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The Blame Game - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: The year was 1980. I was driving a 1979 Silver
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  Speaker 1: Anniversary Trans Am T-Top with the infrared dash. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: was cool back then. Having driven back and forth to
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  Speaker 1: the embryonic church that I was starting up in the
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  Speaker 1: hills of West Virginia, Montgomery specifically, I was coming back
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  Speaker 1: down the road from my hour or so trek up
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  Speaker 1: there to minister and was just coming up over the
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  Speaker 1: hill when I came up over the crest and there
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  Speaker 1: was a horrific car wreck, a terrible car wreck. One
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  Speaker 1: was coming eastbound, the other car was coming westbound. Somehow
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  Speaker 1: they had gotten, and one had gotten in the other
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  Speaker 1: one's lane. I don't know what happened exactly, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible car wreck just on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the hill. I hit my brakes to avoid being
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  Speaker 1: included in the car wreck, pulled over to the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, and ran over to a victim who
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  Speaker 1: was slumped over in the seat. I was a young man.
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  Speaker 1: I'd never seen such a horrific car accident. And I
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  Speaker 1: ran over to the window. The glass was shattered. Glass
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  Speaker 1: was everywhere. The man was bleeding. His head was against
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  Speaker 1: the steering wheel. And I asked him a question. I said,
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  Speaker 1: do you want me to call the police? And he
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  Speaker 1: turned his head, blood running down his face. He said, no,
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  Speaker 1: call an ambulance. I ran away and I thought, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll call an ambulance. And I did exactly what he
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  Speaker 1: told me to do. I never forgot that moment. I
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  Speaker 1: knew when I asked him, do you want me to
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  Speaker 1: call the police? I knew I had said something foolish.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't exactly know why. Have you ever said
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  Speaker 1: something and as the words were coming out of your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: you thought, catch them. They're getting away. They're getting away.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting away. Send your horses out and bring them
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  Speaker 1: in so nobody will know that you are stupid. I
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  Speaker 1: did not say that. I did not realize in my
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  Speaker 1: youthful exuberance and the lack of experience, I'll blame that.
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  Speaker 1: I did not realize that to a person who is
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  Speaker 1: bleeding on the side of the road, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: who was at fault. If I called the police, he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't concerned about who would get a ticket or who
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  Speaker 1: was responsible for the accident. But the level of accidents
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  Speaker 1: that I had experienced had afforded me the luxury of
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  Speaker 1: being preoccupied with who was at fault. But when the
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  Speaker 1: injury is severe enough, when the damage is overwhelming, when
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  Speaker 1: it is intense and life-threatening, no one cares really about me.
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  Speaker 1: Who is to blame? They want somebody who is solution-oriented,
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  Speaker 1: who can solve the problem. And I didn't understand, but
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  Speaker 1: I came to reflect on that statement. I can still
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  Speaker 1: see him looking at me saying, no, call an ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: It occurs to me, are we calling the police to
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  Speaker 1: hand out citations when we should be calling an ambulance?
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  Speaker 2: This is the Father's touch.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings in the name of the Lord. We have been
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  Speaker 1: talking about blind faith and we're going to continue that
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  Speaker 1: conversation today, but we're going to take it on from
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  Speaker 1: another perspective. Whenever things get derailed and they go crazy,
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  Speaker 1: the first human propensity, the question that we ask more
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  Speaker 1: often than not is, Lord, why? I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that some things are unexplainable. So you cannot waste
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  Speaker 1: time blaming this one or that one or whose fault
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  Speaker 1: it is. You just got to deal with it and
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  Speaker 1: go forward. I'm going to be talking about the blame game.
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  Speaker 1: Watch those toes. I'm going to step on some today.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look. There are some things that just happen.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond reasoning, as much as you worship your intellect and
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  Speaker 1: your ability to understand and how smart you think you
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  Speaker 1: are and how much you think you need to understand,
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  Speaker 1: there are some things that just happen that are beyond
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  Speaker 1: intellectual resolution. You will not get closure trying to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: There are some calamities, disaster, destructions, hurricanes, tornadoes, calamities that
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  Speaker 1: just happen. The Bible says indiscriminately it falls on the
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  Speaker 1: just and the unjust. It doesn't matter how holy you live.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how wild you are. Some stuff just
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  Speaker 1: happens to you. Stop trying to rationalize everything. They looked
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  Speaker 1: at this man born blind And it says to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who sinned? This is the human attempt to rationalize how
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  Speaker 1: did I end up like this? If my father would
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  Speaker 1: have raised me, I wouldn't have been like this. If
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  Speaker 1: my mother wouldn't have given me to my grandmother, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: You would be surprised. You would be surprised. at the
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  Speaker 1: questions lurking over the heads of the people in this.
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  Speaker 2: Room about how did I end up right here? And
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  Speaker 2: you'd be surprised how many people get the blame.
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  Speaker 1: For the disappointments you face every day and for your
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  Speaker 1: lack of vision. That's one of the great things about
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  Speaker 1: getting older. You get... To go to the adult level
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  Speaker 1: of having children and watch them blame you. Like you blamed.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny when the shoe is on the other foot? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't say anything. That's going to have to soak
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  Speaker 1: in on you. Selah. They are having this discussion about.
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  Speaker 3: A blind man who has said nothing at all. This
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  Speaker 3: blind man is not to be confused with other blind
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  Speaker 3: men in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: For other blind men cried out, Jesus, thou son of David,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy on me that I might receive my sight.
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  Speaker 1: But this blind man said nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't even ask to be healed.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says Jesus just came upon him. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like he stumbled upon him. The blind man is standing
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  Speaker 1: there in his blindness and they are having a discussion
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  Speaker 1: about him that does not even include him. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever had people have a discussion about about you that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even include you like you're not even there and
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  Speaker 1: they're having this big debate and they're standing there now
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  Speaker 1: the man is blind but he's not Not deaf. And
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  Speaker 1: they are having a discussion about him as if he
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  Speaker 1: could not hear what they're saying. Whose sin? They're having
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  Speaker 1: a discussion, a learning moment about a personal crisis in
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  Speaker 1: his life. Isn't it funny how people will banter easily
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  Speaker 1: about things that cause you great pain? And they'll discuss
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  Speaker 1: with frivolity things that put you in a crisis mode.
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  Speaker 3: And they'll do it so cheaply as if you had
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  Speaker 3: nothing invested in your own life. What gives them the
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  Speaker 3: right to have this conjecture as to how I got there?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been blind? What did your mama do?
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  Speaker 1: What gives you the right to make assumptions about my
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  Speaker 1: mother and father? You have not even met my mother
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  Speaker 1: and father. How dare you be an authority as to
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  Speaker 1: how I got in here? You're not even blind.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know?
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  Speaker 1: But the problem with the world today is everybody is
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  Speaker 1: an expert on everybody else's life except their own.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesus rebuked him. He told him, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: what you're talking about. Look at your neighbor and say,
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  Speaker 3: you don't know what you're talking about. You think you
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  Speaker 3: got my situation all figured out? You don't know what
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about. I don't even know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I can't figure it out and I'm the one living
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  Speaker 3: in it. Ain't no way you could know me two
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  Speaker 3: or three years and figure out something that I'm still scratching.
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  Speaker 1: My head at 55 trying to figure it out. The
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is... The answer to the mystery
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  Speaker 1: of how you came to be where you are is
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  Speaker 1: not in your head nor in the heads of the
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  Speaker 1: people who speak into your life. But in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of God, there is an answer. to every situation that
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  Speaker 1: you face in your life. That's why you don't have
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  Speaker 1: time to worship me or him or her because they
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they're talking about. Only God knows how
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  Speaker 1: you ended up where you are. And there's nothing like
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  Speaker 1: being the victim of somebody else's rage, misallocated toward you,
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  Speaker 1: because they want to blame you for their dilemma. You'd
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  Speaker 1: be surprised at the people in this room who are
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  Speaker 1: living with somebody else's blame. Subtle, subtle blame. Subtle blame,
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  Speaker 1: not the kind of blame that causes a fight, It's
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  Speaker 1: just the kind of blame that makes you know not
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  Speaker 1: to stay over there too long on Thanksgiving. Because y'all
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  Speaker 1: can enjoy a meal. But if we stay over there
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  Speaker 1: too long, somebody's going to say something that sets it
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  Speaker 1: off in here. Oh, nobody knows what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right. God bless you. See you next time. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the only person who understands these careful little relationships
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  Speaker 1: where you got to tip on eggshell. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: been in a room and you wanted to say something
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  Speaker 1: and you went.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you really said what you really thought, it
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  Speaker 1: would turn the entire evening out. These little relationships are
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  Speaker 1: laced with the strychnine of secret blame. You can't taste it.
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  Speaker 1: You just feel the effects. The loss of intimacy. The
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  Speaker 1: lack of connectivity. The loss of genuine love and admiration.
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  Speaker 1: Swallowed up. Because you blame me. For something. That I
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  Speaker 1: should not be blamed for. Whose sin? Whose sin? His mother's.
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  Speaker 1: Or his father. That he should be born blind. If
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  Speaker 1: sin would make babies go blind. Every kid in here
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  Speaker 1: would black out. Now see people don't like me because
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  Speaker 1: I tell the truth. Every kid in here would be
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  Speaker 1: walking around talking about oh mama I can't see. Yet
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  Speaker 1: people can become so self-righteous. How can you say that
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  Speaker 1: my parents' sin made me blind? Are your kids blind?
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  Speaker 4: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: If you got too much going for you, I can't
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  Speaker 1: show off. But when all hell is breaking loose and
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  Speaker 1: you're down for the count and there's no way in
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  Speaker 1: the world you can get up, God said, that's when
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  Speaker 1: I can show up and show them that I have
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  Speaker 1: been with you all your life. Oh, my God. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I had some help this morning. The emptiness of
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  Speaker 1: an open heart creates a cavity for God to fill.
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  Speaker 1: But a closed mind never receives anything from God. The
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  Speaker 1: only difference between you and the person you admire is
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  Speaker 1: the perspective they have on life.
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  Speaker 4: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
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  Speaker 4: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
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  Speaker 1: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
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  Speaker 1: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
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  Speaker 1: can have fellowship. and you can have failure. If you
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  Speaker 1: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
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  Speaker 1: your outcome.
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  Speaker 1: It is arrogant for a finite mind to think that
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  Speaker 1: you understand an infinite God. You must go back for
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  Speaker 1: the second touch and sometimes the third touch. If you
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  Speaker 1: think about Jesus going back into the Garden of Gethsemane
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, So that he could walk away
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  Speaker 1: saying to his disciples, sleep on, I've got it. We
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  Speaker 1: can't go in and pray one time and walk away
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  Speaker 1: and think that we've got orders from headquarters. You have
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  Speaker 1: to really go before God every day to get new
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  Speaker 1: information and new insights and more clarity. Because sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: walk away and you heard what he said, but you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get what he meant. And I encourage people to
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  Speaker 1: be humble enough to admit you don't know everything. The
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  Speaker 1: emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for God
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  Speaker 1: to fill. But a closed mind never receives anything from God.
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  Speaker 1: Going back a second time and a third and a
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  Speaker 1: fourth is what separates champions and conquerors from failures and defeatists.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, you ought to be blind too.
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  Speaker 1: Because I knew your mama. I'm sorry, I'm back. Come back,
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  Speaker 1: that got away. I have to catch up words, I
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  Speaker 1: bet you they will run away from me. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus rebukes the accuser. There are always accusers in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Now you must understand the spirit of accusation does not
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  Speaker 1: start with men. It starts with Satan. Because Satan is
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  Speaker 1: an accuser of the brethren.
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  Speaker 3: And you must understand the spirit of accusation hovers over
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  Speaker 3: the head of every.
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  Speaker 1: Human being in this room. Accusing you of something, blaming
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  Speaker 1: you of something, creating, suggesting, sowing seeds in your mind
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  Speaker 1: for which you have to deal with guilt over things
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  Speaker 1: you had no real control over. Who are you anyway?
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  Speaker 1: Are you God? That your actions could control somebody else's outcome?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: But when the spirit of accusation comes, people will accuse
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  Speaker 1: you as if you had more influence than you actually did.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you contributed to the problem, but there are other
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  Speaker 1: people who contributed in like manner and they didn't turn
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  Speaker 1: out like that. There are other people who walked away.
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  Speaker 1: There are other people who were irresponsible. There are other
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  Speaker 1: people who didn't spend as much time with their kids
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  Speaker 1: and their kids turned out right. Y'all don't want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to me. Y'all don't want to talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's so easy to say I'm like this because. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as you assign blame to other people, you
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  Speaker 1: can never regain control. The moment you say that it's
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  Speaker 1: something his mother or father did, then he cannot do
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  Speaker 1: anything to fix it. Now the miracle must move from
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  Speaker 1: the blind man to a discussion with his parents. Because
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  Speaker 1: if what they did caused him to be blind, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to do something to undo it. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you brought your brain with me this morning because
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  Speaker 1: I just said something heavy. If you ended up where
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  Speaker 1: you ended up because of somebody else, then you can't
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  Speaker 1: fix where you are. They have to fix it. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of power to give to somebody else?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus rebuked them, recognizing the spirit of accusation comes from
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren.
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  Speaker 1: And there is an accuser in your life right now.
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  Speaker 1: accusing you every time you get up, accusing you every
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  Speaker 1: time you have a happy moment that you don't deserve it,
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  Speaker 1: that you have no right to it, that you should
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  Speaker 1: be ashamed of where you are. There is an accuser
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  Speaker 1: that reigns on every good day, threatening you of a
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  Speaker 1: bad day, holding you hostage in your own mind, bringing
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  Speaker 1: up things for which you cannot change and have no
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  Speaker 1: control over in your life to torment you. And every
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  Speaker 1: time you go down, There is an accuser saying, you
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  Speaker 1: brought that on yourself. There's always a voice that you
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  Speaker 1: wrestle with. See, I don't have time to fight with you.
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  Speaker 1: I got to fight off all them voices that are
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  Speaker 1: talking in my head, telling me to give up and die.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that the blind man didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to rebuke the accuser. Jesus rebuked the accuser and said,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. I have an attorney. that will plead my
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  Speaker 1: case when you make assumptions about me I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to fight for myself Jesus rebuked his own disciples said
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  Speaker 1: neither sinned Watch this. But it was done for the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God. How can God get glory out of blindness?
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  Speaker 1: I made him like this. So I could be glorified
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  Speaker 1: in this. My strength is made perfect. That's what God said.
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  Speaker 1: My strength is made perfect in your weakness. If you're
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  Speaker 1: too strong, I can't show off. If you got too
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  Speaker 1: much going for you, I can't show off. But when
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  Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose and you're down for the
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  Speaker 1: count and there's no way in the world you can
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  Speaker 1: get up, God said, that's when I can show up
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  Speaker 1: and show them that I have been with you all
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  Speaker 1: your life. Oh my God, I wish I had some
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  Speaker 1: help this morning. I thought when God got ready to
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  Speaker 1: show his glory, he would show it through perfection. Perfect stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when he called me to preach, I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you should get one of the good people. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: calling me because you know me. And come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know me.
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  Speaker 3: You know I'm about to mess this thing up real
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  Speaker 3: good fashion up in here.
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  Speaker 1: Get one of those good people. One of them little
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  Speaker 1: goody two-shoes, nice people who, you know, one of them.
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  Speaker 1: That was back when I still believed that they existed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that God could be glorified through
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  Speaker 1: something that was not beautiful. To something that was not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He said, this man is like this not because of
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  Speaker 1: what his mother did, not because of what his father did,
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  Speaker 1: but I planned his blindness for my glory. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you're single. So I could be glorified. Amen. In your singleness.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're married. So I could be glorified in
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  Speaker 1: your marriage. That's why your home isn't perfect. So I
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  Speaker 1: could be glorified in the imperfection. I made it what
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  Speaker 1: it is so you could see glory in a way
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't see it. Don't fix it. Be glorified in it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't want to talk to me. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had some help this morning. I wish I had some help.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had some help.
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  Speaker 4: I wish.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason we have a need to blame is
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  Speaker 1: because we're disappointed in the outcome. And the disappointment in
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  Speaker 1: the outcome suggests there's something wrong with where you are.
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  Speaker 1: So the way you cope with the disappointment with you
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  Speaker 1: is by blaming me. So you make me your scapegoat.
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  Speaker 1: But Christ already is. That's too theological. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to bother that. I'm not going to drop over into that.
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  Speaker 1: Christ says, don't blame his mother. Don't blame his father.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever was wrong with them, I could have made that work.
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  Speaker 1: He said, if you're going to blame anybody, blame me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm going to use his blindness for my glory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use her brokenness for my glory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use his emptiness for my glory. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to use her thirstiness for my glory. Don't make them over.
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  Speaker 2: Leave them alone.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to fix them. That's my child. Leave her alone.
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  Speaker 1: I made her.
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  Speaker 3: This way because I have an appointment with her. And
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  Speaker 3: when the time is right and the stage is set.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to heal her where I can get the
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  Speaker 1: most glory. Somebody help me pray them just 10 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Touch five people and say, you have an appointment. You
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  Speaker 1: have an appointment. You have an appointment. You have an appointment.
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  Speaker 1: You have an appointment. You have an appointment. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: All you got to do is do you.
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  Speaker 3: And while you do you, I'm going to meet you
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know who this is for, but this
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  Speaker 1: is for somebody. Sit down, sit down. We're just talking
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  Speaker 1: about it. We're just talking about it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. The emptiness of an
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  Speaker 1: open heart creates a cavity for God to fill. But
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  Speaker 1: a closed mind never receives anything from God. The only
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  Speaker 1: difference between you And the person you admire is the
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  Speaker 1: perspective they have on life.
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  Speaker 4: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. I have to stop there. But
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  Speaker 1: I believe God is going to do great things in
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