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Divine Intervention - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: We're going to the gospel of St. Luke chapter number
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  Speaker 1: 24 verse 18 through 32. And tonight we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about divine intervention. Divine intervention. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: God will intervene in your life? He will intervene. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's stand on our feet for the reading of the word.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. My brother was the first one up. You
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  Speaker 1: ready tonight? Glory to God. I'm with you. And I
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  Speaker 1: jumped into this at the 18th verse because When I
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  Speaker 1: first wrote it down, I wrote down so many verses
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  Speaker 1: that it would have took the whole class to read it.
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  Speaker 1: So I decided to abbreviate it and dive in in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the story, and I'll put it in
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  Speaker 1: context later. And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered,
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  Speaker 1: said unto him, Are thou only a stranger in Jerusalem?
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  Speaker 1: Pay close attention to that. Are thou only a stranger
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem? He's talking to Jesus. And Jesus, who sat
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  Speaker 1: on the Mount of Olives as the center of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: has now become regarded as a stranger in Jerusalem. He
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  Speaker 1: has said, how often would I have gathered you as
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  Speaker 1: a hen does her chicks, but ye would not. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's in Jerusalem, but now he's a stranger in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, watch out how you entertain strangers, for
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  Speaker 1: thereby many have entertained angels unaware. Art thou only a
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  Speaker 1: stranger in Jerusalem and hath not known the things which
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  Speaker 1: have come to pass there in these days? And he
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  Speaker 1: said unto them, What things? And they said unto him,
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  Speaker 1: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in
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  Speaker 1: deed and word before God and all the people. Now
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  Speaker 1: they talking to Jesus about Jesus, but they don't know
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  Speaker 1: that they're talking to Jesus. Because Jesus has become a
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  Speaker 1: stranger in Jerusalem. They're in the presence of Jesus, talking
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, telling Jesus about Jesus, informing him thinking he
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  Speaker 1: is a stranger in Jerusalem. Isn't it funny that people
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  Speaker 1: who are talking about Jesus don't recognize Jesus when they
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  Speaker 1: come face to face with him? everybody talking about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the ability to discern the Jesus of their conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes the Jesus that you talk about looks different
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  Speaker 1: than the Jesus that you walk with. Oh, do you
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying? And how the chief priest and
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  Speaker 1: our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and
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  Speaker 1: have crucified him. This is a collaborative effort between the
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  Speaker 1: chief priests who are Jews and the rulers who are Romans,
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  Speaker 1: have conspired together to deliver Jesus to death. But we
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  Speaker 1: trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They're disappointed. We thought he was going to redeem us
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  Speaker 1: out from under the hand of the Roman Empire. And
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  Speaker 1: besides all this, today is the third day since these
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  Speaker 1: things were done. nothing has happened yay and certain women
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  Speaker 1: also of our company made us astonished which were early
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  Speaker 1: at the sepulcher and when they found not his body
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  Speaker 1: they came saying that they had also seen a vision
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  Speaker 1: of angels which said he was alive and certain of
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  Speaker 1: them which were with us went to the sepulcher and
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  Speaker 1: found it even so as the women had said but
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  Speaker 1: him they saw not and Then he said unto them, oh, fools,
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  Speaker 1: I love Jesus. Especially this stuff right here. It makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel better about me. Because Jesus would let you
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  Speaker 1: have it. He didn't say, you know, I need to
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  Speaker 1: intellectualize you about this and bring you into a deeper
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  Speaker 1: understanding about the realities of the messianic reign of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you're a fool. O fools and slow of
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  Speaker 1: heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought
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  Speaker 1: not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter
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  Speaker 1: into his glory? And beginning at Moses, and beginning at Moses,
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  Speaker 1: and beginning at Moses, and beginning at Moses and all
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  Speaker 1: the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village,
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  Speaker 1: whether they went and he made as though he would
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  Speaker 1: have gone further. But they constrained him saying, oh, have
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  Speaker 1: you ever met somebody that talked to you in such
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  Speaker 1: a way that you didn't want them to end the conversation?
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  Speaker 1: Abide with us for it is toward evening and the
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  Speaker 1: day is far spent. And he went in to tarry
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  Speaker 1: with them. And it came to pass as he sat
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  Speaker 1: at the table with them. He took bread and blessed it.
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  Speaker 1: And break and gave to them. And their eyes were open.
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  Speaker 1: And they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight.
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  Speaker 1: And they said one to the other. Did not our
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  Speaker 1: heart burn within us. While he talked with us by
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  Speaker 1: the way. And while he opened to us the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight we're talking about divine intervention. Father, as we go
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  Speaker 1: into this word tonight, we don't just study the word
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  Speaker 1: to be studying the word. But we study the word
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  Speaker 1: to better perceive your relevance in our contemporary life. We
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  Speaker 1: study the word to understand that we can converse about
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  Speaker 1: you and not recognize you. We study the word to
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  Speaker 1: more clearly be able to discern when we are in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. And we studied the word to
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  Speaker 1: perceive divine intervention. Tonight, not only the people in the room,
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  Speaker 1: but the people who are watching me around the world,
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  Speaker 1: open ourselves up for divine intervention. To intervene in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of our attitudes and our misunderstandings, and cause
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  Speaker 1: us to walk into the fullness of what you have
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  Speaker 1: for us. Thank you for what you're doing. In Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of God. Sometime
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  Speaker 1: at your leisure, go past the 18th verse and read
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  Speaker 1: the early verses that lead up at the 24th chapter
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  Speaker 1: unto the 18th verse. Because when you begin to read them,
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  Speaker 1: you will define that these two disciples on the road
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  Speaker 1: to Emmaus, one of them named Cleopas, it doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: us the other name. We begin to understand about these
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  Speaker 1: particular disciples that they are engaged in a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus that he overhears. And then comes and intervenes into
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  Speaker 1: their conversation. We want and we have a God of intervention.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to stress that point because some of
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  Speaker 1: us need God to intervene. What we are doing on
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  Speaker 1: our own is inadequate. We need interventions. Now when I
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  Speaker 1: first started hearing about intervention and it became quite popular,
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  Speaker 1: it was what you did when you had a family
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  Speaker 1: member that was strung out on drugs or some other
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  Speaker 1: illicit behavior and the people who loved them would gather
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  Speaker 1: around the table and they would hold an intervention to
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  Speaker 1: intervene before they were destroyed. If that same spirit of
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  Speaker 1: intervention is true today, we need God to intervene in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. to intervene, to disrupt our life, to come
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  Speaker 1: in and break into the conversation, to come into our
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  Speaker 1: situation and our circumstance and intervene in our personality, our character,
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  Speaker 1: our behavior, our attitude, our disposition. Sometimes it takes God
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  Speaker 1: to intervene because we won't let nobody else intervene. Anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: you would fight them off. But God has a way
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  Speaker 1: of knowing how to intervene into your situation in such
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  Speaker 1: a way that you have to listen at him. How
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  Speaker 1: many people in here want God to intervene in your life? Now,
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  Speaker 1: the particular time that we're talking about, let me, before
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  Speaker 1: I deal with the text, let me put the text
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  Speaker 1: in context. This is a very unique particular time in history.
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  Speaker 1: It is after the resurrection and before the ascension. And
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  Speaker 1: it is right along with where we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: From Easter to next Sunday is the day of Pentecost.
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  Speaker 1: Next Sunday will be the day of Pentecost, which will
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  Speaker 1: be 50 days. But at the 40-day point, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that Jesus showed himself alive with many infallible proofs
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  Speaker 1: for 40 days. Somebody say 40 days. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about 40 days because 40 days and nights have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of significance in the Bible. It is not
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  Speaker 1: by happenstance that Jesus shows himself alive for 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to go a little bit deeper. He
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  Speaker 1: did not show himself alive to the Pharisees. He did
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  Speaker 1: not show himself alive to the Sadducees. Once Jesus rose
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  Speaker 1: from the dead, he had stopped showing himself alive to
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  Speaker 1: people who did not believe. There has to come a
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  Speaker 1: point in your life that you stop trying to persuade
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  Speaker 1: the unpersuadable. That you stop trying to convince those who
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  Speaker 1: refuse to be convinced. There has to come a point
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you're... is so valuable and so
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  Speaker 1: limited that you don't have time to argue with people
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  Speaker 1: who want to debate you at the expense of people
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  Speaker 1: who await you oh I'm doing good already The Bible
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  Speaker 1: said that the secret of the Lord is with them
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  Speaker 1: that fear him and he will show them his covenant.
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  Speaker 1: That means there's some things that God shows his people
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't show anybody else. That when you are
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  Speaker 1: really his child, no matter whether you're strongly his child
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  Speaker 1: or weakly his child or whether you're frustrated or whether
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  Speaker 1: you're confused, that God will show himself strong in your
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  Speaker 1: life in a unique way. There are believers in this
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  Speaker 1: room that have seen God show himself in your life
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  Speaker 1: in a unique way. And you can't argue with atheists
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  Speaker 1: and agnostics who don't believe in God because you already know.
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  Speaker 1: You might not know all the scriptures to point to it,
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  Speaker 1: but you've had a personal experience with God where God
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  Speaker 1: intervened in your life. You might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: answer all their tough questions. You might not know who
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  Speaker 1: came married. You might not know this or that or
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  Speaker 1: the other. You might not know how a brown cow
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  Speaker 1: can eat green grass and bring white milk. You might
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  Speaker 1: not be able to explain all of that. But one
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  Speaker 1: thing you do know is that you once were blind
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  Speaker 1: and now you see. One thing you do know is
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  Speaker 1: that God intervened in your life when you were headed
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  Speaker 1: to a path of destruction and turned your life around
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  Speaker 1: and picked you up and set your feet on solid ground.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that your Redeemer lives. Job said, I
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  Speaker 1: know that my Redeemer lives and that he will stand
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  Speaker 1: in the latter day. And Job had no Bible and
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  Speaker 1: he still believed. Job is the oldest book of the
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  Speaker 1: Bible and he was still fully persuaded that God was real.
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  Speaker 1: Without the benefit of scriptures or preachers or teachers or
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  Speaker 1: synagogues or sanctuary, just by his personal experience alone, he
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  Speaker 1: had come to embrace a relationship with God. A relationship
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  Speaker 1: with God predates a religious experience with God. Where you
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship with God. If all you have is religion,
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  Speaker 1: you have ordinances and rituals and routines and ceremonies. But
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a relationship with God. You need a
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  Speaker 1: real relationship with God. And the Bible said he showed
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  Speaker 1: himself alive for 40 days with many infallible proofs. And
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  Speaker 1: this is from the resurrection day. To the ascension is
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  Speaker 1: 40 days. Now the word Pentecost means 50. So when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus showed himself alive to his disciples for 40 days,
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  Speaker 1: he did it to calm all of their anxiety relating
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  Speaker 1: to whether he was legitimately who he said or not.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Because he wants them to be fully persuaded
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  Speaker 1: that he is real. Not partially persuaded. Not just somebody
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  Speaker 1: who comes in with the crowd and you mix in
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  Speaker 1: with the crowd and you clap when they clap and
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  Speaker 1: you dance when they dance and you sing when they sing.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not fully persuaded. God will allow certain things
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  Speaker 1: to happen in your life to put you in a
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  Speaker 1: situation where can't nobody get you out but him. Does
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  Speaker 1: anybody know what I'm talking about? Put you in a
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  Speaker 1: situation where can't nobody get you out but him. And
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  Speaker 1: then when he gets you out, you know that you
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  Speaker 1: know that you know that you know that God is
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  Speaker 1: real in your life. Talk to me somebody. So we
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  Speaker 1: are at an intermediate state and it's a very odd
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  Speaker 1: state of being. We are past the resurrection, but we
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  Speaker 1: have not yet seen the ascension. It is an intermediate
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  Speaker 1: space that only the spiritual enjoyed. There are some things
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  Speaker 1: that God only gives to the spiritual. For instance, healing,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, is the children's bread. It's not for
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  Speaker 1: the people, it's for the children. God has certain healings
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  Speaker 1: that he only performs for his children. Healing is the
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  Speaker 1: children's bread. God has certain revelations that he only gives
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  Speaker 1: to his children. Paul said, I know a man, whether
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  Speaker 1: in the body or in the spirit, I cannot tell.
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  Speaker 1: He saw things that were not lawful to be uttered.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things that God shows you, you can't
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  Speaker 1: tell anybody. Oh my God, my God. There are some
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  Speaker 1: things that God shows to you that you need to
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  Speaker 1: hang up the phone. We live in a generation that
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  Speaker 1: talks too much. We talk too much, we tweet too much,
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  Speaker 1: and we post too much. You're casting your pearls before swine.
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  Speaker 1: Then you get upset when they trample over what you said.
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  Speaker 1: But you need to understand that some things God shows
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  Speaker 1: you is not for everybody. There are some messages that
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  Speaker 1: God gives you. You should do an Instagram post. But
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  Speaker 1: there are some things that God says to you that
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  Speaker 1: are the secrets. And you have to walk with it.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus has consecrated this 40-day intermediate period where he
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  Speaker 1: only is dealing with his disciples. This 40-day intermediate period
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  Speaker 1: that has been sequestered and secluded to his disciples so
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  Speaker 1: that they might have a firmness of faith which would
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  Speaker 1: become a cornerstone to the church. Some things God will
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  Speaker 1: show you and take you through so that you can
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  Speaker 1: have a firmness of faith and become a cornerstone. And
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  Speaker 1: they're not always pleasant things. This is an intermediate stage.
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  Speaker 1: He has risen from the dead and yet he has
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  Speaker 1: not yet ascended to his father. And he's only doing
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  Speaker 1: house calls. He's not healing any more blind people. He's
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  Speaker 1: not turning any more water into wine. He's not healing
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  Speaker 1: the woman with the issue of blood. Blind-bodied man is
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  Speaker 1: no longer being healed. He has stopped the miracles that
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  Speaker 1: we've become accustomed to him seeing because he is no
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  Speaker 1: longer using miracles to convince the unconvincible. He is just
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  Speaker 1: showing himself alive to his own. Are you one of
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  Speaker 1: his tonight? Are you one of his online tonight? Are
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  Speaker 1: you one of his online in the building tonight? Are
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  Speaker 1: you one of his? Listen for God to show you
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  Speaker 1: some things that other people don't see. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: need their confirmation. You don't need their confirmation. When God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken to you, you don't need their confirmation. God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken to you. And the Bible says in Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: for example, seven and four, write that down. For in
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  Speaker 1: seven days, I will send rain on the earth. 40
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  Speaker 1: days and 40 nights. And every living thing that I
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  Speaker 1: have made, I will blot out from the face of
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  Speaker 1: the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. Noah and
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  Speaker 1: his family lived in the confines of the ark for
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  Speaker 1: exactly 40 days. At the end of 40 days, God
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  Speaker 1: brought them out. There's something about 40 days that we
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  Speaker 1: have to pay attention to. 40 days has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of symbolism in scripture of which we must pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to and understand. And understand in Genesis 7, 17, it says,
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  Speaker 1: the flood continued 40 days on the earth. The waters
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  Speaker 1: increase and bore up the ark and it rose high
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  Speaker 1: above the earth. It rose above what other people were
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  Speaker 1: drowning in. So I want you to write a note
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. I'm going to rise above what other people
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  Speaker 1: drown in. Yeah, because I'm in that 40-day window. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in that 40-day window where I'm going to rise above
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  Speaker 1: what other people drown in. The Bible says in Exodus 4.22,
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  Speaker 1: And thou shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Israel is my son, even my firstborn son. When God
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  Speaker 1: says this, he says it about Israel being God's other son.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is his only begotten son, but he said, Israel
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  Speaker 1: is my firstborn son. Now, let me dig into that
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. The reason the death angel came
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  Speaker 1: through during the Passover and kill all the firstborn sons
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  Speaker 1: in Israel is that God was saying, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: kill your sons till you let my son go. You're
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  Speaker 1: holding my son hostage. Israel is my son, my firstborn son,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to let you know my pain until
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  Speaker 1: you turn my son loose. See, Israel was his son.
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  Speaker 1: Even in slaves, in slavery, Israel was still his son.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says Christ later on will imitate the
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  Speaker 1: journey of the children of Israel. The only begotten son
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  Speaker 1: now connects with the firstborn son in that after he
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  Speaker 1: was born, they took him down to Egypt and hid
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  Speaker 1: him in Egypt. But he was no less God's only
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  Speaker 1: begotten son in Egypt as he was in Jerusalem. So
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  Speaker 1: it was with the children of Israel. They were as
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  Speaker 1: much God's firstborn son in slavery as they were in liberation.
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  Speaker 1: and God owned them as his son while they were
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  Speaker 1: still in chains God doesn't wait till you get crowns
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge you as sons God will acknowledge you as
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  Speaker 1: his son while you're still in chains and Everybody acknowledges
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  Speaker 1: you when you win, but God will acknowledge you when
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  Speaker 1: you're losing. When the odds are stacked against you, when
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  Speaker 1: the enemy is out to destroy you, when the enemy
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  Speaker 1: thinks he's got the upper hand on you, God says,
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  Speaker 1: I will fight the battle for you, not because you're
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  Speaker 1: so good, but because of my relationship with you. You
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  Speaker 1: are my son. I'm going to fight for the relationship
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  Speaker 1: I have with you. You are my son. It ought
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  Speaker 1: to make you proud to be a son of God. Shout,
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  Speaker 1: I am a son of God. Don't get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in genders now and start saying, I am a daughter
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  Speaker 1: of God. Say, I am a son of God. Because
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  Speaker 1: this is not about gender. It's about position. It's about inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: It does not negate your femininity to say I'm a
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  Speaker 1: son of God. It just says where you rank in
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  Speaker 1: the inheritance from God himself. I am a son. Beloved
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  Speaker 1: now are ye the sons of God. It does not
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  Speaker 1: yet appear what we shall be. But when we see
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  Speaker 1: him we shall see him as he is. And we
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  Speaker 1: shall be like him. We are not sons of God
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  Speaker 1: because of our gender. We are sons of God because
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  Speaker 1: we were created in his likeness and in his image.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Is this good? Let's
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  Speaker 1: go deeper. Exodus 24, 16 says, Moses entered the cloud
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  Speaker 1: and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. Oh, there it is again. 40 days and
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  Speaker 1: 40 nights. Where do we keep seeing this 40? The flood?
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  Speaker 1: Now we're seeing it again with Moses. Moses goes up
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  Speaker 1: on the mountaintop to pray. He's up there getting the
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  Speaker 1: 10 commandments and he's getting them for 40 days and
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  Speaker 1: 40 nights. On the 40th night, he comes down with
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  Speaker 1: the new deal, the new commandment, the first time that
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  Speaker 1: it was given to them and it took him 40
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  Speaker 1: days and 40 nights to do it. It took 40
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  Speaker 1: days and 40 nights for the waters to recede And
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  Speaker 1: for Noah to come out on dry ground. There's something
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  Speaker 1: to this 40 days and 40 nights. Let's go forward.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go forward. Give me my next text. And he
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  Speaker 1: rose and ate and drank and went in the strength
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  Speaker 1: of that food 40 days and 40 nights. Oh, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. This is Elijah. Elijah that Jezebel thought she
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  Speaker 1: was going to kill. She said by tomorrow this time
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be dead. By tomorrow that time he
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  Speaker 1: will sleep up under the juniper tree. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let Jezebel intimidate you with her threats. Telling you
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  Speaker 1: what all they're going to do to you. Most of
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  Speaker 1: us are worried about things that hadn't even happened yet.
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  Speaker 1: These false prophecies, this fake news that comes down from
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  Speaker 1: the demonic world is sent to torment you by threatening you.
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  Speaker 1: She said, by tomorrow this time, I'm going to feed
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  Speaker 1: you to the motherless. Tomorrow that time, he laid up
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  Speaker 1: under the juniper tree, snoring. Won't he keep you? I said,
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  Speaker 1: won't he keep you? Won't he keep you? When folks
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  Speaker 1: hating on you, trying to kill you, won't he keep you?
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  Speaker 1: When they're working magic and spells on you, won't he
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  Speaker 1: keep you? When they're trying to scandalize your name, won't
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  Speaker 1: he keep you? When they're trying to break down your will,
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  Speaker 1: won't he keep you? When they're trying to push you
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  Speaker 1: to a nervous breakdown, won't he keep you? There's some
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  Speaker 1: people in here, if your enemies would have had their way,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have been fed to the brothers, but God kept you.
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  Speaker 1: God kept you. God kept you. You might not have
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  Speaker 1: made more money. You might not have got a bigger house,
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  Speaker 1: but God kept you. You might not have got a degree,
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  Speaker 1: but God kept you. You might not have had five children,
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  Speaker 1: but God kept you. And if you don't have nothing
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  Speaker 1: else to praise God for, you ought to praise God
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  Speaker 1: because he kept you. And so the Bible says about
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  Speaker 1: Elijah that God sent the ravens to feed him and
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  Speaker 1: they fed him while he was up under the juniper tree.
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  Speaker 1: And he went in the strength of that meat 40
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  Speaker 1: days and 40 nights. Isn't that amazing? He went in
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  Speaker 1: the strength that same 40 days, 40 nights, Moses on
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  Speaker 1: the mountain, 40 days, 40 nights. Noah in the heart,
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  Speaker 1: 40 days, 40 nights. Moses on the mountaintop, 40 days,
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  Speaker 1: 40 nights. We keep seeing that 40 days and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is in this 40 day window. Let's go forward. And Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: full of the spirit, returned from the Jordan and was
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  Speaker 1: led by the spirit in the wilderness for life. 40
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  Speaker 1: days being tempted by the devil and he ate nothing
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  Speaker 1: during those days and when they were ended he was
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  Speaker 1: hungry it went 40 days Jesus is in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: for 40 days and the bible says in mark 113
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  Speaker 1: and he was in the wilderness 40 days being tempted
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  Speaker 1: by satan and he was with the wild animals And
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  Speaker 1: the angels were ministering to him. Now look at the
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  Speaker 1: oxymoron between the wild animals and the angels. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever had to live in between wild animals and angels? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had a witness. Somebody in here knows
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. To live in between wild animals
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  Speaker 1: who are waiting to devour you, waiting on you to die.
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  Speaker 1: They know you haven't eaten for 40 days. They see
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  Speaker 1: you as dinner. And the angels see you as God's
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  Speaker 1: property and you have to live in between wild animals
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  Speaker 1: and angels. Most of us live our lives somewhere between
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  Speaker 1: wild animals and angels and you have to decide what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to pay attention to. Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to the wild animals snarling over in the
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  Speaker 1: corner saying, I'm going to tear you up. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to destroy you. You're not going to make it. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to collapse. You're going to have a nervous breakdown.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to make it. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: withstand it. This is too much for you. You can't
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  Speaker 1: handle it. Or are you going to look to the
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  Speaker 1: angels who have come to minister to you? What I
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  Speaker 1: love about the angels is that the angels don't need
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  Speaker 1: a perfect audience to result in a perfect end. The
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  Speaker 1: angels can minister to you right in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: wild animals and you can still get your blessing. You
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  Speaker 1: have been asking God to move the wild animals, but
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  Speaker 1: God is not afraid of the wild animals. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he prepares a table before you in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: your enemies. Can I get a witness, somebody? Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: So don't drive all your enemies away because they're there
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  Speaker 1: to watch you eat. Who am I talking to? Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking to? God left your enemies alive not
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  Speaker 1: to torment you. He wanted them to watch you eat
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  Speaker 1: so that he could prove an irrevocable point in your
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  Speaker 1: life that none of the snarling of their teeth could
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  Speaker 1: stop you from being ministered to by God. God wants
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  Speaker 1: to show you so the next time something snarls at you,
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  Speaker 1: you won't run from it. Because God has already proven
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  Speaker 1: that he can feed you in the presence of wild beasts.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have your friends, your prayer warriors,
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  Speaker 1: your church mothers, or your pastor. If God gets ready
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  Speaker 1: to bless you, he'll send the angels to minister to you.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a witness, somebody? Hallelujah. Glory. There's some
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  Speaker 1: people in here, the angels stopped the car wreck. You
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  Speaker 1: thought for sure you were going to lose control of
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  Speaker 1: the car and you did. But God's angel stepped in
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  Speaker 1: just in the nick of time. There's some people in
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  Speaker 1: this room that survived some stuff that you thought you
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  Speaker 1: would never get out of. But God sent angels to
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  Speaker 1: minister in your behalf. There's some people in here that
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  Speaker 1: sunk into the base of depression. But God sent angels
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  Speaker 1: to lift you up. And all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 1: ministered to you. They ministered to you. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says angels are ministering spirits. Whenever angels come, they
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  Speaker 1: come to make you better. They come to make you well.
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  Speaker 1: They come to heal you. They never come to steal.
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  Speaker 1: They never come to destroy. Satan comes to steal, kill,
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  Speaker 1: and destroy. Jesus said, I come that you might have
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  Speaker 1: life and have it more abundantly. Y'all don't know this.
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  Speaker 1: The angels of the Lord encamp about them that fear him.
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  Speaker 1: You may not know it, but you're surrounded by angels.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Type that on the line. I'm surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by angels. Tell cancer I'm surrounded by angels. Tell COVID
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  Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by angels. Tell depression I'm surrounded by angels.
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  Speaker 1: Tell fear I'm surrounded by angels. Tell yourself I'm surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by angels. Even if you live in a house by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: you don't live by yourself. You're surrounded by angels. The
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  Speaker 1: angels of the Lord encamp about them. That fear him.
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  Speaker 1: That means they set their camp. Around people that fear God.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm a praiser. Because to fear God is
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  Speaker 1: to reverence God. And when you start reverencing God. The
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  Speaker 1: angels of the Lord encamp round about you. Did you
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  Speaker 1: not know you're surrounded by angels right now? Surrounded by angels.
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  Speaker 1: Surrounded by angels. surrounded by angels, surrounded by angels. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that happened to your friends didn't happen
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  Speaker 1: to you because you were surrounded by angels, surrounded by angels.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Bible says in Acts chapter one, verse three,
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  Speaker 1: he presented himself alive to them after his suffering by
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  Speaker 1: many proofs that them are his disciples, appearing to them
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  Speaker 1: during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: He stayed around 40 days. He just hung around to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with the boys. Sup? Jesus just crashed parties,
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  Speaker 1: walked through doors, showed up in the upper room, stood
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  Speaker 1: on the road to Emmaus, which brings us to our text.
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  Speaker 1: He has hung around just to intervene. He intervenes in
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  Speaker 1: the upper room with Thomas because Thomas is doubting the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: He's afraid. He's not sure Jesus was who he thought
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  Speaker 1: he was because Jesus didn't do what he thought he
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  Speaker 1: would do. I want to talk to disappointed Christians. You've
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  Speaker 1: been disappointed because God didn't do what you thought he
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  Speaker 1: was going to do. But just because God didn't do
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  Speaker 1: what you thought he was going to do doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord is not with you. They thought that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had come to restore them nationally, to get involved
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  Speaker 1: with politics, to overthrow the Roman oppression. But he came
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the works of the devil. Just because God
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  Speaker 1: didn't do what you thought he was going to do
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that God isn't doing something in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of your depression because hidden in your depression
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  Speaker 1: and your discouragement is arrogance. Because you ordered God around
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't follow your orders. Now your feelings are
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  Speaker 1: hurt because God didn't follow your orders. But God did
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  Speaker 1: not create you to order him. God created you so
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  Speaker 1: he could order you. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So just because you asked it, you expected it, you
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  Speaker 1: envisioned it, you thought it was supposed to happen. If
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  Speaker 1: God didn't do it, it wasn't supposed to happen. I said,
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  Speaker 1: if God didn't do it, it wasn't supposed to happen
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  Speaker 1: because God has a plan for your life. And if
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  Speaker 1: God would have done what you expected him to do,
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  Speaker 1: it would have messed up the plan. God had a
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  Speaker 1: plan for your life and it wasn't time for him
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  Speaker 1: to overthrow Rome. He ultimately overthrew the powers of Rome
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  Speaker 1: outside of Jerusalem. He brought it down to naught, but
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  Speaker 1: it was in God's own timing, not your time. So
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a right to be bitter with God
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't do what you thought he was going
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  Speaker 1: to do. The law of the Lord is perfect converting
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  Speaker 1: the soul. What God has for you is for you.
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  Speaker 1: What God has planned for you is for you. And
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  Speaker 1: what we have to learn rather than to be dominant
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  Speaker 1: with God is to be submissive with God. To submit
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  Speaker 1: to his will. To submit to his way. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that you're a mindless robot. Submission is to submit yourself.
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  Speaker 1: To the mission. To submit to the mission. Submission. To
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  Speaker 1: submit to the mission. Submission doesn't mean you're weak. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're frail. It doesn't mean you're mindless. It
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  Speaker 1: means that you have a mission that's more important than you.
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  Speaker 1: Every person listening at me tonight should have a mission
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  Speaker 1: that's more important than you. Because until you have a
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  Speaker 1: mission that's more important to you, you will always be narcissistic.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as you're narcissistic, you will weigh the
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  Speaker 1: value of God based on the impact on you. Because
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  Speaker 1: your goal is you. God's goal is his mission. God
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  Speaker 1: esteems nothing above his purpose. What God has purposed will
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. And the Bible says all things work
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  Speaker 1: together for good. For them that love the Lord. Who
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  Speaker 1: are the called according to his. So until you lift
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose above your agenda. You're never going to see
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  Speaker 1: the hand of God move in your life. The way
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  Speaker 1: it really needs to move in your life. Because you
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  Speaker 1: are self-enthroned egoist. A self-enthroned egoist means your ego is
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  Speaker 1: so out of control that you have crowned yourself above
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  Speaker 1: the king of kings. Submission. That's why we often kneel
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  Speaker 1: when we pray. It is a position of submission. It's
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  Speaker 1: saying God I bring myself down so that your mission
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  Speaker 1: can be higher than me. Are you living out God's mission?
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  Speaker 1: If not No wonder you're not happy. No wonder you
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  Speaker 1: have no peace. Because the peace is in his mission.
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  Speaker 1: In doing what you were created to do. In being
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  Speaker 1: faithful to your charge. To understand that I submit to
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  Speaker 1: the mission. Whether I'm in a trailer or in a mansion.
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  Speaker 1: I submit to the mission. Don't worry about the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a test. It's just a test. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a test. I had all my kids piled up in
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  Speaker 1: one room and we were standing in the other room.
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  Speaker 1: And if the lights was off, the water was, if
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  Speaker 1: the lights were on, the water was off. If the
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  Speaker 1: water was on, the lights were off. If the light
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  Speaker 1: in the water was on, the gas was off. There
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  Speaker 1: was something wrong with that. But I had to prove
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  Speaker 1: to God that I wasn't more concerned about me than
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  Speaker 1: I was about him. So he allowed me for a
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  Speaker 1: period of years to preach faith while in want. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna talk to me tonight. He knew he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna ultimately bless me in exceptional ways. But he proved
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  Speaker 1: me in the furnace of affliction. So that no devil
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  Speaker 1: would be able to say that I serve God for
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  Speaker 1: the things he gave me. He let me serve him
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  Speaker 1: with my pockets empty. He let me serve him with
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  Speaker 1: my lights off. So that I would have no doubt
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  Speaker 1: about who I am. You might have doubts about who
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  Speaker 1: I am. But I don't have doubts about who I am.
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  Speaker 1: Because you wasn't there when I was praising God and
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  Speaker 1: serving God. And preaching the word of God. And thumbing
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  Speaker 1: to teach Bible class. Car broke down on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road. And I thumbed and climbed across coal cars.
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  Speaker 1: And knocked the coal dust off my legs. And preached faith.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just preach faith when you're up. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just preach faith when you're rich. You can't just preach
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  Speaker 1: faith when you get the degree. You can't just preach
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  Speaker 1: faith when you get married. You got to preach faith hungry.
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  Speaker 1: You got to say like Job, though he slay me.
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  Speaker 1: Yet shall I trust him. That yet shall I trust
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  Speaker 1: him means you're a Bible student, not just a Bible scholar.
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  Speaker 1: You have allowed the word of God to become so
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  Speaker 1: enriched in your life that you're always learning. You never graduate.
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  Speaker 1: You're always learning about God and you're trusting him when
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  Speaker 1: things don't look good and they don't feel good and
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  Speaker 1: your emotions have turned against you and you're in a
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  Speaker 1: fight with your own flesh and you still praise God.
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  Speaker 1: When your mouth is dry and your heart is broken
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  Speaker 1: and you don't feel like praising God, you drag yourself
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  Speaker 1: in here and say, I will bless the Lord at
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  Speaker 1: all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The
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  Speaker 1: humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Oh, magnify. the
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  Speaker 1: Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not know that drives the devil crazy? Because
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  Speaker 1: the devil said, I know he's not going to praise
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  Speaker 1: God now. He just got bad news. I know he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to praise God now. I know she's not
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  Speaker 1: going to praise God with a bad knee. I know
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  Speaker 1: she's not going to come out there anyway and still
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord. I know she's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of trouble and still praise God. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're not going to praise him in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a divorce, but there are some people in this
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  Speaker 1: room And there are some people online that they have
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  Speaker 1: learned whatever state they're in to give God the praise anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're one of those people, let's take about
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds and just praise. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what I'm going through. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what I feel in my body. I don't care what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in my mind. I don't care what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in my finances. I'm going to praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to praise you until hell gets nervous. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise you until the devil gets upset. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise him until anxiety leaves my body. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise him until my nerves get steady. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise him until I get your mind. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise him until I get your will and
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  Speaker 1: your purpose. I'm going to praise him. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: praise him with my heart broken. I'm going to praise
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  Speaker 1: him with my wallet empty. I'm going to praise him
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  Speaker 1: living with my mama. I don't care what state I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: I will praise the Lord. Take another 10 seconds and
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  Speaker 1: give him a crazy praise. A crazy praise. A relentless praise.
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  Speaker 1: A praise like you lost your mind. A praise like
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  Speaker 1: you ain't got nothing to lose. A praise that gets
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  Speaker 1: on hell's nerves. A praise that frustrates the witches. A
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  Speaker 1: praise that breaks curses. A praise that tears down barriers.
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  Speaker 1: A praise that moves obstacles out of your way. You
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  Speaker 1: got to do this for yourself. Nobody can praise him
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  Speaker 1: for you. You can sit by a praiser, but it
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  Speaker 1: won't help you. You can touch a praiser, but it
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  Speaker 1: won't help you until you open your mouth and decide,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to praise the Lord. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get the benefit of praising God. I feel praise
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  Speaker 1: breaking out all over this room. I feel the anointing
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  Speaker 1: of God breaking out all over this room. I feel
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  Speaker 1: the glory of Lord all over this room. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of my 40 days, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to praise God. I'm too far here to be there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too far from there to be here. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, but I'm going to praise God
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  Speaker 1: with great joy. And the Bible said he laid hands
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  Speaker 1: on him and they were in great joy. Can I
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  Speaker 1: hear great joy in the house?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Can you
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  Speaker 2: feel demons running? Can you feel demons running? Can you
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  Speaker 2: feel spirits of heaviness falling off you? God said, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
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  Speaker 2: You got the spirit of heaviness on you. You can
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  Speaker 2: shake that spirit off right now with the praise. I
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  Speaker 2: double dare you to open your mouth and praise God.
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  Speaker 2: If you praise God, you can change your clothes. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of heaviness will just fall off you. The
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  Speaker 2: garment of praise will just envelop you. The peace of
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  Speaker 2: God will surround you. The angels of the Lord will
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  Speaker 2: encamp you. Did you know you got the power.
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  Speaker 1: In your mouth? to summon the angels. If you open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth and stop being cute and start praising God,
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  Speaker 1: the angels of the Lord will encamp round about you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to play with this text a little bit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play with this text a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play with this text. Because this text
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  Speaker 1: is good. This text is good. There is no question
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  Speaker 1: to the authenticity of the fact that these people were disciples.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is clear. It does not call them sinners.
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  Speaker 1: It does not call them unbelievers. It does not call
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  Speaker 1: them doubters. They are undeniably disciples. Only one of them
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  Speaker 1: is named Cleopas. The others remain anonymous. But the thing
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  Speaker 1: that is clear about them is that they are disciples.
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  Speaker 1: Without distinction, they have given their lives to Christ. Their
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  Speaker 1: conversation is a reflection of their commitment Because if you
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  Speaker 1: are really a Christian, you ought to talk like one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand Christians who don't like to talk about God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you got to talk about him every
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  Speaker 1: minute of your life, but it ought not feel funny
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  Speaker 1: to talk about God. Glory to God. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: woman in love. She don't feel funny talking about her marriage.
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  Speaker 1: A man in love don't feel funny talking about the
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  Speaker 1: person they love. In fact, you can't shut them up.
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  Speaker 1: He's so cute. He's so silly. He said the craziest thing.
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  Speaker 1: We was just on the phone breathing. You know the
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  Speaker 1: kind of love where you're on the phone and you
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  Speaker 1: don't run out of stuff to say but you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hang up and you're just on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and you're just breathing. And after about five minutes of
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  Speaker 1: running up your bill, you say something stupid like, What
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  Speaker 1: are you thinking about? And they respond, nothing. What you
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  Speaker 1: thinking about? Nothing. Yeah, that kind of thing that you
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  Speaker 1: ought to love to talk about Jesus. So they are
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  Speaker 1: talking about Jesus and there is a stranger in the distance.
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  Speaker 1: So the first word we want to talk about is interventions.
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  Speaker 1: The stranger intervenes in the conversation. He is not invited
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  Speaker 1: into the conversation. He just eavesdropped on them talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and he puts himself, interjects himself, intervenes into the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that God is aggressive. That God
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  Speaker 1: is aggressive enough to intervene in your understanding of who
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  Speaker 1: he is. Because we all see through a glass darkly.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know everything that there is to know about God.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we are legitimately disciples, we still don't know
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  Speaker 1: everything that there is to know about God. And they
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  Speaker 1: were sharing information based on their understanding of what God
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  Speaker 1: had done. And Jesus said, what are y'all talking about?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: And then they asked him, hey, are you a stranger
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem? Have you not known what happened three days ago?
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  Speaker 1: So this is three days away from the resurrection. They
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  Speaker 1: are three days into the 40 day experience. And Jesus says, no,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Your God is an actor. He feigns
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  Speaker 1: not to know. He allows you to get down on
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  Speaker 1: your knees and talk for two hours about something he
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  Speaker 1: already knows. He lets you feel like you are informing
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  Speaker 1: him about a situation like he can't see. You know, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: my knees are weak. You know, Lord, I got back pain.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Lord, I lost my job and my rent
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  Speaker 1: is due on Thursday. Which one of those things do
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  Speaker 1: you think God doesn't know? But he allows you to
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  Speaker 1: think that you are informing him. So the teacher went
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  Speaker 1: back to school. Jesus is the rabbi, the master teacher.
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  Speaker 1: He is the professor. He is professorial. He is in
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  Speaker 1: the room to be the teacher, but he acquiesce to
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  Speaker 1: these who think that they are teachers. And sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: will acquiesce and allow you to walk in your own
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  Speaker 1: wisdom so that you can discover that your wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: foolishness in comparison to God. And he does that because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we are not fully convinced that God's wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: right until our wisdom has failed. Oh, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to some real people in here. We will not
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  Speaker 1: listen at God's first advice. We want to do it
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  Speaker 1: our way. And sometimes you have to bump your head
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  Speaker 1: to be humble enough to find your knees. Amen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't just drop down on your knees. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: drop down on your knees because you bumped your head. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you believe God because you ain't got nobody else
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  Speaker 1: to believe. Sometimes you trust God because you ain't got
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  Speaker 1: no choice but to trust God. You got to trust
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  Speaker 1: God to get there. I'm trusting the Lord. I guess
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  Speaker 1: you are. You broke. You can't go nowhere. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get out of the house. You got to trust God.
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  Speaker 1: God has a way of intervening into your situation and
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  Speaker 1: causing you to have a God encounter. Somebody praise him
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  Speaker 1: for a minute. I want to take applications tonight. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in here that's got something you want God
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  Speaker 1: to intervene in? Everybody who's got something that you need
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  Speaker 1: God to intervene in and you're willing, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to take your hands off it. Stand up
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  Speaker 1: on your feet. Lord, our standing to our feet is
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  Speaker 1: symbolic of us falling on our knees. We stand to
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  Speaker 1: admit that our wisdom hasn't worked. Our plans have been impotent.
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  Speaker 1: Our ideas have failed. We thought so well that we
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  Speaker 1: knew what ought to be done. But we now recognize
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  Speaker 1: we don't know how to be a mother. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to be a father. We don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to be a husband. We don't know how to be
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  Speaker 1: a wife. We don't know how to be any of
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  Speaker 1: the things that you put up under our charge. we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to pastor people we don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to counsel people we humble ourselves before you and Lord
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  Speaker 1: not only do we humble ourselves before you we alleviate
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  Speaker 1: ourselves of the weight of the outcome We absolve ourselves
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  Speaker 1: from the responsibility of being our own Messiah. We humble
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  Speaker 1: ourselves down. Any way you decide to bless me, I
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  Speaker 1: will be satisfied. And Lord, as I stand here in
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  Speaker 1: your house today, I want you to intervene. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to interrupt my conversations. I want you to shut
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. I want you to cut me off. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to teach me how to hold my peace.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to come in and be the third
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  Speaker 1: one at the table. I want you to get in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. I want you to come in, Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: let me exhaust my ideas so that I can bump
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  Speaker 1: into yours. I don't want to have a form of
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  Speaker 1: godliness denying the power thereof. Right now, I let you
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  Speaker 1: intervene into my life. And Lord, that means I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to walk out of here without one single solitary care
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  Speaker 1: because you're in charge of my life. And if you
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  Speaker 1: agree with that prayer, praise him for peace right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry back to your notes. I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 1: point number two. Point number two is frustration. The disciples
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  Speaker 1: were frustrated. Thank you, Jesus, for admitting that you can
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  Speaker 1: legitimately be a disciple and be frustrated. That it is
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  Speaker 1: possible to be a disciple and be disappointed. That it
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  Speaker 1: is possible to be a child of God and go
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  Speaker 1: through a stage of uncertainty and That has caused an
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  Speaker 1: effect on your personality. Because most phony Christians. Act like
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  Speaker 1: they are happy all the time. If it weren't for
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  Speaker 1: my Bible. I wouldn't know that you could be a
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  Speaker 1: child of God. And be irritable. And aggravated. And frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: And they were frustrated. And Jesus was listening at them complain.
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  Speaker 1: Now God hates murmuring and complaining. He proved that in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament with his first son, his firstborn son.
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  Speaker 1: Israel complained in the wilderness and delayed their journey with
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  Speaker 1: their mouth. Let me ask you a question. Have you
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  Speaker 1: delayed your journey with your mouth? Angered God with your frustration?
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  Speaker 1: Gotten to the point in your life that you've allowed
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  Speaker 1: your frustration to take over your tongue? The most powerful
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  Speaker 1: thing you have on your body is your mouth. And
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  Speaker 1: out of the mouth speaks life and death. And you've
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  Speaker 1: allowed death to come out of your mouth. Even though
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  Speaker 1: you are a disciple, you are speaking death. Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: with them and they were speaking death. He had not
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  Speaker 1: revealed himself unto them. They did not know who he was.
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  Speaker 1: And I am troubled that they are talking about a
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  Speaker 1: God that they do not recognize. That their lips are
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  Speaker 1: confessing something that their eyes are not seeing. Without a vision,
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  Speaker 1: the people perish. Not without a testimony. Without a vision,
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  Speaker 1: the people perish. It is possible to have a great
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  Speaker 1: testimony and a weak vision. These people had a great testimony,
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  Speaker 1: but they had a weak vision. Lay your hands on
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  Speaker 1: your eyes and say, open my eyes. Open my eyes
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  Speaker 1: so that I can see you even when my feelings
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  Speaker 1: contradict you. That means that sometimes my emotions will not
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  Speaker 1: align with your presence. Oh, that is good. That is good.
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  Speaker 1: That means sometimes you are in the house and I'm
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  Speaker 1: still feeling lonely. That means sometimes you are with me
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  Speaker 1: and I still feel defeated. Sometimes I have the victory,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like a victim. That means I cannot
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  Speaker 1: lean to my own understanding. I cannot allow how I
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  Speaker 1: feel to dominate what I believe. So there they are
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  Speaker 1: allowing how they feel to dominate how they believe. And
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: their whole problem was Jesus of Nazareth came, did all
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  Speaker 1: this miraculous stuff. We followed him around for three years
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  Speaker 1: and then he went to the cross and got crucified
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  Speaker 1: and we're still in the same mess we're in. What
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  Speaker 1: do you do when it seems like your faith doesn't work?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you gave tithes and you
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  Speaker 1: still lost your job? What do you do when you
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  Speaker 1: ran up here with $ 20 and threw it on the
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  Speaker 1: altar and danced back to your seat and somebody cussed
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  Speaker 1: you out in the parking lot? What do you do
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  Speaker 1: when you face real life issues where it looks like
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: your faith is being mocked by your circumstances? You are
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: frustrated and you are in the house and frustrated. Everybody
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: preaches about the prodigal son, but I like to preach
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  Speaker 1: about his elder brother. Everybody talks about the son that
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  Speaker 1: left but I have no problems with the son that
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  Speaker 1: left because he eventually found his way back and he
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  Speaker 1: came back higher than he was when he left. When
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  Speaker 1: he left they had no party for him. When he
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  Speaker 1: came back they had a party for him. When he left,
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  Speaker 1: there was no celebration. When he came back, there was celebration.
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  Speaker 1: When he left, he just had his possessions, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have his ring and he didn't have his coat.
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  Speaker 1: Because if he had his ring and his coat, his
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  Speaker 1: father wouldn't have had it to give him back to him.
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  Speaker 1: So he came back better than he was. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to some comeback kids. You down right now,
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  Speaker 1: but you're going to come back better than you were. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You're in the hog
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  Speaker 1: pen right now, but you're going to come back better
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  Speaker 1: than you are. And you thought that you got the
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  Speaker 1: treasure of the father, but the father held out some
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you didn't get yet. He still got your ring.
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  Speaker 1: He still got your robe. He still got your fatted calf.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't seen your best day yet. You haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: your best blessing yet. And even though you went broke
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  Speaker 1: out there acting a fool, God's got blessings that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't even touched yet. God's got promotions you haven't even
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  Speaker 1: seen yet. God's got opportunities that haven't even manifested yet.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even know you're an entrepreneur. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: know you're an author. You don't even know you're the
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  Speaker 1: head and not the tail. You don't even know that
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  Speaker 1: you're above and not beneath. But if you will turn
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  Speaker 1: around and come home and forsake your ways. and repent
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  Speaker 1: of your sin. God said, I will heal your land
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  Speaker 1: and I will show you who you really are. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: in this room is just now starting to understand who
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  Speaker 1: you really are. And everything the devil did to you
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: before was to stop you from coming into an awareness
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  Speaker 1: of an understanding of who you are. But on your
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  Speaker 1: way back home, you won't get your ring. You won't
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  Speaker 1: get your robe. You're going to get your fatted calf
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  Speaker 1: and your latter day shall be greater than your former day.
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  Speaker 1: And if you receive that prayer, give him a praise
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  Speaker 1: right now. I like to preach about the older brother
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  Speaker 1: because the older brother is not so opulent with his sin.
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  Speaker 1: It is the kind of sins that church loves. The
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  Speaker 1: church loves spiritual sins. See, the church has a problem
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  Speaker 1: with fleshly sins. But you can be as proud as
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. You can be as hateful as
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. You can be as bitter as
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. But as long as you don't
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  Speaker 1: have sex with nobody, as long as you don't get
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  Speaker 1: drunk in the street, they will say they're holy and
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: they'll say you're hell bound. But the Bible doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: talk about sins of the flesh. It talks about sins
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit. The prodigal son had sins of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: spending his money with harlots and riotous living, but he
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: ended up better than he was before. The prodigal son
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  Speaker 1: got better with sins of the flesh than the elder
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  Speaker 1: brother did with sins of the spirit. He didn't spend
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  Speaker 1: his money with harlots. He didn't run his money out
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  Speaker 1: buying fake love. He didn't end up ready to eat
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  Speaker 1: that which the swine did eat. He was home doing
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  Speaker 1: what he was supposed to be doing, but he had
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  Speaker 1: sins of the spirit. He was bitter. He was hateful.
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  Speaker 1: He was envious. He was jealous. He was frustrated. You've
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  Speaker 1: been washing your body, but you need to wash your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You need to wash out hatefulness out of your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: double-mindedness out of your spirit. You got to intentionally wash
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  Speaker 1: that out of your spirit because sins of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: are worse than sins of the flesh because they are invisible.
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  Speaker 1: They hide inside of you. They go by undetected. And
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  Speaker 1: anybody who's got a disease that's undetected knows that it
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: will spread. Oh, talk to me, somebody. We're in Bible class.
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  Speaker 1: We're in Bible class. So even though the younger brother
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  Speaker 1: had sins of the flesh, which the church preaches about
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  Speaker 1: all the time, the elder brother had sins of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: which the church says nothing about. The Bible says all
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  Speaker 1: that's in the world is the lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
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  Speaker 1: The third dimension is always the highest dimension. The outer court,
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  Speaker 1: the inner court, the holies of holies. The body, the soul,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. The third dimension is always the highest dimension.
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  Speaker 1: The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye,
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  Speaker 1: the pride of life. The pride of life is the
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  Speaker 1: highest dimension. If you don't believe me, ask Lucifer. Lucifer
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  Speaker 1: had pride inside of him. He was cast out of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't cast out of heaven because he was whoring around.
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  Speaker 1: He was cast out of heaven Because he had sins
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit. If you get sin in your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: it's worse than sins of your flesh. Sins of your
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  Speaker 1: flesh will bring you to your knees. But sins in
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  Speaker 1: your spirit will make you too proud to bend your knee.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: You will be self-righteous and arrogant. The Bible said not
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: only do I hate pride, I hate a proud look.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: God said, if you look proud, if you act proud,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: if you got a proud expression on your face, I
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: hate the way you look. I don't like the look
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: of your face. My mama used to say, don't you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: look at me like that. God is saying, don't you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: look at me like that. I hate pride so bad
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: that I hate a proud look. That means that's like saying,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I hate cake so bad that I hate pictures of cake.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: God said, I hate pride so bad that I don't
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: want to look at you and see it on your nose.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see it in your eyes. I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: don't want to see it in your lips and you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: standing there looking hateful. Don't you know you can't enter
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: into my presence looking hateful? You have to enter into
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: my gates with thanksgiving. and my courts with praise and
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: be thankful unto him and bless his name. You have
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to serve the Lord with gladness. That's why the devil
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't want you to be glad. He's trying to put
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: sins in your spirit. He doesn't want you to have
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: gladness in your spirit because gladness will cause the doors
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: of God's glory to open up in your life. That's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: why the enemy is trying to steal gladness out of
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: your heart and worry you to death with things you
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: can't fix anyway. And since you can't fix it anyway,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: you might as well go ahead and be glad. I
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: have decided not to be laying on the side of
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: the bed worrying about stuff I can't fix. I will
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: fix what I can and leave the rest of it
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: up to God. Because if God can't do it, it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: can't be done. Somebody ought to shout me down right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I want to preach on frustration a minute. I want
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to teach on frustration until I drive it out of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the building. There are too many saints that are filled
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost, but they got frustration down in
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: their souls, frustration in their spirit, frustrated because you thought
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: you'd be further, frustrated because you don't like the way
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: you look. frustrated because you don't like the way somebody
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: treats you, frustrated because you've not been acknowledged, frustrated because
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: your friends don't acknowledge you, frustrated because you thought you'd
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: have your degree, frustrated because you think you deserve more
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: money than you got. Get rid of that filth out
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: of your spirit. Cough it up. throw it up pray
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: it up call it up dance it up yell it
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: up get it out of your spirit the sins of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the spirit will damage you from being able to reach
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: God because deep calleth unto deep at the noise of
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: thy water spout so God have I heard if you
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: get pollution in your spirit you got pollution in your
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: prayer life you got pollution in your communion and you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: end up arguing with your father rather than being blessed
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: by your father So I have more problems with the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: elder brother than I do the younger brother. The younger
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: brother went out there and he had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: whores and turned around and came home, got right with
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  Speaker 1: God and ended up better than he was before. While
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  Speaker 1: he was being made better, the elder brother was still
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  Speaker 1: outside raising hell about something that didn't have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with him. He was jealous of his older brother,
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  Speaker 1: but he thought he could get by with being jealous
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  Speaker 1: because nobody preaches in the house about sins of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to cleanse yourself of every filthiness of
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  Speaker 1: your spirit. Amen. Jealousy, drive it out of you. Unforgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: drive it out of you. Bitterness, drive it out of you.
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  Speaker 1: Make yourself stop being bitter. Stop feeding yourself the kind
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  Speaker 1: of garbage that makes you bitter. You rehearse bitter thoughts
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  Speaker 1: so you got bitter fruit. If you stop it at
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  Speaker 1: the root of your thoughts it won't manifest in your emotions.
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  Speaker 1: Purge your thought life. Do you not know you make
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  Speaker 1: a choice what you think about? Somebody asked me how
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  Speaker 1: things are going. I said, how much time do you have?
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  Speaker 1: It depends on what you want me to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I can talk about what's wrong. It's a whole list
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  Speaker 1: of what's wrong. And I can talk about what's right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole list of what's right. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: I stop looking at the list of what's wrong and
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  Speaker 1: I focus on the list of what's right. Because when
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  Speaker 1: I focus on the list of what's right, I cleanse
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  Speaker 1: my spirit. When I focus on the list of what's wrong,
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  Speaker 1: I contaminate my spirit. I'm helping somebody. I know I'm
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  Speaker 1: helping somebody. It may only be one person. The devil
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  Speaker 1: is not doing this to you. Witches are not doing
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  Speaker 1: this to you. Hexes are not doing this to you.
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  Speaker 1: You are doing this to yourself. You are tormenting yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Hell doesn't have to race the demon on you because
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  Speaker 1: you are the demon that's being used against you because
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  Speaker 1: you keep looking at the wrong list. Count your blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Name them one by one. Count your many blessings. See
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  Speaker 1: what God has done. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to you. We got to sing some of them old
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  Speaker 1: songs sometime because they got some simple power in them.
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  Speaker 1: You need to start naming to yourself. Every time you
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  Speaker 1: feel filthiness getting in your spirit, start counting your blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Open up your closet. Start counting your blessings. Look at
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  Speaker 1: your shoes. Start counting your blessings. Take your shoes off
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: and look at your feet. Start counting your blessings. Count
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  Speaker 1: your toes. Look at all of the toes on your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Count your toes. Move your knees. Start counting your blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Move your elbows. Start counting your blessings. Shake your head.
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  Speaker 1: Start counting your blessings. If you start counting your blessings,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know it, but you are washing your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Wash frustration out of your spirit. Somebody give him 30
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  Speaker 1: seconds of praise. I feel a shower. I feel a
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  Speaker 1: shower of blessings. Can I stay on that just one
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  Speaker 1: more minute? I have watched saint after saint after saint
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  Speaker 1: that were really disciples make themselves miserable. They make themselves
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  Speaker 1: miserable like kids picking at a sword. It's already a
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  Speaker 1: sword and now you digging in it. It's bound to
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  Speaker 1: get infected. Because the more you keep rehearsing what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: and talking about it and telling yourself about it, your
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  Speaker 1: words have so much power. The more I talk about something,
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  Speaker 1: the bigger it gets. I found out when I'm mad,
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  Speaker 1: the less I say, the better it is. Because the
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  Speaker 1: more I talk about it, the madder I get. I
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  Speaker 1: can be a little bit mad, but if I start
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  Speaker 1: telling you about the little bit, it starts swelling up
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  Speaker 1: because my words have so much power that while I'm talking,
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  Speaker 1: they increase. If they increase under death, they can increase
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  Speaker 1: under life. If I start speaking life, that will increase
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  Speaker 1: in me also. If I start speaking peace, that will
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  Speaker 1: increase in me also. Type on the line if you're
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  Speaker 1: getting something out of this. I'm giving you therapy right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you counseling right now. I'm giving you something
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  Speaker 1: to journal about right now. Get a pen and start
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  Speaker 1: writing down all the things you got. Instead of talking
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  Speaker 1: about what you don't have, start talking about what you
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  Speaker 1: do have. If you don't have shoes, thank God you
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  Speaker 1: got feet. If you got feet, thank God you got toes.
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  Speaker 1: If you got toes, thank God you got ankles. If
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  Speaker 1: you got ankles, thank God you got legs. I know
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  Speaker 1: that don't sound like much, but it's a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: if you lose them It's a whole lot if you
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  Speaker 1: lose them. If you lose your toes, you'll be praying
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  Speaker 1: for toes. If you lose your legs, you'll wish you
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  Speaker 1: had a leg. Why do we wait till we lose
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  Speaker 1: stuff before we appreciate it? Frustration is in you. I
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  Speaker 1: cast out the spirit of frustration. I cast it out
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  Speaker 1: of your life. I cast it out of your thought life.
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  Speaker 1: I cast it out of your mind. I cast it
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  Speaker 1: out of your heart. I'm going to give you one
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  Speaker 1: more thing about frustration. Frustrations can be monitored by expectation.
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  Speaker 1: If you change your expectation, you will limit your frustration.
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  Speaker 1: I expect people to be who they are. Once you
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  Speaker 1: teach me who you are, you teach me what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm never disappointed because I never expect above what
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  Speaker 1: you advertise. Amen. If you advertise you a fool, I
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  Speaker 1: expect you to be a fool. And when I need
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  Speaker 1: a fool, I'll call you. Come on, somebody. You got power.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to show you, you got power. You got power.
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  Speaker 1: You got power. They were frustrated because they expected Christ
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  Speaker 1: to do something that he never came to do. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell them he was going to do that. He
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: kept telling them he was going to die. Except a
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  Speaker 1: grain of wheat falling to the ground and die, it'll
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  Speaker 1: bite alone. If you destroy this temple in three days,
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  Speaker 1: I'll raise it back up again. He kept telling them
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  Speaker 1: he was going to die. He kept telling them he
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  Speaker 1: was going to die. But once your expectations are set
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  Speaker 1: in a certain direction, your expectations are set by the
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  Speaker 1: devil who wants to bring the frustration that comes behind
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  Speaker 1: a lofty expectation. You stop calling me, I stop expecting you.
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  Speaker 1: I text you, you don't text me back, I stop
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  Speaker 1: expecting it. I stop expecting it to control my frustration.
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  Speaker 1: I can't control your call, but I can control my frustration.
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  Speaker 1: And I refuse to give you that much power over me.
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  Speaker 1: So once you show me that I can't expect it,
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  Speaker 1: I can't be frustrated by that I don't expect. These
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  Speaker 1: men are being driven nuts by their expectation. How many
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  Speaker 1: things are tormenting you because you have the wrong expectation?
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? So Jesus listened to them frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: And they were telling Jesus what Jesus didn't do. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: that something? They telling Jesus what he didn't do. And
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: then he said, oh, you fools. I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: get to do it and quote scriptures. Don't write me
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  Speaker 1: about it. I'm quoting Bible. He said, oh, you fools.
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  Speaker 1: You are slow of heart to believe. I need Lord
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  Speaker 1: have mercy. Slow of heart to believe. Are you quicker
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  Speaker 1: to doubt than you are to believe? He didn't say
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  Speaker 1: they didn't believe. He said they were slow of heart
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  Speaker 1: to believe. Does belief matter? operate too slowly in your life?
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  Speaker 1: Am I more apt to overhear you complaining than praising?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about in church. I'm talking about if
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  Speaker 1: I get in the backseat of your car and ride around.
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  Speaker 1: Can I hear you praising or complaining? You are slow
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  Speaker 1: of heart to believe. Now, your homework is to pick
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  Speaker 1: up your pace to believe. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't beg people to give because some people are
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  Speaker 1: slow of heart to believe. And you can't make them
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  Speaker 1: pick up their pace. Because they don't believe. They'll pick
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  Speaker 1: it up at the racetrack. They'll pick it up at
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  Speaker 1: the football game. They'll pick it up at the mall.
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  Speaker 1: They'll pick it up at the beauty parlor. They got
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  Speaker 1: a closet full of red bottom shoes. Even if they
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  Speaker 1: had to paint red on it themselves. They got all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of other stuff. But they are slow of heart
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  Speaker 1: to believe. They will buy Gordon's gin. They will buy
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  Speaker 1: Seagram 7. Don't act like you don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: They will buy Bacardi rum. Don't sit up there and
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  Speaker 1: look cute. They will buy Chablis. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: much they cost, they will pay for it. And they'll
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  Speaker 1: put a dollar in church because you are slow of
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  Speaker 1: heart to believe. And you wonder why faith doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: for you. The wine works for you. The gin works
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  Speaker 1: for you. The rum works for you. The scotch works
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  Speaker 1: for you because you are fast of heart to believe.
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  Speaker 1: If you become as fast for the things of God
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  Speaker 1: as you are for the things of this world, God
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  Speaker 1: will move in your life in a faster way. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it lets you know that God counts speed. It is
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  Speaker 1: not just believing. It is the pace in which you believe.
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  Speaker 1: God is monitoring the pace of your belief. When God
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  Speaker 1: says move, you need to move. When God says do,
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  Speaker 1: you need to do. When God says speak, you need
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  Speaker 1: to speak. When God says so, you need to slow.
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  Speaker 1: It's so. And if you don't so, you are slow.
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  Speaker 1: of heart to believe. Sometimes you miss your moment because
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  Speaker 1: you're slow of heart to believe. If the woman with
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  Speaker 1: the issue of blood had been slow, she'd have died
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  Speaker 1: bleeding to death. If blind Bartimaeus would have been slow,
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  Speaker 1: he'd have died a blind man. If the man with
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  Speaker 1: the withered hand would have been slow, he would have
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  Speaker 1: died a crippled man. If the man sick of palsy
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  Speaker 1: would have been slow, he'd have missed his service. You
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  Speaker 1: are slow of heart to believe. And so he starts
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  Speaker 1: talking to them. And in a seven-mile stretch, the road
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  Speaker 1: to Emmaus is seven miles long. Seven miles is not long, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Seven miles. You can walk seven miles. Even if you're overweight,
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  Speaker 1: you can walk seven miles pretty quick, at least in
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  Speaker 1: an hour. You can stroll seven miles in an hour. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. You can do it. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it. You did it last week. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: do it. You can stroll seven miles in an hour.
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  Speaker 1: In about an hour's time, Jesus went through every scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. From Moses to now. Now he's in the
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  Speaker 1: 40 day window. And Moses is on the mountain for
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: 40 days. And he goes from Moses to the 40
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  Speaker 1: days between the resurrection and the ascension. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how many messianic scriptures are between Exodus and And Luke.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible said he used every scripture leading all
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  Speaker 1: the way up to where they were to educate them.
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  Speaker 1: Third word, education. To educate them. You have to educate
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  Speaker 1: what you want to stimulate. And he educates them on
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  Speaker 1: a seven mile stretch of road. And by the time
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  Speaker 1: he got to the village, he had gone through every
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  Speaker 1: scripture possible, teaching them, justifying and legitimizing that he is
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah, that the begotten son is the Messiah of
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  Speaker 1: the firstborn son. That the only begotten son is the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah himself. of Israel the firstborn son and he did
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  Speaker 1: it in about an hour I could not for the
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  Speaker 1: life of me quote every scripture that's messianic from Moses
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  Speaker 1: to the new testament in an hour I couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: it I was thinking the other day I thought I
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  Speaker 1: would talk about six things I learned in 65 years
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't do it because I said if I
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  Speaker 1: spent a minute on each one it'll be over an
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  Speaker 1: hour And that's just me. My little dumb life. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had the kind of life that he's talking about the
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  Speaker 1: works of God and he did it all in an hour.
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  Speaker 1: That's a miracle by itself. That he could expound every
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  Speaker 1: scripture in an hour is a miracle by itself. Now
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  Speaker 1: I got a real problem. I got a real problem
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  Speaker 1: because no teacher could go through that in an hour
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  Speaker 1: but Jesus did. And I don't understand why he could
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  Speaker 1: be the walking word, the voice of the Lord walking
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  Speaker 1: through the cool of the garden. Just walking along with
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  Speaker 1: him and they're walking with him and they didn't recognize
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  Speaker 1: who they were walking with. They should have recognized the
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  Speaker 1: excellency of his speech, the anointing behind his word, the
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  Speaker 1: authority he had in scriptures. There's a difference between somebody
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  Speaker 1: reading your book and the author reading the book. They're
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  Speaker 1: listening at the author walk through the book and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't recognize the author. Point two, they didn't recognize his voice.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said, my sheep know my voice. A stranger
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  Speaker 1: they will not follow. Why didn't they recognize his voice?
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  Speaker 1: Point three, why didn't they look at his hands? Thomas
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  Speaker 1: looked at his hands and it is proof positive that
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus was risen from the dead, his hands still
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  Speaker 1: had holes in them. His side was still pierced in it.
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  Speaker 1: His scalp still had the scratch marks from the crown
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  Speaker 1: of thorns that was on his head. And they didn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize his face. They didn't recognize his scars. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize his wounds. How blind are these men that they
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  Speaker 1: did not recognize Jesus. And the Bible said when he
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  Speaker 1: had made it to the village, he made as if,
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  Speaker 1: watch this, he made as if he would go forward.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a test. And the Lord told me
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, I'm not leaving you. I'm testing you.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to keep walking to see if you
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  Speaker 1: want it bad enough to call me back. So he
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  Speaker 1: made as if he would go further. He didn't go further.
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  Speaker 1: He just acted like he would. to see if they
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  Speaker 1: would initiate a response. And they called him in, still
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  Speaker 1: not knowing who he was, but sensing that there was
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  Speaker 1: something about him that was different from all of their conversation.
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  Speaker 1: He has changed the nature of the entire conversation. Your
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  Speaker 1: change begins when your conversation changes. Your change doesn't begin
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  Speaker 1: when your behavior changes. Your change begins when your conversation changes.
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  Speaker 1: I can always tell when somebody's growing up about what
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  Speaker 1: they talk about. He changed the nature of the whole conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all so quiet. He changed the nature of the whole conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind. He changed the nature of the whole conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And then he walked past to see if they were
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  Speaker 1: bold enough to call him back. Because he's a gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't go in their house without an invitation. He
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  Speaker 1: would go in their conversation without an invitation, but he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go in their house without an invitation. He said
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  Speaker 1: in Revelation, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
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  Speaker 1: If any man hear my voice and open up the door,
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  Speaker 1: I will come in and sup with him. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to initiate it. I'm just going to stand on
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  Speaker 1: the door and you have to open the door. I
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  Speaker 1: could walk through the door, but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: walk through the door. You have to open up the door.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you opened up the door
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  Speaker 1: and said, don't leave me, Jesus? So they said, don't
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  Speaker 1: leave us, Jesus. The night is coming. Why don't you
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  Speaker 1: come in and stay? So he came in. He came
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  Speaker 1: in gladly because all he needed was an invitation. All
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  Speaker 1: God needs from you right now is an invitation, not
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: a frustration. He needs an invitation, not a griping list.
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  Speaker 1: He needs an invitation. And when they invited him in,
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  Speaker 1: he came down and he supped with them. And as
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  Speaker 1: he supped with them, he took bread and he blessed
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  Speaker 1: it and he broke it and he gave it to them.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: And it was just a simple thing. Normal custom. They
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  Speaker 1: do it all the time. They make big loaves of bread.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the fellowship was to take your hands and
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  Speaker 1: break it and bless it and give it to them.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: And they were sitting around having a meal with him,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: just hanging out with Jesus. You know, like you're at Starbucks,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: just chilling with Jesus. And Jesus is just going through
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  Speaker 1: a normal ceremony. He took the bread. He blessed it.
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  Speaker 1: He broke it. He gave it to them. all of
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: a sudden they knew it was him. What was it
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: that they saw in Jesus in the bread that they
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: didn't see in the wounds that they didn't hear in
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  Speaker 1: the voice that they didn't perceive in the mind but
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  Speaker 1: they saw it in the ordinary things. God always reveals
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  Speaker 1: himself in ordinary things. It is not the big things
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  Speaker 1: it's the little things and there he is doing a
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  Speaker 1: little thing like Eating with them. And they saw him
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  Speaker 1: in the eating. In a way that they didn't see
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  Speaker 1: him in the teaching. That they didn't perceive him in
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: his voice. That they didn't perceive in his wounds. They
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: saw him. In the breaking of bread. He took it in.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed and broken. Gave it to them. Deja vu. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen this before. When he was in the upper room.
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  Speaker 1: He took it. He blessed it. He broke it. He
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  Speaker 1: gave it to. When he was with the 5,000. With
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  Speaker 1: the two fish and five loaves of bread. He took it.
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  Speaker 1: He blessed it. He broke it. He gave it to them.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says. That there was something that they saw.
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  Speaker 1: In the breaking of the bread. That they didn't see
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  Speaker 1: in anything else that he did. He took it. He
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  Speaker 1: blessed it. He broke it. He gave it to them.
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  Speaker 1: He took it. He broke it. He blessed it. He
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  Speaker 1: gave it to them. There's something in that order that
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  Speaker 1: is God's order for all of humanity. He takes you.
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  Speaker 1: He breaks you. He blesses you. He gives you to them.
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  Speaker 1: He takes you. He breaks you. He blesses you. He
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  Speaker 1: gives you to them. The only way to multiply you
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  Speaker 1: is to take you and break you and bless you
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  Speaker 1: and give you to them. And the more he does it,
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  Speaker 1: the more he breaks you, the more he blesses you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some broken people. Some people
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  Speaker 1: that have been broken into pieces. Because the more God
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  Speaker 1: allows you to be broken, the more God allows you
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed. He took it. He broke it. He
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  Speaker 1: blessed it. He gave it to them. And that's when
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  Speaker 1: they had number five, a revelation. There's some things that
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  Speaker 1: you can't learn about God until he takes you and
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  Speaker 1: breaks you and blesses you and gives you to them.
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  Speaker 1: You're not ready to be given to people until you
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  Speaker 1: have been blessed. You're not ready to be given to
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  Speaker 1: people until you have been broken. You're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: be given to people until you've been taken. What's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with the church right now is we got too many
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  Speaker 1: people with titles given to people who have not been broken,
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  Speaker 1: who have not been blessed, who have not been taken.
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  Speaker 1: And they're being served, but they're unbroken bread. He took it.
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  Speaker 1: He broke it. He blessed it. He gave it to them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a leader that hadn't been broken. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want a pastor who hadn't been broken. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want a counselor who hadn't been broken. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: a wife who hadn't been broken. I don't want a
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  Speaker 1: marriage that hadn't been broken because there's something that you
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  Speaker 1: learn about God. When he takes you and breaks you
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  Speaker 1: and blesses you, that humbles you and makes you service oriented.
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  Speaker 1: And you will give to people. People who have been
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  Speaker 1: broken are givers. People who have not been broken are selfish.
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  Speaker 1: People who have not been broken are abusive. People who
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  Speaker 1: have not been broken are arrogant. When you've been broken,
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  Speaker 1: there's something humble in you that you will reach to
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  Speaker 1: the downtrodden. You relate to the broken. You relate to
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  Speaker 1: the wounded because you've been there. I don't want a
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  Speaker 1: nurse that hadn't been broken. I don't want a doctor
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  Speaker 1: that's never been sick. You can't have a bedside manner
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  Speaker 1: just because you got a degree. But once you have
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  Speaker 1: been taken and you have been broken. And you've been
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  Speaker 1: sick yourself. And you've been blessed. And you've been giving out.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can help me. Because when I say a
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  Speaker 1: pain from one to ten. And I say it's about eight.
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  Speaker 1: You know what eight is. But if you never had
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  Speaker 1: a pain. All I did was call a number. But
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  Speaker 1: if you've been in pain yourself. You know just about
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  Speaker 1: where an eight is. Come on talk to me. We
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  Speaker 1: got too many people working on us. Who have never
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  Speaker 1: been taken. And broken. And blessed. And given to us.
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  Speaker 1: And the moment they recognized who he was, final point,
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  Speaker 1: number six, separation. The moment they knew who he was,
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  Speaker 1: he disappeared out of their sight. Because the whole purpose
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  Speaker 1: of the walk and the talk and the breaking and
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  Speaker 1: the blessing was revelation. Every time God ever broke you
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  Speaker 1: It was for revelation. Every time God ever walked with you,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: it was for revelation. Every time God called you, oh fool,
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  Speaker 1: slow of heart to believe, it was him bringing you
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  Speaker 1: into a revelation. And once you have the revelation, he's gone. Separation.
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  Speaker 1: Because he didn't come to stay, he came to reveal himself.
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  Speaker 1: And once he has revealed, there's no further need to stay.
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  Speaker 1: And as he disappeared out of their sight, they said,
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  Speaker 1: did not our hearts, did not our hearts burn with
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  Speaker 1: us while the man of God spoke to us by
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  Speaker 1: the way? And they ran and told the disciples that
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  Speaker 1: they had had the privilege within the 40 days to
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  Speaker 1: get a revelation. You have 40 days. To get a revelation.
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  Speaker 1: You have 40 days. To change the way you think.
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  Speaker 1: About yourself and about your God. You have 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: To have a dinner with Jesus. You have 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: To have communion with him. Just 40. 40. By the
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  Speaker 1: time we get to Sunday. It will be Pentecost Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: The 50th day. So we're just a few days away
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  Speaker 1: from that window. 40. Moses on the mountaintop. He gets
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  Speaker 1: a revelation of the Ten Commandments in 40 days. Noah
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  Speaker 1: in the ark. He gets a revelation how to ride
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  Speaker 1: on what other people are drowning in in 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus. Gets a revelation of how
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  Speaker 1: to rebuke the devil in 40 days. Jesus standing between
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  Speaker 1: the angels and the wild beasts. Gets a revelation in
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  Speaker 1: 40 days. You have a 40 day window. To come
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  Speaker 1: into a deeper understanding. Of who Jesus is. And it's
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  Speaker 1: worth it. Jesus went on a 40 day fast. For revelations.
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  Speaker 1: 40 days. 40 is so significant. Moses spends 40 years
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: in the house of Pharaoh. 40 years on the backside
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  Speaker 1: of the desert with Jethro. 40 years leading the children
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: of Israel through the wilderness. There's something about 40 that
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  Speaker 1: is so significant. Glory to God. Very important. How many
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: 40-year-olds do we have in the room? You're just now
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: coming into your own. You're just now coming into your place.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: You're just now beginning to understand what's up. Stop telling
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  Speaker 1: yourself you're old. You're just now getting ripe for what
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: God is getting ready to do in your life. 40
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  Speaker 1: is a significant number. It's a new beginning. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fresh start. It's a paradigm shift. It's a turn. It's
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  Speaker 1: a change. It's a move. It's a flow. He took it.
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  Speaker 1: He broke it. He blessed it. He gave it to them.
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  Speaker 1: This has got to happen in this window. And in
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  Speaker 1: your 40 years, you've been taken. You've been broken. You've
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: been blessed. You've been given. Whatever you are given to
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: will give itself back to you. The reason I can't play...
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Like Brother Oscar can play. It's not that he's more
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  Speaker 1: talented than me. He is not. I counted them. He
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: don't have no 11 fingers. He got 10 fingers just
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: like mine. They're not even long as mine. My fingers
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  Speaker 1: are longer than his. By all rights, I should play
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  Speaker 1: better than him. I took music as a little kid.
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  Speaker 1: I should be better. I have a better reach. I
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: have longer arms. I got longer fingers. I should play
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  Speaker 1: better than him. The only reason I cannot outplay him
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: is that I have never given myself to the piano.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: If I give myself to the piano to the degree
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: that I give myself to the piano, that same degree
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: is given back to me. If I give myself to
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur, that same degree is given back to me.
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  Speaker 1: It is about whatever you gave yourself to, that's what
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: grew in your life. If you gave yourself to men,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: that's what grew in your life. If you give yourself
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: to children, that's what grows in your life. Whatever you
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: give yourself fully to. If you give yourself to an occupation,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: that's what grows in your life. If you give yourself
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: to education, that's what grows in your life. If you
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: give yourself to a business, that's what grows in your life. Oh,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: you don't know. I gave myself, it didn't work. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it long enough. You didn't long enough. I
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: took piano lessons too, but I didn't take them long enough.
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  Speaker 1: I know my skills. I know the runs. If I
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: ask him to pay an F diminished chord, I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it is. I know what an F augmented
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  Speaker 1: chord is. I know what G augmented chord is. I
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: know what G diminished is. I know what G jazz
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  Speaker 1: 7 is. I know what a G 13 is. I
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: know what a C 13 is. I know all about
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: it education wise, but not revelation. I can't do the
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  Speaker 1: revelation because I never gave myself revelation. The sad thing,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: and I'll close with this, most people have never fully
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  Speaker 1: given themselves to anything. And they come to church week
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: after week saying.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know my purpose. I can't find my purpose.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't know my purpose. God, show me my purpose. God,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: show me my purpose. And they're walking right with the purpose.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: And they don't even see the purpose. And the purpose
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: is standing there having a conversation with them. And they
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: don't see their purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Richardson was looking for her purpose and looking for
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: her purpose and looking for her purpose and looking all
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: past them waffles. She had been eating them waffles and
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: chicken since she was a little girl and never paid
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  Speaker 1: any attention with it. The widow was about to bake
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: a cake and die and never seeing that the purpose
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: was in her house. One had a pot of oil
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: up under the kitchen and didn't even see that her
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: prosperity was in the pot of oil because she was
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: walking with something she couldn't see. Something... Something that you
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: already got. Something that you're already walking with. Something that
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: you're already around. Something that's in your house. Something that's
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: in your reach. Something that's near you. It may be
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: a jawbone of an ass. It may be two fish
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: and five loaves of bread. It may be five smooth
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: stones you pulled out of a brook. It may be
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: a rag and a rock, but something you already got.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: Get out of people's face. You don't need what they
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: got to get ahead. You need what you got to
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  Speaker 1: get ahead. There's something down in you. There's something down.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: I got to quit. I got to quit because I
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: feel the Holy Ghost. There's something down in you right
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: now that if you stop walking past it, it's going
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: to blow your mind. Nobody in this world could have
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: told Donna 30 years ago that her mama's waffles and
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: chicken were going to send new finances in her life.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: Press down, shaking together and running over. Who gets rich
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: off of waffles and chicken? But something that you count
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: as mundane is miraculous when you allow God to put
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: his hand on it. I don't care if you're a
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: makeup artist. I don't care if you're a hairdresser. I
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: don't care if you're a shoe massager. I don't care
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: if you massage people's feet. Whatever it is, there's something
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: that God gave you that's unique to you that if
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: you give yourself to it, it will give itself back
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: to you. You cannot reap where you have not sown.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: You cannot receive where you have not invested. Oh God,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: let me stop, let me stop, let me stop, let
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: me stop, let me stop. So that's me tonight. I'm stopping.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: That's divine intervention. That's divine intervention. And I'm going to
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: challenge everybody in this room who is going to look
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: in their own house for what they have. And every
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: person in this room who is willing to allow God
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: to take it and break it and bless it and
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: give it I want you to sow into this moment.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Simple seed, almost everybody should be able to reach it.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: $ 40 seed, something I want you to think about. This
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: is what I want you to think about. This is
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: what's important, not the $ 40. This is what's important. What
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: have I been walking over? What have I been walking
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: around and didn't notice it? How could I be walking
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: with Jesus, talking about Jesus, and not know that it's
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: Jesus I'm talking about and I'm with him? How could
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: I have a pot of oil of which a miracle
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: would come so big that it would take care of
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: me the rest of my life and I didn't see it?
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: How could I have a rag and a rock that
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: would bring down a giant and see it as a toy?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: How could I not see what happens to me that
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: makes me not see what I have as valuable? Let
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: me go deep. What is wrong With you, that you
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: don't see what you have as valuable. The enemy sees
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: it as valuable. He's fighting you for it. He's trying
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: to stop everything you do toward him. You're watching me
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: online tonight and you could not cut me off. You
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: could not cut me off because God wanted you to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: hear this message at this moment, at this time in
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: your life. When we saw this $ 40 seed, it's not
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: the 40 that matters. What really matters is that we're going,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: within this $ 40 seed, we are saying we're going to
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: walk this thing out. We're going to see this thing
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: be multiplied in us. We're going to stop discrediting what
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: God gave us because it looks ordinary. I never will
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: forget a story Deion Sanders told me years ago that
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: where he lived, he had to go past the graveyard
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: to get home. And he was scared of dead people.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: And he would get to the graveyard and run. And
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: something as simple as a child's fear of a cemetery
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: got his legs so strong that he ended up in
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: the NFL. If it wasn't for the cemetery, there wouldn't
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: have been all those million dollar contracts. Something that you
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: see as normal. You're looking for big stuff and important
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: stuff and mighty stuff, but something that's right within your
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: reach holds the key that will unlock the door to
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: your next phase in your life. I went downtown and
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: I went in this store off of Mockingbird and there
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: was this elderly lady in there and she was selling
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: cupcakes and she said I haven't been in business long
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: my husband retired and left me an inheritance and I
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: can make good cupcakes and she was in there selling
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: cupcakes to beat the band she was over 65 an
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur making money selling cupcakes cupcakes stuff you take to
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: the soccer game for the kids but she had every
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: color kind of cupcake available in the world There's something
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: you got, but the devil. keeps telling you you ain't
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: got nothing. You don't look like nothing. You don't know
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: nothing and you can't do nothing because he does not
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: want you to discover the road to Emmaus. If you
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: walk this road I'm talking about This seven mile stretch,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: you're going to get a revelation of what you've been
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: walking with all the time and didn't see the value
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: of it. You got something. Do you hear what I'm
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: saying to you? You got something. You got something right now.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: It may be acting. It may be singing. It might
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: be drawing. It might be writing. It might be coding.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: It might be technology. You got something right now that
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: if you give yourself to it and stop playing around
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: like I was playing around on the piano. I was
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: playing around on the piano, but I wasn't serious. I
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't serious. I see great people who were serious who
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: was playing Bach and Beethoven and Chopin and I was
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: playing chopsticks. Now how am I going to get to
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: Beethoven out of chopsticks? That means I never was taught
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: to give myself fully to anything. And it's generally not
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: modeled to you because the people who raised you never
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: gave themselves fully to anything They worked a job, they
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: got a check, they went home. They worked a job,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: they got a check, they went home. They worked a job,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: they got a check, they went home. They never gave
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: themselves fully to anything. And you learn how to be limp.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: How to not be fully engaged at anything. Am I
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: talking to somebody? I want you to sow into this moment.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: But bigger than sowing into this moment, I want you
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: to sow into this truth. I want you to look
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: all around your house and look at all your gifts
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: and all your talents and all the things that the
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: enemy spends all kind of time telling you how you
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing. You ain't got nothing and you can't do nothing.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: And I want you to invite Jesus into your house
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: because when Jesus comes into your house, he will show
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: you what you got. When they brought Jesus into the house,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: revelation occurred. Bring Jesus into where you are right now
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: in this stage of your life. And allow revelation to occur.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pray a quick prayer with you and
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: close the Bible. I don't normally receive an after offering.
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  Speaker 1: But tonight I want you to be invested in this text.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: I want you to be invested in this text. I
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: want you to be what? I want you to be
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: invested in this text. I want you to be invested
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: in this text until you discover that you got something.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: The biggest shock that ever happened to me in my
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: life was to find out I had something. I didn't
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: know that. I thought my father had something. I thought
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: my brother had something. I thought my sister had something.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: My sister's been playing the piano since she couldn't reach
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: the pedals. They used to set her on books. Books.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: To play concerts. When she was a little girl. And
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: everybody who came to our house. My mama didn't ask
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: me to say nothing. My mama always asked Jackie. To
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  Speaker 1: play the piano. And she'd be fussing. Stuck out. Oh shoot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go in. And mama didn't take
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  Speaker 1: no mess. You know. And she'd be sitting on them books.
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  Speaker 1: Playing that piano. Nobody ever asked me to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't think I had anything. And I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong. I can write, I can speak, I
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  Speaker 1: can draw, I can act, I can tell stories, I
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  Speaker 1: can do all kinds of stuff. But it didn't look
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  Speaker 1: valuable to me, Sister Womack. It did not look valuable
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  Speaker 1: to me. So much so that when God started using it,
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  Speaker 1: I was resisting it. Because I didn't think it was valuable.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking to people in this room who don't
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  Speaker 1: think that they're valuable. Stand to your feet. You're watching
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  Speaker 1: online tonight. If something that I said to you spoke
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  Speaker 1: to you in the most personal way. If it made
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  Speaker 1: you think differently about who you are and what you have.
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  Speaker 1: As you sow into this moment, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: sow into this text and the commitment to give yourself
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  Speaker 1: fully over to this moment. And when it looks like
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is going to pass you by, stop him and
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  Speaker 1: call him in and say, come show me what I got.
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  Speaker 1: Come in my house till I get the revelation of
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  Speaker 1: what's already in my house. He took something they already had.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't bring them no bread. He didn't bring him
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  Speaker 1: no bread, son. The bread was already in the house.
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  Speaker 1: All Jesus ever does is show you what you already got.
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  Speaker 1: The pot of oil was in the house. The handful
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  Speaker 1: of meal was in the house. The two fish and
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  Speaker 1: five loaves of bread was in the crowd. Jesus never
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  Speaker 1: brings anything extra. He just reveals what you already got.
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  Speaker 1: You got something. Lord, help me to see what I got.
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  Speaker 1: So I won't be envious of other people. So I
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  Speaker 1: won't suffer from low self-esteem. So I won't look in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror and always see what's wrong with me and
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  Speaker 1: never see what's right with me. Help me to see
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  Speaker 1: what I got. Don't let me die without seeing me.
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  Speaker 1: I can see what everybody got but me. Tonight I
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  Speaker 1: make a commitment to see what God has given me.
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  Speaker 1: If that's your prayer, As you sow, I want to
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  Speaker 1: pray over you tonight. I'm not going to make an
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  Speaker 1: altar call for souls I normally do. Tonight, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to make an altar call for disciples. Frustrated disciples who
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  Speaker 1: have never lived out their dream and never fully seen
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  Speaker 1: what God has given them. But tonight of all nights,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you came to the Bible class tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here tonight. Pass your seat all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to the left. Pass it all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to the left. I want you to get
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  Speaker 1: this in your spirit. You're going to change the way
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  Speaker 1: you think about you. You're going to change about what
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  Speaker 1: you observe in your journey. And in this seven mile stretch,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to allow God to take what you already
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  Speaker 1: got and break it and bless it And he's going
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  Speaker 1: to feed the world. Y'all don't believe that. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to feed the world. Right now, my sister, my message
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  Speaker 1: is being translated into 90 different languages. You don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Bishop Jakes. I'm little Tommy Jakes from West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm little Tommy Jakes from West Virginia. And there are
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that knew me as little Tommy
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  Speaker 1: Jakes from West Virginia. They didn't think them rocks would
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  Speaker 1: bring down that giant. I didn't either. They didn't think
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  Speaker 1: that pot of meal, that handful of meal would not
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  Speaker 1: run out. It's not that the meal barrel ran over.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't run out. It's just that every time
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  Speaker 1: she reached for a hand, she got a handful. You're
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  Speaker 1: waiting on God to fill up the whole barrel. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to fill up the barrel. But every time
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  Speaker 1: you reach for it, it's going to be just enough
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  Speaker 1: for you to keep on going. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: type on the line if I'm talking to you tonight.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm speaking to you, if I'm speaking to your heart,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm speaking to your scars and your pains and
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  Speaker 1: your shadows. I want you to allow the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to just underline that for you tonight. And as we plan,
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  Speaker 1: this 40 is symbolic. It's not a literal 40 number.
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  Speaker 1: I want it to be symbolic of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we have a window in which we must show ourselves
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  Speaker 1: alive with many infallible proofs before we are escorted to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have much time? No more time for murmuring
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  Speaker 1: and complaining. No more time for allowing the sins of
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  Speaker 1: your spirit to get by while you wrestle with the
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  Speaker 1: sins of your flesh. It's time for you to love
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  Speaker 1: right and live right. Let's pray. With all my heart,
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  Speaker 1: I've attempted in my own feeble way to give to
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  Speaker 1: the body what you have given me. And I thank you, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: because it was your wounded body that inspired me to
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  Speaker 1: this text. As we stand in this room full of
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  Speaker 1: bodies of people, we have treasures in every earthen vessel
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  Speaker 1: in this room and around the world that are listening
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  Speaker 1: at me tonight. Many of those treasures have not been opened,
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  Speaker 1: much less spent. We have remained uncapped and untouched. Not
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  Speaker 1: because we're rebellious, but we just don't see. We just
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  Speaker 1: don't recognize the voice, nor see the scars, nor understand
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  Speaker 1: how valuable what you put in us really is. But tonight,
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  Speaker 1: oh God, as we stand in your house, we make
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  Speaker 1: a fresh commitment. not just to come to church, not
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  Speaker 1: just to be a Bible class, but to discover what
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  Speaker 1: you have placed in us that's yet valuable. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be intentional about that thing. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be so intentional. We invite you for divine intervention. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want the second half of our life to look
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  Speaker 1: like the first half. We want to go to the
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  Speaker 1: next level. Let it happen for us tonight In Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker 1: Go with God, saints. I love you. Serve the people
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  Speaker 1: of God. Serve them.