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The Birth of Faith - Bishop Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: Go to Hebrews 11 chapter, Hebrews chapter 11 verse 8
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Speaker 1: through 12. I don't know that I have ever taken
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Speaker 1: ministry any more seriously than I do right now. My
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Speaker 1: wife and I several weeks ago were out on the
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Speaker 1: water and a couple that we were with leaped in
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Speaker 1: the oceans. And I didn't pay any attention to it
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Speaker 1: at first, but they said the ocean feels like bathwater.
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Speaker 1: And at first I thought, ooh, that's nice. And then
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Speaker 1: I thought, no, that's not good. Leprosy creeping into the country.
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Speaker 1: The world is trembling. Fires breaking out around the world.
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Speaker 1: Our own neighborhood is on high alert against fires. If
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Speaker 1: ever was a time we needed a sure word from God,
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Speaker 1: it's right now. I take it very seriously. I see
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Speaker 1: God doing what I projected to you about a month
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Speaker 1: ago regarding our vision for the future. I can see
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Speaker 1: the church drawing closer to God. Can you feel it
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Speaker 1: in the service? Can you feel it in the service?
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Speaker 1: Can you feel it in the service? I can feel
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Speaker 1: it in the service. The reason I want you really
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Speaker 1: close to God is that the Bible said everything that
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Speaker 1: can be shaken will be shaken. So that those things
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Speaker 1: that cannot be shaken might remain. And I want to
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Speaker 1: move you to a safe place that's not shaking. And
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Speaker 1: the safest place I know is in the presence of God.
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Speaker 1: Can I get a witness? Hebrews 11 and 8 reads
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Speaker 1: like this out of the NIV. By faith Abraham, when
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Speaker 1: he called to go, when called to go to a
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Speaker 1: place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went.
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Speaker 1: Even though he did not know where he was going.
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Speaker 1: Stay right there, stay right there, stay right there. Because
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Speaker 1: when I read that, that just... I want to read
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Speaker 1: that again. Okay. By faith Abraham... When called to go
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Speaker 1: to a place he would later receive as his inheritance.
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Speaker 1: He would later receive as his inheritance. He visited what
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Speaker 1: he was going to own. I want to draw your
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Speaker 1: attention because God lets you visit what you will later own. Obeyed.
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Speaker 1: That's the whole thing right there. Obeyed. Obeyed. How many
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Speaker 1: of you are learning to be obedient? Hallelujah. Obeyed and went.
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Speaker 1: Even though he did not know where he was going.
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Speaker 1: I went to Mexico several times. 20 years ago and
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Speaker 1: visited and bought a house in a city in an
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Speaker 1: area where I could speak a bit of Spanish my
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Speaker 1: sister said you crazy you can't be afraid to go
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Speaker 1: somewhere you have never gone to do something you have
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Speaker 1: never done By faith, he made his home in the
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Speaker 1: promised land like a stranger in a foreign country. He
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Speaker 1: lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were
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Speaker 1: heirs with him of the same promise. He didn't just
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Speaker 1: walk in faith, but he taught his son and grandson
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Speaker 1: to walk in faith also. He modeled it in front
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Speaker 1: of them. They inherited his courage, his obedience, his tenacity,
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Speaker 1: his fight, his willingness to go even when he didn't
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Speaker 1: know where he was going. That's somebody's word right there.
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Speaker 1: You've been saying, as soon as I see my way clear,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go. God said, no, I want you
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Speaker 1: to go and not know where you're going. Amen. For
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Speaker 1: he was looking forward to the city with foundations whose
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Speaker 1: architect and builder is God. Play real close attention to this.
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Speaker 1: And by faith, even Sarah, his wife, who was past
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Speaker 1: childbearing age, was enabled to bear children Because, because, because, because, because,
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Speaker 1: because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.
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Speaker 1: She got pregnant over her attitude. Nothing changed. Her age
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Speaker 1: didn't digress. Her cycle didn't start. She was a barren woman.
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Speaker 1: She got pregnant because of a thought. She said God
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Speaker 1: is faithful. Who has promised. Somebody ought to say that
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Speaker 1: just to see what happens. And so from this one man,
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Speaker 1: and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous
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Speaker 1: as the stars in the sky and as countless as
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Speaker 1: the sand on the seashore. I won't explain good as dead.
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Speaker 1: But I will tell you, I'm going to talk to
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Speaker 1: you probably for the next couple of weeks about because
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Speaker 1: the Lord said so much to me, it may be
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Speaker 1: two or three weeks before I finish, the conception of faith.
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Speaker 1: The conception of faith. Go back to that 11th verse
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Speaker 1: and let me see it again. Yeah, the 11th verse.
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Speaker 1: And by faith, even Sarah, who was past childbearing age,
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Speaker 1: was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful
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Speaker 1: who had made the promise, the conception of faith. I'm
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Speaker 1: not even so much talking about the conception of the baby.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the conception of faith. She considered him faithful.
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Speaker 1: Took her a while, but she considered him faithful who
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Speaker 1: had promised spirit of the living God Over the next
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Speaker 1: few moments, enable me. Enable me. I understand your anointing
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Speaker 1: is enablement. If you don't anoint me, I'm just another guy.
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Speaker 1: But if you anoint me, I'm a sharp tool in
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Speaker 1: the hands of a master craftsman. I thank you in
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Speaker 1: advance for what you're going to do. Let this message
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Speaker 1: be so profitable to the people that hear it. that
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Speaker 1: it is indelibly imprinted in their hearts and changing their lives.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for what you're going to do. Have
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Speaker 1: your way. In the name of Jesus we pray. Somebody
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Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated. You can rest the
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Speaker 1: whole rest of the day. At least for a while anyway.
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Speaker 1: Y'all doing good? Everybody good? The book of Hebrews, the
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Speaker 1: 11th chapter is considered the hallmark of faith, the hall
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Speaker 1: of fame, the hall of faith filled with different men
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Speaker 1: and a few women out of different eras who had
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Speaker 1: notable accomplishments by faith. The phrase by faith permeates the
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Speaker 1: 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews so that we
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Speaker 1: will have a deep respect We are living in a
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Speaker 1: day and a time in the church that we do
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Speaker 1: have a deep respect for praise. And because we sing
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Speaker 1: songs about praise being a weapon, and sometimes it is,
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Speaker 1: sometimes we do not emphasize faith because faith is not tangible. touchable,
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Speaker 1: does not appeal to the senses. We can't hear it
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Speaker 1: or see it. We have to believe it. And yet
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Speaker 1: the book of Hebrews tells us no matter how talented
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Speaker 1: we may be, as orators, as speakers, as singers, as musicians,
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Speaker 1: as technicians, as producers, as whatever we are, no matter
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Speaker 1: how many degrees we have, no matter how many good
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Speaker 1: deeds we do, no matter how ingratiating our personality might be,
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Speaker 1: the Bible is clear about this, that without faith, it
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Speaker 1: is impossible To please God. And that one verse alone
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Speaker 1: should make us really hone in on the significance of
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Speaker 1: faith because if we do everything else and we get
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Speaker 1: everything else right and we have wonderful services and we
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Speaker 1: bring cookies over to our neighbors and we say prayers
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Speaker 1: every night and we do good deeds to people and
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Speaker 1: we forgive people and we fail to believe God, it
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Speaker 1: is impossible to please Him. Conversely, if we don't do
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Speaker 1: everything right and we still get the faith right, Abraham
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Speaker 1: believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness.
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Speaker 1: So God gave him credit for being righteous though he
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Speaker 1: wasn't because faith is a big deal to God. So
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Speaker 1: the enemy knows it, whether you know it or not,
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Speaker 1: and he does everything he can to uproot your faith
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Speaker 1: and make you doubt. And he makes you doubt by
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Speaker 1: talking because faith comes by hearing. So for all of
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Speaker 1: you who are overthinkers, it's not just that you're overthinking yourself.
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Speaker 1: you've got many voices talking to you, competing for your
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Speaker 1: attention because the voice you believe determines what you birth.
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Speaker 1: I'm preaching already. The voice you believe determines what you birth.
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Speaker 1: And I would venture to say there's not a person
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Speaker 1: in this room that is not inundated with many voices
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Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. Go. Stay. Join. Quit. You're not
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Speaker 1: good enough. You're too good and you're not appreciated. The
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Speaker 1: voices don't even agree with each other. They're like rumors.
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Speaker 1: You get so many rumors on you that the rumors
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Speaker 1: start arguing. Anybody know what I'm talking about? And in
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Speaker 1: the color of all this internal noise, add to it
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Speaker 1: the external noise that I was just talking about, you
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Speaker 1: have to get somewhere sometimes and be still to hear
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Speaker 1: what the Spirit is saying to the church. And once
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Speaker 1: hearing it, you must be be obedient enough to believe
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Speaker 1: it without details. You gotta go where you don't know.
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Speaker 1: You gotta do what you haven't done. And we must
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Speaker 1: understand that if we don't become more adept in the
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Speaker 1: area of faith, though we are talented in the area
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Speaker 1: of giftings, Your gift will get you in the room,
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Speaker 1: but your faith will keep you there. So we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of people getting in a lot of rooms
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Speaker 1: that they don't stay in because they don't have the
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Speaker 1: mindset to produce the stability that causes them to be
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Speaker 1: able to stay. And I'm not just talking about rooms
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Speaker 1: like opportunity. I'm also talking about rooms like peace. Rooms
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Speaker 1: like joy, rooms like contentment. And so you have momentary
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Speaker 1: moments of ecstasy and then seasons of elongated agony. And
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Speaker 1: most of our agonies are a result of listening to
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Speaker 1: the wrong voice. If I teach faith apart from God...
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Speaker 1: I'm teaching Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking,
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Speaker 1: which basically boils down to humanism, which is just one
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Speaker 1: step away from witchcraft. Because if you believe in faith
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Speaker 1: for the sake of faith apart from God, then you
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Speaker 1: believe that you can will things into being by thought.
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Speaker 1: That type of manipulation is not what I came to
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Speaker 1: teach about. Jesus didn't just say have faith. He said
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Speaker 1: have faith in God. So the faith has to be grounded.
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Speaker 1: Are you following what I'm saying? In our text, Sarah
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Speaker 1: is the first female mentioned. Years ago, I used to
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Speaker 1: preach a message called the first lady because she is
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Speaker 1: the first woman mentioned in the hallmark of faith. We
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Speaker 1: hear all types of men before we get to this
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Speaker 1: one woman. Are you hearing what I'm saying? We hear
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Speaker 1: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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Speaker 1: of things not seen. For by it the elders obtain
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Speaker 1: a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds
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Speaker 1: were framed by the word of God so that things
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Speaker 1: that do appear were not made from things that do appear.
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Speaker 1: Oh gosh. What I'm dealing with didn't start with what
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Speaker 1: I'm dealing with. Things that do appear were not made
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Speaker 1: from things that do appear. It starts in the spirit
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Speaker 1: before it manifests in the flesh. By faith the elders
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Speaker 1: obtained A good report. Through faith, Cain offered up a more,
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Speaker 1: Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through faith.
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Speaker 1: Faith means he heard something and obeyed it and walked
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Speaker 1: in what he heard. And if you walk in what
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Speaker 1: you hear and you're hearing what God is saying, you
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Speaker 1: will always be acceptable. but there's so much noise I
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Speaker 1: can't hear. By faith, Enoch walked with God and was not,
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Speaker 1: but he left a testimony that he pleased God. He
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Speaker 1: got so far over in faith, he disappeared. By faith,
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Speaker 1: Enoch walked with God and was not, and all he
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Speaker 1: left was a testimony. Where is Enoch? I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but his testimony is still in the earth that he
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Speaker 1: pleased God. That's his legacy. That's his legacy. We don't
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Speaker 1: know where he lived. We don't know what he wore.
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Speaker 1: He didn't leave his clothes on the floor. He left
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Speaker 1: a testimony that he pleased God. By faith, Noah, being
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Speaker 1: warned of God of things not yet seen, moved with fear.
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Speaker 1: Look at that. Now we see faith and fear in
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Speaker 1: the same text. By faith, Noah, being warned of God
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Speaker 1: of things not yet seen, moved with fear to the
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Speaker 1: saving of his house. Everybody in the house got saved
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Speaker 1: off of somebody's faith. Good God Almighty. You know you
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Speaker 1: got faith when everybody in the house, the children and
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Speaker 1: the in-laws are saved by the person, one person's faith.
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Speaker 1: By faith Noah being warned of God of things not
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Speaker 1: yet seen moved with fear to the saving of a
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Speaker 1: house and he built an ark on dirt before the
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Speaker 1: first drop of rain ever fell because he heard something.
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Speaker 1: Tell somebody say I heard something. That's why I came
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Speaker 1: out to church on Sunday morning because I heard something.
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Speaker 1: That's why I'm taking the classes I'm taking because I
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Speaker 1: heard something. That's why I'm building the business that I'm
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Speaker 1: building because I heard something. That's why I broke up
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Speaker 1: with my old boyfriend because I heard something. That's why
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Speaker 1: I married the one that I married because I heard something.
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Speaker 1: That's why I'm fighting the good fight of faith. because
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Speaker 1: I heard something. That's why I've got the courage to
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Speaker 1: withstand whatever you think about me because I heard something.
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Speaker 1: I heard something. I heard something. I heard something. And
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Speaker 1: it saved his house. I can't tell you how long
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Speaker 1: it's been since I've had somebody walk up to me
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Speaker 1: crying saying, I want my house to be saved. I've
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Speaker 1: had a lot of people walk up to me and say,
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Speaker 1: I want a house. But what good is a house
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Speaker 1: if it's full of hell? I'm a little older, but
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Speaker 1: I remember a time that people would be burdened because
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Speaker 1: people were going to hell. People would be burdened because
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Speaker 1: they were lost. People would be burdened about the souls
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Speaker 1: of men, not just the souls of their feet being red.
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Speaker 1: I remember a time that people would lay on the
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Speaker 1: altar grieving before God saying, devil, you're going to turn
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Speaker 1: my daughter loose. You're going to turn my son loose.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what you're going to do. You're going
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Speaker 1: to get out of my house. And the family got
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Speaker 1: saved because one person had incredible faith. Talk to me, somebody.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if it said, are you the one? Are you
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Speaker 1: the one that holds the key to the whole house?
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Speaker 1: Are you the one that's going to bring the disruption
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Speaker 1: that causes people to come into divine alignment? Are you
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Speaker 1: the one that heard something that's going to change the
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Speaker 1: outcome and the trajectory of all humanity because you believe God?
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Speaker 1: Are you the kind of person that has the kind
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Speaker 1: of faith that They can withstand controversy and people calling
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Speaker 1: you stupid and saying you look like a fool. Can
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Speaker 1: you build a boat in your backyard? Are you the
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Speaker 1: one that has the kind of bodacious, precocious faith? that
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Speaker 1: you can't even take credit for, but God has whispered
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Speaker 1: something in your ear so strong that you have the
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Speaker 1: tenacity and the will and the endurance and the work
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Speaker 1: ethic and the effort and the hammers. and the nail,
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Speaker 1: because he wasn't in the backyard praying. He was in
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Speaker 1: the backyard nailing. Do you have a hammer in your faith?
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Speaker 1: Do you have any nails in your faith? Are you
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Speaker 1: willing to work according to what you heard in your
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Speaker 1: spirit rather than what you heard in your boss's office?
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Speaker 1: Just ask it. Sarah doesn't make it to the hallmark
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Speaker 1: of faith because she's just any woman she doesn't make
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Speaker 1: it to the hallmark of faith because she wants to
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Speaker 1: fit in she makes it to the hallmark of faith
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Speaker 1: by faith she doesn't make it because she's married to
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Speaker 1: Abraham because Abraham ended up with one more wife in
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Speaker 1: a situation I'll explain it later And neither the other
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Speaker 1: wife or the concubine are mentioned. But Sarah is mentioned
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Speaker 1: because she judged him faithful who had promised. Have you
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Speaker 1: judged him faithful who has promised or is he still
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Speaker 1: on trial? Have you rendered a verdict and decided that
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Speaker 1: God is faithful? Not just because you got a car,
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Speaker 1: not just because you got a house, not just because
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Speaker 1: you're built to pay. Can you say God is faithful
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Speaker 1: at a funeral? Can you say God is faithful at
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Speaker 1: a cemetery? Can you say God is faithful in a
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Speaker 1: waiting room at the hospital? Can you say God is
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Speaker 1: faithful when you got laid off? Can you say God
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Speaker 1: is faithful when you're backed in a corner and there's
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Speaker 1: a tumor in your breast? Can you yet say God
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Speaker 1: is faithful? Have you judged him faithfully? Or do you
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Speaker 1: have a hung jury and you got a little bit
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Speaker 1: of faith and you got a little bit of doubt
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Speaker 1: and you got a little bit of this, have you
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Speaker 1: come to a conclusion? She has achieved a level of
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Speaker 1: faith and there are levels. She has achieved a level
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Speaker 1: of faith that fulfilled the purpose of God in her life. Oh,
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Speaker 1: excuse me. Lord, please let me achieve a level of
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Speaker 1: faith that fulfills the purpose you have for me in
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Speaker 1: my life. I don't need a level of money. I
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Speaker 1: don't need a level of friends. I don't need a
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Speaker 1: level of likes. I don't need a level of followers.
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Speaker 1: I don't need a level of birthday cards. I need
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Speaker 1: a level of faith that fulfills the purpose of God
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Speaker 1: in my life. If nobody follows me on Facebook, if
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Speaker 1: nobody befriends me, if nobody wants me on their page,
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Speaker 1: if nobody invites me to speak, if nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: do business with me, as long as I accomplish the
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Speaker 1: thing that you created me to do, I will be satisfied.
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Speaker 1: That's my prayer. The conception of faith. Conception is a process.
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Speaker 1: No matter whether you take it from a theological perspective
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Speaker 1: or from a natural perspective, conception is a process. In
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Speaker 1: the natural, you have conception. You have conception in two
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Speaker 1: different dimensions as it relates to childbirth, as it relates
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Speaker 1: to ideologies, as it relates to childbirth, as it relates
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Speaker 1: to ideologies. There is some similarity, connectivity, a synonymity between
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Speaker 1: the brain and the womb. They both have to conceive
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Speaker 1: in order to birth. They both have to receive seed
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Speaker 1: in order to be fruitful. If I lose my ability
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Speaker 1: to think, I can't preach. I can't talk. I can't interview.
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Speaker 1: I can't negotiate. I can't serve. I can't work. I
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Speaker 1: got to be able to think. Even if my mouth
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Speaker 1: goes out, I can still write if I can think.
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Speaker 1: This is the battleground Because this is for me what
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Speaker 1: the womb is for birth. The fertilized egg stays in
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Speaker 1: the fallopian tube for about three to four days. Three
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Speaker 1: to four days. Just hanging out. Within 24 hours of
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Speaker 1: being fertilized, it starts dividing fast into multiple cells. Reproducing
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Speaker 1: just Levels of faith. The cells start dividing and multiplying
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Speaker 1: and increasing and forming and shaping and developing and coming forth.
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Speaker 1: It keeps dividing as it moves slowly through the fallopian
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Speaker 1: tube to the uterus. Its next job is to attach
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Speaker 1: to the lining of the uterus. Are you following what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying? If I sow seed out here right now
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Speaker 1: and you hear it and it gets in your fallopian tube,
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Speaker 1: faith coming by hearing and hearing by the word of
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Speaker 1: God and it floats around in your ear for a
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Speaker 1: minute but it doesn't attach to to the uterus of
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Speaker 1: the way you think and the way you function and
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Speaker 1: your mindset. It doesn't become one with you. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: start drawing from you. It doesn't start affecting you. Then
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Speaker 1: it falls to the ground. That's why we use the word,
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Speaker 1: same word, when we say, I never conceived that I'd
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Speaker 1: be president. I never conceived that I'd be pastor of
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Speaker 1: this church. I never conceived that I'd be married with
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Speaker 1: five children. Conception, conception. Whether you're birthing in your womb
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Speaker 1: or not, you're birthing in your mind. Can I go deeper?
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Speaker 1: Faith incubates. It's a process. Hearing is the fallopian tube,
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Speaker 1: but the process doesn't stop there. It has to, the word,
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Speaker 1: The Bible says the engrafted word of God is able
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Speaker 1: to save your soul. Engrafted. Engrafted. The word that sticks
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Speaker 1: is the word that saves. That's why you'll see people
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Speaker 1: taking copious notes and you'll see people really listening. I
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Speaker 1: really don't like to preach to a church that just shouts.
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Speaker 1: I like to shout. But I don't want to preach
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Speaker 1: to people who just shout because if you are so
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Speaker 1: busy shouting you're not listening. And how can they hear
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Speaker 1: without a preacher? And how can they preach save they
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Speaker 1: be sent? And so you're excited, but it's just emotionalism
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Speaker 1: and it has no root. And when you get in trouble,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make it plain in a minute. Let's
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Speaker 1: look at Romans 10, 14 through 17 for just a minute.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to be long, but just follow me.
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Speaker 1: Are y'all getting anything? How then can they call on
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Speaker 1: the one they have not believed in? Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: people do that all the time. They call on God
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Speaker 1: because they're in trouble. They call on God because the
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Speaker 1: car is sliding. They call on God because they're in
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Speaker 1: the emergency room. They call, but they have not believed in.
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Speaker 1: And how can they believe in the one to whom
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Speaker 1: they have not heard? Or how can they hear without
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Speaker 1: someone hearing? Preaching to them. And how can anyone preach
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Speaker 1: unless they are sent? Uh-oh, I don't even want to
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Speaker 1: get on that. Oh God, I just want... In this
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Speaker 1: day where you can go Google up some license. We
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Speaker 1: have no metrics in the church anymore to control who
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Speaker 1: gets to the stage. If you got charisma and Google.
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Speaker 1: So it's hard to police outlaws. Somebody who will not
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Speaker 1: submit cannot be mentored. As it is written, how beautiful
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Speaker 1: are the feet of those Who bring good news or
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Speaker 1: preach the gospel in the King James Version. How beautiful.
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Speaker 1: You're glad to see them coming. When they walk in
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Speaker 1: the room, they haven't even said anything yet. When they
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Speaker 1: walk in the room, your spirit leaps because you know
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Speaker 1: they're carrying something. There's a walk. There's a walk, glory
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Speaker 1: to God. There's a walk. It's not just a talk.
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Speaker 1: There's a walk when you're carrying something from God. You
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Speaker 1: walk in the room like I'm on a mission. I
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Speaker 1: didn't come here to play. I didn't come here to play.
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Speaker 1: I didn't come here to play. I'm on a mission.
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Speaker 1: But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For
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Speaker 1: Israel said, for Isaiah says, Lord, who have believed our message? Consequently,
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Speaker 1: faith comes from hearing the message. And the message is
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Speaker 1: heard through the word about Christ. Are you hearing what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? The word that sticks. The word
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Speaker 1: that sticks. The word that sticks. I'm still, I'm still
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Speaker 1: living off of steady in the storm Every time a
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Speaker 1: storm comes in my life, my mind says, be steady
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Speaker 1: in the storm. Keep your hand on the wheel. Don't
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Speaker 1: let the wind rock you. Don't let your emotions break you.
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Speaker 1: Don't let the situation shake you. Be steadfast, unmovable, always
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Speaker 1: abounding in the work of the Lord. I preached that
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Speaker 1: like four or five months ago, and I'm still chewing
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Speaker 1: off of that word right there. You know why storms
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Speaker 1: are still coming? And as long as storms are still coming,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be steady. Steady. in the storm. You
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Speaker 1: can't be faithful if you're not steady in the storm.
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Speaker 1: If you're tossed to and fro by every wind, you
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Speaker 1: can't be steadfast. You gotta prove that I'm gonna stand
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Speaker 1: flat-footed right here. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: stand right here. This is where I stand. I can't
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Speaker 1: control where you stand. I can't control where you stand.
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Speaker 1: I can't help where you stand. I can't change how
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Speaker 1: you stand. But as for me and my house, This
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Speaker 1: is where I stand. I'm going to stand flat-footed on
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Speaker 1: the Word of God. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Let me give you the reference just so you can
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Speaker 1: take it home. James 1, 20 through 21, so you
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Speaker 1: can add it to your repertoire about the importance of
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Speaker 1: the word sticking. For the wrath of men worketh not
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Speaker 1: the righteousness of God. The wrath, wait, I got to
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Speaker 1: stop there. The wrath of men worketh not the righteousness
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Speaker 1: of God. You can forget God. Work in righteousness with temper.
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Speaker 1: I'm teaching word. I'm sowing seed. Something's going to fall
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Speaker 1: on different ground, but I'm sowing seed. The wrath of
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Speaker 1: man worketh not the righteousness of God. Watch this. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever seen our country as angry as it is
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Speaker 1: right now? I stopped scrolling down through comments on Instagram
35:23
Speaker 1: because you can say good morning. Who told you it
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Speaker 1: was morning? It's not morning in our part of the world.
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Speaker 1: That's what I can't stand about you Americans. You think
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Speaker 1: you control everything. I mean, anything turns into a fight
35:36
Speaker 1: because everybody's mad. I can't figure out what they're mad about.
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Speaker 1: But they're all angry about something. And then they start
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Speaker 1: arguing amongst themselves. And the argument gets off the post
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Speaker 1: that was ever made in the first place. And the
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Speaker 1: next thing, we're back to the Byzantine Empire fighting about something.
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Speaker 1: And all I asked you was, have you had your
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Speaker 1: coffee yet? And they're fighting about all kinds of stuff
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Speaker 1: because they are just angry. And the problem with anger
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Speaker 1: is that the wrath of men worketh not well. the
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Speaker 1: righteousness of God. You will never fix that marriage being angry.
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Speaker 1: You will never help that child being angry. You will
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Speaker 1: never solve that problem being angry. You will never succeed
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Speaker 1: in your company going to work angry. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: work with somebody with attitude. Nobody wants to sign a
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Speaker 1: contract with somebody who's got an attitude. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: come home to an angry man. Nobody wants to come
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Speaker 1: home to an angry woman. Things will never get better.
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Speaker 1: I'm just mad. I'm just going to be mad. But
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Speaker 1: I'm praying about it. Stop praying about it. Because the
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Speaker 1: wrath of men worketh not the righteousness of God. So
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Speaker 1: you got to do something with your wrath. You got
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Speaker 1: to reel it back. Because your wrath is stopping your
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Speaker 1: prayers from being answered. Let me get off it. I'm sorry. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: lay apart all filthiness and the superfluity of wickedness. You're
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Speaker 1: going to have to clean it up, baby girl. You're
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Speaker 1: going to have to clean it up, brother. You're going
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Speaker 1: to have to clean it up. You can't just slip
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Speaker 1: in here and be in here in a crowd like
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Speaker 1: this and be an imposter, a secret agent, hiding out
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Speaker 1: over in a corner. You got to lay apart. Your
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Speaker 1: faith has to come with a level of conviction. Lay
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Speaker 1: apart all filthiness. And superfluity of wickedness. Wickedness. Wickedness. And receive. See,
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Speaker 1: if you have filthiness and wickedness and anger, it will
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Speaker 1: abort the word. You heard it. It's floating around in
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Speaker 1: your ear, but it never stuck. Because all of these
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Speaker 1: agents of abortion are stopping you from conceiving what is
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Speaker 1: possible to be done in your life. For the enemy
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Speaker 1: comes not but to steal, kill, and destroy. So every
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Speaker 1: day that he takes is a day you'll never get back.
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Speaker 1: I'm just mad right now. I'm just mad right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm just hurt right now. I'm just hurt right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm just upset right now. No, no, you just got
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Speaker 1: robbed right now. I'm not saying you're going to hell.
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Speaker 1: I'm not condemning anybody. I'm just saying that day you
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Speaker 1: will not get back. How many days have you lost?
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Speaker 1: When you're laying on your deathbed, how many of those
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Speaker 1: days will you wish you had again? And I don't
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Speaker 1: care who did what to you. Are they worth what
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Speaker 1: it would cost you? Maybe that doesn't mean anything to you.
39:10
Speaker 1: I'm a pastor. I'm always by deathbeds. I've seen many
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Speaker 1: people give up the ghost. And let me tell you something.
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Speaker 1: Suck and smiter. Suck and smiter. Suck and smiter. Tick, tick, tick.
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Speaker 1: Suckings matter. You can't buy it. Rich folks, you can't
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Speaker 1: buy it. it. Intellectual folks, PhD won't help it. All
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Speaker 1: you beautiful, fine people. You're so gorgeous. Gorgeous people die.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful people die. Hunks die. Black folks die. White folks die.
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Speaker 1: Brown folks die. It's the one equalizer that nobody gets
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Speaker 1: to be superior over anybody else. There's not a rich
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Speaker 1: way to die and a poor way to die. We
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Speaker 1: just die. And every day you lost making excuses, giving
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Speaker 1: the enemy permission to rob your house. you might as
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Speaker 1: well leave your front door open and drive to Chicago. See,
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Speaker 1: most of us believe God when things go good. Ooh,
40:44
Speaker 1: won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he? Oh.
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Speaker 1: Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he will?
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Speaker 1: To all of my white members, I know y'all don't
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Speaker 1: understand what won't he will means. I scarcely understand it myself,
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Speaker 1: but let me try to interpret it. Won't he will
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Speaker 1: is kind of like won't he do it, but we
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Speaker 1: don't put he in it. We don't put do it.
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Speaker 1: Never mind. It's Ebonics. Don't even worry about it. Don't
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Speaker 1: even worry about it. Won't he will? What about when
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Speaker 1: he won't? What about when he don't? What about when
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Speaker 1: what you will doesn't line up with what he wills?
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Speaker 1: Is he still God then? Can you have faith when
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Speaker 1: you don't get the expected outcome that you want? Or
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Speaker 1: is your God really a butler and a maid that
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Speaker 1: you have in your life as long as it serves
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Speaker 1: your purpose? Because if that's the case, you're not working
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Speaker 1: for God. You think God works for you. Until we
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Speaker 1: get this stuff untangled, we're not going to really have
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Speaker 1: the kind of faith that breaks out revival in America
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Speaker 1: because we are using faith like witchcraft. God is good
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Speaker 1: when things are good. But when things are bad, then
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Speaker 1: we don't have a theology that embraces the cross. The
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Speaker 1: cross is a big clue. That everything doesn't go right.
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Speaker 1: That the will of God can land you in trouble.
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Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me, somebody. It's a clear sign.
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Speaker 1: You're not walking around with a necklace around your neck
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Speaker 1: of an empty tomb. They don't sell necklaces of empty tombs.
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Speaker 1: They sell necklaces with crosses on it. Think it not
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Speaker 1: strange that these fiery trials have come against you. If
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Speaker 1: they came against your master, they will come against you.
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Speaker 1: This is the trying of your faith. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: teach about the trying of your faith. Your faith must
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Speaker 1: stand trial. So your faith cannot be conditional. Can I
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Speaker 1: go a little deeper? Faith flourishes from embracing the irrefutable
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Speaker 1: character of God. The character of God. Not the doings
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Speaker 1: of God, the character of God. I know his character.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite scriptures says, is unto Israel he
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Speaker 1: showed his acts, but unto Moses he showed his ways. Amen.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing for people to talk about what you did,
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Speaker 1: and it's another thing for somebody to know who you are.
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Speaker 1: Does your faith embrace God for who he is or
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Speaker 1: do you just love him because of what he did?
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Speaker 1: Because if you only love him because of what he did,
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Speaker 1: what happens when he stops doing it? What happens when
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Speaker 1: you enter into another season? What happens when grandma dies?
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Speaker 1: What happens when you have a mastectomy? What happens to
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Speaker 1: your faith when life gets tough? if your faith embraces
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Speaker 1: who God is rather than what God does you're immovable
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Speaker 1: you're unshakable until you love him for who he is
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Speaker 1: rather than praise him for what he did you will
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Speaker 1: never please him Because your unbelief suggests that God is
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Speaker 1: a liar. Now, this is not revelation. If you tell
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Speaker 1: me something right now and I say I don't believe you,
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Speaker 1: that's an insult to your character. I don't believe you.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I don't believe you. That means I
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Speaker 1: don't trust your ways enough to believe your word. No
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Speaker 1: wonder Abraham became the friend of God because he believed it.
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Speaker 1: God said, if you believe me, even though you ain't
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Speaker 1: righteous and even though you lied about your wife and
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Speaker 1: even though you put her in a precarious situation and
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Speaker 1: even though you made some mistakes along the way, I'll
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Speaker 1: look over all of that. If you believe me, your
45:52
Speaker 1: faith is anchored into my character and not my activities.
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Speaker 1: And if you can love me for who I am,
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Speaker 1: I can love you for who you are. Oh, come on, somebody.
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Speaker 1: I'm shouting by myself here. I'm shouting by myself. I'm
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Speaker 1: almost done, but I feel something creeping up my spine
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Speaker 1: right now. I feel something creeping up my spine right now.
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Speaker 1: And the thing about faith, if it's impossible to please
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Speaker 1: God without it, then he only gave it to some people.
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be fair. Because then we would have the
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Speaker 1: haves and the have-nots. I have it. You don't have it.
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Speaker 1: I got it. You don't have it. So forth and
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Speaker 1: so on. But the truth of the matter is, according
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Speaker 1: to Romans 12 and 3, God has dealt to every
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Speaker 1: man the measure of faith. Everybody's got some faith. You
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Speaker 1: might not use it. You might not accelerate it. You
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Speaker 1: might not go up the ladder with it. But everybody
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Speaker 1: has some faith. Even the atheist who says he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have any faith at all has some level of faith.
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Speaker 1: He may deny it. He may betray it. He may
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Speaker 1: turn from it. Something may hurt him. But God has
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Speaker 1: dealt to every man enough faith that you don't have
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Speaker 1: to perish. You have to choose to go to hell.
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Speaker 1: God would never send anybody to hell. Amen. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to move on. I feel something about to break loose
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Speaker 1: in this place. I feel something about to break loose
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Speaker 1: in this place. Let me see. Let me see. Let
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Speaker 1: me see. Let me see. Something's about to happen in
47:31
Speaker 1: this place. What I'm doing right now is sowing seeds.
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Speaker 1: I'm sowing seeds. I'm sowing seeds. I'm sowing seeds out
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Speaker 1: in this room. I'm sowing word out into this room.
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Speaker 1: I'm sowing word into this room. And if your ear
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Speaker 1: catches it, your life is going to be changed forever.
47:51
Speaker 1: If your ear will ingest it and digest it and
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Speaker 1: it sticks to you and you say, Lord, I don't
47:58
Speaker 1: care nothing about being a Baptist. I don't care nothing
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Speaker 1: about being a Methodist. I don't care nothing about being
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Speaker 1: a Kojic. I don't care nothing about being apostolic. I
48:06
Speaker 1: just want to be a believer. Let me be a
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Speaker 1: believer when all hell is breaking loose. Let me be
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Speaker 1: a believer when things get hard. Let me be a
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Speaker 1: believer when I'm going through a storm. Let me be
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Speaker 1: a believer when I'm backed up against the wall. Let
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Speaker 1: me be a believer when you give me a blessing
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Speaker 1: that I think is too big for me. Let me
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Speaker 1: be a believer when I'm scared to walk into something
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Speaker 1: that I don't know what I'm walking into. Just let
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Speaker 1: me be a believer. I don't have to be a billionaire.
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Speaker 1: Let me be a believer. If I'm a believer, I
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Speaker 1: can get a billion dollars. Let me be a believer.
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Speaker 1: Is there anybody in this room that wants to be
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Speaker 1: a believer? I just want to be a believer. I
48:47
Speaker 1: want to walk with God and talk with God and
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Speaker 1: hang with God and understand God and open my heart
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Speaker 1: to God. You can have his acts. I want to
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Speaker 1: understand his ways. Oh! Oh, that I may know Him! Paul,
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Speaker 1: who speaks five different languages, is from the tribe of Benjamin,
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Speaker 1: is zealous concerning the law, said, I counted all of
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Speaker 1: my attributes as done. It don't mean nothing. I flushed it.
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Speaker 1: That I may gain the excellency of the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: Christ and he falls down on his knees before God
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Speaker 1: and says, oh, that I may know him. Not just
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Speaker 1: in the good times, in the fellowship of his suffering
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Speaker 1: and the power of his resurrection. Amen. I want to
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Speaker 1: know him. I don't care how the weather changes. I
50:07
Speaker 1: don't care how the climate changes. I don't care how
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Speaker 1: the culture changes. I don't care how the situation changes.
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Speaker 1: He's my anchor. He's my rock. He's my shelter. He's
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Speaker 1: my fortress. He that dwelleth in the secret place dwelleth.
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Speaker 1: of the most high shall abide under the shadow of
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Speaker 1: the almighty if I know him I don't have to
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Speaker 1: know you if I know him you can't shake me
50:37
Speaker 1: you can't break me you can't block me you can't
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Speaker 1: stop me if I know him God will always find
50:46
Speaker 1: a way to get it done if I know him
50:53
Speaker 1: Is there anybody left in the church that's hungry to
50:57
Speaker 1: know God? I haven't shaken my pastor's hand. What difference
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Speaker 1: does it make if you shake my hand? If you
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Speaker 1: shake my hand, all you're going to get is sweat.
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Speaker 1: But if you know him... Hallelujah! If you know him...
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, seek the Lord while he may be found.
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Speaker 1: Call ye upon him while he's yet near. Let the
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Speaker 1: wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his stops.
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Speaker 1: The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord is
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Speaker 1: in his holy temple. Let all the earth, let all
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Speaker 1: the earth Keep silence before him. I am hungry for you.
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Speaker 1: I cannot be a better person until I'm hungry for you.
52:29
Speaker 1: I'm tired of being a different person. I've been 10
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Speaker 1: different people. I don't want to be different. I want
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Speaker 1: to be better. I'm tired of thinking that hooking up
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Speaker 1: with you is going to make me better. Because all
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Speaker 1: you did was get on my nerves. But if I
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Speaker 1: can hook up with him, If I can hook up
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Speaker 1: with him. If something that he said sticks in my soul. Soul.
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Speaker 1: In my soul. The Greek word where we get psyche.
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Speaker 1: Where we get psychology. Where we get mind. If he
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Speaker 1: gets in my head. I want you in my head
53:36
Speaker 1: because I need to be, not act like, but to
53:42
Speaker 1: be a better person. Make me better. When I started
53:57
Speaker 1: my ministry years ago in a storefront church, I never
53:59
Speaker 1: imagined in all my life, I didn't even know to
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Speaker 1: think nothing like this. I never prayed God make me bigger.
54:09
Speaker 1: I only prayed God make me better. Is there anybody
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Speaker 1: in here that wants God to make you better. I'm
54:37
Speaker 1: tired of trying to accomplish the righteousness of God through
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Speaker 1: the wrath of my ancestors. I'm talking about generational curses.
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Speaker 1: Your mama was angry, your grandmama was angry, your great
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Speaker 1: grandmama was angry. All of them were furious and now
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Speaker 1: you got your mama's temper. I don't need my mama's temper.
54:58
Speaker 1: I need my God's character. I need my God's character.
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Speaker 1: And I am praying this morning that one seed out
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Speaker 1: of what I just shared would get in your fallopian
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Speaker 1: tube and stay there till it engrafts in your heart.
55:26
Speaker 1: I am praying that you didn't come to church because
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Speaker 1: it was Sunday or because a cute girl goes to
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Speaker 1: this church or because you want to do business in
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Speaker 1: this church or because you want to meet somebody in
55:39
Speaker 1: this church. I am praying that you want an encounter
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Speaker 1: with God. An encounter with God. An encounter with God
55:50
Speaker 1: will make my weak stabilize. It'll strengthen me in the storms.
55:55
Speaker 1: It'll fortify my moods, my attitudes, my dysfunctions, and all
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Speaker 1: of the voices that are trying to convince me that
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Speaker 1: they are God are nothing but idols. And every time
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Speaker 1: I obey them, I am idolatrous. The voice that tells
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Speaker 1: me to worry. The voice that tells me I'm not
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Speaker 1: good enough. The voice that tells me I can't handle
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Speaker 1: what God has given me. The voice that tells me
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Speaker 1: I'm stupid to go to a place that I don't know.
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Speaker 1: To do something I've never done before. If I obey
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Speaker 1: that voice, I am an idolater. Obedience is better than sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you obeyed as your God. I will not go
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Speaker 1: to a church like this and go home and worship
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Speaker 1: another God.
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Speaker 1: I will not
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Speaker 1: worship Another God. If I have to wait on him.
57:36
Speaker 1: If I have to lay on him. If I have
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Speaker 1: to call on him. If I have to weep before him. Oh,
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Speaker 1: that I may know him. Paul said, I'll trade everything
57:55
Speaker 1: I got to know him. I want to know him.
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Speaker 1: Not just when things are up. I don't just want
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Speaker 1: to know the power of your resurrection. I want to
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Speaker 1: be in fellowship in your suffering. I want to know you.
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Speaker 1: In good days and bad days, I want to know you.
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Speaker 1: When my whole family is tripping, I want to be
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Speaker 1: the one that knows you. When everybody on the office
58:20
Speaker 1: is gossiping, I want to be the one person who
58:23
Speaker 1: won't sit around the water fountain and gossip about people
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Speaker 1: that I am called to minister to. I want to
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Speaker 1: know you. Make me better. Because if you make me better,
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Speaker 1: my children will be better. If you make me better,
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Speaker 1: my grandchildren will be better. If you make me better,
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Speaker 1: my family will be saved. If you make me better,
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Speaker 1: make me better, Lord. Make me better. Make me better.
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Speaker 1: Let me be an asset and not a liability. Let
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Speaker 1: people be glad to see me coming in the room. God,
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Speaker 1: please make me better. I came from nothing but make
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Speaker 1: me better. I've been through hell but make me better.
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Speaker 1: I've been dysfunctional but make me better. I've been bitter
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Speaker 1: but make me better. I don't want to go to
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Speaker 1: a great church and live a raggedy life. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to dance all over the church and shout and
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Speaker 1: then not trust the God I was dancing about. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to go home and lay in my bed
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Speaker 1: tonight and go to sleep worrying about something that I
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Speaker 1: need to turn over to you. All of these are
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Speaker 1: signs that every idol in my life must come down.
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Speaker 1: There used to be an old hymn. Let me see
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Speaker 1: if I can call it. Lord Jesus, I long to
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Speaker 1: be perfectly whole. I want thee forever to live in
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Speaker 1: my soul. Break down every idol. Cast out every foe.
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Speaker 1: Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Speaker 1: Make me whiter than snow. Whiter than snow. Now wash
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Speaker 1: me and I shall be whiter than snow. Break down
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Speaker 1: Every idol. Cast out every foe. Wash me. I'm an addict.
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Speaker 1: Wash me. I came here this morning because I need
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Speaker 1: you to wash me. And I need to know you.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to know Bishop Jakes. I don't need
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Speaker 1: to know the Potter's house. I need to know you.
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Speaker 1: When I turn on the water in my house, I
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Speaker 1: never want the pipe. I never turn on the faucet
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Speaker 1: to get to know the pipe. I turn on the
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Speaker 1: faucet because I want the water. Why are you settling
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Speaker 1: to get to know the pipe? Who goes to the
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Speaker 1: well thirsty for the bucket? I want the water. And
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Speaker 1: if you want the water, and if you are thirsty,
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Speaker 1: come to the fountain.