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T.D. Jakes God Has Given You What You Need to Overcome! Full Sermons on TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Are you being offered what you already got? Are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a peace that you already possess? The
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  Speaker 1: real star of the story with the two fish and
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  Speaker 1: the five loaves of bread is the hunger that moved
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. When they came to Jesus and they said,
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  Speaker 1: the people that are with you are hungry. He said,
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  Speaker 1: oh good, that's capacity. Wherever I see capacity, I will
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  Speaker 1: release a plot. Then was Jesus led up to, of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted.
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  Speaker 2: Of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that. The spirit led him to be tempted of
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  Speaker 1: the devil. The demons didn't do it. The enemies didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. The haters didn't do it. The Holy Ghost did.
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  Speaker 1: led him into a place of temptation of the devil
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say the wilderness. And when he had.
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  Speaker 1: Fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward and hungry.
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  Speaker 1: And when the tempter came to him, he said, if
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  Speaker 1: thou be the son of God, command that these stones.
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  Speaker 2: Be made bread.
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  Speaker 1: But he answered and said, it is written, man shall
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  Speaker 1: not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil
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  Speaker 1: taketh him up into a holy city, and setteth him
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  Speaker 1: on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him,
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  Speaker 1: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down,
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  Speaker 1: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge
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  Speaker 1: concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
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  Speaker 1: lest at any time.
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  Speaker 2: Thou shouldst pass thy foot against a stone.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said unto him, it is written again, thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: not tempt the Lord thy God again. The devil taketh
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  Speaker 1: him up into an exceeding high mountain to show them
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  Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of
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  Speaker 1: them and say unto him, all these things. Will I
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  Speaker 1: give thee? I'll give it to you. I'll give it
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  Speaker 1: to you. You can't give me. I'll give it to you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you can't give. I'll give it to you. You
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  Speaker 2: can't give me. I'll give it. All these things will
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  Speaker 2: I give.
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  Speaker 1: If thou shalt fall down and worship me, then saith
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  Speaker 1: Jesus unto him, Get thee.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of my face, devil.
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  Speaker 1: For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
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  Speaker 1: and him only shalt thou serve.
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  Speaker 2: Then the devil scampered on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Behold, the angels came and ministered unto him. You may
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  Speaker 1: be seated in the presence of the Lord. You can't
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  Speaker 1: give me what's already mine. I want to spend a
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  Speaker 1: little time on this text because I think this text
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  Speaker 1: is quite profound. It is profound in several ways that
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  Speaker 1: are quite notable. And preceding the text, Jesus has reappeared
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  Speaker 1: after 18 years of obscurity. We know nothing about the
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  Speaker 1: life of Jesus from the age of 12 to the
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  Speaker 1: age of 30. 18 years of total obscurity that are
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  Speaker 1: not shared with us in the text. At 30 years old,
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  Speaker 1: the young man comes down to the Jordan River. and
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  Speaker 1: runs into the premier prelate preacher of his day, John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist, baptizing in the Jordan. Nobody knew who Jesus was.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when people don't know who you are, they
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  Speaker 1: run over the top of you trying to get to
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  Speaker 1: who they do know. Jesus was just a face in
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. And while John was baptizing in the Jordan River,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he looked out and saw him and said, behold,
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God has taken away the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And in one flash, he went from obscurity
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  Speaker 1: to notoriety.
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  Speaker 2: One flash.
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  Speaker 1: That's the amazing thing about life. One thing can happen
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  Speaker 1: and turn everything around. That's why y'all never commit suicide
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  Speaker 1: because one thing can turn the whole thing around. One thing.
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  Speaker 1: One phone call. I don't care how bad it is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you're going through right now. Just
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  Speaker 1: one thing can turn everything around. John was baptized and
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  Speaker 1: looked up and glanced and saw himself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at there.
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  Speaker 1: There's the Lamb of God taking away the sin of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And he went, where, where, where, where, where, where?
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  Speaker 1: And God will make somebody point you out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll make somebody point you out. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden the crowds parted and Jesus stepped from obscurity
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  Speaker 1: to notoriety. To step right into his destiny. Step right
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  Speaker 1: into his purpose. Step right into it. And came down
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  Speaker 1: to the River Jordan. And there he was baptized in
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  Speaker 1: the River Jordan. And then the Holy, then the Father
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  Speaker 1: collaborated and coordinated. and defined who he was in an
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  Speaker 1: even greater way than John could. For the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: the heavens rolled back and the Father spoke from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: This is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River. The heavens rolled back,
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  Speaker 1: the Father affirms him, the Holy Spirit descends like a dove.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a great moment, great moment, awesome moment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I've seen some dedication service and
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  Speaker 1: consecration service, some coordination services, but never were the heavens
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  Speaker 1: rolled back. And the Father spoke from heaven. That kind
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  Speaker 1: of shuts everybody's mouth. When the heavens roll back and
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  Speaker 1: the Father speaks from heaven and say, hear ye him?
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  Speaker 1: It makes you stick your chest out and say, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. He talked about me. It's a great moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great moment. And then.
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  Speaker 1: The oxymoron of the moment is that after a magnanimous moment,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit leads him. You would think Maybe to the
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  Speaker 1: temple to preach, to the synagogue for a coronation. You
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  Speaker 1: would think it would lead him to Caesar's Palace or
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  Speaker 1: something to celebrate for a luncheon.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Leads him into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: I could stay there all night. Spirit leading me to wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that something? That I can be in God's will,
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  Speaker 1: and God's will can be, God's will can be in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. God's will in the wilderness. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: time people get in the wilderness, they say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how in the world could I get in the wilderness?
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  Speaker 2: The devil did this. No, the devil didn't do this.
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  Speaker 2: The Spirit did.
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  Speaker 1: Led him into the wilderness. The will of God led
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  Speaker 1: him into the wilderness. Anytime God's will leads you into
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  Speaker 1: a wilderness, it is for a divine purpose. It is
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  Speaker 1: for a divine purpose. And he brought him out there
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  Speaker 1: to be tempted of the devil. And this temptation, let's
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  Speaker 1: use the word test, this test that he has in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness where he has a confrontation with Satan is
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  Speaker 1: quite powerful.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really get.
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  Speaker 1: It until I was touring Jerusalem, and I was invited
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem. I went on tour in Jerusalem, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was a guest of the King of Jordan. After
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  Speaker 1: King Hussein died, I was invited to go over to
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  Speaker 1: make a presentation to King Adulam, who was taken over
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  Speaker 1: the throne over in Jordan, and so I went from Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: which is in Israel, over into Jordan, which the relationships
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  Speaker 1: are strained. And our guide that went with us, he
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  Speaker 1: only went to the border and stopped. And at the border,
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  Speaker 1: there were all these M-16s. And I crossed on over
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  Speaker 1: to the other side, on the other side of the Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: on over into Jordan. And I was looking around at
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  Speaker 1: the scenery and my wife was looking at the M16s.
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  Speaker 1: I was all caught up in what happened in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible at this spot and what happened in the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: In that spot.
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  Speaker 1: And she didn't even crack her Bible. She was just
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  Speaker 1: looking at these big M16s everywhere. and noticing that our
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  Speaker 1: guide's face was getting smaller and smaller and smaller in
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  Speaker 1: the rear view mirror. But I was taken away because
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  Speaker 1: over as we crossed over, just not even a mile
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  Speaker 1: or so down the road, I looked over to the
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  Speaker 1: left and there's this huge mountain. And the driver told me,
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  Speaker 1: that's Mount Nebo. And I said, oh my God, I
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  Speaker 1: got to go up there. Mount Nebo?
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  Speaker 2: Get that close, my girl? The devil is alive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going up there so I can stand where Moses stood.
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  Speaker 1: I needed me a wooden staff so I could go
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  Speaker 1: up there and stand on Mount Nebo. And oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing. My wife didn't like it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. I don't know what's wrong with her.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for her. There I am on Mount Nebo.
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  Speaker 1: And when I got to Mount Nebo, you know, Mount
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  Speaker 1: Nebo is the place where Moses ended his journey. That's
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  Speaker 1: where everything came to conclusion and finality of Mount Nebo.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of where Moses had flunked the test, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he could see the promised land, but he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: go into the promised land, Mount Nebo. He could see it,
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  Speaker 1: but he couldn't go into it. That's a torturesome thing
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  Speaker 1: to see something you're forbidden to go into, to have
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  Speaker 1: more vision than you have permission. That's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrible thing. It's very frustrating to see it
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  Speaker 1: and not be it. Actually breaks the law because generally
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  Speaker 1: anything you can see, you can be. But God said,
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  Speaker 1: my punishment to you is I'm going to let you
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  Speaker 1: see it and not be it.
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  Speaker 2: All of that happened on Mount Nebo. But anyway, that's
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  Speaker 2: a distraction for me. I got carried away.
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  Speaker 1: But there I am on the top of Mount Nebo.
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  Speaker 1: And to my amazement, let me tell you what it
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  Speaker 1: looked like. Oh, up under the mountain, at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain, everything.
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  Speaker 2: Is parched and dry and sandy.
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  Speaker 1: And lifeless. And then the Jordan River is right over here.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the other side of the Jordan, everything
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  Speaker 1: is green and plush and beautiful. And I could understand
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  Speaker 1: for the first time what it was like for the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel to get after going through all of
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  Speaker 1: those miles of dry mouth parching terrain to finally come
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  Speaker 1: to something green.
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  Speaker 2: A land that flows with milk and honey.
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  Speaker 1: Where the grapes were so big that the giants guarded
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  Speaker 1: the grapes to be over, to come to that place.
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  Speaker 1: And there he was to see it. And all they
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  Speaker 1: had to do was cross the Jordan to get to it.
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  Speaker 1: But before they could cross the Jordan, there's this dry, barren, parched, scorched,
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  Speaker 1: lifeless place. And that place is the wilderness. It is
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness that Israel was coming out of. This is
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness that now Jesus is led into. It is
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  Speaker 1: this wilderness where Moses flunked the test. Yeah, Moses, the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament pastor. Moses introduces us to the first time
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  Speaker 1: the understanding Of the church in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 2: Is pastored by Moses. Ecclesia. Ecclesia. Called out. Ecclesia. Moses
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  Speaker 2: called out the children of Israel. Out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: He was the pastor of the Old Church. The Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament Church. And the pastor of the Old Testament Church.
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  Speaker 1: Was leading the children of Israel. From Egypt to the
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  Speaker 1: promised land. But the pastor flunked the test. At the
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  Speaker 1: last moment.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. It is here at this place where Moses flunks
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  Speaker 1: the test, just near to this place. He flunks the
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  Speaker 1: test because you remember how he smoked the rock the
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  Speaker 1: first time and the waters came out of the rock
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  Speaker 1: and the children of Israel drank it. He was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to smite it the first time. Because the rock had
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  Speaker 1: the type of Christ and for him to smite it
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  Speaker 1: the first time was an indication that he was wounded
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  Speaker 1: for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquity. The
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  Speaker 1: chastisement of my peace was upon him and with his
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  Speaker 1: stripes we are healed. That was the first lick. But
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  Speaker 1: when he smote it the second time, he shattered the
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  Speaker 1: type because he implied that Christ would be crucified afresh.
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  Speaker 1: which broke the typology, but also is a picture of
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  Speaker 1: an apostatized children of Israel who believed and then backed away.
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  Speaker 1: And Hebrews talks about if he'd be crucified afresh, for
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  Speaker 1: you have tasted once of the heavenly gift to draw
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  Speaker 1: back again. So Moses is smiting the second time. It's
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  Speaker 1: not only a picture of a backslidden Israel who once
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  Speaker 1: embraces Christ and then backs away and crucifies him again.
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  Speaker 1: It also shadows the typology. to say that the first
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  Speaker 1: strike was not enough. If I sat down right now,
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  Speaker 1: that's enough word.
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  Speaker 2: And so here he is, here he is.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is getting ready to bring the New Testament church into.
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  Speaker 2: Existence, but he has some old business. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: That has to be cleared up. And so the first
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  Speaker 1: agenda coming up out of the Jordan is the Spirit said,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta fix what Moses broke. You got to go
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  Speaker 1: to the place where the old pastor blew it and
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  Speaker 1: mend the tear to let the devil know that he
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  Speaker 1: has not gotten the victory.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fresh look an old text.
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  Speaker 1: Because all of a sudden we begin to understand why
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  Speaker 1: the prerequisite for Christ starting his ministry now begins with
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  Speaker 1: the point that he now stitches reconstructs redefines verifies validates
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  Speaker 1: and passes the test that Moses flunked so he goes
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  Speaker 1: into the wilderness and he fast y'all with me so
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  Speaker 1: far And the Bible says that he was led into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: say that he was led into the wilderness to fast.
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  Speaker 1: It said he was led into the wilderness to be
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  Speaker 1: tempted of the devil. But the Bible says that after
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  Speaker 1: he fasted for 40 days, so he's getting ready. He's
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  Speaker 1: getting ready. He said, this is a great showdown at
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  Speaker 1: the OK Corral. And I got to get ready. He
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  Speaker 1: fasts for 40 days. And after he fasted, he then
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  Speaker 1: being hungry, now Satan comes to tempt him. To tempt him.
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  Speaker 1: He's done that before. He's tempted the last pastor with frustration.
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  Speaker 1: And he's tempted the last pastor not only with frustration,
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  Speaker 1: but to use his power to to appease his frustration.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you miss that, you missed the whole night.
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  Speaker 2: The temptation with Moses.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Moses, you got that rod that's got all
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  Speaker 1: the power in it. The people have gotten on your nerves.
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  Speaker 1: Use your power to vent your frustration. Smite the rock.
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  Speaker 2: Bless my soul. Moses smoked the rock the.
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  Speaker 1: Second time and that stopped him from getting to the
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  Speaker 1: promised land. Here comes Jesus out into the wilderness and
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  Speaker 1: the first test he faced is about a rock. Tell somebody, say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to the rock again. Isn't it funny how
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  Speaker 1: God will bring you full circle and make you confront
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  Speaker 1: the very thing that you had to confront before? Face
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  Speaker 1: the place of your failure. He will bring you back
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  Speaker 1: to the rock again. I'm going to come down here
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  Speaker 1: and talk to y'all a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Is it okay?
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  Speaker 1: He brings them back to the rock. And here now
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has come to the rock. And here is the issue.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says afterward he hungered. And the enemy said,
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  Speaker 1: if thou be the son of God, use your power.
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  Speaker 1: Use your power now to turn this stone to bread.
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  Speaker 1: The last pastor turned it into water. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to augment the test a little bit for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it into the next level. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to turn it into stones. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to take the stone and turn it into bread.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take the stone and turn it
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  Speaker 1: into bread. I want you to take the stone. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, it is written, man shall not live by
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  Speaker 1: bread alone. That's what he said. But by every word
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  Speaker 1: that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. I started
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  Speaker 1: to preach that, you know. I started to preach it
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  Speaker 1: is written. And I was going to use the subject,
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  Speaker 1: throw the book at him. But I won't bother that tonight. See,
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  Speaker 1: because really what is going on, they're both throwing the
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  Speaker 1: book at each other. But that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a preacher's message.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all got my back on this.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, it is written, man shall not live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth of God. Now, here's the irony of
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  Speaker 1: it all. If thou be the son of God, turn
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  Speaker 1: this stone to bread. I got hung up there because
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  Speaker 1: If thou be the son of God.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, if.
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  Speaker 1: If thou be. He is the son of God. There
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  Speaker 1: ain't no question about that. He is the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: And the devil knows he's the son of God or
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be tempting him. The devil only attacks you
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  Speaker 1: when he doesn't have you. From Genesis to Revelations, you
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  Speaker 1: can show me nowhere in the Bible where Satan has
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  Speaker 1: ever fought what was his.
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  Speaker 2: Only church people do that.
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  Speaker 1: Satan is so united that Jesus said of Satan, Satan
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  Speaker 1: have a kingdom, and if that kingdom be divided against itself,
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  Speaker 1: how shall it stand? Even Jesus had to acknowledge that
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  Speaker 1: Satan is so unified that he never fights what's his.
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  Speaker 1: So the very fact that he's fighting him indicates that
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  Speaker 1: he understands who he is. In fact, the very fact
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  Speaker 1: that he's fighting you is an indication that he understands.
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all with me? You with me in the balcony?
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  Speaker 1: You with me everywhere? Touch your neighbor and say, the
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  Speaker 1: devil knows who I am. The devil knows who I am.
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  Speaker 1: The devil knows, you know, yeah, yeah. I know that
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  Speaker 1: the devil has intelligence because later in the book you
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  Speaker 1: will see where the demon spoke out of a man
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  Speaker 1: and said, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but
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  Speaker 1: who are you? You ought to do something that lets
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  Speaker 1: the devil know who you are. Or somebody who got
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  Speaker 1: that makes some noise in this place. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look at somebody and say, yeah, he knows me. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've been at it a few times. He knows me.
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  Speaker 1: I did enough to be on his radar. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be sitting there with low self-esteem. You must
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  Speaker 1: be somebody for him to be fighting you like he's
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  Speaker 1: fighting you. You must have a destiny.
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  Speaker 2: And a purpose and a calling and a gift over
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  Speaker 2: your life. Somebody shout, I am! You didn't know it,
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  Speaker 2: but when you said, I am, you were calling God
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  Speaker 2: by his name. Who shall I say sent me?
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  Speaker 1: I am!
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  Speaker 2: I feel it. Something is going to happen in here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Can you feel that word just building up, just building up,
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  Speaker 1: just building up? Somebody's going to get drenched in the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. They're going to get saturated in the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. You're going to go home speaking the
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  Speaker 1: word of God tonight. Every yoke is going to be broken.
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  Speaker 1: Every demon is going to have to move out of
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  Speaker 1: your way. That storm that's in your life, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to speak to it and say, peace be still. But
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, sit on down. I ain't got to
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  Speaker 1: the point yet. This is just the first point.
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  Speaker 2: He says so. See, see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm caught up in this thing about this stone. If
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  Speaker 1: thou be the son of God, turn this stone to bread. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: through the bookheading, it is written that man shall not
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone.
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  Speaker 2: But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
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  Speaker 2: of God.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first clue to me that something was
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  Speaker 1: going on. Because he tempted him to turn the stone
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  Speaker 1: to bread if he was the son of God. But
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  Speaker 1: if you know your Bible, you know that the son
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  Speaker 1: of God is bread. Because I believe the book said,
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  Speaker 1: your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, but I
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  Speaker 1: am the true bread that cometh down out of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: If any man eat of this bread, he shall never
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  Speaker 1: perish again. So what are you doing offering me bread?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing offering me? You can't give me.
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  Speaker 1: You come in my life like you're going to add
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  Speaker 1: something to me? How you going to add something to me?
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  Speaker 1: How you going to offer me what I already am?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Do you think I don't know that I am the
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  Speaker 1: bread that fell down out of heaven? Do you not
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  Speaker 1: understand that I'm the guy that took the bread and said, take, eat,
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  Speaker 1: this is my body that was broken for you? Don't
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  Speaker 1: you understand at the Passover I told.
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  Speaker 2: You, my body is bread. And how can you tempt
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  Speaker 2: me with what I already have?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mind telling me you can't give me what I
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  Speaker 1: already got. So he says, he says, I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: to you a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, he says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now he is offering him the bread. Jesus is hungry.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. But he is offering him
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  Speaker 1: what he already is. Amen. The thing that you hunger for,
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  Speaker 1: you already got. If you hunger for intimacy, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be an intimate person to be hungry for it.
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  Speaker 1: If you hunger for love, you have to be a
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  Speaker 1: loving person to be hungry for it. Because people who
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  Speaker 1: are not loving don't even know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: They can't understand what you're not satisfied about. They don't
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  Speaker 1: even understand what you are looking for. Because you have
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  Speaker 1: to be it to hunger for it. If you hunger
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  Speaker 1: for excellence, it's only because you are excellent. Because only
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  Speaker 1: excellent people... Oh, y'all ain't going to talk to me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Look at somebody and say, I am that.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm looking for is somebody who is a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of what I already am. Somebody who functions on the
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  Speaker 1: level that I function. Somebody who needs what I need
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  Speaker 1: and wants what I want. Somebody who has the same
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  Speaker 1: standards that I have. And the very fact that I'm
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  Speaker 1: hungry for it is a sign that I am that.
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  Speaker 1: If I didn't have that mentality, I wouldn't want that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: And then I know the devil is still trying to
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  Speaker 1: get bread people to hook up with stones. Don't say
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  Speaker 1: nothing because you might have married a stone and you
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  Speaker 1: can't say nothing about it. Just sit there and be
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  Speaker 1: just as cool as you can. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: you out of this in a minute and spend the
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  Speaker 1: next 15 years of your life trying to turn a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: stone You was a bread person. You wanted bread when
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  Speaker 1: you got them. You knew it was bread you needed.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: You knew you didn't quite see it in them. But
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: all of these years, you've been trying to turn a stone.
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  Speaker 1: And when bread.
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  Speaker 2: People hook up with stone people, they don't communicate well.
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  Speaker 1: Because what the bread person is trying to do is
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  Speaker 1: trying to get something out of you that's not in you.
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  Speaker 1: And the stone person is looking back saying, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: You expect too much. You ought to be satisfied for
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  Speaker 1: me to just sit here. See, because in appearance, the
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  Speaker 1: stone and the bread look alike.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Got with somebody that appeared to be something? That when
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: you really tried to really get down to it, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to bother. I'm not going to bother.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in here ought to say amen. If you're afraid
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  Speaker 1: to say amen, you can tweet me an amen, just
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  Speaker 1: at Bishop Jace, because I know you don't want them
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  Speaker 1: to know that I'm preaching your message tonight, but you
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  Speaker 1: act like you get that tape for somebody at work
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  Speaker 1: and then get home and get in your car and
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  Speaker 1: fall out. Because I don't care how hungry you are.
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  Speaker 2: You can't get bread out of stony people.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no need in trying to turn it into something
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  Speaker 1: that it ain't.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you be trying to use your power to deceive
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  Speaker 1: yourself into thinking that just because it's shaped like bread,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that it tastes like bread. Gonna break your teeth. How
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  Speaker 1: many will make a commitment that you are through breaking
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: your teeth on hard stuff? Through deceiving yourself into thinking
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that rocks are bread? Through draining your power, trying to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: get the stone to be something that it is not?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And all of the energy that you're putting into trying
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to make something be that it is not, you should
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: have put into discovering what God put in you. Because
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the very fact that you hunger for it is a
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  Speaker 1: sign that you are it. Only excellent people hunger for excellence.
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  Speaker 1: Only wise people hunger for wisdom. I can tell the
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  Speaker 1: level of a preacher by how well they receive the word. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just because you wear a clergy shirt don't
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: mean you a preacher. But when you start preaching the
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  Speaker 1: word to a real preacher, something in him will ignite
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  Speaker 1: down in his soul. Something in her will start leaping up.
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  Speaker 1: Because like knows like. Deep knows deep. Rich knows rich.
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  Speaker 1: Class knows class. Anointing knows anointing. There ain't no way
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  Speaker 1: I'm going home with rocks when I can have some bread.
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  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and say, look at me.
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  Speaker 2: I am bread. I am nutrition. I am sustenance.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever gets me going to be better off than they
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  Speaker 1: were before. I got something to offer. I'm not faking
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  Speaker 1: the funk. I got something about me that whoever gets
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: this ain't going to get better. So he says to him,
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  Speaker 1: let me hurry on. I don't want to take too long.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: So he says, Tell him, you know. He says, now,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he takes him up to a high place in the temple,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: in the synagogue, and says, now, if you fall off
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  Speaker 1: this temple, cast yourself down, for it is written. See,
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  Speaker 1: they're throwing the book at each other. Yeah, somebody's going
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  Speaker 1: to go preach that. I already know. Pay your tithes.
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  Speaker 1: Pay your tithe. And he says, it is written. that
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  Speaker 1: the angels will bury thee up lest you dash your
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  Speaker 1: foot against the stone.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus said, it is written, they throw in the
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  Speaker 1: book back and forth, that thou should not tempt the
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  Speaker 1: Lord thy God.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that what he said? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so he said, I'm not going to use my
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  Speaker 1: power to prove who I am. Because when you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, You don't have to prove what you got.
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  Speaker 2: When you know. See, let me help y'all out with this.
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  Speaker 1: When you see these preachers banging on the pulpit talking about,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the pastor of this church.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 1: When you see these men beating on the church talking,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the man of this house.
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  Speaker 2: He's not.
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  Speaker 1: When you are something, you don't have to convince anybody
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  Speaker 1: of what you are. When you walked in the room,
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  Speaker 1: everything in that's gone. Oh, y'all ain't helping me preach
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  Speaker 1: this tonight. So, then he says, he says, enough of
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: this angel stuff. And he says, I'll tell you what
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do. He said, come on up here.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: He said, come on up here and take a look
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  Speaker 1: at this. He said, come on up here. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you see all of that? He said, all the kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of the world will I give you if you bow
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  Speaker 1: down and worship me. And Jesus said, this is not
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  Speaker 1: no good deal.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know the earth is the Lord's?
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  Speaker 1: The fullness thereof and the world and they that dwell therein.
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  Speaker 1: In all three cases, the enemy, didn't the Bible say
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  Speaker 1: the kingdoms of this world should be the kingdoms of
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  Speaker 1: our God and of his Christ? All three cases, the
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  Speaker 1: enemy was offering him what he already had. What does
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  Speaker 1: that mean to you? Are you being offered what you
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: already got? Are you trying to find a peace that
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you already possess? Are you seeking a wisdom externally that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you already have internally? Isn't it true that the very
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  Speaker 1: fact that you are hungry for it is an indication
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  Speaker 1: that you are functioning on a level to know that
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  Speaker 1: it exists? And devil, one more thing I want to say.
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  Speaker 1: This talk you gave about the angels, that Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: to throw himself down off the temple for the angels
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  Speaker 1: to come. The angels were coming anyway. So the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: tell somebody, tell them the angels are coming anyway. Came
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I actually didn't come from Dallas this time. I flew
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  Speaker 1: from New York I've been on the plane all day
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  Speaker 1: flying from New York to get here.
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  Speaker 2: To tell you the angels are coming Now wait wait wait.
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  Speaker 1: I want you I want you to understand this is
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  Speaker 1: not the word for the happy people This is for
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  Speaker 1: the hungry people This is for the weary, tired, at
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  Speaker 1: my wit's end, out of breath, tired, can't take anymore.
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  Speaker 1: If something don't break through in a minute, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to lose.
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  Speaker 2: My mind, people.
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  Speaker 1: This is for the people that's been in a wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: been through hell and high water. Your back's been up
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: against the wall. You've been wondering, Lord, how long do
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  Speaker 1: I have to go through this? Is there anybody in
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: here like that? If you're in here.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, make some noise right now.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I feel a prophetic undertone to the direction that the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Lord has brought me in. I don't promise you a
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  Speaker 1: shout because that's not the objective of my preaching. Not
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: at this stage. I do promise you a word from God.
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  Speaker 1: And I have the feeling that the message God gave
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  Speaker 1: me is in response to to where you are at
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: in life and something you have.
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  Speaker 2: Been asking him for. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It is almost as if I feel like I'm responding
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to something that I didn't even hear. But something you
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: said to him, he will respond now through me. He
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that hath an ear, letting hear what the Spirit of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the Lord is saying to the church. You don't come
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: this far to get your dance in. You could have
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: got your dance in at home. When you come this far,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you come for a shift. Going into a whole different
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  Speaker 1: orbit and a completely different dimension.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have time to worry about whether you're Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Church of God, Church of God in Christ, Church of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: God in prophecies.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Church of God got it.
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  Speaker 1: Going on in Jesus' name by faith incorporated saints of
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  Speaker 1: God and friends. You don't have time to worry about
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: whether you're Democrat or Republican. You don't have time to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: worry about whether you're white or black or Hispanic or
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: African or Australian. We don't have time to worry about
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: any of that because where God wants to put something
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: is so deep down in your spirit. You want to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: leave this meeting carrying more baggage than what you can
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: check in at the counter. You want to go home
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: loaded down with keys that are going to open up
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: things that have been shut down in you for years.
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  Speaker 1: Are you getting what I'm saying? Leap up on your
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: feet and let's go into the Word of God. We
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: stand for the reading of the Word of God in here.
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  Speaker 1: In 1 Kings, I want you to notice verse 17 says,
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  Speaker 1: through 17. I'm going to start there first and then
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I'll backtrack and go Philippians. I'm going to lay my
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  Speaker 1: early foundation in 1 Kings 17, 13 through 17. Then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to Philippians. And Elijah said unto her,
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  Speaker 1: fear not. Go and do as thou hast said, but
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: make me thereof a little cake first and bring it
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  Speaker 1: unto me and after make For thee and for thy son,
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  Speaker 1: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of.
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  Speaker 2: Meal shall not waste.
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  Speaker 1: Neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. It won't
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  Speaker 1: stop until it rains again. And she went and did
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  Speaker 1: according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he
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  Speaker 1: and her.
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  Speaker 2: House did eat many days.
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  Speaker 1: And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the
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  Speaker 1: cruise of oil fail according to the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: which he spake by Elijah. And it came to pass
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  Speaker 1: after these things that the son of the woman, the
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  Speaker 1: mistress of the house fell sick and his sickness was
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  Speaker 1: so sore that there was no breath left in him.
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  Speaker 1: Now leave a little notepad, a card, a finger, if
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  Speaker 1: you're still using Bibles. I know most of y'all got
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  Speaker 1: iPads now, but leave some kind of notation there. And
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: we're going to the New Testament to hear a very
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  Speaker 1: unique phrase from the Apostle Paul in Philippians chapter 4,
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  Speaker 1: verse 15 through 9. Now ye Philippians know also that
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia,
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  Speaker 1: No church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,
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  Speaker 1: but ye only. You're the only ones who communicated or
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  Speaker 1: ministered unto me. For even in Thessalonica, ye sent once
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  Speaker 1: and again. unto my necessity somebody say necessity not because
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  Speaker 1: I desire a gift you didn't send it because I
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  Speaker 1: desire it but I desire fruit that may abound to
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  Speaker 1: your account But I have all and abound.
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  Speaker 2: I am full.
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  Speaker 1: Having received of Ephraim the things which were sent from you.
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  Speaker 2: An odor of a sweet smell. A sacrifice acceptable. Well
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: pleasing to God.
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  Speaker 1: But my God. shall supply all of your need. What
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: will he supply?
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  Speaker 2: All of your.
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  Speaker 1: According to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm going to really expand. My God shall
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  Speaker 1: supply All of your need.
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  Speaker 2: According to it. Yeah. You heard it, didn't you? Don't
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  Speaker 2: you get ahead of me like that.
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  Speaker 1: My God shall supply all of your needs. They ministered
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  Speaker 1: to his necessity. My God shall supply all of your
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: this scripture in its context is in reference to giving
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  Speaker 1: and needs being met for the apostle Paul in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of his ministry. For the purpose of our understanding tonight,
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  Speaker 1: let us not just compartmentalize need to money. Because it
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  Speaker 1: is possible to have needs in other areas. And sometimes
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: money gets such a center stage as it relates to
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  Speaker 1: need because we have come through such struggle historically, that
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  Speaker 1: it is almost a given that there is a financial need,
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  Speaker 1: and if you do have a need, my God shall supply.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: But the reality is, some.
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  Speaker 1: Of the things that is slowing you down, hindering you,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: are needs in other areas. The need for support. The
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: need for validation. The need for love. The need for companionship.
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  Speaker 1: The need for connectivity. The need for staffing for your business.
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  Speaker 1: The need for a building for your vision. See, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that they were just handing out ducats all the time.
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  Speaker 1: If you're hungry, the need might be bread. If you're thirsty,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: it might be water. If you're lonely, it might be help.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever your need is, you have to fill that
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  Speaker 1: in because the Lord told me to tell you he
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  Speaker 1: is the master of of your need. He is the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: master of your need. Your need has not shocked him.
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  Speaker 1: It has not embarrassed him. It has not intimidated him.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he is in control. Not only of what
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: he supplies, but he is control of your need. Touch
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, he's the master of my need.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's pray over the word. Sanctify it down in
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: our hearts and in our spirits and cause us to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: understand more abundantly, Lord, what you would speak tonight. I
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: know what you downloaded into me. Let it be released
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: in this place in a coherent, effective way that it
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: gives illumination and light and understanding. I feel as though
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that I'm about to feed a feeder. I'm about to
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: feed a feeder. As I release what is in my
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: spirit tonight, somebody's going to take it and do like
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the body does with food. They're going to convert it
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: into so many nutritious elements that are going to minister
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to them. It's going to go in a sermon. It's
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: going to come out a building. It's going to go.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: In a sermon.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to come out a husband. It's going to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: go in a... Y'all are not ready for this. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to go in a sermon. It's going to come
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  Speaker 1: out a degree. It's going to go in a sermon.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to come out property. It's going to go
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  Speaker 1: in the word that I speak to you right now.
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  Speaker 1: Your spirit is going to take it just like your
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  Speaker 1: body does food. And it's going to convert it into
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  Speaker 1: the thing you need for what is about to happen
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  Speaker 1: next in your life. If you can understand what I
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  Speaker 1: just said, praise him on credit.
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  Speaker 2: Just clap. You may be seated. You may be seated.
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  Speaker 1: I was having lunch with some close friends and people
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  Speaker 1: I've known for a number of years and we were reminiscing.
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  Speaker 1: about years ago when we were in a little storefront
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  Speaker 1: back in Montgomery, West Virginia and Bishop Watkins was coming
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  Speaker 1: down to minister and I needed He had so many members.
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  Speaker 1: He brought four or five busloads, about 20 cars down.
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  Speaker 1: I had about 30 members. And I ended up going
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  Speaker 1: to the high school, I think, there in Montgomery and
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  Speaker 1: renting the auditorium at the high school to hold the
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  Speaker 1: crowd because my church, which would seat about 120 people,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't hold the crowd. And I thought to myself, how
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  Speaker 1: that aligned with a conversation I had had with God.
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  Speaker 2: I said, God, I am.
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  Speaker 1: The same man and the same preacher with the same
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  Speaker 1: anointing that I had back then. Why didn't you give
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  Speaker 1: me American Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: Back then? I'm the same guy. I was younger. I
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  Speaker 2: was stronger. I was hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you take us through stages.
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  Speaker 2: Of development?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you let us exercise in the gymnasium of
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  Speaker 1: small beginnings and go from 30 to 60 to 100 fold?
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes we can get stuck at a stage and
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  Speaker 1: never evolve to the capacity that we need to evolve
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  Speaker 1: to receive what we need to receive. And as I
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  Speaker 1: began to talk to the Lord about it, He said,
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  Speaker 1: you see, I.
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  Speaker 2: Supply need. Isn't it amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How you can come to church with somebody and you
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  Speaker 1: can really get blessed and the person you brought with
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  Speaker 1: you got nothing? Have you ever rode home from church
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  Speaker 1: with somebody who got nothing and you were really, really
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  Speaker 1: blessed and they got in the car talking about who
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  Speaker 1: was cute and who was fine and who had gained
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  Speaker 1: weight and why did she wear those shoes with that
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  Speaker 1: dress and you're going crazy because you're having a spiritual
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  Speaker 1: moment with the Lord and they seemingly got nothing.
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  Speaker 2: How could there.
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  Speaker 1: Be so much supply of glory and they be oblivious
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  Speaker 1: to it? Have you ever recognized that everybody doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the same capacity? that they could be exposed to great
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  Speaker 1: things and not have an appetite for them. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you need to evolve from needing to do a census
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  Speaker 1: before you evolve. That is to say, you don't need
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  Speaker 1: everybody on your road to line up with you for
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  Speaker 1: you to receive what you need from God. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need a reaction from other people to validate what you
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  Speaker 1: need from God because there can come a release on
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  Speaker 1: such a level that if you don't have the capacity
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  Speaker 1: to receive it, you might not even.
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  Speaker 2: Know it happened. My God.
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  Speaker 1: In our text, Paul says, I needed something and you
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  Speaker 1: came and ministered unto my necessity when other churches didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Unto my necessity. when other churches didn't. I thought, this
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  Speaker 1: is the apostle Paul. This is the apostle, this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy, let me explain to you. This is the
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  Speaker 1: guy who was the Saddam Hussein of the early church,
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  Speaker 1: who killed Christians for a living. And yet God had
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  Speaker 1: such a plan for his life in spite of all
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  Speaker 1: the people he had slaughtered and murdered and destroyed. And
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  Speaker 1: some suggested he even held the coat early on in
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  Speaker 1: his life while people stoned Stephan. He has a history
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  Speaker 1: of being a Christian killer and yet God touches him
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  Speaker 1: and converts him for the master's use. How could God
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  Speaker 1: use somebody so filthy, so nasty, so hateful? He basically
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  Speaker 1: called the terrorists. and put him on a streetcar straight
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  Speaker 1: and delivered him and turned him around and filled him
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  Speaker 1: up with the Holy Spirit and sent him out to
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  Speaker 1: do amazing things. Not because he was pure, not because
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  Speaker 1: he was holy, not because he was righteous, not because
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  Speaker 1: he had a wonderful past, not because he had not
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  Speaker 1: made horrendous mistakes, but even in his past life, he
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  Speaker 1: was a big guy who did big things in a
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  Speaker 1: big way When he hated Christians, he wasn't two-faced about it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I'm going to kill them.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I get down to Jerusalem, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to destroy them. He was bold. And God chose boldness
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  Speaker 1: over righteousness, over purity. Because he had the ability to
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  Speaker 1: function on a certain level and God used him. Now
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  Speaker 1: you must understand that much of our New Testament theology
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  Speaker 1: is a result of the Apostle Paul.
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  Speaker 2: There would be no understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Jesus died and shed his blood, rose from the
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  Speaker 1: dead and birthed the church.
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  Speaker 2: But the church that Jesus birthed was.
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  Speaker 1: An organism with no organization. There was no structure. There
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  Speaker 1: was no order. There were no apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers,
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  Speaker 1: and evangelists. Paul gives us all of that. Paul begins
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  Speaker 1: to teach us and make us understand there's therefore now
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  Speaker 1: no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who
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  Speaker 1: walk no longer after the flesh but after the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Paul begins to tell us that if this earthly house
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  Speaker 1: or tabernacle shall be dissolved, we have another building eternal
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  Speaker 1: in the heavens which is made of God.
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  Speaker 2: Paul teaches us it is in Him that we live,
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  Speaker 2: in Him that we move, in Him that we have
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  Speaker 2: our being.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Apostle Paul that makes us understand. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: having peace with God, that we are reconciled with Him,
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  Speaker 1: we understand peace of God, peace with God, peace in God,
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  Speaker 1: all because of the Apostle Paul. Without the Apostle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: we would not have a clear understanding that the door
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  Speaker 1: to the Gentiles had been opened, that they might be
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  Speaker 1: saved and set free.
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  Speaker 2: Paul preached peace. with so much power that a man died.
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  Speaker 1: While he was preaching. Paul ran down the steps, raised
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  Speaker 1: him from the dead and kept right on preaching. Paul
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  Speaker 1: was so awesome that they tried to kill him. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't kill him. They tried to beat him to death.
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  Speaker 1: They left him from death. He got up and shook
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  Speaker 1: himself and walked away. He was in shipwrecks, but he survived.
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  Speaker 1: He was snake bit, but he shook it off. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: That pile.
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  Speaker 1: That raised people from the dead withstood shipwrecks and shook
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  Speaker 1: off snakes.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you needing anything?
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  Speaker 1: If you can raise people from the dead, you can
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  Speaker 1: pay your water bill. Paul says, The truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is I.
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  Speaker 2: Am full, lacking nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But so that you might have credit to your account,
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  Speaker 1: God created a need to test you, to minister to
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  Speaker 1: that need.
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  Speaker 2: This is weird.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Paul's saying, I needed something, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was in trouble, but I wasn't. It's kind of strange.
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  Speaker 1: This is the same guy that said, I have learned
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  Speaker 1: how to abase and abound, both to be full and
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  Speaker 1: to be in want. He said, even when you're in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: you're not in trouble. Now I need to preach this
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  Speaker 1: to somebody who's got some faith in them. Even when
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  Speaker 1: you're in trouble, You are not in trouble. That God
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  Speaker 1: allows certain necessities to come, either to create a backdrop
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  Speaker 1: for you to experience another dimension of his glory, or
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  Speaker 1: for the people around you to have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: flow into another dimension of His grace.
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  Speaker 2: Now, back in the early days, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Jazz, when I was preaching, I would say something real
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  Speaker 1: hot and jazzy as a subject. I would do something
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  Speaker 1: like tell you to touch your neighbor and say, it's
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  Speaker 1: a setup. So touch your neighbor and tell them it's
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  Speaker 1: a setup. They don't understand exactly what I'm saying yet,
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  Speaker 1: cause I'm not totally through unloading it yet. And when
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I unload it, everybody's not even gonna get it because
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: some people are so shocked by the situation and they've
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  Speaker 1: been praying so hard about the situation. They've been so
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  Speaker 1: focused on the circumstance. They've been so distracted by what
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  Speaker 1: they're going through that they don't understand that everything you
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  Speaker 1: have been going through and every area you've been up
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  Speaker 1: under attack, and every area that you have a necessity,
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  Speaker 1: your necessity is not a necessity. It is, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to experience another dimension of God's glory.
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  Speaker 2: To the 10 people who.
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  Speaker 1: Understand it, touch 10 people and say, it's a setup.
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  Speaker 1: It's training wheels for your faith. It's training wheels for
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  Speaker 1: your faith.
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  Speaker 2: It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Passage of entry into the next dimension. It is the
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  Speaker 1: bar mitzvah for the sons of God to have matured
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  Speaker 1: enough to carry the weight. Why didn't you give me
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  Speaker 1: this back then? I couldn't handle it back then. And
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  Speaker 1: why would he give me all of these thousands of
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  Speaker 1: seats when I didn't need them? Why would God give
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  Speaker 1: me something that I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Need?
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  Speaker 1: So it's the embryo of my success The supply or
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  Speaker 1: the need? The only thing that makes an answer important
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  Speaker 1: is the question. The profundity of the question is built
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  Speaker 1: The profundity of the answer is built on the profundity
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  Speaker 1: and the power of the question. Why would I answer
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  Speaker 1: what you didn't ask? If God says the trigger point
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  Speaker 1: of my supply is your need, no wonder he hates
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  Speaker 1: a proud look. because a proud look will never admit need.
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  Speaker 1: I know I knocked out about 10 rows with that.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I killed about 10 people with that. Why does God
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  Speaker 1: hate a proud look above everything else? Above, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: murderers and lying and backbiting and everything. God said, not
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: only does he hate pride, he hates a proud look.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even have to be proud.
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  Speaker 1: He said, if you sit there and act like you're important,
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  Speaker 1: I hate the fact that you have got your legs
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  Speaker 1: crossed acting like you're important. Because proud people, will never
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  Speaker 1: admit need. Why would you have a savior if you
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  Speaker 1: won't admit that you're drowning? Why would you have a
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  Speaker 1: miracle worker if you won't admit that you have a need?
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  Speaker 1: No wonder some people get anointed while some people are
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: just tired. If God responds to need, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: need anything, you won't All the needy people, clap your hands.
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  Speaker 1: God says, let me see. I got fish. I got stars.
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  Speaker 1: I got water. I got sunshine. I got oak trees.
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  Speaker 1: I got pineapple trees. I got all of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I want to give, but I cannot give it
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: until there's a need. So he forms the earth. When
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: he forms it, it creates a void. Void is capacity.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And he responds to the capacity of what is formed.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: He said, I create capacity in the ocean. so I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: can put fish in it. I created capacity in the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: earth so I could sow seed into it. I created
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: capacity in the heavens so I could throw stars at
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  Speaker 1: it and birds at it.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got something to fly in.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't release the answer until I formed.
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  Speaker 2: All right. All right. All right.
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  Speaker 1: He formed the earth and fills it. He forms the
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  Speaker 1: ocean and fills it with fish. He forms the air
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  Speaker 1: and fills it with birds. Everything God forms, he fills.
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  Speaker 1: He formed the tabernacle and filled it with furniture.
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  Speaker 2: All right. He formed the holies of holies and then
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  Speaker 2: filled it with glory.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he formed man and filled him with air.
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  Speaker 1: Which came first, the man or the breath? God had
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  Speaker 1: the breath, but until there was capacity, he couldn't fill
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  Speaker 1: anything until you admit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, y'all don't hear it.
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  Speaker 1: He responds to capacity. Ezekiel, go down and show me
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  Speaker 1: what you see in the valley. I see dry bones
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: in the valley. He said, can these bones live again?
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  Speaker 2: Lord, thou knowest.
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  Speaker 1: Speak to the bones that they may live. So I
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  Speaker 1: prophesied as I was commanded. Suddenly there was a noise
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: and there was a shake and the bone came together,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: bone to his bone. And they came together, bone to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: his bone and sinews came upon them. And then he said,
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  Speaker 1: prophesy to the wind. Because now I can feel what
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  Speaker 1: I form because God responds to capacity. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: want anything, you won't get anything. If you don't need anything,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: you won't receive anything.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Do you not know?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: The real star of the story with the two fish
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and the five loaves of bread is not the little
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: boy and it's not the lunch. It was the hunger
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: that moved the Lord. When they came to Jesus and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: they said, the people that are with you are hungry.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: He said, oh good, that's capacity.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Wherever I see capacity, I will.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Release a plot. Oh, I want all the people.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: That's got capacity to holler right now. They said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you got 5,000 hungry people. What do you have? He said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have nothing but the little boy's lunch. He said,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I can work with anything if they're hungry. I can
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: work with anything if there's a need. I can work
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: with anything if they're thirsty. I can work with anything.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Just give me the little bit you got. I know
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: it's not much because the star is not what's in
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: the bag. The star is the aching in the belly
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: of the people. God responds to hunger. The Bible said
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: that when Jesus, after John the Baptist was beheaded, it
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: said when Jesus saw the people and how they were hurt,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: he was moved with compassion and heal them. What I'm
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: trying to tell you, your need to act like you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: don't need anything is stopping the flow of the miracle
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: working power of God in your life. If you would
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: shake your little cute dress down and say, Lord, I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 1: He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled.