speaker 1: physically move them out of the garden. He tries to
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  Speaker 1: move them away from what they believe. Because if he
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  Speaker 1: moves them away from what they believe, then he will
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  Speaker 1: automatically move them out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the garden. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So he comes against what you know about God, trying
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  Speaker 1: to alter it. Oh, you should eat of it because
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  Speaker 1: if you eat, you're going to be just like God.
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  Speaker 1: You will know as God. Now he's questioning God's integrity,
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  Speaker 1: like God is trying to stop you from doing something
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  Speaker 1: because God is intimidated by you.
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  Speaker 2: What arrogance, what utter arrogance, what utter stupidity.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he is attacking, he is attacking not their bodies,
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  Speaker 1: He is attacking their belief system. The enemy is not
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  Speaker 1: after your body. He's after your belief system. Now he
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  Speaker 1: might attack your body, but he's only attacking your body
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  Speaker 1: to break down your belief system. So if that's how
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  Speaker 1: sin entered into the world, through an ideology, an idea
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  Speaker 1: that comes against what God has said, then in order
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  Speaker 1: to fix how sin entered in the world, we have
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  Speaker 1: to go from unbelief to believing.
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  Speaker 3: So God now fixes it so simple.
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  Speaker 1: That a fool, though he be a wayfaring man, he
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  Speaker 1: can still enter therein. So that the person, whether they're
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  Speaker 1: bright or not bright, went to school or didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to school, intellectual or not intellectual, it doesn't make any
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  Speaker 1: difference whether they're three or 300. God has fixed it
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  Speaker 1: that we all must become like children and have childlike
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  Speaker 1: faith and dare to believe him. And while knowing is
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  Speaker 1: important and learning is important and growing is important, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to lean to your own understanding.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want.
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  Speaker 1: To lean on what you know because what you know
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  Speaker 1: is always evolving.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: For a simple thing, when I went to school, Pluto
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  Speaker 1: was the ninth planet. And then they decided it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a planet at all, it was a star. Because as
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  Speaker 1: they know more, knowledge is always changing. Ideas are always changing.
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  Speaker 1: Your belief system has to be built on something that's
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  Speaker 1: solid and something that's stable and something that's proven and
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  Speaker 1: something that's true and something that you trust in. Your
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  Speaker 1: belief system has to be built on God, not church,
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  Speaker 1: not denominations. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying? Not preachers,
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  Speaker 1: not televangelists, not small church pastors. It doesn't make any difference.
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  Speaker 1: People make gods out of all kinds of stuff. They
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  Speaker 1: make gods out of their children. You can make gods
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  Speaker 1: out of anything. All of these things will shake. All
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  Speaker 1: of these things will crumble. But your hope has to
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  Speaker 1: be built on nothing less than God. than Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: and his righteousness. Not yours, his, not yours, but his.
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  Speaker 1: Not yours, but his. Not mine, but his. Not your mama's,
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  Speaker 1: but his righteousness. Not your grandfather's, but his righteousness. Your
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  Speaker 1: faith has to be built on something that's solid as
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  Speaker 1: a rock. So that you become above being Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian,
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  Speaker 1: Church of God in Christ, Church of God in Prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: Church of God got it going on in Jesus name
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  Speaker 1: incorporated above whatever you might call yourself. If you ain't
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  Speaker 1: nothing else at the very minimum, you must be what
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  Speaker 1: they first called us, a believer. So somebody shout, I
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  Speaker 1: am a believer. If I am a believer, what does
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  Speaker 1: a believer do? A believer believes, so it has to
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  Speaker 1: start with belief system. You can come up here to
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  Speaker 1: accept Christ and get slain in the spirit. Other people
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  Speaker 1: burst into tears. Some people get goose pimples. Some people
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  Speaker 1: feel nothing at all. It is not an emotion you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for. It is a change to your belief system.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen people run all over the church.
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  Speaker 3: Roll and roll and roll.
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  Speaker 2: And be in the strip club by Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Because actions don't necessarily constitute change. The Bible said Esau
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  Speaker 1: sought repentance with many tears and found it not. This
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  Speaker 1: is not about emotions. You can't turn on the tear
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  Speaker 1: faucet and move God. Have you ever seen people that
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  Speaker 1: could just cry at will? And anytime they wanted attention,
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  Speaker 1: they'd start crying. God said, I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 1: psyched out because you cry. I'm not looking at how
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  Speaker 1: you cry. I'm looking at how you believe. Esau sought
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  Speaker 1: repentance with many tears and found it not. The reason
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't find it, he was seeking change through his emotions.
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  Speaker 1: And repentance means to change your mind. Metatonia to change
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  Speaker 1: your mind. So you can change your emotions all day long,
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  Speaker 1: but if you don't change your mind, how many of
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  Speaker 1: you have had somebody promise you, I ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: never do it no more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never going to do this no more.
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  Speaker 3: I promise you I'm never going to do it no more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never going to do it. They went right back
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  Speaker 2: and did it again.
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  Speaker 1: They had emotions. They might have even felt those emotions,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't change their mind. The gospel then is
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  Speaker 1: designed to give you a new belief system in which
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  Speaker 1: you build your life around not just your habits. Not
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  Speaker 1: just going to church on Sunday. But you build your
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  Speaker 1: life around it. You make your decisions around it. You
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  Speaker 1: make your choices around it. You get married around it.
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  Speaker 1: You decide what I'm going to do and what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be based on that belief system. That sovereign
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  Speaker 1: absolute belief system. The Bahamas used to have London as
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  Speaker 1: a sovereign, even though they were separated by mouths with.
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  Speaker 3: Water, The rule of law in.
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  Speaker 1: The Bahamas, if they were driving on the left in London,
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  Speaker 1: they were driving on the left in the Bahamas because
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  Speaker 1: they were imitating their sovereign. The will of London be
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  Speaker 1: done in the Bahamas. Thy will be done on earth
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  Speaker 1: as it is in heaven. So when heaven becomes your sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: You want to imitate what's going on in heaven in
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  Speaker 1: your life. You develop your customs around that which is
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  Speaker 1: divine and stop trying to keep up with trying to
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  Speaker 1: be contemporary, trying to be edgy, trying to keep up
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  Speaker 1: with the culture. The church is not supposed to chase
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  Speaker 1: the culture. The culture will send you to hell. We
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  Speaker 1: have a church today who has fallen in love with
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  Speaker 1: the culture and the leadership is their job to be
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  Speaker 1: relevant to the culture. I'm not trying to be relevant
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  Speaker 1: to the culture. I'm trying to be relevant to the kingdom. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. I'm trying to be
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  Speaker 1: relevant to the kingdom because the culture can do anything.
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  Speaker 1: The culture can go anywhere. The culture can change its
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  Speaker 1: mind about everything. The kingdom is my sovereign and it
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  Speaker 1: stops me from being shaky and it stops me from
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  Speaker 1: being flaky.
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  Speaker 3: Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to always impress the culture with how fly
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  Speaker 1: you can be, how flip you can be, how cool
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  Speaker 1: you can be, how edgy. I don't know what they're
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  Speaker 1: saying now. I'm using old terms. Whatever term you want
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  Speaker 1: to use, it is not your job to try to
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  Speaker 1: imitate the world. It is their job to be influenced
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  Speaker 1: by you. They are not the salt of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: You are the salt of the earth. Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: The meat is not given to season the salt. The
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  Speaker 1: salt is given to season the meat. But the problem
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  Speaker 1: today is we have stopped being the season and we
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  Speaker 1: start trying to be the meat. We're trying to be
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  Speaker 1: the culture. Ye are the salt of the earth, a
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  Speaker 1: city set up on a hill that cannot be hid.
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  Speaker 1: You've got your own identity, your own personality, your own
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  Speaker 1: way of doing things, and you don't have to live
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  Speaker 1: up to their standards in order to be accepted by them.
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  Speaker 1: You have to dare to be true to what you believe.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to believe him. His integrity warrants your belief.
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  Speaker 1: To believe him is to embrace God's integrity, not my integrity.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham became, we're gonna talk more about him in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: but Abraham became the friend of God because he believed God.
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  Speaker 1: He believed God's integrity. Do you believe God's integrity? God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a man that I should lie or the
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  Speaker 1: son of man that I should repent. Have I not
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  Speaker 1: spoken it? Shall I not perform it? Have I not
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  Speaker 1: said it? Shall I not make it good? This is
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  Speaker 1: God's word. It's not contemporary ideology. It's not about embracing
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  Speaker 1: the culture. It's not about the latest fad they have
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  Speaker 1: going on. It's about embracing what God has done and
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  Speaker 1: believing that his integrity is absolute. Why do you think
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  Speaker 1: Jesus performed more miracles than he did messages? It's because
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  Speaker 1: he did the miracles that you might believe. The miracles
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean anything to God. It was the mechanism to
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  Speaker 1: get you to believe. Oh, y'all don't hear what I...
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  Speaker 1: Let's take Lazarus, for example. Lazarus is sick. Jesus waits
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  Speaker 1: and lets him die. Why does Jesus raise Lazarus from
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  Speaker 1: the dead in John chapter 11 when he knows that
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  Speaker 1: no matter how many times he raises Lazarus from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus is still going to die. Healing a woman with
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  Speaker 1: the issue of blood didn't stop her from dying. Feeding
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  Speaker 1: the 5,000 didn't stop them from being hungry again. He
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  Speaker 1: only did the miracle so that you might, no, y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying, so that you might believe.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus waits and lets Lazarus die and lets them
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  Speaker 1: bury him and shows up at the house when they're
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  Speaker 1: eating chicken. He even weeps with them while they're crying
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  Speaker 1: and says, show me where you laid him down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knows that Lazarus to die, to be absent in
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  Speaker 1: the body, is to be present with the Lord. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is not sad because Lazarus died. Jesus is using Lazarus' death.
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  Speaker 2: As an illustration.
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  Speaker 3: He let him die.
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  Speaker 2: If Jesus had.
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  Speaker 1: Been worried about Lazarus dying, he didn't have to go
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  Speaker 1: raise him up. He could have spoke the word only,
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  Speaker 1: and Lazarus would have been risen from the dead. Lazarus
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  Speaker 1: dying was a setup. And then he goes and raises
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  Speaker 1: him from the dead. And I told the Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: lost one of my loved ones. And as they were
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  Speaker 1: passing away, I said, Lord, if you're going to take them,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well go ahead and take them. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's never going to be a good time for you
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  Speaker 1: to take them. Because if you let them live to
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  Speaker 1: be 90, I'm going to ask for 100. If you
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  Speaker 1: let them live to be 100, I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 1: for 120. Anytime you take them, it's going to hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me the strength to stand it because you
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  Speaker 1: know what's best for me. I trust your decision. I
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  Speaker 1: trust your choice. I trust the way you think. And
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  Speaker 1: you know how I am. It's never going to be
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  Speaker 1: a good time to say goodbye to somebody I love.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and shoot your best shot. Do what you
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  Speaker 1: got to do. You know what's best for me because
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  Speaker 1: I believe in eternity. And I believe in eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe I'll see them again. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: that they'll take off mortality and put on immortality. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe to be absent in the body is to
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  Speaker 1: be present with the Lord. And I believe that this
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  Speaker 1: old world is not my home. And I didn't come
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  Speaker 1: here to stay. When you really believe what you believe,
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  Speaker 1: then you stand on what you believe. And yes, I
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  Speaker 1: like another week, but then I'm going to want another week.
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  Speaker 1: And then if I get another week, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: want another month. And then if I get another month,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to want another year. So I'm never going
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  Speaker 1: to be satisfied. I trust you to make the decision.
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  Speaker 1: That was painful, but that was my conversation with God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: God knows that Lazarus dying and even Mary and Martha
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  Speaker 1: knew they would see him again in the resurrection. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: why did he let Lazarus die? He let Lazarus die
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  Speaker 1: and then came and woke Lazarus up. Go to, this
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  Speaker 1: happened in the Gospel of St. John chapter 11, but
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  Speaker 1: go to Gospel of St. John chapter 12. All this
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  Speaker 1: drama's happened in 11. The crying, Lazarus is dead, the tomb,
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  Speaker 1: Mary running out, hollering at Jesus. Everybody's freaking out. The
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  Speaker 1: family's going crazy. Jesus rolls the stone away. Lazarus raises
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Now, in John chapter 12, Lazarus has
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  Speaker 1: been raised from the dead and he's sitting at the
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  Speaker 1: feast with Jesus. And here comes the unbelievers around. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says in John 12 verse 9, Meanwhile, a
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  Speaker 1: large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there
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  Speaker 1: and came not only because of him, but also to
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  Speaker 1: see Lazarus, whom he had raised from From the dead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good, good.
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  Speaker 1: So the chief priest made plans to kill Lazarus as well.
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus was the problem. For on account of him, many
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews were going over to Jesus and....
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  Speaker 2: And believing in him.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole purpose of Lazarus, well not the only purpose,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the purposes of raising Lazarus from the
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  Speaker 1: dead was that they might believe. The purpose of the
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  Speaker 1: miracle is not the miracle. If he gives you bread,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get hungry again. If he gives you life,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to die again. If he heals your body,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to stop death. All of this is
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  Speaker 1: just so that you might believe. Somebody shout, I'm a believer. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you sounded so weak. You sounded so weak. Say it
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  Speaker 1: like you mean it. I'm a believer. John 14, 28
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  Speaker 1: through 29. Let's continue our Bible study tonight. Ye have
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  Speaker 1: heard how I said unto you. I'll give you a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a minute. I'll give you a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a minute. I'll give you 10 seconds left,
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  Speaker 1: 10 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: John 14, 28, 29. Let's go. Ye have heard.
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  Speaker 1: How I said unto you I go away and come
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  Speaker 1: again unto you if ye loved me ye would rejoice
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  Speaker 1: because I said I go unto the father for my
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  Speaker 1: father is greater than I and now I have told
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  Speaker 1: you before it come to pass that when it is
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  Speaker 1: come to pass ye might He said, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: before it happens. He said, I'm giving you prophecies so
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  Speaker 1: that when the prophecy comes to pass, your faith will
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  Speaker 1: be increased and that you might believe. He said, the
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  Speaker 1: only reason I'm telling you what's going to happen before
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  Speaker 1: it happens so that when it happens and I get
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  Speaker 1: up from the dead and I rise again, that your
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  Speaker 1: faith might be strengthened and that ye might believe. Not
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  Speaker 1: so you can dance, not so you can beat your tambourine,
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  Speaker 1: Not so you can start a choir. Not so you
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  Speaker 1: can shout till your makeup drips on your face. No,
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  Speaker 1: God says what I want from you above everything else
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  Speaker 1: is believing. And dancing and praising him and beating tambourines
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  Speaker 1: are nice. But if it doesn't lead you to believing,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well drop your tambourine on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a faith fight. We're in a faith fight.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a faith fight. We're in a faith fight
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  Speaker 1: right now. We're in a faith fight. And what you
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  Speaker 1: believe matters. Not how you feel. Not how you hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Not how your emotions are. Not what you'd like to have.
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  Speaker 1: Not what you'd like to drive. Not what you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to live in. What matters most is what you believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that. God. I believe his word. I believe
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  Speaker 1: what he said. I believe that he's able. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that he loves me. I believe that he knows what's
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  Speaker 1: best for me. And if I hurt, then I hurt
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  Speaker 1: knowing that if you allowed me to hurt, it must
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  Speaker 1: go work for my good. Therefore, we glory in tribulation.
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  Speaker 1: For tribulation work in patience. Patience experience and experience hope
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  Speaker 1: and hope making itself not ashamed. If you're listening at
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  Speaker 1: this Bible call, type out the line, I believe God.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to remind yourself, I believe God. I
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  Speaker 1: believe God. I believe God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about deeper than this foolish, fanatical, crazy
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  Speaker 1: kind of faith. Why do you call that crazy faith?
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  Speaker 1: I'll prove it by the scriptures. The enemy tempted Jesus, said,
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  Speaker 1: if thou be the son of God, cast yourself down
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  Speaker 1: off of this mountain.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus did not.
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  Speaker 1: Take unnecessary risks to prove who he was. This thing
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  Speaker 1: about if you really had faith, you would take unnecessary risks,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: then Jesus should have jumped. Just because you're a believer
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you need to jump off a cliff. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you need to take unnecessary risks. Doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't fasten your seatbelt. Doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you shouldn't go to a doctor. Doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't do everything you can do to take care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Just because you're a believer doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't bathe. Doesn't mean you shouldn't put on deodorant.
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  Speaker 3: Deodorant. Come on somebody, come on somebody, come on somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Even then, Satan was trying to get Jesus to take
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  Speaker 1: unnecessary risks and put himself in danger to prove who
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  Speaker 1: he was. You never have to prove who you are
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  Speaker 1: when you know who you are. When you know who
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  Speaker 1: you are, you just are who you are. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what they call you. I don't care how they
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  Speaker 1: troll you. I don't care how they get on your internet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what they say on social media. You
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  Speaker 1: got to know who you are. You can't need the
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  Speaker 1: endorsement of people who don't even know you. Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: preaching better than you shouting. Now we're coming closer. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't even got to the text yet. This is on
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  Speaker 1: my way to the text. So I might have to
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  Speaker 1: break this into two weeks to get it done. But
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  Speaker 1: this is important. Look at somebody say believing matters. Hebrews 11,
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  Speaker 1: one through six tells us again, now faith is confidence
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  Speaker 1: in what we hope for and assurance about what we
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  Speaker 1: do not see. Wait a minute, let's go back to that.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance
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  Speaker 1: about what we do not see. I don't need faith
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  Speaker 1: for what I can see. I don't need faith for
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  Speaker 1: what I can do myself. I need faith when I
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  Speaker 1: don't have any other evidence. The Bible says in King James,
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  Speaker 1: faith is the substance of things hoped for, it is
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  Speaker 1: the evidence of things not seen. It is my evidence.
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  Speaker 1: What is your evidence? Admissible in court, I believe. I believe,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. This is what the ancients were commended for.
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  Speaker 1: By faith we understand that the universe was formed at
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  Speaker 1: God's command so that what is seen was not made
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  Speaker 1: out of what is visible. And most of what you're
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  Speaker 1: worried about is what is visible. Oh, y'all not gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk back to me. Most of what you're praying about
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  Speaker 1: is what is visible. But what you need to understand,
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  Speaker 1: what made what is visible is invisible. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you break it in the spirit, you can break it
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  Speaker 1: in the flesh. Glory to God, you don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you. Jesus found a woman that was
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  Speaker 1: bowed over for 18 years and could not lift up herself.
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  Speaker 1: And he did not heal her. He just gave her
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  Speaker 1: a new belief system. He said, woman, thou art loosed.
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  Speaker 1: from that infirmity, and the moment she heard that she
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  Speaker 1: was loose, she immediately changed her behavior and straightened up herself.
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  Speaker 1: What you think about yourself has got you bowed over.
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  Speaker 1: What you got going on in your head has got
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  Speaker 1: you tripping. The moment you get, ye shall know the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the truth shall set you free. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to today, but somebody's gonna get a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you see with your eye. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what you believe in your heart. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the elders were commended for. Not their behavior, their belief.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did.
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  Speaker 1: By faith, he was commended as righteous when God spoke
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  Speaker 1: well of his offerings. And by faith, Abel still speaks
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  Speaker 1: even though he is dead. He does it by faith
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  Speaker 1: in him. was taken from this life so that he
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  Speaker 1: should not experience death. He could not be found because
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  Speaker 1: God had taken him away. For before he was taken,
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  Speaker 1: he was commended as one who pleased God. Anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here want to please God? If you want to please God,
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  Speaker 1: make some noise. Come on, make some noise. Type it
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  Speaker 1: on the line. I want to please God. I wanna
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  Speaker 1: please God. I wanna please God. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I wanna please God. I wanna please God. I wanna
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  Speaker 1: please God. I wanna please God. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I wanna please God. That's why I love that song
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  Speaker 1: y'all sing, take it out of me. If it's not
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  Speaker 1: pleasing to you, Lord, take it out of me. I
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  Speaker 1: want to please God. I haven't always pleased God. I
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  Speaker 1: have disappointed him. I have let him down, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to please God. You have to have the desire
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  Speaker 1: to please God. He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness
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  Speaker 1: shall be filled.
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  Speaker 3: Not he that is righteous.
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  Speaker 1: He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled.
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  Speaker 1: You have to warn it. How many people want to
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  Speaker 1: please God? Hebrews 11, 6 says, and without faith it
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  Speaker 1: is impossible. It is impossible to please God. Without faith,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you give. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: talented you are. I don't care how you can preach.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how important you are to your church.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how big the check is, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said, oh my God, I better quit. I
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  Speaker 1: feel somebody almost change over to that other voice. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible said, without faith, it is impossible to please God
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  Speaker 1: because anyone who comes to him must believe. Believe that
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  Speaker 1: He is, that He exists, and that He rewards those
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  Speaker 1: who earnestly, earnestly from your heart seek Him. Seek Him.
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  Speaker 1: I came here to seek Him. I live my life
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  Speaker 1: to seek Him. I haven't mastered God. I am in
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of God. I haven't searched him fully. His thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are above my thoughts. His ways are above my way.
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  Speaker 1: But I came to seek him. The Bible says, seek
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  Speaker 1: and ye shall find. Ask and it shall be given.
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  Speaker 1: Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Are
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: there any God seekers left? I see the crowd seekers.
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  Speaker 1: I see the stage seekers. I see the money seekers.
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  Speaker 1: But are there any God seekers left in the church today?
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  Speaker 1: I can't find God seekers. I can't find people that
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  Speaker 1: lay out on their face and say all I want
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  Speaker 1: is you. You have to earnestly seek.
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  Speaker 2: After him.
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  Speaker 1: Can I.
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  Speaker 2: Go a little bit further? Now, all of that's my setup.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know whether to go any further.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody just shout, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: The more we start talking about this, doubt is being
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  Speaker 1: pushed out of the room. It's being pushed out of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: your mind. It's being pushed out of your spirit. It's
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  Speaker 1: being pushed out of your behavior. I believe, say it again.
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  Speaker 1: If God raised Lazarus from the dead just to get
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  Speaker 1: people to believe, if God prophesied his own resurrection so
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  Speaker 1: that when we saw it, we might believe, then God
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  Speaker 1: has been working overtime trying to get your mind together.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to get your belief system together. God wants
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to get your head on straight. God wants to get
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  Speaker 1: you away from shouting and yelling. and worrying, and dancing,
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  Speaker 1: and being upset. God wants to get you over coming
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  Speaker 1: to church and getting drunk because you can't deal with life.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to get your mind back to the place
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  Speaker 1: that it ought to be. Somebody throw your hand up
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  Speaker 1: and say, I believe. I'm a believer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a believer.
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  Speaker 1: When you walk in the room, faith ought to walk
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  Speaker 1: in the room. When you come in the hospital, faith
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  Speaker 1: ought to come in the hospital. When you come into
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  Speaker 1: the office, faith ought to come into the office. You
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  Speaker 1: are a believer. That's your contribution. That's what you had.
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  Speaker 3: I believe, God. My eyes haven't seen.
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  Speaker 1: My ears haven't heard, neither have entered into the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man what God has in store for me, but
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  Speaker 1: it has been revealed unto me by his Spirit. The
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  Speaker 1: Spirit not only convicts me, the Spirit convinces me. The
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  Speaker 1: Spirit informs me what's mine. The Spirit informs me what's possible.
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  Speaker 1: How do you receive it?
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  Speaker 2: Believe it.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot receive what you don't believe. The preachers don't
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  Speaker 1: tell you this. They just say, sow it and you'll
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  Speaker 1: reap it. Not if you don't believe it. You can
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  Speaker 1: sow all day long, but if you don't have the
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  Speaker 1: belief system to go along with the action, you'll never
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  Speaker 1: reap any higher than what you believe. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in a harvest, You're not going to get a harvest.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you don't feel worthy of the harvest. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you self-sabotage the harvest. Some of you do things
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  Speaker 1: to annihilate the harvest. And though your actions are saying
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  Speaker 1: one thing, your belief system is saying another. And you're saying,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: why doesn't this work? Because without faith, it's impossible to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: get this thing to work. If you're going to work it,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to work it by faith. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and tell them, it'll work if you
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  Speaker 1: work it. I'm so sick of these mansy pansy Christians
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: talking about, I tried it.
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  Speaker 3: And it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: I tried it and it didn't work. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: stop church and it didn't work. I tried to get
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  Speaker 1: out of debt and it didn't work. And it'll work
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  Speaker 1: if you work it. It won't work while you sit
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  Speaker 1: on your behind. It won't work while you sit up
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  Speaker 1: and watch soap operas. It won't work while you sit
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  Speaker 1: up and play with your teeth. Your face looks better
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  Speaker 1: than your head. Your makeup is perfect, but your mind
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  Speaker 1: is crazy. It'll work if you work it. Oops.
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  Speaker 4: Whoo.
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  Speaker 1: Every time the enemy attacks you, he's attacking your belief system,
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  Speaker 1: what you value, what's important to you.
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  Speaker 2: Now to the book of Romans.
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  Speaker 1: The impact of Paul coming to Rome cannot be overemphasized.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to take 45 minutes. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: quit at 9 o'clock, but I'm finished and I'll just stop.
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  Speaker 1: But I built my church off of Wednesday night Bible class.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I said I built my church off of Wednesday night
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  Speaker 1: Bible class. I never did build my church off of
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. I built my church off of Wednesday night
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  Speaker 1: Bible class. The impact that Paul has on Rome is
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  Speaker 1: beyond anything that I can really articulate. And though it
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  Speaker 1: is doubtful that he is the founder of the faith
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  Speaker 1: in Rome, he does extensive work there. to shape its
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  Speaker 1: impact on what was rapidly becoming its new base for
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Christianity as Jerusalem had began to wither as the epicenter
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  Speaker 1: of Christian thought. Jerusalem began to wither because Jerusalem had
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  Speaker 1: been cursed when Jesus stood on the Mount of Olives and.
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  Speaker 3: Cried over Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: There's only two times in the Greek that it uses
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  Speaker 1: this type of word to say, cry with a loud voice.
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have
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  Speaker 1: gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks, but ye
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  Speaker 1: would not. Behold, your house shall be left desolate and
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  Speaker 1: like the fig tree, He spoke it and by the
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  Speaker 1: time they came back, the fig tree had withered, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke it and Jerusalem ceased to be the epicenter of Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: Little by little, it moved toward Rome. Am I helping anybody? Now,
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  Speaker 1: Rome was the most politically endowed city of its era.
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  Speaker 1: It was the place of innovation and creativity.
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  Speaker 3: It was booming.
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  Speaker 1: It was teeming with ideas. It was colonizing new territories.
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  Speaker 1: It was taking over new lands. According to Arrhenius, a
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  Speaker 1: second century church father, the church at Rome was founded
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  Speaker 1: directly by the apostle Peter and John, Peter and Paul,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. However, many modern scholars disagree with Arrhenius, holding
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  Speaker 1: that while little is known of the circumstances of the
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  Speaker 1: church's founding, it was not founded by Paul. It was,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, strengthened by Paul and claims its authorship more
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  Speaker 1: likely to be Peter. Hence, the Roman Catholic Church establishes
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  Speaker 1: Peter as their first pope. Paul coming to Rome has
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of implications. He's coming into an epicenter of
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  Speaker 1: political thought and creativity and ideology, multiplicities of religions and ideas,
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  Speaker 1: and a city that though it was Roman, it also
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  Speaker 1: had A lot of Jews with a lot of different
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: sects of Judaism coexisting in any city like we do
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, like you do in Memphis, like you do
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  Speaker 1: in New York, like you do in Paris. Not everybody
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  Speaker 1: in every city has the same idea. Adam Clark says
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  Speaker 1: many of the brethren went out to meet Paul on
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  Speaker 1: his approach to Rome. That one phrase there suggests it
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  Speaker 1: didn't start with Paul. If many brethren came out to
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  Speaker 1: meet him, that there was a church there when he
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  Speaker 1: got there. There is evidence that Christianity and Christian people
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  Speaker 1: were in Rome in considerable numbers, considerable numbers, and probably
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  Speaker 1: had more than one place of meeting when Paul first came.
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  Speaker 1: The occasion of writing the epistle, Paul wrote, had made
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  Speaker 1: acquaintances with all circumstances. All types of people, of the
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  Speaker 1: Christians in Rome. There were Christians in Rome that had
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  Speaker 1: Jewish descent. There were Christians in Rome that were Greek.
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  Speaker 1: There were Christians in Rome that were Gentile. There were
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Christians in Rome that were not. They were all at Rome.
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  Speaker 1: And any finding that it was... Partly of heathens being
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  Speaker 1: converted to Christianity and partly of Jews who had with
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  Speaker 1: many remaining prejudiced ideas. They were converted but they had
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  Speaker 1: many prejudiced ideas believing in Jesus as the true Messiah
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  Speaker 1: and that many contentions arose from the claims of the
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  Speaker 1: Gentiles to equality. They did not believe that the Gentiles
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  Speaker 1: could have an equal standing because the Gentiles had been idolatrous,
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  Speaker 1: they had participated in orgies, they had had a filthy past,
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  Speaker 1: and the idea that they could just believe on Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and be equal with people who were steeped in religious
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  Speaker 1: tradition and ideology was a tough pill for the Jews
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  Speaker 1: of that era to swallow. Their refusal to admit these claims,
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  Speaker 1: unless the Gentile converted, became circumcised, became more and more pronounced.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: They wanted the Gentiles to act like them. So many
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: people attempt to evangelize people and they don't just bring
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: their Christ, they bring their culture. Oh, that's so good.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: So I want your Jesus, but I don't want your culture.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me that the only way to be a
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  Speaker 1: Christian is to act like you because just because you
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  Speaker 1: have that culture doesn't mean that I have to have
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: that culture. Let's separate your culture from your Christ. Oh,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: y'all not hearing me. That's more profound than you think.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: He wrote this epistle to adjust and settle these differences.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: In other words, when you think of Paul, he's almost
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: an abolitionist. He's trying to free the New Testament church
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  Speaker 1: from the religious dogma of Judaism and the legalism that
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: required more out of them than what they were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to have. He is fighting to abolish myths and ideas
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: that cohabitate with Christianity and thereby pollute Christianity. He is
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: trying to teach them, like he said in Galatians, there
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: is neither male nor female, Greek nor Jew, bond nor free,
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  Speaker 1: but that we're all one in Christ Jesus. And even today,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: there's a spirit of separation that exists in the church
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  Speaker 1: that does not acknowledge women as having equal footing as men,
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  Speaker 1: that God can't speak through a woman, that God can't
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  Speaker 1: use a woman. I got news for you. If a
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: woman can sing the gospel, she can preach the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: What is the difference?
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh, let me stop fighting.
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  Speaker 1: What is the difference between letting them sing and teach
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  Speaker 1: Sunday school and then I steal the word whether I
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  Speaker 1: say it in the choir stand or I say it
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  Speaker 1: on the floor? But it's just male egotism that does
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  Speaker 1: not accept the fact that the same spirit that quickens
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  Speaker 1: a man quickens a woman the same spirit that quickens
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  Speaker 1: a white man quickens a black man the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: that quickens a Republican can quicken a Democrat but we
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: separate and Paul is trying to bring them back he's
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: fighting for equality he's fighting for equal rights He's fighting
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  Speaker 1: for oneness. He's fighting for unity. He's struggling for that
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: equality because he vacillates between addressing in the book of
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Romans both the Jews and the Jewish believers and the Gentiles,
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  Speaker 1: ultimately bringing them both in need of the same radical allocation.
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  Speaker 2: Of faith.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you got religious traditions, you've had religious traditions
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  Speaker 1: for years, but the door is not your washings, your ceremonies,
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  Speaker 1: or your cleansings, you still have to believe God. You
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: still have to believe God. You won't be saved through
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: your feasts. You won't be saved through unleavened bread. You
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: won't be saved through your feasts. The door is believing.
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  Speaker 1: She comes to the Gentile and said, you should have
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: seen God in nature. You failed to acknowledge God in nature.
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  Speaker 1: You've become unnatural and lost natural affection. You've gone into
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: all kind of lust and depravity and perversion. wickedness he
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  Speaker 1: said but the same door that exists for the religious
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: man exists for the whoreish man they both have to
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: be brought down to the same humility of saying if
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  Speaker 1: you don't believe God you cannot see the glory of
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: God this is a radical father of faith the believer
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: that he's teaching us here somebody say I'm a believer
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  Speaker 1: That's all it takes for me to be anointed. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care whether I come from Judea or Samaria. I
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: don't care whether I come in a box like a
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: man or a box like a woman. It is not
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: my box that God wants to deal with. It's my content.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: God wants to fill my heart with his power and
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: with his anointing. Y'all ain't going to say nothing, but
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I don't even care. We've got to have some freedom
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: in this place and begin to understand if God can
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: use an ass, he can use a woman. So Paul
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: is trying to bring unity amongst all of this division.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: And it is like the Swedish Alps of the Epistle.
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  Speaker 1: It is his longest writing. It is his most eloquent position.
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  Speaker 1: It is his greatest and most complex document that we
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: are ascribed to the apostle Paul is the book of Romans.
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  Speaker 1: It is him writing to the city that he is
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  Speaker 1: a citizen of. While Paul is a Jew, he is
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  Speaker 1: a citizen of Rome. He writes to Rome from a
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: different perspective because he belongs there. Do you hear what
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? And he comes in there to bring them
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: down to one level. You must come in at the door.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: You remember that old song? You may be high, you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: may be low, you may be rich, you may be poor.
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  Speaker 1: When it's all settled, you still got to come in
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  Speaker 1: through the door. There's still one door. There's still one Lord.
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  Speaker 1: There's still one faith. There's still one baptism. There's one
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  Speaker 1: way for you to get in. Ain't no special door.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I was down in South Africa looking at the apartheid
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: museum and they had a door for the colored folks
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and a door for the black folks and a door
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: for white folks. God don't have no three doors. Jesus said,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I am the door. There's only one door for anybody
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: to come in. I don't care what color you are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what language you speak. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what country you came from. I don't care what your
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: gender is.
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  Speaker 2: There's only one door.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: God's not going to create a separate water fountain because
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: you're a woman. It is the spirit of division. I'm
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: all for discourse, but division is satanic. To divide the
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: church is to weaken the church. To deny us of
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the bright potential that exists in our sisters as well
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: as our brothers is to weaken the fabric of the
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: church itself. There are women who are finding cures to
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: diseases and finding cures to all types of toxicity. We
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: need that mind. At a time like this, we need
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: every soldier. We need every soldier. We need every soldier.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I want every thinking, believing person in this room to
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: clap your hands and let God know you're available. I
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: don't care what you did in your past. I don't
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: care what your religious tradition is. Away with your tradition.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: God is trying to bring us down into one place.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: One idea. One perspective.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Shout it, I'm a believer.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Understanding that is simply to know that believing matters. Believing matters.
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  Speaker 1: Not your dogma. Not your tradition.
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  Speaker 2: I come from five generations of AME. I don't care.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: My great-great-grandmama started the apostolic church. I don't care. I've
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: been Church of God in Christ all my life. I
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Why are we so strung up over all.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: These organizations that are less than 100 years old? You
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: serve a Jesus that's 2,000 years. What happened to the
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: other 1,900 years? Was there no expression of God before
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: your denomination? Some of them are 100, 200, 250 years old.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Some of them may even be 300 years old. What
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: happened to the other 1700 years? Has God ever left
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: himself without a witness? Before your founder founded your movement,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: there was still God. Before his mama was pregnant, before
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: she was ever born. Oh, I got to quit. I've
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: got to get started. God is still God. He's bigger
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: than your bishop. He's bigger than your denomination. He's bigger
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: than your church creed. He's bigger than your ideas. God
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: will not be enslaved. and trapped behind a religious philosophy.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: God is still God. He's sovereign. He's absolute. He's mighty.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: He's God all by himself. He sits high. He looks low.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: He has all power in his hand. God is God,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and you believe in anything else, you're not a believer.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: You might shout like it, you might dance like it,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: you might.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Sing like it, but you are not it.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: When the real thing comes, then every phony thing is
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: going to have to back up and get out of
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: Say you believe him, you.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Are going to hell. Throw your hands up and shout,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer. You don't just believe on Sunday. You
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: don't just believe for a couple of hours. This is
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: bigger than church. This is bigger than Wednesday night Bible class.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer. In the hospital, I'm a believer. Broke,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer. In a bread line, I'm a believer.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: On food stamps, I'm a believer. With no car, I'm
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: a believer. coming to get to church. I used a
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: thumb to get to my church. I was still a believer.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer when I'm up. I'm a believer when
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I'm down. My faith is steady. My life is crazy,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: but my faith is steady. My conditions are wild. My
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: position is secure. I'm seated together in heavenly places in
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. And though he slay me, yet shall I
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: trust him. Some trust in horses, some trust in chariots,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: but I will remember the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: For the name of the Lord is.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: A strong power where the righteous run their end. I
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: want every believer to take a praise break and give
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: your God some praise.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: I believe it. I believe it.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: See, we got too many church folk that's been raised
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: on junk food. Five ways to be blessed.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: Three ways to get a car. Twelve ways to.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Get a house.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Get off of this junk food and get back on
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the word of God because the devil is fighting you
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: and you got to have some word down inside of
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: you that says, I still believe. If you take my house,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: I still believe. If you take my car, I still believe.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Knock me down to my knees, and I still believe. Broke, busted,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: and disgusted, and I still believe. What you believe matters.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: Praise him.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Until demons tremble. Pray them until tumors shrink. Pray them
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: until lame men get up. Pray them until dead people
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: start walking. Pray them until somebody's lungs are up. Pray
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: them until hell gets frustrated. Pray them until witches are slain.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Pray them until curses are broken. You know what that
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: is in this room right now? That's the Holy Ghost
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: bearing witness to the truth. You can't get God to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: anoint a lie. But if you preach the truth, the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: truth will make its own gravy.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: The truth will bring its own anointing.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: The truth will produce its own glory.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: I don't need no tricks. I don't need no scams.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: All I need... Thank you. Y'all better come get this.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Y'all better come get this because I'm about to mess
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: this up. It's about to be messed up in here.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: It's about to be all jacked up in here because
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost up in
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: here right now. I feel the power of God adjusting
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: somebody's belief system. I feel the power of God reminding
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you that you are not your circumstance. You are not
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: your bank account. You are not your emotions. You are
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: not your feeling. The just shall live by The judge
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: shall live by, the judge shall live by. Praise him,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I feel somebody's body getting healed. Praise him right now.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Praise him right now. Praise him right now. I feel
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: somebody's mind being lifted.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Praise him right now. Praise Him right now.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: There's been a demon of oppression that's been on you
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: all week, but I feel it breaking right now in
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. I wish I had somebody that
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: knew how to really praise God. I wish you'd stop
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: being cute and open your mouth and praise God like
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: a blood-washed believer. I dare you. I dare you! Defy
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the devil! Defy the devil! Defy the devil!
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: I defy you! I defy you! I defy you!
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: Holler at somebody and tell them believing matters.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: You can't fight the kind of devil you're fighting and
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: fight him in your emotions and fight him in your feelings.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: You will have to fight by faith. How about somebody
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: else and say believing matters. Believing will heal you. Believing
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: will restore you. Believing will revive you. Believing will unite you.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Believing will strengthen you. Believing will strengthen you. Believing will
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: strengthen you. I feel the strength of the Almighty God
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: rising up in this place. You don't need a lover.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: You don't need a husband. You don't need a boyfriend.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: You already got a man. His name is Jesus. He
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: is a rock.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: He is a lily. He is a rose.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: He is a morning star.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Shout yes!
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Yes! What Paul came to do by letter and by
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: word and by ministry and by his life was to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: change the belief system that was causing so much confusion.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: It was causing so much confusion because the Roman church
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: didn't have his head on straight. And he comes, truth
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: always comes to get your head together. To adjust your
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: belief system. I'm going to stop right there. I'm going
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: to pick it up next Wednesday night. I knew I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: was gonna make it through it. I knew I was
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: gonna make it through it. Because God is after your
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: belief system. The way you process. The way you process.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: What you're standing on has got too much emotion in it.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Contaminated by too much flesh. too much flesh, and for
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: the kind of assault that has come against the church
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: right now. We don't need church members. We need believers.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: We need believers. We need prayer warriors and intercessors and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: people laying on their face and moaning and groaning in
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost and prevailing in the spirit.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: I know it's old fashioned.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: You go ahead and keep up with the culture with
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: your cute self. But I'm worried about the glory of
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: God falling back in a place to come against hell's forces.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: Arsenals of demons have been released in the earth like
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: we have never seen before. at a time that the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: church is trying to be cute and hip and edgy.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: We need some prayer war yourself. We need some glory.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: We need some old-fashioned, rock-cut, supernatural anointing. Away with this flesh!
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: That's what defines us. We have emotions just like anybody else.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: We have feelings just like anybody else. They vacillate just
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: like anybody else. We move past our soulish man down
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: to our.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Spirit man and we believe God.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: I admit sometimes I have to crawl to get there
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to cry to get there. Sometimes I
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: need a few days to get there. Sometimes I have
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: to feel after it and grope after it and try
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: to get my hand on it. Like Samson trying to
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: get his hand on the pillow. But once I get
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: my hand on the pillow, I will bring the whole
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: place down. Not because of my strength, but because of His.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Because believing matters. What has been fighting you? What have
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: you been trying to handle by yourself? What have you
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: been struggling in your emotions about? Maybe God is trying
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about your belief system. You're watching
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: online right now, the Holy Ghost is talking to you.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: For where you are right now, you need to change
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: your belief system. God is about to promote you into
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  Speaker 1: an area that you cannot enter with your old belief system.
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  Speaker 3: You need to.
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  Speaker 1: Shed it like a snake coming out of skin. Like
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  Speaker 1: a butterfly coming out of a cocoon. There has to
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  Speaker 1: be a transformative moment where you refuse to be conformed.
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  Speaker 1: And instead are transformed. How am I going to do that?
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  Speaker 1: By the renewing of your mind. Lift your hands and
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  Speaker 1: talk to your daddy. All over the world. In front
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  Speaker 1: of your computer. Lift your hands and talk to your daddy.
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  Speaker 1: You don't talk to your daddy. Jacob, you've been talking
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  Speaker 1: to your mama. You ain't been talking to your daddy.
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  Speaker 1: You've been depending on your own devices, your schemes and
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  Speaker 1: your tricks. Talk to your daddy. Open your mouth. Be
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  Speaker 1: honest with him. Be honest with him. I've been lost.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the hall pen. I spent your money
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  Speaker 1: in righteous living and some of this debt I brought
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  Speaker 1: it on myself. I tried to buy love from my
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  Speaker 1: friends and they all forsook me. And I'm muddy and
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  Speaker 1: I smell like slop. But I heard that word and
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  Speaker 1: I came to myself. Daddy, if you let me back,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming home. I'm coming home in my head. I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming home in my thinking. I'm coming home in my
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  Speaker 1: belief system. How many servants in my father's house have
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  Speaker 1: bread enough and despair, and yet I perish? I'm not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be perishing. I came to myself and remembered
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  Speaker 1: who I am. I am who God says I am.
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  Speaker 1: I can do what God says I can do. I
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  Speaker 1: can have what God says I can have. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: your daddy. You talk to everybody else but the one
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  Speaker 1: who can change a thing. Because of the intensity of
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  Speaker 1: the struggle, you have a glory to God. You need
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  Speaker 1: to draw closer to him than you've ever been before.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are on the verge of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: elevation of your life. But your belief system always sabotages
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  Speaker 1: you and brings you down like gravity pulling you back
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  Speaker 1: to the same spot. And I break the gravitational pull
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  Speaker 1: that's been on your life that keeps dragging you back
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  Speaker 1: to the same spot and the same kind of people
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  Speaker 1: and the same kind of thinking and the same kind
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  Speaker 1: of ideas. And God has given you enough velocity to
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  Speaker 1: spread your wings like an eagle and soar. And it's
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  Speaker 1: time for you to come out of that chicken coop.
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  Speaker 1: You are not one of them. Can't you see you
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  Speaker 1: are not one of them? You are not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: You are not one of them. Now, you're not one
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  Speaker 1: of them. They come over your house, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: one of them. You slept with them, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Repent.
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  Speaker 1: Come to yourself. You ate with them, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: one of them. You work with them, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: one of them. You're a child of the King. I
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  Speaker 1: want to pray for you right now. I want to
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  Speaker 1: pray because believing matters. And we are in an hour
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  Speaker 1: where the devil doesn't want us to believe nothing. We
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  Speaker 1: fight about everything. Vaccines, masks, where we sit, where we stand,
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  Speaker 1: what we teach, anything we can find to fight about.
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  Speaker 1: We fight because the spirit of the witchcraft. Shandekeshadabakha. has
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  Speaker 1: become so prevalent that you'd rather die than admit you
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. You'd rather die and drown in your own
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  Speaker 1: fluids than to humble yourself and change your opinion. You'd
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  Speaker 1: rather die lonely and drive all your children away from you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you know you're gonna grow old? You're more childish
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  Speaker 1: than your children. Humble yourself. Change your belief system.
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  Speaker 2: Go home. Go home.
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  Speaker 3: Say I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no more worthy to be called thy son or
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  Speaker 1: thy husband or thy wife or thy worker. Make me
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  Speaker 1: a hired servant. Humble yourself. And watch him kill the
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  Speaker 1: fatted calf. Put a robe on your shoulders. Put a
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  Speaker 1: ring on your finger. He's got something for you. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: in here that knows you need your belief system strengthened,
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  Speaker 1: come to this altar as we prepare to close. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to close praying for you. You online, you can't
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  Speaker 1: come to this altar, but you can receive this prayer.
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  Speaker 1: You're not one of them. You work with them, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not one. I need a better belief system. I
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  Speaker 1: need to be rooted and grounded. I need to be
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  Speaker 1: instructed in the word, not my feelings. My flesh is
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  Speaker 1: out of control. My emotions are out of control. My
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are all over the place. Somebody's been fighting the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of suicide. I feel the spirit of suicide. I
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  Speaker 1: feel the spirit of suicide. I feel the spirit of suicide.
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  Speaker 1: And you call yourself a Christian and you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: take your own life. You need to change your belief system.
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  Speaker 1: I curse that spirit at the root. And I command
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  Speaker 1: it to dry up and get out of your mind
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  Speaker 1: and out of your thoughts and out of your life
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  Speaker 1: and out of your spirit. You shall not die but
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  Speaker 1: live and declare the works of the Lord. You have
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  Speaker 1: not seen your best day yet. You have not sung
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  Speaker 1: your greatest song. You have not seen your greatest miracle.
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  Speaker 1: And that demon that tells you you'll never be happy
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  Speaker 1: and you'll never smile again and you'll never have joy,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lying spirit.
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  Speaker 3: From the pit. And I curse it and send it
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  Speaker 3: back where.
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  Speaker 2: It came from.
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  Speaker 1: Sing that again. God's doing some adjusting. Receive it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 3: He loves you.
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  Speaker 2: He died for you on the cross. On the cross.
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  Speaker 3: On the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Better.
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  Speaker 3: You're not supposed to perish. they shall have ever life.
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  Speaker 1: Father God, we've heard your cry. and it has resonated
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  Speaker 1: in us and I speak to every poisoned belief system
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  Speaker 1: contaminated by abuse and bondage contaminated by self-hatred and dread
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  Speaker 1: and doubt contaminated by satanic attack and depression contaminated by
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  Speaker 1: grief Contaminated by low self-esteem. Contaminated by pride and arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: Contaminated by loathing.
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  Speaker 2: And harshness and secrets.
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  Speaker 1: You are as sick as your secrets. And right now
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. I decree and declare.
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  Speaker 2: There will be change. There will be change not just
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  Speaker 2: while I'm here, not just while she's singing.
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  Speaker 1: There will be change in your car. There will be
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  Speaker 1: change in your house. There will be change in your kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: There will be change in your house, in your life,
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  Speaker 1: in your bedroom, in your thinking, in your private time.
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  Speaker 1: that God is drawing you back to the Father's house,
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  Speaker 1: back to the fullness of joy, back to the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God, back to the core values that he called
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  Speaker 1: us to, that he.
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  Speaker 3: Died for us to have.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, let the transforming power of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: start a transformation in us that gets in the car
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  Speaker 1: and gets in the house and gets in our perspectives
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  Speaker 1: We're worried about stuff, God, that only you can handle.
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  Speaker 1: We cast our cares on you. This stuff is too
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  Speaker 1: heavy for us. It's too much for us. It's too
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  Speaker 1: complicated for us. It's too complex for us. We can't
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  Speaker 1: fix everything and everybody and control everybody's choices.
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  Speaker 3: We surrender to you. Let God be God.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. And his enemies be scattered.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord. I'm through taking charge of stuff I'm not
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  Speaker 1: in charge of. I'm through taking responsibility for things I'm
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  Speaker 1: not responsible for. I'm through trying to fix stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I can't fix. I turn it over to you. Give
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  Speaker 1: me my peace back. Give me my peace. I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: my peace back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hanging up.
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  Speaker 1: On anybody that tries to disturb my peace. I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: my peace back. so that I can have a guard
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  Speaker 1: for my heart and for my mind. Fathers, we come
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  Speaker 1: to the end of this Bible class. The Word has
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  Speaker 1: been profitable to us. The Word has been helpful to us.
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  Speaker 1: The Word has been healing to us. The Word has
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  Speaker 1: strengthened us. The Word has invigorated us. The Word has
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  Speaker 1: corrected us. The Word has rebuked us. The Word has
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  Speaker 1: revived us, and we're glad about it. Keep on talking
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  Speaker 1: to me, Jesus. Keep on talking to me, Jesus. I
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  Speaker 1: might be a hard case, but keep on talking to me.
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  Speaker 1: Till you break me down, till you fix me, till
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  Speaker 1: you regulate me, keep on talking to me. I'm online,
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  Speaker 1: but keep on talking to me. I'm at work, but
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  Speaker 1: keep on talking to me. I'm in my house, but
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  Speaker 1: don't give up on me. I've been praying about my behavior.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know to pray about my belief system. If
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  Speaker 1: my belief system is broken, my behavior will always be dysfunctional.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for putting hope within my reach. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: make it so high that I'm not smart enough to
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  Speaker 1: grab it. You didn't make it beyond my scope, my reach.
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  Speaker 1: I can believe. I can believe. Children believe. I can believe. Shandar,
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  Speaker 1: that peace is coming into my heart right now. I
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  Speaker 1: can believe. That contentment is coming.
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  Speaker 2: Into my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I can believe that I am your son. If my
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  Speaker 1: daddy don't know me. If my mama don't like me.
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  Speaker 1: If they don't recognize me. If they found me in
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  Speaker 1: a dumpster. I found my daddy. God, you're my father.
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  Speaker 1: And I cry to you right now.
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  Speaker 2: Abba.
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  Speaker 3: Abba, Abba, Abba. Pick me up, Daddy. Pick me up, Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm yours right now. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Give Him the best praise you got. The best praise
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  Speaker 2: you got.