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Bishop TD Jakes Classic Sermon Anywhere But Backwards · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Get your Bibles and go to 1 Kings chapter number 19.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: God is good. It's our custom to stand for the
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  Speaker 1: reading of the word. If you're able-bodied, please indulge us.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Kings chapter 19, we'll begin reading at the 17th
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  Speaker 1: verse and conclude with the 21st verse. We want to
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  Speaker 1: welcome you to the potter's house. Amen. There's absolutely no
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  Speaker 1: reason in the world for you to feel uncomfortable. Unless wild, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: excited people for Jesus bother you. You should get along
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  Speaker 1: real good with us. If you're loud, we're loud. If
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  Speaker 1: you're quiet, we're tolerant. We don't mind you being you
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  Speaker 1: if you don't mind us being us. We all mix
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  Speaker 1: it up together and God gets the glory out of
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  Speaker 1: all of it. Amen. I want to encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: get out to Bible class if you can. I don't
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  Speaker 1: say that because attendance is low. It's actually quite high.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some things that God is talking about
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  Speaker 1: you need to hear. And sometimes we perish for the
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  Speaker 1: lack of knowledge the Lord's made available to us, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't come get it. It'll make a difference in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. As I talk about economic empowerment, I realize
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not going to go off the subject, nor
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  Speaker 1: am I a professional on the subject, but I can
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  Speaker 1: lay some foundation to get you started. It causes you
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  Speaker 1: to understand how to use your faith in alignment with
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  Speaker 1: your situation to unlock the principles of God in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the great advantages of going to
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  Speaker 1: this church is because no matter where you are financially,
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  Speaker 1: I've been there. You can't outbroke me. If you was broke,
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  Speaker 1: I was broke up. You broke her, I was broke-assed. Amen. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I relate to the struggle. You had bad credit,
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  Speaker 1: my credit had AIDS. In the final stages. My credit
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  Speaker 1: was so bad, they didn't even send me back a response.
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  Speaker 1: They just laughed. He said, you want what? Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: But God. There are certainly people in this church that
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  Speaker 1: have more money than me. There are. I don't doubt that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm not in a contest. But you have
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate where I've been To understand where I am.
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  Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying? That's good. We're not in
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  Speaker 1: a contest for success. You're not competing against one another,
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  Speaker 1: and so doing is not wise. You want to develop
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  Speaker 1: your own story. I told them Wednesday night, my grandmother
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  Speaker 1: was prosperous. She was very prosperous. You pass by the house,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't think it was a great house. It was
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  Speaker 1: an okay house. And she had the same couch when
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  Speaker 1: she died that she had when I was a little boy.
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  Speaker 1: But it was in good shape. It didn't look bad.
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  Speaker 1: It was clean and neat. And she understood how to
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  Speaker 1: prosper on her level. See, without trying to go to
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  Speaker 1: other levels, she had a lifestyle that would accommodate her comfortably.
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  Speaker 1: Died with money in the bank. Could go to the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store and go in there and get something without
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  Speaker 1: counting it up in the car. Because she didn't extend
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  Speaker 1: herself beyond her means. It's one thing to get a
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  Speaker 1: new kitchen and it's another thing to be able to
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  Speaker 1: put food in it after you get it. Get a
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  Speaker 1: Rolls Royce and don't have a garage.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? It looks real good, but
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  Speaker 1: it's stupid, you know. It's just not practical. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: first got my Mercedes, rolled up to the gas station,
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  Speaker 1: asked him how much was the gas. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: I needed to ask that, I didn't need to call.
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  Speaker 1: I was just used to asking, you know. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand that's how I got the car, by asking that
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  Speaker 1: kind of question. Amen. The Bible said in business be men. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to help you because I want you
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed. I want you to be blessed. You're
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  Speaker 1: in a church with a pastor who does not mind
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  Speaker 1: how blessed you are. I want you to be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. You never got to
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  Speaker 1: worry about me being jealous. I'll never be jealous of you.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to succeed. Your success is my success.
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  Speaker 1: You are the proof of the legitimacy of my ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Not just your finances, but development in every area. Spiritually, emotionally, relationally,
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  Speaker 1: every area. You're proof positively. That the food was good.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying? I want you to have that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to leave a thought with you. I won't
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  Speaker 1: be too long. I don't guess. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: look at the 19th chapter of the book of 1 Kings,
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  Speaker 1: verse 17 through 21. When you have it, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: Allow me to read it in your hearing. And it
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  Speaker 1: shall come to pass that him that escapeth the sword
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  Speaker 1: of Hazael shall Jehu slay. And him that escapes from
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  Speaker 1: the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. Yet I have
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  Speaker 1: left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
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  Speaker 1: have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which have
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  Speaker 1: not kissed him. So he departed thence and found Elisha
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  Speaker 1: the son of Shaphat who was plowing with twelve yoke
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  Speaker 1: of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And
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  Speaker 1: Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him.
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  Speaker 1: And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said,
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  Speaker 1: let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and mother
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  Speaker 1: and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him,
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  Speaker 1: go back again for what have I done to thee?
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  Speaker 1: And he returned back from him and took a yoke
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  Speaker 1: of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh. with
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  Speaker 1: the instruments of the oxen and gave unto the people
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  Speaker 1: and they did eat. Then he arose and went after
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  Speaker 1: Elijah and ministered unto him. Verse 20, he left the
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  Speaker 1: oxen and ran after Elijah and said, let me, I
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  Speaker 1: pray thee, kiss my father and my mother and then
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  Speaker 1: will I follow thee? And he said unto him, go
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  Speaker 1: back again. Go away, go back. Go back, go back,
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  Speaker 1: go back. My subject is anywhere but backwards Anywhere. Makes
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  Speaker 1: me absolutely no difference where I go. Anywhere. But backwards.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray. Father, I thank you for this moment. I
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  Speaker 1: see that with every ounce of strength I have, use
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  Speaker 1: me for your glory. endow me with the kind of
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  Speaker 1: power that makes preaching simplistic and effective revolutionize somebody's thinking
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  Speaker 1: today change us rearrange us just do not forsake us
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for being the God of all flesh
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing too hard for you and I pray
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  Speaker 1: today in the name of Jesus that the power of
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  Speaker 1: God would break out on the right and on the
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  Speaker 1: left And that people everywhere would be changed and delivered
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  Speaker 1: and set free. Not by me alone, but by the
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  Speaker 1: word itself. And what it is able to do. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you and I praise you. In the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus we pray. Somebody shout amen. You may be seated.
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  Speaker 1: On your way down just say anywhere. But backwards. I
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  Speaker 1: am in the final processes of publishing a book that
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  Speaker 1: should be out the end of this year, the first
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  Speaker 1: of January, called Maximize the Moment. And most of you
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  Speaker 1: have heard me talk about it while I was writing.
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  Speaker 1: Maximize the Moment has gone to the publishers and should
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  Speaker 1: be out toward the end of the year. And in it,
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  Speaker 1: I tried to stay pretty close to the theme of
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  Speaker 1: calling people to appreciate the brevity of life and to
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  Speaker 1: understand that life is a fleeting vapor. It soon passes
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  Speaker 1: by us and it's gone. And I know it sounds
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  Speaker 1: a little negative to say that, but I have to
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  Speaker 1: keep telling you that because if I don't tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you'll forget. And all while you're forgetting, hair is coming
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  Speaker 1: out in your brush. All while you're forgetting, your teeth
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  Speaker 1: are sagging in your gums. Your skin is coming loose
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  Speaker 1: on your face. And if I don't keep telling you,
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  Speaker 1: time will slip by you like money through your hands
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  Speaker 1: and you won't know where it went. And you'll look
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  Speaker 1: around and be a little old lady on wobbly knees,
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  Speaker 1: wrinkled skin and sagging breasts and not know what day
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  Speaker 1: you got that with. For I assure you, you will
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  Speaker 1: either get old or die young. So every moment is important.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't seize the moment and suck the very
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  Speaker 1: life out of it ravenously, fiercely with tenacity the enemy
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  Speaker 1: will have stolen your greatest resource, which is time itself.
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  Speaker 1: Every morning you wake up, you need to blow God
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  Speaker 1: a kiss and thank him for another day. And to
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  Speaker 1: seize that moment and to understand and to appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: is the epitome of life itself. And I guess I'm
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  Speaker 1: philosophical because I think all the time. I'm thinking. All
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  Speaker 1: the time, about everything and everybody. I think all the time,
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  Speaker 1: very analytical about everything, assessing situations. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to an elect group of people. I normally try to
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  Speaker 1: fit the whole congregation, but today I would be happy
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  Speaker 1: to talk to 10. I would be happy to ignore
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  Speaker 1: the masses of you and reach the minority if I
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  Speaker 1: could get this thought into somebody's head. I want to
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  Speaker 1: describe someone who is thinking And wondering and has always
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  Speaker 1: wondered why they were so different. There is a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that comes upon people that are elect and special. A
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  Speaker 1: feeling that is not particularly celebrative. It's in fact frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: Because our instinct is not to be elite. Our instinct
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  Speaker 1: is to be accepted. And we want drastically to fit in.
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  Speaker 1: We want to fit in. That's why we change our
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  Speaker 1: hair with changing styles. Sometimes it's not even that we
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  Speaker 1: like the style better. It's just that everybody's wearing it
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  Speaker 1: this way now. And we want to fit in. And
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  Speaker 1: the fear of having an old hairdo, regardless of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it looked good on you, sometimes will intimidate
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  Speaker 1: you in the change because we desperately need to be accepted.
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  Speaker 1: And when we seek acceptance, many of us become frustrated
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  Speaker 1: only to find out that no matter what we change
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  Speaker 1: about ourselves, somehow we're still not accepted. For one reason
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  Speaker 1: or another, we're not accepted. If it's not our economical status,
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  Speaker 1: our social status, it's our academic level. If it's not
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  Speaker 1: our academic level, it's the color of our skin. If
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  Speaker 1: you resort back to people of your own ethnicity, they
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  Speaker 1: still separate from you. If you say, well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to leave my people and stick with my family, they
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  Speaker 1: still separate from you. And ultimately you find yourself kind
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  Speaker 1: of isolated. And you begin to wonder, why am I
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  Speaker 1: not accepted? Not understanding that God has crafted you uniquely
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  Speaker 1: and specifically for his own divine purpose. And that God
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  Speaker 1: never made two people alike ever. That you are unique
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  Speaker 1: in and of yourself and he didn't mean for you
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  Speaker 1: to be like anybody. And you begin to understand yourself
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  Speaker 1: is the epitome of wisdom. To understand who you are.
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  Speaker 1: In the process of understanding who you are, you have
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  Speaker 1: to come to the one who made you. Because you
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  Speaker 1: ultimately have to ask him. When you get through asking people,
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  Speaker 1: what do you see in me? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: of me? And how do you like me? You ultimately
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  Speaker 1: have to go back to the manufacturer and say, why
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  Speaker 1: am I thus? Why am I like I am? Which
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  Speaker 1: leads you to self-analysis. Who am I? Why am I?
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  Speaker 1: Where am I? How am I? And what am I
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  Speaker 1: to do? At the point that you get to these questions,
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  Speaker 1: you are ready to mature. As long as you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out who everybody else is, you're not ready.
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  Speaker 1: There are a group of us that are not at
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  Speaker 1: all interested in finding out the latest gossip on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: There are a group of us who don't return the
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  Speaker 1: phone call, the people who have the latest scoop. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: there was a time that we would have really been
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  Speaker 1: fascinated to know what was going on in somebody else's life,
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  Speaker 1: but now there's so much going on in our own lives.
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  Speaker 1: If we can master who we are, if we can
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  Speaker 1: analyze how to raise our children, if we can figure
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  Speaker 1: out the struggle in our own house, I'm so preoccupied
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  Speaker 1: with what's going on with me that I don't have
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  Speaker 1: time to critique what's going on with you. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: have to know who am I. That's this thing that
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  Speaker 1: gets down inside of you and it begins to incubate potential. Potential. Potential. Potential.
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  Speaker 1: You have potential. You have potential. Potential can be a
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  Speaker 1: frustrating thing because there's a difference between having potential and
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  Speaker 1: performing at the level of your potential. All of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden you begin to understand, I feel like I have potential.
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  Speaker 1: How many people feel like that? I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: have potential. I can't even identify it. I can't specify it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't articulate it. But I feel like there is
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  Speaker 1: something down inside of me that is yet to be
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  Speaker 1: developed that if it came to fruition, it would change
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  Speaker 1: the world as I knew it. I feel like there
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  Speaker 1: is some reason why I was raised like I was raised.
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  Speaker 1: There is some reason. That I went through what I
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  Speaker 1: went through. There is some reason that I endured what
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  Speaker 1: I endured and survived what I survived. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: somebody who has all the raw ingredients, the flour, the butter,
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  Speaker 1: the milk, the sugar, everything to make the cake. I
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  Speaker 1: just need somebody to help me put this together. Potential, potential,
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  Speaker 1: unrealized dreams laying down in the belly of my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It begins to get down in you and as time passes,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to say, I've got to answer the questions
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  Speaker 1: because I'm convinced that life is some sort of huge,
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  Speaker 1: enormous test. It's just a big test with lots and
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  Speaker 1: lots of questions, primarily fill in the blank. And the
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  Speaker 1: issue is to fill in the blank before the bell
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  Speaker 1: rings and life is over. And I die with unanswered questions.
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  Speaker 1: Life is one big test. And if I can get
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  Speaker 1: out of me all that's in me before the bell rings,
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  Speaker 1: I passed. Don't let me die with the question still
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  Speaker 1: left blank. I must have the answer. Have I got
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  Speaker 1: your attention? It is this kind of mental pursuit that
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  Speaker 1: separates you even more from people because everybody else just
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  Speaker 1: wants to talk about foolishness. What was the score of
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  Speaker 1: the game? Who won? What's up? What's going on? But
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  Speaker 1: as life begins to tick and tick and tick and
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  Speaker 1: tick and tick, you're ready to deal with some serious
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  Speaker 1: questions in your life. I don't even like to be
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  Speaker 1: around silly people. I'm allergic to silly people. They make
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  Speaker 1: me itch or something. I have an allergic reaction to them.
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  Speaker 1: They make my eye twitch or something because I've come
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  Speaker 1: to a point now that I like to be around
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  Speaker 1: people of thought. People that are thinking something, people that
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  Speaker 1: are doing something, people that are going somewhere because creativity
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  Speaker 1: is contagious. And if you get around somebody that's creative,
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  Speaker 1: it is contagious. Somehow by divine osmosis, it just carries
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  Speaker 1: over and begins to affect you. And sometimes you just
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  Speaker 1: get hungry to be around somebody who is thinking something. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah was thinking something. He's out in the field with
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  Speaker 1: 12 yoke of oxen, 12 yoke of oxen, and he
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  Speaker 1: is on the 12th plow, plowing, with at least 11
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  Speaker 1: other men plowing down the field. And they're all plowing
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  Speaker 1: the same field with the same method, going through the
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  Speaker 1: same routine. And there's nothing wrong with him plowing except
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  Speaker 1: while he's plowing, He has that nagging, nebulous thing called
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  Speaker 1: potential down inside of him that makes him think, I
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  Speaker 1: think I could do more than this. I'm doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing today that I did yesterday that I did
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  Speaker 1: the day before that that I did the day before
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  Speaker 1: that I'm basically going around and around in circles dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the same rocks and roots and branches and the
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  Speaker 1: same basic row after row After all, I've seen the
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  Speaker 1: same thing before. When you start thinking like that, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of look around to see if the other people
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  Speaker 1: are thinking that too. And you look at the other
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  Speaker 1: 11 men who are plowing behind the ox and they're
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  Speaker 1: smiling and they're laughing and you say, it must be me.
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  Speaker 1: I must be crazy. I must be crazy. This is
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  Speaker 1: a good job. This is a good house. This is
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  Speaker 1: a good life. Everything, everything, everything. But somehow when you
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  Speaker 1: get greatness down in your guts, you want something that
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  Speaker 1: you can't even explain. Have you ever had something to
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  Speaker 1: bother you and you couldn't even tell anybody what was wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And they said, what's wrong with you? You ought to
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  Speaker 1: be happy. This is the best situation. This is wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody would love to have your job. And you say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. But something about it is bothering me.
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  Speaker 1: Something is bothering me about where I am. Something is
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  Speaker 1: bothering me that I've let 20 years pass me by
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  Speaker 1: and nothing is changing. I'm not seeing any development in
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  Speaker 1: my life. I'm not going to the next level in
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  Speaker 1: my life. And I'm going through the same routine over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. I don't see any progress.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see myself getting anywhere. And it's starting to
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  Speaker 1: bother me a little bit. I'm starting to wonder what's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And looked over the 11 other people and they were
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  Speaker 1: completely satisfied. But frustration is down. inside of him and
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  Speaker 1: he's he's just plowing let's talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: plowing he's just he's just going through the dirt just
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  Speaker 1: plowing plowing plowing breaking up dirty stuff just dealing with
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  Speaker 1: issues dealing with problems dealing with adversity dealing with hard
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  Speaker 1: things breaking up things the same day after day after
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  Speaker 1: day it's his task to deal with hard things have
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  Speaker 1: you ever had to deal with hard things One thing
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  Speaker 1: right after another. The moment you straighten out this, here's
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  Speaker 1: another rock. Here's another lump. Here's another branch. Just one
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  Speaker 1: thing after another. Dealing with hard things. Then another thing
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  Speaker 1: that bothers you about it. Whenever you plow, you're plowing
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  Speaker 1: with an ox up front. And so he's basically following
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  Speaker 1: an ox. Now, you have to understand an ox is strong,
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  Speaker 1: but he's stupid. And to follow, it's a terrible thing
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  Speaker 1: when you got greatness to follow something stupid. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever followed a dumb thing? been years and years following
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  Speaker 1: a dumb thing. It's all right if you're not thinking
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  Speaker 1: no more than the thing you're following, but when your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts have escaped your circumstance and you're thinking about going
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  Speaker 1: down the road and this dumb thing is leading you
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  Speaker 1: and you begin to wonder, it might be better if
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  Speaker 1: I was leading it than how in the world did
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  Speaker 1: I get in a situation where I was following a
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  Speaker 1: dumb thing? Elijah is following a Some of you right
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  Speaker 1: now are suffering because you're following a dumb thing. You
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  Speaker 1: listened at that sinner and that sinner got you in
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  Speaker 1: trouble and drug you into a ditch and you lost
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  Speaker 1: your joy and lost your anointing and lost your peace, girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: because you've been following a dumb thing. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: followed a dumb thing? Some of us are frustrated right
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  Speaker 1: now because we've been following a dumb thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't need a dumb husband. I don't need a dumb wife.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a dumb thing. I need something that's
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere. I need something that's moving. I need something
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  Speaker 1: that's thinking. I need something that's going to another dimension
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  Speaker 1: because I think I got something down in me. And
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  Speaker 1: if it was ever cultivated, I think I could run
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  Speaker 1: through troops and leap over walls. And I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: following dumb things. I'm tired. laughing at stuff that ain't
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  Speaker 1: funny I'm tired of acting like things are interesting that
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  Speaker 1: a boy I'm tired of acting like I don't see
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  Speaker 1: what I see and that I don't know what I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm tired of trying to fit in with people
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  Speaker 1: that are going nowhere I'm tired of dumb things slap
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say not another dumb thing Not another one.
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  Speaker 1: Not another dumb decision. Not another dumb idea. Not another
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  Speaker 1: dumb scheme. I'm too old. I don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: do nothing else stupid. I've made enough mistakes. Not another
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  Speaker 1: dumb decision. I don't want to be cursed to follow
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  Speaker 1: behind dumb decisions. Some of you have been waylaid for
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  Speaker 1: years because you've always been behind dumb decisions. Don't make
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  Speaker 1: another dumb decision. Tell somebody, say, not another dumb thing.
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  Speaker 1: Not just because you're lonely. Not just because you're tired
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  Speaker 1: of being by yourself. Not just because you need somebody
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  Speaker 1: to help you pay the rent. Not another dumb fake girl. No.
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  Speaker 1: While he is an uncommon man in a common situation,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: frustrated with mediocrity, tired of average. Tired, is anybody tired
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  Speaker 1: of average? Tired of making C's. Tired of just getting by.
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  Speaker 1: For your whole life, you got a C minus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you pass, but just average, just barely. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: right if you're really a C student. A C is
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  Speaker 1: good if you're really a C student. But when you
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  Speaker 1: know you could make A's, a C really gets on
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  Speaker 1: your nerves. Hey! And while he was going through that, Elijah,
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  Speaker 1: who was going to be his mentor, his teacher, his
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  Speaker 1: guide through the wilderness of his own frail humanity to
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  Speaker 1: unlock the hidden treasure hidden in his own body. Elijah,
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  Speaker 1: the mighty man of God, who had called fire down
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  Speaker 1: on Mount Carmel. and caused the whole mountain to blaze,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of fire that licked up the water and
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  Speaker 1: burned solid stone. Elijah, who stood on the apex of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Carmel, I stood there myself when I was in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: just stood on the same spot where God fired down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven and consumed the stone and licked up the
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  Speaker 1: waters and burned the wood. Elijah, the mighty man of
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  Speaker 1: God who withstood the 450 prophets of Baal and Rebuke them.
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  Speaker 1: One against 450. For if God be with you, he's
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  Speaker 1: more than the world against you. I love God because
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  Speaker 1: God will let you win when the odds are against you.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to bring you out, no devil
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  Speaker 1: in hell can hold you down. God's servant, God's mighty man.
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  Speaker 1: A power came down from Mount... carmel and heard the
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  Speaker 1: threatening voice of jezebel and her voice of intimidation had
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  Speaker 1: driven him up under a juniper tree and he had
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  Speaker 1: despaired of life elijah the mighty man was suicidal isn't
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  Speaker 1: it crazy how you can be mighty in one area
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  Speaker 1: of your life and discouraged in another area elijah the
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  Speaker 1: man who called down fire and destroyed the prophets was
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  Speaker 1: horrified of a woman's voice And hid himself up under
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  Speaker 1: a juniper tree and despaired of life and wanted to die.
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  Speaker 1: But his tragedy was just God's instrument of direction. For
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  Speaker 1: God moved him from the mountain where the glory was
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  Speaker 1: over to the juniper tree where he sustained him. To
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  Speaker 1: the cave where he rearranged him. And there in the cave,
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  Speaker 1: God began to speak to him and to train him.
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  Speaker 1: You know you can get God's word even in a cave.
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  Speaker 1: And while they were in the cave, God spoke to
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  Speaker 1: him and began to give him a word and brought
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  Speaker 1: him out of the cave. Touch somebody just for a
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  Speaker 1: moment and say, come out of that cave. Don't allow
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  Speaker 1: nobody to push you into no cave where you can't
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  Speaker 1: get out. The devil is a liar. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you did. You can't help what you did. You
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  Speaker 1: can't stay in the cave the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: So you had a baby out of wedlock. Bring you
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  Speaker 1: and the baby out. Come out. Come out rolling you
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  Speaker 1: and the baby. Come out whistling. You can't stay in
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  Speaker 1: a cave the rest of your life. Come out of
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  Speaker 1: the cave. Thank you for bringing me out of my cave.
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  Speaker 1: Can't nobody do me like Jesus. Folk will throw you
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  Speaker 1: in a cave and roll a stone in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: But when God says, come out. So he came out
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  Speaker 1: of the cave and the Lord spoke to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: anoint Haziel and anoint Jehu and anoint Elijah to be
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  Speaker 1: a prophet in my room. And so he began to
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  Speaker 1: move down. Here he comes down. From the cave. The
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  Speaker 1: way you walk when you got direction. You know you
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  Speaker 1: walk different when you know where you're going. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It changes the way you move when you got orders
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  Speaker 1: from headquarters. When you got a memo from the chief
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  Speaker 1: executive officer. it changes how you go forth when you
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  Speaker 1: know you're doing the king's business and he came down
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  Speaker 1: with direction and he found down in the valley elijah
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  Speaker 1: following dumb things the meeting together of these two men
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  Speaker 1: is so profound that it becomes difficult to articulate within
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  Speaker 1: the space that I have been allotted. It is extremely
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  Speaker 1: profound because here we see the collision of the answer
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  Speaker 1: and the question, the problem and the solution. Here we
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: see a theological algebra. The answer is coming right down
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  Speaker 1: to the question. And the only thing to be resolved
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: is the space between them. Elijah is plowing. Elijah is walking.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah has the answer. Elijah has the question. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them needed the other one in order to be a
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  Speaker 1: complete equation. Elijah needed Elisha's problem as strongly as Elisha
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  Speaker 1: needed Elijah's answer. Without each other, they would both be incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: But when they came together, it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a powerful thing. This meeting is difficult to articulate. Let
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  Speaker 1: me borrow what David said. David said, mercy and truth.
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  Speaker 1: are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
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  Speaker 1: Truth shall spring up out of the earth. Righteousness shall
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  Speaker 1: look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord will give that
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  Speaker 1: which is good, and our land shall yield her increase.
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  Speaker 1: This type of meeting is like David and Jonathan. It's
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  Speaker 1: like Naomi and Ruth. It's like Paul and Timothy. It's
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  Speaker 1: like Jesus and John. This kind of meeting has spiritual
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  Speaker 1: ramifications that are going to shake The world as we
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: know it, there are certain people that when they get
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  Speaker 1: it together, they will shake everything around them. Everything around
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  Speaker 1: them is going to be moved. That's why the devil
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want them to get a hookup. Because if they
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get a hookup, they will change everything around them. And
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  Speaker 1: what God decided to do was to give Elijah a hookup.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, hook me up, Lord. You see, sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: takes God to hook you up. Sometimes God will allow
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  Speaker 1: you to be at the right place at the right
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  Speaker 1: time to meet the right person to change your life.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever the ten folks are that I'm preaching to today,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get ready for God to hook you up.
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  Speaker 1: I said you need to get ready for the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to hook you up. There's going to be a hookup
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  Speaker 1: to come in your life. God's going to put you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: at the right place at the right time with the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: right person for a life-shaking, devil-chasing, hell-wrenching, gut-renewing, heart-fixing overflow
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. I mean a gully-washing, downpouring, Holy Ghost-saturating,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: demon-chasing anointing is about to break loose in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, hook me up!
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: If the devil had any sense, he would have stopped
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  Speaker 1: these two men from ever getting together because there are
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  Speaker 1: some folk when they get together, well, one can chase
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, but two, ten thousand. There are some folk
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: that when you get together with them, you are better
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: with them than you are by yourself. If any two
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of you agree as touching anything on earth, it shall
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: be done. High five somebody and say, get ready for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a hookup. Everybody who's believing God to hook you up,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: give him a praise right now. My God, my God,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: my God, my God, my God, my God, my God. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: bless the high name of Jesus. Bless the wonderful name
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Bless his high name.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh.
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  Speaker 1: My God, my toes are tingling. My hair is standing
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  Speaker 1: on edge. I feel the glory of the Lord in
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: this place. Oh, my God. Thank you, Jesus. My God.
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  Speaker 1: You've been feeling like something was about to happen. You
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: ain't wrong. Oh, yeah. All while you was plowing, you
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: said something is about to happen. I just got a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: feeling I'm going to get out of this. I got
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a feeling I'm not going to be locked up in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: this situation long. I got a feeling God is going
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to bring me out. So, While they were going through
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: their change, Elijah came down off the mountain. He came
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and found that boy, Elijah. And Elijah was just sitting
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  Speaker 1: up there, plowing.
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  Speaker 3: Plowing.
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  Speaker 1: Looked him over. Is he the one? Or shall I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: look for another? Didn't say that much to him. He's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a prophet, but didn't talk. Sometimes your sermon is not
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: what you say. It's what you do. He just took
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: his mantle. And just let it pass over him. when
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  Speaker 1: he let it pass over him he just kept walking
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and when he kept walking he looked behind him and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Elijah was following him because there are some folk that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: if you ever touch them with your mantle you ain't
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: got to beg them to come they'll be behind you
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I thought to myself, it's interesting because if
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: he came to Elijah, he had to walk past those
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: 11 other brothers. And the 11 other brothers were satisfied
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to follow a dumb thing. But when you've been waiting
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: on a chance to get out, you can't take a
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: good heart message. One good sermon will wreck your nerves.
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  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 1: When you are really the one, everybody else can go
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on back to business as usual. But when you really
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: been waiting on a breakthrough, when that man will fall
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: on you, baby. So you pass test number one. Here's
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: test number two. He says to the boy with the potential.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: who follows at a distance because he has gotten a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: foretaste of his destiny and is hungry to have the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: fulfillment of something he just got a touch of. He
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: says to him, go back where you came from. He
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: says to him, in essence, what I said to my children.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I told my children, I told all five of them,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I said, you don't have to preach because I preached.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to pastor because I pastor. In fact,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I said, I'll tell you something. If you can get
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: out of doing it, don't do it. I didn't just
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: tell him that because it's hard, though it is. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: didn't tell him that because it's wrong. though it is.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell him that because it's lonely, though it is.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell him that because you're going to get used,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: though you will. I told him that because if I
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: can talk you out of it, you ain't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do it. You didn't hear what I said. If I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: can talk you out of it, if I can get
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you to go back and you are satisfied to get
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: up under that yoke again, you don't have no business
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  Speaker 1: with me in the first place. There has to be
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: something in you that can never go back to business
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: as usual again. You got to be like Peter. When
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: everybody else leaves, you say, where shall I go? For
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  Speaker 1: in your hands are the words of eternal life. And
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: so he told Elijah, he said, go back. And Elijah
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  Speaker 1: turned and went back. As he began to go back,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Elijah said, well, he must not be the one. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go, but he turned sadly and walked away.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Elijah said, he must not be the one. Anybody that's
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: discouraged that easy can't walk with me nowhere. And he
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: got back to his ox. He got back to his plow.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And for a minute, it looked like he was going
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to just saddle up and go on back to work.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But he took his plow and broke it. Yes! Threw
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  Speaker 1: it down on the ground. Elijah said, well, what in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the world is he doing? He got him a match
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  Speaker 1: and he set it on fire. He took his ox
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  Speaker 1: and he slew his ox and he put his ox
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: on the fire and he burned it up. See, if
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you're going to walk with God, you got to burn
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: up your past. Somebody holla, burn it up. You got
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to burn the whole thing up and let the devil
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: know I'll never go back to being who I was again.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, I'll never go back. I'll never.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never. I will never. I will never. I will never.
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  Speaker 1: Go back again. Touch somebody and say never. Holler never. Well,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: while the ox was burning in the fire, he went
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  Speaker 1: back and kissed his mother and father goodbye. You know
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  Speaker 1: how it is when you tell your parents you're leaving.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: They would normally want to know, well, where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: How are you going to make it? Where are you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: going to work? How are you going to eat? Where
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: are you going to stay? And I can hear Elijah saying,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I'll go anywhere. I'll go anywhere. But backwards, I'll go
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: through anything. Except backwards, I'll deal with anybody but backwards.
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  Speaker 1: And with the smell of smoke behind him and his
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  Speaker 1: mama's tears in his ears, he began to walk back
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  Speaker 1: toward the man of God and said, I got to
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  Speaker 1: go forward. Somebody stomp your foot and shout forward.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Made up in my mind. I will go forward. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what I gotta go through. I will go forward.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like Paul when he said, forgetting those things
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: which are behind me and reaching to those things which
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: are before me. I press toward the mark of the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: pride of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I can't change where I've been, but I'm going to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: change where I'm going. I made up my mind. I'll
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: go anywhere. But backwards, for the steps of a good
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in
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  Speaker 1: his way. Somebody stomp your foot. It's time to take
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: another step. It's time to move forward. Let the devil
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: know I'll go anywhere. But backwards, I'd rather get in trouble.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Going forward. Then to stay comfortable. Hanging back. Somebody shout forward.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: As we go into the new century. I've already made
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: up in my mind. I'll go anywhere. But backwards. Some
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: of that stuff over your shoulder. You don't ever want
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to see. Anymore. Somebody look over your shoulder. And kiss
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: your past goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, anywhere you bless me. Excuse me, I
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: feel like preaching now. Anywhere you bless me, I will
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  Speaker 1: be satisfied.
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  Speaker 3: Lord, I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: If mama don't go, if daddy don't go, I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: Anywhere.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So the prophet said to his protege, so you're going
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to follow me. If you're going to follow me, you
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: got to follow me through Bethlehem. You got to follow
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  Speaker 1: me through Gilgal. You got to follow me through the Jordan.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you something, young man. If
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: you're still there, when I go up, I will give
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: you a double portion of my spirit. Listen to this statement, y'all.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: He said, there's twice as much in you As there
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: is in me. But you'll never get what's in you
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: out till you follow me. And so if you're still there,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: if you can follow me through hell and high water,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: if you can follow me through tears and pain, if
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: you can follow me through aggravation and irritation, and you're
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: still there through the lies and the gossip, you're still
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: there through the heartache and the pain, you're still there.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: If I look over my shoulder, when I come into
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: my kingdom, I will... remember you. Somebody say it. And
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: so so Elijah in the span of his life did
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: eight recorded miracles and he went out in a chariot
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: of fire and he gave Elijah His mantle. Touch somebody
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: and say, catch it. Here it comes. The thing you've
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: been waiting on. Here it comes. The thing the devil
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: said you'd never get. Here it comes. The thing the
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: devil's been fighting you over. Here it comes. Hit somebody
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and say, catch it. Can I show you one more
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: little thing? When Elijah started ministering, Elijah was gone. And
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: he took the mantle and smoked the waters of Jordan
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: and said, if you did it for my daddy, you
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: ought to do it for me. You that are in
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: this ministry, don't you let God bless me. And not
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: bless you. But you ought to get this mantle. And
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: say hey. If you did it for my daddy. You
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: got to do it for me. Yeah. And he smoked
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  Speaker 1: the waters. And went across to the other side. He
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: did one, two, three miracles. He did four, five, six miracles.
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  Speaker 1: seven eight he caught up with his daddy at eight
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  Speaker 1: nine he went beyond him you ought to always do
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  Speaker 1: more than the one who taught you I said you
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  Speaker 1: ought to always do more than the one that taught
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  Speaker 1: you nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen miracles He did
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  Speaker 1: his 15th miracle and he died. And the devil got
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  Speaker 1: over in the corner and started laughing and said, I
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  Speaker 1: thought he got a double portion, but he fell short.
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  Speaker 1: If his daddy did eight miracles, if he really had
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  Speaker 1: a double portion, he should have done 16. But he
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  Speaker 1: only did 15. And the bell rung and the test
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  Speaker 1: was over. And the devil said he got an incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: And they started writing I in on the top of
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  Speaker 1: his paper. But before they could write C. A Syrian
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  Speaker 1: soldier threw a dead man over on the bones of Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: And when the corpse hit Elijah's bones, he woke up
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  Speaker 1: because God always keeps his promises. If the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: he would bless you, no weapon. Slap somebody and tell
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  Speaker 1: them it ain't over. No! Yes! What I like about God,
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  Speaker 1: he may not come when you want him, but he's
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  Speaker 1: right on time. What I like about God, he'll stop
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  Speaker 1: your enemies from laughing at you. I know they've been
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  Speaker 1: laughing at you, but girl, it ain't over yet. Before
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  Speaker 1: God gets through, he's going to bless you out of Zion.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to bless you. I got to quit because
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  Speaker 1: I feel a preaching scream out there. Somebody say it.
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  Speaker 1: Look over your shoulder and say, but backwards. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go backwards. I don't want to go backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go backwards. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go backwards. I don't want to go back and eat
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  Speaker 1: up what I threw up. I don't want to go backwards. Anywhere. Anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But backwards. Lord, put me around Progressive people. The worst
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  Speaker 1: thing about dying is not dying. It's dying before you finish.
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  Speaker 1: The saddest death is the one where there hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: living first. If I could rob the most valuable thing
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  Speaker 1: you have, it would not be your wedding ring. Not
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  Speaker 1: your car, not your house. Not your stocks, not your bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Be your time. You take my time. You've taken everything.
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  Speaker 1: And you cannot give it back. All I have is now.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to seize the moment. Like a gasping man
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  Speaker 1: sucks air. I need it quick. Before I run out
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  Speaker 1: of time. Anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go back. To nothing. I've already
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  Speaker 1: been through. I don't. Don't. Stand to your feet. Stand
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  Speaker 1: to your feet. Hear the word of the Lord, O
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  Speaker 1: house of Jacob. The Lord has spoken in your midst
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  Speaker 1: his word anywhere but backwards. If you pass this test,
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the Lord will fall In your life,
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  Speaker 1: like rain. That boy looked at his ox, his livelihood,
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  Speaker 1: and made it an offering because he was tired of normal.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have been doing everything based on what
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  Speaker 1: you could see. And you shout about the supernatural, but
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  Speaker 1: you live in the natural. Because in order to get
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  Speaker 1: into the supernatural, it requires a sacrifice. And the just
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  Speaker 1: shall live by. If feelings would have brought about your miracle,
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  Speaker 1: you would have gotten miracles a long time ago. Got
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  Speaker 1: more feelings than anybody in the world. But it won't
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  Speaker 1: be your feelings. It'll be your faith. Can you burn
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  Speaker 1: your ox before your ox burns you? tell you what
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  Speaker 1: I tell you all the time. If you always do
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  Speaker 1: what you've always done, you will always be where you've
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  Speaker 1: always been. It's time to make a change. Backslider. Backslider.
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  Speaker 1: Slide back to what? Ain't nothing back there but the
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  Speaker 1: stuff you ate up before. You ought to go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: but back. When I was in church, they hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Now they shooting at you. I ain't never seen such
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  Speaker 1: sensitive street folks. You're a gangster in the street. get
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  Speaker 1: in the church and start crying. They wouldn't let me usher.
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  Speaker 1: Gangsters will hurt feelings. You get out there in the
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  Speaker 1: corporate America, everybody's lying and cheating and stealing and finagling.
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  Speaker 1: Folks cutting your throat on your job. Trying to steal
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  Speaker 1: your customers, your clients and everything else. And now you're
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: going to get in church and talk about you can't
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  Speaker 1: make it? Come on, sir. You're just another. Corporate America
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  Speaker 1: is just another type of gang. It's just dressed up mafia.
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  Speaker 1: I've done business in downtown Manhattan right on Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: I know what I'm talking about it's just a classy
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  Speaker 1: a crook you know slide back to that that's all
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  Speaker 1: you want to be before the bell rings sinner when
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  Speaker 1: I get saved I'm not ready now for it when
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  Speaker 1: I get in I'm not going to be like that
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  Speaker 1: if I couldn't do no better I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it I'm going to be whatever I am I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be real I'm going to keep it real
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  Speaker 1: man I'm going to keep it real stupid you're following
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  Speaker 1: a dumb thing you're following an ox who told you
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  Speaker 1: you had a win who told you you had a
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  Speaker 1: someday all you have is two days He said, the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: day you hear my voice, harden not your heart. Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to waste your final moments following a dumb thing?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I plead with every backslider and every sinner in this room.
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  Speaker 1: While you have.
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  Speaker 4: Time, slip into the nearest aisle, come running down to
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  Speaker 4: this altar.
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  Speaker 1: And give your life to Jesus Christ now. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. Right now. Move. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Now. That's right. That's right. That's right. Come right now.
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  Speaker 1: Come right now. Come right now. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on, children. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Don't do
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  Speaker 1: a dumb thing. God is knocking at the door of
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: your heart. Stop following dumb things. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of doing dumb things. I'm tired of making
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: dumb decisions. I'm tired of living beneath my privilege. I
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  Speaker 1: know better than this. I'm tired of falling oxes. Deliver
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  Speaker 1: me from dumb things. I'm waiting on someone to come
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: to Jesus. Somebody's daddy coming to Jesus. Somebody's mama coming
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: to the Lord. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on to Jesus. Come on to him. Come on
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  Speaker 1: to him, to him, to him. Glory to God. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Backslider, this time you need to come all
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  Speaker 1: the way over. Come on, come on, all the way,
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  Speaker 1: all the way. Come on, burn the whole ox up.
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  Speaker 1: Burn it up, burn it up. Burn it up. Burn
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  Speaker 1: all of it up. Burn up the phone book. Burn
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  Speaker 1: up the phone numbers. Burn it up. Burn up the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: phone if you have to. Burn it up. Burn it up.
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  Speaker 1: Burn up the crack pipe. Burn it up. Burn it up.
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  Speaker 1: Burn it up. Burn it. Burn it. Set it on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Clean out your house. Start throwing out stuff. Throw them
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: cigarettes out of your pocket. It's time to burn up.
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  Speaker 1: Burn up the whole house. Burn it up. Everything that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: reminds you of where you came from. Get rid of it.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Get rid
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  Speaker 1: of it. My God. My God.
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  Speaker 3: To the utmost Jesus stays. To the utmost Jesus says he.
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  Speaker 1: Will pick you up.
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  Speaker 3: And turn you around.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus. Jesus says. To the utmost. Jesus saves. To the utmost.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus saves.
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  Speaker 1: He will.
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  Speaker 6: He will bring you up. And turn you around.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus saved.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saved.
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  Speaker 2: To the utmost. To the utmost.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saved.
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  Speaker 5: To the utmost.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saves.
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  Speaker 2: He will pick you up.
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  Speaker 1: And turn you around.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saves.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saves. I'm a witness. I'm a witness. Jesus saves.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saves. Are you a witness this morning?
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  Speaker 5: I say he will pick you up and turn you
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  Speaker 5: around and turn you around.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saves. I'm so glad Jesus saves.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am. Anybody glad this morning?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Jesus saves.