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Instinct to Increase - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: People live and die based on your instincts. Your instincts.
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  Speaker 1: You can be totally oblivious to making somebody happy or
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  Speaker 1: miserable simply because you don't have the inner voice that
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  Speaker 1: tells you what to do with the moment. What do
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  Speaker 1: I do with this moment? What do I do with
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  Speaker 1: this situation? Most people just live the moment without thinking
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  Speaker 1: the moment and understanding that there is an inner instinct
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  Speaker 1: that causes you to react spontaneously to the moment, to
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity, to the timing. And it's a terrible thing
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  Speaker 1: to deal with anybody, to ride in the car with,
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  Speaker 1: to dance with, to live with, to work with somebody
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  Speaker 1: who has no instincts. They bring you the right information
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong time. Instincts. Ask your neighbor, do you
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  Speaker 1: have good instincts? Greetings in the invincible name of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our King. I am so excited to have this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to share the word of the Lord with you, to
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  Speaker 1: be blessed of God and chosen of the Lord to
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  Speaker 1: present his word to you is my highest honor. As
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  Speaker 1: we prepare to go into the Word of God today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to prepare your heart for what I believe
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  Speaker 1: is a life-changing series that the Lord gave me. We're
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  Speaker 1: calling this series Open Doors. I believe that God's going
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  Speaker 1: to really open doors for you. The question is, are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for the door that's about to open? I
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  Speaker 1: believe as God presents opportunities to you, what you do
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  Speaker 1: with that opportunity is actually your gift back to God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: understand that sometimes opportunities come dressed up in oppositions. But
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  Speaker 1: if you define it correctly and you understand it correctly
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  Speaker 1: and you perceive it correctly, well, let me go into
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  Speaker 1: this word. I believe it's going to help you. Like
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  Speaker 1: this particular message shook the nation. It's the instinct to increase.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look at this. This is absolute, pure food
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  Speaker 1: for the soul. Here we are listening at Jesus teach.
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  Speaker 1: He has meandered through the preceding text. in an almost
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  Speaker 1: loquacious matter, letting himself go from this subject to that
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  Speaker 1: subject to the other, as it were, not as someone
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  Speaker 1: who is just gibbering and jabbering alone, but more as
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  Speaker 1: someone who has more to say than he has time
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  Speaker 1: to do it. He is trying to convey to them
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  Speaker 1: a truth that is quite profound. If you approach this truth,
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  Speaker 1: then you must realize that what he is saying to
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  Speaker 1: them is It is like a man, and he lets
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  Speaker 1: us know that this man is a very wealthy man
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  Speaker 1: in a conversation with what the King James Version translates
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  Speaker 1: as servants. My version there translated as slaves, but there
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a gulf in the conversation. There is a
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  Speaker 1: gulf in the conversation. It is a superior speaking to
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  Speaker 1: an inferior. There is a gulf in the conversation, and
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  Speaker 1: yet there is a conversation. There is a sociological gulf.
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  Speaker 1: There is definitely an economic gulf, and yet there is
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  Speaker 1: a conversation. The slaves were not on the level with
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  Speaker 1: the master, and the master was not on the level
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  Speaker 1: with the slaves, but there was a conversation. When we
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  Speaker 1: look at that word slave, it makes servant, it makes
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit uncomfortable. It just doesn't feel good.
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  Speaker 1: for us to hear that. Not only if you're of
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  Speaker 1: my historical background, there's a little TNs where you don't
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  Speaker 1: like to hear that word, but just people in general,
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  Speaker 1: we don't like to hear that word because we live
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  Speaker 1: in a democracy that lends itself to the ideology that
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  Speaker 1: we can lift up the lower class to the middle
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  Speaker 1: class and that we've done away with other systems that
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  Speaker 1: would alienate people from opportunity and the word is foreign
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  Speaker 1: to us, but this is not An American text. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a text about New York or Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: or about your corporate office building. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: Western text at all. It is steeped in an Eastern
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  Speaker 1: culture that embraced a caste system whereby the notion was
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  Speaker 1: whatever you were born into, that's what you were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. A caste system teaches an ideology that there
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  Speaker 1: is no responsibility on people or government or haves to
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  Speaker 1: have nots to bring people up because whoever you are
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  Speaker 1: is what you are. Deal with it. It is this
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  Speaker 1: sociological notion and ideology that was pervasive in the times
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  Speaker 1: that Christ ministered. You can see it in attitudes like
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  Speaker 1: the poor you have with you always. You can see
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  Speaker 1: it in how the Bible is written. Y'all got quiet
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  Speaker 1: on me. Stay with me. You can see it in
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  Speaker 1: how the Bible is written. There were some people that
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  Speaker 1: were not, their names were not included. Though their miracles
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  Speaker 1: were substantive, their names were not recorded. And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: didn't even notice. Like, you remember, who is that lady,
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  Speaker 1: the woman at the well? What was her name?
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Sister Woman at the Well. And, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: lady with the woman, the woman with the issue of blood,
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  Speaker 1: her name was the woman with the issue of blood.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it that the Scriptures give some names like
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  Speaker 1: Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway
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  Speaker 1: side begging, and other people remain nameless on the text?
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  Speaker 1: It is a reflection of the ideas of the writer
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  Speaker 1: that certain people's names are, were not even worth recording
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  Speaker 1: because there was such a gulf. No need to record
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  Speaker 1: your name. You are a nobody. You must understand the
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  Speaker 1: expansive dimension of the gulf to appreciate the power of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. So if you approach it purely... from the
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  Speaker 1: notions of republicanism. If you approach it purely from the
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  Speaker 1: notions of democracy, you will get lost in your reasoning
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  Speaker 1: because you look at it through the lens of American
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  Speaker 1: historicity and you look at it with a condescending voice
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  Speaker 1: and say slaves and turn up your nose, but you
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  Speaker 1: must understand the beauty of the text exists with the
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  Speaker 1: understanding that there is a gulf Between these three slaves
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  Speaker 1: and this one master and yet there is a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that Jesus might be saying to us
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  Speaker 1: that the gulf between the master and the slaves is like,
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  Speaker 1: it is like the gulf between God and man. That
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts are above our thoughts and his ways above
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  Speaker 1: our ways. As I, as the heaven is above the earth,
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  Speaker 1: so are my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways
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  Speaker 1: above your ways. You were born on this level, born
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  Speaker 1: in sin, shaped in iniquity. I wasn't born at all.
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  Speaker 1: I had no mother, no father, no beginning or end
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  Speaker 1: of days. I am the ancient of days. I am
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  Speaker 1: the father of wisdom. I have more wisdom in the
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  Speaker 1: folds of my garment than all of your universities compiled together. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever your highest thought is, it is my lowest thought.
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  Speaker 1: Your highs are my lows. My thoughts are so far
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  Speaker 1: above you and yet... I have a conversation. What a
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  Speaker 1: mighty God is this? A God, oh my God. A
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  Speaker 1: God who doesn't need anything. See, the master doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: the slave. The slave needs the master. The master could
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  Speaker 1: go out and get another slave. And yet they're in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. A God who doesn't need me, but I
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  Speaker 1: need him, said in spite of the gulf. Between your
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  Speaker 1: ways and my ways. And your thoughts and my thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have a conversation with you. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to express it. And I know you don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: The gulf between us. But it is like. It is
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  Speaker 1: like unto a master. Talking to a slave. And not
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  Speaker 1: only did they have. A conversation. A conversation. The audacity
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  Speaker 1: of the text suggests that the master gave his goods
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  Speaker 1: to the slave. Gave it to him. Committed into their hands.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that the slave owns nothing,
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  Speaker 1: has nothing, has no rights or privileges, and yet the
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  Speaker 1: master through a decision in his own mind, not a
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  Speaker 1: request from the slave, but a decision from the master,
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  Speaker 1: has decided to gift the slave with something that he
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  Speaker 1: could not gift himself with. This vulnerable position of the
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  Speaker 1: slave is the position of us on earth. And it
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  Speaker 1: begins with the understanding that you have been gifted. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand, you have been gifted. You will spend
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  Speaker 1: your life walking away and walking past what only God
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  Speaker 1: has given you. Somebody say, I have been gifted. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have been gifted. I have been gifted. My gift
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  Speaker 1: may not be your gift. It may not be shimmering
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  Speaker 1: in the light like yours is. It might not be
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  Speaker 1: in clustered on a ring. It might not be in
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  Speaker 1: a singing voice. It may not be the ability to
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  Speaker 1: do something that you're able to do. But let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. I have been gifted. I have something.
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  Speaker 1: I have something, some nebulous, indescript thing that God has
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  Speaker 1: given me that is so unique in the earth that
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  Speaker 1: you will never see it again. I have been gifted.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand that you have been gifted? Because if
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  Speaker 1: you don't see what you have as a gift, you
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  Speaker 1: won't protect it. You won't guard it. You won't take
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  Speaker 1: care of it. You won't appreciate it. You'll run around
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  Speaker 1: to other people who are gifted and you'll be so
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  Speaker 1: enamored with what they have that deep down you won't
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  Speaker 1: appreciate what you have. The greatest mystery of all mysteries
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  Speaker 1: in life is to discover where is the treasure inside
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  Speaker 1: of me? What all have you put inside of me?
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  Speaker 1: And what does it take for me to discover? What
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  Speaker 1: do I have to go through to dig down deep
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  Speaker 1: enough to find out what God has placed down inside
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  Speaker 1: of me? I have been gifted. If you don't see it,
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  Speaker 1: you're the wrong one. If you don't appreciate it, you
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  Speaker 1: can't have it. But rest assured. When I cried out
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  Speaker 1: my first cry and the doctor smacked my bottom, the
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  Speaker 1: first cry was a gifted cry.
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  Speaker 2: Still to come.
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  Speaker 3: On the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal. That's what you're aiming at. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you're shooting for. You want to be excellent on
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  Speaker 1: your level. You don't want to sit in your little
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  Speaker 1: trailer and look across the street at the guy in
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  Speaker 1: the house and begrudge him his house when you haven't
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  Speaker 1: fixed up your trailer. You want to be excellent. You
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  Speaker 1: see masses of people jumping in cars, filling up tanks
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  Speaker 1: full of gas, trying to get away from what they
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  Speaker 1: perceive as an opposition. You will see a few people
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  Speaker 1: running toward what everybody else is running away from because
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  Speaker 1: what is other people's opposition is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
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  Speaker 3: changed my view. The gifts he laid within before time
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  Speaker 3: began gives me the goods to win. I see an
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  Speaker 3: open door.
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  Speaker 1: If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: the least I could do is to work that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Others may run from what I run to. aligning my
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  Speaker 3: purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior, scale
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  Speaker 3: walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
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  Speaker 3: I've done the math.
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  Speaker 1: Because you handled the opportunity correctly, you were able to
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  Speaker 1: move into the next dimension.
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  Speaker 3: I have the ability, right, permission to enter in. So
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  Speaker 3: look to the hills from which cometh your help.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see?
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  Speaker 3: Can you see your open doors?
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  Speaker 1: Talk like you know who you are and say, I
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  Speaker 1: have been gifted. I can't take credit for it. It's
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  Speaker 1: been given to me. I don't know why I can
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  Speaker 1: do what I can do like I do when I
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  Speaker 1: do it. I just know I can do it. When
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  Speaker 1: you have been gifted, you just got something you can do.
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  Speaker 1: When you read it, you understood it. Other people read it,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't understand it. But when you read it, it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense to you. Everybody in the room might be
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  Speaker 1: able to read, but they might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: decipher it like you decipher it. You have been gifted
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  Speaker 1: or you wouldn't be where you are. Do what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Have what you got. Know what you know. You have
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  Speaker 1: been gifted. Somebody shout, I'm gifted. Running a ball like
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  Speaker 1: you run a ball. Stretching your legs like you're stretching.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown after touchdown. Don't know why it came natural to me.
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  Speaker 1: Other people went out for it, couldn't do it, but
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  Speaker 1: I could do it. I have been gifted. Sure, I
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  Speaker 1: worked on it. Sure, I trained for it. Sure, I
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  Speaker 1: went to school for it. Sure, I enhanced it. But
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  Speaker 1: if the core gift isn't there... You can't enhance the invisible.
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  Speaker 1: I have been gifted. Don't give all the credit to
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  Speaker 1: the university. Some people went to the same school and
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  Speaker 1: flunked out. I have been. I feel something in this room.
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  Speaker 1: It's some gifted people in this room right now. All
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  Speaker 1: the gifted people, clap your hands. And he gave, the
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  Speaker 1: master gave unto them. To one, he gave five. To
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  Speaker 1: the other, he gave two talents. And to the third one,
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  Speaker 1: He gave one. They all were gifted. Yeah, they were all,
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  Speaker 1: they all were gifted. We're all gifted. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: My mother taught me a poem. You've heard me mention
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  Speaker 1: it before about George, written by George Washington Carver. When
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  Speaker 1: I was a little boy, it's called you've all that
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of men have had. And when I was
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  Speaker 1: eight or so, I had to memorize it. Little did
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  Speaker 1: I know that it would shape my thinking the rest
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  Speaker 1: of my life. That if you have two hands, two eyes,
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  Speaker 1: two feet, you've all that the greatest of men have had.
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  Speaker 1: You start out with the same stuff. What you do
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  Speaker 1: with it is up to you. But you've all that
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of men have had. With the same thing
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  Speaker 1: they have subdued nations and taken down kingdoms. Because you
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  Speaker 1: have all that the greatest of men have had. I
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  Speaker 1: did not know that she was depositing into my self-esteem.
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  Speaker 1: The wealth that was necessary through which I might be
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  Speaker 1: able to expend and draw from it the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my life. That she was vanquishing my excuses for failure.
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  Speaker 1: And opening my eyes to possibility. Because it was fair.
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  Speaker 1: I have all that the greatest of men have had.
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  Speaker 1: Two eyes. One nose. Two ears. Look at that. Look
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  Speaker 1: at this stuff. I have been gifted. Fearfully and marvelously made.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bad from the beginning. Hey. Hey. There is no
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  Speaker 1: question then that all three, the one with the five,
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  Speaker 1: the one with the two, and the one with the one,
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  Speaker 1: all of them have been gifted. Gifted. But not equally.
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  Speaker 1: Not equally gifted. But gifted nonetheless. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I may not have what you have, but I'm gifted nonetheless.
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  Speaker 1: I might not have the dimension of gifts. But just
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  Speaker 1: because I don't have the dimension does not mean that
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  Speaker 1: I am destitute. I may not have five. I may
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  Speaker 1: only have one. But Lord, I sure do thank you
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  Speaker 1: for this one. I sure do thank you for this one.
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  Speaker 1: I may be a two-talent kind of dude. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: a two-talent kind of dude. Yeah, but Lord, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for two. Because I realized that I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: that by myself. You just gave it to me. Willed
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  Speaker 1: it to me. Bequeathed it to me. Decreed it unto me.
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  Speaker 1: Declared it unto me. Handed it to me. I have been. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The problem comes. The problem comes. As the Apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: so clearly says, when we compare ourselves with ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: so doing, it is not wise. Because if I become
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  Speaker 1: distracted by the discrepancies in the volume of gifts between us,
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  Speaker 1: then jealousy is born. Rather than feeling gifted, I compare
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  Speaker 1: myself with you, and I can't enjoy my two for
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  Speaker 1: being envious of your five. So when my boat leaps
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  Speaker 1: ashore of understanding that I'm gifted and docks on the
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  Speaker 1: bay of comparing myself with you, that is where my
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  Speaker 1: carnality destroys my creativity. Because you cannot be jealous. and
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  Speaker 1: creative at the same time. In order to be truly creative,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot be distracted by comparisons with other people. Creativity
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  Speaker 1: begins when I invest, develop, and bring to fruition what
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  Speaker 1: I do have within my power to do rather than
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  Speaker 1: to become distracted by the inconsistencies between me and you
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  Speaker 1: and what I don't have. If I don't understand that,
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  Speaker 1: I may waste years of my life thinking that the
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  Speaker 1: goal of my life is to catch up with you,
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  Speaker 1: never realizing that I am not to be compared with
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  Speaker 1: you at all. What I'm supposed to be is excellent
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  Speaker 1: on my level. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're aiming at. That's what you're shooting for.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be excellent on your level. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to sit in your little trailer and look across
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  Speaker 1: the street at the guy in the house and begrudge
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  Speaker 1: him his house when you haven't fixed up your trailer.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be excellent. He gave them five. The
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  Speaker 1: same man... had the same status, had the same master,
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  Speaker 1: and they had something else. They had something else. He
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  Speaker 1: gave them talents, all the men talents, but they were
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  Speaker 1: not the same talents. Five, two, and one. One other
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  Speaker 1: thing he gave each of them that is not written
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  Speaker 1: in the text, but is implied in the text, and
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  Speaker 1: if you overlook it, you will miss the power of
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  Speaker 1: the text, He gave them an opportunity. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the world as wonderful as to have been given
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. So many people wait in the wings, chewing
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  Speaker 1: at the bit, patting their foot, waiting on an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: An opportunity is an invisible thing that if you don't
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  Speaker 1: discern it instinctively, it will not be mentioned in the text.
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  Speaker 1: Because opportunities are a matter of perception. You must have
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  Speaker 1: a revelation to see a moment as an opportunity. An
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  Speaker 1: opportunity will not walk up to you and say, hello ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: I am an opportunity. And if you're not careful, you
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  Speaker 1: will become so distracted by the inequities of life that
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  Speaker 1: you won't even notice that the opportunity has been given
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  Speaker 1: to you because you are distracted by the comparison to
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  Speaker 1: such a dimension that you don't see what is in
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  Speaker 1: front of you as an opportunity. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you how deeply veiled an opportunity may become. Opportunities are
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  Speaker 1: so often veiled that not only are they invisible, they
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  Speaker 1: often come before you in the form of opposition. Did
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  Speaker 1: you hear what I said? I said to you that
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  Speaker 1: opportunities often come to you draped in the suit of opposition.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't perceive it correctly, you won't benefit
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  Speaker 1: from it correctly because you don't understand that the opposition
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  Speaker 1: is just a suit, but up under the coat is
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. I, I, I, I can't go too deep.
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  Speaker 1: Time won't allow me. But you see, when the waves
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  Speaker 1: come in and the winds are blowing and the ocean
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  Speaker 1: has produced high waves and you see masses of people
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  Speaker 1: jumping in cars, filling up tanks full of gas, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get away from what they perceive as an opposition,
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  Speaker 1: you will see a few people running toward what everybody
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  Speaker 1: else is running away from. And they've got surfboards because
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  Speaker 1: what is other people's opposition is If you got a surfboard,
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  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity. And I'm wondering, are you running away
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  Speaker 1: from what you think is an opposition because you don't
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  Speaker 1: see it correctly as an opportunity? Oh, y'all don't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to me. We've got to stop right there.
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  Speaker 1: My announcer is going to share more with you. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get your hands on this message. Take
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  Speaker 1: a look. You see masses of people jumping in cars,
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  Speaker 1: filling up tanks full of gas, trying to get away
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  Speaker 1: from what they perceive as an opposition. You will see
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  Speaker 1: a few people running toward what everybody else is running
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  Speaker 1: away from because what is other people's opposition is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
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  Speaker 3: changed my view. The gifts he laid within before time
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  Speaker 3: began gives me the goods to win. I see an
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  Speaker 3: open door.
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  Speaker 1: If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: the least I could do is to work that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Others may run from what I run to. aligning my
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  Speaker 3: purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior, scale
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  Speaker 3: walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
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  Speaker 3: I've done the math.
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  Speaker 1: Because you handled the opportunity correctly, you were able to
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  Speaker 1: move into the next dimension.
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  Speaker 3: I have the ability, right, permission to enter in. So
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  Speaker 3: look to the hills from which cometh your help. Can
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  Speaker 3: you see? Can you see your open doors?
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  Speaker 2: men take over cities.
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  Speaker 1: They take over nations. They take over neighborhoods. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get something fresh and new.
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  Speaker 3: It's about legacy and leaving something for your family.
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  Speaker 1: My dad brought me. It was more than just a conference.
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  Speaker 1: It was impartation. It changed my whole life.
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  Speaker 3: We could actually talk and just be men. Men of
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  Speaker 3: God that could pour into our lives.
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  Speaker 1: The bond of brotherhood is here. There's nothing like it, man.
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  Speaker 1: You just have to be here to experience some lottery
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  Speaker 1: of brothers. It was a movement. Stop feeling sorry for
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  Speaker 1: yourself and get yourself up and work that thing. Work
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  Speaker 1: that apartment till you get the house. Work that job
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  Speaker 1: till you get the company. Work it where you're at.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to somebody. I know God is not going to command
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  Speaker 1: you and he's not going to make you, but he
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  Speaker 1: did expect you to have an instinct to perceive that moment.
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  Speaker 1: To bring yourself back home. Bring yourself back home every
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  Speaker 1: day and look at what you have and say, how
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  Speaker 1: can I make this better? Every six days you ought
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  Speaker 1: to be creating and rest every seven. You can't go
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  Speaker 1: forward if you're resting six days in creative one. You
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  Speaker 1: got the wrong formula. Creative six days, one day of rest.
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  Speaker 1: Not rest seven days for one day of creativity. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. I'm sorry. I'm fired up. I feel compelled
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  Speaker 1: to reach somebody. Somebody wants this. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: it is. Somebody really is going to use this. We're
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  Speaker 1: out of time. We've got to stop right now, but
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  Speaker 1: it's been a real joy to have the opportunity just
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  Speaker 1: to to pierce your heart with the light and the
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  Speaker 1: revelation of God's word, and to allow that word to
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  Speaker 1: dwell in your heart richly in Christ Jesus. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that the word has blessed you in a supernatural way.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm believing God for increase and abundance to break
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  Speaker 1: forth in your life. I'm not just talking about money,
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  Speaker 1: but if you need it, that too. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: in wisdom and health and all the aspects of God
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  Speaker 1: prospering your life. It's more than an accountant can tabulate.
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  Speaker 1: It's something you feel on the inside, the feeling of
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  Speaker 1: growth and productivity, the feeling of increase. Let me open
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  Speaker 1: this door for you so that you can experience the
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  Speaker 1: second half of your life to be the best half
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  Speaker 1: of your life. Know that we're praying for you here
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  Speaker 1: at the Potter's House and that we love you and
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  Speaker 1: that we're waiting for you. Many of you have been
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  Speaker 1: calling to register for Megafest. Families are coming from all
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  Speaker 1: over the world. Oh, my God, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a time. I hope you get to come and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with us. If not, know that we're praying
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  Speaker 1: for you. We're believing God for you. And the best
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  Speaker 1: is yet to come.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Potter's Touching End.