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Sole Survivor - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to mothers who have been through something.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to mothers that if you were
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  Speaker 1: to write your story of motherhood it would have to
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  Speaker 1: be redacted. You couldn't tell everything. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to mothers who have been through some things that you
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  Speaker 1: had to believe God because if you didn't believe God
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to make it. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some mothers who have suffered loss and trials
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  Speaker 1: and survived and are still here as a testimony. Are
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  Speaker 1: they in the house? Are they online? If you're a
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  Speaker 1: mother online and you've been through some things and some
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  Speaker 1: tough days and some dark days and some days you
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  Speaker 1: thought you couldn't make it, just write something on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know that I'm talking to the right people.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be in the gospel of St. John
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  Speaker 1: chapter number 19 verse number 23 through 27 and there
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  Speaker 1: we will find a mother in crisis. The gospel of St.
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  Speaker 1: John chapter 19 beginning at verse 23 down to verse 27.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be reading out of the NIV if you see
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  Speaker 1: a distinction in the text because your translation may be
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  Speaker 1: different from mine. And we are stepping into a moment
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  Speaker 1: A nightmarish moment from a mother's perspective. When we preach
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  Speaker 1: about this text normally, we never really preach about it
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  Speaker 1: from a mother's perspective. We preach about it from Christ's perspective.
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  Speaker 1: But we never really give consideration to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this is also about a mother's Facing the darkest, dimmest
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  Speaker 1: moment a mother could ever face. And yet she survived.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to use for a subject this morning,
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  Speaker 1: soul survivor. All the survivors make a noise. John 19,
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  Speaker 1: 23 reads, when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes,
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  Speaker 1: divided them into four shares, one for each of them.
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  Speaker 1: With the undergarments remaining, this garment was seamless, woven in
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  Speaker 1: one piece from top to bottom. Let's not tear it,
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  Speaker 1: he said to one another. Let's decide by a lot
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  Speaker 1: who will get it. This happened that the scriptures might
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  Speaker 1: be fulfilled that said they divided my clothes amongst themselves
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  Speaker 1: and cast lots for my garment. So this is what
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers did. Meanwhile, near the cross of Jesus stood
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  Speaker 1: his mother. his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
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  Speaker 1: and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother standing there
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  Speaker 1: and the disciples whom he loved standing nearby, he said
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  Speaker 1: to her, woman, here is your son. And to the disciple,
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  Speaker 1: here is your mother. From that time on, this disciple
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  Speaker 1: took her into his home. So says the word of God. Father,
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  Speaker 1: sanctify the word of God into our hearts. Let it
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  Speaker 1: penetrate down into the recesses of our hearts in such
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  Speaker 1: a supernatural way that we are altered and changed and
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  Speaker 1: strengthened and challenged and healed and fortified by every word
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  Speaker 1: that proceedeth out of your mouth. I thank you in
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  Speaker 1: advance for what you're going to do. Have your way,
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  Speaker 1: great God, that you are. In Jesus' name, at the
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  Speaker 1: top of your lungs, shout amen. You may be seated
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  Speaker 1: in his presence. Time to go to work. There was
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  Speaker 1: an interesting quote that Barbara Walters made about motherhood, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share it with you. She said, motherhood
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  Speaker 1: is tough. Motherhood is tough. She said, if you just
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  Speaker 1: want a wonderful life, if you just want something wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to love, a little creature, go get a puppy. Because
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  Speaker 1: motherhood is a tough job. A lot of young girls
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  Speaker 1: don't know that. They pick out some fine, handsome, six-foot-something
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  Speaker 1: guy and say, he gonna be my baby daddy. They
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  Speaker 1: walk up to people at concerts and say, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be my baby daddy. First of all, they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that babies don't stay babies. And they don't
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  Speaker 1: understand that sometimes daddies don't stay either. And they don't
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  Speaker 1: know that when you sign up for motherhood, it is
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  Speaker 1: from the cradle to the grave. That in order to
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  Speaker 1: be a real mother, not just a woman who had
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  Speaker 1: a baby, you got to be a strong woman. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be a tough woman. You got to be
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  Speaker 1: relentless and tenacious. I'm not just talking about mean. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about strong. We got a lot of mothers that
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  Speaker 1: are mean, but they're not strong. There's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: being mean and being strong. Strong is when you can
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  Speaker 1: face dark days and storms and trials and tribulations and
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  Speaker 1: persevere and maintain consistency and offer wisdom even when you're frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: And keep on loving and keep on trying even when
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  Speaker 1: it looks like love is not working. I can never
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  Speaker 1: forget being in the delivery room with my wife. For
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  Speaker 1: me it was the seventh wonder of the world. I
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  Speaker 1: had been bragging and telling everybody we having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: We having a baby. We having a baby. But when
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  Speaker 1: she turned to me and said we about to have
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  Speaker 1: a baby. I panicked. We lived on the top of
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  Speaker 1: a hill. Had a long driveway down the hill. And
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  Speaker 1: I had the car face forward in the driveway. So
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  Speaker 1: I got it all loaded up in the car. We
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  Speaker 1: had the bags all packed. We knew exactly what to do.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to get into the hospital. I could drive.
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  Speaker 1: I could drive real good. I grew up in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I could drive on snow and ice and sleet and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I was ready for everything. But for some reason... I
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  Speaker 1: backed the car out of the driveway into the ditch.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that? Three times. Yeah, it took a minute
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  Speaker 1: for me to get there. We was having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: I was nervous. I was anxious. I wanted everything to
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  Speaker 1: be right. I was wearing a clergy suit. I had
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  Speaker 1: a collar on because all of our kids were born
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. So on one hand, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get her to the hospital. On the other hand, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get somebody to preach for me that morning
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't know you can't really schedule a baby.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they don't cooperate. They come when they want
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  Speaker 1: to come. Two o'clock in the morning, they come. And
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I found myself in the delivery
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  Speaker 1: room with a collar on. Her contractions were coming. They increased.
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  Speaker 1: My nerves had escalated. I had bagged the car into
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  Speaker 1: the ditch. We were having a baby. Once we got
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  Speaker 1: to the delivery room, signed up a bunch of papers,
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  Speaker 1: did all the paperwork, showed we had insurance, and were
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  Speaker 1: admitted into the delivery room. And I was sitting by
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  Speaker 1: the bed. It was so cool. It was the ideal situation.
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  Speaker 1: I was on one side of the bed. Her mama
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  Speaker 1: was on the other side of the bed. And we
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  Speaker 1: were having a baby until them contractions started coming. And
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  Speaker 1: when the contraction started coming at first, we were still
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  Speaker 1: having a baby. But when she had dilated about six centimeters,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between, that period between six and nine, it became
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  Speaker 1: apparent to me that it wasn't we was having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to disappoint all the men who are watching,
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  Speaker 1: and that's been your battle line. We having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: No we ain't having a baby. She having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have to push. We didn't have to stretch.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have to groan. We didn't have to fill
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  Speaker 1: our cheeks up full of air. And sit up in
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  Speaker 1: them stirrups. All we had to do was hold her hand.
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  Speaker 1: Because motherhood proves that to a degree there are certain
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  Speaker 1: things that mothers go through that no matter how good
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  Speaker 1: of a father you are, you can't relate to. The
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  Speaker 1: kicking in your body, the moving in your flesh, the
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  Speaker 1: tearing up of your body, the sharing of your breath,
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  Speaker 1: the eating for two, the whole process of delivery. Loaning
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  Speaker 1: your cells to the baby. Delivering the baby. Pushing the
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  Speaker 1: baby out. The baby who had felt your heartbeat from
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  Speaker 1: the inside now hears it from the outside as he
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  Speaker 1: draws his food from the sustenance of your breasts. It
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  Speaker 1: is a bond that develops between the mother and the
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  Speaker 1: child when properly executed. I mean a real mother that
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  Speaker 1: is inseparable. I'm sure our presence was some comfort. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to be comforting. I held her hand till I
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  Speaker 1: got on her nerves. I think I got on her
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  Speaker 1: nerves because I was watching the monitor and the monitor
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  Speaker 1: was telling me when the contractions was coming. And when
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  Speaker 1: we first started, it was cute. I said, here come
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  Speaker 1: another one. Here come another one. About the fifth time
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  Speaker 1: I said, here come another one, she said, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Her head spin all the way around like
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  Speaker 1: the exorcist. There was no makeup on. There was no
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  Speaker 1: eye shadow. There was no lipstick. She looked at me
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  Speaker 1: like she was going to foam at the mouth and
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  Speaker 1: swallow me whole. She said, I know. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need you to tell me when another contraction
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  Speaker 1: is coming. And clearly it became clear to me as
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  Speaker 1: the contractions became more intense. She was the one actually
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  Speaker 1: having the baby. I'm sure I tried to comfort her,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately motherhood is personal. The baby had borrowed flesh
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  Speaker 1: from her body. Maternal is the same word we get
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  Speaker 1: material from. And so from the womb of the woman,
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  Speaker 1: the baby draws the material that it will step out in.
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  Speaker 1: And it was hers, wrapped up in her flesh. It
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  Speaker 1: is in our text when we consider Mary, the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. She teaches us some powerful lessons. She teaches
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  Speaker 1: us some things that we need to understand. That when
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  Speaker 1: it talks about the scene about Jesus, it talks about
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  Speaker 1: him going from judgment hall to judgment hall. It talks
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  Speaker 1: about him being tried by the Sanhedrin court. It talks
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  Speaker 1: about him being rejected by his own people. It talks
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  Speaker 1: about him being turned over to Pilate. It talks about
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  Speaker 1: Pilate washing his hands. It talks about him being incarcerated.
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  Speaker 1: It talks about him going through tests and trials and
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  Speaker 1: tribulations and then sentenced to die behind a judicial system
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't even fair. They crucified an innocent man. In
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  Speaker 1: our text, it talks about the extremities and it's odd.
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  Speaker 1: The crucifixion on Golgotha's Hill, on the top of Golgotha's Hill,
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  Speaker 1: I've walked up it myself. It's amazing to me who
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there. When I walk up Golgotha's Hill, I can't
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  Speaker 1: help but wonder, where were the 5,000 who ate the
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  Speaker 1: fish and the bread? And I wonder where were the
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  Speaker 1: 10 lepers that had gotten healed? I wondered where was
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  Speaker 1: the woman with the issue of blood? I wonder where
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  Speaker 1: she was. I wondered where blind Bartimaeus was, who he
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  Speaker 1: had just healed on the way to Calvary. I wondered
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  Speaker 1: where Zacchaeus was who had spent the night at his house.
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  Speaker 1: I wondered where they were. What happened to the people
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  Speaker 1: that he touched? Where was the widow of May? Where
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  Speaker 1: were all the people that Jesus had served and healed
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  Speaker 1: and loved and given? And for that matter, where was
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  Speaker 1: Peter and Bartholomew? Where was Thomas? Where were all the
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  Speaker 1: disciples that were just one mentioned in the text? And
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  Speaker 1: his mama. Isn't it funny sometimes that we don't appreciate
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  Speaker 1: what we have? Chasing what we want. And then when
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  Speaker 1: the rubber meets the road and you really get in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: what you want don't even show up. And what you
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  Speaker 1: have is standing there with you through good times and
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  Speaker 1: bad times and hard times. There stood his mother. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought to myself, she must have been lonely standing there. Alone.
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  Speaker 1: She faces it alone. I even wondered where was his father?
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  Speaker 1: Where was Joseph? Joseph had been so instrumental and understanding
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  Speaker 1: and caring. Joseph had had a visitation by the angels.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had accepted the unacceptable and the unexplainable in the
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  Speaker 1: face of all of his friends and all his boys.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go down to the pub and tell
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  Speaker 1: the boys at the pub that the Holy Ghost had
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  Speaker 1: come on her. Come on, fellas. That's a hard message
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  Speaker 1: to explain before your wedding and your betrothed got a
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  Speaker 1: belly and you got to go tell your boys God
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  Speaker 1: did it. And they looking at you like you don't
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  Speaker 1: drink another beer. But he had been understanding, been compassionate.
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  Speaker 1: And he had decided not to give her a bill
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  Speaker 1: of divorcement and to believe the story and to protect
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  Speaker 1: the baby. And he had walked for miles to find
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  Speaker 1: a place for her to birth him. And she had
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  Speaker 1: birthed the baby in a manger and Joseph was there.
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  Speaker 1: And when Joseph was there, you also understand that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was on the hit list. About to be destroyed. That
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  Speaker 1: Herod had signed a decree to kill him. But Joseph
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  Speaker 1: had outsmarted him and took him down into Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: hit him. And I know Mary was standing there saying
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  Speaker 1: if Joseph was here, he would know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: But Joseph was not there. It was only when we
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  Speaker 1: began the research that we began to realize that by
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  Speaker 1: the time Jesus reached the cross, Joseph was dead. So
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  Speaker 1: Mary is standing there facing trouble with her child as
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  Speaker 1: a single mother. Joseph is gone. According to history, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was 80 when he married her. He was an older
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  Speaker 1: man marrying a young woman, which was the custom of
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  Speaker 1: the day. And he simply expired. And Mary was left alone.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some mothers who have been
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  Speaker 1: left alone. After the celebration was over and the fun
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  Speaker 1: was over and the conception was over and the promises
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  Speaker 1: was over and you found yourself raising your child Oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the baby bottles and the bassinets
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  Speaker 1: and the crimps and the carriage and getting the car
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  Speaker 1: seat in the car. I know that seems like the
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  Speaker 1: tough part of motherhood, but that's only tough because you're
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  Speaker 1: just getting started. There'll come a time in your life
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  Speaker 1: that you will wish that the only problem you had
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  Speaker 1: was getting the car seat in right. Because it does
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  Speaker 1: get tougher than car seats and blankets and finding a
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  Speaker 1: onesie that will fit. It gets tougher than that. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was there for the first part, but when it really
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  Speaker 1: got down to the tough part, she had to face
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  Speaker 1: it alone. There's a certain amount of toughness that a
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  Speaker 1: woman has to have when you got to do it
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. I think I'm in the wrong church. I
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  Speaker 1: need to be in the church with some mothers who
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  Speaker 1: had to do it by themselves, who had to fight
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  Speaker 1: the fight, who had to go out and go to
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  Speaker 1: work and be at home and make the recital and
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  Speaker 1: get them to the football practice and drive them down
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  Speaker 1: to the daycare center and meet with the principal and
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  Speaker 1: get back to work and do your homework and try
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  Speaker 1: to go back to school and try to make ends
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  Speaker 1: meet and try to make everything happen. And you had
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  Speaker 1: to do it all by yourself. I wish I was
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  Speaker 1: in a church that had some women in it who
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  Speaker 1: had to deal with every struggle by themselves. Raising a
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  Speaker 1: boy or raising a girl all by yourself. Questions you
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to answer. Getting in trouble that you
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  Speaker 1: never thought they would ever get into. Sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what to say and you had to deal
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  Speaker 1: with it all by yourself. I wish I could talk
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  Speaker 1: to some mothers out that didn't have the daddy and
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  Speaker 1: the mama standing on each side of the bed when
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  Speaker 1: you had the baby, but you still had to put
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  Speaker 1: your legs in the stirrup and push by yourself and
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  Speaker 1: birth the baby because the one who put it in
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there to take it out. And there you were
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  Speaker 1: standing there all by yourself. I wish I could talk
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  Speaker 1: to some mothers that are tough because you got to be,
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  Speaker 1: not because you want to be. because it was necessary,
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  Speaker 1: impossible for you to survive being a little flower. You
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be a little daisy. You couldn't be a little
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  Speaker 1: cutie pie. You had to roll up your sleeves and
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  Speaker 1: break a sweat and make this thing do what it
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  Speaker 1: do like it do. I wish I was in a
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  Speaker 1: place to talk to some, forget mothers, I need to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some mamas. Amen. I need to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some real mamas who've been through hell and back, who've
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  Speaker 1: been up all night taking care of some sick child
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  Speaker 1: and still had to go to work in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some real mamas who got
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  Speaker 1: sick taking care of a sick baby and you're still
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  Speaker 1: trying to take care of I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the nightclub mamas, the stripping mamas, the partying mamas,
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  Speaker 1: the mamas who's drunk on the couch, the mama who
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  Speaker 1: spent the night high and you don't even know the
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  Speaker 1: child is stealing the car. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some mamas who made some real sacrifices because you understand
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  Speaker 1: that being a mother is a place of sacrifice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, I'm a survivor. It's a certain feeling. It's
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  Speaker 1: a certain feeling. It's hard to explain. When your children
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  Speaker 1: get older and they get grown, it's almost like you
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  Speaker 1: climbed Mount Everest and survived. You just want to put
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  Speaker 1: an S on your chest. Yes. And say, didn't we
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  Speaker 1: do it the other night? One night my wife and
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  Speaker 1: I were just sitting up. We were sitting in a
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  Speaker 1: chair and we just burst out and started laughing. And
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  Speaker 1: we said, can you believe we made it? We made it.
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  Speaker 1: They've grown. Everything's good. They're okay. They survived. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: Making it ain't easy. Oh, y'all can't talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the wrong church this morning. Making it is
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  Speaker 1: not easy. Making it happen. Making it do what it do.
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  Speaker 1: Making it all the way to the end. Making it
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  Speaker 1: through adolescence. Making it while they got an attitude. Making
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  Speaker 1: it when they don't like you. Making it when they
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  Speaker 1: cuss you out. Making it out when they lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: Making it when they slap you. Making it ain't easy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know you got to sit up in church and
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  Speaker 1: act like you have never been through anything. But where
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  Speaker 1: my real mamas at who been to hell and back
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  Speaker 1: and you still made it. Take 30 seconds and praise
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  Speaker 1: God for being a survivor. Praise God for still being
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  Speaker 1: in the fight. Praise God for having made it. You
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  Speaker 1: got about five more seconds. You're worth it. You're worth it.
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  Speaker 1: You're worth it. And the Bible says that there are
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  Speaker 1: three women gathered there at the cross and all of
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  Speaker 1: them got the same name. Mary, Mary, and Mary. They
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  Speaker 1: have the same name. And they may even be dressed
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  Speaker 1: somewhat similarly. But they do not have the same story.
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  Speaker 1: There were three different Marys that were there. And each
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  Speaker 1: Mary has a different story. There is a Mary that
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  Speaker 1: is called Mary of Clophas. She is Mary, the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. The Bible calls her her sister. She's really
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  Speaker 1: her sister-in-law. She was married to Joseph's brother. And she
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  Speaker 1: comes to the cross to be with her. You know
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  Speaker 1: how you got your girls. Oh, y'all ain't got no girls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, them ride or die girls that hang with
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  Speaker 1: you come hell or high water. Them secret keeping girls
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  Speaker 1: that you can call and count on when things really
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  Speaker 1: get bad. Most women have a little posse. It's a
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  Speaker 1: small posse too. But it's two or three folks that
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  Speaker 1: they can call on when all hell is breaking loose
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  Speaker 1: and they know they got your back. Mary of Clopas
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  Speaker 1: was one of those girls. she is her sister-in-law in
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  Speaker 1: the early Christian writings as a brother of Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: the father of Simeon she enters into this relationship just
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  Speaker 1: to be with her girl at a tough time there
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  Speaker 1: are very few people who will be with you They'll
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  Speaker 1: be with you when he's turning water into wine. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be with you when he's walking on water. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: with you when he's winning. They'll be with you when
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  Speaker 1: he's on the Mount of Transfiguration. But when you get
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  Speaker 1: in real trouble, there are very few people who will
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  Speaker 1: hang with you all the way to the end and
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  Speaker 1: still be standing there. Everybody loves you when you're winning.
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  Speaker 1: But people have a way of sitting back and talking
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  Speaker 1: about you when you're losing. And there is a group
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  Speaker 1: of women that will say stuff like, have you heard
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  Speaker 1: about marriage? child. I knew they spoiled that child. I
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  Speaker 1: knew they gave him too much. But Mary of Clopas
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  Speaker 1: was not that kind of woman. She doesn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: She's just there. That's the best kind of support I need.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm going through trouble, I don't always need your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need your advice. I don't need your ideas.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need your concepts. Sometimes, just be there. As
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  Speaker 1: Mary faces the darkest days of her life, Mary of
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  Speaker 1: Clovis she's just there because she's connected to Mary and
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  Speaker 1: she cannot leave her and then there's Mary Magdalene she's
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  Speaker 1: in the same place but a different reason Mary Magdalene
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  Speaker 1: is not so much there because she's connected to the
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  Speaker 1: mother of Jesus Mary Magdalene is there because she's connected
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus Mary Magdalene is serious because she had seven demons,
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  Speaker 1: not literally seven, just meaning totally full of demons. The
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  Speaker 1: kinds of demons that had possessed her and controlled her
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  Speaker 1: and ruined her life. And Jesus cast them out of
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  Speaker 1: her and set her free. I want to stop a
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  Speaker 1: minute and praise God for being the kind of God
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  Speaker 1: that can cast stuff out of you and actually change
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 1: I know you sisters so and so now
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  Speaker 1: and you're Lady Johnson now and you're Lady Wilson now.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about when them demons was operating in
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  Speaker 1: your life and nobody could talk to your head. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: laid his hands on you and touched you and delivered
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  Speaker 1: you and he set you free and you got to
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  Speaker 1: praise him. You're under contract to praise him. Come hell
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  Speaker 1: or high water, you got to praise him because you've
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  Speaker 1: been through so much and he delivered you from so
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  Speaker 1: much and he brought you from a long way. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care who's singing. I don't care who's preaching. You
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  Speaker 1: will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall
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  Speaker 1: continually be in your mouth because when you think of
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of Jesus Christ, and all that he's done
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  Speaker 1: for you. Your soul cries out. Your soul cries out, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: You're not shouting because you got on a new dress.
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  Speaker 1: You're not shouting so they can see your stilettos. You're
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  Speaker 1: not shouting so they can see your new hairdo. You're
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  Speaker 1: shouting because you remember a time in your life when
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  Speaker 1: life was not worth living. And Jesus did the unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus did the impossible. And he cast your demons.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't ask them out. He cast them out of
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  Speaker 1: your life. When Jesus delivered Mary, she was not like
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  Speaker 1: one of them who could get her deliverance and walk away.
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  Speaker 1: She was not like one of them that could get
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  Speaker 1: her healing and going about her business. When Jesus delivered
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  Speaker 1: Mary Magdalene, she followed him the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, if you studied carefully, she was one of
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  Speaker 1: the women who undergirded his ministry financially because she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: give him enough to pay him back. For what he
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  Speaker 1: did in her life, what he delivered her from, what
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  Speaker 1: he changed her from, she would have been dead by now.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever she had, Jesus, you could have it. And she
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  Speaker 1: followed along to make sure that all of his needs
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  Speaker 1: was met. And all the while he was preaching and
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  Speaker 1: going here and going there, Mary Magdalene was paying bills
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  Speaker 1: and making it possible for it to happen just because
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  Speaker 1: she was grateful. I wish I had some grateful mothers
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  Speaker 1: that could make some noise and say, I'm just so grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just so grateful. I wish I had some mamas
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  Speaker 1: that weren't complaining about everything and fussing about everything, but
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  Speaker 1: just grateful that God did what he did. I'll have
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  Speaker 1: to tell the Lord, if you don't ever do anything
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  Speaker 1: else for me. I still owe you the praise because
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  Speaker 1: you already did so much in my life. I owe you.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you. I owe you. I owe you. I
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  Speaker 1: owe you so much. I owe you so much. I
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  Speaker 1: owe you so much. I owe you so much. I
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  Speaker 1: should have been dead. I should have been crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: should have blown my brains out. I should have OD'd
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  Speaker 1: on drugs. I should have died with a needle in
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  Speaker 1: my arm. But I owe you so much. I owe
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  Speaker 1: you so much. When I was falling, you caught me.
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  Speaker 1: When I tripped, you picked me up. When I got
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  Speaker 1: in the mud, you washed me off. I I owe
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  Speaker 1: you so much. Oh, I wish I had a thousand tongues.
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  Speaker 1: I praise you with every one of them. I just
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  Speaker 1: owe you so much. Poor little Mary Magdalene was raised
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  Speaker 1: in a small fishing port called Magdala down by the
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  Speaker 1: seaside where fishermen who had been on long journeys would
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  Speaker 1: finally dock the boat at Magdala. She grew up as
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  Speaker 1: a little girl around lonely old dirty stinking men. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to fill in the blanks for you
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  Speaker 1: to understand what it would be like to be a
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  Speaker 1: little girl dealing with a bunch of seamen who had
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  Speaker 1: been away for months and came into port. Magdala was
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  Speaker 1: known for two things, fishermen and prostitution. No wonder she
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  Speaker 1: had so many demons. Look at what she'd been through.
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  Speaker 1: unsheltered and unprotected and uncovered and unprovided for. No wonder
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  Speaker 1: she carried so much. Dr. Ellis says the reason why
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  Speaker 1: she was in so much pain and everybody else was
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: talking about what she did, but Jesus knew why. Oh,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I love him because while other people are talking about
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  Speaker 1: the what, Jesus understands the why. I wish I understood,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I understood the power of understanding the why.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't get them demons by herself. And she followed
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  Speaker 1: him all his life when he was popular and unpopular.
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  Speaker 1: When they were trying to kill him, she was still
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  Speaker 1: following him. When they set traps to ambush him, she
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: still followed him. When they caught him in Jerusalem, she
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: still followed him. Peter denied him and she still followed him.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas doubted him and she still followed him. Judas betrayed
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: him and Mary Magdalene, the old whore. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: can't let nobody bind you with the names they call you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Because while man looks at the outer appearance, God looks
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  Speaker 1: at the heart. That old hooker was still stumbling in
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  Speaker 1: behind Jesus trying to make sure everything was okay. She
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: followed him. all the way to the cross. She is
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: not Mary's home girl. She's Jesus' witness. And these three
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: women are staring at him while he dies. Mary follows him,
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  Speaker 1: Mary Magdalene, even after he was dead. She followed him
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  Speaker 1: through the pain and the trauma. She went down to
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  Speaker 1: the tomb after he would be stinking. She still came
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  Speaker 1: to follow what was left of Jesus. He'd done so
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  Speaker 1: much for her. That even if he didn't set up
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  Speaker 1: his kingdom. And even if he didn't rule. And even
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't overthrow Rome. And even if he didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to power. She said I will follow what's left
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  Speaker 1: of him. I loved him alive. I love him dead.
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  Speaker 1: I love him in the grave. I love him stinking.
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  Speaker 1: I love him enough to put flowers on his stink.
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  Speaker 1: I'll cover up the stink. So nobody will know that
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  Speaker 1: he was coming apart. That's how much she loved Jesus.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Her gratitude for his deliverance of her demonic behavior created
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  Speaker 1: a sense of loyalty that lasted beyond the grave. But
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  Speaker 1: on the cross there are these three Marys. Mary, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: and Mary. Sorrows in suffering. Sisters in agony. And Mary,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of Jesus, is just staring at her baby.
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  Speaker 1: She represents his beginning on earth, and the cross represents
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  Speaker 1: his ending. Both Alpha and Omega are present in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot, in the same picture. Alpha being his mother,
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  Speaker 1: Omega being his cross, the end of his work on earth.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder in my mind if while she was
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: staring at her baby die, I wonder if she was thinking,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: where is Gabriel now? Gabriel told me that I would
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  Speaker 1: bring forth a son and he would save his people
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  Speaker 1: from their sins. I thought I was having a king.
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  Speaker 1: The wise men came and said he was a king.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the king. I never saw the cross. Be
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: careful about prophecies. Because prophecies don't give details. They give highlights.
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  Speaker 1: They will tell you about the king, but they will
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  Speaker 1: not always tell you about the cross. And Mary is
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  Speaker 1: standing there looking at something that no prophet had warned
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: her about. That every king has a cross. And I
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: wonder in my mind as she stood there staring at Jesus,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: remembering what it felt like for his little feet to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: kick her in her rib cage. I wonder if she
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  Speaker 1: thought about that when they drove a nail through his feet.
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  Speaker 1: The metatarsals in his feet, torn ligaments ripped apart by
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  Speaker 1: steel nails into a wooden cross. The carpenter's son is
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: now nailed to wood. I wonder if she thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: His arms pushing against her belly as they nailed him.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to a wooden cross. I wonder if she had flashback
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: of old Joseph trying to teach Jesus how to be
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: a carpenter. And Jesus is familiar with wood and nails
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and now he's on it. I wonder. I wonder did
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  Speaker 1: she think about it. Gabriel had not told her that
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  Speaker 1: her son would be such a polarizing figure that he
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: would be hated by religious people. He didn't tell her
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that her son would be beaten with a cat of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: nine tails until he was literally hanging there and the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: guts she fed are now hanging out of his skin.
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  Speaker 1: History says his entrails were hanging out. That's what Isaiah
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: means when there was no beauty about him that we
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: should desire him. And everybody's gone. But mama is still
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: standing there. She stands in the same spot of grief
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: of Trayvon Martin's mother. or Armand Arbery, or Michael Brown,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: or Tamir Rice, or Breonna Taylor's mother, and many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many more. You don't have to be in the Bible
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to lose a child. Mother's Day is not always a
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: good day for mothers. Not only because many of us,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: me included, have lost our mothers. And if I preached
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: about that, condolences to all of you who have lost
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: your mother as I have lost mine. But if we
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: focus on that, it's really Children's Day. I want to
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: focus on mothers who have lost their child. Lost him
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  Speaker 1: to police brutality. Lost him to a flawed criminal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: Lost him to gunfire in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Lost him to gang violence. Lost him to drive-by murders.
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  Speaker 1: Lost him to crack. Lost him to drugs. Lost him
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: to AIDS. lost him to jail. And mama's still standing there.
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  Speaker 1: There are some mothers in this room who didn't get
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: a card from one of their kids because he can't
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  Speaker 1: make a call from jail. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: mothers that Mother's Day brings up the pain of the
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  Speaker 1: things you had to watch your child through. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know that we have a Jesus that can
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  Speaker 1: relate to the pain you carry. That his mama stood
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  Speaker 1: there and watched him wrongfully be killed in front of
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: her face. That maybe Jesus would have made the headlines today.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: And maybe Jesus would have had been crumped today. And
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: maybe Jesus would have had a trial today like we
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: are seeing played out all over the streets of America.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And not just America, all over the world where mothers
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  Speaker 1: have had to stand by the remains of sons who
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  Speaker 1: were wrongfully killed. Do you know how old Jesus was?
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: 33 years old. Do you know how young 33 is? Dr.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: King was 39 years old. He never got to be
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: 40 when they shot him on the porch of a
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Memphis motel. It wasn't even a nice hotel. And they
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: killed him with one shot and took him out of
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: this world. Are you hearing what I'm saying to you?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: We have endured a lot of pain. Whether your child
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: dies at the hands of a dreaded disease or a
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: botched surgical procedure. No mother who ever nursed a child
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: expects to be a helpless witness to the death of
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: her child. The first call said he shall save his
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: people from their sins. But the last call is from
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a place of excruciating pain. And still she stayed. No
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: S on her chest. No cape on her back. No
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: boots on her legs. But real mothers are superheroes. When
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Jesus finally, as he agonizes on the cross, And wrenches
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  Speaker 1: with his body wracked with a pain so excruciating that
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  Speaker 1: it is not just the pain from the wounds, but
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  Speaker 1: the nerve cells that are separated by the lacerations of
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the nails has caused the nerve cells to go all
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: through his body in pain. And he is literally bleeding
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: out in front of his mother. And I know she
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: wanted to look away because who would want to look
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: at it? And yet she could not look away because
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: she did not want him to be alone. To Adam,
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  Speaker 1: he is the Lamb of God, the mighty God, the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Prince of Peace, the everlasting Father. The lily of the valley.
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  Speaker 1: The bright and morning star. The day star. The shield.
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  Speaker 1: The buckler. The I am of Israel. The mighty God.
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  Speaker 1: To others he is the son of God. To others
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  Speaker 1: he is the master physician. To others he is a
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: wheel in the middle of a wheel. To others he
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  Speaker 1: is the rock of ages. To others he is the
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: lamb of God. But to her, that's my baby. They
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: killed my baby on the cross. And as she dropped
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: her head, the sun dropped his. And the earth grew dark.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: And the ground trembled while her stomach turned. And graves
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: opened up all over Jerusalem. And the veil in the
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: temple was rent from the top to the bottom. And
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: while he was dying, with parched lips, From an old
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: rugged cross, he finally looks in her direction. And the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Bible says that when Jesus saw his mother, he said
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to her, not what I would have said. I would
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: have said, Mama! Mama! I know I would. I'm 60-something
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: years old, but I know I would have cried if
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I saw my mother. I would have said, Mama! Mama!
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Like George Floyd, I'd have said, Mama! Mama, they're killing me!
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: But Jesus turned and looked at her and said, Woman,
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  Speaker 1: behold your son. Wait a minute. Woman? Woman? Woman, not mama,
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  Speaker 1: not mother, not mommy, not my dear, not mommy. Jesus says,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: this is the end of our relationship as you knew it. Woman,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: He divorces the relationship he had with her and turns
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: from his mama to his daddy. And says, Father, into
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: thy hands I commend my spirit. And to her he says,
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  Speaker 1: Simply woman. And still she stood. When your son, your
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: dying son refers to you as woman and you still
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: stand there. She is a soul survivor. Why would I
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: call a soul survivor? Joseph is dead. Jesus is dead.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: And Mary is the last one left standing. gazing at
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: what no mother wants to see. I want to talk
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: to every mother whose son is in jail or not
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: speaking to you or not dealing with you, whose daughter
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: is estranged from you. I want to talk to every
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: mother who has the bitter taste of gal in the
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: pit of her stomach because Mother's Day for you is
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: not a happy Mother's Day, not as happy as you
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: thought it would be or could be. or maybe even
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: should be, and still she stood. Woman, behold your son.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Jesus stopped dying to give his mama what she gave him,
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  Speaker 1: a place to stay. You cannot be a good child
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: if you don't give back to your mama what your
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: mama gave you. Woman, behold your son. No wonder John
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: is called the one. whom Jesus loved. I have to
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: love you to trust you with my mama. I can't
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: lock you and trust you with my mama. You can't
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: be okay with me and trust you with my mama.
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  Speaker 1: He's dying on the cross and he holds death off
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: long enough to tell his mama where it's safe to stay.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Women I feel like preaching, excuse me. Women! Women! God
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: will never leave you outdoors. Do you hear me? Every
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: sister in this place, do you understand the words that
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: are coming out of my mouth that if Jesus would
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: stop dying to make sure that his mama wasn't homeless,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: surely God has a place for you. Woman, behold thy son. Son,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: behold your mother. And still she stood. Soul survivor, all
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: by herself. I want to talk to every woman who
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: feels all by herself. who feels like everybody has forsaken
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: you and everything you love leaves. I want to talk
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: to every woman online who feels like everything you love
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: leaves or dies or walks away and you don't know
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: what to do. You do what Mary did. She still
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: stands I'm almost finished, but what really gets me about
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: the text is that she's gone through enough hell to
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: be through with God, to walk away from him and say, listen,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: that you gave me the worst pain of my life.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: But still, she stays, not just to the grave, No.
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  Speaker 1: She's at service next Sunday. She's at service next Sunday.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: She's at service after that. She's at service. She's still
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: serving God through the pain. The only praise that matters
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: is a praise that comes through the pain. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a praise that comes through the pain, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a praise at all. If all you do
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  Speaker 1: is praise God because your shoes was on sale, because
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  Speaker 1: you got your house on a discount, because you got
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  Speaker 1: a car in layaway, you don't have a praise. What
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  Speaker 1: God wants is a sacrifice of praise. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had somebody watching me somewhere in spite of all the
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  Speaker 1: pain you've seen in your life. I'll give you 30
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  Speaker 1: seconds to give God some kind of survival scream. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah! Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah! Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a survivor's praise. A survivor's praise. A survivor's praise.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have nothing to do with money. Don't have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with friends. I want to hear a survivor's
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  Speaker 1: praise break loose in this place. Let me hear it online.
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  Speaker 1: Let me hear it on Facebook. Let me hear it
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. Let me see it. Let me hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me hear it. Let me hear it on the Zoom.
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  Speaker 1: I need a survivor's praise. I need a survivor's praise.
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  Speaker 1: If I have a survivor, I'll praise him if the
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  Speaker 1: car don't start. I'll pray them if I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a coat. I'll pray them if I don't have on
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  Speaker 1: cute shoes. Let everything that have breath. Look at somebody say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a survivor. I'm a survivor. Type it on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a survivor. Put it in the chat. I'm a survivor.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get here because it was easy. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get here without tears. I didn't get here without suffering.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get here without agony. I didn't get here
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  Speaker 1: without problems. I didn't get here without pain, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: a survivor. The reason I still got my faith is
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: because I'm a survivor. I I need a survivor's place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of these cute church praises. I want somebody
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  Speaker 1: who survived to praise the Lord. I've been in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the valley. I've been down. I've been sick.
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  Speaker 1: I've been afflicted. Yet. Will I praise him? Lift your voice.
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  Speaker 1: Open your mouth. Give God praise. Till hell gets nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Till demons tremble. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm a survivor.
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  Speaker 1: And I learned how to praise him. I praised him sick.
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  Speaker 1: I praised him broke. I praised him lonely. I praised
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  Speaker 1: him frustrated. Is there a survivor in this place? Is
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: there a survivor? Is there a survivor? Look at somebody
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  Speaker 1: real cocky and say, you can't take my praise. You
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: can take my coat, but you can't take my praise.
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  Speaker 1: You can take my dreams, but you can't take my praise.
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  Speaker 1: You can take my hope, but you can't take my praise.
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  Speaker 1: I'll stand here and praise it with tears running down
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  Speaker 1: my face. With body and pain. I stand at a
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  Speaker 1: cemetery and still give God the... I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: And still give... I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 2: And still give.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you this praise, God. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I owe you this.
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  Speaker 1: Praise. I owe you....
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I owe you. I owe you. I owe you.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you. I owe you.
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  Speaker 2: I owe you.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you. If you don't praise him, the rocks
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  Speaker 1: will cry out. If you don't praise him, the rocks
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  Speaker 1: will cry out. I feel it.
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  Speaker 2: You deserve my praise!
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  Speaker 1: You deserve my praise!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah! Yes, Lord!
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Praise Him! Praise Him! Through dialysis.
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  Speaker 1: Praise him. Through a kidney machine. Praise him. In spite
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: of diabetes. Praise him. In spite of the divorce. Praise him.
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  Speaker 1: Praise him. I said praise him. Lift your voice and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: praise him. This ain't nothing but a test. This ain't
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: nothing but a test. You got 60 seconds to pass
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  Speaker 1: this test. On your mark, get set, go!
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  Speaker 2: We owe you a praise, Doug!
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: We owe you this praise. Yes, we do. We owe
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  Speaker 1: you this praise.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 1: We owe you this praise. Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We owe you this praise. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel something in here I feel something in here
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  Speaker 1: I feel something moving in here I feel something stirring
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  Speaker 1: in here I feel the wind blowing in here if
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: you don't stop praising him the Holy Ghost is going
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to sit down in this place right now if you
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: don't stop praising him a fresh anointing is going to
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  Speaker 1: fall on you right now if you don't stop praising.
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  Speaker 2: Him A breakthrough!
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  Speaker 1: A breakthrough!
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  Speaker 2: A breakthrough!
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  Speaker 1: A breakthrough! A breakthrough! A breakthrough! A breakthrough! A breakthrough!
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: so I'm almost finished but God didn't trust nobody but
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Luke to finish the story and Luke says it like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: this when the day of Pentecost was fully come and
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: they were in one place with one accord suddenly there
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: came a sound from heaven. Like a mighty rushing wind,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: cloven tongues appeared like as a fire and sat and
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: sat on each of them. And they were all filled
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost. How did all of them got
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost? But one of them got her baby back.
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  Speaker 1: Mary is the only mother in history who got to
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  Speaker 1: carry her baby twice. When the Holy Ghost leaped up
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: in her belly, she said, I got it back. I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: got it back. I got it back. Grab your stomach
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: and say, I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I prophesied to you that everything that the devil stole,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: everything that the enemy took, everything that got away from you,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: God will give it back to you. Open your mouth
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  Speaker 1: and give him praise.
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  Speaker 2: I got it back.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. I got
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: it back. I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. I got
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  Speaker 1: it back. I got it back. Yeah! I got it back.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. Yeah! I
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: got it back. Yeah! I got it back. Yeah! I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: got it back. I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I got it, I got it. She's walking around. I
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: got it, I got it. In the upper room. I
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: got it, I got it. She's walking around. In the
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  Speaker 1: upper room. Say, what you got, Mary? I got Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And he's all over me. And he's keeping me alive. Ah! Ah! Ah!
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  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. I got
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: it back. I got it back. Got my joy back.
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  Speaker 2: I got it back.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Got my peace back.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: I got it back.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Got my power back. I got it back. Got my
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: anointing back. Got my ministry back. Got my name back.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Got my credit back. I got it back. Got my
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: power back. I got it back. Got my opinion back.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Give it back to me. Give it back to me.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Give it back to me. I got it, I got it,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: I got it. I got it, I got it, I
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got it, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Say yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I got it. Lift
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  Speaker 1: your hand.
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  Speaker 2: And say yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes! Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Lift your hands and cry!
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Yes! Yes! Yes! One more time! Yeah! Stand right there.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Stand right there. Stand in your living room. Stand on
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  Speaker 1: your couch. Stand right there. The next time the devil
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: brings up Your past, your pain, your problems, your turmoil,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: your agony, your loneliness, your frustration. Just grab your belly
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  Speaker 1: like this and go to walking around the room and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: let the devil know everything you stole from me. Y'all
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: ain't got no faith. Everything you stole from me. I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: want somebody to put their hand on their belly and
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: take a walk somewhere and just declare to yourself, I
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  Speaker 1: got it back. I got it back. I got my
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: peace back. I got my joy back. I got my
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: power back. I got my glory back.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: I got it back.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it. I got it.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I got it. I got it. I got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I know I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: I know I got it back.
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  Speaker 2: I got it back.
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  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it. I've got it, I've
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: got it.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it. I've got it, I've
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: got it.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it. I've got it, I've
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it. I've got it, I've
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it.
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  Speaker 2: I've got.
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  Speaker 1: It, I've got it. I've got it, I've got it.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got it. I've got it, I've
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: got it. I've got it, I've got it. I've got
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: it This is a moment of restoration. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: You better say yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment of restoration. I don't know what
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: horrible thing life has brought you that's been looking you
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: in your face. I don't know what you had to
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: stare at. From the beautiful tender face of a young
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: maiden staring at a prophetic word delivered by an angel
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: to crow's feet around her eyes and wrinkles under her
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  Speaker 1: chin Life will show you a lot of things that
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: you don't want to look at. But if you stand
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: through it, and if you can't stand through it, crawl
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: through it. Hey! You may have to get down on
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: your knees and crawl through it. You may have to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: cry through it. But before it's all over, I swear
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: he'll make it up to you. Can you imagine the
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Bible specifically list Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: upper room when the Holy Ghost fell? And can you
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: imagine her holding her belly, speaking in tongues. Any mama
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: know her baby. She say, yeah. I will not leave
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: you comfortless. I will come to you. And there he is.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: And the rest of her life, he who has been
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: with her is now within her. These are trying times
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: we're living in. The images, I don't know about you,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: but can I be honest with you for a minute?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: There are images that I've seen that are burned into
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: my head. I never will forget when we went to
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: New Orleans and first met Trayvon's mama And daddy, and
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: what you said to her and what I said to him,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: is still alive today. And every now and then she
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: calls you. This morning? Are you serious? She called her
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: this morning. I never will forget jumping on a plane
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: and flying out to St. Louis to go to Michael
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: Brown's funeral. Didn't know him, didn't know his mama. But
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: I heard her on the news say, do you know
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: how hard it is for a black woman to raise
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: a child that goes to college? And now he's dead.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: And my heart bled so I flew out there just
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: to say I feel you. I had all of the,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: there's more of them now, but when I was doing
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: my talk show, I had all of the mothers around me.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: And I prayed for them in the middle of the
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: talk show. And the thousands more that never make TV.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: If you don't think that there are mamas in this
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: room who have children in jail, you are sleeping. If
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: you don't think there are mamas in this room who've
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: lost their children to AIDS or husbands, you're asleep. If
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you don't think that there are people in this room
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: who have endured pain that makeup cannot hide, you have
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: lost your mind. If you don't think that there are
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: people in this room who almost died then you are blind,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: but still they stand. And I listen to people now
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: talking about making babies. That's nice. But they don't stay babies.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: They grow up. Everything grows up. And everything grows old.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: And what makes you a man is how you manage
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: all the stages and ages along the way. Am I
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: right about it? Amen. What makes you a real woman
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: is to manage it when it means this and manage
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: it when it means that and be a soul survivor.