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Following_God_In_Transition_Bishop_T_D_Jakes_March_18,_2020 · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Pus you all maybe seated. Thank you for joining us online,
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  Speaker 1: around the city, around the country, around the world as
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  Speaker 1: we explore troops out of God's word and we find
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  Speaker 1: a way to worship Him. No matter what's going on
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  Speaker 1: around us, we will not allow the center and the
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  Speaker 1: apex of who we are as believers to be disrupted.
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  Speaker 1: So welcome to the Powder's House. Welcome to the service
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. But welcome to the Wednesday Night Bible class.
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  Speaker 1: Honor to all the pastors that are joining us. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate each and every one of you. Doctor James
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  Speaker 1: is in the house, the mighty Woman of God that
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  Speaker 1: normally stands in this office. Thank you for your ministry
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  Speaker 1: and your teaching and your revelation, your sharing. And I
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  Speaker 1: got her hooked in that Wednesday night and wouldn't let
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  Speaker 1: her go. So tonight she gets a break for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: As we begin to share the Word of God. I
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  Speaker 1: will be taking some live question so I encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to write your questions and send them in and I'll
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  Speaker 1: get to as many of them as I can. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you have already sent in some questions for us
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  Speaker 1: to consider, and I'm going to take them as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going to direct your attention to the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Saint John sixteen, verse one, three eleven, and today
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about following God in transition.
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  Speaker 1: Following God in transition, Amen, following God in transition. There
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  Speaker 1: are times that you have to follow God with a
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  Speaker 1: degree of uncertainty because you don't clearly understand what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is doing. And anybody that's too sure themselves, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doubtful of them. Because if I've said we walk by
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  Speaker 1: faith and not by sight, and people's care of me
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  Speaker 1: when they know too much, there should be a a
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  Speaker 1: certain ambiguity, a certain apprehension, a certain respect, a certain reverence,
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  Speaker 1: a certain progressive revelation as you walk with God, as
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  Speaker 1: He begins to unfold himself to you and it becomes
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  Speaker 1: more clear to you the Word of God. We go
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  Speaker 1: from glory to glory and from faith to faith. But
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  Speaker 1: now we see through a dark glass darkly. Later on
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  Speaker 1: we'll see face to face. So if you're going through
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  Speaker 1: something right now and you don't see everything clearly, don't
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  Speaker 1: be upset about it. Because God doesn't always give us details.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, somebody, He doesn't always give us details. He'll
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  Speaker 1: give you just to us give us this day our
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  Speaker 1: daily bread. I'm not promising you next week. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: promising you next month, but I'll give you this day
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  Speaker 1: your daily bread. And I chose this scripture as just
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  Speaker 1: a jump off point because I think it's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: It says, these things have I spoken unto you, that
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  Speaker 1: ye should not be offended. They shall put you out
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  Speaker 1: of the synagogues. Yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth
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  Speaker 1: you will think that he doeth God service. And these
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  Speaker 1: things will they do unto you because they have not
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  Speaker 1: known the Father nor me. But these things have I
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  Speaker 1: told you that when the time shall come, ye may
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  Speaker 1: remember that I told you of them, And these things
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  Speaker 1: I said not unto you at the beginning because I
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  Speaker 1: was with you. I didn't give you everything at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning because I was with you. It reminds me that
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  Speaker 1: little phrase reminds me of having adult children. If you
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  Speaker 1: raise children, there are certain things you can tell your
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  Speaker 1: children as they get older that you couldn't tell them
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  Speaker 1: when they were children. And they said, well, how come
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  Speaker 1: you didn't tell me that earlier? It wasn't time to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. A relationship has to ferment it has to grow,
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  Speaker 1: it has to develop. Come on, somebody, And these things
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  Speaker 1: I said not unto you at the beginning, because I
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  Speaker 1: was with you. But now I go my way to
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  Speaker 1: Him that sent me. And none of you asketh me
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  Speaker 1: whethersoever whether God is thou. But because I have said
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  Speaker 1: these things unto you, sorrow has filled your heart. And
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  Speaker 1: I chose this text in part because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: show to you that even in the days of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: changes brought anxiety. Anytime something changes from your norm, it
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  Speaker 1: brings anxiety because we're out of our comfort zone. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is ministering to them because they are heavy of heart,
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  Speaker 1: because he's leaving them. He's leaving them now. To put
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  Speaker 1: this in context, you have to realize that following Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was controversial to begin with. Okay, to leave the traditional
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox Judaism and start to follow Jesus, you were kind
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  Speaker 1: of ridiculed and considered a cult to begin with. You
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  Speaker 1: were Austris from the beginning. You were riddled with critics
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  Speaker 1: from Pharisees and Sadducees from the beginning. There were other
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  Speaker 1: sect and groups of people that had different ideologies that
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  Speaker 1: persecuted them just because they named the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they were motivated to follow Jesus because they thought
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to bring the kingdom. John the
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  Speaker 1: Baptist had preceded him in saying, repent for the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven is at hand. Now you must understand that
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  Speaker 1: the Orthodox jew now is oppressed by the Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 1: And when you start talking about the kingdom coming and
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  Speaker 1: the king coming, they are looking for Jesus to set
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  Speaker 1: up his kingdom on earth. They could see the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: but they could not see the cross. Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: See often when we get these prophetic words, we see
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  Speaker 1: the crown, but not the cross. So they're following him
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  Speaker 1: in anticipation of the crown. And then he began to interject,
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  Speaker 1: as a mature, a little bit more and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about the cross. He says, for example, if
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  Speaker 1: you destroy the temple in three days, I'll raise it
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  Speaker 1: up again. Okay. And this they thought, oh, how can
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  Speaker 1: you destroy the temple and raise it back come again?
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  Speaker 1: They didn't really fully understand the full measure of what
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  Speaker 1: he was saying to them, but they had to follow
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  Speaker 1: him in the fog. Okay. And see, this is a
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  Speaker 1: real test of faith. Is can you follow him in
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  Speaker 1: the fog? If everything were clear, and everything were paid for,
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  Speaker 1: and everything was okay, and everything was in order, you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't need faith. You need faith because if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to walk with God, you have to walk with him
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  Speaker 1: in the fog. And the Bible says, we go on
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  Speaker 1: to know it's progressive knowledge, Ganosco. We go on to know.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't reveal everything all it was. We're just seeing
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of his glory. We're just seeing glimpses, little excerpts
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  Speaker 1: of the story that we go on and follow, from
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  Speaker 1: faith to faith and from glory to glory. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's getting ready to go, and they are sad not
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  Speaker 1: only at his departure, but at their inability to fully
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  Speaker 1: comprehend that God did not do what they expected him
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  Speaker 1: to do. Now, I want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about that because I want to know, can you follow
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  Speaker 1: him when he doesn't do what you expect him to do?
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  Speaker 1: Can you serve him in disappointment? Anybody, anybody can serve
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  Speaker 1: him when everything's going good. Can you serve him with
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  Speaker 1: a broken heart? Can you say, like, job, though he
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  Speaker 1: slay me, yet well I trust him. Can you serve
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  Speaker 1: him when you don't understand him. Can you follow him
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  Speaker 1: when your vision and his vision creates a die vision
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  Speaker 1: because you had in your mind how you expected things
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  Speaker 1: to go, and then he has a higher purpose that
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  Speaker 1: dv from your purpose and you thought you had one vision,
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  Speaker 1: but your vision is die vision. Are you humble enough
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  Speaker 1: to submit your vision up under his vision and let
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  Speaker 1: his vision array? If you're not no need of talking
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus being Lord, because he's really not Lord. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going to boss him, if he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: your butler, if he's going to be your maid, if
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be at your becking call, then he's
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  Speaker 1: not Lord at all. The real proof of Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: the real proof of submission is not obeying when you
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  Speaker 1: asked me to do what I wanted to do anyway,
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  Speaker 1: The real test of faith is to obey, even though
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  Speaker 1: my heart is broken, even though I'm disappointed, even though
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  Speaker 1: things didn't go the way I thought, even though there
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  Speaker 1: is a die vision between your vision and mine. I
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  Speaker 1: will bring my vision up under subjection, even if I
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  Speaker 1: have to go to the garden of Gaseimine and pray
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  Speaker 1: three times to get there. I will eventually come out
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  Speaker 1: with not my will. Come on somebody, not my will,
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  Speaker 1: but thine be done. Now I'm a disciple, Okay, Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm a disciple. I'm not a disciple because I wear
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  Speaker 1: church clothes. I'm not a disciple because I have a
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  Speaker 1: church title. I'm not a disciple because I go to church.
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  Speaker 1: But when I discipline, okay, when I discipline my vision
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  Speaker 1: and bringing up under submission, and I can follow him
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  Speaker 1: with a broken heart. Now I'm really starting to be
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  Speaker 1: a disciple. And he told his disciples follow me, and
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  Speaker 1: I will make you. Just because you start with him,
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  Speaker 1: you are not what you're gonna be. He's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: you into what he wants you to be. Are you
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  Speaker 1: getting what I'm saying to you? He said? Nonetheless, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you the truth. It is expedient for you that
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  Speaker 1: I go away, For if I go not away, the
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  Speaker 1: comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart,
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  Speaker 1: I will send him unto you. And when he is come,
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  Speaker 1: he will reprove the world of sin. So what we
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  Speaker 1: are seeing is the transition of authority. Wow, the transition
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  Speaker 1: has started. When we see in the Old Testament, we
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  Speaker 1: see the Father reigning and ruing and except for a
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  Speaker 1: few exceptions, we don't see a manifestation of the Son
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, except occasionally the fourth one in
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  Speaker 1: the furnace I believe Jacob wrestling with the Angel. There
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  Speaker 1: are occasional manifestations, theophonic manifestations of Christ in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: but for the most part we do not see him
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  Speaker 1: until we start to hear the story. Hell, Mary, you've
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  Speaker 1: been highly favored amongst women. You shall bring forth the Son.
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  Speaker 1: Now we behold the wonder of his glory, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Saint John, chapter one, full of grace
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  Speaker 1: and truth. And so we see the advent of the
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  Speaker 1: reigning of the Son as he moves to and fro.
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  Speaker 1: He is the King of Glory. He is the mining God.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Great I Am. He is the Everlasting Father.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Father dressed up in flesh, king amongst us.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to see the wonder of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't see the naked glory of God. Our eyes
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stand to see the naked power of God. Have
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  Speaker 1: you thought about how great God he is. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about how great Church he is. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about how great religion is. I'm talking about how great
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  Speaker 1: God he is. Have you thought about how powerful he is?
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  Speaker 1: That we're going to a place that his presence will
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  Speaker 1: outshine the sun. You're talking about a kind of glory
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  Speaker 1: that is so all encompassing that no evil thing can
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  Speaker 1: stand in his sight. He'll share his glory with nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Every idol that they ever brought up in his face,
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  Speaker 1: like Daygone, he knocked it down to the ground because
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  Speaker 1: he said, I alone have God, and besides me, there
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  Speaker 1: is no other. That's what we talked about. We were
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  Speaker 1: talking about God. We're not talking about church. We're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about religion. We're not talking about your bishop. We're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about your cousin. We're not talking about your
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  Speaker 1: hymn books. When you're talking about God, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: somebody who rules and rules and has all power in
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  Speaker 1: his hand. And we see him parting red seas, and
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  Speaker 1: we see him swallowing up nations in their earths, and
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  Speaker 1: we see him shaking mountains and setting them on fire,
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  Speaker 1: and we see the mountains shake and quake with the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God the Father. And then in a manger,
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  Speaker 1: in a humble place, wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid amongst
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  Speaker 1: lowly places. In the view gags of the Shepherd, the
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  Speaker 1: lamb of God enters into the world God obeying his
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  Speaker 1: own word through job. That man that is born of
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  Speaker 1: a woman has but a few days in order for
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  Speaker 1: him to enter into the earth realm. He didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to break his own law. He could visit us, but
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  Speaker 1: to abide with us, he had to submit himself and
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  Speaker 1: be born of a woman, just wrapped in swaddling clothes,
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  Speaker 1: but wrapped in flesh. Come on, you hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Now he needs this body because he is coming to
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  Speaker 1: redeem us from the sin and the curse of Adam,
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  Speaker 1: and he needs a body that he might be a
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for our sins. Are you with me? Okay? So
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  Speaker 1: he comes in the body, and then he's getting ready
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  Speaker 1: now to offer himself up. And the disciples are following
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  Speaker 1: God and transition. And the hardest thing in the world
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  Speaker 1: to do, Ah, it's to follow God and transition. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you talk big, you talk good, you testify real good.
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  Speaker 1: You make a lot of noise. But I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning, sitting on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the bed, wondering how things are going to turn out
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  Speaker 1: he is. He easy to talk a good game when
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  Speaker 1: you in church on Sunday morning. But I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning, driving your first day to work,
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  Speaker 1: going to the first day to school, moving across country. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: God destabilizes things, that's a real test of your faith.
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  Speaker 1: You stand, having done all the stand? Can you stand
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  Speaker 1: therefore with your loins gird about with truth? And what
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  Speaker 1: we do know is that they are following him, but
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  Speaker 1: they are troubled in their heart. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 1: And he says to them, he says, if I stay,
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  Speaker 1: the comforter cannot come. See he can't come. We can't
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  Speaker 1: occupy the same space. At the same time, what we
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  Speaker 1: are seeing is a transition of authority, a changing of
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  Speaker 1: the guard. We're seeing him handing authority over. When you
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  Speaker 1: go to Acts chapter two, and you can run over
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  Speaker 1: there right quick if you want to Acts chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, And he says, And when the day was
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  Speaker 1: a Pentecost was fully come, and we were in one
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  Speaker 1: place with one accord, Suddenly there came a sound from
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  Speaker 1: heaven like a mighty rushing wind, and cloven tongues appeared
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  Speaker 1: like as a fire, and sat upon each of the them,
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  Speaker 1: and they were all filled with the Holy ghosts. This
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  Speaker 1: is the only time that you see this much drama
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit coming. You do not see that
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  Speaker 1: in Acts chapter ten. When they were baptized in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord, and when laid his hands on them,
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  Speaker 1: they received the Holy ghosts. You don't see it in ten.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see it in Acts chapter nineteen. Paul, having
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  Speaker 1: passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, finding certain disciples,
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  Speaker 1: said under them, have you received the Holy Ghost? Since
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  Speaker 1: she believed? They said, we have not so much as
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  Speaker 1: heard whether there be any Holy ghost. Unto what then
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  Speaker 1: were you baptized? He said, they said, unto John's baptism.
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  Speaker 1: And then he goes on to baptize them in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord. And when Paul had laid his
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  Speaker 1: hands on them, they received the Holy Ghost. But we
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  Speaker 1: don't see a mighty rushing wind. We don't see clothing
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  Speaker 1: tongues of fire. We don't see this great inaugural procession,
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  Speaker 1: because in Acts chapter two, this is bigger than them
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  Speaker 1: being filled with the Holy ghost. This is the inaugural
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  Speaker 1: reign of the Holy Spirit, as he sets up residents
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  Speaker 1: in the earth realm to rule and control. And anytime
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  Speaker 1: you go to an inaugural service, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a processional. So the wind comes first, and then cloven
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  Speaker 1: tongs afire come next. And then you see the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit come in and set down and take his authority
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  Speaker 1: and his rule, and he begins to reign, and he
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  Speaker 1: begins to take over this era. And the Kingdom has
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  Speaker 1: slipped into the spirit. It has moved from the physical
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  Speaker 1: manifestation to the spiritual manifestation of Jesus Christ. You miss
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  Speaker 1: that the kingdom has slipped into the spirit. They were
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  Speaker 1: looking for earthly kingdom, but the Kingdom has slipped into
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. It's not meat or drink. We will let
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  Speaker 1: her hear later here, but joy and peace in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy ghost. A lot of people are stuck in the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: but God has slipped this thing over into the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I was with you, but I shall be
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  Speaker 1: in you. Come on, talk to me, somebody. So we
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  Speaker 1: are seeing the Kingdom come in a spiritual way. We
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  Speaker 1: are seeing the disciples then having to move from understanding
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  Speaker 1: the temple to be a place of worship to understanding
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  Speaker 1: that their body was the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: That God has moved inside of you, and that he
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  Speaker 1: reigns inside of you. This is a new idea. Are
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  Speaker 1: you all following me right now? So what we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: is a transition. And in transition, they're stumbling. They're stumbling.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's there's confusion, there's uncertainty, and we see the
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  Speaker 1: disciples trying to figure out certain things like who is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a successor now that Judas has committed suicide,
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be a successor? And the one guy says, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's cast lots. And so they took one stick and
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  Speaker 1: made it shorter than the other, and then the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Acts they begin to cast lots, and the lot
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  Speaker 1: fell on Matthias, and Matthias was inducted in as who
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  Speaker 1: they had chosen to be the next apostle. As they
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  Speaker 1: were choosing Matthias, God was picking out Saul. See. But
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  Speaker 1: they're stumbling, trying to figure out their way, and they
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  Speaker 1: figured they're gonna cast lots. And a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: find ourselves in places where we're casting lots and gambling
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  Speaker 1: on destiny, gambling on purpose, playing little man make games,
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  Speaker 1: trying to step into the purpose of God. But you
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  Speaker 1: never have to go by chance. When destiny is already
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  Speaker 1: for for Predestine. It's not up to a lot, it's
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  Speaker 1: not up to a game, it's not up to a ritual.
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  Speaker 1: God already knew that he was gonna take Saul, and
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  Speaker 1: Saul was gonna have an encounter on the road to
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  Speaker 1: this Mascus that would turn him into Paul, that would
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  Speaker 1: be so transformative. And he couldn't have told them that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to use Saul because at that time,
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  Speaker 1: Saul was a Christian killer. And sometimes people won't let
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  Speaker 1: you evolve into who you're gonna be because they're so
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  Speaker 1: stuck O. Who oh, y'all, don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They're so stuck on who you used to be that
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  Speaker 1: they cannot update their understanding of you. And so we
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  Speaker 1: are following God in transition. Most of the epistles are
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  Speaker 1: written in transition, and if you study them closely, the
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  Speaker 1: epistles are argumentative because everybody has an opinion of how
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  Speaker 1: much do we bring of our history into our destiny.
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  Speaker 1: So there are debates about circumcision, should we circumcised or
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  Speaker 1: not circumcised, Should we eat meats these types of meats
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  Speaker 1: or not eating because their present is informed by their past.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the problem transition, because anytime you're going
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  Speaker 1: through a transition, the only thing you have to draw
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  Speaker 1: from is past references. See all I know is all
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  Speaker 1: I know. And all they knew was Orthodox traditional Judaism,
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  Speaker 1: and they were walking with Jesus, but they didn't understand
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  Speaker 1: how much do we bring and how much do we
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  Speaker 1: leave behind? And Paul begins to make a strong argument
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  Speaker 1: for the grace of God, whereas James is talking about works,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and there's a debate because they're trying to fit. They're
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: trying to They're like you and me, we're trying to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get it right. We don't really know what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're in transition, and we go on to know, but
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we stumble into destiny. You will notice in the early
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  Speaker 1: part of the Book of Acts, and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to even take the time to have you turn to it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: They started out and they commanded everybody to sell everything
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  Speaker 1: and said, we're going to have all things in common. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we were bringing all down to a level playing field
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  Speaker 1: where we were going to have all things in common
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to distribute out to each man according
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  Speaker 1: to his need. And this is the interesting thing about that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that was not God's plan. But even though it was
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  Speaker 1: something that they came up with, God honored it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: God will honor things even though they're not his ultimate destiny.
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  Speaker 1: How do you say God honored it? Because when Anonais
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  Speaker 1: and Saphar came in and lied to them about not
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  Speaker 1: bringing all the money, it was serious enough that God
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  Speaker 1: killed them for lying to Peter, even though Peter's plan
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was flawed. I want to talk to some people that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: God defended you when you was wrong. I need two
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  Speaker 1: or three witnesses that you didn't have the full revelation,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: but God still didn't let the witch have He still
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  Speaker 1: didn't let the enemy have you. You didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: what you was talking about, but God protected you in
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  Speaker 1: your foolishness. Oh my God, Ah, Heylujah, glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta stop him in it and praise him myself.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. And God stood up for them and
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  Speaker 1: still would not allow them to be disrespected. What Amighty God. See,
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  Speaker 1: we're following him. We haven't caught up with him. We're
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  Speaker 1: following him. We're looking for footprints and we're tracing his steps,
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  Speaker 1: and we're trying to understand his way and get in
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  Speaker 1: his path, but we have not caught up with him,
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  Speaker 1: nor have we overrun him. We're stumbling. Yes, your pastor
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is stumbling. I'm stumbling, the bishop is stumbling, the super
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Bishop is stumbling, the Pope is stumbling. All of us
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: are looking through a glass darkly. Don't nobody know what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about, as much as they'd like to make
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you think that they do. Because God is so high
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you can't get over it, and he's so low you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: can't get under it. His ways are higher than our way.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nobody in the church world that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: selling their books in heaven. So whatever you're right, you're
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: better sell it down here, because you're not gonna be
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: teaching theology. When the Master himself comes along, all of
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  Speaker 1: these teachers are gonna have to sit down and set
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  Speaker 1: up because all of us, at our best, are just
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: trying to follow him. Are you saying what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to you now? As we're coming into this spiritual thing? Shata,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: this spiritual thing, this spiritual thing sees see, Christ has
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: birthed the church, and the Church is a thing. It
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't even have a name yet, it's a spiritual thing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: It doesn't some people later at Antioch, we'll call him Christians,
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  Speaker 1: and some called it the Way. And then I can
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  Speaker 1: show you the christ Scriptures when they called them believers,
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  Speaker 1: because that we go through many phases of understanding who
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  Speaker 1: we are. But it is a holy thing. That term
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  Speaker 1: holy thing. I didn't create that. That's what they called Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: When Mary was having Jesus, they called him that holy thing.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime God bursts something in you, it's a holy thing
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  Speaker 1: before we get a name for it, before we can
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  Speaker 1: induct it into our our vernacular and make it fit
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: into our theology. When God first births it, you don't
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: even have a name for it. It's just a holy thing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And the church in its core is a holy thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now much has been said today, A lot has been
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: said today about you know, the churches and who's opened
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  Speaker 1: and who's closed, and this and that and the other,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and how we doing this and that or the other.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem begins when you start thinking that the
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  Speaker 1: church is a building. Come on, see, that's the first problem.
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  Speaker 1: We have to get down to that. Because the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: is not meat or drink, but joy and peace in
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  Speaker 1: the holy ghost. It was never about a building in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. When Jesus said, upon this rock, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: will build my church, he wasn't talking about your church building,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: your building fund committee, your cathedral, your temple of the
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  Speaker 1: Living godfire baptized, got it going on in Jesus' name incorporated.
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  Speaker 1: He won't talking about any of this man made stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The church that he's talking about building is a holy thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a holy thing. It has no address,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: it has no location. GPS can't track it. The church
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: is a holy thing. It'll get in the car with you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: You can be in the shower praying, and wherever you live,
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  Speaker 1: the holy heads. The church's right there. It's not a building.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a stage. It's not a platform. It's not
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: acquis there. It's not an usher boy, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: greeting committee. The church is a holy thing. The only
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: reason this building is a church is when we come
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  Speaker 1: in here. If we start serving liquor in here and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: put poles in here, it could be a club. This
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: is just a building. So don't get into a fight
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  Speaker 1: with somebody about whether we meet in a building. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: come on, because if you start fighting about locations and addresses,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: you're driving me back into the Old Testament, which is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a shadow of things to come. The truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is the early Church didn't have a building. They
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: went from house to house, breaking bread and in fellowship.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: And when they went in the temple, they were going
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in thee to persuade the theology of the Jews to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: embrace Christianity. They weren't going there to worship. They were
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: going there to make a defense for the Gospel. That's
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  Speaker 1: why when you see later in the Book of Acts,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: when Peter and John came up at the hour of prayer,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's not so much that they're coming to worship. They're
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: coming to lay out a case to see if they
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: can convert the Jews. And they were successful at converting
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  Speaker 1: some of them for a while, But the Book of
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews will show you that many of them went back.
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  Speaker 1: They went back, and the Bible said, it is impossible
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  Speaker 1: for those who were once enlightened and tasted of the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: heavenly gift, if they should fall away, to renew them
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: again to repentance. Seeing as they crucify the son of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: man Afresh. That whole crucify the son of man Afresh
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: is a clue that this refers to the people who
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: crucified him the first time by rejecting him. When they backslide,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: they go back into the apostle to see of rejecting
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  Speaker 1: him and crucify the son of man Afresh. A careful study, then,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters of the Book of Romans, will
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  Speaker 1: show to you that the whole hall of the Gentile
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  Speaker 1: nation is a result of the rejection of the Jews.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: He comes first to the jew and then to the Greek.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That's what the scripture says. And so as the Jews
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: begin to reject them more and more we see the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: transition over to the Gentiles. Now, watch, then, my brothers
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and sisters, how stealthily the Holy Spirit moves. I'm starting
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to sweat glory to God. Watch how stealthily the Holy
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Spirit is transitioning them. And in the process of transitioning them,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he is educating them. He is maturing them, he is
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: developing them. It's not transitioning, just about moving in a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: new realm and a new reign. It's a new mentality,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's a new mindset, it's new revelation, it's new understanding.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They have yet to discover deacons. See, they had the church,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: but they didn't have the five full ministry. They didn't
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: have the five full ministry. To the apostle, Paul comes
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: along says that he gave some apostles and some prophets,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: some pastors, some teachers, some evangelist offer the perfecting, other saints.
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  Speaker 1: But the church existed before structure. There wasn't any organization,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: but it still existed. So that if the enemy thinks
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that he can change our address and shut us down,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: he needs to watch this Bible class. Because there was
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: never about a building in the first place. Oh, my God.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It was about a belief system. It was about a lifestyle,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: it was about a message. It started in the house.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Jesus did most of his preaching in the house. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we're back to where we started. Ah, we're back to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: where we started. We're going full circle, back to where
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: we came from. Again. The gospel and the anointing and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the power and the preaching that used to be your
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: understanding had it locked up in a building. But even
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: through this adversity that we're going through, you're gonna have
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to rediscover the sanctuary in your house. In this transition
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that we're going through, you can no longer relegate the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: teaching of the faith to somebody who is doing children's church. Jesus, Jesus,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go back and do it like
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: we did old school, where your mama told you who
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Jesus was and your daddy told you who Jesus was,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and they taught you the fundamentals of the faith. You
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: can't just bring them out and throw them on somebody
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and put all the responsibility on the teacher at children's
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  Speaker 1: church to tell them about Jesus. Let me shell you
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: why if they're telling them about Jesus at children's church,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but they're going home and they're seeing something else, all
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you're gonna do is confuse the child. Since you are
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  Speaker 1: the one that God gave the child too, the responsibility
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of training up the child. It is not in the babysitter.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: It's not oh, I'm gonna get in trouble, I'm gonna
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: get some letter. It's not in somebody that you're paying
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: forty bucks an hour to watch your child. They may
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: be helpers, but the responsibility rest on you. So where
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is your sanctuary, Jesus, Where is your sanctuary? If you're
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: gonna follow him in transition, and we're in transition, right now,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and in the middle of all of this transition and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: all of this chaos, the Lord said to me that
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Those things
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: that cannot be shaken will remain. And we're seeing its
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: shaking now. Depending on where you live in the world,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: what you're seeing in Dallas right now, it is illegal
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: for us to have over fifty people in a gathering
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: of any kind, not just church anything. So the gym
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: classes are shut down, the nightclubs are shut down, the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: restaurants are shut down. I was driving up here looking
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: at the empty parking lots, all of them shut down,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: all kinds of people laid off. And the latest decree
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is you would get a fine and or up to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: six months in jail if you exceed the requirement because
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: they're trying to stop the virus. Now, it's noble that
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: they're trying to stop the virus, but I do understand
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that while they're trying to stop the virus, the enemy
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: is trying to stop the church. Yeah. Yeah, See, two
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: things can be true at the same time. There's a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: nobility of them trying to stop the virus, but the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: enemy is trying to stop the church. Because he thinks
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that if you can't find your way to an address,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you will lose your vision of God. But I came
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to serve notice on the devil tonight that it was
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: never flesh and blood, It was never meat or drink.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: It was always in the Holy Spirit. And even if
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: we couldn't stream, we could connect in the Holy Ghost.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Because if we start praying in the spirit, you don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: even have to walk by sight to feel the power
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. That's why we got to get
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: back to the Holy Ghost. We cannot depend even on
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: technology to convey glory because all the technology in the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: world cannot produce glory. Glory is not coming through Wi Fi.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Glory is coming out of my spirit, head, out of
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: my heart, head, out of my life. Oh you don't
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: hear what gloria to God. I had this before we
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: had WiFi. Oh no, no, we don't have to have WiFi.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: We don't have to have no crowd, We don't have
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to have no big assembly. I cut my teeth preaching
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: in empty buildings, two or three people. It ain't no
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: problem because it was never about the crowd. Not to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: all of you that it was about the crowd. You
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: can't preach if you don't have a crowd. But I
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: can preach if everybody walk out this room. Because it
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was never about the crowd in the first place. Maybe
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that's why he gave me the crowd, because I never
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: trusted my God. You see, you have to have this
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: thing on the inside. What Jesus is trying to teach
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the disciples is that you must have him on the inside.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: He says, I'm going to send you another comforter alos pericletus,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: one who stands alongside to help, and it's rudiment understanding
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. He is your housemate. He stands
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: alongside you to empower you, to make you effective. You
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: can sing, you gotta get If you got a talent,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you can sing. You can sing, that's nice, But if
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: you want to be effective, you got to go past
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: talent to anointed. Because the world got talent. The thing
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that sets us apart is anointing of the Holy Spirit.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: How we doing so far? When you think about transition,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, and then I'm gonna take a
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: few questions. When you think about transition, I went back
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to the Old Testament and thought about how difficult it
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was for the Old Testament of Israel to come out
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: of Egypt and make that transition, and an entire generation
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: died in the wilderness in the middle of transition because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the influence of where they came from. They came out
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of Egypt, but Egypt didn't come out of them. Are
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you hearing what I'm saying? And it took an entire
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: generation to scrub Egypt out of them enough to get
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: them ready to go into the Promised Land. Sometimes God
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: will delay your promise in transition because he's still scrubbing
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: out your perspective. Y'all ain't gonna talk to me tonight.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: See you're out and you got the promise, but your
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: perspective is tainted by your experience. Do you hear what
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? Now? Now I'll prove it to you.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: When Moses went as long as Moses was with them,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: they were good. But when Moses went up in the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: mountain and had to go away for forty days, when
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: he came back down, they had built an image of God,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and the image of God looked just like the Egyptian God.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Because they'd been with the egypt so long that it
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: affected how they saw God. You cannot hang around the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: world all the time and get a good glimpse of
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: who God is. And so we begin the scrubbing process.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: This is grandma's stuff, y'all. Don't scrub nothing now, but
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I can see my grandmother's arms shaking, scrubbing, scrubbing out
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a stain. And life will scrub out a stain some
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of you. Right now. You think that the enemy's attacking you.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: It's not the enemy. God is scrubbing out a stain,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: changing your perspective so that you can see him more clearly.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And He's got you in transition because you have come
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: out of who you were, but you're not ready to
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: go into who you're gonna be, And so you have
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: to get into a little wilderness and a time of transition.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: We see it clearly in the Old Testament. It is
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: less clear but equally true in the New Testament that
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the epistles are written in the wilderness of becoming. Yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: they have come out of the relationship that they had
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: with Christ where he walked amongst them, which incidentally was
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Old Testament. Matthew Mark Luke is all Old Testament to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: begin it? Why is it old Testament? It has to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: be Old Testament? Because hebrew says that the Testament is
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: not enforced until the testator dies, so it's not divided
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: by where King James divided that what old Testament from
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: new is the cross. So Jesus died under the law
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: and rose up and under grace. That's where the transition
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: occurs right there. But they're still trying to understand what
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: does that mean? What do we take with us? What
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: do we do? And so they're in a wilderness where
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: they're having to be scrubbed out. They almost got into
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a fight at Annie Up over what do we take?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: What do we leave? Because God is scrubbing out. See
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: this uncomfortable stage of disagreement and controversy and what we
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: call haters and people saying this and that and the other.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: That's not new, that's not new, that's always been. It's tragic,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: but it's true. We are most often and most likely
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to be wounded by our own brethren. Yes, yeah, yeah,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: sometimes you're safer with the sinners than you are with
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the saints. If it's anybody gonna come out and criticize
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you and attack you a lot of times because we
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: have different levels. We're all in one house, but we
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: have different levels of understanding, and we tend to criticize
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: what we don't understand, and we tend to criticize what
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: we can't duplicate, and we tend to criticize often what
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: we admire. Yeah, criticism is often a sign of admiration,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: because if they didn't want to be you, and they
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: didn't see you where they see you, they wouldn't attack
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you like they attack you. So when you have haters,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you ought to thank God because you are significant enough
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to be attacked, because if you weren't effective, they wouldn't
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: fight you. To come on, somebody, Yeah, yeah, don't nobody
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  Speaker 1: fight somebody who's losing. Yeah, nobody fight somebody who's failing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to stick up a bag lady. She can
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: walk down the roughest part of Chicago pushing her card
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and nobody bothers her because nobody thinks she has anything.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: In order for somebody to want to mug you, they
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  Speaker 1: have to respect that you got something. Oh y'all not
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: talking to me. So you gotta begin to understand that
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: these light afflicts, which are but for a moment, work
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  Speaker 1: for us a far more exceeding way of going For
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: we look love at the things that are seen, for
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the things that are seen are temporal, and the things
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: that are not seen all eternal. Are you in transition tonight?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Are you in transition in your life? I'm not just
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: talking about coronavirus. I'm talking about in the entirety of
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: your This just made it worse. But are you in transition?
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  Speaker 1: Are you trying to follow God and change your perspective
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  Speaker 1: of who He is and who you are in him?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: If you are, you must understand that the God that
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you perceive on the outside has to come and dwell
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: on the inside and become more intimate and more personal
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: in your life. If this is helping somebody, give him
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: a praise. Right now. I'm going to take a few
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: minutes and I'm going to begin to answer some of
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the questions. Put some of the questions up that are
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: coming in. We'll see where go with her. Thank you Jesus,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: It's a coronavirus part of God's plan to wake us up.
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  Speaker 1: I am careful about definitively saying what God is doing
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  Speaker 1: by any particular thing, because I have lived long enough
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: to see people misrepresent God in crisis like this. I
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: remember nine to eleven and they said that God was
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: trying to purge New York, and people have always quick
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to speak on what God is doing. But the truth
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: of the matter is, I don't know whether it is
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: part of God's plan to wake us up, but I
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: do know that the coronavirus is waking us up. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. I don't know whether he sent it
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: or whether he allowed the enemy to send it for
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, but I know that one of the benefits
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: of the burden of the coronavirus is that it is
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: waking us up. How is it waking us up? It's
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: waking us up in a lot of ways. It's waking
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: us up that the silly bickering we have been doing
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: for the last decade now seems foolish in the face
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: of a real attack. It is waking us up to
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: appreciate the walk of faith in a way that we
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: didn't appreciate it before. Now you're fighting warning to come
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: to church, But before, when you could come, you were
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: standing at home in the bed, and some of the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: very people who are complaining about not having church weren't
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: half coming when we could have church. Come on, talk
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: to me for a minute, somebody. It is waking up,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: because sometimes we don't appreciate something until it is pulled
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: back from us, and when it is pulled back from us,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: we have a deeper appreciation. It is waking us up
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to the perspective that we must bring our church experience
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: into our house. Yeah, it's waking us up to the
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: experience that we must read our Bibles. What happens if
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: they shut us completely down? What happens if we get
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: into a war and we're unable to do it? And
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to all of you who think that the church cannot survive,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: say we meet. Can I take you to China where
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the church was meeting underground in basements for years? Can
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I take you to the upper room where the disciples
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: were locked up behind closed doors for fear of the Jews.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: The churches often had to go underground. And even when
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: it had to go underground, it has never been destroyed.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: For two thousand years. Many times we have gone through
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: periods and eras where the church had to go underground
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to survive. Hitler was trying to kill the church. The
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: enemy has always been after the church, but the church
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Church has always survived every attack, whether it was a
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: virus or a man. Jesus said upon this rock, I
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: not prevail against it. What is happening now is that
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: these new kind of saints we got now, who are
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: more church members than there are saints, are having to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: become saints in a way they didn't have to before.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Because the pacifier is taken out of your mouth of
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: being able to depend on somebody else to pray for you.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Now you got to get down by the side of
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: your bed like your grandmother and pray yourself through and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: drive the enemy out of your house. Now you got
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: to go. I'm gonna really go old fashioned and get
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you some consecrated oil and annoint your house and say, coronavirus,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you should not come in my dwelling plan. And I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: know it the head of my doorposts, and I know
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: it every wall and every window. And you got to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: walk through your own house and plead the blood and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: sanctify your Since you in the house anyway, you might
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: as well use it to overcome the enemy that's come
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: against your life. Yes, it's waking us up. It's waking
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: us up, and it is high time that it wakes
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: us up. I am just careful about saying what all
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: God is doing? Because I have learned in my life
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: that sometimes it takes you twenty thirty years and you
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: look back in retrospect to fully comprehend what God is doing.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Whatever God is doing, I can tell you this, it's
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: bigger than America. Whatever he's doing, it's global, it's reaching
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: all over the world. Whatever he's doing. I don't see
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: us arguing over who's got the biggest weapons anymore, because
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: God had a weapon that out did all the weapons
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: we were talking about. I don't see us fighting an
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: arguing between Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes it takes a common
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: enemy to create unity, Thank you father. Sometimes it takes
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: a real threat to make you appreciate your spouse. You
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody fussing up. Oh I can't stand him. No,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Now y'all praying together. Now you're trying to see sometimes
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: hardships create gratitude. Are you following what I'm saying? I'll
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: take another question. As I get older, my fears seem
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: to be challenging my faith to act on my instincts.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: How do I overcome? Well, let me say this. Let
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: me just speak for myself. I have never had faith
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: without it being surrounded by fear. The notion that you
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: either have one or the other destroys the very definition
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: of faith itself because it brings out of the ground
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and the fertility of fear. Do you hear what I'm
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: saying to you now? Now, if there were no fear,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: there would be no need for faith. Let me show
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: it to you real play. When the children of Israel
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: got ready to go down into the Red Sea and
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: God made the water stand up on the right and
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the left. We talk about the faith that they went
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: down into the dry bed with, but we don't talk
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: about the fear. But imagine walls of water forty feet high,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and you got your children walking through walls of water
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that could collapse at any moment. You don't think there
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: was no fear. The real art to life is not
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to be controlled by the feeling of fear, but to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: let faith drive the wheel, even if fear is sitting
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: in the back seat. Y'all, do hear what I'm saying
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: to you? Yeah, Because you cannot count on fear to
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: get out of the car in order for you to
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: be mobile. You just don't want fear to drive the car.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: You want your faith to drive the car and just
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: because you have the even though you acknowledge the fact
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that you have a feeling that wants to drive called fear,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: is up to you not to turn your car keys
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: over to your fears and be driven by fear. You
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: want to be driven by faith. So I want to
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: encourage you to read Hebrews eleven by faith able offering
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: up a more excellent sacrificing kine by faith, Nor built
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: an art to the saving of himself by faith into
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: walk with God, and was not. How did they do
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: it by faith? That doesn't mean that they didn't have fear.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: They didn't have problems, they didn't have opposition, they didn't
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: have insecurity. If you're waiting for a clear path before
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: you walk, you don't need faith. You need faith because
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: you're facing fearful times. You understand, though he slay me,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: yet shall I trust him? See the paradoxical dilemma of faith.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: How faith is flourishing in an adverse atmosphere. Now, you,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: as an act of your will, have to decide what's
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: going to drive your next move. I'll take another question
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the bishop, how do I stay holding to God when
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I feel more and more depressed daily? I'm sorry you
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: feel depressed. On one hand, I want to dig down
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: into why you feel depressed, because there is a reason
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that you're feeling depressed. It can be an emotional reason,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it can be a biological reason, or it can be
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: a spiritual reason. And depending on where the depression is
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: coming from, how you are to handle it. Not everything
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: is resolved just by laying hands on it. Sometimes depression
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: is a result of suppressed anger and frustration, and you
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: would be it would be better for me not to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: lay hands on you, but for you to confront the
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: issue that you're angry about so that you can get
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: that anger out, because depression is often anger turned inside. Okay,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: but let's let's let's let's fly up into the higher
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: aspects of your question. How do I stay holding to
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: God when I feel more and more depressed? That's all
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: the more reason you ought to be holding on to God.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: You you you cannot let your relationship with God be
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: based on your feelings. The trick the answer to your
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: question is when I feel your relationship with God is
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: not based on feelings. Your relationship with God is based
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: on his word and the facts of his word, and
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: they often stand in total opposition to your feeling. I'm
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: not a Christian because I feel like one. I'm a
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Christian when I don't feel like one. I'm not a
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: preacher because I feel like a preacher. I'm a preacher
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: when I don't feel like being a preacher. I don't
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: need my feelings to align with my calling. So let's
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: not give too much power to our feelings, because they're
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: gonna change in the morning. See. So, you can't build
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: no house on sand because sand is not stable and
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: emotions are not stable. And if you build your house
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: on sand, when the storm comes, it's gonna come down.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: That's conditional circumstances. You have to build on something that
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: won't move, and feelings will move. Today i'm happy, Tomorrow
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not. Sometime before the day is over, my moods
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: change altogether. You cannot base your relationship with God on feelings. Listen,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: dear heart, you have got to get back into the
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Word of God and build your faith on things that
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: are eternal and hold to God's unchanging hand. You cannot
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: build your faith on feelings and circumstances. I know there
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: is a God because he gave me a husband. I
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: know there is a God because he put the dress
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: on sale. I know there is a God because the
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: mortgage I had gotten the mortgage approved. No no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: no no. I know there is a God. If there
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: is no house, I know there is a God. If
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: my spouse leaves me, I know there is a God.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: If I'm shut up in a hospice, because my faith
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: is not built on my circumstances. If your faith is
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: built on your circumstances, all the enemy has to do
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: to kill your faith is attack your circumstances. The reason
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: he couldn't bring Job down is Job's faith was never
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: in Job's possessions. You gotta build your faith on the
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: integrity of God's work. And we have got to wean
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: this church we have today from leaning on conditional circumstances
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: rather than building your faith on the integrity of God's word.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? This next question?
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this next question. We're doing all right?
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Everybody good? Everybody with me. Let's do this thing. How
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: do you explain all that is currently going on to
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: your children, especially if you have raised them to pray
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and trust God. The fact that you've raised him to
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: pray and trust God does not mean that because we
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: have trouble. This in some way is an indictment against prayer.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't listen. I would need to trust this chair
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: if I wasn't gonna put weight on it. You see,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: you see the whole notion of trusting God means trust
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you when the circumstances are against me. So what you
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: want to do is teach your children to believe God
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and to trust God. But to differnce you at God
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: from Santa Claus. He didn't just come down the chimney
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: to give you good stuff. Sometimes God orders sunshine, and
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: sometimes he orders rain. Sometimes he orders pleasure, and sometimes
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: he orders pain. Well, why should I serve him if
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you're gonna order pain? Because sometimes pain is what it
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: takes to get you into your purpose. See, so it
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: might not be good, but all things are going to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: work together for good. So you begin to teach the
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: children this is a trial of our faith, and this
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: is a season that we're going through right now, and
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: we're going to lean and trust God to take us
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: through those circumstances and to bring us out safely. And
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: so we're going to pray tonight and we're gonna trust God.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: And you must understand that our faith is being challenged
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: by virus that has been talked about since January. I
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: know people whose faith had been tested by hundreds of
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: years of slavery. See how many weeks are we into this.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the Holocaust. Let's look at how
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: long the Saints were perseculent. Let's tell your children about
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: how the disciples were crucified upside down and thrown into
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: snake pits and died. Tell them how Stephan was stoned
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: and even died looking up in the heaven. We got
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: to teach a real faith, not a candy can faith.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: A real faith, a faith that struggles, a faith that rustles,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: a faith that fights back. And you start that early.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Every time I think about this, I get emotional every
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: day of my life. Thank God for the way my
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: parents raised me. Because they were tough, they were rough.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: They didn't give you a whole lot of anything. Borrow
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: money from my mother, you just assume go to the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: internal revenue and try to get them to pay your taxes. Yeah,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: because she raised you not to expect something for nothing.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: We have got to stop creating a euphoric world for
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: our children, trying to give them everything that we didn't get,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: because in the process of giving them everything that we
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: didn't get, we're not going to get the results that
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: we became from the hardships we encountered. To prepare them
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: for a real world. Some days it's going to be
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: a Disney World kind of day, and other days you're
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: gonna not feel like getting out of the bed. But
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel like getting out of the bed,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and when you are afraid, you keep going. This is
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: a great opportunity to teach your children obedience, boundaries, structure, order,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and you can teach it if you are not terrified yourself.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: But it's hard to teach a child something that hadn't
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: fully penetrated the parent. In other words, if you're afread,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be a fread. I tell my children all
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the time, don't be scared to you see me get scared. Yeah,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: don't be scared to you see me get scared. And
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I live by that. I'm on a plane, I can't
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: fly a plane. And as long as a pilot don't
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: come out of that door white as a sheet, I'm good.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: But the day the pilot comes out of the door
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and say, oh my God, we got a problem. I
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: don't know what he's talking about, but I'm worried about it.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: As a driver. As a leader, all my leaders listen
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: at me. You cannot allow your feelings to be projected
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: on your passengers. You can't vent on your children. You
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: have to be stepfast because when you are not stepfast,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: you represent their whole world. So this is a great
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: opportunity to teach them about life that things come out
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: of nowhere. Change all your plans, rearrange all your affairs.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: But your adaptability quot has to be so designed that
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: you adapt to change. I know you thought we were
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: going to go away on vacation. Now we're not gonna
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: go We're gonna have a staycation. So take the sheet
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: off the bed and let's make a tent, and let's
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: learn how to play with what we got. Let's do
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: some creativity in here. This is an opportunity. It's not
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: an opposition. It's an opportunity to teach your children the reality.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Because if you don't take this opportunity, when they get
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: out in the real world and something happens out of
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the blue, they don't know how to handle it. See,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: because we have created this world of euphoria. That's really
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: not real. This is real. I'm sorry. I don't like it.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I don't want it. I want it to be over
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: to But this is real, real, and we have to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: operate with our boundaries. We have to obey laws, we
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: have to respect leadership. This is a great opportunity to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: teach your children a lot of life lessons and how
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to be happy in confinement. Wow, that you don't need
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: all these people to make you happy. Oh, I can
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: think of so many things that you can teach from this.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I want to teach your child myself. Glory
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: to God. This is gonna be good. Do you think
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: the current coronavirus situation will cause a shift in how
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: we experience church after all of this is over. I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: hope so. I hope that when all of this is over,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: we have a deeper appreciation for the right and the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: privilege to come together in worship. I hope that we'll
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: get up out of the bed a little bit more
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: and drive to service a little bit more. I hope
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: that the scarcity of this moment would increase our Bible
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: study so that when I'm preaching, I don't have to
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: always go back to fundamentals before I can build on it,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: because you have a foundation. I hope that it does that. First.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: I hope that it makes us love one another more.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I hope that it makes us reach out across generations more.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I hope it makes young people care for the elderly,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: elderly respect the young people in a way that sometimes
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: we're at odds with each other and we don't need
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  Speaker 1: to be, and now we're in a situation where we
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  Speaker 1: need each other. Now I need the grandchild to go
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  Speaker 1: to the grocery store for me might not be able
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  Speaker 1: to go for myself. Those kinds of opportunity unities either
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  Speaker 1: make you weaker or wiser. How you handle it is
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  Speaker 1: up to you. Is there another question? I feel like
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  Speaker 1: my faith is on trial? Any words have encouraged me?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, me too, I have had parents that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel like my faith was on trial. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm in apparent now that I think that my faith
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  Speaker 1: is on trial. And it's not necessarily about coronavirus. But
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  Speaker 1: any time there is going to be elevation, there's generally
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  Speaker 1: preceded by frustration, and the fact that I feel like
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  Speaker 1: my faith is on trial is not necessarily a bad
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  Speaker 1: thing because a lot of times I think we have
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  Speaker 1: been taught faith wrongly, that we think that faith is
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  Speaker 1: magic and that we're using our faith just to get
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  Speaker 1: what we want. But faith aptly taught says, if I
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  Speaker 1: don't get what I want, I still believe God. See
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  Speaker 1: others not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: Some dwelt in caves. It doesn't. See, the Bible doesn't
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  Speaker 1: teach faith that always ends up in a mansion. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible is open that some of the people with the
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  Speaker 1: greatest faith hid in caves. So don't think that your
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  Speaker 1: faith is on trial because your conditions are being tested.
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  Speaker 1: It might be that your choices are on trial. Oh wow, See,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of times we are not where we
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  Speaker 1: are because of the weakness of our faith. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: are where we are by the poverty of our decisions.
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  Speaker 1: So before you think that you are where you are
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  Speaker 1: because you didn't believe God and God didn't come through
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  Speaker 1: for you and all of that, I've got a whole
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  Speaker 1: litany of things I go through before I get to that.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that I did that brought this on myself?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a better choice I could have made. Am
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  Speaker 1: I handling my money correctly? Am I living beyond my means?
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  Speaker 1: What do I need to do? Before I even get
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  Speaker 1: to what does God need to do? You see what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because just because you're going through adversity doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you don't have faith. Just because Peter was in
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  Speaker 1: a storm didn't mean that there wasn't faith on the boat.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was on the boat, but that didn't mean the
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  Speaker 1: storm didn't come. So don't think it's strange that fiery
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  Speaker 1: trials have come against you to try your faith. Don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's odd. That's supposed to happen. That's not a demotion.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to ever outgrow that. As far as
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  Speaker 1: I can tell up to sixty two, there's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be something that tries your faith. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some gymnasium that God puts your faith in to work
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  Speaker 1: out in. The problems are they're gymnasiums for your faith
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  Speaker 1: to work out in. And when God gets ready for
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  Speaker 1: your faith to get strong, he puts resistance in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Because you'll never build up strength without resistance. Oh Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God, You'll never be strong without resistance. You'll never
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  Speaker 1: be tenasis without resistance. The resistance is good that we've
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  Speaker 1: been afflicted, because through all of that you become tough.
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  Speaker 1: Like our ancestors before us, what we call tribulation. Today
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: our ancestors will call kool aid. Absolutely, come on, somebody,
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  Speaker 1: but we call oh, my car, lost my car? They
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  Speaker 1: never had one. See. A lot of it is we're
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  Speaker 1: conditioned to things that fluctuate. How do you handle being
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  Speaker 1: alone in times of trouble? That's a very good question.
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  Speaker 1: On one hand, we all go through periods of a loneeness,
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  Speaker 1: whether we are alone or not. You can be You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be alone to be lonely. Okay, finding
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  Speaker 1: some safe place, And I'm not just answering your question,
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  Speaker 1: I'm also discerning you that sent the question. Finding some
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  Speaker 1: safe place where you can talk is very therapeutic. Now
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  Speaker 1: that safe place. It may not be a permanent friend.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a temporary encounter. It might be a counselor,
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  Speaker 1: it might be a pastor, it might be a minister
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  Speaker 1: at your church. But choose wisely in times of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: It's really not company that you need. It's sound wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not just about being lonely in times
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. This is about getting insight in times of
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  Speaker 1: trouble because you're really feeling alone, because you're thinking inside
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. I do that sometimes. It's like I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in West Virginia and your wheels would get on
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  Speaker 1: ice and they'd be spinning, and rubber would be burning
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: and you're burning gas. But you're not getting anywhere. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: you think the same thing five times, you're not thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You're worrying anytime you keep rehearsing the same thing over
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  Speaker 1: and over and again. What am I gonna do about this? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My god? What am I if I don't do sometimes
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: is gonna happen? Oh? It's coming back Thursday, And I
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: don't know anywhere I would do. At first, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: but if I keep repeating it, I'm just worrying and
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  Speaker 1: you're never going to get the answers you need just
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  Speaker 1: by worrying. I'm gonna take one more question, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna close. How do I draw closer to God in prayer?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: I love that question. The more real He becomes in
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  Speaker 1: your life, the easier it is to pray. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: back that all the way back and unpack that for
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  Speaker 1: a minute. When you first start praying, you don't really
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  Speaker 1: feel like anybody's listening because it's awkward because we are sensual.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean by sential? You mean I'm sexy.
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  Speaker 1: You might be, but that's not what I mean. There's
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  Speaker 1: a difference between being sexual and being sensual. Sensual means
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  Speaker 1: that we have a tendency to gravitate to that that
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  Speaker 1: titilates our senses, as ear, smell, touch, mouth, All those
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  Speaker 1: things are sensual through which we sense the world. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: prayer does not allow to operate in your senses because
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  Speaker 1: you can't see God, you can't audibly hear him answer you.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have to work on another set of senses.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that we have another complete set of senses? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we have spiritual senses that the Bible says the thing
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  Speaker 1: is in Hebrews Are thirteen. I'm not sure that it is.
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  Speaker 1: Our censes are exercised by reason of use. So when
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  Speaker 1: we first start praying, it might be mechanical, it might
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  Speaker 1: be mundane. But if you keep praying after a while,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes something that you can sense and that you
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  Speaker 1: can feel, and that you can commune with God, and
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  Speaker 1: you rush to do it. You rush to do it,
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  Speaker 1: you can't wait to do it. Oh God, I got
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you. Oh God, I need you right now.
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  Speaker 1: I want you right now in my spirit and in
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: my life. And sometimes it's the only place where you
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: can find peace is Sometimes he's the only one you
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  Speaker 1: can trust. Sometimes he's the only one you can really
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  Speaker 1: open up to and say. But that happens by reason
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  Speaker 1: of use. And then you discern him more clearly, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can hear him and what
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  Speaker 1: your Bible calls your inner ear, Yeah, you can hear.
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  Speaker 1: You can literally hear him, not in your natural ear,
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  Speaker 1: but in your spiritual ear. And you can sense him
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  Speaker 1: in the room. When God's glory comes in the room,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: you can sense his presence in the room. You know
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  Speaker 1: that he just walked in the room. Ah, that's his name.
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  Speaker 1: The choir can be singing, and the point where the
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: glory comes in, everybody can sense the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: Those senses I'm talking about are exercised by reason of use.
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  Speaker 1: They're asking me to answer two more questions. Yes, I'll
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  Speaker 1: do it. Put it up there. I have been trying
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  Speaker 1: my best to stay positive during this trial. How do
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I bring God and the Holy Spirit into the health
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  Speaker 1: care facility I work at to boost morales and show
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  Speaker 1: them God has got this. That's a very good question.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that there's a way in the world
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  Speaker 1: that you could leave him out if you came in.
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  Speaker 1: You're asking me, how do I bring God and the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit into the health care facility that you work in.
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  Speaker 1: He walked in in you. And as soon as you
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  Speaker 1: grasp that He may have not even put you there
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  Speaker 1: to make the money, Holly Loo, that you're on assignment
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  Speaker 1: in that place, and that when you walked in the
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  Speaker 1: Temple of the Lord walked into that health care facility.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you another little tip that
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  Speaker 1: will really help you sometimes influencing the morale of the
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  Speaker 1: people and show them that God has got This is
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  Speaker 1: not about what you say. It's what you do. It's
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere you create when you walk in the room.
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  Speaker 1: It's the jovial disposition that you have. It's the care
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  Speaker 1: with which you touch them. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: your kindness creates opportunities for your witness. It's not where
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  Speaker 1: your witness creates opportunity for your kindness. Your kindness creates
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for your witness, because they're gonna want to know,
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  Speaker 1: how can you be that upbeat? How can you be
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  Speaker 1: singing this morning? Why are you always so happy? And
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  Speaker 1: it opens up a way. Well, my peace comes from
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  Speaker 1: the LORDE and you can deive that testimony because when
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  Speaker 1: you walked in that place, God, his Holy Spirit, his Angel,
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  Speaker 1: his authority, his healing, his deliverance, all walked in. All
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  Speaker 1: walked in with you. So you don't have to get
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  Speaker 1: in there and talk God into coming. If you got
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  Speaker 1: in there, he's in there with you too. If you
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  Speaker 1: make your bed in hell about it said, he's there.
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  Speaker 1: If you take your wings and fly to the outmost
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  Speaker 1: parts of that, he's there. If they lock you in jail,
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  Speaker 1: look at Paul and Silad head mit night. Wherever you
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  Speaker 1: go happy, God is still there. God is still there.
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  Speaker 1: Comfort yourself with those words. Let them know that God
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  Speaker 1: is with them in this season of their life. Let
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  Speaker 1: them know that the God that brought them through all
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  Speaker 1: of those years will be with them all the way
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  Speaker 1: back home. Let them know that the God that burst
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  Speaker 1: them into the world, and that they came out of
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  Speaker 1: their mother's wolves and fell into his arms, will be
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: the same arms that tucked them into bed. As they
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  Speaker 1: get ready to go back to the God that gave them,
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  Speaker 1: let him know that he is Alpha and Omiga, the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and the end. He is God in life. He
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  Speaker 1: is God over death. He's God over every stage of
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  Speaker 1: their lives. Let them know that aging is not failure.
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  Speaker 1: It's success. Old age is of reward for people who
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  Speaker 1: live right and made good choices. It's a benefit. It's
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  Speaker 1: a benefit. It's a blessing. The growl. It's a blessing
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  Speaker 1: the growl. What's sad is a shortcasket. Oh, but a
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  Speaker 1: life well lived is a testimony. Thank you. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: have horror old age. Let's welcome it. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: wear my gray hair. I earned this gray. I earned
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  Speaker 1: this gray. I earned every strand of it. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: It's my crown, it's my grown man stuff. Hollidia, I
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  Speaker 1: endear it, affliction. I wear this gray hair to remind
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  Speaker 1: myself that when I was sue aside, it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll live to be the age I am. This
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  Speaker 1: is success on my face. Huss how Oh that's his name, halleluj.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm helping anybody or not hallee, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: don't despise age. Don't despise age. Appreciate it. Glory to
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  Speaker 1: God and all the people who despise it. You just wait.
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  Speaker 1: You hope to be lucky enough to get here. If
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  Speaker 1: God cover you and you make enough good choices and
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  Speaker 1: you're kind enough, you might get here. You might get here.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop just was wondering, could you do a worldwide prayer
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  Speaker 1: right now? I ain't always pray. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's worldwide, but I ain't always pray. I can pray
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  Speaker 1: for the world. I can pray for you right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I think this is a good thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you to stand with me as we
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  Speaker 1: do it. All over the world there's chaos all over
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: the world. There's hung Jesus all over the world. There
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  Speaker 1: is poverty and all over the world. There's pain all
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: over the world. There's political and arrest all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: There is disease all over the world. There's disorientation all
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  Speaker 1: over the world. There are people with dreams wondering how
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  Speaker 1: will they be realized. All over the world, there is turmoil.
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  Speaker 1: There is no place on the planet that sin didn't reach.
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  Speaker 1: No tribe, no culture, no color, no language, of people
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  Speaker 1: that do not wrestle with their flesh. All over the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: world Sin did about, but the Bible said, where sin
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  Speaker 1: did about, Grace did much more about. All over the world.
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  Speaker 1: The blood of Jesus will prevail all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: The name of Jesus is high and lifted up and
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  Speaker 1: worthy to be prayed all over the world. God is
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  Speaker 1: a healer. There's not a place in the world you
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  Speaker 1: can go that there's no power in Jesus' name. So
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: as we pray wherever you're watching from. It may be
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night. You may be over in
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Europe somewhere watching me, so sleepy you can't keep your
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: eyes open. You may be in South Africa in the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: middle of the night watching me right now. It must
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: be about four o'clock in the morning over there. I'm
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: praying for you. Glory to God. You might be in
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: Hawaii watching me right now. I'm praying for you even
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: though I'm a dead ahead of you. I'm praying backwards
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: and forwards. Hallelujah. Prayer doesn't have time zones. Prayer doesn't
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  Speaker 1: worry about calenders. Prayer doesn't watch to watch or care
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  Speaker 1: about the clock Father in the name of Jesus, as
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  Speaker 1: we come together in prayer, hallelujah. Prayer knows no boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: We're right where I am. There's telling us to distance ourselves,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: but prayer is my hook up. It's my connection. It
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: brings us into unity and fellowship. And I pray for
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  Speaker 1: pain all over the world, for people in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for families that are in divorce and trials
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: and tests. I pray for emotions that are distraught, and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: mental disorders and physical disorders, and those that are wrestling
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: with the virus, and those who have lost loved ones,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: and those who have incurred tragedies that are not even
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: on our radar. While we're talking about one thing, somebody's
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  Speaker 1: fighting something else. I rebuke cancer and hypertension and lung disorders.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for my brother in law. I pray for
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  Speaker 1: my neighbors. I pray for my friends. I pray for
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  Speaker 1: people in South America and in Africa, and in Europe
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: and Japan and China and Australia and New Zealand. I
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: pray for the Caribbean Islands. I pray for wherever there
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  Speaker 1: is faith. I pray that God would touch amongst all
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  Speaker 1: the languages of the world, that the hand of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord would make itself resident. That know, minister to the
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: needs of your people, whether they're in the slums of
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  Speaker 1: Soweto or whether they're in the mansions of Hollywood. Prayer, noose,
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  Speaker 1: no boundaries. Go there now in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Find them, Lord, in the name of Jesus, in the bush.
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  Speaker 1: And can you find them, Lord, right now, in the
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: name of Jesus in watch in Los Angeles. Find them now,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: walk in the street in South Chicago. Find them right now. God,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, blanking the world with your
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: love and your peace and your power. Because your God, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by yourself, you're not just an American God. You're the
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  Speaker 1: God of the whole earth. You sit on the circle
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: of the earth. Everything is up under your power, my God. Tonight,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: let the name of Jesus. Let it healing flow. Let
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: it flow right now. Let it go into Italy, Hollylujah,
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  Speaker 1: Let it go into the Vatican. Let it walk up
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  Speaker 1: and down the streets of Rome. Oh, my God, I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: lift up fit people and disease and hurting people, and
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: dysenteria and infection disorders and mental disorders and strife and
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: confusing and autism, and the arthritis, and every kind of disease.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: I lift up alshearmers and kidney failure. I lift up
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: blindness and blood diseases. I lift up the HIV positive
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: and those that are wrestling with age. I lift them
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  Speaker 1: up before you in the name of Jesus, Holly knew here.
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  Speaker 1: I lift up worried parents that are sitting in waiting
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: rooms praying over children, wondering what the outcome is going
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  Speaker 1: to be. I lift up parents that are sick and
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: diseased and age and don't recognize their children, but the
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: children recognize them. God, let your power overshadow every situation,
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  Speaker 1: for that is a kingdom, the power and the glory,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: forever and ever and ever. Amen, give God the best
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: praise you've got. Right now, My brother's and sisters, you
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: are to praise it right where you are in your
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: living room, sitting on the couch on your job, where
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: in the hospital. You are to lift up some hands
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: and give God some glory right now. Comforter, comforter, comforter.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: When we think about the Holy Spirit, we think of
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: him comforting like this. But in the original language it
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: is not comfort like this. The word is peppaclet.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. One who stands alongside to help the comforter
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  Speaker 1: is help a parent clytus on the loading dock. When
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  Speaker 1: you got something really heavy and you can't lift it,
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  Speaker 1: there's an apparatus called a parent clean air click makes
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  Speaker 1: you able to lift stuff that you couldn't lift because
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  Speaker 1: it leverages. If I tried to lift it in my
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  Speaker 1: own strength, I couldn't do it, and I would fail
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  Speaker 1: in my own strength. But if I just take a
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  Speaker 1: chain and hook it to the paraclet, I can pull
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  Speaker 1: it up easier because I got help. You see, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the holy ghost is. You better pay attention this
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  Speaker 1: year because some of the stuff you're gonna grab you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have the strength to lift. But don't give
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  Speaker 1: up on your vision. You gotta call on the paraclet.
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  Speaker 1: Say I couldn't lift this in my own strength, but
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  Speaker 1: I have a comforter that is a paracleat that gives
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  Speaker 1: me strength that's not my own. And he says, when
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: you go in, I'm going in with you. When you
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  Speaker 1: go out, dren, I'm going out drint with When you
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  Speaker 1: get in the fight, I'm in the fight with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand alongside you to help me, and when
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  Speaker 1: you run out of strength, that's when i'm gonna kick in.
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave you fun for that