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Timing-Is-Everything-Bishop-T-D-Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: Go to the gospel of St. Matthew, chapter number 13,
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Speaker 1: verse 24 through 30. And there you will find my
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Speaker 1: assignment for this morning. I will be reading it out
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Speaker 1: of the NIV. When you have it, say amen. If
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Speaker 1: you're still looking, say wait a minute. Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute. Matthew, the gospel of St. Matthew, the
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Speaker 1: first book. In the New Testament. Jesus told them. Another parable.
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Speaker 1: What was it? It was a parable. The kingdom of heaven.
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Speaker 1: Is like a man. Who sowed. Good seed. What did
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Speaker 1: he do?
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Speaker 2: He.
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Speaker 1: He sowed good seed in his field. Now, first miracle
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Speaker 1: you got to recognize, the choir didn't know what I
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Speaker 1: was going to preach. When they prepared for worship, they
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Speaker 1: didn't know what I was going to preach. But for
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Speaker 1: weeks I have been seeing roots. Something is about to
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Speaker 1: come out of the ground. Jesus told them another parable,
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed
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Speaker 1: good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping,
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Speaker 1: his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and
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Speaker 1: went away. When did he do it? While they were sleeping.
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Speaker 1: When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, when the wheat
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Speaker 1: sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The
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Speaker 1: owner's servants came to him and said, sir, didn't you
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Speaker 1: sow good seed in your field? Where then did the
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Speaker 1: weeds come from? An enemy did this, he replied. The
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Speaker 1: servants asked him, do you want us, do you want us,
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Speaker 1: watch this closely, do you want us to go and
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Speaker 1: pull them up? No, he answered, because while you are
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Speaker 1: pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
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Speaker 1: Let both grow together. Whew. Oh my God. Let growth
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Speaker 1: grow together until the harvest. At that time, I will
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Speaker 1: tell the harvesters, first collect the weeds and tie them
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Speaker 1: in bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat and
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Speaker 1: bring it into my barn. Can you say amen? Shout
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Speaker 1: this with me. Timing is everything. Shout it again, timing
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Speaker 1: is everything. Shout it again, timing is everything. Spirit of
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Speaker 1: the living God, fall fresh on the word of God
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Speaker 1: as we go into it today. Let it bring life
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Speaker 1: and healing and renewal and restoration as we delve into
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Speaker 1: the depths of God's word. Bring out treasures and ministry
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Speaker 1: and healing and revelation. I thank you for what you
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Speaker 1: are about to do. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody
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Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in the presence of God. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's go to work. Over the 65 years of my life,
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Speaker 1: I don't think I knew it when I started. I
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Speaker 1: started preaching at 19. I started pastoring at 21. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I knew it then, but I know it now.
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Speaker 1: The best things in life takes time. When I was
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Speaker 1: younger I was impatient because I had the naivety of
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Speaker 1: thinking that dreams would come quickly. But the best things
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Speaker 1: in life take time. From simple things like food, preparation
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Speaker 1: to more complicated issues of parenting and marriage, the best
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Speaker 1: things in life take time. People who don't have time
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Speaker 1: to cook don't cook well because The best things in
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Speaker 1: life take time. You can get married, you can have
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Speaker 1: a wedding in 30 minutes, but it takes years to
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Speaker 1: have a marriage. The best things in life take what? Time.
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Speaker 1: It is a sharp contrast between being rich and being wealthy.
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Speaker 1: You can hit the lottery, receive an inheritance. You can
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Speaker 1: be catapulted from rags to riches, and you can be
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Speaker 1: rich quick. Though many define wealth differently than how I
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Speaker 1: will today, true wealth isn't just about money, but it
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Speaker 1: is about the lessons you learn while struggling upward. If
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Speaker 1: you have money without wisdom, you will soon be parted
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Speaker 1: from your money. The best things in life take time.
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Speaker 1: takes relationships. You've got the money, but because it was
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Speaker 1: given to you quickly, you didn't build the infrastructure to
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Speaker 1: sustain it. You don't have the relationships to sustain it.
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Speaker 1: You don't have the information to sustain it. And most
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Speaker 1: people who hit the lottery, 70 to 80% of them
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Speaker 1: go broke within five years. You can't imagine that you
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Speaker 1: could hit that much money and lose it, but the
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Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, God is teaching us that
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Speaker 1: the best things in life take time. There are things
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Speaker 1: that you learn from struggling. There are things that you
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Speaker 1: learn from tests and trials and trial and error. Some
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Speaker 1: of my best teachers were failure. It takes time to
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Speaker 1: do well. It takes even longer to be well. Let's
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Speaker 1: listen at the words of Solomon when he talks out
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Speaker 1: of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 1 through 2. And listen
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Speaker 1: at Solomon, the wise man, the wise man. He says,
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Speaker 1: to everything there is a season and a time. To
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Speaker 1: every purpose under heaven. He says, to everything there is
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Speaker 1: a season and a time, to every purpose under heaven.
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Speaker 1: You've got purpose, but do you understand season and time? Now,
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Speaker 1: we read over that quickly, but we really don't think
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Speaker 1: about it, because if we thought about it, we would
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Speaker 1: understand that some people are seasonal. Some relationships are seasonal.
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Speaker 1: Some opportunities are seasonal. And yet when we see the
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Speaker 1: seasons change, we think the blessing has ceased. But it
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Speaker 1: is not that the blessing has ceased, it is that
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Speaker 1: the season has changed. There's a great deal, I got
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Speaker 1: a lot of trees in my yard, there's a great
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Speaker 1: deal of difference between how my yard looks in the
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Speaker 1: spring and how it looks in the fall. And by
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Speaker 1: the time it gets to winter, quite frankly, the trees
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Speaker 1: are ugly and barren and destitute. And if you came
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Speaker 1: in the winter and saw it, you would have no
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Speaker 1: idea of how beautiful it would be if it takes time.
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Speaker 1: There is a time to be born and there is
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Speaker 1: a time to die. If I had time, I'd talk
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Speaker 1: about they are very similar, birth and death. A time
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Speaker 1: to plant and a time to pluck up that which
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Speaker 1: is planted. Now listen to what he says. There's a
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Speaker 1: time to plant and there's a time to pluck up
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Speaker 1: that which is planted. Do you know the difference in
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Speaker 1: your life? The difference between knowing when to plant and
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Speaker 1: when to pluck. Have you ever asked God, maybe you've
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Speaker 1: asked him when to plant, but have you ever asked
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Speaker 1: him when to pluck up? Or are you intent on
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Speaker 1: keeping that which is planted to the destruction of plucking
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Speaker 1: up that which you have become accustomed to? You can't
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Speaker 1: have a new season until you are willing to say
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Speaker 1: goodbye to the season you had. I call it the
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Speaker 1: art of letting go, the spirit of release, not wrestling, releasing.
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Speaker 1: Some of you are wrestling to hold on to something
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Speaker 1: that God is trying to take away from you and
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Speaker 1: you need to release it and simply let it go.
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Speaker 1: That was that season. When I was a child, I
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Speaker 1: thought as a child, I spake as a child, I
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Speaker 1: understood as a child, but when I became a man,
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Speaker 1: I had to let go of childish things, childish thinking.
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Speaker 1: I thought as a child. I spake as a child.
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Speaker 1: I understood as a child. If you are still talking
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Speaker 1: the way you were talking 10 years ago, I've got
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Speaker 1: bad news for you. You have a deformity. A spiritual
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Speaker 1: dysfunction that keeps your thoughts in one dimension. That means
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Speaker 1: you can't fall in love with your thoughts. I want
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Speaker 1: all the stubborn people to say amen. Because if you
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Speaker 1: are stubborn with your thoughts, you delay your next season.
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Speaker 1: I have watched some of the greatest people in every
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Speaker 1: industry you can imagine. I've had the privilege of having
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Speaker 1: relationships with people who were at the top of their
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Speaker 1: game in just about every industry you can imagine. Those
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Speaker 1: that leave the greatest impact understand timing. Timing is everything.
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Speaker 1: Timing is everything. Say it with me. Timing is everything.
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Speaker 1: Say it again. Many people don't realize that part of
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Speaker 1: the art of baking is timing. There are a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that cook but don't bake because part of
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Speaker 1: the art of baking is timing. The difference between a
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Speaker 1: dry cake and a moist cake is... Come on, come on,
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Speaker 1: come on. The difference between a moist cobbler and a
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Speaker 1: dry cobbler is whenever you taste a dry one, you
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Speaker 1: know they left it in the oven Oh, come on. Oh,
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Speaker 1: somebody knows what I'm talking about. You've got to understand
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Speaker 1: it's timing in baseball. It's not just skill. It is
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Speaker 1: the timing that causes the batter to be effective at
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Speaker 1: swinging the bat. You can have the right swing, but
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Speaker 1: if you swing at the wrong time, you won't have
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Speaker 1: the impact that you should have had. Some of you
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Speaker 1: are trying to do the right swing, but you're swinging
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Speaker 1: at the wrong time. You're in such a hurry that
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Speaker 1: you're swinging before the ball can strike the target because
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Speaker 1: you are more moved by the crowd than you are
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Speaker 1: by the ball. Timing is everything. Many people don't realize
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Speaker 1: that not only is timing everything in baseball and baking,
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Speaker 1: it is also everything when it comes to comedy or
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Speaker 1: speaking or music. It's about timing. It's not just can
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Speaker 1: you read music, can you keep time. It's not can
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Speaker 1: you tell a joke, but can you time the joke.
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Speaker 1: It's not can you speak a message, Can you use
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Speaker 1: timing to convey information? You can give great information out
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Speaker 1: of time and be an incompetent speaker because you don't
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Speaker 1: understand timing. Everything is a rhythm. Everything is a rhythm.
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Speaker 1: God is a rhythm, breathing is a rhythm, circulation is
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Speaker 1: a rhythm, heartbeat is a rhythm, pulse is a rhythm,
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Speaker 1: everything that is alive has a rhythm. Birth has a rhythm.
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Speaker 1: A woman's body has a rhythm. God is telling us
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Speaker 1: over and over and over in nature, in creation, in procreation,
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Speaker 1: that timing is everything. You can't be fruitful out of season.
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Speaker 1: Somebody shout, teach me to know my season. Help me
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Speaker 1: with my timing. You can be right about what you
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Speaker 1: said but wrong about when you said it and do
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Speaker 1: more damage than you did good. It's not about right
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Speaker 1: and wrong, it's about timing. Right information delivered at the
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Speaker 1: wrong time can tear a marriage up. can cause a
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Speaker 1: child to feel defeated, can stop a loan from going through,
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Speaker 1: can stop the house from being built, can stop you
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Speaker 1: from having the peace you ought to have. You're worried
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Speaker 1: about being right, you need to be worried about Timing, timing, timing, time, time, time, time, time, time.
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Speaker 1: Timing is everything. Timing is absolutely everything. One thing I
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Speaker 1: know for sure, I came to Dallas at the right time.
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Speaker 1: 38 years old, it was the right time. Any sooner
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Speaker 1: would have been a disaster. I wasn't ready for it.
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Speaker 1: Any later would have been too late. It wasn't ready
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Speaker 1: for me. It wasn't just the right time in my life,
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Speaker 1: it was the right time in Dallas. It was the
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Speaker 1: right time in history. You have to do things at
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Speaker 1: the right time or you're not gonna have the effect
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Speaker 1: that you would have had because you don't understand timing
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Speaker 1: because timing is what? Timing is what? Wake up. Timing
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Speaker 1: is what? Wake up. Timing is what? Timing is absolutely everything.
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Speaker 1: I've given this illustration before, but I want to paint
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Speaker 1: it again for you that have not heard it. Harlan
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Speaker 1: Sanders built an amazing business because he did the right
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Speaker 1: thing at the right time. KFC came at a time
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Speaker 1: in the American history that women had just started to
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Speaker 1: go to work. It came at a time in history
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Speaker 1: that families were still sitting around the table. It solved
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Speaker 1: the problem. How can we simulate a family dinner without
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Speaker 1: the woman being home to cook? Doing the right thing
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Speaker 1: at the right time. It wasn't just about the chicken
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Speaker 1: is good. It was that the need was great. It
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Speaker 1: solved the problem and it came at the right time. Oh,
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Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Let me make this clear.
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Speaker 1: If he opened up now, he'd go bankrupt. You can
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Speaker 1: sustain it at this level, but you can't start it
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Speaker 1: at this level because now if you open it up,
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Speaker 1: they want to know, is it gluten-free? Do you have
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Speaker 1: vegan chicken? I'm a pescatarian. They were not asking those
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Speaker 1: questions at that time. Success is as much about timing
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Speaker 1: as it is about anything else. Do you know what
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Speaker 1: time it is in your life? I've got a watch
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Speaker 1: on my wrist. I've got a phone, both of them
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Speaker 1: backing up so that I know what time it is
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Speaker 1: in the day. but do I know what time it
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Speaker 1: is in my life? Is it time to put away
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Speaker 1: childish things? I can only be fruitful in my season.
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Speaker 1: The Bible said you shall bring forth fruit in your season.
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Speaker 1: Your leaves shall not wither and whatsoever you do shall prosper.
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Speaker 1: You have to know when it's your season and you
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Speaker 1: have to know when it's over. You have to know
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Speaker 1: when to hold it. You have to know when to
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Speaker 1: fold it. You cannot see folding as failure. It's all
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Speaker 1: about timing. Oh, talk to me. It's all about timing.
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Speaker 1: Timing is everything. I have preached this text many, many,
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Speaker 1: many times. I have preached it many, many ways. There
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Speaker 1: is an eschatological element of this text that I won't
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Speaker 1: touch today that speaks to the end time. We could
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Speaker 1: talk about it that way. But the reason I'm in
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Speaker 1: this text today and the reason I want to luxuriate
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Speaker 1: in this text, after many days, I have been seeing
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Speaker 1: entangled roots underground. For me, this message did not start
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Speaker 1: with the text. It started with a vision of entangled
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Speaker 1: roots underground. Regardless of the plant type at the top
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Speaker 1: of the soil, the roots mesh together underground. Whether it
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Speaker 1: is weeds or wheat, if they are planted in the
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Speaker 1: same space, the roots become entangled underground. And for days,
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Speaker 1: God has been showing me entangled roots. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go deeper into this in a minute. Are you ready
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Speaker 1: to go with me? I said, are you ready to
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Speaker 1: go with me? I said, are you ready to go
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Speaker 1: with me? Timing is what? Say it again. Timing is what? Good.
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Speaker 1: The text starts with a very common phrase. The kingdom
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Speaker 1: of heaven is lacking. Shows us that kingdom truths are
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Speaker 1: veiled in comparisons. He doesn't tell us what the kingdom is.
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Speaker 1: He tells us what the kingdom is lacking. So the
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Speaker 1: kingdom truths that I am meant to get out of
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Speaker 1: this will come through veiled, it is veiled in comparisons.
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Speaker 1: Whenever the truths are veiled in comparison, you cannot become
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Speaker 1: so inundated with the comparisons that you fail to dig
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Speaker 1: beneath the soil of the text to extract the truth.
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Speaker 1: Why is Jesus telling us this story? It is not
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Speaker 1: just so that we may know the story. It is
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Speaker 1: that we might understand the truth that is hidden in
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Speaker 1: the fabric of the story. So we can't just read
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Speaker 1: through it and say I'm through with it and I
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Speaker 1: know the story because we have to understand that the
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Speaker 1: revelation is hidden in the analogy. It hides behind the parable.
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Speaker 1: It is locked up in the parable in such a
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Speaker 1: way that it causes you not only to read but
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Speaker 1: to think. If you don't think when you read, you
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Speaker 1: won't retain what you heard. Some people will hear this
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Speaker 1: message and get nothing because they will not add the
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Speaker 1: necessary quotient of thinking with hearing. And if you don't think,
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Speaker 1: I am not your preacher. I cannot preach to people
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Speaker 1: who don't think. So everybody's not for me. I'm cool
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Speaker 1: with that. I understand that. I get that. That's okay.
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Speaker 1: It's okay. If God is hiding, is God hiding? Let
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Speaker 1: me go that way. Is God hiding the kingdom in
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Speaker 1: parables to avoid exposure? No, God isn't the one who
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Speaker 1: hides from us his glory. That notion is counterintuitive to
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Speaker 1: who Jesus is himself. Jesus is God revealed. Isaiah 53
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Speaker 1: says this word and it is important. Who has believed
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Speaker 1: our message and to whom has the arm of the
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Speaker 1: Lord been revealed? Jesus is God revealed to us. He
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Speaker 1: is God experienced. Extending himself. When it calls the arm
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. It's talking about Jesus. Because Jesus is God.
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Speaker 1: Extending himself. From divinity to humanity. Jesus came to express God.
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Speaker 1: And we beheld the wonder of his glory. The only
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Speaker 1: begotten of the father. Full of grace and truth. Why
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Speaker 1: would Jesus come to express God. And then hide God.
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Speaker 1: He is the revealer. He is the author of the
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Speaker 1: book of Revelations. John penned it, but Jesus said it.
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Speaker 1: He is the revealer. So let us not think that
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Speaker 1: God is hiding when God is revealing. So when we
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Speaker 1: look at this, we begin to understand that it is
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Speaker 1: man who loves darkness rather than light because his deeds
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Speaker 1: are evil. It is man who hid in the garden
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Speaker 1: from God. It is man who walks away from truth
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Speaker 1: and hides his wickedness and his iniquity from God. There
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Speaker 1: is not a person in this room that isn't hiding something. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to talk to me But I'm going
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Speaker 1: to keep on bragging until I get it. There is
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Speaker 1: not a person in this room that isn't hiding something.
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Speaker 1: I have news for the young people who are talking
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Speaker 1: about keeping it 100. Nobody keeps it 100. You might
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Speaker 1: keep it about 90. If you want to lose everything,
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Speaker 1: keep it 100. If you want to destroy everything, keep
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Speaker 1: it 100. If you want to lose your job Monday morning,
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Speaker 1: go in there and keep it 100. I don't even
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Speaker 1: want to be here. I'm sick of all of y'all.
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Speaker 1: I never liked you in the first place. And you
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Speaker 1: make me sick and you get on my nerves, we'll
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Speaker 1: get you fired. But you keep it at 100. If
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Speaker 1: you want to get divorced real quick and she asks you,
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Speaker 1: do my hips look big in this? And you respond,
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Speaker 1: look like two bears fighting in the woods under a blanket.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Or he says, am
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Speaker 1: I the greatest lover you ever had? No, you're about
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Speaker 1: number 10. I just love you and I put up
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Speaker 1: with it and I act like you just killing me
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Speaker 1: and driving me crazy. But the truth of the matter
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Speaker 1: is I was thinking about what I was going to
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Speaker 1: wear to work. That's keeping it 100. It's also keeping
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Speaker 1: you in divorce for it. There is not a person
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Speaker 1: in this room that isn't hiding something. God has nothing
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Speaker 1: to hide. So when God says the kingdom of heaven
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Speaker 1: is lack, we must not think that God is hiding
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Speaker 1: the truth. As if he were playing hide and go
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Speaker 1: seek with us. What he is doing as the master
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Speaker 1: rabbi is a teacher explaining the unexplainable to a far
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Speaker 1: less intelligent being. What the kingdom of heaven is like.
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Speaker 1: Like a first grade teacher teaching a student what it
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Speaker 1: is like. to be in Paris, what it is like
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Speaker 1: to travel the world. She has to consider the age
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Speaker 1: and the intellectual development of the student in order to
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Speaker 1: be effective at teaching. She is not hiding, she is
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Speaker 1: reducing it down to the level of the audience she
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Speaker 1: is talking to. So when Jesus says the kingdom of
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Speaker 1: heaven is lack, it is God stooping. It is God
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Speaker 1: coming to our level. Can you prove it? Yes, as
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Speaker 1: high as the heavens are above the earth, so are
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Speaker 1: my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above your ways.
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Speaker 1: If I spoke it to you on my level, you
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Speaker 1: would never understand it. So I speak to you in
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Speaker 1: metaphors and similes and comparisons so that you can learn
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Speaker 1: what the kingdom of heaven is like. And I have
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Speaker 1: to find something that you can compare it to because
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Speaker 1: what I am talking about is so high that I'm
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Speaker 1: breaking it down in the first line when I say
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven is like I'm talking baby talk.
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Speaker 1: That's what Jesus is doing when he's talking to us.
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Speaker 1: He is breaking down through the parable some truths that
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Speaker 1: we must take with us. I've got five lessons I'm
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Speaker 1: going to tell you out of this text. And I'm
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Speaker 1: going to talk about them and I'm going to sit down.
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Speaker 1: Five things that are to be excavated out of this text.
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Speaker 1: For the purpose of my assignment today, because all of
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Speaker 1: the times that I have ever preached this text, I
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Speaker 1: have never seen the significance of timing to the text.
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Speaker 1: But timing... Say it again. Say it again. Say it again.
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Speaker 1: And then I want you to think before I give
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Speaker 1: you my first lesson point, I want you to think,
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Speaker 1: why does God have me here this morning? How does
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Speaker 1: this apply to my life? What is God saying to me?
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Speaker 1: Why am I watching this particular message at this particular
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Speaker 1: time in my life? What in my life needs to
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Speaker 1: be better timed?
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: I made my decisions this morning according to time. I
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Speaker 1: took my shower according to what time it was. I
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Speaker 1: got dressed according to what time it was. I had
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Speaker 1: to keep track of the time because if I lose
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Speaker 1: track of time, I will always be late. And if
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Speaker 1: I am late, I lose. Because timing is... Why would
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Speaker 1: I want to be in a service and the glory
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Speaker 1: moved and I missed it? If you miss the first
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Speaker 1: song when the choir starts singing the Lord is blessing
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Speaker 1: me right now and the whole audience was up front
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Speaker 1: and you had young people dancing off of old music
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Speaker 1: and old people scooting from side to side, you miss
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Speaker 1: one of the building blocks of which I'm standing on
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Speaker 1: right now because timing is.
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Speaker 1: If you don't respect time, you will never be wealthy,
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Speaker 1: you will never be successful, you will never be mighty.
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Speaker 1: Only poor folks inwardly and outwardly care nothing about timing
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Speaker 1: because timing is— Now, for the benefit, before I give
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Speaker 1: the lesson, let me make sure that you understand the story.
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Speaker 1: In the story, we have a certain man who had
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Speaker 1: his servants to sow good seed in the field. And
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Speaker 1: while they slept, and I used to preach against them
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Speaker 1: sleeping until I realized that everybody has to go to
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Speaker 1: sleep sometimes. It is impossible for you to stay up
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Speaker 1: around the clock. The enemy comes in while they are
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Speaker 1: asleep and plants the weeds or the tear while they're sleeping.
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Speaker 1: In the story, they don't wake up the next morning
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Speaker 1: and know the enemy has been there. Because the enemy
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Speaker 1: has planted it in such a way that when they
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Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, they do not notice. change
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Speaker 1: notice the timing it was not the next day but
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Speaker 1: while they did not notice it the evil or weeds
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Speaker 1: were sown in the wheat anybody who understood don't let
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Speaker 1: me get ahead of myself Anybody who understands this understands
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Speaker 1: that there are important truths to be learned. Lesson number one,
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Speaker 1: it is naive to think that the planting of good
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Speaker 1: exempts us from the presence of bad. It is naive
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Speaker 1: to think that the planting of good exempts us from
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Speaker 1: the presence of bad. This is important for us to understand.
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Speaker 1: Just because God allows wheat to be planted doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: that weeds are restricted. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: The kingdom is like this. The kingdom is like this.
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Speaker 1: So we have to be able to produce in the
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Speaker 1: presence of weeds. So for all of you who are
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Speaker 1: waiting for all the weeds to be gone before you
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Speaker 1: produce the wheat, you are not digging deep enough into
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Speaker 1: this text because this text declares there will never be
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Speaker 1: a day that you can be wheatful without being weedful.
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Speaker 1: God allows the wheat to be planted. That doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: that the weeds are restricted. Wheat is planted with great intentionality.
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Speaker 1: Wheat is planted with great intentionality. In other words, wheat
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Speaker 1: is not going to grow in this ground if it
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Speaker 1: is not planted. It is not a natural result of
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Speaker 1: the climate, the soil, the rain, and the sunshine. It
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Speaker 1: has to be planted. Nobody succeeds accidentally. Nobody wins a
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Speaker 1: marathon accidentally. Nobody wins the Olympics accidentally. Nobody gets a
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Speaker 1: master's degree accidentally. Nobody gets a diploma accidentally. Nobody passes
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Speaker 1: a GED accidentally. Nobody gets a promotion accidentally. Just because
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Speaker 1: you pray doesn't mean you win. This is work. This
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Speaker 1: is sweat. This is labor. Because this is agriculture. And
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Speaker 1: agriculture means that the intention of sowing the seed is
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Speaker 1: that I might have wheat. And the intention of having
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Speaker 1: wheat is that I might have bread. From seed to
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Speaker 1: wheat to bread. is going to take. I can't plant
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Speaker 1: seed today and eat bread tonight. Because timing is. So
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Speaker 1: if I am going to be seedful, I have to
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Speaker 1: be patient for the seed to grow first down and
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Speaker 1: then up. You didn't get that. It's gonna first grow down,
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Speaker 1: and then up. Some of you are standing over your
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Speaker 1: life talking about, I don't see nothing. I don't see nothing.
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Speaker 1: I keep sowing and I don't see nothing. The seed
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Speaker 1: grows down before it grows up. You're not supposed to
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Speaker 1: see it, but just because you don't see it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that the roots are not growing in the soil.
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Speaker 1: And if you wait a little while, it is going
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Speaker 1: to go from seed to wheat and from wheat to bread.
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Speaker 1: And there is work in between every stage. The seed
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Speaker 1: is work. The weed is work. The bread is work.
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Speaker 1: You cannot eat any better than you work. No, somebody
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Speaker 1: said your blessing is going to be work. When you
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Speaker 1: get through dancing and shouting about the promise of God,
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Speaker 1: understand that you're going to have to break some sweat.
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Speaker 1: You're going to have to put some effort in it.
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Speaker 1: You're going to have to grind the wheat. You're going
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Speaker 1: to have to pulverize it. You can't just bring the
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Speaker 1: wheat in and make bread until you crush it. It's
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Speaker 1: got to be crushed. It's got to be made into
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Speaker 1: a usable form. And so it doesn't mean that God
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Speaker 1: hasn't blessed you with the bread. It could mean that
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Speaker 1: you haven't put in the work To go from seed to, to,
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Speaker 1: from seed to, oh, you're listening this morning. Look at
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Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I'm going from seed to wheat
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Speaker 1: to bread. I might not be ready for consumption right now,
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Speaker 1: but I'm in process and I'm going somewhere and don't
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Speaker 1: look down at me because I'm not bread. I may
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Speaker 1: be in the wheat stage, I may be in the
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Speaker 1: seed stage, but I am on my way to a
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Speaker 1: place that God has destined for me. Who am I
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Speaker 1: talking to this morning? Whoever I'm talking to, God says,
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Speaker 1: hang on in there. I'm not finished with you yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking you through process. And at the right time,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take you from seed to. I'm still
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Speaker 1: dancing off. It's already done. It's already done. It's already done.
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Speaker 1: And it is done on purpose. I want you to
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Speaker 1: get this. The reason it is planted is because it
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Speaker 1: is not indigenous to the land. The word agriculture is
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Speaker 1: rooted in the word cult. Cult means you're not orthodox.
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Speaker 1: Means you're not natural. You're not normal. Agra means land.
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Speaker 1: That means that wheat is not normal to the land.
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Speaker 1: You can't just wish for it. You have to make
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Speaker 1: it happen. Agriculture. Culture. I'm going to make this happen.
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Speaker 1: It is not indigenous. You don't get it just because
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Speaker 1: you want it. You got to plant it. You got
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Speaker 1: to be intentional about it. You got to work on it.
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Speaker 1: You got to labor for it because you were not
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Speaker 1: raised in an environment that agrees with your dream. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't have it. It means that you've
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Speaker 1: got to be cultural enough to be a cult against
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Speaker 1: your neighbor. I'm the only one in my family. I'm
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Speaker 1: the only one in my neighborhood. I'm the only one
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Speaker 1: in my city. I'm the only one in my house.
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Speaker 1: And they don't like me at the family reunion. And
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Speaker 1: they don't invite me back to the parties. And my
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Speaker 1: friends have changed because I am cultish to them I
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Speaker 1: broke the rule, I got out.
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Speaker 2: Everybody who got out, make some noise.
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Speaker 2: Faith is a
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Speaker 2: cult to the unbeliever. It is not natural to the unbeliever.
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Speaker 2: Stop trying to make the people at work understand what
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Speaker 2: they can't understand. It is not indigenous to them for
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Speaker 2: them to believe. If the gospel be heard, it is
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Speaker 2: heard from them that are lost. They can't see it.
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Speaker 2: Can I go deeper? How many people are getting blessed
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Speaker 2: in this room? You've got to be willing to be different.
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Speaker 2: You've got to be willing to be controversial. You've got
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Speaker 2: to be willing to be talked about. And the greatest
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Speaker 2: problem in our community right now is that we are
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Speaker 2: so sensitive. We're more worried about being liked than we
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Speaker 2: are being fruitful. And you're praying to God about what
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Speaker 2: they said, and she said, and he said, and God said,
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Speaker 2: unless you deny mother, father, sister, brother, and even deny yourself,
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Speaker 2: you cannot be my disciple. What they say about you
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Weeds don't like wheat. Get it to your head,
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Speaker 2: weeds don't like wheat. You got to decide, do you
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Speaker 2: want to be wheat or do you want to be weeds?
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Speaker 2: Lesson number two. My God.
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Speaker 1: Nudge your neighbor and say, you came on the right Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I can feel it right now, something is going to
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Speaker 1: happen in here today. Something is going to happen in
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Speaker 1: here today. Something is going to happen in here today.
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Speaker 1: Something is going to happen in here today. I feel
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Speaker 1: it in my spirit. I feel it in my soul.
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Speaker 1: God is about to do something. In the middle of
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Speaker 1: his people. He's forcing some things to happen. He's being intentional.
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Speaker 1: He's planting some things intentionally. Somebody shout yes. Yes. Lesson
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Speaker 1: number two. This is a good lesson. Whenever there is
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Speaker 1: great potential for harvest, the enemy will always earmark the
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Speaker 1: spot with calamity. Whenever there is great potential for harvest,
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Speaker 1: the enemy will earmark the spot with calamity. Somebody was
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Speaker 1: telling me about a restaurant that they like up in
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Speaker 1: North Dallas and I was getting my head shaved at
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Speaker 1: the time and I said, let me find it in
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Speaker 1: my phone. So I got in my phone and found
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Speaker 1: it in my phone and then I earmarked it as
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Speaker 1: a favorite. I haven't been there yet, but I earmarked
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Speaker 1: it as a favorite so I could find it easily.
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Speaker 1: I haven't been yet, but I heard there was potential.
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Speaker 1: So I earmarked it so I could find it when
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Speaker 1: I had. So wherever the enemy sees potential, he will
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Speaker 1: always earmark it with calamity. So they never planted weeds
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Speaker 1: before the wheat. Notice the sequence. It was the wheat
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Speaker 1: being planted that caused them to plant the weed. They
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Speaker 1: didn't plant the weed and then plant the wheat. The
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Speaker 1: wheat attracts the weed so that the enemy can earmark
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Speaker 1: the spot The devil knew God was gonna bless you.
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Speaker 1: Hell knew God was going to use you. Hell knew
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Speaker 1: that God had a purpose for your life. He earmarked
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Speaker 1: it with calamity. Notice this, the tare, the wheat, the
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Speaker 1: weeds rather, was planted too. planted like spies behind enemy lines.
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Speaker 1: Whatever went wrong in your life, whatever calamities happened in
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Speaker 1: your life, whatever calamities that happened in your past, whatever
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Speaker 1: trauma you went through in your life, in your childhood,
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Speaker 1: was the enemy's way of earmarking the spot. He knew
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Speaker 1: it wasn't time yet. But he started working underground before
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Speaker 1: you ever came up so that he would have his
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Speaker 1: system in place before you became fruitful. He would already
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Speaker 1: have his infrastructure in place so you would have something
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Speaker 1: to struggle with. Struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle.
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Speaker 1: Where are my strugglers at? My strugglers, why are things
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Speaker 1: so hard for me? Why do I take two steps
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Speaker 1: forward and get knocked three steps back? Why is it
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Speaker 1: hard for me to do things that other people do easily?
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Speaker 1: It's because he earmarked you. Why am I so doubtful?
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Speaker 1: Why am I so insecure? Why am I so needy?
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Speaker 1: Why am I so petty? He earmarked you. So while
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Speaker 1: men slept, the enemy came and planted the weeds. Also,
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Speaker 1: wherever there was wheat, there would be weeds with intentionality too.
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Speaker 1: He meant for you to be abused. I hate to
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Speaker 1: tell you this. He meant for you to be molested.
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Speaker 1: He meant for your father to hate you. He meant
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Speaker 1: for your mother to give you to your grandmother. He
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Speaker 1: had to start the infrastructure early Because once you became fruitful,
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Speaker 1: it would be too late to do anything to you.
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Speaker 1: He had to start it early in your life so
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Speaker 1: you would be broken in all the right places. You're
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Speaker 1: not just fighting a demon, you're fighting a system. You're
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Speaker 1: fighting a system. You're fighting a system that has been
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Speaker 1: launched against you. But the only reason it's been launched
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Speaker 1: is because you are weak. The enemy seeks to corrupt
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Speaker 1: the environment where God has seed in the ground. The
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Speaker 1: saboteur is still slithering in the garden. In the text,
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Speaker 1: he is true to the law of first mention. When
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Speaker 1: we first meet him in Genesis, he is slithering in
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Speaker 1: the garden. He is still slithering in the garden. wherever
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Speaker 1: God is planting something Satan will always be slithering in
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Speaker 1: the garden somebody shout I have been planted that means
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Speaker 1: that Satan has been slithering in We will always find
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Speaker 1: him slithering in the garden. The saboteur, the snake, is
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Speaker 1: stealthy and cunning. He waits till they're asleep because he
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Speaker 1: knows that if he would have come while they were awake,
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Speaker 1: they would have driven them away. So while men sleep,
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Speaker 1: He slithers. He waited till nobody was looking. He waited
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Speaker 1: till nobody was at home. He waited till you were
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Speaker 1: in a place of vulnerability. He waited till you were
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Speaker 1: in a place of desperation. He waited until your rent
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Speaker 1: was backed up. He waited till you were in a crisis.
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Speaker 1: He waited till you were a child. He waited till
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Speaker 1: you were in a jam. He waited until you went
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Speaker 1: to summer camp. He waited until you went to the
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Speaker 1: boys' school. He waited. He waited because the enemy understands
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Speaker 1: that So while men slept, he came, planting in the dark,
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Speaker 1: sowing in the soil. I don't get to see him
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Speaker 1: planted and I don't get to see what he planted.
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Speaker 1: He is covered by the darkness of night and his
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Speaker 1: craftiness is hidden under the soil. when they wake up
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Speaker 1: that morning, they see no difference. How many of you
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Speaker 1: have gone through something and nobody saw no difference? Here
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Speaker 1: comes my rooting system. When the men woke up that morning,
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Speaker 1: they didn't know when they were watering the wheat, They
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Speaker 1: were watering the weeds. And the infrastructure has now become
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Speaker 1: a system underground before the wheat comes up, before the wedding,
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Speaker 1: before the degrees. before the call to ministry. The system,
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Speaker 1: you're fighting a system. You're fighting a system. You're not
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Speaker 1: fighting a devil, you're fighting a system. All I could
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Speaker 1: see for days and days and days were these tangled
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Speaker 1: up roots. You are fighting an infrastructure. The kingdom of
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Speaker 1: heaven is like. Listen to what Jesus is saying. The
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Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is like. The war is underground. The
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Speaker 1: war is underground. The tangle is underground. You're trying to
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Speaker 1: fight on top of the soil. But the system is underground. Underground.
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Speaker 1: You're trying to fight in the flesh, but the system
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Speaker 1: is in the spirit. It's in the spirit world. It's
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Speaker 1: in the spirit world. It's in the spirit world. Somebody
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Speaker 1: say it's in the spirit world. So the enemy has
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Speaker 1: brought me to lesson number three. Lesson number three, get this,
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Speaker 1: corruption and destruction are two different things. Corruption and destruction
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Speaker 1: are two different things. He could not destroy the wheat.
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Speaker 1: So all he could do was corrupt the environment in
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Speaker 1: which the wheat was coming. Oh God. He couldn't stop
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Speaker 1: it from coming up. He just wanted to make it
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Speaker 1: hard for you. Type it on the line, he can't
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Speaker 1: kill this. He cannot kill my destiny. He cannot kill
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Speaker 1: my future. He cannot kill what God has for me.
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Speaker 1: He cannot kill what God has ordered. He cannot kill
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Speaker 1: what God has ordained. He cannot curse. Let me go deeper.
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Speaker 1: He cannot curse what God has blessed. If I was
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Speaker 1: blessed in my root, I'm going to be blessed in
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Speaker 1: my fruit. You cannot curse what God has blessed. Are
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Speaker 1: there any blessed people in the house? The witch cannot
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Speaker 1: curse you. Hell cannot curse you. The demons cannot curse you.
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Speaker 1: Your trials cannot curse you. What they say about you
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Speaker 1: cannot curse you. Why they taunt you cannot curse you.
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Speaker 1: How they make fun of you cannot curse you. Nudge
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Speaker 1: seven people and tell them I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed underground. I'm blessed underground. You may
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Speaker 1: not be able to see what the Lord has done
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Speaker 1: for me, but I'm blessed underground. If I'm blessed underground,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be blessed when I come up. I'm
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Speaker 1: blessed in my uprising. I'm blessed in my down setting.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed in season. I'm blessed out of season. I'm
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Speaker 1: just blessed. Haters get used to it. I'm just blessed.
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Speaker 1: I was blessed before you saw it. I was blessed
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Speaker 1: before I saw it. Before I was formed in my
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Speaker 1: mama's belly, I was already blessed. I was blessed before
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Speaker 1: I was a twinkle in my daddy's eye. I was
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Speaker 1: blessed before my mother missed her cycle. I was blessed
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Speaker 1: before she finished her first trimester. I was blessed before
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Speaker 1: I peeked my head out of her womb. I was
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Speaker 1: already blessed before I was baptized. I was blessed. Before
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Speaker 1: I was converted, I was already blessed. In fact, the
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Speaker 1: reason I got converted is because I was already blessed.
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Speaker 1: It is not that I've chosen God, but that God
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Speaker 1: has chosen me. I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm blessed,
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed.
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Speaker 1: Give me my next slide. I'm going to keep going.
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Speaker 1: How many blessed people do I have in here? How
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Speaker 1: many blessed people do I have? How many blessed people
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Speaker 1: do I have? How many blessed people do I have?
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Speaker 1: So since corruption and destruction are not the same thing,
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Speaker 1: and he couldn't destroy my blessings, He wanted to corrupt
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Speaker 1: my environment. I just answered a question that somebody's been
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Speaker 1: praying about. You've been asking God, why did things go
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Speaker 1: down like they went down? They only went down like
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Speaker 1: that because the hell knew you were already blessed. And
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Speaker 1: the only thing he could do was corrupt your environment.
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Speaker 1: He was working underground. He was working in the root system.
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Speaker 1: He was working before you ever saw who you were.
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Speaker 1: He was working before you recognized that there was a
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Speaker 1: call on your life. He was working before you became fruitful.
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Speaker 1: He was working before you got a title. He was
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Speaker 1: working before men recognized you. He was working before you
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Speaker 1: became a deacon. He was working before you came to
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. But the devil already knew because the devil
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Speaker 1: believes in seeds more than the Saints do if the
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Speaker 1: Saints believed in seeds offerings would be no trouble but
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Speaker 1: what we're trying to convince you of the kingdom already
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Speaker 1: understands that you cannot reap what you do not sow
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Speaker 1: If you sow sparingly, you shall reap sparingly. You shall
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Speaker 1: know the tree by the fruited beds. If you don't
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Speaker 1: put nothing in, you don't get nothing out. Who am
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Speaker 1: I talking to today? Don't let the children of this
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Speaker 1: world be wiser than the children of light. You've got
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Speaker 1: to understand that while the earth remaineth, there will always
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Speaker 1: be Seed time and harvest. Everything comes by seed. Grass
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Speaker 1: grows by seed. Apples come by seed. Watermelon comes by seed.
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Speaker 1: You came by seed. Jesus is the seed of Abraham.
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Speaker 1: Even God understands seed. Everything comes by seed. So Satan
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Speaker 1: knew if he was going to enter your area, he
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Speaker 1: had to plant seeds. He knew what you doubt. You're
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Speaker 1: still trying to have success without sacrifice. The roots that
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Speaker 1: I saw The twisting of the roots is all the
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Speaker 1: infrastructure of what the kingdom of heaven is like. Watch this.
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Speaker 1: The men didn't even know that the weeds were there
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Speaker 1: until the wheat sprung up. The weeds came up also.
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Speaker 1: And the men come to the master and say, from
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Speaker 1: whence cometh these weeds? Where did this come from? Where
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Speaker 1: did this come from? Where did this come from? Why
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Speaker 1: am I like this? Why is it so hard for
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Speaker 1: me to get certain things through my head? Why can
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Speaker 1: I not shut my mouth? Why am I so abrasive?
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Speaker 1: You've been thinking that something was wrong with them. I
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Speaker 1: just misunderstood. No, you mean. They didn't misunderstand you. They
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Speaker 1: don't misunderstand nothing else you do. Unless a girl at
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Speaker 1: the grocery store can't understand you. The guy at the
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Speaker 1: ticket counter when you're getting a ticket can't understand you.
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Speaker 1: They didn't misunderstand you. They triggered you. And they triggered
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Speaker 1: you because a system was laid in place. We know
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Speaker 1: what the system is. We know who planted it. The
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Speaker 1: question remains in the text. Why did he plant it?
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Speaker 1: And this is an important question. If you don't understand
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Speaker 1: why he planted it, you can't figure out how to
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Speaker 1: overcome it. My first thought was maybe the weeds will
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Speaker 1: kill the wheat. But the truth of the matter is,
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Speaker 1: the wheat and the weed can grow up right beside
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Speaker 1: each other. And if it was wheat when it went
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Speaker 1: in the ground, it'll be wheat when it comes out
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Speaker 1: of the ground. If it was a weed when it
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Speaker 1: went in the ground, it'll be a weed when it
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Speaker 1: comes out of the ground. So if the weeds didn't
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Speaker 1: kill the wheat, why did he plant it? Again, the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is lacked. The kingdom of heaven is lacked.
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Speaker 1: Are y'all tired? Should I quit? Why did he plant it?
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Speaker 1: I can't figure it out. Why did he plant it?
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Speaker 1: If he couldn't curse what God has blessed, if he
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Speaker 1: couldn't change the molecular structure of what he planted in me,
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Speaker 1: if he couldn't change my wheat to weed, why did
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Speaker 1: he go out at night and slither and put the
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Speaker 1: weed beside the wheat? The temptation is not in the
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Speaker 1: substance of the wheat and the weed, but the decision
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Speaker 1: of how you handle it. Come on, come on, come on,
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Speaker 1: come on. Don't leave me now because if you leave
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Speaker 1: me now, you're gonna miss the whole thing. The whole
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Speaker 1: mystery is in the question when they asked him, from
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Speaker 1: whence cometh this? The master said, an enemy hath done this.
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Speaker 1: They said, should we go? Here it is, and pull
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Speaker 1: up the weeds. And he said, no, leave it alone. See,
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Speaker 1: the master knew that there was a system underground that
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Speaker 1: even if you pull only the weeds, there was such
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Speaker 1: a tangling in the roots that he said, if you
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Speaker 1: pull up the weeds, you will kill the wheat. Now
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Speaker 1: I see what the devil is trying to get me
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Speaker 1: to do. He's trying to get me to take matters
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Speaker 1: into my own hands and try to solve the problem.
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Speaker 1: But the Holy Ghost told me to tell you, leave
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Speaker 1: it alone. I don't know who I'm talking to. I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what this means to you. God said
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Speaker 1: you're uncomfortable, but leave it alone. You're frustrated, but leave
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Speaker 1: it alone. You're aggravated, but leave it alone. You're afraid.
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Speaker 1: but leave it alone. You're tired of it, but leave
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Speaker 1: it alone. That's the setup. The devil wants you to
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Speaker 1: do something. God said you gotta have enough faith to
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Speaker 1: leave it alone. Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise. No,
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Speaker 1: I said crazy praise. I said crazy praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I'm already wet now, I might as well get soaked. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the power of doing nothing. The power
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Speaker 1: of doing nothing. It takes more faith to do nothing
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Speaker 1: than it does to do something. The enemy can't curse you,
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Speaker 1: but he's trying to use you to curse yourself. Be
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Speaker 1: still and know that I am God. If I said
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Speaker 1: it's wheat, it will be wheat. If I said you're blessed,
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Speaker 1: you will be blessed. Stand still and see the salvation
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. The enemies that you see today Somebody
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Speaker 1: better grab my coattail, because I feel like preaching up
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Speaker 1: a fire in this place. Leave it alone. Don't do nothing.
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Speaker 1: Stand still. Hold your peace. The battle is not yours.
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Speaker 1: It belongs to God. Somebody shout in this house. I
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Speaker 1: just understood the trick. It's a booby trap. If you
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Speaker 1: try to get out of it, you're going to kill
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Speaker 1: your destiny. Be still. The devil can't curse you. He's
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Speaker 1: trying to trick you into cursing yourself. So he built
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Speaker 1: an infrastructure underground so that when you grab the weed,
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Speaker 1: you'll pull up the wheat. Watch. Watch. So the master says,
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Speaker 1: lesson four. Let me give you this. I'm almost out.
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Speaker 1: You got one more after this, I'm done. I want
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Speaker 1: you to get this. The wisdom of waiting is the
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Speaker 1: opiate of faith. The wisdom of waiting is the opiate
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Speaker 1: of faith. Especially since time is so expensive to spend.
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Speaker 1: The trick is to wait it out. The master says
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Speaker 1: leave it alone lest while trying to fix it you
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Speaker 1: make it worse. It's a setup. Weed cannot change wheat.
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Speaker 1: So why did he plant it? to trick you into
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Speaker 1: this impatience where you feel like you're running out of
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Speaker 1: time and you got to do something now. Your faith
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Speaker 1: is expressed through your silence. This is not your battle.
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Speaker 1: The wisdom of waiting is the opiate of faith. The
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Speaker 1: most expensive seed you can plant is time. If you're
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Speaker 1: so money, you're going to get some more money. But
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Speaker 1: if you plant time, you'll never have it again. And
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Speaker 1: the enemy has plagued you with a spirit of urgency
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Speaker 1: that makes you want to take matters into your own hands.
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Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
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Speaker 1: They shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall
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Speaker 1: run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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Speaker 1: Somebody holler, wait. Somebody holler, wait. Somebody holler, wait. Be still.
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Speaker 1: He says, leave it alone. It's not that you're wrong,
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Speaker 1: it's that the timing isn't right. If you pull it
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Speaker 1: before the wheat is harvested, we will lose the whole
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Speaker 1: harvest through the seduction of your frustration with the wheat.
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Speaker 1: He said, I feel prophetic. Am I prophesying to somebody?
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Speaker 1: If I'm prophesying to you, shout unto God. If you're online, say,
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Speaker 1: he's prophesying to me. Write it online, he's prophesying to me.
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Speaker 1: He's prophesying to me. He's telling me how to handle it.
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Speaker 1: He's foretelling how to deal with this situation, because I'm frustrated,
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Speaker 1: and I'm tired, and I'm aggravated, and I don't understand
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Speaker 1: what I'm fighting, and I don't know how it got started,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know where it came from, And I
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Speaker 1: don't understand why it's like this. And I got two
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Speaker 1: conflicting things operating at the same time. And the enemy
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Speaker 1: is trying to make me make a decision. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know what decision to make. God said don't make
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Speaker 1: any decision. Just stand still. You're not wrong. It's not time.
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Speaker 1: The next verse says that if you just wait it out,
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Speaker 1: the harvest cannot be rushed. This is lesson number five.
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Speaker 1: The harvest cannot be rushed by the need or even
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Speaker 1: the angst of the planter, but it will come. It
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Speaker 1: is inevitable. God says, don't pull it before the harvest.
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Speaker 1: I gotta quit. He says, what is not lawful before
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Speaker 1: the harvest is lawful in the time of harvest. Watch
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Speaker 1: the wisdom. If you pull it before the harvest, you're
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Speaker 1: going to kill your destiny. But in the time of
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Speaker 1: harvest where you have nothing to lose, the wheat coming
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Speaker 1: up with the weeds won't matter. Because you've already brought
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Speaker 1: forth fruit. So he says, the harvest cannot be rushed
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Speaker 1: by the need or the angst of the planter. But
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Speaker 1: it will come. It will come. Somebody shout, it will come.
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Speaker 1: It is inevitable. You are going to come into a
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Speaker 1: harvest season. And what you couldn't deal with in this season,
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Speaker 1: you will be able to deal with in the next
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Speaker 1: season without damage to your harvest. He says, when the
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Speaker 1: harvest comes up, pull the wheat, gather it into bundles,
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Speaker 1: and burn it. Because the tear that's laying over there
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Speaker 1: that you uprooted when you yanked the system, it's already harvested.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to close. I really want to close it
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Speaker 1: another way. But I'm out of time. The Lord told
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Speaker 1: me to tell you. that you're coming into your harvest season.
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Speaker 1: You're coming into your harvest season, and the reason you're
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Speaker 1: so frustrated And the weeds seem so intolerable. Weeds that
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Speaker 1: you've been tolerating for years are driving you crazy in
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Speaker 1: this season. Weeds that you ignored in your past are
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Speaker 1: driving you crazy at this moment. It's because you're closer
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Speaker 1: to your harvest than you have ever been before. Somebody
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Speaker 1: in this room that's been waiting on a harvest a
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Speaker 1: long time, you ought to give God a harvest praise.
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Speaker 1: The Lord meant for the choir to sing. It's already done.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even know what I was going to preach.
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Speaker 1: But the Holy Ghost says your harvest is already done.
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Speaker 1: This is no time to panic. This is no time
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Speaker 1: to get frustrated. This is no time to give up.
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Speaker 1: This is no time to give out. You're about to
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Speaker 1: come into your harvest. Whoever I'm preaching to for the
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Speaker 1: next three minutes To let hell know that you heard
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Speaker 1: from God. I want you to give God. I dare you.
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Speaker 1: I dare you to praise him. I dare you to
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Speaker 1: praise him. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You don't
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Speaker 1: get it yet. The principle of the Bible God says
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Speaker 1: that if you sow in tears, you're going to reap
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Speaker 1: in joy. And there's no way to reap your harvest
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Speaker 1: as long as you're frustrated. That's why the devil is
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Speaker 1: trying to get on your nerves. Because you can't reap
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Speaker 1: with sorrow. You sow in tears. You reap with joy.
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Speaker 1: I dare you to get your... Joy back. Smash your joy.
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Speaker 1: Get your joy back. You're going in the harvest. He
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Speaker 1: that goeth forth a-weeping shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
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Speaker 1: bringing in the sheaves for the next three minutes. Everybody,
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Speaker 1: everybody who's anybody that's expecting a harvest, I want joy
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Speaker 1: to get it out and take over this town.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: Everybody who ain't praising God, you ain't got nothing to
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Speaker 1: harvest with. Until you get your joy, you can't bring
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Speaker 1: in your harvest with joy. We draw waters from the
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Speaker 1: well of salvation. Is this all the.
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Speaker 3: Harvesters I got?
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Speaker 1: I don't have a six or a seven. I don't
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Speaker 1: have a seven harvesters out of this whole church. I
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Speaker 1: don't have a ten harvesters. I dare you. I dare you.
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Speaker 3: It's already done. It's already done. It's already done. It's
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Speaker 3: already done. What do you say about it? It's already done.
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Speaker 3: It's already done.
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Speaker 1: It's already done. It's already done. It's already done. It's
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Speaker 1: already done.
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Speaker 3: It's already done. It's already done.
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Speaker 1: Give him a praise in this house! I remember on
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Speaker 1: this 26th anniversary, I want you to understand that when
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Speaker 1: I told you to praise him for your harvest, you
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Speaker 1: are dancing in one of mine. We sowed in tears.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: Everything happened to us in these 26 years. Everything happened.
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Speaker 1: Lost your mama. Lost my mama. Died of Alzheimer's in
1:27:19
Speaker 1: our arms. Sickness, struggle, attacks. where God wouldn't let me
1:27:30
Speaker 1: defend myself. He told me to shut up, don't say nothing.
1:27:38
Speaker 1: The hardest thing I ever did in my life was
1:27:43
Speaker 1: to not fight back. I didn't understand that my silence
1:27:48
Speaker 1: was spiritual warfare. We dug a hole and had money
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Speaker 1: and good credit and no lender in this city would
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Speaker 1: give us the money, the 86 or so million dollars
1:28:11
Speaker 1: we needed to build this building. I had never needed
1:28:14
Speaker 1: 86 million dollars in my life. You talking about scared?
1:28:26
Speaker 1: When those weeds started growing up in this hole that
1:28:30
Speaker 1: we had dug till we ran out of money. And
1:28:35
Speaker 1: I was leading people and telling them what God could do.
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't happening and God said you just keep
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Speaker 1: on preaching it is not your job to do anything
1:29:00
Speaker 1: But what I call you to do, and you have
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Speaker 1: come into another system in this city, there is a
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Speaker 1: demonic influence over this region that wants to subjugate certain
1:29:17
Speaker 1: people to certain things, and when you stick your head up,
1:29:21
Speaker 1: they try to crush you. Speak to me, yes sir.
1:29:30
Speaker 1: The very fact that we are in this building, tore
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Speaker 1: down the old building, built a brand new structure in
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Speaker 1: that building, bought 400 acres of land across the street,
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Speaker 1: put schools and houses on it. Before we got to
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Speaker 1: do that, we crawled, we cried, we suffered, We couldn't sleep,
1:30:02
Speaker 1: we couldn't rest, but timing is everything.
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Speaker 2: 26 years later.
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Speaker 1: Remember Katrina? Remember what we went through? Remember the storms
1:30:40
Speaker 1: that rose? Remember how we were feeding people and they
1:30:44
Speaker 1: were talking about me like a dog? Remember when I
1:30:49
Speaker 1: came here how the preachers were preaching against me on
1:30:51
Speaker 1: the radio and television and I would drive to church
1:30:55
Speaker 1: listening at them cursing my ministry? if anybody has a
1:31:01
Speaker 1: right to preach this message. Timing is everything. I can
1:31:19
Speaker 1: do some things now that I could never have done
1:31:22
Speaker 1: then because it is the time of harvest. If you
1:31:29
Speaker 1: move out of time, prodigal son, you will get what
1:31:35
Speaker 1: was yours too soon and lose it all. It's yours,
1:31:42
Speaker 1: but it's not time. You're right when you say it's yours,
1:31:51
Speaker 1: but timing is everything. How many people heard God talking
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Speaker 1: to you this morning? Type on the line if you
1:32:03
Speaker 1: heard God. Type it on the line if you heard God.
1:32:06
Speaker 1: Hold your hand up real high if you heard God.
1:32:25
Speaker 1: We never teach you about the faith of being still.
1:32:31
Speaker 1: There are certain attacks that come against you in the
1:32:35
Speaker 1: kingdom that That the smartest thing to do is nothing.
1:32:43
Speaker 1: Because it's not time yet. Timing is everything. In a moment,
1:32:54
Speaker 1: I'm going to challenge you. Just a little simple challenge.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to make it high. I don't want
1:32:58
Speaker 1: to make it big. I don't want to make it tall.
1:33:00
Speaker 1: Just $ 26. Don't get it yet. Don't move for it.
1:33:03
Speaker 1: Don't go for it. I want to pray. But I
1:33:07
Speaker 1: want everybody online, everybody online, everybody who heard God speak
1:33:12
Speaker 1: to you in a very personal, profound, prophetic way, everybody
1:33:16
Speaker 1: in this building, 26,000, I want you to sow into
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Speaker 1: this harvest, this present moment. Don't get it yet. Don't
1:33:28
Speaker 1: get it yet. I'm going to pray for your patience.
1:33:40
Speaker 1: I am going to pray that you would have the
1:33:44
Speaker 1: courage to wait when the urgency you feel inside has
1:33:50
Speaker 1: got you on a 10. I gotta do something. I
1:33:53
Speaker 1: gotta do it. I gotta do it right now. I
1:33:55
Speaker 1: gotta move. I gotta make a move. It's a setup.
1:34:01
Speaker 1: If the weeds wouldn't kill the wheat, then the answer
1:34:05
Speaker 1: to the text has got to be that he was
1:34:09
Speaker 1: trying to tempt them to uproot the wheat too soon.
1:34:16
Speaker 1: While you're aiming at the wheat, while you're aiming at
1:34:19
Speaker 1: the weeds, the devil is after your wheat. You have
1:34:23
Speaker 1: come too far to lose your wheat. You have been
1:34:28
Speaker 1: through too much to lose your wheat. You have gone
1:34:33
Speaker 1: through hell. Why get here and abort the mission You
1:34:43
Speaker 1: need to understand that the enemy can't curse you, but
1:34:51
Speaker 1: you can curse yourself. Your mouth can curse you. Your
1:34:58
Speaker 1: temper can curse you. Your tongue can curse you. Your
1:35:03
Speaker 1: anger and your frustration can curse what God has blessed.
1:35:08
Speaker 1: And the enemy knew the strongest weapon he had against
1:35:11
Speaker 1: the purpose of God was the people of God. In
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Speaker 1: the time of harvest. If we are not in the
1:35:24
Speaker 1: time of harvest right now, it ain't coming. If the
1:35:29
Speaker 1: harvest of the earth is not ripe, if we're not
1:35:32
Speaker 1: living in the last day, I don't know what the
1:35:34
Speaker 1: last day is. If this, if you can't pick up
1:35:37
Speaker 1: your Bible and your newspaper and can't tell which one
1:35:41
Speaker 1: you read, we are living in the final moments of history.
1:35:46
Speaker 1: If God be God. Where all kinds of plagues. Before
1:35:51
Speaker 1: you can get over one, here comes another one. And
1:35:53
Speaker 1: here comes another one. And here comes another one. And
1:35:55
Speaker 1: the Bible always said it. But when I was studying it,
1:35:59
Speaker 1: we weren't seeing it. We were studying it, but we
1:36:02
Speaker 1: were not seeing all manner of diseases. No cures. No solutions.
1:36:08
Speaker 1: Coming up, before you can get rid of one, here
1:36:10
Speaker 1: comes another one. They got so many COVIDs out, so
1:36:13
Speaker 1: many monkey diseases. We got birds flu, we got all kinds,
1:36:17
Speaker 1: we're running out of animals. And still you're here. How
1:36:36
Speaker 1: dare you be frustrated and breathe you're still here. There
1:36:50
Speaker 1: are mass graves and you are still here. If you
1:36:58
Speaker 1: can't find no joy, if you don't believe in God now,
1:37:03
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna never believe. Some of you he kept
1:37:10
Speaker 1: from COVID. Some of you he delivered through COVID. You
1:37:16
Speaker 1: are walking, talking, testimony, that nothing the enemy did to
1:37:23
Speaker 1: destroy you stopped you from being here today. You ought
1:37:27
Speaker 1: to be more grateful. You ought to be more faithful.
1:37:31
Speaker 1: You ought to have more praise. You ought to have
1:37:34
Speaker 1: more discipline. You ought to have more structure. You ought
1:37:38
Speaker 1: to be grateful. More grateful, more grateful, more grateful. You're
1:37:43
Speaker 1: not on a respirator, more grateful. If you weren't about
1:37:57
Speaker 1: to come into harvest, all hell wouldn't be breaking against you.
1:38:03
Speaker 1: The system wouldn't be leveled against you. Look what's happening
1:38:07
Speaker 1: to the systems in our country. Look at them crumbling
1:38:11
Speaker 1: and falling and fighting and going apart. We are rushing.
1:38:17
Speaker 1: You remember if you've been in this church a while,
1:38:19
Speaker 1: I told you all a few years ago, I feel
1:38:21
Speaker 1: like we're rushing towards something. I don't know what it is.
1:38:24
Speaker 1: Do you remember me telling you? I said, I feel
1:38:26
Speaker 1: like we're rushing at something. It's like everything is sped
1:38:29
Speaker 1: up and we're moving towards something. I can't see what
1:38:31
Speaker 1: it is, but we were rushing towards something. When COVID
1:38:35
Speaker 1: broke and we crashed globally, we hit something that the
1:38:43
Speaker 1: world had never seen before. I told my church two
1:38:47
Speaker 1: years before everything is speeding up and we're heading towards
1:38:51
Speaker 1: something and we're going to hit it. I don't know
1:38:53
Speaker 1: what it is, but I can feel it and I
1:38:55
Speaker 1: can feel it coming. These are the last days. Timing
1:39:06
Speaker 1: is everything. The Bible said he would fool the very
1:39:12
Speaker 1: elective possible. He's trying to fool you into making stupid decisions.
1:39:24
Speaker 1: It's a setup. It's a trap. Your patience is critical.
1:39:39
Speaker 1: Your endurance is critical. Your forbearance is necessary. You must
1:39:49
Speaker 1: trust him to finish what he started. He that hath
1:39:56
Speaker 1: began a good work in you shall perform it unto
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Speaker 1: the day of Jesus Christ. Every person who needs patience,
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Speaker 1: the Bible said run with patience the race that is
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Speaker 1: set before you. What an oxymoron. How can I run
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Speaker 1: and be patient? Those are two different feelings. God said
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Speaker 1: you got to keep your rhythm and calm your spirit.
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Speaker 1: You got to run with patience. You got to run
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Speaker 1: with patience. You got to keep your breathing steady and
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Speaker 1: your legs going fast. Run with patience. The race that
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Speaker 1: is set before you. Lift your hands if you need
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Speaker 1: that patience. Timing is everything. You are not forgotten. You
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Speaker 1: are not forsaken. You have not been left behind I
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Speaker 1: know it's scary to be surrounded by weeds, but no
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Speaker 1: weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper. You
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Speaker 1: must believe that it's still going to happen. That it's
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Speaker 1: not too late. That you're not in too deep. That
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Speaker 1: God has not forgotten you. Be still and trust him
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Speaker 1: right now. We are in a dangerous place. Our frustrations
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Speaker 1: and our moves and our feelings cannot be trusted. The
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Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is lacking. I know there's an eschatological
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Speaker 1: understanding of this text that Jesus exegetes in another chapter.
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Speaker 1: I know all of that. I understand all of that.
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Speaker 1: But what the Holy Spirit gave me to give you,
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Speaker 1: this text is a rhema word for your situation. Be still.
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Speaker 1: Shut your mouth. Hold your peace. Praise your God. Let
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Speaker 1: the devil know that you know that if I went
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Speaker 1: in the ground, wheat, I'm coming up, wheat. And I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go from seed to wheat to bread. seed
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Speaker 1: to wheat to bread. I won't stop until I taste
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Speaker 1: the bread. I won't stop until I feed my family,
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Speaker 1: my heirs, my descendants. I will not stop until my
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Speaker 1: vision is completed in my ministry. I will not stop
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Speaker 1: until I see the hope of my calling. I will
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Speaker 1: not stop until this anointing comes to fruition. I will
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Speaker 1: not stop. I will not stop. Let the spirit of
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Speaker 1: patience come over this people. Let all bickering and murmuring cease.
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Speaker 1: And quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Quietness and
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Speaker 1: confidence shall means you're strong, not loud and boisterous and
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Speaker 1: yelling and screaming. Quiet and confidence shall be your strength.
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Speaker 1: Be still! Be still! Be still! And know that I
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Speaker 1: am God. On this 26th anniversary, of what seemed impossible.
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Speaker 1: This was the hardest baby I ever birthed. The labor
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Speaker 1: pains cost everything. Your normal is my harvest. You walked
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Speaker 1: into it, you see it as normal, I see it
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Speaker 1: as harvest. that a backwoods boy from the hills of
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Speaker 1: West Virginia born in a raggedy house on the side
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Speaker 1: of a cliff who nobody knew that God would raise
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Speaker 1: him up to this place and this moment and this
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Speaker 1: hour is a sign to this generation. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what your destiny is. I don't know what your prophecy is.
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Speaker 1: It may not be to do this or that or
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Speaker 1: the other, but God has something in store for you
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Speaker 1: or you would be buried. You are alive. Stop complaining.
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Speaker 1: You are alive. Stop murmuring. Take a deep breath, everybody. Online, everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Take a deep breath. Breathe it in. Blow it out.
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Speaker 1: Peace be unto you. Patience rest upon you. You are
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Speaker 1: closer to your harvest than you have ever been in
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Speaker 1: your life. In the time of harvest, In the time
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Speaker 1: of harvest, you can separate one thing from another, but
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Speaker 1: you cannot be tricked to aborting your promise. Speak Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: You must become a believer. Not just in action, but
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Speaker 1: in peace. Your faith must give you peace and confidence
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Speaker 1: and patience. I decree and declare that your patience would
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Speaker 1: terrify the devil. That you would see patience as a weapon.
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Speaker 1: A steel, a grit that God would birth in you
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Speaker 1: to dig in your heels and stand. That God would
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Speaker 1: make your feet as hinds feet. And you would not
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Speaker 1: be moved. On the 26th anniversary of this miracle I'm
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Speaker 1: standing in today. I decree and declare that your miracle
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Speaker 1: will come.
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Speaker 2: To pass.
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Speaker 1: Everybody who believes it and receives it, give God praise
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Speaker 1: right now. Come on. Come on. This is a simple thing.
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Speaker 1: This is a simple thing. Everybody watching, everybody online, everybody
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Speaker 1: in the building, everybody that has access can act, can sow.
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Speaker 1: can plant. $ 26 on our 26th anniversary. I want it
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Speaker 1: to be a memorial before God that I heard him
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Speaker 1: when he spoke to me. Timing is everything. I can
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Speaker 1: be right, but if the time is wrong, I can
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Speaker 1: abort the promise.