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God Has Already Prepared It! You Just Need the Faith to Receive it T.D. Jakes Purpose and Power · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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  Speaker 1: It would be erroneous to believe that in the days
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  Speaker 1: of Christ and the days of the early church that
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  Speaker 1: there were just one or two religions. Jerusalem was flanked
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  Speaker 1: with religions of all types and descriptions. What made the
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  Speaker 1: early church have such a difficult time is that they
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  Speaker 1: were in an ideological war. What is an ideological war?
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  Speaker 1: An ideological war is a war of ideas, right? Right now,
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  Speaker 1: without a bomb going off or lightning flashing or thunder
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  Speaker 1: rolling or even AK-47 going off, we are at war.
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  Speaker 1: We are at war in this country right now. It
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  Speaker 1: is an ideological war. It is a war of ideas.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be that you had a right to
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  Speaker 1: have your own opinion. Amen. Today, people think it is
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  Speaker 1: their job to impose their opinion upon you. And if
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  Speaker 1: you disagree, they attack you for having a different point
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  Speaker 1: of view. You have to be strong to stick to
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  Speaker 1: your convictions. Yes. Because the tidal wave, the tsunami wave
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  Speaker 1: of public opinion and what they call culture has bombarded
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  Speaker 1: theology to the point that theology has laryngitis. And lost
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  Speaker 1: its voice in this present age. And we are in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: And as it is now, so was it then. There
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  Speaker 1: was the Pharisees who didn't really like the Sadducees, but
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  Speaker 1: they got together to fight Jesus. Each one of them
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  Speaker 1: having their own versions and ideas and philosophies that were
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  Speaker 1: pervasive in the day. And Jesus withstood them all, firm
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  Speaker 1: in his conviction, willing to debate them. Their doctrines and
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  Speaker 1: their philosophies did not intimidate Jesus because he understood that
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  Speaker 1: it was an ideological war. An ideological war has no bullets,
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  Speaker 1: has no guns, no grenades. It is a war of
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  Speaker 1: opinions and ideas. There was a group there that existed
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  Speaker 1: in the early church called Gnostics or Gnosticism. Not with
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  Speaker 1: a K but with a G. but it means the
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  Speaker 1: same as if we were to put a K-N-O, there's
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  Speaker 1: a G-N-O, Gnosticism. It is where we get the word agnostic.
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  Speaker 1: Agnostic is to not know. So if somebody says to you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm agnostic, they're not saying that they don't believe in God,
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  Speaker 1: they just say, I'm not sure, I don't know. Gnostic
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  Speaker 1: is to know. So Gnosticism in the early church was
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  Speaker 1: a prevailing ideology that suggested that they knew God and
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  Speaker 1: that they intellectually ascended up the ladder to God. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they thought that Jesus was just a step up the
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  Speaker 1: ladder to God. Gnosticism, to know. They thought that the
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  Speaker 1: more you know God, the more you transformed into a
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  Speaker 1: type of God, the more you know. Now, the problem
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  Speaker 1: with that idea is this. God cannot be just and
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  Speaker 1: be Gnosticistic. Because in order to be just, we would
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  Speaker 1: all have to have the same IQ. To the person
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  Speaker 1: who is dull of wit or slow to learn or
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  Speaker 1: unable to grasp certain ideas, God would be beyond their
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  Speaker 1: reach if Gnosticism was true. Because if Gnosticism was true,
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  Speaker 1: the smarter you were, the more like God you were.
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  Speaker 1: Then God could only be embraced through knowledge. The Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: thought that the way to approach God was through acts
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  Speaker 1: of holiness, self-righteousness. They thought that the more righteous and
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  Speaker 1: the more pious they were, the closer they were to God.
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  Speaker 1: So they were known for their long praying and their
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  Speaker 1: long garments and their beads and their prayers and their
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  Speaker 1: rituals and their routines because they thought through ritualism and
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  Speaker 1: routine was the way to get to God. You hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? In the midst of all
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  Speaker 1: of these varying ideas, the Sadducees, for example, thought that
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the body didn't leave a man for
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  Speaker 1: three days. That's why Jesus waited till Lazarus had been
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  Speaker 1: dead four days so that the Sadducees couldn't say he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really raise him from the dead because he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: within the parameters of our theology. Jesus waited till there
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  Speaker 1: was no doubt amongst the skeptics that Lazarus was dead.
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  Speaker 1: So Mary says to him, don't go to the grave
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  Speaker 1: now because by now he's stinking. God has a way
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  Speaker 1: of not showing up until it's stinking. Amen. God has
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  Speaker 1: a way of not giving an old man a baby
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  Speaker 1: until he's impotent. His wife is past childbearing age. And
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  Speaker 1: even if she weren't past childbearing age, she was barren.
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  Speaker 1: And when it was totally impossible with man, God stepped
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  Speaker 1: in and said, now I'm ready to do something. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever watched God let you wear yourself out trying
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  Speaker 1: to do stuff by yourself. And finally, when you finally
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  Speaker 1: give up and say, okay, God, I can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's when he steps in and shows himself strong. Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: 11 reminds us that faith is not a New Testament idea.
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  Speaker 1: That it is not a result of the crucifixion of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That from the creation of man forward, people
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  Speaker 1: have been moved by faith. The book of Hebrews 11
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  Speaker 1: reminds us that faith cannot be confined by dispensations, structures,
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  Speaker 1: or order. Or to break it down simply, it reminds
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  Speaker 1: us that faith never goes out of style. Ha ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ha ha. A lot of other things would go
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  Speaker 1: out of style. By the time I found a pair
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  Speaker 1: of skinny jeans that could fit me and decided that
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  Speaker 1: it might be okay to wear them, now they'd have
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  Speaker 1: gone wildly. People change their mind from week to week
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  Speaker 1: to get a little bit more of your money. By
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  Speaker 1: the time you got an Apple 7, they got an
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  Speaker 1: Apple 8. By the time you got an Apple 8,
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  Speaker 1: they got an Apple 10. By the time you got
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  Speaker 1: a 10, they got an Apple 12. I stopped counting.
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  Speaker 1: I said, this 8 is working for me. Faith never
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  Speaker 1: goes out of style. It doesn't wait for the transition
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  Speaker 1: of time or the coming of Moses. It exists before Moses.
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  Speaker 1: It exists before the Pentateuch. It exists before the law.
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  Speaker 1: Faith just is. But the reason why faith is, is
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  Speaker 1: faith is a common denominator. That regardless to how intellectual
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  Speaker 1: you are or not, you have equal access to it
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  Speaker 1: because faith is the gateway to everything promised to you.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is deep, but you need to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: You need to understand this because some people who are
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  Speaker 1: exceptionally smart are also exceptionally frustrated because they think that
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  Speaker 1: they should be compensated on the level of their intellect.
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  Speaker 1: And here you come in with less degrees and got
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  Speaker 1: paid more money and they can't understand how you got
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  Speaker 1: what you got. Somebody holler, it's a faith thing. There's
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  Speaker 1: a fine woman looking at a woman that's just ordinary saying,
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  Speaker 1: how did you get a man like that? It is
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  Speaker 1: not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord. It is a faith thing. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: order to have faith, how do I get faith? How
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  Speaker 1: do I get faith? Because today we think faith is willpower.
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  Speaker 1: So we get sick, say, I just believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I believe it. I believe it. I confess it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. I believe it. I believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: believe I'm healed. I believe I'm healed. I just believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I just believe it. I believe I'm going to hit
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  Speaker 1: the lottery. I believe. I believe. I believe. I believe.
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  Speaker 1: They're all in Vegas pulling the lottery down. I believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I believe. But it doesn't say have faith
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  Speaker 1: in faith. It says have faith in God. now faith
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do without hope you can have faith
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  Speaker 1: all you want but if you don't have hope you
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything the reason that faith is a common
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  Speaker 1: denominator let me finish that up the reason that faith
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  Speaker 1: is a common denominator Jesus says except you become like
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  Speaker 1: a little child you should not inherit the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God That means that he has reduced it down. I
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  Speaker 1: use this phrase all the time. It's out of style.
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  Speaker 1: They don't teach it in school like that anymore. But
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  Speaker 1: we used to reduce fractions down to its lowest common
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  Speaker 1: denominator and then multiply. That's how I was taught in school.
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  Speaker 1: They don't teach it that way anymore. They got a
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  Speaker 1: whole different method. So you had to find the lowest
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  Speaker 1: common denominator in order to do it. Faith is God's
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  Speaker 1: lowest common denominator. He's brought it down so low that
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  Speaker 1: you can be illiterate and still believe. If an illiterate
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  Speaker 1: man gets sick beside an intellectual man that gets sick,
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual man has no more advantage over the illiterate
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  Speaker 1: man when it comes to miracles because it is by faith.
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  Speaker 1: The Gentile has no more power than the Jew because
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  Speaker 1: it's by faith. If you walk slowly through the book
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  Speaker 1: of Romans, Paul will prove to you. He teaches you
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  Speaker 1: what the Jews were and how their history were. And
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  Speaker 1: he goes all back to their antiquities and their ancestry.
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  Speaker 1: And he validates who they were. And then he counts
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  Speaker 1: it all as done. So it don't mean nothing. Then
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  Speaker 1: he talks about the Gentiles and how wild they were
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  Speaker 1: and how perverted they were and how promiscuous they were.
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  Speaker 1: And he said it doesn't mean nothing because God has
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  Speaker 1: equalized the playing floor. He's brought it down to just
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  Speaker 1: by faith. There's some righteous women in here. You grew
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  Speaker 1: up righteous. You've always been pure. You've always been virtuous.
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  Speaker 1: You've always been honorable. When you got married, you were
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  Speaker 1: a virgin and you're sitting right behind a woman who
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  Speaker 1: was a slut. You don't get no more glory when
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  Speaker 1: the glory falls than the woman who was a slut.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not by works lest any man should boast,
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  Speaker 1: it's by faith. This is why you have haters. Because
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  Speaker 1: haters don't think that you deserve to have whatever you have.
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  Speaker 1: Because they think that they are better or purer or
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  Speaker 1: smarter or better looking or brighter. But look at somebody
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  Speaker 1: and say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's a faith thing. I know it doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 1: to you that I got a promotion. I know it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to you that I pastor a church
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  Speaker 1: like this. I know it doesn't make sense that I'm
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  Speaker 1: directing the choir. I know it doesn't make sense that
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  Speaker 1: God has raised me up. I know it doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: sense that God put me on the cover of Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have no business on the cover of Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make any great discovery. I didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to make sense to you because it's a...
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  Speaker 1: What God is getting ready to do in your life
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  Speaker 1: is totally illogical. It makes no sense. It has no rationale.
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  Speaker 1: You have no background. It's a... I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but I'm getting somebody ready to receive it.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with you receiving the promises of God, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just talking, I ain't got started yet. The problem with
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  Speaker 1: you receiving the promises of God is that sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: promises you the most illogical stuff. As long as I've
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  Speaker 1: been walking with God, God said something to me a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago. I wrestled with him about three years
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  Speaker 1: telling him, I don't even know nothing about that. How
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  Speaker 1: could you give that to me? I don't have no
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  Speaker 1: background in that. I wasn't qualified for that. And God
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  Speaker 1: was busily building it up. It didn't make no sense.
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  Speaker 1: It scared me when it didn't make sense. Can I
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you? The person who's teaching you faith
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  Speaker 1: got scared. Because sometimes God has something for you that
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  Speaker 1: is so mind-boggling that Can I just be honest with you?
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  Speaker 1: I've wrestled with him like Jacob. It was a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great blessing. It had great purpose. But
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to touch it because it didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought it didn't make sense for David
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  Speaker 1: to be king. How do you make a shepherd boy king?
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  Speaker 1: He has no background. He has no protocol. His father
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  Speaker 1: was a peasant. He grew up taking care of sheep.
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  Speaker 1: He had not been trained. He didn't go to school
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  Speaker 1: for it. He wasn't prepared for it. But God said,
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  Speaker 1: I found me a man. Who's after my heart. And
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be the next king of Israel. For
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  Speaker 1: it is not by might. It is not by power.
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  Speaker 1: It is by my spirit sayeth the Lord. And I
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  Speaker 1: say this because. There are some things that God said
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  Speaker 1: to you. That are frightening. It doesn't make sense. You're scary.
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  Speaker 1: You're reluctant to receive it. You don't feel qualified. You
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  Speaker 1: don't feel ready. And yet God's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And he told me to tell you. It is a
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  Speaker 1: faith thing. Whoever I'm talking to, give him a praise. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I got to pick up this point. Where there is
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  Speaker 1: no hope, faith has nothing to do. Hope. Esteem. Esteem.
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  Speaker 1: Where there is no hope, faith has nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things hoped for. When you
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  Speaker 1: have low self-esteem, a low esteem for your life, faith's
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  Speaker 1: hands are tied. So if I were the enemy and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't stop faith from being true, I would kill
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  Speaker 1: your hope. By showing you what you are not and
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  Speaker 1: what you don't have and what you don't. And you're
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  Speaker 1: too old and you're too young and you're too dark
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  Speaker 1: and you're too white and you're too brown. Of the
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  Speaker 1: thing you hope for. The worst people in the world
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  Speaker 1: to preach to are people who have no hope. People
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  Speaker 1: who have decided, well, I guess this is as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm going to go. And they make themselves happy
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  Speaker 1: with mediocrity. It's not that they're happy with it. They
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  Speaker 1: make themselves happy with it because it is all they
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  Speaker 1: can grasp. The people I like to preach to are
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  Speaker 1: the people who have the audacity of hope. The audacity
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  Speaker 1: to believe. The audacity to believe it's possible. The audacity
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  Speaker 1: to think I could go to school. The audacity to
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  Speaker 1: think I could own my own house. The audacity to
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  Speaker 1: think I could preach the gospel. The audacity to think
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  Speaker 1: I could build a church. The audacity to think I
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  Speaker 1: could build a mall. The audacity to think I could
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  Speaker 1: get up from here. The audacity to think... I could
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  Speaker 1: make it without you. The audacity. See, in order to
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  Speaker 1: leave a woman in an abusive relationship, the first thing
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  Speaker 1: an abusive man does is take away her hope. He
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  Speaker 1: cuts off her conversations. He doesn't want her to talk
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  Speaker 1: to her relatives. And then he tells her, you're dumb
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  Speaker 1: and you're ugly and you're stupid and don't nobody want
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  Speaker 1: me but you. And you better put up with me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll slap you across this kitchen. You ain't got nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to go. You're stupid. You know what he's doing? He's
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  Speaker 1: killing her hope. Verbal abuse kills hope. What that man
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  Speaker 1: is doing to that woman and nowadays what that woman
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  Speaker 1: is doing to that man. Because I have found since
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  Speaker 1: I've been in Texas that some of these women. are
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  Speaker 1: just as abusive as men are. The way you talk
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  Speaker 1: to your husband, he'll never get up because you are
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  Speaker 1: just as abusive as an abusive man. You're just shorter.
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  Speaker 1: Mean as a starving rattlesnake. Say anything to him about him,
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  Speaker 1: to his face, about his family, about his mama, about
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  Speaker 1: his kin, because you are cutting off all access to
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  Speaker 1: anything for faith to work with. Oh, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what you say. I withstand your ideas. I fight
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  Speaker 1: your ideas. I am somebody. I am worth something. I
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  Speaker 1: can build. I can evolve. You think whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to think, but you can't change the way I think
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  Speaker 1: about myself as a man thinketh in himself. Slap somebody
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  Speaker 1: and say, I think so. I think so. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what you write. I don't care what you tweet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you text. I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: you blog. I think so. And as long as I
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  Speaker 1: think so, what you think don't have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with what I think. I think so. Oh, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to get tough in here in a minute. How is
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  Speaker 1: little Tommy Jakes going to be a preacher? How is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be a preacher? He got a list,
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  Speaker 1: but he can't do it. I don't care what you think.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. And look at me now. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, how you like me now? Now faith
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  Speaker 1: is a substance of the thing I hope for. If
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  Speaker 1: I don't, if the day you lose your hope, you
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  Speaker 1: lost your life, So the devil isn't so much after
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  Speaker 1: your faith, he's after your hope. That it could be better.
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  Speaker 1: That you could rebuild your life. That the second half
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  Speaker 1: could be the best half. That the best is yet
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  Speaker 1: to come. That God has more for you. That you're
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  Speaker 1: important to God. That God has a plan for your life.
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  Speaker 1: That all things are possible to him that believe. The
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  Speaker 1: enemy is doing everything he can to destroy your hope.
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  Speaker 1: He always will let somebody bring you some bad news. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like the wicked witch. Don't nobody bring me
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  Speaker 1: no bad news. I'll hang up on you. I can't
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  Speaker 1: let it in. I'll cut it off the TV set.
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  Speaker 1: I'll stop watching it because I know you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: infect my faith. The devil is a lie. My faith
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  Speaker 1: is the substance of the thing I hope for. It
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  Speaker 1: is the evidence of the thing not yet seen. Evidence
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  Speaker 1: is admitted into court. It is proof. It is receipts.
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  Speaker 1: It validates. It is the evidence. Eyes have not seen.
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  Speaker 1: Ears have not heard. Neither have entered into the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man the things that God has prepared, the things
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  Speaker 1: that God has prepared for them that love him. This
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  Speaker 1: is the evidence of things unseen. Remember when you were
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  Speaker 1: a child, how you had imagination. You had great imagination.
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  Speaker 1: You believed you had imagination. Somebody told me the other
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  Speaker 1: day they jumped out of the window because they thought
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  Speaker 1: they could fly. When you stop dreaming, you stop flying.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question. What took away your hope When
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  Speaker 1: did you stop dreaming? Did divorce do that to you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you let the rapist take away your hope? Did
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  Speaker 1: your mama prefer your sister kill your hope? Faith is
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  Speaker 1: the substance of things. Hope for it is the evidence
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  Speaker 1: of things not seen. For by it, the elders obtained
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  Speaker 1: a good report. They wasn't good. They wasn't good. But
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  Speaker 1: they were able to get a good report by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't righteous. Abraham wasn't righteous. Don't make me take
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  Speaker 1: you back to Bible class. Abraham was not righteous. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying he wasn't a good man, but he was
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  Speaker 1: not righteous. But he believed God and it was counted
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  Speaker 1: unto him That's righteousness. I go crazy talking to accountants.
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  Speaker 1: No disrespect to none of you. But you drive me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Because to me, I bring the money in. I bring
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  Speaker 1: it in. Here it is. This is what we got. No,
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  Speaker 1: we can't account for it like that. We have to
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  Speaker 1: put it in this column. I said, just put it
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  Speaker 1: in the bank. I don't care what column you put
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  Speaker 1: it in. Just put it in the bank. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you borrow it from this column and put it over here,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it's all the same money. But it's how you account
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  Speaker 1: for it that passes the audit. Abraham believed God and
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  Speaker 1: it was counted unto him. as righteousness. He wasn't righteous,
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  Speaker 1: but God marked it up on the ledger as righteous
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  Speaker 1: because he had faith. Faith is like food stamps. You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got no money, but we'll take it like money.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on. I'm going to teach it till
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you get it. Everybody else walked in the store with
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: money and American Express and MasterCard and Visa. And here
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: come Mammy Wilson with a bag full of food stamps.
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  Speaker 1: But she got just as much food as everybody else
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  Speaker 1: because the food stamp was accounted. This is why I
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  Speaker 1: want you to understand why people hate you because people
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  Speaker 1: hate you because they know something about you. And they
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  Speaker 1: know you ain't that righteous. And they know you ain't
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  Speaker 1: that holy. And they know you ain't that good. And
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  Speaker 1: they saw you do something stupid. And they heard you
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  Speaker 1: did something stupid. And they fussing at you right now, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't going to listen at her. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to listen at him. But what they don't know is
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  Speaker 1: God is a bookkeeper. Amen. and he accounted it as righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And what you need to know is once the books
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  Speaker 1: say you're righteous, stop acting like you ain't. Walk in
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  Speaker 1: what God said. Talk in what God said. Move in
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  Speaker 1: what God said. Preach in what God said. Because according
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  Speaker 1: to the books, you think you're waiting on God God
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  Speaker 1: is waiting on you God is waiting on you to
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  Speaker 1: believe what he said about you not what you remember
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  Speaker 1: about you for by it the elders obtained a good
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  Speaker 1: report watch this can't go a little deeper through faith
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  Speaker 1: we understand Through faith, we understand. Faith is the truth
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  Speaker 1: we stand under. Through faith, we stand under. It is
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  Speaker 1: my covering. Through faith, we understand. That the worlds were framed.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you read that in the King James Bible,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it sounds like he's talking about the creation. He really isn't.
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  Speaker 1: Because when he says through faith we understand that the
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  Speaker 1: worlds were framed by the word of God, that is
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  Speaker 1: true of the creation. But in this particular text, he
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  Speaker 1: is not using the Greek word cosmos. He's using the
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  Speaker 1: Greek word eons, which is ages. Ages. Through faith we
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  Speaker 1: understand that the ages were hemmed in by the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. That my future is locked. That he's got
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a hedge around tomorrow. I'll prove it to you by
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. Lucifer, go curse Job. You know I can't
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: curse Job. You got a hedge around him. A curse
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  Speaker 1: speaks to how you're going to end up. How can
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  Speaker 1: I mess with his future when you got a hedge
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  Speaker 1: around his future? Through faith we understand that the eons
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  Speaker 1: were framed by the word of your tomorrow is already fixed.
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  Speaker 1: Your tomorrow is already fixed. You down on your knees
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  Speaker 1: crying about how I'm going to make it, what I'm
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: going to do, how can I get there? I don't
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  Speaker 1: see no way. I don't have enough. God said, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: I got it already framed in. That's enough for somebody
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to start running right there. Your future is fixed. The
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  Speaker 1: witch can't curse you. The wallop can't curse you. Your
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: enemies can't curse you because God's got you hedged in.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Your tomorrow is in his hands. Your next week is
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in his hands. Your next year is in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the whole world in his hands. Whole wide world.
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  Speaker 1: In his hands, he got the whole world. In his hands,
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  Speaker 1: he got the whole world. In his hands, he got
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  Speaker 1: you and me, brother. In his hands, he got you
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and me, brother. In his hands, he got you and me, brother.
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  Speaker 1: In his hands, he's got the.
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  Speaker 1: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Now we're going to the creation
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  Speaker 1: so that things that do appear were not made of
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  Speaker 1: things that do appear. Honey, would you come here for
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  Speaker 1: a minute? Nothing you got on, not your earrings, not
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: your dress, not your shoes, not your ring, nothing you
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: got on started out as a material. It started out
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: as an idea. Then they picked the material according to
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the idea. It didn't start out as material. It started
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: out as an idea. The material didn't pick the idea.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: The idea picked the material. Yes. It passed over wool,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it passed over cotton, it passed over linen because the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: idea had a specific idea in mind and said, once
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I find what matches what I'm thinking in here, I'm
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: going to do out there what I'm thinking in here.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So what would you rather have, the dress or the idea?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: That's why I say money is the cheapest part of me.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Because the money don't make me. If all you took
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: was my money, you didn't get much. Now if you'd
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: have took my mind, I'd be in trouble. But as
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: long as I got my right mind, I could get
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: me some more money. I could make another dress. I
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: could create more earrings. I could get more shoes. As
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: long as I got the idea. So that things that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: do appear, the right way, the right time, the right place,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the right moment, the right way. And if you would
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: get out of God's way, And stop trying to design
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: your own life and plan your own future and manage
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: your own stuff and fix yourself up and just give
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it all over to God and say, whatever you want
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: me to have, I'll take it. Whenever you think I'm
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: ready for it, I'll move into it. Whatever you design
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: for me, I'll go for it. If you would step back,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that would be faith. But because you got your mouth
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in God's design, that's not faith. And without faith, it
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: is impossible. Sing all you want to. Preach all you will.
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  Speaker 1: Dance all you want to. You cannot dance your way
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  Speaker 1: into favor. Can I go a little bit further? Thank you, honey.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So faith is so important. Bishop, how do I get it?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Faith coming by hearing. And hearing by the word of God.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. So if I'm going to have faith,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I got to protect what I hear. Okay. So I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: got to shut down all these voices. External and internal. Internal.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Because it creates a belief system that either cancels out
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: my blessing or grows my blessing. If I'm sick in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: my system, I'm going to be sick in my substance.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: That's why when I talk to you like this, I'm
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: talking about how you think about Because if I'm sick
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: in my thinking, I'm going to be sick in my results.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to self-sabotage everything God has for me because
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not clear right here. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: By faith, Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And through it his blood yet speaketh. By faith Noah
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  Speaker 1: being warned of God of things not yet seen built
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  Speaker 1: an ark to the saving of his house. So Noah
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: built a boat with no water. In his backyard willing
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: to look like a fool and wait on the rain
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to catch up with what he built. Some of you
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: are going to have to build something that looks like
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a fool and wait on the rain to catch up
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: with you. Where are my innovators at? See, most people
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: are building their future around the past. And how it
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: used to be. But people who are innovative build around
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the future and how it's going to be. Noah built
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  Speaker 1: an ark to the saving of his house. His whole
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: house got saved because he was willing to look like
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a fool for a little while. And let the rain
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: catch up with him. Somebody online, the rain is... going
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to catch up with you. Stay right where you are
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and let them laugh at you. Let them look at
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you funny. Let them talk like you're a fool. Let
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: them say it doesn't make any sense. You bought that property.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It don't even make any sense. There's nothing around it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: There's nothing there right now. But don't worry. The rain's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: going to catch up with you. The rain's going to
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: catch up with you. Am I talking to anybody in here?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Am I talking to anybody in here? A woman said
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: to my wife this other day, said, who would ever
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: thought that you would end up being where you are?
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  Speaker 1: She did. They didn't think I'd end up where I was.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: But the rain caught up with me. Young people, let
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the rain catch up with you. Let the rain catch
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  Speaker 1: up with you. While other people are acting a fool,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: build something that don't make no sense and let the
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: rain catch up with you. Let the rain catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you. Who am I talking to? If I'm talking
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to you, make some noise in here. I'm going to
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: stop in a minute. I'm going to hurry this along.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: You remember when the woman came down to the well
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and she says to Jesus, Jesus sitting at the well,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: you know, he's just chilling. He's, He's chilling out, hanging
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: out at the well, being cool, looking fly. And he says, woman,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: give me the drink. She said, you player. If you
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: really wanted water, who comes to a well with nothing
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: to draw with? All I want is nothing to draw with.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: If you have faith, if you do not have faith,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: you have nothing to draw with. See, the woman was right.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Who sits by a well with nothing to draw with?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: So you come to church. But if you don't have faith,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you don't have nothing to draw with. So you scrolling
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: around on your Instagram right now and you think about
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: what you're going to cook for dinner and did you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: cut the stove off and where we're going to go
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: eat when this is over. All of that says you
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: have nothing to draw with. You're sitting by a well.
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  Speaker 1: You're sitting in the presence of a miracle. You're sitting
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in your destiny. You're sitting in your future. You're sitting
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: in the thirst quenching power of God. But if your
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: mind is somewhere else, you won't get it. Not because
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the water's not in the well. You don't have nothing
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: to draw with. How many people in here got something
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to draw with? Have you ever gone to church that really, really,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: a service that really, really blessed you and you rode
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: with somebody that didn't pay no attention to it? That
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: means that we can be at the same place at
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the same time. But if you don't have faith, you
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: don't have nothing to draw with. So you went home dry,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I went home wet. Not because we didn't go to
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the same church, but I had something to draw with,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: you didn't have nothing to draw with. Do you not
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: know that your faith controls my message? Do you not
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: know that you can draw the preacher out of me?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: You can draw the teacher out of me. That certain
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: crowds draw things out of you that other people don't
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: draw out of you. Because when they make a demand
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: on the anointing, the anointing shows up in a greater way.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I wish I had a thousand people that would provoke
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: me right now. When you come to church, you ought
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to say, I'm going to draw it out of my
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: man of God. I don't care what he feels like.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I don't care what it looks like. I don't care
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: what kind of week he had. I came here with
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: something to draw with. And I'm not going to leave
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: this well until I get this water that I thirst
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: no more. Somebody say, draw it out, draw it out,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out. Come on, come on.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Draw it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: it out, draw it out, draw it. Yeah, I want it.
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  Speaker 1: Give it to me. Draw it out, draw it out,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out, draw it out. Watch this.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Y'all ain't gonna like me for this. You're gonna sit
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: out so you might as well sit out now. There's
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: another woman in your woman. And if you had something
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: to draw with, you could draw it out. If you
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: don't believe it, wait till the next guy get her.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: There's another man in the man you got. And the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: only reason his ex didn't get it is that she
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: didn't have nothing to draw with. And if you come
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: in and you know how to draw it out of him,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: she won't even recognize him when she sees him again.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I wish I had some drawers in here. Draw it out.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Draw it out. Draw it out. Draw it out. Draw
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: it out. Draw it out. Draw it out. Treasury people
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: say it's a faith thing. I'm going to prove it.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to prove it. I'm going to prove it.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to prove it. I'm going to prove it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to prove it. I'm going to prove it.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Somebody's getting healed right now. Somebody's getting healed. While somebody's
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: sitting around looking, somebody's being healed. Somebody's getting a breakthrough.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: While somebody's sitting around playing with their phone, somebody's getting
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a breakthrough. While somebody's sitting around looking out the window,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: somebody's being delivered. Don't let that somebody be you. I
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: want the person that's getting something from God to leap
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: up on your feet and praise God like you have
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the wind. Praise God like you just got wet. Praise
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: God like you just dropped your bucket down into his
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: promises and pulled up your healing and pulled up your
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: deliverance and pulled up your breakthrough. Somebody start pulling it up.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pull it out of this well. I'm
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: going to pull it out of this moment. I'm going
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to pull it out. I don't care if I look funny.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pull it out right now. God's got
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: something for me. And I'm not going to leave this
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: well until I pull it out. I got something to
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  Speaker 1: draw with. You understand the words that I'm saying? I said,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: do you understand the words that I'm saying? Do you
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: understand the words that I'm saying? Do you understand the
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: words that I'm saying? Do you understand it? Do you
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: understand it? Do you receive it? Draw it out. Make
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the devil mad and draw it out. Make hell nervous
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and draw it out. Break every yoke and draw it out.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Break generational curses and draw it out. I'm going to
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: quote this scripture and I'm going to close right here.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I had you stand up. The word, the
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Bible says in Hebrews 4, 1. Let us therefore fear
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  Speaker 1: lest a promise be left to us of entering into
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: his rest. Any of you should seem to come short
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: of it. Let's be scared. Let us have fear. Go
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: back to verse one. Let us therefore fear lest the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: promise being left us of entering into his rest any
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: should seem to come short of it. Come on, verse two.
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  Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preached as well as
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: unto them. But the word preach did not Profit them.
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  Speaker 1: Not being mixed with your profit is tied to your
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: faith no faith no profit no faith no profit the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: word did not profit as strong as God's word is
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: It did not profit them, not mixed with faith in
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: them that heard it. There were certain cities that Jesus
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: could not do miracles in because they had nothing to
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: draw with. This morning as I close, I'm going to
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: stop there. I feel like going into an outright crazy
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: spanked uranium preaching fit. Thank you.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: There is something that God has for you. And you're
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: going to need faith to draw it out. It's not
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: a dancing thing. It's not a shouting thing. It's not
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: a scripture quoting thing.
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  Speaker 1: This has come down to a faith fight. And you
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: got to stand still and steady yourself and strengthen your
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: backbone and stand up against the enemy. And this is
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: why you got to talk to him like this. You
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: got to walk right up to him and say, though
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: he slay me. Yet shall I trust him. And you
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: got to walk up to Mr. Devil and introduce yourself
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to Mr. Devil and say, Mr. Devil, I'm the head.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: not beneath. I'm more than a conqueror. I'm blessed in
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: the city. Amen. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: in my uprising. I'm blessed in my down city. If
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed in Charleston, I'll be blessed in Dallas. If
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I go to Chicago, I'll be blessed in Chicago. Because
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the blessing is not on the city. The blessing is
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: on me. And everywhere my feet draw, God's going to
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: give it to me. You know why, devil? You know why, devil?
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. You can't stop me. It's
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: a faith thing. It's a faith thing. You can have
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: my coat, but you can't have my faith. You can
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: have my shoes, but you can't have my faith. You
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: can take my car, but you can't.