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Recognizing God's Answer - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Y'all act like y'all ready tonight. You act like you
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  Speaker 1: came to throw down for Jesus tonight. I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Get your Bibles and while you're standing and go to
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  Speaker 1: the book of Exodus chapter number 16. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: read the first five verses and then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: drop down to 31 and 32. It's a very familiar
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  Speaker 1: passage of scripture but a very important one indeed. Exodus Ecclesia,
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  Speaker 1: the called out ones. The book of Exodus is about
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  Speaker 1: the calling of God's people out of slavery and away
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  Speaker 1: from captivity, from servitude to sonship. They went into the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea as slaves with their master chasing them. But
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  Speaker 1: when they came up out of the water, they came
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  Speaker 1: up as sons from servitude to sonship. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: that their servitude was canceled out is because their master drowned.
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  Speaker 2: In the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 1: God will drown what's chasing you, baby. He will drown
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  Speaker 1: what's chasing you.
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  Speaker 2: If you just keep on.
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  Speaker 1: Following him, don't worry about the enemy behind you. Greater
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  Speaker 1: is he that's in you than he that's after you.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And so Moses writes to us and he chronicles the
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  Speaker 1: story of his journey and the autobiography almost of the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrimage of the children of Israel as they had stepped
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  Speaker 1: away from all that had identified them before into this
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  Speaker 1: new beginning. And anytime something is new, there's always a
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  Speaker 1: transition period. There's always a discomfort period. Even when the
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  Speaker 1: new is better, there is still a discomfort. And it
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  Speaker 1: reads in verse 1, the whole Israelite community set out
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  Speaker 1: from Elam and came to the desert of Sin, which
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  Speaker 1: is between Elam and Sinai on the 15th day of
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  Speaker 1: the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: So they've been out two and a half months. In
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  Speaker 1: the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: This is a tough job.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelites said to them, if only we had died
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  Speaker 1: by the Lord's hand in Egypt. These are the same
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  Speaker 1: people who prayed for Moses to come. Now they're praying
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  Speaker 1: to die. There we sat around pots of meat and
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  Speaker 1: ate all the food we wanted. But you have brought
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  Speaker 1: us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly
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  Speaker 1: to death. You see how Moses was falsely accused? You
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  Speaker 1: know Moses didn't bring them out there to starve to
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  Speaker 1: death and die. He brought them out there to be
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  Speaker 1: an emancipator and to set them free. I just point
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  Speaker 1: that out to the people who are misunderstood. And you've
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  Speaker 1: had things about you where people have judged your intentions wrongly.
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  Speaker 2: It's one thing for.
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  Speaker 1: You to have an opinion about my actions, but it's
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  Speaker 1: another thing for you to subscribe to the idea that
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, y'all don't hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down
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  Speaker 1: bread from heaven for you. The people are to go
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  Speaker 1: out each day and gather enough for that day. And
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  Speaker 1: in this way, I will test them and see whether
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  Speaker 1: they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day, they
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  Speaker 1: are to prepare what they bring in, and that is
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  Speaker 1: to be twice as much as they gather on the
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  Speaker 1: other days. Now, verse 31. The people of Israel called
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  Speaker 1: the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and
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  Speaker 1: tasted like wafers made with honey. That sounds pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I cook a little bit, you know. Wafers and honey
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  Speaker 1: don't sound like you're suffering that bad. Moses said, this
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord has commanded. Take an omer of
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  Speaker 1: manna and keep it for the generations to come. See,
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  Speaker 1: don't just be concerned about you, but leave a legacy
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  Speaker 1: behind you so they can see the bread I gave
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  Speaker 1: you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you
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  Speaker 1: out of Egypt. God's going to always use what you
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  Speaker 1: got left. Oh, I'm not going to bother them remnants.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about that Sunday. I'm going to leave them
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  Speaker 1: remnants alone, but God will always save a remnant. He said,
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  Speaker 1: put a pot aside, an omer, and put it in
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  Speaker 1: the Ark of the Covenant so that the generations to
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  Speaker 1: come can understand what I gave you through the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: Has God fed you through the wilderness? Won't he do it?
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  Speaker 1: It's not that he always stops the wilderness, but he
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  Speaker 1: feeds you in the wilderness. I want to talk from
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  Speaker 1: the subject tonight, recognizing God's answers. Recognizing God's answers.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of the living God fall fresh on us tonight.
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  Speaker 2: A fresh deposit, if you will. We are open to receive.
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  Speaker 1: Our hearts, our minds, our spirits, our souls, our bodies
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  Speaker 1: are prepared to ingest and appropriate the word as you
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  Speaker 1: see fit to unveil it and reveal it to us.
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  Speaker 2: We are hungry to receive your word.
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  Speaker 1: We are grateful for your presence. Open up even the
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  Speaker 1: hardest mind, the most resistant spirit that the glory of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord can penetrate through until they are pricked in
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  Speaker 1: their hearts by the very presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: Now, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I know you haven't done it yet, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to thank you in advance. Your credit is good with me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll praise you now. You can do it later. Have
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  Speaker 1: your way, great God, that you are. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all kinds of stuff that ain't happened yet. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to go ahead and thank you like it's
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  Speaker 1: already done. I know I'm going to look foolish, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to praise you like it's already done.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pronounce a benediction over it like it's
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  Speaker 1: already done. For thine is the kingdom and the power
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  Speaker 1: and the glory forever and ever. All the people shouted, amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of God. So
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh traveled by chariot and the slaves traveled by foot.
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  Speaker 1: So if they have been walking through the desert for
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  Speaker 1: two months and 15 days, for two and a half months,
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  Speaker 1: they have been walking.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long walk. Two and a half months.
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  Speaker 1: Of waking up every day and carrying everything you own
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  Speaker 1: on your back. They have been walking for months. loaded
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  Speaker 1: down with their own possessions and no place to rest them.
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  Speaker 1: They had continued on their journey. A careful study of
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  Speaker 1: the word says that it wasn't just the fathers that
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  Speaker 1: carried the weight or just the mothers, but even the
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  Speaker 1: children were loaded down with the weight, not just of
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  Speaker 1: their possessions, but the weight of the possessions of the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: For in the Red Sea, there was a transfer of wealth.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says that they borrowed the gold and the
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  Speaker 1: silver from the Egyptians. But then they had no way
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  Speaker 1: of paying it back because Pharaoh and the army were
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  Speaker 1: drowned in the Red Sea. So God has done supernatural
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  Speaker 1: debt cancellation. Y'all don't want to talk to me. God
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  Speaker 1: has done supernatural debt cancellation. And the wealth of the unjust...
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  Speaker 1: Has been laid up for the just. The wealth of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked. Has been laid up for the righteous. The
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  Speaker 1: wealth of the ungodly. Has been laid up for the godly.
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  Speaker 1: And they have come into an inheritance. That is not
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  Speaker 1: their own.
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  Speaker 2: And yet in a way it was.
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  Speaker 1: Because to receive this kind of. Wealth was reparations. Reparations
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  Speaker 1: because they had worked for free. For 400 years. And
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  Speaker 1: everything that had been withheld from them for 400 years,
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  Speaker 1: God paid it out suddenly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm preaching already.
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  Speaker 1: That means that they had endured hardness as good soldiers
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  Speaker 1: and been faithful even in the middle of injustice. But
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  Speaker 1: eventually God supernaturally settled the accounts and set the record
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  Speaker 1: straight because God is an accountant and he keeps record
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  Speaker 1: of every issue and everything. and in due season God
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  Speaker 1: is going to settle.
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  Speaker 2: All accounts.
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  Speaker 1: So they are weighted and it is heavy but they
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  Speaker 1: are heavily weighted with the blessings of God. Nobody teaches
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  Speaker 1: you that blessings carry weight. that glory carries weight. They
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  Speaker 1: have carried their teenagers on the, they're almost like teenagers
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  Speaker 1: on the threshold of adulthood. They enjoy the freedom but
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  Speaker 1: lack the stability that was afforded them while parented directly.
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  Speaker 1: You know how that is when kids can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the house and then they discover bills.
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  Speaker 1: And while they have freedom, they run into responsibilities. And
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  Speaker 1: all of their judgment about how things ought to be
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  Speaker 1: done begins to change as they begin to recognize that
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  Speaker 1: it is not as easy as it looks. Freedom is expensive.
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  Speaker 1: It costs you something to be free. The slaves were
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  Speaker 1: free to go, but where? And to whom? To a
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  Speaker 1: large degree, they were homeless people, nomadically moving, living in tents,
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  Speaker 1: pitching their tents wherever they could, making the best of
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  Speaker 1: a bad situation. And yet in the midst of this
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  Speaker 1: tempestuous uncertainty, God had been faithful. He had been a
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  Speaker 1: cloud above them by day, so it wasn't as hot
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  Speaker 1: as it would have been. I'm wondering if there are
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  Speaker 1: any people in here today that recognize that it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as hot as it should have been. That God shaded
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  Speaker 1: you in the midst of uncertainty. Sometimes you don't really
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  Speaker 1: know how bad things are until you get out. And
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  Speaker 1: then you look back at it and say that if
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  Speaker 1: it had not been for the Lord, I would have
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  Speaker 1: been swallowed up. I would have died of heat stroke.
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  Speaker 1: I should have asphyxiated. I should have collapsed. But his
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  Speaker 1: shade became my norm. And at night when the temperatures
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  Speaker 1: dropped below freezing, he turned into a pillar of fire.
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  Speaker 1: And in other words, God conditioned the desert with air
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and heat at night because God cared
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  Speaker 1: about the comfort of those who walked with him.
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  Speaker 2: Look at God.
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  Speaker 1: Jehovah Jireh, investing not only into your needs, but also
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  Speaker 1: into your comfort. There are some things that God does
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  Speaker 1: for you just so that you can be comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: And yet in the midst of all that God has done,
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  Speaker 1: they seem to not to notice that God had made
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  Speaker 1: them comfortable enough Because they were functioning in an atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: of uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, that's how we are.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times we don't notice that God is
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  Speaker 1: being good to us because he won't give us the
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  Speaker 1: details of our destination. And we are functioning in the
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  Speaker 1: trauma of uncertainty. Uncertainty is traumatic all by itself because
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  Speaker 1: we are intellectual beings and we are created with intellect.
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  Speaker 1: We have cognitive skills whereby we want to know. And
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  Speaker 1: the problem in this situation here is they don't know
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  Speaker 1: how far they are away from there.
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  Speaker 2: They have heard of a land.
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  Speaker 1: That flows with milk and honey, but they don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many more days will we have to walk. That
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  Speaker 1: uncertainty can plague a person. It can frustrate them. In
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  Speaker 1: a marriage, either one or the other of you wants
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  Speaker 1: to know details. We're going to Vegas. Where are we
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  Speaker 1: going to stay? How are we going to get there?
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  Speaker 1: What time is it? Which hotel is it? Have you
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  Speaker 1: made reservations? What are we going to do when we
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  Speaker 1: get there? Is there any layovers? People want to know details.
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  Speaker 1: We want to know details. The other person is the
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  Speaker 1: person who just kind of just goes, oh, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: all right. It'll be all right. And you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get one person to calm down, and they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get you to give them details. God has not given
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  Speaker 1: them details. Because they must walk by faith and not
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  Speaker 1: by sight. So God has designed the atmosphere to teach
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  Speaker 1: them faith because they are not sure how far they'll
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  Speaker 1: have to go to get there. And they are not
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  Speaker 1: sure of Moses because Moses has been away with Jethro
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years. So while he is kin to them Genetically,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot relate to them experientially. For while they were
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  Speaker 1: making bricks, Moses was raised in the palace. And as
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  Speaker 1: the Pharaohs died and the situations changed, Moses was out
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  Speaker 1: there with Jethro taking care of sheep. God sent Moses
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  Speaker 1: into the desert under duress because Moses had murdered a man.
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  Speaker 1: but it was also an opportunity to train him in
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  Speaker 1: desert tactics. Beware of leaders who lead you where they
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  Speaker 1: have not been. One of my spiritual sons said to me,
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  Speaker 1: he knows I'm working on a business deal, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to teach it to me. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I can't teach it while I'm learning it. You have
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  Speaker 1: to learn before you teach. You have to respect the
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  Speaker 1: craft well enough not to allow the pressure of somebody's
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  Speaker 1: hunger to know to drive you to faking your ability
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  Speaker 1: to teach. There are some things that only experience can
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  Speaker 1: teach you. You can Google it. You can read it.
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  Speaker 1: You can take it in school. You can get a
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  Speaker 1: degree in it. You can get a master's. You can
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  Speaker 1: get a doctorate. But when you start doing it, you'll
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  Speaker 1: find out that experience ends up being the ultimate teacher
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of the principles that worked out on
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  Speaker 1: paper that got you an A don't work out on people.
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  Speaker 1: It's a difference between working it out on paper and
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  Speaker 1: working it out on people. And now Moses not only
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  Speaker 1: has to sustain himself, which he has had 40 years
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  Speaker 1: of experience at being nomadic in the desert, but now
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  Speaker 1: he's got people with him. And when you are responsible
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  Speaker 1: for people, it creates stress and trauma. Because the moment
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  Speaker 1: they become disruptive, they attack you. Jump in the pool
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  Speaker 1: when somebody's drowning and watch them punch you. And here
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  Speaker 1: you jumped in to save them. And now you have
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  Speaker 1: to fight the one you're trying to save. If you
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  Speaker 1: think about it hard enough in your own life, you've
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  Speaker 1: had experiences where you had to fight the one. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to say, I'm trying to warn you. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that this is going to blow up
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  Speaker 1: in your face. I told you not to put the
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  Speaker 1: aluminum foil in the microwave. I'm trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to warn you. And now the whole kitchen
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  Speaker 1: is in smoke and the fire alarms are going off
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  Speaker 1: and you're saying, oops, but if you would have listened
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  Speaker 1: to what I told you, I could have saved you
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  Speaker 1: this experience. Now the fire department is on its way
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  Speaker 1: to the house and I have to explain what we
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  Speaker 1: could have avoided. This is the tension of the text.
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  Speaker 1: It is not just the heat of the sun or
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  Speaker 1: the cold of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Or the extinguishing of Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: It is the uncertainty of people and how they reacted
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  Speaker 1: to that uncertainty. These are the people who danced at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea. And they have gone from dancing at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea to dragging their way through the desert
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  Speaker 1: of sin. Isn't it amazing how people will go from
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  Speaker 1: dancing to dragging? Don't be overly impressed at who runs
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  Speaker 1: the most or shouts the most or leaps the highest
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  Speaker 1: or makes the most noise. That is not a foolproof
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  Speaker 1: test of the authenticity of faith because sometimes the person
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  Speaker 1: who says the least up under attack exemplifies the most
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  Speaker 1: faith But we have a tendency to be overly impressed
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  Speaker 1: with outward demonstrations as if it were a declaration of
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  Speaker 1: true faith. But before you get through walking, your faith
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  Speaker 1: will be tested beyond your dance. Y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. They danced at the Red Sea because Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: was drowned. But now they are dragging for Moses and Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: and fighting the lifeguard who is trying to deliver them.
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  Speaker 1: because they have misplaced rage. Misplaced rage. Can I talk
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  Speaker 1: about misplaced rage for a minute? Misplaced rage is the
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  Speaker 1: rage that is actually fear manifest as rage. executed on
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  Speaker 1: the innocent because the guilty are not available. You have
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  Speaker 1: to have been a victim of misplaced rage to understand
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  Speaker 1: the magnitude of what I'm saying. I'm arguing with my wife,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm really angry at my mother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden she hits a trigger that
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  Speaker 1: ignites a rage that's been suppressed in me. And I
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  Speaker 1: acted out on her and she wants to know where
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  Speaker 1: is this coming from? Well it don't really have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with you. It's all the things I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: say to mama. Now I release them on you because
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  Speaker 1: I was hurt. And when people get hurt they hurt people.
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  Speaker 1: So they have entered into a rage against Moses and Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: And two and a half months into the journey, Moses
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  Speaker 1: recognizes that it is easier to travel the wilderness by
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  Speaker 1: yourself than it is to lead people. Yet we live
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  Speaker 1: in a society where everybody can't wait to lead. They
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to have a title. They can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: have a position. All you get is that glass of water.
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  Speaker 1: The only difference between the pulpit and the pews is
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  Speaker 1: that we get a glass of water. A glass that
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  Speaker 1: I hardly ever get to drink. In exchange for that
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  Speaker 1: glass of water, I get every criticism, every fight, every disruption,
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  Speaker 1: every evil thing, every accusation, every attack, every stress. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the water ain't worth it. Get you some Gatorade when
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  Speaker 1: you get back home and save yourself some trouble. It's
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  Speaker 1: not worth it because they are raging against Moses and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron who have done absolutely nothing but been good to them.
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  Speaker 1: But people have memory relapse when they're in an uncertain atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't create this atmosphere. I didn't plan this. This
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  Speaker 1: is what God has allowed to happen. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to take it out on somebody, take it out
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  Speaker 1: on God.
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  Speaker 2: But no.
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  Speaker 1: Misplaced rage makes you a victim of of something that
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  Speaker 1: you had nothing to do with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my.
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  Speaker 1: Now, tonight I'm talking about recognizing God's answers. Because to
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  Speaker 1: a large degree, God's answers don't often look like our prayers. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Recognition could be.
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  Speaker 1: Defined as the brain's ability to identify stimuli or lack situations, places, people, objects, etc.
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  Speaker 1: are all recognition that you have seen before. And so recognition,
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  Speaker 1: in the word recognition, is cognitive. Your brain's ability to
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  Speaker 1: relate what you see to something you have seen. Recognition
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  Speaker 1: is a cognitive ability that makes it possible to recover
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  Speaker 1: stored information and compare it to the information being presented
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  Speaker 1: in front of you. Like you look at somebody and
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  Speaker 1: you say, oh, that's Freddie. I didn't recognize you. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Recognitive. Recall. Cognitive.
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  Speaker 1: Because I saw you before, but I didn't recognize you.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't say I cognize you. I have to
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  Speaker 1: say I recognize you because I have a previous experience
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  Speaker 1: as a reference to have recognition. I have a terrible
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  Speaker 1: problem with names. And when I have to remember somebody's name,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it is easier when I tie it to something that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I remember. So if somebody says, hi, my name is David,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I think Psalm is David. So if I can remember
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the psalmist David, I say, hi David, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Because I need to tie what's in front of me
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  Speaker 1: to something that's behind me.
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  Speaker 2: Recognition.
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  Speaker 1: So when we come to recognizing God's answers, often the
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  Speaker 1: only image we have in mind is what was in
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  Speaker 1: our head. So when God answers and he delivers something,
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  Speaker 1: that it's different than what we saw in our head.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't know how to handle it because the
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  Speaker 1: answer doesn't look like the prayer. Can we go deeper
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  Speaker 1: with this? Let's go to Isaiah 55, six through nine
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  Speaker 1: for a minute. Let's take a look at that. Isaiah 55,
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  Speaker 1: six through nine. Seek the Lord while he may be found.
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  Speaker 1: Call on him. While he is near, let the wicked
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  Speaker 1: forsake their ways. Watch this. And the unrighteous, their thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I understand the wicked forsake their ways.
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  Speaker 1: But when he gets to the unrighteous, he says, forsake
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts. That means that the unrighteous have to be
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  Speaker 1: careful because your thoughts may betray you. I thought I
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  Speaker 1: would be here by now. I thought I would be
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  Speaker 1: married by 30. I thought I would be out of
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  Speaker 1: debt by 50. I thought. And the Bible says forsake,
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  Speaker 1: for you to forsake your thoughts. Ooh, y'all got quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Forsake what you thought marriage is. Forsake what you thought
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  Speaker 1: church was supposed to be. Forsake what you thought you
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  Speaker 1: deserve in a companion. Forsake what you thought you should
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  Speaker 1: be paid on a job. Because God did not promise
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  Speaker 1: to pay you according to your thoughts. but according to his.
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  Speaker 1: And how are you going to let this mind be
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  Speaker 1: in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, while you
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  Speaker 1: hold on to your own? So there has to be
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  Speaker 1: a moment in your life that you go blank and say,
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  Speaker 1: not my will, but thine be done. You know what's best.
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  Speaker 1: Let them turn to the Lord and he will have
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  Speaker 1: mercy on them and to our God for he will
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  Speaker 1: freely pardon them.
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  Speaker 2: For thoughts? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: For he will pardon, he will forgive you. My mother
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  Speaker 1: would say it this way, for thinking like a fool.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't she good for telling you that? You're thinking like
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a fool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: She didn't call us a fool, but she said you're
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: thinking like a fool. That don't make no sense. You're
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: thinking like a fool because she understood parenting is about
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  Speaker 1: teaching how to think. You can't teach a child how
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  Speaker 1: to think when your answer is because I said so.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: So I have a tendency when I'm frustrated with any
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  Speaker 1: individual to say, what were you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I can't understand how you did what you did.
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  Speaker 1: I have a problem with your ways, but the root
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  Speaker 1: of your ways is in your thoughts. Anytime you see
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  Speaker 1: somebody acting a certain way, the action is the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of their thinking.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: What were you thinking? Thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Then God goes on and says, for my thoughts are
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: not your thoughts. That's why I want you to forsake
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts. Because my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither
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  Speaker 1: are your ways. My ways. Now we keep seeing this
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  Speaker 1: ribbon tied between thoughts and ways. Thoughts and ways. His
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  Speaker 1: thoughts justified by his ways. Your thoughts justified by your ways.
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  Speaker 1: God declares unto you, I'm not thinking what you're thinking.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And my ways. Of getting you there. Are not your way.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I swore I was going to bless you. But I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: didn't tell you how. I swore I would bring you out.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: But I didn't tell you through whom. I thought it
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: was going to come through the bishop. I thought it
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: was going to come through the music.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I thought it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Your thoughts, get them out of the way. Get them
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: out of the way. If you can surrender your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: to God, what you think about it, rather than building
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  Speaker 1: a shrine around your opinion and worshiping at the altar
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  Speaker 1: of that that is fragile. And open yourself up. That's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: what I surrender really means. I surrender all. Means I
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  Speaker 1: surrender what I had in mind. I surrender what I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: had planned. I surrender how I thought it would turn out.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I surrender my definition of success at this stage in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: my life. For instance, somebody says, oh, you're such a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: successful pastor. And I always think to myself, are you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: talking about quantity or quality? Who says that the most
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: successful pastor is the one with the most members? Perhaps
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: God goes by quality and not by quantity. Oh, y'all
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna talk to me tonight. So all of a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: sudden you are judging on the outer appearance and God
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  Speaker 1: is looking at the heart. And it could be that
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  Speaker 1: the guy in the storefront with 12 members is a
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  Speaker 1: more successful pastor because he is qualitative and not quantitative.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We like it big. We do it big in Texas.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I want to see big. I want to see big.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: God wants to see qualities. So I'm a big man,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: but are you a good man? I found out that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you can be strong in your body and weak in
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: your will. You can be physically strong and emotionally weak.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And some little old girl that weighed 90 pounds soaking
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: wet can be tougher than nails and can't.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Lift up a barbell.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So when you start talking about strength, are you talking
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: about outer strength or inner strength? Outer strength is deceptive.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Because you can be strong outwardly and be fragile inwardly.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Or you can be fragile outwardly and be tough inwardly.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's some tough people
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: in here tonight. They might not look tough. They might
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: not dress tough. They may not have triceps or biceps
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but mess with them. The bad
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: thing about messing with people, you don't know how tough
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: they are until you hit them. And all of a sudden,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that little woman that you thought wasn't tough, starts pulling
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: down the mantelpiece and grabbing up the candlesticks and coming
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: at you and saying, you touch.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: My child, I'll kill you.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Toughness can't always be quantified by what you thought. So
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  Speaker 1: as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
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  Speaker 1: my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: God is trying to teach them to forsake what they
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  Speaker 1: had in mind so that they can recognize.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: His answers.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Seldom in my life has his answers looked like my prayer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Seldom in my life has his answers looked like my prayer.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: His answer came in such a way that it confused them.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you what I mean. God's answers
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: can't be cognitive. They cannot be cognitive. So God says
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: over and over again, I will show you. Okay, because
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: where I'm getting ready to take you, you don't have
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a predetermined picture in your mind for what I'm getting
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: ready to do in your life. You have no point
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of reference for what I'm about to do in your life.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm talking
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to somebody in this room right now or on the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: stream right now. You have no point of reference. God
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: is going to do a new thing in your life.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: The former things have passed away. So I'm going to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: forget those things which are behind and I'm going to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: reach to those things which are before because God is
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: going to do something in you that you never saw
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: in your mother, that you never saw in your father,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that you didn't see in your grandparents, that you didn't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: see reflected in your neighbors, that you didn't see coming
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in your life and it cannot be cognitive and still
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: be divine. God is going to do something like you
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: have never seen him ever do before. And so he says,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I will show you. Type it on the line. I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: will show you. Put it in your notes. I will
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: show you. I can show you better than I can
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: tell you. I will show you. I will show you
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that I will provide for you. I will show you
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that I can heal you. I will show you that
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I can bring you out. I will show you that
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I can supply all your needs. I will show you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: that there's a method to what looks like madness in
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: your life. I will show you why your family rejected you.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I will show you why your father forsook you. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: will show you why your mother didn't raise you. Stop
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: murmuring and complaining just because you're hungry for something that
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you didn't get.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I will show you.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I already considered what they weren't going to be in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: your life. I will show you. Not your mother, not
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: your father, not your sister, not your brother. I will
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: show you. Keep on walking with me and I will
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: show you because you will not recognize what I'm getting
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: ready to do in your life because you have never
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: passed this way before. You have never passed this way before.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And if you can put up with the trauma of uncertainty,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Eventually I will show you I got a plan to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: work this out that you haven't seen. It's not on
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: your blueprints. It's not on your drawings. It's not on
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: your schedule. It's never been done before. I am going
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to do something new in you. It's not going to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: be like your first pastor. It's not going to be
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: like your childhood. I will show you. Look at somebody
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and tell them God's going to show you. Don't worry
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: about it. God's going to show you. You don't understand
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: it right now.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: God is going to show you. You don't recognize God's
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: hand and where you're at right now, but God's going
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: to show you. It doesn't look like God is with you,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: but God is going to show you. You feel like
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: God has forsaken you, but God is going to show you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: You don't recognize anything around you, not a street sign,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: not a road marker. You don't know where you are.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: You're at a stage in your life of uncertainty. You
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: have never been this age before. You have never been
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: at this stage before. It's foreign to you. You don't
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: know what to do in this season of your life.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You try to do what you used to do. You
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: can't do what you used to do. You try to
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: do what you're going to do. And you can't do
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: what you're going to do. But stand still and see
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the salvation of the Lord.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I will show you. Type it on the line. I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: will show you. Put it on the pad. I will
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: show you. Tell your neighbors, I will show you. When
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: it's time for you to know, you're going to know.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: When it's time for you to see, you're going to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: see it. When it's time for you to understand it,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you're going to understand it. Until then, walk by faith
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: and not by sight. When it's time for your eyes
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: to open, they're going to open. When it's time for
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you to see, you're going to see it. But I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: told you to go to the pool and I knew
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you were blind and I want you to grope after
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: it and feel after it. And when you get to
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the water, I will. Everybody who got that, give him
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a praise right now. I got this building and I
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: didn't know how we was going to pay for it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I had no clue. There was nothing in my background
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: that prepared me to need, I can't remember now, something
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: around $ 86 million just to build a sanctuary. I had
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: no point of reference. I could not recognize a strategy
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: because there was nothing in my past of that magnitude.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I told my mother about it. She said, baby, I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: can't think that high. I thought, Lord, Mama, I can't either.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: But God said, I will show you. They told me
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: not to build this kind of church in this kind
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: of neighborhood. They told me I ought to move up
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: to North Dallas and build the church where the money was.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: But God told me to stay right here. I will
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: show you. Now, they didn't give me bad advice. They
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: gave me good advice. That makes really good sense. But
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: this is not cognitive. This is supernatural. This is not
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: natural wisdom. This is not the wisdom of men. This
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: is the foolishness of God. God has a way of
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: doing things that boggles the mind of the wise. God says,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I will show you. Some of you, God told you
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to move here. And you said, Lord, I don't even
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: know what to do here. He said, that's all right.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Just go ahead and move here. I will show you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Glory to God. And so you packed up your stuff
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and you moved by faith. And you told your family
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you were moving and they thought you were crazy. But
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you left your kindred and you went to a place
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: that God said when you get there, I will show
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: you now you're learning about faith now you're learning about
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: trust now you're learning about prayer now you're learning about
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: power and every now and then your mind says what
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: are you doing here but don't let your mind talk
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you back to where you've already been this is not
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: cognitive this is supernatural God said I will show you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: if I'm preaching the right thing in the right place
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to the right people make some noise in here right
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: now He's going to show you. He's going to show you.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: That's why he's got you on line tonight. Because he
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: wants to reaffirm in you, he's got a plan. He
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: hasn't revealed it to you yet, but he says, I
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: will show you. When the time is right, God is
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: going to reveal everything to you as a believer. But
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: until then, he has to test you to see if
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: you will walk in obedience without understanding. Watch this, get
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Genesis 12 and one, let's go deeper. Oh, I'm talking
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: to somebody. Anybody on a faith journey right now? And
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: you're in the wilderness and you don't understand it. And
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: there's a feeling of uncertainty. And you got great faith,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: but sometimes you murmur and complain. Because God got you
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: out your element and got you out of your comfort zone.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And you got a bunch of critics criticizing you. But
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: God keeps saying, I will show you. That's why you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: had to be in this Bible class tonight. Because God
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: has given somebody confirmation. I don't know who it is,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: but I feel a spirit of confirmation coming in this
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: place right now. God will show you why you had
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: to be here, why you had to do it then,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: why you had to move now, why you don't have
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: no friends yet, why you're still uncertain. God shook you
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: away from that which was familiar because it wasn't fruitful enough.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: And he brought you into a place where you could
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: be fruitful. And he says, I will show you. Give
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: him 30 seconds of crazy praise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But Lord, I'm making less money. Don't worry about the money.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I will show you. But Lord, they don't even recognize
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: who I am. Don't worry about being recognized. I will
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: show you. But Lord, I had a big title where
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I was. Don't worry about titles. I will show you.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: This is not about titles. This is not about recognition.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: This is not about fame. This is not about fortune.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I'm fixing something down in you. And until I get
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: it fixed... Until I get it fixed, you're not going
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: to understand it, but you got to trust me.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I will show you.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Glory, I feel the anointing all over me. I feel
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the spirit of a prophetic utterance all over me. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: feel a word from God flowing in this place. I
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: feel the power of God speaking in this place. God
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: is going to show you. If that's your word for tonight,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: give him a praise and thank him.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, clap your hands and praise him.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Go home and tell your children God's going to show us.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Tell your spouse God's going to show us. Tell all
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: them critics who are talking about you like a dog,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: God's going to show you. He's going to prepare a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: table before me in the presence of my enemies. He's
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: going to anoint my head with oil. My cup's going
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to run over and God's going to show you. Where
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I came from, they called me Jim Jones. They called
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: me a cult because 50 folks went with me. And
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: that sounds like a cult to me. I don't care
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: what it sounds like to you. God told me to
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: do it. He told them to come. Now, 25 years later,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: they're standing there with the teeth hanging out their mouth
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: because God will show you. In due season, let us
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: not be weary in well doing for you shall reap
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: in due season if you faint not.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. It's coming. It's coming.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Type it
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: on the line. It's coming. It's coming. Say it to
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: your neighbor. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: You don't see it right now, but I will. Come on,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: let's go deeper.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Come on, sit down.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Let's go deeper. Let's go deeper. Oh, something's going to
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: happen in here tonight. I feel the spirit of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit speaking in this place. There are word of
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: knowledge flowing in this place right now. There's word of
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: wisdom flowing in this place right now. God just comforted
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: somebody's anxiety. He said, I will show you. I will
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: show you. I will show you. Just rest in me
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  Speaker 1: and trust me. I will show you. I will give
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  Speaker 1: streams in the middle of your desert. I will bring
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  Speaker 1: water out of a rock. I will supply all of
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  Speaker 1: your needs according to his riches and glory.
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  Speaker 2: I will... Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Genesis 12 and 1. And the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: said to Abram, go from your country, your people... and
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  Speaker 1: your father's household. Three yours, your country, your people, your
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  Speaker 1: father's household. To the land, I will. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: So if you go from your, you come to mine.
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  Speaker 1: Your country, your kindred, your father's household, you gave up
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  Speaker 1: three yours to get one I. Everything you thought was yours,
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  Speaker 1: God dislodged you from it. Everything that was familiar to you,
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  Speaker 1: God dislodged you from it. And brought you from three
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  Speaker 1: yours to one I. I will show you.
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  Speaker 2: Say it. I will show you. Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you.
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  Speaker 2: Say it again. I will show you. Say it again.
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  Speaker 2: I will show you. One more time. I will show you.
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  Speaker 2: Now praise him for his word. Just his word. Just
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  Speaker 2: his word. Just his word. Just his word. Just his word.
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  Speaker 2: Just his word.
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  Speaker 1: Because in him dislodging me from the your, I am
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  Speaker 1: discovering the I. I can't hold on to the your
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  Speaker 1: and possess the I. So I have to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to let go of your thoughts so I can have
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts. Your way so I can have his way.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get rid of mine. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: hard part. That's the hard part. Because that's my kindred.
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  Speaker 1: That's my country. That's my father's house.
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  Speaker 2: I know it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand it. I'm acclimated to it. I evolved from it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar to it. I'm kin to it. I'm skin
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  Speaker 1: to it. I'm related to it. And you want me
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  Speaker 1: to leave everything that I am related to or everything
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  Speaker 1: I relate to to bring me out into this desert
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  Speaker 1: of uncertainty and all I have is your word on
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  Speaker 1: it and God said that's right I'm going to strip
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  Speaker 1: you from every post you've been leaning on until you
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  Speaker 1: don't have nobody else to trust but me And I
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  Speaker 1: will show you. Not I have shown you. I will
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  Speaker 1: show you. So while I'm waiting on the will.
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  Speaker 2: I got to walk.
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  Speaker 1: I got to walk while I'm waiting on the will.
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  Speaker 1: Because the will is futuristic and the walk is now.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm walking in uncertainty toward his will. Oh, y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: I will show you. Oh, this is good. Go to
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 22. I got one more.
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  Speaker 2: I still ain't got to my text yet, so I
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  Speaker 2: got to hurry up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He said to Abraham, Here
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  Speaker 1: I am, Abraham replied. He said to him, excuse me, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: here am I, he replied. Then God said, take your son.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute now, Lord. It's all right for me
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  Speaker 1: to be out here. Take your son, your only son,
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  Speaker 1: whom you love, Isaac. And go to the region of Moriah.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Underline region of Moriah. I think you got Bibles. Highlight it.
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  Speaker 1: Do whatever you do with whatever device you got. Region
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  Speaker 1: of Moriah. God will put you in the region. He'll
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  Speaker 1: put you in the region without telling you exactly where.
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  Speaker 1: Let's test this by the word. God brought Ruth the
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  Speaker 1: Moabitess into the region of Boaz's field. She was in
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  Speaker 1: the region of what she would later own. But God
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  Speaker 1: just put you in the region. That's why your soul
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  Speaker 1: keeps getting happy. Because even though you haven't hit it yet,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're close.
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  Speaker 2: Find somebody to holler, I'm close. I'm close.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the region. You should have killed me before
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  Speaker 1: I got to the region. You should have took me
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  Speaker 1: out before I got to the region. I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: region of my promised land. I'm in the region of
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  Speaker 1: my destiny. I'm in the region of my purpose. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the region. No, I count not myself to have apprehended,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm in the region. I'm not there yet, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the region. I'm closer than I've ever been
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  Speaker 1: in my life. How do you know? My spirit knows it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't see it, but I sense it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: touch it, but I sense it. It's not in my
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  Speaker 1: bank yet, but I sense it. I haven't got married yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I sense it. It hasn't materialized, but I sense it.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, yeah, because you're in
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  Speaker 1: the region.
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  Speaker 2: You're in the region.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the devil is fighting you because you're in
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the region. You will know you're in the region by
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  Speaker 1: the level of attack that comes against you. You remember
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus cast the devils out of legion and the
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  Speaker 1: devil said, suffer us not to leave the land.
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  Speaker 2: Region.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to leave this territory because anytime somebody
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  Speaker 1: comes into this territory, it's our job to drive them
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  Speaker 1: away from the region. I've always known that God was
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  Speaker 1: going to bless me by how the devil attacked me.
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  Speaker 1: The greater the attack, the greater the blessing. You'd never
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  Speaker 1: send legions of demons if I weren't in the Oh,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: somebody watching online, that was your word. You're in the region.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: All hell is breaking loose. Before you finish one thing,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: here comes something else. Before you straighten out that, you
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: get attacked by this. It's a crazy attack. It's a
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: ridiculous attack. It don't make no sense, does it? No,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: because it's demonic. You're in spiritual warfare. And the reason
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you're in spiritual warfare is because you're in the Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, oh my God, oh my God. I messed
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  Speaker 1: up and stepped in the region. I crossed the line
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  Speaker 1: and I got in the territory. I stepped into a
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  Speaker 1: place of my destiny and the money's not flowing yet
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  Speaker 1: and the title's not there and the job's not there,
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  Speaker 1: but I can tell I'm.
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  Speaker 2: In the region.
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  Speaker 1: Make some noise if I'm preaching to you. Make some
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: noise if I'm talking to you. Make some noise if
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  Speaker 1: you hear God. speaking to you. I'm in the region.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I'm in the region. I'm in the region. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the territory and the enemy's trying to get you off
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the territory. When the Bible says neither give place to
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the devil, it means don't give territory to the devil.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Once you take over a territory, don't let the devil
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  Speaker 1: have that territory because you're closer now than you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been in your life. Lord, I feel like I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: right to somebody, like I'm talking right to an individual.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what name to call, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking specifically to somebody who I have totally described your situation.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the region. Shout if you're in the region.
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  Speaker 1: The devil didn't attack you till you got in the region.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as you got in the region, here comes
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  Speaker 1: legions of demons coming out to attack you because you're
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  Speaker 1: in the region. So God says to Abraham, go to
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  Speaker 1: the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: offering on a mountain. I will show you. You're in
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the region and I'm still not going to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you which mountain. But you're
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  Speaker 1: in the right mountain range. This is not cognitive. You
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  Speaker 1: have never been here before. You can't recognize this because
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: you have never done this before. You have to sense
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  Speaker 1: you're in the region. Now this sensing thing is a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual thing. This is why worship is important because worship
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: opens up your spiritual senses. Some of you don't understand worship.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: And so you endure the worship waiting on the word
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: because you understand the word, but you really don't get
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: the worship. And you say, well, I'm not emotional. I'm
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: not in the worship. We're not worshiping God because we're emotional.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: We're worshiping God in spite of our emotions. We're not
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  Speaker 1: worshiping God because we feel like worshiping God. We're trying
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  Speaker 1: to wake up our supernatural senses. Worship opens up your
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: spiritual senses. I never could understand it because I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in a traditional mainline church where the only time
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  Speaker 1: people shouted was when somebody starts singing something. And then
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I got around charismatic Pentecostal people and they start shouting
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: and wasn't nothing going on in the service. And I
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: was looking around trying to see what they were shouting about.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: But see, there was something in their senses. The book
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: of Hebrews says that you have your senses changed. by
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: reason of use. So your spiritual eye gate, ear gate,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: mouth gate, touch gate gets stimulated or exercised by using it.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ways you use it is in worship.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're worshiping a God you can't see around people
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  Speaker 1: you can see. And you're not talking to the people
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: that you can see, but talking to the God that
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: you can't see. And the more you talk to the
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  Speaker 1: God you can't see, your senses are being exercised by
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: reason of use. The word translated exercise there is gymnasia,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: where we get gymnasium. So when God gets ready to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: give you a good workout, he shuts out all of
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: your natural senses so that you can sense in your
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: spirit what the Lord is saying to the church. Otherwise,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: this scripture don't make any sense. He that hath an ear,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: let him hear what the Spirit is saying to church.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Lord, everybody got an ear. He said,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about your natural ear. I'm talking about
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: your spiritual ear. He that hath an ear, let him
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit is saying to the church means
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: that I'm not going to talk to you in an
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: audible way. I'm going to speak to you in a
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: spiritual way and you're going to sense it in your
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: belly though you heard nothing in your ear. Am I
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: making sense to you? And I put you in the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: worship service so your senses could be exercised by reason
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: of use. Can I go deeper? Cognitive recall requires past experiences. So,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: do you remember your second cousin, Willie James, from Chicago? See, well,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: let me think a minute. I'm being cognitive. Let me
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: think about it. I had a past experience with him.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, girl, I remember him. I read.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Remember him. Because he's my point of reference. I had
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: to search through my cognitive reasoning in order to catch
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: a glimpse of vision. One of the things that is
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: associated with memory is eyesight. There is a correlation between
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: eyesight and memory. And so what I see with my eyes,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I record with my mind. But what about when God
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: gives me something that my eyes haven't seen? and my
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: ears haven't heard, and neither has entered into my heart.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I can't be cognitive because I can't see it. That's
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: how I remember you, because I saw you. And I say,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: that's Sarita. She changed her hair, but that's you. It
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: took me a minute to recognize you. You did your
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: hair different. But I remembered your face. That means I
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: had to encounter you before to recognize, to recognitive you.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: What God is getting ready to do in your life
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: is not cognitive. We remember through associative cognition. Foreign names
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: can be challenging to remember because we don't have cognitive association.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: So when somebody says, my name is Allah Baba Shahanda Boshi.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: You say, I'm going to call you A. It wouldn't
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: be a problem to remember it if you grew up
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: around names like that because you would have the association
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: to help you to be cognitive. But what about when
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: God does something for which you have no association and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: your eyes haven't seen it I remember because I saw.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: It's hard to remember if I'm blind because my eye
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: gate helps my mind to record data. We get back
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: in the car, my wife will say, I'll say, which
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: one are you talking about? She said, the girl in
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the red dress.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: She recorded it because she saw the dress. That's her
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: cognitive ability. Through association, she remembers the woman because she
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: remembers the dress. I don't know who she talking about.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't pay no attention to the woman or
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the dress. But I tell her, go on with the story,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: go on with the story, go on, you know, release yourself,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: let yourself go, tell me about it, go on. And
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the next time we're in church, I say, which one
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: was it? Am I telling the truth? I do it
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Which one?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Show me which one you're talking about. Because I need
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: to see her, pay attention, and record it in my
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: head because my eyes are helping my mind to remember.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: If we don't have cognitive association, we can't remember. Go
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: to John 6, 13, 15. I'm almost there. So they
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: gathered them and filled 12 baskets and the pieces of
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: to say, watch this. Surely this is the prophet who
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: has come into the world.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Jesus didn't just go to the mountain
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: to pray. He went to the mountain to hide because
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: they had recognized him to be the Messiah. Now I
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: understand why the disciples didn't recognize him when he walked
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: on the water. Because he had hidden what they recognized
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: and showed himself in another form that made the disciples
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: think he was a ghost. Because what drove him in
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: the mountain to pray in the first place is that
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to be coronated before being crucified. Give
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: me that other text. Put that other text up here
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: again because I want them to recognize the former text,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the one you had up there before. Yeah. So they
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: gathered them and filled 12 baskets and the pieces of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: After the people saw the sign Jesus performed when he
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: took the two fish and five loaves of bread and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: fed the 5,000, they began to say, surely this is
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: the prophet who is coming to the world. Jesus, knowing
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: that they intended to come and make him king by force,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: not by cross, by force, withdrew again to a mountain
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: by himself.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: You can't let.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: People crown you before your time. Don't let their compliments
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: and their flattery push you into a position that you
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: are not ready for right now. Let patience have its
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: perfect work. God will show you when it's time for
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: you to move. Until then, it's better to hide even
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: from your friends. who are trying to force you, child,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: if that was me, I would take over that church.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: If that was me, I would get that man. If
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: that was me, I would take that job. If that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: was me, shut up, it's not you. You're not gonna
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: force me into being king because my next scheduled appointment
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: isn't with the crown, but a cross. And the steps
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: he delighteth in his way.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Let me go on.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go to Matthew 14, 25, 29, so
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: you can see how when Jesus came in the fourth
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: watch of the night, Jesus went unto them walking on
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the sea.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: they were troubled, saying, it's a spirit. And they cried
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: out for fear. Why didn't they recognize Jesus? They had
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: just seen him before. But the problem the disciples kept
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: having with Jesus is that they could not recognize Jesus
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: whenever he showed up in another form. But straightway Jesus
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: be not afraid. They didn't recognize his form, but they
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: recognized his voice. For the Bible said, My sheep, know
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: my voice and a stranger they will not follow. Now
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: the form and the voice didn't line up with each
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: other but when they heard the voice they said that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: sounds like him and Peter answered him and said Lord
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: if it be thou bid me to come unto thee
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: on the water. I still don't trust the form because
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: the form don't look like the guy I left going
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: up on the mountain and the guy I left walking
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: on the sand is not the form I see walking
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: on the water. That's why God told Moses, you can't
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: define me. I am that I am. See, I can
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: turn into whatever I need to be whenever I need
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: to be to do whatever I got to do because
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: I'm God. I can be water flowing out of rock.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I can be honey in a lion. I can be
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: the bread of heaven. I can be whatever I want
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: to be. And now he's in another form, but he
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: had the same voice. And he said, come and when
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Peter was come down out of the ship he walked
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: on the water to go to Jesus I said all
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: of that to get to the text in our text
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: we learn that God's answers often defy our recognition he
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: said I'm going to send you bread remember I'm back
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: in Exodus I'm in Exodus 16, 1 through 5, 31
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: through 32. He said, I'm going to send bread, but
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the people called it manna. They were looking for bread.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. What is their cognition of bread?
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  Speaker 2: Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The only bread they recognized was Egyptian bread. So when
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  Speaker 1: God sent bread down from heaven, they didn't recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: They called it manna, which means what is it? Now
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  Speaker 1: God called it bread. They called it manna. What is
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  Speaker 1: the difference between bread and manna? It's what your cognitive
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  Speaker 1: thoughts tell you it should have looked like, and now
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  Speaker 1: it's in front of you, and the answer doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like what you thought. Oh, I'm working on something. The
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  Speaker 1: reason I'm in this text tonight, well, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reasons I'm in this text tonight, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons that I'm in this text tonight is because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes God's answer looks so different from what you thought
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  Speaker 1: that you will reject his answer because you don't recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the substratum of the gospel. He came unto
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  Speaker 1: his own and his own received him not because they
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  Speaker 1: did not recognize They did not recognize it. If the
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  Speaker 1: princes of this world would have known what they were doing,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: they would have never crucified the Lord, but they did
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  Speaker 1: not recognize it. Who do men say that I am?
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  Speaker 1: Some say that thou art Elias, and some say that
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  Speaker 1: thou art Jeremiah. Who do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 1: Only one of the 12 recognize him. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: guy who recognized him on the water. Thou art the Christ. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear. Y'all ain't shouting good as I'm preaching.
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  Speaker 1: Thou art the Christ, the son of the true and
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  Speaker 1: living God. And Jesus says, flesh and blood have not
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  Speaker 1: revealed this unto you. You didn't get this through your
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  Speaker 1: natural eyes, but my father, which is in heaven, And
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  Speaker 1: upon this rock, I will build my church and the
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  Speaker 1: gates of hell should not prevail against it. I will
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  Speaker 1: build my church on the backs of men and women
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  Speaker 1: who can sense what they don't see. who can recognize
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  Speaker 1: me in another form, who has supernatural revelation of who
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm going to build my church every so often.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to raise up a man or a woman
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  Speaker 1: who can see what other people cannot see. And if
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  Speaker 1: you can see what they cannot see, you can get
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  Speaker 1: what they cannot get. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to you. Look at your neighbor and say, you
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  Speaker 1: better recognize. You better recognize that is your wife. You
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  Speaker 1: better recognize that is your husband. Oh no, that can't
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  Speaker 1: be my husband. He too short. I ain't gonna go
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  Speaker 1: on down that road. I could go, I could really
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  Speaker 1: play with that, but I ain't gonna bother. You got
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  Speaker 1: all these things in your mind of what it ought
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  Speaker 1: to look like. But relationships at last aren't built on
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  Speaker 1: what you look like. They're built on something you sense
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  Speaker 1: about that person and that sensitivity transcends outer appearance because
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  Speaker 1: outer appearance may change but what you sense remains I've
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  Speaker 1: told it a dozen times but I'll tell it again
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  Speaker 1: if you took me to my mother-in-law's house and put
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  Speaker 1: me in the living room with the red and black
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  Speaker 1: furniture in it and I could put an X on
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  Speaker 1: the spot where I knew she was my wife I could,
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  Speaker 1: I declare, I promise you, I could put an X
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  Speaker 1: right on the spot where I knew she was my wife.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell her I knew it. I didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: her at all. I got back in the car with
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  Speaker 1: my friend Jerry and I told him, come on fellas,
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  Speaker 1: you know we don't tell them, you tell your boy.
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  Speaker 1: I told my boy, I said, I'm going to marry
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  Speaker 1: that woman. He said, yeah, man. I said, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to marry that woman. I just know I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to marry that woman. I'm supposed to marry that woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's the one. How do you know it? I sensed it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I sensed it. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: exactly ask her to marry me. Yeah, I did find me.
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  Speaker 1: She said I didn't ever ask her. I did, you know, finally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, eventually. But what I said to her was,
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  Speaker 1: we were driving down the road going to Kanawha City,
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  Speaker 1: and we were on the boulevard, and I said, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about something, and I said, I guess if
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  Speaker 1: I was to marry you, you would say yes, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad line. Don't try to use that line.
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  Speaker 1: That was the best I could come up with. And
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  Speaker 1: she said, well, yeah. I said, that's close enough. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go off of that. We're going to go
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  Speaker 1: off of that. We're going to go off of that.
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  Speaker 1: That was the proposal. I did better later when I
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  Speaker 1: gave her a second wedding ring. I got on my
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  Speaker 1: knees and did all the fancy stuff. But the first
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  Speaker 1: time I was driving, I said, if I was to
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  Speaker 1: marry you, I just assume you would say yes.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: What am I after tonight? I am after this.
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  Speaker 1: To recognize God's answer, you have to let go of
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  Speaker 1: your image. Because God didn't promise you something that you listed.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: God said, when you get to the right region, I
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: will show you. Okay, now we're gonna go to this
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  Speaker 1: text right quick and I'm gonna wrap this up. Exodus 16,
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  Speaker 1: one through five. I'm gonna read it again, 31 through 32.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're reading it, fully understanding what's happening. So the
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  Speaker 1: whole Israel community set out from Elam and came to
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  Speaker 1: the desert of sin, which is between Elam and Sinai
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  Speaker 1: on the 15th day of the second month After they
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  Speaker 1: had come out of Egypt, they'd been walking for two
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: and a half months in the desert. The whole community grumbled.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: They had got a bad attitude.
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  Speaker 2: It's hot.
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  Speaker 1: They'd been walking for two and a half months. They
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  Speaker 1: mad at Moses and Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: The Israelites said to them, if only we had, now
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: they bitter, we had died. They want to die by
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: the Lord's hand. What difference does it make where you die?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: If you're going to die in the wilderness or die
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: in Egypt, you're still dead. When people say stupid stuff,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: don't argue. Don't argue with them because they're traumatized. What
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  Speaker 1: difference does it make whether you die in Egypt or
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: die in the wilderness?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: You dead either way.
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  Speaker 1: Now you sitting out here mad at me, because you're
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: going to die in the wrong spot. There we sat, now,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: and by the way, you got amnesia. There we sat
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: But you're going to die there. What difference does it
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: make what you eat? This is the last meal. But
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: you have brought us out into this desert to starve
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: this entire assembly to death. So you want to go
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  Speaker 1: back to Egypt so you can die. And by the way,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: you remember the food of Egypt and forgot the slavery?
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: You forgot how you had to make bricks without straw?
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  Speaker 1: You forgot how mean Pharaoh was to you and how
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: he abused you and you want to go back to
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: abuse for dinner? Have you ever traded better for lesser?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Because it tastes good? Oh, they got quiet again, Jesus.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: You went back to an abuser.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: For what?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Why would you go back to somebody who was abusing you?
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Because they can cook. So now the Lord is ticked.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm a rain down bread from heaven for you.
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  Speaker 1: The people are to go out each day and gather
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: enough for that day. And in this way, I will
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: On the sixth day, they are to prepare. Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: Hold it. Don't move nowhere. Prepare?
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  Speaker 3: All my life I thought it was loaves of bread.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: All my life I thought God sent hot dog buns
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: and English muffins. All my life I pictured sandwiches falling
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: from heaven. I didn't know that I had to cook.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. There is a message here. What God
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: let rain down from heaven wasn't done. It had to
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: be prepared. What God lets rain down from heaven is potential.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: No wonder they didn't recognize it. Because they hadn't prepared it.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: Could you have a blessing in raw form that you
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: don't recognize because you haven't given it enough attention to
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: prepare it to reach its fullest potential? And so you
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: are longing after, lusting after something that's more prepared because
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: you don't want to put the work in to take
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: it from manna.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: To bread.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Write down collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Moses experience. I don't have time to
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: work with that. I'm out of time. But this is
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: Moses experience. All throughout Moses' life, God is teaching Moses collaboration.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: That it will not be all God, but it will
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: be God and man. So when the first Ten Commandments
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: came down, Lord, let me stop. Let me quit. When
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: they got the first Ten Commandments, number one, the first
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: time they got it orally, and then they said, this
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  Speaker 1: we will do. The second time they got it, God
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: hewed out the stone and wrote the commandments. But when
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Moses came down off the mountaintop with that that was
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: all God, they had built the idol. He dropped it
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: and it broke. The next time God said, you hew
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  Speaker 1: out the stone and I will write on it. That's collaboration.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: Over and over again, God keeps teaching us collaboration. I
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  Speaker 1: am not going to rain down potential that you won't prepare.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: So you ask God for a job. God gave you
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: an interview. You ask God for a wife, God gave
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: you a date. You ask God for a second chance,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: God just gives you opportunity. Opportunity to be saved. Opportunity
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: to save yourself. Opportunity to change your life. Opportunity to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: fix your situation. It is within your reach. It is
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: within your reach. God didn't let the manna fall in
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  Speaker 1: the tent. They had to go out and reach for it.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch forth your hand. You are coming into a reaching
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: season that God is going to put the opportunity within
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  Speaker 1: your reach. And the more you stretch yourself, to recognize
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: that this is my opportunity, the more God is going
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: to bring it in. It's not going to be by
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: his hand alone. It's going to be when you snatch
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: the opportunity. Now snatch it back to you. That's what
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: the rest of this year is going to be like
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: for you. You've got to snatch that thing back to you.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but I feel
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: chill bumps all over me. The glory of God is
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: in this place. The spirit of God is in this place.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: You have got to prepare it. God is not going
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: to get an oven and bake the manna and turn
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: it into bread for you. He's just going to give
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: you the potential and you've got to turn around and
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: bake the potential until it looks like bread. Am I
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: helping anybody? Am I helping anybody? If you're watching me
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: online right now, there's some things falling in your life.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: that are in your reach, that are not finished. And
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: if you're not careful, you're gonna step over it and
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: call it manna and not recognize that it is bread.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: God's answers don't look like your prayer. It's gonna look
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: like manna. Now, I don't know who this is for.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: But God sent you something and it ain't finished. And
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: it doesn't look like what you had in mind. And
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: you're about to walk away from it. And you said, manna,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: what is it? This story in Ezekiel 16 is the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of Jesus Christ. Because he said, your fathers did
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: eat manna in the wilderness and they perished. But I
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: am the true bread that cometh down out of heaven.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: But when the true bread came down, they did the
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: same thing with the true bread they did with the manna.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: When he came to his own, they said manna. They
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: did not recognize him as the Messiah because he wasn't finished.
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  Speaker 3: Yet.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this. I'm going to show you one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stop.
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  Speaker 1: The children of Israel have been in Egypt 400 years.
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  Speaker 1: When they came out, they had been out of Egypt
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: actually 430 years, but slaves 400 years. They had been
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: enslaved for 400 years. They are now sons. They've been
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: out two and a half months. And then the manna
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: comes down from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If that's the shadow, how does that compare to the reality?
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  Speaker 1: From Malachi to Matthew, It's 400 years. And in the
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: gospel of St. Matthew, an angel comes along to Mary
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: and says, in a matter of months, you shall bring
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  Speaker 1: forth a son and his name shall be called Jesus.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: And he shall save his people from their sins. But
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: the people said, manna. I want to get manna out
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: of your mouth until you actually believe that what God
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: sent is what God said. And you stop second guessing
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: what the.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: Lord has done. Stand to your feet. I'm going to stop.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: Are you getting anything out of this? There's somebody watching
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: me right now. I don't know whether you're in the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: room or whether you're online. God is sending you potential.
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  Speaker 1: It's potential. It's within your reach. But it don't look
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: like what you thought it would look like. Because God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't give you the finished product. He gives you the potential.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: And you have to reach out and pull it in.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: And the Bible said they boiled it or baked it.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: You haven't processed the potential. It's not that God hasn't answered.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: You got to reach out there in the morning and
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: pull it to you. And then you got to put
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: it together and form it and bake it and then
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  Speaker 1: eat it. Hey, you're closer than you've ever been before.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I'm teaching this tonight is that I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to make the mistake that Israel made,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: that you prayed and God answered, but you walked over
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: the manna looking for bread as if you had no
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: responsibilities to take potential and turn it into bread. Tonight,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, everything you ask God for is
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: within your reach. Stretch out your hands again. It's in
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: the stretch. It won't be comfortable. Your arms will be tired.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: It won't be easy because it's not finished. But whatever
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: that is you've been praying about, get it in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Get it in your spirit. Get it in your senses.
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  Speaker 1: And this time when you pull it in, claim it
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  Speaker 1: for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.