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Don't Die in the Nest - Part 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: The nest determines what you mean when you say I
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  Speaker 1: love you versus what I mean when I say I
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  Speaker 1: love you. The nest determines the value you place on work,
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  Speaker 1: on integrity, on keeping your word. All of it is
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  Speaker 1: shaped by The nest you came from. You can take
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  Speaker 1: somebody out the hood. But the question remains, can you
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  Speaker 1: take the hood.
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  Speaker 2: Out of somebody?
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  Speaker 1: This is the potter's tongue. God bless you, my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I am so excited. This is the message everybody's been
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I'm glad to be able to share it
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  Speaker 1: with you. Our church was mesmerized by it. I used
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  Speaker 1: a teaching tool to create a metaphor of what is
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  Speaker 1: going on in a lot of our lives. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand the message is called Don't Die in
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  Speaker 1: Your Nest, and I want you to understand quite clearly
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  Speaker 1: it is not death that I am afraid of, for
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has taken the sting out of death and the
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  Speaker 1: victory out of the grave. It is not death that
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  Speaker 1: intimidates me. What scares me to death is that I
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  Speaker 1: would die without living first. The message is, don't die
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  Speaker 1: in your nest. Don't die where you got started. Take
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  Speaker 1: a look at this. This will help you. The eagle
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  Speaker 1: is a mighty bird. From tip to tip, its wings
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  Speaker 1: spread out, span over nine feet in each direction. It
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  Speaker 1: is unlike any other bird in its ability to see.
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  Speaker 1: Its vision is so keen that it can see even
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  Speaker 1: in the dark for miles. It is a strong bird,
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  Speaker 1: uniquely set aside from other birds. The eagle makes love
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  Speaker 1: in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you better stay on the ground. The male
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  Speaker 1: eagle and the female eagle make love in the air.
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  Speaker 1: They wrap up in each other's wings and they spiral
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  Speaker 1: downward thousands of feet in the air. And as they
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  Speaker 1: spiral downward, they make love in the middle of the air.
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  Speaker 1: I think that God had them to do that so
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  Speaker 1: that the eagle would not cohabitate with chickens.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. You'll get it when you get home.
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  Speaker 1: There's a certain height that you have to be in
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  Speaker 1: order to interact with the eagle. The eagle does not
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  Speaker 1: crossbreed with just anything that's got wings.
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  Speaker 2: You have to....
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  Speaker 1: You have to have a certain mindset, a certain mentality.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be framed in a certain way and
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  Speaker 1: have a certain vision, a certain keenness and precision to
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  Speaker 1: earn the right to make love with an eagle.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be an eagle. You have to be.
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  Speaker 1: For the eagle goes where lesser birds cannot fly. So
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  Speaker 1: it can do what lesser birds cannot do. Part of
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  Speaker 1: its uniqueness is not just in its physiology, but its
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  Speaker 1: uniqueness is entrapped in the way that.
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  Speaker 2: It trains its young.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike other birds who make nests, some on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and some birds make nests in trees, most species of
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  Speaker 1: the eagle make their nests in high places, in mountain peaks,
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  Speaker 1: on cliffs, so that the eagle is born up high.
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  Speaker 1: To keep the eaglet from having a low mentality.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When it first opens its eyes, it's already in a
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  Speaker 1: high place. Its mother, if you will, has been collecting
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  Speaker 1: sticks and branches and flying high into the mountain peaks
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  Speaker 1: and finding a cliff. It begins to gather the sticks
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  Speaker 1: and build a nest. anticipating the birth of its young.
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  Speaker 1: This process can take a long period of time to
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  Speaker 1: get the nest ready so that when the eagle gives birth,
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  Speaker 1: the nest is already built. I got on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and I told them, I said, I want a nest.
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  Speaker 1: They said, excuse me? I said, I want a nest.
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  Speaker 1: They said, we got a bad connection. I said, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to build me a nest by Sunday. because
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  Speaker 1: I got a message I want to preach. So they
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  Speaker 1: have been working all week to build this nest. The
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  Speaker 1: nest is built before the eggs are hatched. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: If you're waiting for me to preach, I'm already preaching.
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  Speaker 1: The nest is a collection of branches from where the
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  Speaker 1: mother has been. It is the historical reference To every
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  Speaker 1: place the mother has been, she brings something to the nest.
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  Speaker 1: Before the eggs are ever laid, the mother's story is
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  Speaker 1: in the sticks. The eagle's eggs don't get to pick
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  Speaker 1: its nest. You pick your friends, but you don't pick
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  Speaker 1: your family. You just come here with whatever you come
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  Speaker 1: here with. You don't get to pick the personality of
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  Speaker 1: the family, whether they are soft-spoken or brawlers. When my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I first dated, my wife's family is real quiet.
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  Speaker 2: And calm and laid back. Not mine.
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  Speaker 1: Our family is the kind of family that we talk
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  Speaker 1: with our hands. We yell and scream and laugh and
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  Speaker 1: hit each other when you make a good point. We
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  Speaker 1: make faces and yell and noises. And when her family
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  Speaker 1: came to our family dinner, they were like.
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  Speaker 1: They thought it was going to be a fist fight
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of dinner because... because our family
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  Speaker 1: is expressive like that. I thought her family was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: I started to pinch them to see if they was alive.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get to pick that. We are born into it.
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  Speaker 2: We step into it.
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  Speaker 1: And everything we learn from our neighbors, from our friends,
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  Speaker 1: from our associations, from our generation, from our political perspectives,
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  Speaker 1: all help to shape up who we are. And all
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  Speaker 1: of these experiences help build the nest. It makes us
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  Speaker 1: become who we are and think the way we think.
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  Speaker 1: And it frames our perspectives and opinions and how we
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  Speaker 1: react when we are angry or afraid or worried, it's
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  Speaker 1: all in the nest. Never marry anybody without checking out.
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  Speaker 1: The nest, the nest, the nest determines what you mean
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  Speaker 1: when you say I love you versus what I mean
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  Speaker 1: when I say I love you. The nest determines the
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  Speaker 1: value you place on work, on integrity, on keeping your word.
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  Speaker 1: All of it is shaped by the nest you came from.
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  Speaker 1: You can take somebody out the hood. But the question remains,
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  Speaker 1: can you take the hood.
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  Speaker 2: Out of somebody?
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  Speaker 1: Even education doesn't totally fix it because They can be
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  Speaker 1: educated and well-dressed and even be well-spoken. But if you
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  Speaker 1: make them angry, they will flip out and react out
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  Speaker 1: of the nest they've built them.
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  Speaker 2: Still to come on the Potter's Touch. The eagle.
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  Speaker 1: Has stirred the nest. The Lord started speaking to me
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  Speaker 1: about your culture, your perspective, what fed you, what nourished
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  Speaker 1: you at one stage in your life is too small
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  Speaker 1: for what he wants to do in your life. And
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  Speaker 1: oh God, there comes a time in your life that
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  Speaker 1: the same God that built the nest that hacks you stirs.
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  Speaker 2: The nest.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to illustrate that what starts out as a
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  Speaker 1: blessing can end up becoming a burden. You know, people
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  Speaker 1: think in such straight lines, and they think something is
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  Speaker 1: good or bad, right or wrong. But some things that
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  Speaker 1: God uses in one stage of your life to nurture you,
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  Speaker 1: he will take it at another stage and use it
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  Speaker 1: to motivate you and make it uncomfortable for you. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the nest was bad. It was great,
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  Speaker 1: but now it's a transition period. And people have to
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  Speaker 1: understand that so they don't use the circumstance as an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to become bitter, but rather to become better. The eagle,
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  Speaker 1: when she makes the nest, takes all of the sticks
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  Speaker 1: and lays them in such a way, almost scientifically, it's
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  Speaker 1: brilliant to lay the nest in such a way that
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  Speaker 1: when she gets ready to hatch, none of the sticks...
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  Speaker 1: are protruding in the nest. The protrusions are outside. No
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  Speaker 1: protrusions on the inside so that the eggs can be
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  Speaker 1: hatched in a comfortable place. And when the time is
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  Speaker 1: right and all the branches are in place, then the
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  Speaker 1: eagle comes.
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  Speaker 2: And she lays her eggs in the nest. Nice, cushy,
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  Speaker 2: comfortable nest.
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  Speaker 1: After he's laid the eggs and hatched the eggs, the eagles,
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  Speaker 1: eaglets are born in a high place, in a comfortable place.
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  Speaker 1: in a protected place, and its whole world is its nest.
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  Speaker 1: This is the world. The combination of the stuff my parents,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, my community, my associations brought into it. And
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  Speaker 1: everything else, I see it, my vision sees of the
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  Speaker 1: world outside, I see it through the lens of the
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  Speaker 1: nest I came from. My perceptions of right.
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  Speaker 2: And wrong and good and evil.
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  Speaker 1: And up and down and all of it is affected
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  Speaker 1: because I see it all through the nest I was
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  Speaker 1: hatched in. We can see the same world but have
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  Speaker 1: a different view because we came from a different nest.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? The eaglet hatches its eggs.
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  Speaker 2: In the nest. And then the mother flies. And she goes....
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  Speaker 1: And she brings food into the nest. So we eat
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  Speaker 1: in the nest. We sleep in the nest. We feed
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  Speaker 1: in the nest. We manifest all of our early development
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  Speaker 1: in the nest. And the nest that initially is a
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  Speaker 1: blessing becomes a curse if you stay in it too long.
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  Speaker 1: I see people who venture out from the nest, maybe
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  Speaker 1: from nine to five, but then they go back.
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  Speaker 2: To the nest.
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  Speaker 1: The reason we have difficulty reducing the rate of recidivism
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  Speaker 1: in the country is when the inmate allows the prison
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  Speaker 1: to become the nest then freedom doesn't feel free anymore
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  Speaker 1: and they will purposefully get in trouble so that they
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  Speaker 1: can go back to the nest because the nest is familiar.
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  Speaker 1: People can have a good marriage but if they're not
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  Speaker 1: used to a good marriage they will sabotage it and
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  Speaker 1: start a fight because a fight is familiar because they
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  Speaker 1: were spawned in a nest where people fight and peace
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  Speaker 1: is boring God said I will lead you as the
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  Speaker 1: eagle stirs her necks The stirring of the nest is
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  Speaker 1: different from the building of the nest.
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  Speaker 2: The building of the nest is a protection to the egg.
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  Speaker 1: But when the eagle stirs her nest, it only happens
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  Speaker 1: when the eaglets have grown too big to live in
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  Speaker 1: something so small.
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  Speaker 2: Are you.
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  Speaker 1: Too big to live in something so small? Is it
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  Speaker 1: tight in here? It's uncomfortable in here. But I stay
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  Speaker 1: in here because it's familiar.
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  Speaker 2: It's so comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to try to be better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to evolve. They bring the food to me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'm okay. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got a system that fits the environment I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: Even if the environment I'm in is too small for
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  Speaker 1: who I am. I'm comfortable here. And the same mother.
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  Speaker 2: Who made it cushy and comfortable and nice.
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  Speaker 1: And relaxing comes along with the same beak and starts
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  Speaker 1: stirring up the nest so that the protrusions that were
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  Speaker 1: on the outside now start pointing on the inside to
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  Speaker 1: make it uncomfortable for me to stay in my nest.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody this morning about when
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  Speaker 1: the eagle.
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  Speaker 2: Stirs.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever gone through a stirring in your life
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  Speaker 1: until what used to be nice and cushy and normal
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  Speaker 1: and it was okay and it didn't bother you, but now.
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  Speaker 2: The eagle has stirred the nest.
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  Speaker 1: And when the eagle stirs the nest, all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden the protrusions that kept away the wolf are now
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  Speaker 1: pushing the eaglet so that the eaglet when it tries
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  Speaker 1: to sit where it used to sit, it can't sit
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  Speaker 1: there anymore because the eagle has stirred the nest. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord started speaking to me about your culture, your perspective,
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  Speaker 1: what fed you, what nourished you at one stage in
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  Speaker 1: your life is too small for what he wants to
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  Speaker 1: do in your life. And oh God, there comes a
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  Speaker 1: time in your life that the same God that built
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  Speaker 1: the nest that hacks you stirs.
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  Speaker 2: The nest up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the eaglet is facing eviction.
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  Speaker 2: Eviction.
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  Speaker 1: When the eagle stirs her nest, the eaglets face eviction.
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  Speaker 2: From the comfortable excuses you used to make. for not doing.
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  Speaker 1: Anymore or being anymore or growing anymore or becoming anymore,
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  Speaker 1: the eagle now has stirred the nest and the eaglet
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  Speaker 1: has to move. God says that if we would judge ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: we would have no need.
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  Speaker 2: To be judged.
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  Speaker 1: If the eaglet on its own would fly out of
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  Speaker 1: the nest, then the eagle would not have to stir
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  Speaker 1: the nest. But there are some eaglets who are stubborn.
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  Speaker 1: And they won't change and they won't grow and they
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  Speaker 1: won't explore and they won't think and they won't become
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  Speaker 1: because they have developed a system of survival that is
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  Speaker 1: built around the nest. And for those eaglets, I come
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  Speaker 1: to preach this morning. The eaglets who handle money the
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  Speaker 1: way mama handled money. The eaglets who are angry with
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  Speaker 1: women because daddy was angry with women. The eaglets who
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  Speaker 1: respond to conflict the way mama did have developed a
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  Speaker 1: system of survival that says, I don't have to do
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  Speaker 1: anything more than what I'm doing because I'm being fed
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  Speaker 1: in my nest. Job said, I thought I would die
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  Speaker 1: in my nest. He said, it was so cushy and comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I had my wife. I had my kids. I had
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  Speaker 1: my property. I had my job. I had a good name.
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  Speaker 1: I had it going on. I thought I would die.
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  Speaker 2: In my nest.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a situation that you thought
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't change? And then all of a sudden God comes
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  Speaker 1: along and stirs. Oh my God, somebody already understands what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Touch your neighbor and tell them I'm
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  Speaker 1: all stirred up. Everything that used to be okay isn't
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  Speaker 1: okay anymore. My perceptions are not the same anymore. My
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  Speaker 1: ideas are not the same anymore. I was satisfied just
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  Speaker 1: to do what I do and act like the world
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  Speaker 1: I came from, but now all of a sudden everything
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  Speaker 1: has gotten stirred up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who to trust.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where to go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied to live like mama and them live.
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  Speaker 1: I want something else. I want to do something. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be something. I want to become something. I
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  Speaker 1: want to reach something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: happening in my life. Somebody's been praying, God, what is
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  Speaker 3: going on in my life? And the Lord told me
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  Speaker 3: to tell you, I'm stirring up your nest.
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  Speaker 1: There is no comfortable place No comfortable place. Listen, let's
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