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The Ultimate Gift - Bishop Jakes - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: The reason you are sitting here this morning, it's because
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  Speaker 1: of the ultimate degree. He so loved you. I know
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  Speaker 1: you got a little name and little reputation. People impressed
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  Speaker 1: with you, but they don't know your real story, not
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  Speaker 1: your real tract. They don't know what makes you raise
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  Speaker 1: your hands or clap your hands, or lift your voice
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  Speaker 1: or shake your head. It's not just that he loved you,
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  Speaker 1: but that he so loved you, holled love your soul.
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  Speaker 1: He's so He so loved me. He knew me, and
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  Speaker 1: I broke every rule he had, and he so loved me.
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  Speaker 1: When I got so far out that I was sick
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  Speaker 1: of myself, he still loved me. He so loved me.
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  Speaker 1: People who said they loved me left me. He people
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  Speaker 1: who weren't supposed to love me didn't come through for me.
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  Speaker 1: And yet every time my soul will fall, he caught
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  Speaker 1: me because he's so loved me. I don't even think
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  Speaker 1: I was valuable to be caught, but he's so touch.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody says, soul, I wish I could just dabble around
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  Speaker 1: and crazy love that makes you look like a fool.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy crazy love will make a strong god go weak
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  Speaker 1: on the cross and humble himself to the death of
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  Speaker 1: the cross. He could have called ten thousand eights sols.
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  Speaker 1: He could have gotten out of it at any moment.
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  Speaker 1: All of the soldiers around him could have fallen dead.
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  Speaker 1: They fell back at his voice. When they came to
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  Speaker 1: arrest him, they said, are you Jesus? He said, I
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  Speaker 1: then speak at me here, and they fell back for dead.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't die because he was weak. He died because
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  Speaker 1: he was strong. Love is power. You got it twisted,
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  Speaker 1: You'll think being a hateful is powerful. It is the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate gift. Because I'm still opening it, I'm still unraveling.
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  Speaker 1: After thirty five years, I'm still opening it and finding
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  Speaker 1: little nuances that I didn't understand. I'm it's still usable,
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  Speaker 1: it's still relative, it's still functional, it's still life changing,
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  Speaker 1: it's still thirst quenching, it's still mind renewing, it's still
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  Speaker 1: heart fixing. After all of these years of being saved,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still exploring new facets of this glory and its grace,
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  Speaker 1: the same grace that got me through my adolescence. It's
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  Speaker 1: helped me through my adulthood. It's helping me through mid life.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just something you use over here and don't
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  Speaker 1: use over there. It'll help you with the healing of
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  Speaker 1: your body. It'll help you with how you do business.
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  Speaker 1: It'll help you with your attitude and your disposition. Tell
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  Speaker 1: somebody say, I'm still opening it, and I'm still open it,
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  Speaker 1: still opening His love, his mercy, his grace, his kindness,
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  Speaker 1: his compassion, his wisdom. I take the Lord for the
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  Speaker 1: gift of ultimate gift you gave me. Take the low
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  Speaker 1: because it was such a great gift. It stopped me
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  Speaker 1: from doing stuff I would have done. It brought me
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  Speaker 1: back when I went too far. It doted me around
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  Speaker 1: witches and enemies and people I thought were my friends
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  Speaker 1: and found out they were trying to kill me. It
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  Speaker 1: fought for me when I couldn't fight for myself. It
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  Speaker 1: opened doors I couldn't even see. It is the ultimate gifts.