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Isaac And Ishmael; Birthing Two Extremes · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Fermi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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  Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ. Then I will cause
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  Speaker 1: your voice to be heard and all who pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to my word on your lips who not lack light
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  Speaker 1: and direction. He is a man sent from God, sent
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  Speaker 1: to raise God's end time always. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 2: You do wonders, you perform miracles. You are God all
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  Speaker 2: by yourself. Blessed be your holy name.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: You are the miracle walking God.
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  Speaker 4: We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you Father. Blessed be your holy name. In Jesus mighty
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  Speaker 4: name we are praying. Let's give Jesus a big hand.
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  Speaker 4: You may please be seated in God's presence.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, everyone.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm starting a new series today. Okay? Isaac and Ishmael,
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  Speaker 5: birthed into extremes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: And that's what we're going to be dealing with. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Bringing Bible stories to you, probably in a different light,
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  Speaker 2: to see... where we miss certain points here and there,
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to connect the dots. Okay? So Father,
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  Speaker 2: we receive insight for this conversation today. In the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus.
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  Speaker 5: That you will speak to us by yourself. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 5: mighty name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Now, let's turn our Bibles to the book of
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  Speaker 2: Genesis 1. chapter number 12, Genesis chapter number 12. We'll
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  Speaker 2: start the reading from verse 1. Genesis 12 from verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Lord had said to Abraham, get thee out
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  Speaker 2: of your country and from your kindred And from your
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  Speaker 2: father's house. Onto the land I will show you. He said.
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  Speaker 2: I will make you. And I will make you. Or
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  Speaker 2: make of you. A great nation. And I will bless you.
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  Speaker 2: And make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: And I will bless them that bless you. And curse
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  Speaker 2: them that curse you. And in you. Shall.
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  Speaker 5: All the families of the earth be what?
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  Speaker 2: Blessed. Profound. Okay? So let's break this down a bit.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, if you look at Genesis 12 from verse 1,
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  Speaker 2: did not say God said to Abraham, get thee after
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  Speaker 2: your fathers have said. The Lord hath said. Meaning that
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  Speaker 2: there's been an ongoing conversation. Okay?
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  Speaker 5: So Genesis 12, verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: Was God's way of reemphasizing the things he's been saying
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  Speaker 2: to him. It's time to get out. It's time to
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  Speaker 2: start again. One of the most difficult things for anyone
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  Speaker 2: to do is to start again.
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  Speaker 5: Okay? Because change is powerful, but change is not easy.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? And anything that will
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  Speaker 2: stand the test of time must experience change. Every level
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  Speaker 2: has its shelf period. Let me leave that. We'll come
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  Speaker 2: back there.
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  Speaker 5: Let me give you an instance. The average shelf life,
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  Speaker 5: by shelf life now I mean lifespan of any.
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  Speaker 2: Ministry, or let me use the word organization, is 25 years.
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  Speaker 2: Anything you do within that, the same thing that give
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  Speaker 2: you a greatest impact within the first 25 years will
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  Speaker 2: be the same thing that will destroy it in the
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  Speaker 2: next 25 years. What is a mystery or what is
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  Speaker 2: a working wisdom for a generation can be the destroying
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  Speaker 2: factor in the next. That's why there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a need for a change. We change for a new world.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Should I go deeper
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  Speaker 2: or should I stop there?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the curve of life, there is
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  Speaker 2: the commencement phase. Then you grow. Then you get to
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  Speaker 2: the point where you get to maturity. Okay? That's the
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  Speaker 2: peak of the things you are seeing. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: renew the process, the next and after that is declining.
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  Speaker 2: Change means to reinvent the wheel. Let me leave it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Now, pay attention. So
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  Speaker 2: God said to Abraham, get out of your father's house.
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  Speaker 2: So we are seeing that God was separating a man. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Thank God that we also have in our Bibles The
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  Speaker 2: entire story. So the question of why won't be valid
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  Speaker 2: if we take time to study. We understand that the
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  Speaker 2: reason why God separated Abraham and said, get out of
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  Speaker 2: your father's house, is because he has found a man
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  Speaker 2: from whose loins he can bring the lineage of the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible will be about a people. He has found
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  Speaker 2: a man that from whose loins that people will be bettered.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Yes, sir. So God
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  Speaker 2: took Abraham, okay, and separated Abraham. Please let me have
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  Speaker 2: an Abraham. So God separated Abraham to himself, okay? And
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  Speaker 2: then Abraham had Isaac. Please come. And then one child, Isaac, okay?
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  Speaker 2: But Isaac was not the only child. But Isaac was
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  Speaker 2: the only child God recognized. because of a mistake, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not going there yet. So Isaac gave birth to two,
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  Speaker 2: Esau and Jacob. Please come. Don't forget, this is the lineage. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: please stand here, sir. We are tracing something. This is
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  Speaker 2: the lineage. Anybody who is on this queue is carrying
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  Speaker 2: the blessing, okay? So this is Esau. He's the first child,
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  Speaker 2: the one who is qualified for the blessing, okay? Then
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  Speaker 2: this is Jacob, the second child. Usually, the second child
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  Speaker 2: is not the one to receive it. But one day,
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  Speaker 2: this one said, give me food. This one said, no,
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  Speaker 2: you give me the right to be in this queue.
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  Speaker 2: So he said, what is this queue to me? Then
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  Speaker 2: he said, okay, give me food. Then he took the food,
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  Speaker 2: he pushed him out, then came to the queue. He
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  Speaker 2: lost the right to birth continuity of the process that
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  Speaker 2: will lead to the Messiah, the salvation of the world. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So this guy was edged out. So, If we trace
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  Speaker 2: this story, what we are going to find out is
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  Speaker 2: that we keep having several guys who are hedged out
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  Speaker 2: like this. Because this is where, what's his name? Ishmael
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  Speaker 2: also is. Then you get there, you have 12. How
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  Speaker 2: should I get into this? We have 12. But the
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  Speaker 2: 12 can't receive this thing. One will receive it now.
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  Speaker 2: So God had to use one, Joseph, to preserve the remaining,
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  Speaker 2: both good and bad. Because they have a role to
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  Speaker 2: play in God's plan. Are you feeling what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: But there was one amongst them called Judah. That was
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  Speaker 2: the guy here. Okay?
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  Speaker 5: And you see on and on.
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  Speaker 2: But the end of this line is to the end
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  Speaker 2: that at the end of the day, the lineage for
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah was chiseled out. So there was nothing special
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  Speaker 2: about the nation of Israel. What was special about Israel
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  Speaker 2: was Christ. And whatsoever the specialty was then, that's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing that is special about believers who have Christ
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  Speaker 2: in them, the hope of glory. So when you read
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  Speaker 2: the Bible, if you read the Bible from an objective standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: you will almost not really like the God of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you prefer a nation above the other nation?
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  Speaker 2: It was because he was busy in the plan of
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  Speaker 2: the salvation of those other nations also.
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  Speaker 5: He loves everyone. That's the God of the Bible. Is
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  Speaker 5: this simple enough?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Now we are.
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  Speaker 2: So when God said to this man that I will
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  Speaker 2: make you a great nation, your seed will be as
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  Speaker 2: much as the stars of heaven. This man here, this
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  Speaker 2: man here, he has the ability to impregnate as many
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  Speaker 2: women as possible. But the process that God was chiseling
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  Speaker 2: is a process that will have to be by faith.
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  Speaker 5: Is it simple? Is it simple?
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  Speaker 2: Abraham was not impotent. don't ask me about Sarah but
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  Speaker 2: this man and somehow he seemed to be aware your
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  Speaker 2: waiting on God doesn't mean you could not get you
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  Speaker 2: can't get the result outside him Are you following what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? The things you are trusting God for. If
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  Speaker 2: you were not a born again Christian, you know how
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  Speaker 2: your mate are getting them. That's why waiting on him
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  Speaker 2: is one of the demonstrations that you love him.
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  Speaker 5: Please sit down for a while. We are coming back
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  Speaker 5: to this. Let's give them a big hand.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's assume somebody is there and say, Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trusting you that, you know, you are just going to,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to grow in my finance, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: become this. In all honesty, you don't need two years
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  Speaker 2: to learn how to do Yahoo. Talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: You don't need two years. Many of you are even
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  Speaker 2: smarter than those who are doing it. Now, now, now,
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  Speaker 2: you get clients. And jackpot will land. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you choose to... This is what I'm saying. You
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  Speaker 2: can't say what you are practicing is faith until you
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  Speaker 2: have an option. That's true.
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  Speaker 5: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Very true.
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  Speaker 2: You have an option. If you don't have an option,
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  Speaker 2: then you are trapped. If you have an option, then
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  Speaker 2: you are actually waiting on God. Are you following what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: Abraham had the option of other women.
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  Speaker 2: He did. Lift your right hand. Say, Lord, I choose
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  Speaker 2: to wait on you. Say it again, Lord, I choose
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  Speaker 2: to wait on you.
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  Speaker 5: I trust you with my life. I choose to trust you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 7: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Years back, a girl came to meet me. And she said, Pastor,
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  Speaker 2: I gave my life to Christ in your meeting. She said,
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  Speaker 2: my school fees deadline is next week. Let me pray
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  Speaker 2: that God should provide. She said, because if God doesn't provide,
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  Speaker 2: I know how to get my money one night.
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  Speaker 5: She was not joking. She knew how to get her money.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm trying to show you is that you are
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  Speaker 2: not a dummy because you choose to wait on God.
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  Speaker 2: You actually decided that you will forsake the pleasure of
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  Speaker 2: sin for a moment and choose righteousness.
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  Speaker 5: That's the idea of waiting. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I said amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Say it again, Lord, I choose to wait on you.
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  Speaker 2: We are going somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: So God was busy doing what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Something happened in Genesis chapter number 16. And I want
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  Speaker 2: us to be very patient with the story. If you
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  Speaker 2: are there, say amen. Genesis Chapter number 16. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read from New King James translation from verse 1. Now, Sarai,
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  Speaker 2: Abraham's wife, had borne him no children. And she had
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  Speaker 2: an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Agah. So Sarai said
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  Speaker 2: to Abraham, See now, the Lord has restrained me from
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  Speaker 2: bearing children. Please, go into my maid. Perhaps I shall
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  Speaker 2: obtain children by her. And Abraham heeded the voice of who? Sarai.
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  Speaker 2: Then Sarai, Abraham's wife, took Aga, a maid, the Egyptian,
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  Speaker 2: and gave her.
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  Speaker 5: To her husband, to be his wife.
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  Speaker 2: And after Abraham had dwelt 10 years in the land
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  Speaker 2: of Canaan, so he went into Hagar and she conceived.
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  Speaker 5: And when she saw that.
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  Speaker 2: She had conceived, her mistress became despised in her sight.
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  Speaker 2: So let's break this down a bit. Because before we
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  Speaker 2: begin to bash Ishmael, we need to understand how he
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  Speaker 2: came about. Okay? Okay? So one day Sarah looked at
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  Speaker 2: her husband and said, come and go to my maid.
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  Speaker 2: She said, because the Lord has restrained me, not us. Me.
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  Speaker 2: From having a child.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 2: Me. We don't understand why she said that. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know at this point she had passed menopause. So
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  Speaker 2: it was no longer to her according to the manner
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  Speaker 2: of So she understood that if there's any functional hope,
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  Speaker 2: it is from him.
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  Speaker 5: So she was speaking.
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  Speaker 2: What she was saying was there was a custom of
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  Speaker 2: those days.
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  Speaker 5: The custom, it was a barbaric custom.
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  Speaker 2: That if a woman does not have a child, you
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  Speaker 2: can actually give your maid to your husband. They are
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  Speaker 2: made away.
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  Speaker 5: She lives on both the maid and the children.
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  Speaker 2: Right? And when time comes to send the maid away,
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  Speaker 2: she leaves her children. Because the children are yours. So
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  Speaker 2: what she was doing was actually humiliation. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Aga was going to have that child.
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  Speaker 2: She said, look, let's go back now. Huh? Look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Go into my maid. Perhaps I shall obtain.
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  Speaker 2: I shall obtain children by her.
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  Speaker 5: Meaning that, let her just give birth.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: I own the child. You send her away. That was
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  Speaker 5: the plan.
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  Speaker 2: And the moment a girl saw that she was pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: started despising Sarah. Let's follow this story. Verse 5. Then
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  Speaker 2: Sarai said to Abraham, My wrong be upon you. I
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  Speaker 2: gave my maid into your embrace. And when she saw
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  Speaker 2: that she had conceived, I became despised in their eyes.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord judged between me and you. Man, are you
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  Speaker 2: seeing that? Are you familiar with such statements? Are you
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  Speaker 2: quite familiar?
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  Speaker 5: Who said she would go inside?
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  Speaker 2: Who they shout? When you know that your mind will
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  Speaker 2: not touch the ground, why should you say what you
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  Speaker 2: will not do?
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  Speaker 5: Are you still here?
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  Speaker 2: Am I shouting? Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Now look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Abraham, wise man, he said to, and Abraham said to Sarah, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: your maid is in your hand.
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  Speaker 5: Do to her as you please.
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  Speaker 2: And when Sarai dealt Ashley with her, she fled from
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  Speaker 2: her presence. Now the angel of the Lord found her
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  Speaker 2: by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the
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  Speaker 2: spring on her way to shore. And he said, Agai, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, Agai, Sarai's mate, where have you come from?
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  Speaker 2: And where are you going? He said, I'm fleeing from
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  Speaker 2: the presence of my mistress, Sarai. Please pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: this story. And the angel of the Lord said to her,
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  Speaker 2: Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand.
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  Speaker 2: The angel of the Lord then said to her, I
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  Speaker 2: will multiply your descendants exceedingly so that they shall.
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  Speaker 5: Not be counted for multitude.
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  Speaker 2: And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold,
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  Speaker 2: you are with a child and you shall bear a
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  Speaker 2: son and his name shall be called Ishmael. Ishmael, because
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  Speaker 2: the Lord has heard your affliction, he shall be a
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  Speaker 2: wild man and his hand shall be against every man
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  Speaker 2: and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell
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  Speaker 2: in the presence of his brethren. Then she called the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord who spoke to her. You are
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  Speaker 2: the God who sees me. El Roy.
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: You are the God who sees.
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  Speaker 2: Now, pay attention. For she said, Have I also seen
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  Speaker 2: him who sees me? Therefore the world was called Be'er Lairoi. Observe,
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  Speaker 2: it is between Kadesh and Bered. So Hagar bore Abraham
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  Speaker 2: a son, and Abraham named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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  Speaker 2: Abraham was not there when the angel said, Ishmael. He
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  Speaker 2: picked it by the Spirit.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And Abraham was 86 years old when he bore, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: and Abraham was 86 years.
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  Speaker 5: Old when he bore Ishmael to Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Look up. Let me give you very important, very important
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  Speaker 2: principle of life Will you hear it? Pay attention to this.
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  Speaker 2: She was pregnant. Carrying a child. Carrying a child. And
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  Speaker 2: the angel of God came to her and said, where
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  Speaker 2: are you coming from?
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  Speaker 5: She said, I'm running away.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Go back. Go back. This child will need to be
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  Speaker 2: born under the atmosphere of the one who is blessed.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? So that this child
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  Speaker 2: can become all that the Lord intended for the child
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  Speaker 2: to what? Be. Ishmael was not even a consequence of
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  Speaker 2: Abraham's mistake. Ishmael was vengeance to Sarah's maltreatment. Are you
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  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? The mistake, the devil got room
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  Speaker 2: to be able to infiltrate the story when the guy
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  Speaker 2: was maltreated. God said, I've seen your affliction. Therefore, look
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  Speaker 2: at the description of the guy. He said he would
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  Speaker 2: be a son.
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  Speaker 5: He would be a wild man. Every man's hand would
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  Speaker 5: be against him. And his hand against who? How many people?
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  Speaker 2: Every man.
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  Speaker 5: Guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody with this quality now said he shall dwell in
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  Speaker 2: the presence of his brethren. That if somebody wants to
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  Speaker 2: kill you and you want to kill, will not leave
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  Speaker 2: your sight.
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  Speaker 5: That was the consequence.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah was operating from, we own her, we own everything,
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  Speaker 2: we can do what we do.
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  Speaker 5: There is a God who sees everything. There is a
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  Speaker 5: God who what? Sees.
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  Speaker 2: That's why a person of covenant doesn't mean you can
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  Speaker 2: maltreat people.
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  Speaker 5: There is a God who sees. Are you following what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Look at this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Abraham was 86 years old.
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  Speaker 2: It took 13 years after this event for God to
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  Speaker 2: open his mouth to talk to him. 13 years. Was
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  Speaker 2: Abraham on a journey?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But now that you have your result, and when God
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  Speaker 2: was going to talk to him, he said, walk before
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  Speaker 2: me and be what?
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  Speaker 3: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect. What God wants to give you will be born
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  Speaker 2: by the process of faith, not smartness. Any attempt to
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  Speaker 2: be creative will be you wandering out of God's plan.
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  Speaker 5: When you are waiting, you are not creative with waiting.
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  Speaker 5: You submit.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? So, let me give you some
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  Speaker 2: very fundamental stuff. Look at it now. Genesis 17. From
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  Speaker 2: verse 1. Read this. 1, 2, 3, go. How many
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  Speaker 2: years after? 13 years. How many years has God been
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  Speaker 2: silent on your matter that you feel He's gone?
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  Speaker 5: You are the one who is in time. He's not
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  Speaker 5: in time. Let me put it like this. He has
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  Speaker 5: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It is till you align. Ishmael will not make your
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  Speaker 2: work perfect. Ishmael is low budget Isaac. Low budget.
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  Speaker 5: To make your work perfect. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 5: Are you with me?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. Sometimes God wants to give
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  Speaker 2: you something.
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  Speaker 5: He has described it in your spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Your creativity will make you go for the low budget version.
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  Speaker 5: At least it looks like it.
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  Speaker 2: I have said this before. People thought what I was saying.
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  Speaker 2: That there are people who married low budget version of.
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  Speaker 5: The will of God.
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  Speaker 2: Because time was going What they don't know is that
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  Speaker 2: the remaining time will become hell. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 5: The plan was what?
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  Speaker 8: Isaac.
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  Speaker 5: But Ishmael was easier. Ishmael was easier.
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  Speaker 2: That it is easy doesn't mean it is the covenant
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  Speaker 2: of easy. It doesn't mean so. Sometimes you are just
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  Speaker 2: in trouble. I'm telling you, sometimes you are just in trouble.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, sometimes you are just in trouble. I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: telling you. Sometimes you are.
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  Speaker 5: Just in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: You know you can.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You can get to a point where you say, God,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm tired. Any girl that will stress me, she's
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  Speaker 2: not for me. I want to wonder.
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  Speaker 5: Meanwhile, the next escapade, the girl will look at you.
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  Speaker 5: Before you say, I like you, I like you too. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 5: it's not God.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reason why you don't take the kind
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  Speaker 2: of step Abraham's servant made. When he said, let it
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  Speaker 2: be that the girl who will give my camel water
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  Speaker 2: and give me water will be the one. You don't
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  Speaker 2: do that though. The devil will hear you and send
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  Speaker 2: his own first. Let me tell you something. When God
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  Speaker 2: tells you, this is what I'm going to bring, the
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  Speaker 2: devil hears it.
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  Speaker 5: He will bring his own version of it. It will
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  Speaker 5: look like it, but it.
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  Speaker 2: Is not it. Are you following what I'm saying? Are
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying here? Are you with me?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Ishmael is easy. Isaac takes walk, waiting. Meanwhile, Ishmael is
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  Speaker 2: not under God. Let me tell you where I'm going
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  Speaker 2: with this message. You feel Ishmael is your problem, but
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  Speaker 2: it is Isaac God who will ask you to sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Let me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I think by Sunday, I'm going to now spread it.
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  Speaker 5: Go back and check.
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  Speaker 2: All the blessings that came on Ishmael was because they
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  Speaker 2: tried to maltreat him.
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  Speaker 6: All.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether you have born trouble or birthed problem.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: God is a God of justice. God is a God
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  Speaker 2: of justice. Let me give a warning. Let me give
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  Speaker 2: a warning. I have seen this several times on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you see a picture or a video. A woman
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  Speaker 2: who has money, whether they don't even have, has gone
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  Speaker 2: to eat in an eatery with her children.
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  Speaker 5: And they will make an house gear sit on the
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  Speaker 5: floor sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Or while they are eating fried rice and chicken, the
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  Speaker 2: girl is eating gala.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: There is a God who sees.
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  Speaker 2: There is a.
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  Speaker 5: God who what? Sees. The one who sees us. Listen
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  Speaker 5: to what I'm saying.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: What ought not to be can become because of injustice.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And God will decide that I will show to you
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  Speaker 2: that it's not having parents that makes you great. I
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  Speaker 2: can lift men regardless of background. You, this housemaid, I
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  Speaker 2: put it on you. That is it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: There is a God who what?
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  Speaker 8: Sees.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I heard there was a church somewhere that people
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  Speaker 2: sit down together in church, but those maids that come
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to the rich people, they have a separate place for them.
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  Speaker 5: That's not a church. That is not a church. There's
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: a God. who sees.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: If you study your Bible carefully, you will see that
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the jealousy of God defends the poor. I have a
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  Speaker 2: philosophy for driving. And anybody who drives may know that
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: that's the fastest way to get into problems. Never drive
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  Speaker 2: in such a way that somebody who is striking will
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: be grieved for not having a car. It's my philosophy.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It is so serious, God said, he that lends to
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  Speaker 2: the poor, he that gives to the poor, lends to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's the God of the Bible. He's the defender of
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  Speaker 2: the poor and the needy. So whatever you see Ishmael
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  Speaker 2: to be today, It was the consequence of the maltreatment
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  Speaker 2: of the covenant people. I would have loved to tell Isaac,
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  Speaker 2: you are not a saint. There was an era of
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  Speaker 2: the church we call the dark era. Let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. Religion, whether Christianity or the other side, religion
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: is brutal.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: None is good.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Until Christianity is not a religion and become a lifestyle,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: that is when it is peace to the world. There
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  Speaker 2: was a time that the Roman Catholic were in charge.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: They were cutting people's head and they were dying. Only
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Pope had access to the Bible. Selling letter of indulgence.
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  Speaker 2: So don't ever think that because you are a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: what you have is better. Until you know God, you
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  Speaker 2: are not better. Are you still with me? Are you sure?
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Let's dive.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: The application of this teaching is, it's taught everywhere in
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: this country, so that's why I said that. I'm going
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to be careful. Alright, so I can. Say, Lord, I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: glad there's a God who sees you. Let me beg you.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Let me beg you. In all your doing, if I
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  Speaker 2: can give you three very powerful principles that will help
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  Speaker 2: your life.
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  Speaker 5: See, never reward.
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  Speaker 2: Good with evil.
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  Speaker 5: Even if the person that was good has become bad.
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  Speaker 2: Never. Never. Number two, never take for granted the jealousy
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  Speaker 2: of God over the poor. A very powerful principle. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: any church that does not have a structure to help
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  Speaker 2: people lessen burden and particularly activities that bring people out
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: of shackles and all that, that church is not a
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: church yet. You say, what about me? I'm pastoring a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: church and we are still struggling. From that point, there
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: are those who are struggling more. Do something.
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  Speaker 5: God will never put you in a place where you
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  Speaker 5: don't have seed or bread.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Are you with me now? Isaiah 55 from verse 10 says,
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  Speaker 2: As the rain and the snow will not return back
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  Speaker 2: to heaven, but that it waters the earth, and make
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  Speaker 2: it bring forth bud and flourish, that it may give what?
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  Speaker 5: Seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
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  Speaker 2: So shall my word be. So shall my word be.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It's a very important principle. As God is lifting you,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: find somebody to also pull up. I beg you. Is
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  Speaker 2: that okay?
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Find people.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Find people to pull up. Very powerful principle. Very important.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Now let me....
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: Let's enter this thing a bit. The moment the devil sees.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Let me explain. Please come. Listen to what I'm saying.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: The moment the devil sees that you are Abraham, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: you are the one to bet Isaac, if you see Ishmael,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: apart from Abraham, you call Ishmael the child of the devil. Hmm? Hmm?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: The moment you are the one who have bettered Isaac,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: the devil is not interested in killing Isaac. The devil
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: is interested in making sure that you also better Ishmael.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: What I'm trying to show you is that whatsoever your
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: life is about, the devil is not interested in fighting it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: He's just interested in making sure that you too better
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the opposite. By yourself. So that your life can invalidate
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: your essence. Yes. Everybody here has fathered Isaac and Ishmael
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  Speaker 2: at some point, and I'm going to show you. In fact,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: if care is not taken, you notice that you are
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: carrying the both of them. Isaac, Ishmael, Isaac, Ishmael. You
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  Speaker 2: are bearing two sharp contrasts. Your life is about this,
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  Speaker 2: and the devil is coming. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: When the Bible refers to the devil as the one
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  Speaker 2: who comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy, believers just.
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  Speaker 5: Run, oh, the devil comes to steal, to kill, and
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  Speaker 5: to destroy.
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  Speaker 2: You did not ask how. The devil doesn't steal by taking.
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  Speaker 2: He steals by giving.
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  Speaker 5: He gives you.
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  Speaker 2: You are holding this. The way to steal this from
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you is to stretch this to you. To take this,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: you will have to drop this. When the good man
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: sowed good seed in the field, the enemy did not
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: come to uproot the good seed.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: You just saw something else.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Your fight is, Satan, you will not steal from me. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that should not be your fight. Your fight should be, Satan,
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  Speaker 2: I will not collect from you.
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  Speaker 5: I've lost you. Satan, don't steal. You will not steal
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  Speaker 5: my children. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to steal your children. He will give
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  Speaker 2: you what will collect your children.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Satan, you will not steal my joy. You will not
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  Speaker 5: steal my family.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, he's not going to come and steal them
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  Speaker 2: and just grab them.
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  Speaker 5: No, he will give.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: You are sitting in Christ's favor over principalities.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: It is by yourself you will.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Take something else than those ones you sleep off. He's
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: the one who steals by giving. He's a giver. Are
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying? Please sit down for a while.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: How did he steal the place of Judas? 30 pieces
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  Speaker 2: of silver now. He gave.
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  Speaker 4: Him.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: What did he tell Jesus? Let's look at the.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Audacity of the devil. Luke chapter number 4. Are you
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: getting blessed? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 5: Luke 4.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, let's jump. If you are there, say Amen. Amen.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Luke chapter number 4. Let's start the reading from verse 5. See,
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  Speaker 2: if you study the Bible, the devil is one of
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  Speaker 2: the best givers.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: How do you call a giver a thief? From the
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  Speaker 5: beginning he's been giving. Eat fruit, Eve. Jesus, you too.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: He's giving, giving, giving.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Just dashing up and down. If you are mid-conscious, you
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: will collect from him. You must be Christ conscious. Are
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  Speaker 2: you with me? Go and check those who go to
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: their ballets now. What will you tell them? I'm going
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: to give you money and give you wealth. But I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: will collect the length of your days. Every time he gives,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: he collects. And he collects more than what he's given.
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  Speaker 2: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 5: Look at it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Then the devil taking him up on a high mountain.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: showed him all the kingdom of the world in the
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: moment of time. And the devil said to him, all
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: this authority I will give you and their glory.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: I will what?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Give you.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: I will what? Come on, say, I will what?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Give. He's a giver. But while he's emphasizing giving, he's
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: not talking about the fact that it's an exchange.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: There's something you are not collecting.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I train people in how to have business conversations and
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  Speaker 2: all those things. When you are talking with a client
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: who talks fast, slow them down and don't reply fast.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Because you are mortgaging many things without knowing. The amount
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: to believe that talking fast is thinking fast, no. Are
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying?
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: What did he say we'll do? I will give you.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: All. Let me tell you something. The devil has found
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: out that everybody has a price. Whatsoever it is that
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: your temptation is, that is his belief, guys.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: That's what your price is.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: So for some of you, that's quite insulting, right? How
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: will the devil tell Jesus, stone, stone to bread? With
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: what audacity did he tell Jesus, bow down and worship me?
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: So you wonder, the devil to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. All the temptations there look simple. Because the simplest
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: temptations are the ones that are easy to fall into.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: You know why?
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: You will not respond to them with grace. You respond
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  Speaker 5: with self. Let me tell you. The things you think you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Have overcome, that you are too strong for, they are
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: the things you will fall for. Because you are the
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: one facing it, not the Holy Spirit on your inside.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you get what I'm saying.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: That you say, what is this? What do you mean
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: to this?
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Do you know how much I fasted? That is where
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: you are going to fall. There is no room for overconfidence.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Overconfidence projects self. Me, I can never fall. I can
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: never fall to girls. If you know how much God
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: has claimed me, that's where you fall. And when you
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: are saved, they will say, true, true. I believe you.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I believe you. Then he will come back.
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  Speaker 5: Your head is too small to comprehend the mystery of iniquity.
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  Speaker 5: It's too small.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I'm not doubting the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you can't fall. I'm not doubting the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you are strong and you are disciplined. But the day
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: you are discouraged, you are defenseless. The day you fall
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: is not the day you are strong. It is the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: day you are discouraged and lonely. What did Peter say?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Jesus said, you will deny me three times today. Peter said, me, deny.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to deny. I'm ready to even die.
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  Speaker 5: Not be one small girl. Say, eh, Peter. Come, come, come, Peter.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: He said, me. And you need to see his bow face, me.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: He said, we know you, you are following him. If
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I know Jesus, I'm going to die. See me, see
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: trouble now. What, what, what? Three times. When he did,
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  Speaker 2: he told one. He heard the sound of the cock.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: It is not by might, nor power, but by my Spirit,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: says the Lord. Are you following me? Say it again,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: not by might, nor power.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: That's why I said, When things still look small and
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: you don't have an idea what the future holds, be
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: careful of your negotiation.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: How do I help you understand that now? Alright?
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: People can project the weight of your future and know
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: you don't know it and price you short. That is
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: why true leadership is not subjugating people because they are small.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: It is making them see who they are.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Any form of leadership that does not help you see
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: who you are is not leadership. A true leader makes
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: you know, this is what you are being paid now,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: but you are more than this.
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  Speaker 5: You are going to get bigger.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You are going to get better.
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  Speaker 5: You don't find ways to keep people small so you
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: can control.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: We empower people. And go and kill this fear of
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: when people grow big, they will leave you. That's a
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: lie of the devil. Ideally, when truth gets ripe, they
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: don't remain on the tree. Leadership is not ownership. In church,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: we are dressed, we process, and we deploy. If the
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: audience of this church now It's the same audience in
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: 10 years time.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: We have failed.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? It means from the
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: place of training and teaching, people are going to be
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: flying in different territories. If you go to a pool
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: that the new water is not flowing inside, it will
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: stink now.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: In church, we breathe in and breathe out.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? People have left me
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: in the past. If I do anything good, they will
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: leave me again. It's life.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: It's what it is.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: The moment you start playing the victim, you will not
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: make wise decisions. Don't play victim. Whatever it is, never
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: play victim. Are you following what I'm saying? Are you
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: sure you are here? Say it loud and clear, I
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: am more than this. I am more than this. Say
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: it again loud and clear, I am more than this.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: I am more than this.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Let me, I don't know for who, let me say
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: something that is difficult to be said on the altar.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: People ask me, how do you see church growth? I
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: will tell you, I see it in two ways. Number one,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I have rest to the kingdom. Number two, Church growth
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: is also opening the gate of destiny to my people.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: There are people seated here. Some of them, God is
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: telling them quietly, you will serve in this ministry. Some
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: have been following for years. It is as we grow
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: that that aspect of their life expands. Failure to grow
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: means somebody is ready for destiny, but the one with
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: the key is playing small. It also means that God
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: will have to go and find the one who is
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: opening the door. If your prejudice keep people small, God
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: will take them from you. Fact.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Spirit of Life Church.
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  Speaker 2: TV station is starting soon. That is also another aspect
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  Speaker 2: of life, opening. People who are singing, will be watching
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  Speaker 2: all over the world. That's destiny opening. That's why we labor.
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  Speaker 5: It's not about us. I'm here preaching. I don't lack platform.
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  Speaker 2: But as we open in Loring, somebody's platform has opened.
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  Speaker 2: As we open in London, somebody's platform has opened. As
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  Speaker 2: we open in America, somebody's platform has opened. Do this
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  Speaker 2: towards growth. Don't just grow. Grow on time. Huh? You
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  Speaker 2: don't hear that? Let me leave you to it. Some
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  Speaker 2: things should not, should leave that for ministers' conference. Please
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  Speaker 2: be seated, sir. Say I hear. Say I hear. Let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you now. Let me not even keep quiet.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: This ministry, people get married. I have one of my
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  Speaker 2: boys who just got married over the weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: He sent a video to me. Last year, we're having
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  Speaker 2: an anointing service, Easter period. So I called the resident
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  Speaker 2: pastors out. I called Vembulato, he prayed for. The person
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  Speaker 2: he married now was the one that went to his front.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: He was like, lay hands anyhow, you're going to marry anyhow. No,
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  Speaker 2: just to let you know, it's not coincidence. People are
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  Speaker 2: single as we grow. Their spouses come. Failure to grow
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  Speaker 2: is hindering them from meeting the people. If you remain so,
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  Speaker 2: it means for that destiny to open up. God will
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  Speaker 2: have to take them out. It's not rebellion. It's rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I've said now is problem in the
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  Speaker 2: body of Christ. I know. I know what I'm saying. Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes somebody just comes to church. I get new reports
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  Speaker 2: from my workers. Somebody can just sit down in church
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  Speaker 2: and say, my God, the way you were snapping the
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  Speaker 2: picture or the way you were carrying the camera, it
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  Speaker 2: touched my heart.
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  Speaker 5: Can I bless you?
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  Speaker 2: And indeed, maybe at that point we're trusting god for
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  Speaker 2: the money and you see it opens up.
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  Speaker 5: If we fail to grow for.
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  Speaker 2: Those kind of people to come in we have denied
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  Speaker 2: these people the blessing listen to what i'm saying you
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  Speaker 2: cannot have you cannot request for restoration on what you
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  Speaker 2: don't know belongs to you that you never had What
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to say is, if I intended that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give you 5 million naira cash, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: that is if I come to church and I see
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  Speaker 2: you seated in front. But the day I now get
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  Speaker 2: to church, you are not seated in front. You sat
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  Speaker 2: down here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: You will not go home crying. But actually you have
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  Speaker 2: lost something. If they say, let's prepare a restoration, you
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  Speaker 2: feel it's not for me. But actually you have lost something.
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  Speaker 2: The devil likes to steal it when you don't know
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  Speaker 2: it is yours yet. So when you are praying for restoration,
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  Speaker 2: you usually pray about the things that touched your hands
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  Speaker 2: but left. What about the one that ought to touch
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  Speaker 2: your hands but never came?
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  Speaker 5: It was yours.
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  Speaker 2: So when Samuel stood before Eliab, and said, surely, look
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  Speaker 2: at that one. The lost are not his army. God said, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't look at his height or his stature, for I
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  Speaker 2: have refused him. Meaning that he.
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  Speaker 5: Was a candidate until whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Happened, happened. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Tell your neighbor, be well positioned with God.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I've said so many things tonight that I Serious, thoughtful.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. You know, Bible study in
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  Speaker 2: the sphere of light church carries a different aura.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you where it came from.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: At certain season of my life, I used to attend
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  Speaker 2: two Bible studies in a week.
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  Speaker 5: Different churches.
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  Speaker 2: Our church had not started then. I will sit down
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  Speaker 2: in my spiritual father's church and I will say, how
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  Speaker 2: can a man preach the word that is always fresh?
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  Speaker 5: What is this?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I said, God, this same thing I'm feeling under this word.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone who sits under me must enjoy it. One. The
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: second place I go to, I go there and I
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: see everywhere this, this. I said, my God, many of
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  Speaker 2: us were actually attending that God was preparing for ministry
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: so I know that this ministry is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a nesting ground that people from different places God is
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  Speaker 2: going to bring them to say come and see and
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: we have not even started very soon you are going
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  Speaker 2: to see people travel from different countries for Bible study
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  Speaker 2: for what? This thing you are hearing now that is
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  Speaker 2: blessing you, that you come to hear every Tuesday, you
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  Speaker 2: owe your own generation a responsibility to bless them also.
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  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 5: I have not failed in delivering. Don't fail when it
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  Speaker 5: gets to your tongue.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Say I hear. Thank you, Lord. I'm going somewhere else.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: So I said, the moment the devil sees that you
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  Speaker 2: are the father of Isaac, he also likes to insist
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  Speaker 2: that you will also be the father of Ishmael.
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  Speaker 5: Let me give you.
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  Speaker 2: This one I want to say seriously. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have prayed for my heart again and again and again.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: But let me give you a very, very serious example.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Let's assume you get right what it means to have
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  Speaker 2: holy walking with God. You are a very holy person.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: You are better than Isaac. The devil now makes sure
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  Speaker 2: that the same very holy person is arrogant and proud.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: You are better than Ishmael. You become proud of your holiness.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Or you are so humble, but now you are proud
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  Speaker 2: of your humility. Let me tell you how to be
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  Speaker 2: proud of your humility. You know, we are small people
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  Speaker 2: like this. We are just, it's pride. It's either pride
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  Speaker 2: or lack of self-awareness. You see, humility is not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: rolling on the floor. Humility is you not lifting yourself
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  Speaker 2: beyond measure. Where you have to keep your head high,
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: keep it high. It is not pride. You see, one
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: of the mistakes we make in the body of Christ
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: is to know precision.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: Don't be guilt-stripped.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? I condemn every lie
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: of the devil the moment you father Isaac there is
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  Speaker 2: a bounty on your head to father Ishmael.
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  Speaker 5: The moment.
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  Speaker 2: That's why.
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  Speaker 5: God help me. You are preaching. What you are saying
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  Speaker 5: is birthing wave of righteousness.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Be careful.
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  Speaker 5: Also close to you is a ditch.
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  Speaker 2: The ability to stay consistent in living right and teaching
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  Speaker 2: right plus humility Is difficult blend.
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  Speaker 3: Because.
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  Speaker 5: When you have Isaac.
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  Speaker 5: And there is also Ishmael... Holiness.
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  Speaker 2: Plus arrogance.
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  Speaker 5: You will think... That God will say... Sacrifice the arrogance... No.
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  Speaker 5: That holiness you feel you have, put.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: It on the altar. Let me tell you, you know why?
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Because you have been able to discipline yourself to those things.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: So you feel, it is in my strength. Then you say,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: come to the place of grace where you know it.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: Is not by your strength.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: It is my grace. The one that is from your strength.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: One day soon, it will die. For the one that
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: is powered by grace to thrive. So that no flesh
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  Speaker 2: glories in his presence. Anybody who is boasting will eventually fall.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: It's a matter of when. It's a matter of when.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: It's a matter of when. The moment you are boasting,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: the devil will be happy. People don't fall when they
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: are full of themselves and when they are full of strength.
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: See, devil, where are you now? Devil, where are you now?
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: I can deal with you. I just finished 13 hours prayer.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: The devil will not come and you will think he's powerless.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Real power is not knowing how to fight. It's knowing
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: when to fight. Are you with me? Real power. Say, devil,
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  Speaker 2: I dare you now. I have the authority. I've done
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: this now. I've got 321 days drive. Where are you there?
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: The devil too say, I'm tired.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: I can't come. I'm not powerful again.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: So that you'll not be mocking. I say, we defeated
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: the devil. While your shoulder is still up, you are down.
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  Speaker 5: Right there in the midst of it.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Sir, I refuse to walk in pride. Whatever it is
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: you are getting right, understand that it is the grace
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: of God. It is the grace of... I am not
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: a fantastic teacher because I'm intelligent.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: There's a teaching anointing.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean I'm a bad teacher. Because plus
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: the anointing, there's a place of consistency and mercy. And
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: that comes through practice. Yes. If you don't give, if
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: you don't master the areas you are anointed, it will
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: produce the lowest form. You will be sinking. People will
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: be falling under anointing, but you are sinking off-key.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: Nobody sinks off-key.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: That's anointing. They are falling. But when you produce, anything,
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  Speaker 2: you don't go far. Because you didn't do due diligence.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: That you anointed an area doesn't mean you should not
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: train the area. Are you with me? Say I hear.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: I hear.
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  Speaker 5: Let's look at a few examples.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Hmm. 2 Samuel chapter number 23. Wow. Oh, Lord, help us.
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  Speaker 8: 2 Samuel chapter number 23.
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  Speaker 2: If you are there.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: Say amen. Now this....
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: I want to read from the King James. The last
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: words of David. Thus says David, the son of Jesse.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Thus says the man raised up on high, the anointed
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: of God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: What an amazing curriculum. Please go back.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: To verse 1. And please read. Now this be the
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  Speaker 2: last words of David. David the son of Jesse. Right? Said.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: And the man who was raised up on high. The
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  Speaker 2: anointed of the God of Jacob.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: And the sweet. Somebody say sweet.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Come and say it again. Sweet Samist. Of Israel.
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  Speaker 7: Said.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter number 1. Let's start the reading from verse 4.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Ram begot Aminadab. Aminadab begot Nashon. And Nashon begot Salmon.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Salmon begot Boaz by Reab. Boaz begot Obed by Ruth.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Obed begot Jesse. And Jesse begot David the king. David
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: the king begot Solomon by her, who had been the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: wife of Uriah. How did Uriah's name get into that list?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: There's the God who sees.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: He sees.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: What is sweet about that? I thought we heard he
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: was a sweet psalmist of Israel. What is sweet about
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: seeing another man's wife when you have many women?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: And you slept with her.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: And that was not enough.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: You called the husband from battlefield. You got him drunk.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: You said, go and meet your wife.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: His refusal to go was God showing David.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: That when I said I found a man after my heart,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying I found the best man.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: If I was looking for best men, this is one. You,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: are you following what I'm saying?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: At the time kings go to battle, you were sleeping
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: with another man's wife. He who have legal access to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: her said, Joab, my master is in the field. The
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: ark of God is in the tent. How shall I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: go into my wife? That was God saying, David, you
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: are not the best guy. The attitude of Uriah should
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: make him break down in repentance. The sweet psalmist of
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Israel wrote a letter. Put this guy where the battle
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: is fierce. Let the valiant men withdraw from him and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: kill him. What is sweet about that? And you know what?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: After doing that, he did not repent. She gave birth
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: to that child until Nathan came. That child died and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: But God in his mercy still brought out Solomon. You know,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: this story is a deep one. By God's grace, I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's the next series because I will
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: wait for God to give me approval. You know, this
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: girl that he slept with, Bathsheba, her grandfather was David's
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: best advisor, Ahithophel. When Ahithophel gives a counsel, go and sleep.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: And the guy kept it in his heart. The moment
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Absalom rebelled, Ahithophel said, this is what you should do.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: Go and sleep with your father's wives on top of
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the roof. If he slept with my granddaughter on top
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: of the roof, do the same thing to his wives.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: Bitterness can be stored for years, but.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: Look at David.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, 1 Samuel 16, dramatic scripture. The biggest prophet
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: in town had entered the house of Jesse. All the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: seven brothers were there. None of them were chosen by God.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: The lastborn came. God said, arise, anoint him. And they
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: poured oil on him in the midst of his bread grain.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: The devil was seen.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: I will insist that this same guy becomes a murderer.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: The question is, what are you doing well that the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: devil is also insisting that it is you that will
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: do the opposite? Can I tell you something? Let me
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: tell you something. If God has placed you in a house,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: let's say a ministry like this, never you say, I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: can never leave. I can never do anything at all
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: in this house.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: Don't say it.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: The moment you say that, you have invited an examination to.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: Test your strength.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, you may be louder than your strength. Rather say,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: true God who helps me, I trust God to help
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: me continue serving. Because the same place you have labored
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: the most is the same place the devil will make
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: sure you fight. Are you following what I'm saying? When
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: people tell me, you know, people get blessed, I understand.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: And say, Apostle, I can never leave you for anything.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: Aha, you can.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: You can, and I will understand. Don't say that. Rather say,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: let the grace of God do what? Help me. The
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: journey is far away.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: I will watch you at some point, without knowing. It's
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: grace that keeps people. I say it is grace that
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: keeps people.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: It is grace that keeps....
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: Not by might, nor power, but by my Spirit, says
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: the Lord. It is grace.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: It is grace. Lift your hands and say, Lord, I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: rely on your grace. Say again, Lord, I rely on
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: your grace. I rely on your grace.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: Oh yes.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: I rely on your grace.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: Let me show you.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, the life of David is the kind of
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: life that passed for a movie role.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: Like you just want to.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 5: Man, this story should be.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: Converted into a movie. It passes for that. The same
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: David got to the battlefront. Saw Goliath gloating, making noise.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: And he killed him with a stone and a sling. Once,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: the guy was dead. Cut off his head.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 5: No doubt. This is a powerful man.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: 1 Samuel 18.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: David escaped to the cave of Adulam. Some men followed him.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: 2 Samuel 24. These be the names of the mighty
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: men of David. Dodo and all the guys. One held
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: the sword. They fought so much his hand was weary.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: And the sword glued to his hand. One killed all
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: the descendants of Goliath. One killed a thousand people. All
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: the record of something they broke it. He was a
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: shepherd in the class of shepherds. He was a trainer
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: of trainers. The devil said, I hear you are the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: one raising men. I also, I'm interested in insisting that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: you're also the one that will kill them.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: That's betting to extremes. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Ah! Shall I say this? Let
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: me help.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: Ministers strike a balance.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: There's a way you can say, oh, my daughter, my
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: daughter in the Lord, be careful of how far that
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: thing goes. Because there's something close to that genuine concern
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: and love. You can also destroy what you have built up.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: Are you following me? It's those who are in Let
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: me show you a scripture. Look at the book of Ezekiel.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Chapter number 34. If you read Ezekiel 34. That was
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: where God was complaining. God was lamenting.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: This, this, this, that.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: That. The shepherd of Israel. You have not fed the flock.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: You are feeding yourselves. God was angry with them. Look
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: at the testimony of God about David. Ezekiel 34 from
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: verse 23. Look at it now. What did he say?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: He said, and I will establish what? One shepherd over
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: them and he shall feed them. My servant who? Meaning
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: that as far as the Old Testament is concerned, the
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: prototype of a true pastor was David. That's what God
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: was saying. Hope you know in the Old Testament, the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: prototype of wisdom is not Solomon.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: The prototype of wisdom was Daniel.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Daniel.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: If the fear of God begins wisdom, the fear of
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: God will perfect it. That was David.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: So I will set up David, my servant. Oh, David,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: the shepherd. The one who is ready to die for
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: his people. Also be the one to kill them. Lift
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: your hands. Say, Father, in the name of Jesus, what
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  Speaker 2: I have built with my hands, I will not destroy
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  Speaker 2: it with my hands. Say Father in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: What I have built with my hands. I will not
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  Speaker 2: destroy it with my hands. Can you pray that prayer
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  Speaker 2: in a minute?
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  Speaker 5: Help me Jesus.
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  Speaker 6: Help me. Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Thou son of David. Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: I'll talk my belly South floor reverse Reverse of the
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  Speaker 7: little woman Yeah My belly shall flow with rivers.
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  Speaker 8: Of living water. How long my.
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  Speaker 7: Belly shall flow with rivers.
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  Speaker 8: Let it flow.
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  Speaker 3: Let it flow Let it flow, let it flow Let
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  Speaker 3: it flow, let it flow Oh, let it flow right here,
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  Speaker 3: right now Let it flow, let it flow.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Can you sit for a while? Let me tie
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  Speaker 2: this up. Let me tell you Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm showing you tonight is one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: jokers of the devil. You can be so sincere and
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  Speaker 2: bet something and also better to kill it. But in
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  Speaker 2: all honesty, you are sincere, you are honest, you are
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  Speaker 2: a loving person, you are a kind person, you have
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  Speaker 2: betted something.
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  Speaker 5: This is powerful. It is a masterpiece. but also you
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  Speaker 5: are betting this one, it will kill it.
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  Speaker 2: It will kill it. It will kill it.
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  Speaker 5: Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: That's why if you want to know the areas of
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  Speaker 2: your anointing, check the area the devil is fighting. Check. Check.
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  Speaker 5: If there's any prayer I want us to pray.
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  Speaker 2: It's that I will not bet to extremes.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. It is difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Only the grace of God can make a man bet
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  Speaker 2: Isaac and not bet Ishmael. Anything the devil succeeds in
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  Speaker 2: doing once, he seeks to make it a pattern. I
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  Speaker 2: can show you on and on across scripture. Look at Elisha,
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  Speaker 2: the one who received double portion. Fantastic story. Fantastic story.
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  Speaker 2: He had many experience with children. Woman wouldn't have a child.
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  Speaker 2: Prayed for the woman.
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  Speaker 5: Many experience.
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  Speaker 2: The child that raised the child back, he was also
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  Speaker 2: the same one that called lion and bear to divorce children.
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  Speaker 2: How do you marry the both? Such that by the
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  Speaker 2: time you do this one, they say you were never
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  Speaker 2: called into this one. You are just lying.
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  Speaker 5: It's fluke.
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  Speaker 2: You look at people at the tail end of their
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  Speaker 2: life and something, an Ishmael that has been kept in
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  Speaker 2: back door just shows face and discredits the years of
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  Speaker 2: legitimacy of Isaac.
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  Speaker 5: And they will only know the person for Ishmael, not Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: Please pray.
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  Speaker 5: Pray for yourself, okay? Pray for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Lord, help me.
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  Speaker 8: Help me. Help me. Help me.
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  Speaker 5: In Jesus' name we pray.
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  Speaker 2: Let me wrap up with this text. Matthew chapter number 16.
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  Speaker 2: You know, let's paraphrase because of time. And that was
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  Speaker 2: where Jesus was asking them, that who do men say
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  Speaker 2: that I am? Some said you are Elias. Some said
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  Speaker 2: you are Moses, John the Baptist. Some said you are
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  Speaker 2: one of the prophets. And he said, who do you
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  Speaker 2: say that I am? Verse 16. Simon Peter answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: you are the Christ, the son of the living God.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
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  Speaker 2: for flesh and blood has not revealed these to you,
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  Speaker 2: but my Father in heaven. Let's jump to verse 21.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus predicts his death. I'm reading NKJV now.
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  Speaker 3: Alright?
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  Speaker 2: From that time, Jesus began to show disciples that he
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  Speaker 2: must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders.
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  Speaker 5: Pay attention.
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  Speaker 8: Alright?
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  Speaker 3: Alright?
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  Speaker 2: And chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be
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  Speaker 2: raised the third day.
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  Speaker 3: 22.
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  Speaker 2: Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying,
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  Speaker 2: Far be it from you, Lord, for this shall not
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  Speaker 2: happen to you.
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  Speaker 5: What was he doing there?
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  Speaker 2: He brought emotions to stop the plan of salvation.
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  Speaker 5: The next slide, quickly.
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  Speaker 2: But he turned, Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get
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  Speaker 2: behind me, Satan. Now, now, now.
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  Speaker 5: Flesh and blood did not reveal to you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, now.
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  Speaker 5: Get behind me, Satan.
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  Speaker 2: That's how swiftly it can happen. You can lay hands
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  Speaker 2: on people and pray for them that God prospers them.
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  Speaker 2: And the same situation that God used to bless them comes.
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  Speaker 2: The same anointed man will say, don't do it. Are
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  Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying? Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: Ishmaels are born when you are carried away with emotions.
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  Speaker 2: You can see parents pray for their children, labor for
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  Speaker 2: their children. Say, God, this child, raise this child. Let
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  Speaker 2: this child go far. God is saying, I'm calling this
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  Speaker 2: child into the ministry. They will fight it.
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  Speaker 5: Who gave birth to the Isaac?
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  Speaker 2: Them.
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  Speaker 5: Who is giving birth to the Ishmael?
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  Speaker 2: Them. You can finish praying at home and God said
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  Speaker 2: you have entered into a new season.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, you can finish praying. Either of the spouse
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 5: can receive prophecy. I don't know if that happens in homes. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: calm down, calm down.
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  Speaker 2: Say, ah, thus says the Lord, I am here, I
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  Speaker 2: am here. I'm ready to bless you and prosper you.
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  Speaker 2: But you see, I want to go and do this.
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  Speaker 5: Take this step.
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  Speaker 2: You wake up.
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  Speaker 5: God said, take this step. Go and sow a seed.
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  Speaker 2: As the man said, this is the seed you want
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  Speaker 2: to go and sow. The same woman will say, what
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  Speaker 2: about the children's cookies? You can bet Isaac and bet
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  Speaker 2: Ishmael the same bread. Before you insult Abraham, I'm showing
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  Speaker 2: you to you. Are you with me? I want us
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  Speaker 2: to pray. I want us to pray. Have you learned
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  Speaker 2: something tonight? I know this is a very humbling teaching.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: I want us to find a very humble position. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to kneel, kneel. If you want to see,
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  Speaker 2: this is our father's house. If you want to lay down,
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  Speaker 2: lay down. Father, I place my life on your altar.
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  Speaker 2: My life belongs to you. Help me to bet only
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  Speaker 2: your counsel. Help me. That's the prayer.
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  Speaker 5: That's the prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Help me to bet only your counsel. Jesus, my life
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  Speaker 2: is yours. Spirit, keep building over me. Jesus, my life
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  Speaker 2: is yours. Savior, keep building over me. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, my life is yours. Spirit keep building over me. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: my life is yours. Spirit keep building over me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Give me your hand.
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  Speaker 5: Hallelujah. Give me your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Give me your hand.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus, my life is yours.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit keep brooding over me. Let me put time to it.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus, my life is yours.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit keep brooding over me.
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  Speaker 5: Alleluia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 8: Hear my knock on day.
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  Speaker 5: Hear my knock on day.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, my life is yours. Jesus, my life is yours.
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  Speaker 5: Spirit, you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Spirit, keep ruling.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord. We bless your holy name. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: mighty name we pray. Get up on your feet, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give a warning. There is no space in
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  Speaker 2: this kingdom That allows you to be carried away by
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  Speaker 2: your own light. There is no space in this kingdom
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  Speaker 2: that allows you to be carried away by your own what? Light.
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  Speaker 5: Your light, though bright and beautiful, can blind you.
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  Speaker 2: It can. And it can bring you into darkness. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: look at Babylon that my great strength has built. Now, now,
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  Speaker 2: now becomes an animal. I know God is doing amazing
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  Speaker 2: things through your hands. Powerful things. But remember, the same
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  Speaker 2: God who broke you out from the backside can bring
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  Speaker 2: many others out.
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  Speaker 5: Let this remain our factor of humility.
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  Speaker 2: And I recognize that I am where I am through
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  Speaker 2: the grace of God. I am what I am through
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  Speaker 2: His grace. Have you been blessed tonight? Father, I ask
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  Speaker 2: that everyone here is preserved. Through your life, both bitter
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  Speaker 2: and sweet water will not flow. Rather, what will proceed
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  Speaker 2: from you will be sweet. In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: That the hand of God finds expression upon your life.
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  Speaker 2: Your head will not lack oil. Grace is multiplied. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' mighty name, we are prayed.
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