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Bishop T.D. Jakes Preaching Back In The Day · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Tell them something's gonna happen in here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Glory, glory, glory.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody acts like you came to have church tonight. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: act like you came to throw.
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  Speaker 1: Down for Jesus tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever we get together like this, something is supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 3: There's too many believers in here for nothing to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus said, where two or three of us gather in
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  Speaker 3: his name, there am I in the midst of them.
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  Speaker 3: And with all of these believers in here tonight, we
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  Speaker 3: ought to be able to raise Lazarus up from the dead,
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  Speaker 3: shrink cancers, rebuke the devil, find depression, and walk in
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  Speaker 3: the power of God. If you believe it, give God
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  Speaker 3: praise for it right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm delighted to be here with you.
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  Speaker 3: It's an honor to be back with Pastor Daughtery and
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  Speaker 3: his lovely wife and your church and just to have
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to see believers gather together in the name
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  Speaker 3: of the Lord. I think that we're setting a new
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  Speaker 3: precedence in our generation in that we're coming into, it
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  Speaker 3: used to be that in order to fill up an
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  Speaker 3: auditorium like this, you had to have Michael Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got to have with Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: And people come from everywhere and take off work and
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  Speaker 3: some get off work, swallow a hamburger in the car
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  Speaker 3: and do their hair at the red light and pull
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  Speaker 3: their shoes out of the trunk of the car and
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  Speaker 3: do their makeup in the bathroom and enter into his
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  Speaker 3: gates with thanksgiving and the courts with praise if you're
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  Speaker 3: sitting beside somebody who smells like mcdonald's it's because they
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  Speaker 3: just made up in their mind i'm gonna get to
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  Speaker 3: church i don't care what it takes i'm coming in
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  Speaker 3: there i'm coming in there i'm gonna grab a sandwich
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  Speaker 3: and run in the house of god and bless god
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  Speaker 3: and give him the praise because he's worthy to be
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  Speaker 3: praised People don't understand what makes us gather like this.
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  Speaker 3: They think that we just gather to be gathering, but
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  Speaker 3: they don't understand that the Word is our confidant, the
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  Speaker 3: Word of God is our counselor, the Word is our friend,
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  Speaker 3: it's our therapist. We couldn't afford to go to the analyst, so.
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  Speaker 1: We went to church.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't no need in laying out on a couch and
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  Speaker 3: talking about our childhood. We laid out on the altar
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  Speaker 3: and said, Lord, if you don't do it for me,
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  Speaker 3: it cannot be done.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: He's been our marriage counselor. He's taught us how to
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  Speaker 3: raise our children. He's taught us how to handle our finances.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I believe that
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  Speaker 3: when you obey the book, you can overcome any situation
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  Speaker 3: in your life. If you believe that, thank the Lord
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  Speaker 3: with me tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm delighted to be here tonight, and I can
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  Speaker 3: tell it reminds me of the old hobos in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: The train would already be in motion, and if the
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  Speaker 3: hobo was going to catch the train.
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  Speaker 1: He had to be able to run.
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  Speaker 3: When a move of God is already in motion, you
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  Speaker 3: can't come in and act sleepy.
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  Speaker 1: Because the thing is already rolling when you get there.
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  Speaker 3: You got to just go to running. How many are
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  Speaker 3: ready to run and catch a hold to the promise?
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  Speaker 3: Look at somebody and tell them, I came to run tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to have to drag me and nobody's going
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  Speaker 3: to have to catch me and.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's going to have to pull me. I came to run.
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  Speaker 1: My God! My God! My God!
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  Speaker 3: My God!
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  Speaker 1: My God! My God!
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  Speaker 3: I feel the tremors of an earthquake! I feel the
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  Speaker 3: tremors of an earthquake!
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  Speaker 1: I feel the tremors of an earthquake!
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  Speaker 3: Whoo!
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  Speaker 5: Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory.
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  Speaker 3: If I was the devil, I would just run out
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  Speaker 3: of here tonight. I would just leap out the window.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even try to stay in the building. If
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  Speaker 3: I was a disease, I would just get out of
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  Speaker 3: here right now because somebody's going to pray.
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  Speaker 1: To the power of the Lord. I'm excited. Y'all sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all will make me shout and run down the aisle
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  Speaker 3: going to Wattootsie and.
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  Speaker 1: Do the Holy Ghost bump and.
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  Speaker 3: The sanctified mashed potatoes because when I think of the
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  Speaker 3: goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me,
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  Speaker 3: my soul cries out hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: My innermost being cries out hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't do anything else for me, if I
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  Speaker 3: never get the house I want or the car I
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  Speaker 3: want or the friends I want or the popularity I want,
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  Speaker 3: I thank you because you reached down in the gutter
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  Speaker 3: and you caught my falling soul and you saved me
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  Speaker 3: and delivered me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. No matter what I go through, I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: because I have Jesus in my life.
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  Speaker 3: That's sermon number one. You got about three more of them,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll go back to my room. But I'm honored.
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  Speaker 3: I'm honored to be here with you. Somebody teased me
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  Speaker 3: when I came in the door. They said I looked
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  Speaker 3: like I'd lost some weight. I told them I'm half
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  Speaker 3: the man I used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody said to me, he said, how did you do it?
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  Speaker 3: I said, I suffered. I suffered like I got on
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  Speaker 3: a treadmill, like I ran myself to death. But I
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  Speaker 3: purposed in my heart, my father got to the age
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  Speaker 3: that I'm at now and got sick. He was a
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  Speaker 3: big man also, and he built a business, and about
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  Speaker 3: the time he got it up to some size, he
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  Speaker 3: got sick. Blood pressure went up so high it scarred
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  Speaker 3: his kidneys. His kidneys failed. His body got so weak
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  Speaker 3: that his heart eventually stopped beating. He was sick for
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  Speaker 3: eight years and went from 280 pounds to 130 pounds
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  Speaker 3: and would die alive twice a week on kidney machines
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  Speaker 3: and all of that stuff. And my father died when
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  Speaker 3: he was 48 and I was 16. And the devil
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  Speaker 3: came along and said to me, once I had Been
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  Speaker 3: working and preaching and ministering and laboring for the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: About the time I got around 39, he said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming to get you. My blood pressure went up to 180,
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  Speaker 3: over 120. And he said, I'm coming to get you
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  Speaker 3: just like I got your daddy. And I tell people
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  Speaker 3: all over the country, at some point or another in
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  Speaker 3: your life, you have to be prepared to fight your
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  Speaker 3: daddy's devil. In fact, if you are wise, the devil
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have anything new. So he keeps regurgitating the same stuff,
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  Speaker 3: generation to generation to generation. But what he didn't know
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  Speaker 3: is that I was packing some stuff that my daddy
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  Speaker 3: didn't know nothing about. So I got my Bible in
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  Speaker 3: one hand and my tennis shoes in the other. And
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  Speaker 3: I start feeding my spirit and watching what I fed
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  Speaker 3: my body. And I got on the treadmill and said,
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  Speaker 3: I've been running for Jesus a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And I ain't got time yet. You know, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, if you make up in.
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  Speaker 3: Your mind that you want to live, no devil in
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  Speaker 3: hell can snatch away from you what God has for
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  Speaker 3: you to do. I told him, I can't bat right now.
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  Speaker 3: I got to go to Word Explosion. I got some
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  Speaker 3: things to do. And God just did some tremendous things.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about it. I lost 90 pounds.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I think what's more important than that was I found
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  Speaker 3: out how to take the Word of God and apply
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  Speaker 3: it against the thing that's trying to destroy you.
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  Speaker 1: And I found out that if you.
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  Speaker 3: Just take the principles, in fact, I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: put together a book and share. There are certain things
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  Speaker 3: in this Word that if you would aim it at
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  Speaker 3: the thing that's aiming at you, You can reverse the
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  Speaker 3: curse and get the big, come on, give God a praise.
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  Speaker 1: You can reverse. I don't care what it is. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what it is. I don't care what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That devil might be intimidating you right now and saying
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get sick. Your mother got sick. Your
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  Speaker 3: sister got sick. Your mother had breast cancer. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to have breast cancer like she did. Your father died.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to die at.
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  Speaker 1: A certain age. That devil is a liar.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to take that word of God and say
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  Speaker 3: greater is he that.
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  Speaker 1: Is in me than he is in you.
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  Speaker 3: That's in the world just because your parents got a
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  Speaker 3: divorce doesn't mean you're going to get one just because
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  Speaker 3: grandma had a nervous breakdown doesn't mean you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have it just because your aunt had Alzheimer's doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that you have to have it you need to plead
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  Speaker 3: the blood of Jesus and say wait a minute devil
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  Speaker 3: I plead the blood against you Well, that's not what
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  Speaker 3: I'm preaching tonight, but I could.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all fired up.
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  Speaker 3: I've been putting together some notes for a ministry that
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do in a book form called Lay
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  Speaker 3: Aside the Weight. Because when you don't have time for it,
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  Speaker 3: look at somebody and say, I don't have time for it.
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  Speaker 3: You can't let anything or anybody hinder you. Somewhere out
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  Speaker 3: in the lobby or foyer or somewhere around here, there's
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  Speaker 3: some books and tapes and some stuff that wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: important if I just said it, but it's crucially important
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  Speaker 3: because it's things that God said through me. Blessed to
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  Speaker 3: live in a generation that the Word of God is
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  Speaker 3: preserved in such wonderful technological ways. many many preachers who
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  Speaker 3: preached in previous generations gave great truth and we've got
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  Speaker 3: some gleanings of what they said but we can't hear
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  Speaker 3: how they said it or how they moved when they
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  Speaker 3: said it or how they looked when they said it
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  Speaker 3: or all of what they said but we are privileged
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  Speaker 3: to live in a generation that our technology has enabled
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  Speaker 3: us to capture not only the word that said but
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  Speaker 3: and i can't explain it because i don't know i'm
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  Speaker 3: about as technological as a one-foot rabbit but uh It's
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  Speaker 3: amazing to me how the anointing of God can get
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  Speaker 3: on a tape. I'm not even sure the technical people
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  Speaker 3: can explain it. But when the anointing really gets loose
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  Speaker 3: in a service, you can put that video or audio
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  Speaker 3: on and you'll forget you're in your living room. And
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  Speaker 3: the preacher will say, touch your neighbor and you'll forget.
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  Speaker 3: You'll touch your lamp and say.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that happens, but it does happen.
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  Speaker 3: We get praise reports, people being healed and delivered, marriages
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  Speaker 3: being restored, curses being broken just through tapes and videos.
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  Speaker 3: It's a wonderful time to be alive in the body
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  Speaker 3: of Christ. Go to the Gospel of St. Matthew as
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  Speaker 3: we prepare our hearts for the Word of God. I'm
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  Speaker 3: thankful to the Lord. My niece, I was going to
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  Speaker 3: say she's my oldest niece because she is, but that
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  Speaker 3: sounds like she's older than she is, is here today. Kelly,
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  Speaker 3: would you stand? I appreciate her being here in the
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  Speaker 3: service of the Lord with me.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Amen. I think I'm going to have a good
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  Speaker 1: time here.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to get the Gospel of St. Matthew,
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  Speaker 3: chapter number 16, verse 17 through 25, and stand to
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  Speaker 3: your feet. Oh, how I love.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus, singing, oh. love Jesus oh thank you Lord how
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  Speaker 4: I love Jesus because he first because deep isn't it
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  Speaker 4: wonderful love Jesus Did you know he loves you? No
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  Speaker 4: matter what you've been through.
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  Speaker 1: Sing, oh, how. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How I love Jesus. I'm singing, oh. How I love Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. Really love Jesus. Anybody really love him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's all how I love him.
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  Speaker 1: How I love Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Because he first loved me. He first loved me. Take
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  Speaker 3: me higher, brother. I want to lift him up tonight. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: how I love him.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, lift your voice. Oh, how I love Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't nobody like him nowhere, no how, no time.
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  Speaker 1: No way. Oh, how I love him. Oh, how I
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  Speaker 1: love Jesus.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord, how I love thee.
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  Speaker 3: Just the most beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I used to come up around the old folks and
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  Speaker 1: they used to sing like this. They'd say, to me.
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  Speaker 3: It is so wonderful. Oh, yes, they would. They'd start
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  Speaker 3: walking the floor and say, to me. To me.
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  Speaker 1: It is so wonderful. Oh, yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody help me tell him. Oh, to me, to me,
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  Speaker 3: it is so wonderful. Because he can't love me big.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love him. Oh, I love him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love him.
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  Speaker 1: I love him.
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  Speaker 3: I love him.
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  Speaker 1: How I love Jesus. How I love Jesus. Oh, yeah. Oh, how,
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  Speaker 1: how I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. With
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  Speaker 1: nobody else there for me before. With nobody else there
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  Speaker 1: for me before. With nobody else there for me before. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank the Lord. I dare you to think about it.
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  Speaker 3: It'll go all through you. Wasn't nothing special about you.
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  Speaker 3: He just loved you anyway. Looked beyond all of your
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  Speaker 3: mistakes and just loved you anyway. Somebody else would have
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  Speaker 3: threw you away, but Jesus, he just loved you anyway. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, Lord, because he first loved me. Somebody give
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  Speaker 3: him glory in this house tonight. Somebody give him glory.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be stingy, give him glory tonight. Don't save and
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  Speaker 3: don't hold.
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  Speaker 5: Him, give him glory tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Bless the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Because he first, my God, he loved me. My God,
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  Speaker 3: he just, he just loved me. I know it's just
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  Speaker 3: a little old Sunday school song, but it still blows
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  Speaker 3: my mind right now. He just loves me. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to impress him. I don't have to prove anything
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  Speaker 3: to him. He just loves me. Oh, you don't hear
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. The book of Ephesians said, I'm accepted
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  Speaker 3: in the beloved. I don't have to try to get
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  Speaker 3: in the clique or get in the club. He just
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  Speaker 3: loves me. When you know that he loves you, it's
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  Speaker 3: not so important how other people feel about you. You're
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  Speaker 3: not so desperate and you're not so lonely because you
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  Speaker 3: know that he loves me. Look at somebody and say,
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  Speaker 3: he loves me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I better move. You might be tired of standing. Look
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  Speaker 3: at the 16th chapter and the 17th verse. God is
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  Speaker 3: so good to me. I can't help but praise him.
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  Speaker 3: I know some folk don't have to praise him, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm up under contracts. I have a praising contract with God.
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  Speaker 3: Every so many blessings, I have to stop and say.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't praise him, the rocks will.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want the cinder block in this building to
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  Speaker 3: have to start dancing for me, do you? I got
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  Speaker 3: to praise him. Look at somebody and say, I got
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  Speaker 3: to praise him.
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  Speaker 5: Chando.
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  Speaker 1: Hold it. Hold it. Let us look at.
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  Speaker 3: The 17th through the 25th verse of the Gospel of St.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to read in concert from the Word of God.
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  Speaker 3: If you would join me in reading the Word, verse
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  Speaker 3: 17 through 25, the 16th chapter of the Gospel of St.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew. When you have it, say Amen. let's read together and.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus answered and said unto him blessed art thou simon
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  Speaker 3: barjona for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto
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  Speaker 3: thee but my father which is in heaven and i
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  Speaker 3: say unto thee thou art peter and upon this rock
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  Speaker 3: i will build my church and the gates of hell
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  Speaker 3: shall not prevail against him and i will give unto
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  Speaker 3: thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven And whatsoever
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  Speaker 3: thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
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  Speaker 3: And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed
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  Speaker 3: in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Continue.
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  Speaker 5: Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 5: From that time forth, in the age of the Lord
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  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, I will be the Lord of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And I will be.
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  Speaker 3: With you forever.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And if you are looking for a man
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  Speaker 1: to be with you in this day and age, who
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  Speaker 1: you are and who you are, you shall not be untreated.
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  Speaker 1: But if you turn and say unto the earth.
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  Speaker 3: If you are not untreated, God is not going to
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  Speaker 3: leave you without you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Shall find it. Can you say amen? Amen. Look
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  Speaker 1: at verse 24. Remain standing. We're going to pray.
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  Speaker 3: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will
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  Speaker 3: come after me, let him deny himself and take up
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  Speaker 3: his cross and follow me. My subject tonight, an invitation
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  Speaker 3: to a cross. Amen. Let's pray. Spirit of the living God,
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  Speaker 3: we invite your presence. You don't have to break in.
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  Speaker 3: We invite you in. Manifest your glory in the midst
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  Speaker 3: of these, your people. We have not come to be
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  Speaker 3: convinced of thee. We are already fully persuaded who you are.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be equipped so that we might win others.
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  Speaker 3: We thank you for where you brought us from. It
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  Speaker 3: was such a terrible place. So glad to be gone
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  Speaker 3: from there. And we thank you for where you're taking
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  Speaker 3: us to. It's so exciting that it gives us the
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  Speaker 3: courage to press through everything we're dealing with now. We
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  Speaker 3: believe you're for miracles tonight. In the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 3: we pray. Somebody shout Amen. You may be seated in
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  Speaker 3: the presence of God. I have a tendency to baffling
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  Speaker 3: in my study between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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  Speaker 3: I like the Old Testament because the Old Testament details
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  Speaker 3: the lifestyles of the men and women that God used.
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  Speaker 3: And yet the New Testament points to the ministries and
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  Speaker 3: the words of the men. And so I kind of
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  Speaker 3: need both because I need to know what you said.
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  Speaker 3: Then I need to know a little bit about who
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  Speaker 3: said it. I need to know something about practical application
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  Speaker 3: to biblical principles. I need to know from time to
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  Speaker 3: time that God used men like me. So I need
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  Speaker 3: to be able to know a little bit about the
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  Speaker 3: specifics of their personal lives so that I don't begin
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  Speaker 3: to worship the men more than the God that used them.
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  Speaker 3: It is extremely important that we never fail to be
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  Speaker 3: naked before people. And reveal the fact that we have
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  Speaker 3: this treasure in earthen vessels. That the excellency may be
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  Speaker 3: of God and not of us. Sadly many of us
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  Speaker 3: are so busy trying to convince the people that we
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  Speaker 3: are excellent. That we have failed to point them to
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  Speaker 3: the excellency that is of God. We must openly, adamantly
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  Speaker 3: confess and insist that we do have the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: But the treasure is in earthen vessels.
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  Speaker 3: That he put the glory in a clay pot so
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  Speaker 3: that people will not be confused between the contents and
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  Speaker 3: the container. And if they get anything from us, it
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  Speaker 3: must be out of the depths of the contents of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit in spite of the weakness of the
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  Speaker 3: container in which it has been placed. And we need
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  Speaker 3: to know that and we need to study that and
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  Speaker 3: we need to be aware of that, that even at
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  Speaker 3: our optimum peak of spirituality, we are filthy rags in
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  Speaker 3: the sight of God. What I like about the Old
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  Speaker 3: Testament and particularly men like Job and Elijah and Elisha
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  Speaker 3: and David and some of the other patriarchs of the
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  Speaker 3: Old Testament is that we get to ride the roller
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  Speaker 3: coaster of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: We get to see.
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  Speaker 3: Elijah call fire down from heaven and then come down
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  Speaker 3: off the mountain and run from Jezebel.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to see that you can be powerful one
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  Speaker 3: moment and scared to death the next. We get to
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  Speaker 3: see David run after Goliath with a fling shot and
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  Speaker 3: a rock and hit him in the head, knock him out,
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  Speaker 3: take his sword, cut his head off and be that
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  Speaker 3: powerful and be that victorious and then be on the
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  Speaker 3: roof looking at Bathsheba. I know you can't nod right
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  Speaker 3: now but later when you get home nod tonight just
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  Speaker 3: before you go to bed tonight just nod one time
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to tell anybody what it's about just
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  Speaker 3: one little nod.
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  Speaker 1: We need to see that even.
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  Speaker 3: As Jesus, the manifested presence of God, the picture of
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  Speaker 3: God himself, God manifest in flesh, God tabernacled amongst us.
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  Speaker 3: Even when Jesus makes his debut and steps down through
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  Speaker 3: 40 and two generations and says, Lo, I come in
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  Speaker 3: the volume of the book to do thy will, O God.
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  Speaker 3: And he steps in the dressing room of a womb
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  Speaker 3: of a virgin called Mary.
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  Speaker 1: And tabernacles himself.
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  Speaker 3: In flesh and comes out God incarnate and becomes Emmanuel
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  Speaker 3: God tabernacled with us that even in the manifest presence
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  Speaker 3: of God that we still have Thomas doubting disciples jockeying
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  Speaker 3: for position We still have politics in Jesus' church, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with Jesus the pastor, with him the superintendent, with him
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  Speaker 3: the bishop, with him the prelate. Even in Jesus' church,
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  Speaker 3: we've got disputings and betrayals. And even though he handpicked
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  Speaker 3: only 12.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was a devil.
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  Speaker 3: We need to know that so that we can just
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  Speaker 3: figure as leaders that one out of every 12.
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  Speaker 1: That's good for you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just helps your mind so that you
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  Speaker 3: don't get scared when you run into trouble and think
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  Speaker 3: you don't know what you're doing. You figure that if
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  Speaker 3: Jesus got one out of 12, I'd.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to have, you know.
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  Speaker 3: We need to see that when people get saved that
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  Speaker 3: they do not ascend into the heavenlies like a jet
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  Speaker 3: running down a runway and just go up into the
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  Speaker 3: upper echelon and escape through the clouds and sit down
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  Speaker 3: in tabernacle with all the patriarchs. We need to see
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  Speaker 3: that it's more like a roller coaster ride.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: That it's more like the old folks used to sing,
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  Speaker 3: the old slaves used to sing, sometimes up and sometimes down,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes level to the ground, but the storm is passing over.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: We need to know that life is tempestuous like wind.
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  Speaker 3: And there are moments that you are spiritually astute and
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  Speaker 3: prepared to face the challenge. And there are other times
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  Speaker 3: that you're trembling and saying, God, if you don't help me,
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  Speaker 3: I won't be able to stand the storm.
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  Speaker 1: We need to see that.
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  Speaker 3: I also need to see that Jesus was not so
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  Speaker 3: busy pouring himself into the public. He was pouring himself
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  Speaker 3: into the disciples. Because I think sometimes we have taken
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  Speaker 3: on the mammoth job of trying to disciple people who
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  Speaker 3: are not believers. I think that we have become ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: even in the world trying to get sinners to live
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  Speaker 3: saved lives. and criticizing sinners for sinning because sinners are
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  Speaker 3: supposed to sin. We had better focus on trying to
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  Speaker 3: clean up the church because it's hard enough to do
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  Speaker 3: that without us expecting people to live right without Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect sinners to do anything. I don't expect
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  Speaker 3: them to understand me. I don't expect them to like me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect them to love me. I don't expect
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  Speaker 3: them to hold their marriages together. I don't expect them
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  Speaker 3: not to commit adultery. I don't expect them not to fornicate.
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect them not to be prejudiced. I don't
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  Speaker 3: expect them to do anything because without Jesus Christ, it
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely impossible. The truth of the matter is, even
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  Speaker 3: with Jesus, we struggle sometimes and have good days and
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  Speaker 3: bad days. So I know if you don't know Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: there's no way in the world you're going to love me. Please.
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  Speaker 3: You need the Holy Ghost to be able to love me.
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  Speaker 3: You love me without the Holy Ghost, it just means
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  Speaker 3: you don't know me yet.
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  Speaker 1: I just love him, you don't know me.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to walk with somebody every day and see
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  Speaker 3: all sides of their personality. The only way you can
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  Speaker 3: love a person seeing all sides of them is that
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  Speaker 3: the love of God is shared and brought in your
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  Speaker 3: heart by the Holy Ghost. Jesus began to just take
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  Speaker 3: a little census to find out what the world was
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  Speaker 3: saying about him.
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  Speaker 1: He says, who do men say that I am?
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  Speaker 3: And they responded, the only answer that you can ever
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  Speaker 3: give to anybody who is a mover and a shaker
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  Speaker 3: in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: That is, some say. Some say. See, there will never
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  Speaker 1: be an agreement in the world about who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Some say.
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  Speaker 3: Thou art a Elias, and some say thou art a Jeremias,
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  Speaker 3: and some say thou art a prophet. The only conflation
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  Speaker 3: you can have about worldly people is that God won't
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  Speaker 3: let your enemies agree. The rumors will collide and argue
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  Speaker 3: as to who you are. Some say thou art a Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 3: Some say thou art Eli. Some say thou art a prophet.
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  Speaker 3: He said, oh, no, no, I'm not going to waste
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  Speaker 3: time trying to change it. You don't see him trying
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  Speaker 3: to defend that. You don't see him arguing about that.
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  Speaker 3: You don't see him picketing and boycotting and trying to
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  Speaker 3: convince them as to who he was. He said, that's
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  Speaker 3: not even there.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 3: You're the ones that I've poured into and labored with.
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  Speaker 3: You're the ones that I've given up my time and
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  Speaker 3: strength and walked across waters and seen people heal. And
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  Speaker 3: who do you say that I am? And out of
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  Speaker 3: 12 men, we always talk about the one who spoke.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd like to take a moment and point out
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  Speaker 3: the 11 who didn't. Because what if killing the church
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: today is the silent majority?
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  Speaker 1: Who remain neutral in.
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  Speaker 3: Their convictions and can't quite make up their mind where
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  Speaker 3: they stand on any particular issue. And they wait to
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  Speaker 3: take their cues from other people rather than to take
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  Speaker 3: a stand and say, ask for me and my help.
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  Speaker 3: Only one man out of 12 was bold enough to say,
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  Speaker 3: thou art the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: The son of the true and living God.
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  Speaker 3: And he was the first man to answer Jesus' question
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  Speaker 3: in such a way that he just actually.
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  Speaker 1: Blew his mind. Jesus said, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Flesh and blood have not revealed this unto you, but
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  Speaker 3: my Father which is in heaven. I wish I had
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  Speaker 3: time to really labor over that issue because that was
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  Speaker 3: an awesome thing because what that means is Jesus had
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  Speaker 3: not taught them yet who he was. And for Peter
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  Speaker 3: to know who he was without being taught who he was,
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  Speaker 3: boggled even the mind of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He said, flesh and blood have not revealed this unto you.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first trace of rhema before the cross.
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  Speaker 3: He says, flesh and blood have not revealed this unto you,
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  Speaker 3: but my Father which is in heaven. He says, some
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  Speaker 3: kind of way, Peter, you have tied into divine information Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Before the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are actually
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  Speaker 3: picking up, you are picking up wavelengths, radio waves from heaven,
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  Speaker 3: and they're coming to you, and you're starting to sense
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  Speaker 3: divine things, though you haven't even come to the point
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  Speaker 3: of receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Flesh and
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  Speaker 3: blood have not revealed it from you, but my Father,
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  Speaker 3: which is in heaven and upon this rock, I will
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  Speaker 3: build my church. In other words, I will build my
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  Speaker 3: church on the backs of men who can sense the
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  Speaker 3: truth of God in turbulent times. I will not build
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  Speaker 3: my church on the backs of wimps, weak, panty-waisted, broke down, intimidated,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: scared to speak up men.
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  Speaker 1: But I will build my.
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  Speaker 3: Church on the backs of men who will step out
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  Speaker 3: and say, Thou art the Christ. And if you study
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: church history, all throughout church ages, every time there was
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  Speaker 3: a major move of God, it happened on the backs
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: of a man who got some sort of divine revelation
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  Speaker 3: that didn't even fit in with his generation. And most
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: of the time, what we call truth today, they call
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  Speaker 3: heretics at the.
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  Speaker 1: Time it was being preached.
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  Speaker 3: They locked up nuns and threw them down.
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  Speaker 1: In pits for speaking in tongues.
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  Speaker 3: There was a time in our lives that what we
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  Speaker 3: call precious today would have got you thrown out of churches.
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  Speaker 3: You know there was a time you weren't always waving
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  Speaker 3: your hands and clapping and leaping and jumping. But somebody's
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  Speaker 3: got to take the risk of being prosecuted in order
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  Speaker 3: to stand up for what they know is right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick to.
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  Speaker 3: Death of people who are preoccupied with being popular rather
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  Speaker 3: than being powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you've got to take a stand.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of asking everybody, what do you think about it?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: What do you think about it? And I just don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be out of step with, continue, what is
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: everybody else's church doing? What is your church doing? What
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: do you think will have to be done? What do
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: you think about what the pastor said? Do you think
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  Speaker 3: that's God?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether that's God or not. I just
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  Speaker 1: got to pray about it. Oh, please.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a radical mood tonight in case you can't
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  Speaker 3: see it. I have given up on fitting in. I'm
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: not interested in running in the pack. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be in the clique and I don't want to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: be one of the good old boys. I come over
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  Speaker 3: here to serve him in the beauty of holiness. I
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: come over here to walk in the power of his word.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm willing to be criticized to be Christ-like. I
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  Speaker 3: want the power of God to dwell in my heart
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  Speaker 3: by faith. Some of you God could really use you
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: if you'd quit trying to fit in. God can speak
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  Speaker 3: to you if you quit voting on everything he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to get you to do.
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  Speaker 1: You just got me tonight and in the morning.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Jesus answered and said, blessed art thou Simon Barjona. He said,
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  Speaker 3: you're blessed. Simon, the word Simon implies that he was unstable.
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  Speaker 3: And I want you to underline something quickly in your Bible.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to underline three things. Let me get
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  Speaker 3: your crayon out. yes yes we're in the bible matthew
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  Speaker 3: 16 17 225 just three little things that might be
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  Speaker 3: of significance to you I turned 40 last month and
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  Speaker 3: went blind. I just woke up one morning and couldn't see.
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  Speaker 3: It's the strangest thing.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Don't laugh. You're next.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think it would happen to me. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: really believe that it happened to my mother and the
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  Speaker 3: other people.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were faking.
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  Speaker 3: I want to testify to all the people that are
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  Speaker 3: still in your 20s.
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  Speaker 1: They're not lying.
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  Speaker 3: You turn 40 and go blind. I'm teasing. I tried
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  Speaker 3: to fight it and rebuke it until I was in
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the book of Job and was calling it Ephesians. And
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: then I said, I think I'm going to have to
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: get some glasses if I'm going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Everything don't get healed, got to get fixed. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying? I'm telling you, you got to make
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  Speaker 3: it work. Y'all know what I'm talking about. I said,
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  Speaker 3: if I don't get healed, at least let me see
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  Speaker 3: the word. If I can't get it to work for me,
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  Speaker 3: I still want.
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  Speaker 1: To see it. Yes, amen. Hallelujah. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to underline Simon in verse 17. Peter
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  Speaker 3: in verse 18. And Satan in verse 23.
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  Speaker 1: Simon, Peter, Satan. Say that with me.
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  Speaker 3: Simon, Peter, Satan. Sounds like three people. Simon, Peter, Satan.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Sounds like three distinct different people, doesn't it? Doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: like that Peter... Would be Simon. Or that Simon would
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  Speaker 3: be Peter. Or that Simon. Would be Satan. Or Satan Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like they ought to be three distinct people. But
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  Speaker 3: each name.
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  Speaker 1: Is in reference. To the same God. And in each case.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus called him. By all three names. At one moment
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  Speaker 3: he called him Simon. Which means unstable.
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  Speaker 1: Like water.
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  Speaker 3: Tossed to and fro. Peter means rock. The next verse,
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  Speaker 3: he turns around and says, no, you're the rock. And
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: then a few verses down, he called them Satan.
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  Speaker 1: Simon, Peter, Satan. Simon, Peter, Satan.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing in the life of one man and
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  Speaker 3: the space of five verses, he can go from being
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Simon to ascending to the high office of being Peter. Peter,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: thou art the rock, and upon this rock I will
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: build my church.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Would be like for Jesus to call you in front
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: of all the other preachers?
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  Speaker 1: He'd say, you're the rock. What you talking about, boy?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Your chest would.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Your day book would fill up for five years. I
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  Speaker 3: know you need me at your ministry. Jesus said, I'm
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: the rock.
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  Speaker 1: That would be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And at one moment he ascends above all the heads
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: of the other disciples because he has a revelation. He
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: goes from being called unstable and inconsistent to being solid
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: and foundational truths to being called Satan. All in the
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: space of one event. Up under pressure, everything in you
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: comes out. And in spite of all of our teachings
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: about positive confessions and speaking the word and claiming the
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  Speaker 3: word and talking God talk and saying what Jesus says.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: You might say what Jesus says while we're listening. But
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: if you get enough pressure on you, you're going to
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: say some of everything. Working yourself through the process to
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: get to the place where you really trust God. If
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: you read the book of Job, it sounds like Job
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: is schizophrenic.
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  Speaker 1: Upon the pressure.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: One moment he says, the Lord knows the way that
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I take and when he has tried me, I shall
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: come forth as pure gold. And the next verse, cursed
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  Speaker 3: be the day that I was born and the breast
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: that gave me suck. Then he says, I know that
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  Speaker 3: my redeemer liveth and he shall stand again at the
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: latter day. Then he says, woe be unto me for
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I am cursed among men. That's what it's like to
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: walk with God up and down and back. And for
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: you might not say it, but you think it. There
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: are times you don't know what in the world is
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: going on. Peter, I'm going to give you the keys
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  Speaker 3: to the kingdom.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: You got revelation, man. You're hearing from God. You know
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: who I am. Thou art the Christ Jesus. The son
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of the true and living God.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: And then Jesus says to him, don't tell anybody who
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most amazing thing.
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  Speaker 3: Because the one thing that I notice about anybody that's
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: great today, they always want you to tell everybody who
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: they are. So you get it right. Tell them who
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: I am. I have accomplished this, this, this, this, this.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: I matriculated from this university. I have these many degrees.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I pastor this many people. I have traveled around the globe.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: I am on television in so many different countries. I
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: have gone around the nation. The one thing everybody wants
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: you to do is tell everybody who you are.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: And Jesus said, shh. Who I am.
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  Speaker 3: Because Jesus knew that when people know who you are
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  Speaker 3: too soon, they'll try to destroy you before you reach
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: your purpose. So when God is going to do mighty
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  Speaker 3: things in your life, don't be upset when he hides you.
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  Speaker 1: Anything precious has.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be hidden he'll lock you away somewhere back
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  Speaker 3: up in a committee in a usher boy back in
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  Speaker 3: the back room over in the corner lay back people
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  Speaker 3: walking all passion don't even know who you are don't
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  Speaker 3: care who you are not thinking about you and you're
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  Speaker 3: saying Lord I don't understand why I'm being overlooked and
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  Speaker 3: ignored I've got this burning in my hands I've got
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  Speaker 3: this anointing in my hands I've got this anointing in.
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  Speaker 1: Me why don't they call on me why don't they use.
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  Speaker 3: Me it's because God is high Hiding you.
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  Speaker 1: When God is really going to use you, he hides you.
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  Speaker 3: Because if the devil knew where you were, he would
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  Speaker 3: destroy you. You ought to thank God that he hid
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  Speaker 3: you until you grew up, until you got strong, until
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  Speaker 3: the time was right. God hides what he loves. He
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  Speaker 3: that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
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  Speaker 3: shall abide under the shadow.
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  Speaker 1: Of me. My God, I feel the anointing of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Touch me, people, and tell them he hid me.
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  Speaker 3: That devil was trying to kill me, but he hid me.
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  Speaker 3: That devil would have destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Me, but he hid me. I would have lost my mind,
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  Speaker 1: but he hid me.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't time for me to speak, so he hid me.
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  Speaker 3: I had to grow up, so he hid me. I
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  Speaker 3: still had some crying to do, so he hid me.
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  Speaker 3: I still had some praying to do, so God hid me.
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  Speaker 1: Anointed, but hidden. Gifted, but hidden. Insight, but hidden.
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  Speaker 3: Powerful, but hidden.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Isaiah said, David, wait upon the Lord. shall
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  Speaker 1: renew their strength.
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  Speaker 5: I better get on to the texting.
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  Speaker 3: God is saying I'm saving you. The best for last.
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  Speaker 3: I hid you in the cleft of the rock. I
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  Speaker 3: hid you in the bulrushes like Moses. I'm hiding you.
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  Speaker 3: Getting you ready.
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  Speaker 1: Grooming you. Because if I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't hide you, people will do one of two things.
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  Speaker 3: Either they'll try to abort your mission. Terminate you before
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  Speaker 3: you ever get a chance to do what God wants
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  Speaker 3: you to do. Or they'll rush your mission and try
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  Speaker 3: to crown you before you've been crossed. And you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to let anybody ever put a crown on you
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  Speaker 3: before you've had a cross.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is secure.
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  Speaker 3: That prepares you for the crown. And if you have
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  Speaker 3: not had a cross experience, the crown is too heavy
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  Speaker 3: for a head that hasn't rested on a cross. And
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  Speaker 3: so you only want... what God wants you to have,
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  Speaker 3: when God wants you to have it. And don't let
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  Speaker 3: anybody rush you into your destiny. Jesus said, don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody who I am.
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  Speaker 3: Because real anointing doesn't have to be announced. When you
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  Speaker 3: are really the Christ, when you are really anointed, the
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  Speaker 3: name Christ means anointed, you don't have to announce it.
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  Speaker 3: When you're really gifted, you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: To say so.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let anybody push your flesh buttons till you start
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  Speaker 3: parading your gifts. Because if you're really equipped of God,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to say a word. The anointing will
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  Speaker 3: speak for itself. If God really called you to preach,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to pass out business cards.
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  Speaker 2: If you.
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  Speaker 1: You really got a gift of healing. You ain't got
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  Speaker 1: to tell me I'm a healer. I'm a deliverer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an apostle. I'm all shut up. I'm a pastor. You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got to tell.
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  Speaker 3: If you really got it, the people who get healed
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  Speaker 3: going to tell it. The people who get delivered going
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  Speaker 3: to tell it. The people who get saved going to
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  Speaker 3: tell it. Don't tell nobody. I feel something in here.
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  Speaker 3: He said, don't tell anybody. You know, you have perceived
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  Speaker 3: the Christ in me. He says, but don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 3: And then the next verse he says, for I must suffer.
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  Speaker 3: Suffering is the lost ministry in the church today. We
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  Speaker 3: have taught everything, the gifts of the Spirit, the operation
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  Speaker 3: of the gifts. We have taught eschatology and biblical prophecy.
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  Speaker 3: We have taught the theophany and the anthropomorphic terms of text.
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  Speaker 3: We have taught people how to communicate. divine truths and
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  Speaker 3: to illuminate the most minute concepts of biblical concepts but
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  Speaker 3: we have not taught them the primary prerequisite of greatness
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  Speaker 3: we have not taught them to suffer It is a spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Not only is it in the church, it's in the family.
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  Speaker 3: We've taught our children. We got so well off now
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  Speaker 3: that we taught our children everything except what made us great.
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  Speaker 3: We've given them everything, the best schools. We've given them
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  Speaker 3: the best education. We've given them the finest computers. We've
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  Speaker 3: given them the greatest technology. But if you think about it,
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  Speaker 3: that's not what made you great. What really made you
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  Speaker 3: great is suffering with little or nothing and pushing yourself
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  Speaker 3: along and dragging yourself and not having enough money and
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  Speaker 3: not having lunch money and not having no new Nike
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  Speaker 3: tennis shoes, but purposing in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Same jeans I had on last week, but I got
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  Speaker 3: to go. You owe it to yourself to teach them
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  Speaker 3: to suffer.
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  Speaker 1: Because if my children know how.
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  Speaker 3: To suffer, if something happens and I'm not there, hard
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  Speaker 3: times will never be able to kill them. Because they'll
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  Speaker 3: know how to take a licking and keep on.
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  Speaker 1: Ticking.
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  Speaker 3: So Jesus said, I must suffer. I got to go
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  Speaker 3: through some changes. He said, don't tell anybody who I am.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to go through some changes. I've got to suffer.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to be rejected. I've got to take rejection
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  Speaker 3: 101 to prove that this thing is not about popularity.
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  Speaker 3: I have to be thrown out of the circle. Ejected
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  Speaker 3: out of the clique. I have to be looked over
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  Speaker 3: because the stone that the builders reject becomes the chief cornerstone.
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  Speaker 1: You can never be great.
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  Speaker 3: Until you've been rejected. You've got to go through rejection.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to go through it. You've got to go
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  Speaker 3: through a time that you walk around people who don't
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  Speaker 3: speak to you and don't like you and are not
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: thinking about you and will not help you because God
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: is training you how to be a soldier. You can't
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: be a soldier if you don't get in a foxhole.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: You've got to have some lies told on you. You've
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: got to be mistreated on your job. You've got to.
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  Speaker 1: Be lonely and still shout hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: You are a stone's throw.
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  Speaker 1: Just three people tell him he's getting you ready. He's
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  Speaker 1: getting you ready. He's getting you ready. Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting you ready. He's getting you ready right now.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting you ready right now. He's getting you ready.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: That thing that hurt your feelings last week was God
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: getting you ready. That thing that made you cry last
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: month was God getting you ready. Those people who overlooked you,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: it was God getting you ready for your next miracle. God.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: You watch what I say. Anybody that is.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Ever greatly used of God has endured pain.
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  Speaker 1: And trauma.
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  Speaker 3: And rejection. And they've been ostracized. And they've been lonely.
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  Speaker 3: And they've been left. And they've been forsaken. And I...
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  Speaker 3: They suffered a while. I don't know how long a while,
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  Speaker 3: but after you suffered a while, he comes along and
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  Speaker 3: gives you your diploma and says, now, now I can
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: use you. Now I can put you on stage. Not
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: because of how wonderful your gift is. But because your
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  Speaker 3: gift has been tempered in the furnace of affliction. Because
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: I've taught you how to minister while your heart was broken.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: I've taught you how to be faithful in the midst
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  Speaker 3: of a trauma. I've taught you how to endure hardness
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  Speaker 3: as a good soldier. So I don't have to sit
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  Speaker 3: back and worry about what the devil is going to
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  Speaker 3: do to you. Because you've already learned how to endure.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. And so Jesus says,
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  Speaker 3: I've got to suffer many things. And then Peter, the
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  Speaker 3: big rock, the stone, said, I rebuke that devil. See,
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: sometimes we're trying to rebuke things that cannot be rebuked.
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  Speaker 3: Peter is trying to rebuke suffering. Oh, no, no, we
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: don't have to suffer.
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  Speaker 1: You believe the word. Speak the word. Speak the word.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, Jesus? Haven't you read the latest book?
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to go through anything.
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  Speaker 1: I rebuke that.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: And that's when Jesus called the rock the devil. He said,
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  Speaker 3: get behind me, Satan. I said, but Jesus, he was
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: the rock. He said, but now. Now I call him Satan.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: One thing I want to talk about is I learned
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  Speaker 3: something about how Jesus evaluates people. We always have a
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  Speaker 3: plus and minus column. That's Sally. I like her. That's Mary.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like her.
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  Speaker 1: I know you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't know when you get home. You wouldn't want anybody
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  Speaker 3: to think that you don't like everybody because you're with
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: all these Christians. That's Richard. And you can count on Richard.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: That's Michael. You can't count on nothing he says.
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  Speaker 1: That's Roger. He's full of truth. That's McGillicuddy.
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  Speaker 3: You can't trust him. We like to put people in columns.
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  Speaker 3: But Jesus didn't do that. He evaluated. them not according
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  Speaker 3: to the flesh, but according to the spirit and what
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  Speaker 3: they manifested at that particular moment. And he had the
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  Speaker 3: ability to look at one person and see them when
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  Speaker 3: they were unstable and still celebrate them when.
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  Speaker 1: They were solid.
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  Speaker 3: And still discern when they were of the devil. Without
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  Speaker 3: changing his love for them. He always knew what spirit
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  Speaker 3: they were walking in from moment to moment.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Can you all hear what I'm saying?
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine how differently your relationships would be if
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: you didn't have to file people? If you matured to
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: the point that you could say now that's Christ in you.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: But that's Satan talking now. Because if you can't do that,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: the enemy will use people who love you to shift
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: you out of God's will for your life. He's too
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: wise to use your enemies because you're not listening to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: them no way. He's going to use somebody you like
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: because he thinks you're so busy liking them that you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: can't tell when he is speaking to... Oh, you don't
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: hear what I'm saying.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: He said, get thee behind me, Satan. And let me
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: tell you why he called him Satan. He said, for
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: thou savorest not the things that be of God. In
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: other words, you don't, because you have not learned to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: enjoy God's will for your life. You have not developed
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: an appetite for God's purpose because you just want easy
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: boy religion. That's the devil. You know you're maturing. When
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: you can shout in a struggle. When you can, let
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: me give you a Bible, when you can glory in tribulation.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Mature Christians get happy at strange times. Weak Christians get
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: happy because a check came in the mail, because a
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: knot went down on the hand, because a boyfriend said,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: let's get married. But mature Christians have funny shouts. They
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: shout over bad news. When the doctor says you're sick
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: and it looks like I can't hear you, they give.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: A half a second. I felt something in that.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Because when you start shouting like that, that means that
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: you know that God's going to get some glory out
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: of this.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know how he's going to work it out.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know when he's going to work it out.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know who he's going to use to bring
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: me out.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: But somehow or other, God is going to make a
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: way for me. Tell somebody, tell them God's going to
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: make a way for me. He's going to make a way.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: He's going to make a way. He's going to make
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: a way.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I can tell. I can tell he's going to make
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: a way. I can tell.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: I can tell because of what I'm going through. All
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: hell is breaking loose. So God is going to make.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: A way for me.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: The devil said I can't do it. I don't know
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: who I came to preach to tonight. But whoever it is,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: you're going through a little test. You're going through a
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: little trouble. You're going through a little trauma. And it
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: looks like you're going through a little setback.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: .
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  Speaker 1: Hi! Woo!
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  Speaker 4: Hi! Hi!
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Give him a pie!
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: Y'all sit down before you make me run all over
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: this place. I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: I feel the power. I feel the power. I mean
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: absolutely feel the power. And so Jesus. Jesus.