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STOP WAITING FOR A MIRACLE—TAKE THIS STEP TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Of their deliverance from Egypt through the blood of the
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  Speaker 1: lamb on the doorpost of the believer. It is a
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  Speaker 1: moment of conversion because the disciples who have been walking
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus are now on the precipice of walking without him.
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  Speaker 1: And they're having to have to walk with a new
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  Speaker 1: understanding and they are confused. There is the conversion of
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  Speaker 1: the apostle of Peter himself. When God begins to speak
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  Speaker 1: to him, he doesn't even know that he needs conversion.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God. The church boy needs to be converted. The
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  Speaker 1: apostle who has been walking with Jesus for three years
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  Speaker 1: and traveling with him, the one who walked on water
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  Speaker 1: still needs to be converted. the one who was so
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  Speaker 1: committed that he would cut off the ear of a
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  Speaker 1: Roman soldier, still needs to be converted. And it almost
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  Speaker 1: makes you wonder in your mind, out of all of
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  Speaker 1: us who sing in church and work in church and
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  Speaker 1: do in church and have church colloquialisms and church sayings,
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  Speaker 1: wonder how many have actually been converted. I can count
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  Speaker 1: members better than I can count conversion. That is to
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  Speaker 1: clearly understand that just because you hang out with me
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you've been converted by the ministry. It almost
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  Speaker 1: feels as if we're living in a time today that
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  Speaker 1: we're not worried about who gets converted. We're just worried
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  Speaker 1: about followers. How many followers are following me on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and following me on Instagram and following me on Facebook?
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  Speaker 1: We're not worried about impact. We're worried about influence. Influence
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  Speaker 1: can be determined by counting numbers, but impact requires that
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  Speaker 1: you count converts. Obviously the goal of this text is
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  Speaker 1: to get Simon aware of his deficiencies and prepare him
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  Speaker 1: for the outcome of a real conversion. But let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to the conversation that precedes it because if we
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  Speaker 1: don't put the text in context, I think we will
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  Speaker 1: fail to get the substratum of what Jesus is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Can I take my time this morning? These are the
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  Speaker 1: final moments with Jesus before the cross. There is an
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  Speaker 1: intensity in the room. It's palpable. It's almost tangible. Uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: is gnawing at the guts of the disciples. That feeling
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  Speaker 1: that you get when you know that you're on the
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  Speaker 1: verge of change, but you're not sure where the change
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  Speaker 1: is going. The air is heavy with intensity. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has in the midst of all of this changing of
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  Speaker 1: tradition from Passover to communion and so forth and so on,
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  Speaker 1: washing the disciples' feet, everything is changing. Nothing is solid.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is stable. All the traditions are being shattered. And
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  Speaker 1: if that were not enough to be disruptive, he has
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  Speaker 1: announced to his board of directors that one of you
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  Speaker 1: is a traitor. you can almost feel the tightness in
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  Speaker 1: the air. The dry movement or lack of movement of
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  Speaker 1: air or wind in the Palestinian airspace as Jesus now
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  Speaker 1: has confronted the disciples and each one of them is
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  Speaker 1: examining himself for the possibility that it could be possible
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  Speaker 1: that he's talking about me. If one of you is
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  Speaker 1: the devil and there's 12 of us in here, it
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  Speaker 1: raises the question, somebody in this room is the devil
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  Speaker 1: and has betrayed me. And the interesting thing to me
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  Speaker 1: is that all 12 of them considered the possibility that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus couldn't be talking about this or Jesus could be done.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus showed up in the church this morning and said,
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  Speaker 1: one of you is a devil. The amens were kind
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  Speaker 1: of drowned in the room because all of us would say,
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  Speaker 1: don't bring that up, Lord. Maybe he's talking about, did
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  Speaker 1: you hear what I said on the phone the other night?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see what I did? The potential to be
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  Speaker 1: Judas is is shared like the bread and the wine.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody escapes the examination that I could in some way
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  Speaker 1: be a betrayer of Jesus. The odd thing about the
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  Speaker 1: conversation is they go from asking, Lord, is it I,
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  Speaker 1: to who's going to reign with you? Am I a
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  Speaker 1: devil or am I gonna sit on the right or
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  Speaker 1: the left? And the text opens up with this contemplation
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  Speaker 1: as they wrestle with Jesus for position. The jockeying for
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  Speaker 1: a place. The difficulty of the text is brought about
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  Speaker 1: because they're having one conversation, but they're on two different planes.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is talking about one thing, and they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: something else. You see, the problem with them, they have
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  Speaker 1: been walking with Jesus for three years. They've been listening
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  Speaker 1: at Jesus preach. No, I'm sorry. They've been hearing Jesus preach,
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  Speaker 1: but they have not been listening at Jesus preach. And
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  Speaker 1: in the back of their minds. They are still so
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  Speaker 1: steeped in the tradition of the years and years and
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  Speaker 1: years of teaching that they had received that the Messiah
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  Speaker 1: would come and set up his kingdom on earth. And
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  Speaker 1: they needed him to be the Messiah and set up
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  Speaker 1: his kingdom on earth because they were oppressed by the
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  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. And they needed desperately for him to do
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  Speaker 1: what their tradition had taught him that he would do.
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  Speaker 1: And so they heard what they wanted to hear. When
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  Speaker 1: John says the kingdom is at hand, they heard that part.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus taught the kingdom is lacking unto this and
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  Speaker 1: lacking unto that, they heard that part. But when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: started talking about except a grain of wheat fall into
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  Speaker 1: the ground and die to buy us alone, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: hearing that because that didn't validate how they were taught.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jesus said, if you destroy the temple in
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  Speaker 1: three days, I'll raise it up again, this he spoke
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  Speaker 1: concerning his own body. They weren't listening. They were hearing,
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  Speaker 1: but they weren't listening. And so while Jesus, who understands
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  Speaker 1: that his kingdom is not of this world, is preparing
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  Speaker 1: to go back into his kingdom, they are jockeying for
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  Speaker 1: positions on the planet. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out how does this fit together.
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  Speaker 1: They still see him as the Messiah and as such
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  Speaker 1: a return of the king of the Jews. Much of
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  Speaker 1: their sacrifice were well intended when they gave it, but
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  Speaker 1: it was built upon the expectation of his millennial reign.
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  Speaker 1: You can do the right thing for the wrong reason.
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  Speaker 1: They had given up everything to follow Jesus. Because after all,
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus is the king of the Jews and they
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  Speaker 1: are being oppressed by the Roman government, which is a sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: and they have been overtaken as a colony of that sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: then they're going to overthrow that Roman dictatorship and move
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  Speaker 1: into power. It was worth three years off from work.
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  Speaker 1: It was worth leaving my wife and kids at home.
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  Speaker 1: It was worth sleeping in dry places and deserts. It
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  Speaker 1: was worth going through storms and rain because after all,
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  Speaker 1: if I make up the 12, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the rulers in this new Jerusalem. And then
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  Speaker 1: he started talking about dying. and leaving, and if you
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  Speaker 1: read the text carefully, they are having the weirdest conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, one of you is a devil, and they say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: is it I? And in the next breath, they say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but who's gonna reign with you? Jesus didn't come to
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  Speaker 1: overthrow the existing kingdom. Ultimately, he wants to bring a
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  Speaker 1: new kingdom. In order to step into his messianic reign
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  Speaker 1: as king, he must finish his priestly role as priest
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  Speaker 1: and sacrifice. In other words, they saw the crown, but
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  Speaker 1: they did not see the cross. Like most of us,
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  Speaker 1: we see the crown, but we don't see the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful who you are envious of. Don't let the
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  Speaker 1: accolades fool you. You are distracted by the dynamics and
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  Speaker 1: the spectacular display of the crown. But somewhere behind every
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  Speaker 1: woman and every man's crown is an old rugged cross. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You might not see it.
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  Speaker 1: They might have it in their house. They might have
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  Speaker 1: it in their body. They might have it in their family.
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  Speaker 1: But somewhere in your life, everybody listening at me has
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  Speaker 1: got a cross somewhere. Jesus knew his kingdom was not
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  Speaker 1: of this world. Think of heaven now as a sovereign
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  Speaker 1: and earth as a colony. Then you'll understand the Lord's prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, heaven is the sovereign and earth is
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  Speaker 1: a colony that God has started with Adam and Eve.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a sovereign, see, America, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a sovereign. We started out with one. Great Britain was
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  Speaker 1: our sovereign. And they control by sending 13 colonies over here.
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  Speaker 1: They control everything. When you have a sovereign, if they
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  Speaker 1: drive on the left side, you drive on the left side.
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  Speaker 1: If they use pounds, you use pounds. Whatever is done
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  Speaker 1: in the sovereign is done on the earth. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, pray, thy will be done on earth as
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  Speaker 1: it is in heaven because heaven is the sovereign and
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  Speaker 1: I've started this colony. And they're down here arguing about
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  Speaker 1: who's going to run the colony. And they're talking to
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  Speaker 1: the one who runs the heavens. Oh, y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Amen. And God has sent many prophets
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  Speaker 1: to the colony called earth and they have killed the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: And then he sent his son and they're about to
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  Speaker 1: kill him too. And the colony is in chaos. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to write that down. The colony is in chaos.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to write that down because I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand that even when Jesus was here, the
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  Speaker 1: colony was in chaos. The Pharisees were fighting with the
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  Speaker 1: Sadducees until Jesus came and then they got together and
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  Speaker 1: ganged up on Jesus. Because the colony was in chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Now all of them are oppressed by Rome and Caesar
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  Speaker 1: who is ruling in Rome has got Herod ruling in
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and they are in chaos because the Romans really
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be there. They want to go home.
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  Speaker 1: to their families. And so there's a chaos and there
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  Speaker 1: are killings and there are murders and there are crucifixions.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate to shock you, but Jesus is not
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  Speaker 1: the only one who was crucified. Many, many, many people
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  Speaker 1: were crucified. Crucifixion was normal in the times. And the
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  Speaker 1: colony is in chaos. And into the midst of the chaos,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is born in a manger. Oh, I got to
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  Speaker 1: stop here. I got to stop here and thank him
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  Speaker 1: because God is not afraid to set it off in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of chaos. Most people, if they know you're
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  Speaker 1: in chaos, they'll leave you alone. But God said, I
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  Speaker 1: will come right down into the middle of the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about the peace. I brought mine with me.
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  Speaker 1: I am the prince of peace. Whenever I come in
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  Speaker 1: the room, I got enough peace that even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have peace, I'll bring my peace with me. You
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  Speaker 1: remember when they were on the boat and the storm
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  Speaker 1: was raging and there was no peace in the wind
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  Speaker 1: and there was no peace on the water and there
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  Speaker 1: was no peace on the boat and Jesus stood up
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  Speaker 1: and wiped the sleep out of his eyes and he
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  Speaker 1: had enough peace on the inside to command peace on
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  Speaker 1: the outside and he said, peace be still and everything
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  Speaker 1: stopped He is sovereign. It means he reigns over everything.
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  Speaker 1: He's not just a king. He's the king of kings.
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  Speaker 1: He's not just a lord. He's a lord of lords.
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  Speaker 1: He's not just somebody with some power. He's somebody with
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  Speaker 1: all power. All power in heaven and earth is given
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  Speaker 1: unto me. And he can step into chaos and straighten
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  Speaker 1: it out. But what he needed to do was allow
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  Speaker 1: them to have the ultimate rejection. Have you ever seen
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  Speaker 1: people that you couldn't help until they hit rock bottom?
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  Speaker 1: They had sent the prophets and they killed the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: rejected the prophets, but they weren't low enough yet. He
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  Speaker 1: had to send his son, and when they rejected his son,
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  Speaker 1: that switched everything up. All of a sudden, when they
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  Speaker 1: crucified Jesus, his murder is the ultimate rejection of theocracy.
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  Speaker 1: And they are right on the edge of his murder.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew 13, 34 says this. Jesus spoke all these things
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  Speaker 1: to the crowd in parables. He did not say anything
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  Speaker 1: to them without using a parable because he couldn't understand
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  Speaker 1: what he really came to say. I got to stop
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  Speaker 1: here just a minute because it is amazing to me
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  Speaker 1: how long these people could walk with Jesus. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about his enemies. I'm not talking about the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the Sadducees. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: the chief priests. I'm not talking about the Romans. I'm
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  Speaker 1: shocked that the disciples, his inner circle, could walk with
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  Speaker 1: him that long and still not get him. I'm shocked.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that stops my mind from being completely
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  Speaker 1: blown is I look at how many times we love
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  Speaker 1: people and follow people that we really don't understand. We
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  Speaker 1: hear them, but we're not listening. I look at how
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  Speaker 1: many families grew up eating grandma's banana pudding, but never
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  Speaker 1: learned how to make it. I look at how many
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  Speaker 1: people who are exposed to something, but they don't learn
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  Speaker 1: from the moment they have. And now Jesus is getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to leave. And it matters whether you have been
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  Speaker 1: listening or not. It's not about the shout. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about the tambourine. It's not about the dancing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about the jumping. It's not about the jerking. He that
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  Speaker 1: hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: saying to the church. So the text goes on to say,
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  Speaker 1: so was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets. I
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  Speaker 1: will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Since the creation of the world. Good God Almighty. Since
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the world. Jesus is talking up here
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  Speaker 1: and they are thinking down here. I got five simple points.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of your way. Can I go deeper? The
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  Speaker 1: first one I want to talk about is positions. They
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  Speaker 1: are worried about positions. I'm gonna talk about positions, perspectives, potentials,
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  Speaker 1: and provisions, and promise. I'm gonna talk about positions, perspectives, potentials, provisions,
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  Speaker 1: and promise. I'm gonna say it again. I'm gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about positions, perspectives, potentials, provisions, And promise, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna take me long, but I'm gonna talk about all
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  Speaker 1: five things. These five points, like my five fingers, are
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  Speaker 1: going to make the hand of this text reach out
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  Speaker 1: and grab the situation in your life. and snare it
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  Speaker 1: and bring it into captivity. God is stretching out all
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  Speaker 1: five fingers toward you. Number one, positions. They are talking
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  Speaker 1: about positions there. They can't even deal with the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that they might be a devil for overriding it with
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  Speaker 1: their ambition to be in control. They want to be
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  Speaker 1: in control so bad. They want power so bad. They
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  Speaker 1: got their little feet washed. They drank their little cup
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  Speaker 1: of juice. They ate their little piece of bread. And
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  Speaker 1: now they said, put me on the right side of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Put me on the left side. Who's going to rule
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  Speaker 1: with you? Who's going to reign with you? They are
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  Speaker 1: still so fleshly that they are worried about being recognized
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  Speaker 1: as being important. And Jesus says, who is the least
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  Speaker 1: and who is the greatest? This is the question he says,
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  Speaker 1: is not the one who sits at the table greater
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  Speaker 1: than the one who serves the table? Did not just
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  Speaker 1: get through washing your feet? Did I just get up
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  Speaker 1: off my knees washing your feet? And if I, your Lord,
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  Speaker 1: can go down and wash your feet, you're worried about
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  Speaker 1: being up and sitting in a position. And I have
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  Speaker 1: showed you in your kingdom, the way up is up.
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  Speaker 1: In my kingdom, the way up is down. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to operate in the realm that I'm
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  Speaker 1: operating in, you have to let go of trying to
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  Speaker 1: get up and get down. And the lower you go
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom, the higher God will exalt you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that again. The lower you go in the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: the higher God will exalt you. Man might laugh at you,
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  Speaker 1: but God will exalt you. God defines greatness by humility. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all looking at me kind of funny this morning. God
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  Speaker 1: defines greatness by how low can you go. God says
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  Speaker 1: a little child shall lead them. God says unless you
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  Speaker 1: become like little children, you will not inherit the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: So the your chest take off your crown humble yourself
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  Speaker 1: and serve and the better you are at serving the
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  Speaker 1: higher I'm going to raise you because I come from
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  Speaker 1: another kingdom and my kingdom is not of this world See,
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  Speaker 1: they are talking number two out of their perspectives, and
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  Speaker 1: we always talk out of our perspectives. What we think
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  Speaker 1: about anything, how we feel about anything, how we function
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  Speaker 1: about anything is always a result of our life's experience,
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  Speaker 1: our point of view. Our perspectives are shaped by our past,
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  Speaker 1: our backgrounds, and what we have seen. And we come
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  Speaker 1: to a conclusion, whether it is the right one or not.
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  Speaker 1: It is a conclusion that is the sum total of
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  Speaker 1: our perspectives and our experiences. That's why I don't let
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  Speaker 1: you control me with your opinion. Because I realize that
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  Speaker 1: your opinion is concocted out of your experiences. And I
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  Speaker 1: also know that your experiences are not the only experiences
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  Speaker 1: at the table. So you don't get to dominate me
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  Speaker 1: with your idea. Because I have a different idea. Because
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  Speaker 1: I have a different perspectives. Jesus' disciples had an earthly perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus who came down from heaven had a heavenly perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Their perspective was go up. His perspective was go down.
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  Speaker 1: And we are seeing the wrestling of perspectives. Number three.
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  Speaker 1: Peter in the text says, I am ready to die
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  Speaker 1: for you. I am ready to die.
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  Speaker 2: For you.
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  Speaker 1: And he's right. Ultimately, he did die for him. So
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  Speaker 1: he's not wrong with the end of the sentence. He's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with the beginning. The beginning was, I am ready.
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  Speaker 1: I am ready. Somebody say, I am ready. Think about
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  Speaker 1: how many times you have told God you were ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to be married. I'm ready. I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: take on another job. I'm ready for a promotion. I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready to open up my business. I'm ready to start
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  Speaker 1: a family. How do you know that you're ready? You
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  Speaker 1: have the potentials of being ready. but not the preparation
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  Speaker 1: of being ready. Being ready takes time, Cammie. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be ready just because you want it. Wanting it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make you ready for it. Having an idea or an
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  Speaker 1: attraction to it doesn't make you ready for it. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to die. Jesus in essence says, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Before the cock crows, three times you will have denied me.
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  Speaker 1: You are not ready. You are not ready. And I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: want to spend a minute on this, the pain of potential.
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  Speaker 1: It's not painful to not be what I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the potential to be. But what is painful is to
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  Speaker 1: know that I have the potential to be loyal enough
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  Speaker 1: to die for you, but I'm not ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord told me if I preached this message,
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  Speaker 1: I would speak directly to somebody who all your life
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  Speaker 1: they talked about how gifted you were and how talented
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  Speaker 1: you were and how much potential you had, and yet
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you've never been able to get it together. You got
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the raw skills to be great. You got the skills
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to be an entrepreneur. You have the skills to be
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a great preacher. You have the skills to be a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: great wife. You have the skills to be a great husband.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But all of that talent put together has not gotten
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  Speaker 1: you there, and now you're bitter. Not because the devil
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: has tormented you. You are bitter because your potentials have
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  Speaker 1: given you pain. Because you say, by now, I should
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  Speaker 1: be further than this. By now, I should be better
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  Speaker 1: than this. By now, I thought I would have my degree.
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  Speaker 1: By now, I thought I would be married. By now,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would own my own place. And you
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  Speaker 1: do have the potential. But you are not ready yet.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And then he tells him why he's not ready. He says,
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  Speaker 1: Satan has desired to have you. Ha, ha, ha. Satan
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want you if you didn't have potential. Hey, I'm
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: going to say that for the people in the back.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Satan wouldn't want you if you didn't have potential. You
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be in the fight you're in right now if
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you did not have the potential. The only reason he's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: fighting you is because you have the potential. I want
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: everybody that's got potential to give him 30 seconds of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: crazy praise. I got it. I got it. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got it. I got it. I got the potential.
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  Speaker 1: I know I got the potential. I know I got
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the potential. I know I got the potential. I know
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I got the potential. And part of my pain is
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: coming from the fact that I know I have the potential.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I was pastoring a storefront with seven people in it
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  Speaker 1: for years. And I knew I had the potential, but
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't ready. And it's not painful when you don't
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: have the potential. See, I was trying to change a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: place and God was using the place. Y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. God was using the place to change me.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And the agony. Peter had a call. I know Peter
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: had a call. I read where Jesus called him. There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Peter had insights. Peter was the
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  Speaker 1: one who knew that Jesus was the Christ. He had
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: shared experiences with Christ. Peter was the only one who
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: walked on the water with Jesus. Forget Bartholomew and James
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  Speaker 1: and John and all them other people that stayed on
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the boat and rocked. Peter was a water walker. You
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: can talk all you want about him sinking. He's the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: only one in the Bible that got to walk. That's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: why I'm not afraid to fail. Sink or not, I'm
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: stepping off this boat. Where are my radical people at?
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I need about a half a dozen radical people who
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: are not going to stay on the boat and rock
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: where it's safe, but come hell or high water, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to step out. God, I might get in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You might have to get me out of trouble, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to rock on the boat with a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of deadbeats when I know I've got the.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, I know I've got the potential.
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  Speaker 1: The other reason I know that he had the potential
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: is that Satan knew who Peter was. And the devil
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: only knows you when you got potential. Paul I know.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus I know. But who are you? The very fact
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  Speaker 1: that the devil knows you means your life is a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: threat to his agenda. Oh. I wish I had some
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost saints. I need some real Holy Ghost saints.
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  Speaker 1: The reason he's after your money, the reason he's after
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: your peace, the reason he's after your joy, the reason
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he's after your career is hell knows you. Shake your
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  Speaker 1: head and say he knows me. He knows me, he
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: knows me, he knows me. He knows me, he knows me,
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  Speaker 1: he knows me. He knows I got potential. He knows
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  Speaker 1: I got possibilities. He knows I got a gift. He
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: knows I got talent. He knows I got anointing. He
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: knows me, he knows me, he knows me. That's why
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: he wants to have me. So the people, wait, catch this.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: The people with the greatest potential live up under the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: greatest attack. If you're not being attacked, I'm not talking
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to you. If you are being attacked and you go
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: from this to that and from that to the other,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it's only because. So Jesus says to him, he called
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  Speaker 1: him Simon. Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to have you.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: That he might sift you as wheat. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: bring you down to your knees. He wouldn't fight you
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  Speaker 1: like that if you didn't have potential. He wants to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: bring you down to dust. He wants to shatter you.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to lose your mind. He wants you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to freak out. He wants you to commit suicide. He
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: wants you to die. He wants you to give up.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: He wants you to collapse. He wants you to faint.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But he wants to kill me. But He wants to
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  Speaker 1: destroy me, but he wants me to end my life,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: but he wants me to give up, but Jesus said
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he wants to destroy you, but I prayed for you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: This took the fight to a whole nother level. This
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: is not Peter fighting with Satan. This is the prayer
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of Jesus fighting against the plan of Satan. The prayer
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and the plan. The prayer and the plan. The prayer
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and the plan. Satan has a plan. God has a prayer.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Here's the design. Here's the design. to have you, that
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: he might sip your sweet. But you know why you're
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: still here? Jesus said, I prayed for you. I gotta
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: stop a minute. That make me get kind of emotional.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: It's not my willpower. It's not because I'm strong. It's
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: not because I'm holy. It's not because I'm perfect. It's
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: not my prayer life. It's not my Bible study. I'm
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: here because he prayed for me. He prayed that my
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: faith wouldn't fail. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. He
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: prayed that my faith wouldn't fail. He didn't pray that
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't get sick. He didn't pray that I wouldn't
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: have cancer. He didn't pray that I wouldn't have a struggle.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: He didn't pray that I wouldn't have a hard time.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: He said, but I prayed that your faith... Wouldn't fail
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  Speaker 1: that no matter what he threw at you, you would
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  Speaker 1: rise up and say, though he slay me, yet shall
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I trust him. Type on the line, I still believe.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Somebody holler out loud, I still believe. I still believe.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I lost my job, but I still believe. I lost
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: my baby, but I still believe. I lost my friends,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but I still believe. I lost my spouse, but I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: still believe. Write it down, I still believe. You don't
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: hear the power of what I'm saying. The guy that
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Jesus said would fail him and deny Him. Jesus also says,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not praying that you won't fail. In fact, I
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: prophesied that you would fail. But I ain't worried about
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: your failure. I'm praying that your faith doesn't fail. Because
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: as long as your faith doesn't fail, oh, this is
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: too good. I'm going to say this for myself. I'm
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: going to take this back home from you. As long
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: as your faith don't fail, I don't care if you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: lose the car. I don't care if you lose the house.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't care if your friends walk away. All of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that can fail. But as long as your faith does
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not fail, you can overcome anything. I want somebody that's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: still got their faith to jump up and holler like
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you lost your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Take a walk and say, I still got my faith.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I still got my faith. I still got my faith.
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  Speaker 1: I may have to rebuild. I may have to refuel.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I may have to start over. I may have to
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: turn it out, but I still got my faith. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: got my faith. I got my faith. I got my faith.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: My faith has my faith. I feel like preaching up
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a fire. I feel like setting it off in here.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: The devil, if the devil tried to kill you, but
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you still got your faith, come on and help me
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: give God some glory up in this place right now. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: The devil has a plan. The enemy has a plan
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  Speaker 1: for you. And God has a prayer for you. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the enemy has a plan. And God has a prayer.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And the enemy has a plan. And God has a prayer.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And you ain't got to fight neither one of them
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: because the battle is not yours. It belongs to God.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: God said, I got enough prayer to overcome his plan.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I know that's where the fight is because there is
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  Speaker 1: no if about the outcome. Satan has desired to have
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you that he might sip you as sweet, but I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: prayed for you that your faith fell thee not. And
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: then he said, when thou art When thou, not if
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  Speaker 1: thou art, not I hope you are. He knew his
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: prayer was greater than Satan's plan. He said, when thou
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: art converted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody shout it's going
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to work. Type it on the line, it's gonna work,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: it's gonna work, it's gonna work, it's gonna work. I'm
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: in a fight right now, but it's gonna work. It's
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: gonna work, it's gonna work, it's gonna work, it's gonna work.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: When thou art converted, I can't release you into the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: atmosphere while you're toxic. I gotta let this test be
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: your catalytic converter. I got to let this trial detoxify
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: some of the residue that's left down inside of you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: But when I get to working on you, when I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: get to testing you, when I get to trying you,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: when I get to taking you through the storm, when
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: thou art... Oh, I'm not the best rapper, but no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: When thou art... When thou art... When thou art... When
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: thou art... When thou art converted. When thou art converted.
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  Speaker 4: Strengthen.
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  Speaker 1: Thy brethren, when thou art converted, you ain't ready now.
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  Speaker 1: You got potential, but you're not ready now. But when
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I get through working on you, when I get through
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  Speaker 1: taking you through tests and trials, when thou art converted,
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  Speaker 1: strengthen thy brother. Converted means I'm going to take what's
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: wrong with you and make it right with you. I'm
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: gonna take what's broken in you and make it work
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna take where you got off and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: use it to create an on-ramp. When thou art converted,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I'm literally going to change the very essence of who
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you are. When thou art converted, you're not converted yet.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: When thou art converted, don't take the covenant, don't take
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the cake out the oven. because it hadn't got hot
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: enough yet when it is converted. When it is changed,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it's still milk and eggs and flour and butter. It
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: hasn't got hot enough. When it gets hot enough, it's
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: still going to be that, but it's not going to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: be that. It's going to change. It's going to go
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: through a metamorphosis. It's going to come out differently. It'll
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: be able to stand on its own. If you take
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: it out too soon, it's going to fall. But if
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you let it stay in there long enough, it's going
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to stand on its own. Same stuff, just converted. Same stuff,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: just converted. Same man, just converted. Same woman, just converted.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: And it's funny when you've been converted and somebody who
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: knew you before runs up on you and they expect
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: you to act like you used to act and they
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: don't know that you've already been through the fire. It
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: may look like me, but it's not me. I've been converted.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout, I've been converted. And the Lord said to me,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you got more church members than you got converts. See,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: just because people follow you doesn't mean they're converted. Just
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: because they sing and shout doesn't mean they're converted. The
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: goal is the conversion of the soul. When you are converted...
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Your potentials will be utilized. God can't fully use you
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: just because you follow. You have to be converted. You
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: have to be converted. It's hard for you to go
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: to church because you're not converted. It's not your generation.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: It's your conversion. It's not your age. It's your conversion. Oh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: y'all don't want to talk to me. It's your conversion.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You go, you go to church, but you have not
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: had a conversion experience. Because if you were converted, you
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: would be hungry for the Word. You would be hungry
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: for truth. You would be hungry for worship. You would
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: be hungry for praise. The reason you're okay with it
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: is that you're a follower and you've had some experiences
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: with Him. And you walked out on the water and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: you cut off some ears for Him. But that's not
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the question. The question is, have you been, you better preach.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: You better preach with me this morning. The question is,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: have you been converted? Have you been converted? Have you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: been washed in the blood of the Lamb? Has your
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: life been changed? Are you somebody new when nobody's looking?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Have you been converted? Or do you put on a
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: church face when you come to church and you act
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: like the rest of us, but you haven't really been converted?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That's all right. I prayed for you that your faith
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: fail you not. And there ain't an if in it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: There's no if about it. When thou art converted, strengthen
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: thy brother. I'm almost finished. Can I go a little
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: bit further? When I go a little bit further, there's
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: just two more points I want to show you real
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: quick and I'll be done. Number one, he shows them provision.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: He said, you remember when I sent you out the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: first time? And I told you to take nothing with you.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Don't take your purse. Don't take a script. Don't take anything.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Don't take a sword. He said, did you like anything?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: They said, nothing. He says, in your early days, I
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  Speaker 1: did everything. You had to do nothing. I provided everything.
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  Speaker 1: I sent your purse, that's your money. I sent the sword,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: that's your defense. I sent your bag, that's your provision.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you needed to get where you were going, I provided.
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  Speaker 1: Did you lack anything? Nothing, Lord. He says, but now, now,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: he says, take your purse with you. Take your script
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: with you. In other words, I am weaning you. This
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: is important. Yeah, give me that camera right there. This
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: is important. The stronger you get, the less he does.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: And let me show you the example he gave me
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: to illustrate the point. The younger a baby is, the
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: more you do for them. You wash them, you burp them,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: you clean them, you feed them. You lay them down,
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  Speaker 1: you hold them, you set them up, you hold their head.
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  Speaker 1: The older they get, the less you have to do
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: for them. If the baby is 25 and you still
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: have to bathe them, if they're 42 and you got
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: to change them, there's something wrong with that. The older
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: they get, the less you have to do. When the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: children of Israel were going through the wilderness, God fed them.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: He sent manna down from heaven. They went from eating
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: from the hand of Pharaoh to eating from the hand
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: of God. God sent manna down from heaven. He fed them.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: He took care of everything. But when they got to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the promised land, the Bible said, then the manna ceased.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: And when the manna stopped, God said to them, prepare
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: your victuals, for in three days you'll cross this Jordan.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: In other words, I'm not going to do what I
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: used to do for you. Because you're older now and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: you're stronger now. And I want you to be prepared
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: for what I'm going to do. You're still going to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: get provisions, but you're going to have to be more involved.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do baby food miracles for grown-up believers.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Am I helping anybody? I'm almost done. So some of
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: y'all are waiting for him to do like he used
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to do. But to him who much is given, to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: him who much is given, to him who much is given.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: So he said, take your purse with you. This is
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: going to cost you something. You're going to have to
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: invest in yourself. You can't just pray and wait on
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: me to do it. you are going to have to
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: get involved in the process because you're older now. I'm
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: still going to provide, but I'm going to provide through
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: you and not to you. That's shouting stuff right there.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to provide through you. I'm going to require
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: your participation in your provision in order to take you
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: where I'm getting ready to take you. Before, I just
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: opened doors. You just happened to be at the right
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: place at the right time. It just happened. He said,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be like that anymore. You're going
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to have to be intentional. Take your bag. Take your purse.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Take your swords. And they said to Jesus, Lord, we
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: ain't got but two. And he stopped talking because he said,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you still don't understand what I'm talking about. You count
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: natural swords and I'm talking to you about the kingdom.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: And he ceased from speaking to them. I got one
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: more point. I'm going to share this. My fifth point,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: my final point is promise. And it's simple. It's very
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Very simple. God says, you're going to know you're converted
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: by the effect you have on other people. When thou
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: art converted, the way your presence strengthens people is a
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: sign You're ready. I feel a praise coming in the room.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I feel a praise coming in the room. He said,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: it's your brethren that are going to show you that
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: you're converted. Because now when you walk in a room,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: you're going to have an effect on them that you
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  Speaker 1: would not have before because you've been converted. All that
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  Speaker 1: stuff you tried to fuss and do and yell and
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  Speaker 1: do and scream and do and argue to do, you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to have to do none of that when
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  Speaker 1: you come in the room. You're gonna have impact, not
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  Speaker 1: just effort. You're gonna have impact. You're gonna have impact.
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  Speaker 1: You're not just gonna have effort, you're gonna have impact. See,
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  Speaker 1: education will give you information, and it'll give you effort,
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  Speaker 1: but experience will give you impact.
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  Speaker 5: Impact.
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  Speaker 1: You need both of them. You need both of them.
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  Speaker 1: You need both of them. You need to have the
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  Speaker 1: right information, but just because you have information doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: you impact. when you are converted, when I get to
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  Speaker 1: taking you through hell and hot water, after you've suffered,
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  Speaker 1: after you've cried, after you've labored, after you've gotten back
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  Speaker 1: up again, after you've denied me, after you've denied me,
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  Speaker 1: after you've been ashamed, after you've been embarrassed, after the
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  Speaker 1: cock has crowed and you've denied me three times and
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  Speaker 1: you no longer think you are worth being a disciple,
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  Speaker 1: then I can use you. I can't use you because
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  Speaker 1: you think too highly of yourself. When you get down
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  Speaker 1: to nothing and you shame to show your face and
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  Speaker 1: you say, I go fishing and you walk away from everything,
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  Speaker 1: then I can use you. So when Jesus was taken
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  Speaker 1: to the cross, Peter denied him by the fire. The
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  Speaker 1: guy didn't know that he would deny Jesus. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what was in him. And then the cock crowed
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  Speaker 1: and he wept bitterly and went away because he was ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: And what was in him that he had followed him
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  Speaker 1: that long and not been converted by the one he followed.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter starts weeping. When Jesus rose from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: he said, go tell the disciples to meet me in Galilee.
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  Speaker 1: Go tell the disciples and Peter. So on the inaugural day,
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  Speaker 1: of Pentecost of all the disciples that God could use
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  Speaker 1: to preach the first message on the day of Pentecost
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  Speaker 1: he didn't use Bartholomew he didn't use James he didn't
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  Speaker 1: use John he didn't use Mark he didn't use Luke
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  Speaker 1: He used Peter because he said, when you are converted,
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  Speaker 1: when Peter preached, let me get down there where I
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  Speaker 1: can look at you. When Peter preached on the day
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  Speaker 1: of Pentecost, 3,000, 3,000 of his brethren, of the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: of his brethren, were added to the church that day.
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  Speaker 1: God used Peter to set the gospel off amongst the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: his brethren, but he couldn't use him until he had
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  Speaker 1: humbled him. Until he had failed bad enough and gone
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  Speaker 1: low enough to be converted. And on the day of Pentecost,
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  Speaker 1: Peter stood up and said, let the house of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: that's his brethren, let the house of Israel know assuredly
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  Speaker 1: that this same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, have been
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  Speaker 1: made both Lord and Christ. And the Bible said, now,
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  Speaker 1: there's that word again, now, now, when they heard this,
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  Speaker 1: they were pricked.
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  Speaker 2: In their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: And said unto him, Peter, and the rest of the apostles,
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  Speaker 1: men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said Peter told them to repent and be
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  Speaker 1: baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: for the remission of your sins and ye shall receive
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  Speaker 1: the gift of the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: fell on all of them through Peter A guy who
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  Speaker 1: in our texts was yet to be converted. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: asking you, are you following me? I'm not asking you
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  Speaker 1: how often do you tweet or text. I'm not asking
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  Speaker 1: what the numbers are and how many are online. Because
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  Speaker 1: God said it really doesn't matter how many of you
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  Speaker 1: are online. The only thing that matters is how many
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  Speaker 1: of you are converted. The real purpose of ministry. I
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  Speaker 1: got mostly volunteers in here. It's not that you sing
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  Speaker 1: in the choir. It's not that you're a PMT. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. God knows I do. It's not that you
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  Speaker 1: work out on the parking lot. I appreciate it. God
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  Speaker 1: knows I do. But working on the parking lot will
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  Speaker 1: not get you into heaven. Usher people to a seat
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  Speaker 1: will not get you into heaven. Singing in the choir,
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  Speaker 1: you can hit the highest note on the keyboard will
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  Speaker 1: not get you into heaven. What matters is that you
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  Speaker 1: are converted. Let me break this down real simple where
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  Speaker 1: you can get it and answer it quickly. What about
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  Speaker 1: you has changed? Conversion has changed. What about you has changed?
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  Speaker 1: To whatever degree you answer that question, that is the
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  Speaker 1: degree of your conversion. Let me ask you, you watching
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  Speaker 1: online right now, all while I preach, you've been preaching too.
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  Speaker 1: You know more scriptures than I do. I'm glad. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But that ain't the issue. What about you has changed?
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  Speaker 1: That is what has been changed. Converted.
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  Speaker 5: You're a deacon.
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. You're still in the strip clubs. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to know what about you has changed? You're still
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  Speaker 1: beating on your wife. What about you? What about you
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  Speaker 1: has changed? You won't miss a Sunday. You write on
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  Speaker 1: the post. You do what you're supposed to do. But
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  Speaker 1: have you been converted? Don't you understand the only reason
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  Speaker 1: that Satan is attacking you like that is that he
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  Speaker 1: sees your potential? He knows what God has in store
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  Speaker 1: for you. He knows the things that God wants to
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  Speaker 1: give you. And he has desired to have you that
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  Speaker 1: he might sift you as wheat. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: you didn't get shot is that he prayed. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the enemy kill him. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to let the enemy kill her. Because I
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  Speaker 1: got a plan for their life. And I prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: Or you'll be in jail right now. I prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: Or you would have lost your mind. I prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: You thought you was fooling me. You never fooled me.
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  Speaker 1: You was with me, but I knew you wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: with me. You got a couple of testimonies and miracles
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  Speaker 1: and you walked on some water and stuff, but in essence,
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  Speaker 1: you still ain't changed. He said, I want to do
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  Speaker 1: a work of grace in your life that changes your heart.
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  Speaker 1: And as I stand here today and I speak to you,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: God said, change. Change. How do I do that? When
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  Speaker 1: you stop thinking you're ready for stuff you're not ready for,
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  Speaker 1: and humble yourself down, and discover your own wretchedness. When
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  Speaker 1: you walk away from positions and titles and say, I
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  Speaker 1: go fishing, He said, that's what I'm going to call you.
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  Speaker 1: And when I call you, I'm going to use you
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  Speaker 1: like you've never been used before. You gave me one word.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a sentence. It wasn't a phrase. One word, converted.
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  Speaker 1: Until we hunger and thirst to be better men and
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  Speaker 1: women and better wives and husbands, until we understand that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't just put us in that college to get
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  Speaker 1: an education, you put us there to be a witness.
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  Speaker 1: You gave us that job as a testimony until we
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  Speaker 1: understand that you are not our God to be our manager.
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  Speaker 1: You are not here to promote me. I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: promote you. You didn't come in my life to make
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  Speaker 1: me great. You came into my life so that I
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  Speaker 1: would see the greatness of you. And when I see
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  Speaker 1: the greatness of you, it humbles me. And I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: because I've been too big for my britches. That's what
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the old folks would say. I get beside myself. And
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  Speaker 1: I pray, I pray that I would have such an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with you. that I wouldn't have to define my
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  Speaker 1: Christianity by what church I belong to or something I
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  Speaker 1: do at the church. I'm a PMT. I'm a deacon.
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  Speaker 1: I sing in the choir. Yeah, that's cute, but have
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  Speaker 1: you Have you been changed?
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  Speaker 2: Are you converted?
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: How have you changed as a wife? You want him
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  Speaker 1: to see Jesus in your life and you act like that?
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  Speaker 1: What do you need to do to really fill out
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: your resume? How are you different? As a mother, how
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: are you different? You can't get the kids to go
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: to church, I guess not. How are you different? What
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: I need to do, make up your mind that I'm
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: just not going to be who I was. I'm going
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: to confront the part of me that they don't see.
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  Speaker 1: The sneaky part.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: To gloss over it with Christian sayings and colloquialisms. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be converted. Every head is bowed and every
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: eye is closed. And nobody's looking at you but God.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're in this room and this message spoke
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: to you in a real way, come to the front
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I just want to pray for you. Not as if
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I were better, because I'm not. I'm just a mailman
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: that brought you the mail from God. And if you're
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: watching online, call 1-800-BISHOP-2 and ask for our prayer warriors
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to pray with you that you could truly be converted. Converted.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: I know we've been through a pandemic and it's brought
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: out the worst in a lot of us. And we
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: self-medicated and we got through it the best way we can.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: And some of us lost some stuff and we've been
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: at war and enraged and inflamed. We picked up addictions
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: and problems. He's trying to survive. But God had mercy
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: on you and he let you survive all of this.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: And even though the enemy wanted to sift you as wheat,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: he prayed for you. And I know it's been hard
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: on you and I know it's been scary and I
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: know it's been tough. And this is a no judgment zone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to judge you. I got my own
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: stuff to bring to Jesus. But as we stand here
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: in the presence of God, how has he changed your life?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about new cars and new houses and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: new jobs and new this and new that. I'm talking
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: about who you are as a person. That's all that matters.
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  Speaker 1: When thou art converted, you're going to strengthen your brother.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: And right around this altar, and you're watching online, I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you too. I want you to
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: make up in your mind that you're just not going
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: to be a person who goes to church or watches
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: us on Sunday. But you're going to walk this thing out.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: You're going to get your prayer life going again and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: your devotions going again. You're going to put a muzzle
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: on the way you respond to people. You're going to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: represent Christ in the places you go and the places
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: you won't go. You're going to be just a little
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: bit more like Jesus. Because you know what? Time is
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: winding up. Can I be honest with you? Time is
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: winding up. Father, these are your disciples. These are your
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: disciples that you called that you blessed. And you let
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  Speaker 1: them see some amazing things and you let them walk
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: on water and you let them do all kinds of stuff.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: But where we are right now, Lord, we need that conversion.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you're not going to do it for me.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: I got to bring my own script. I got to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: bring my own bag. It's going to cost me something.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: You're not going to do it all for me. But
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: right where I stand today, I make a decision. I
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: just got to do better. I just got to do better.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Come into my heart and into my life and into
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: my circumstance. I'm tired of shouting over top of craziness
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: and confusion and turmoil. Change me. Change me. The way
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: I think, the way I act, my ulterior motives, my issues,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: my weaknesses, my vulnerabilities, my discipline, my commitment, my focus.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: I am Let the metamorphosis begin right now. Everywhere this
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: word is preached, everywhere, everywhere, right in that apartment, right
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: in that living room, right in that house, right in
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: that car, right through that iPad, right at that kitchen table,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: let the glory of the Lord, let the glory of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the Lord come through. Lift your hands and open up
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: your heart to him and let the Holy Spirit come
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: into your heart because only the Holy Spirit can do it.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: You can't do it without him. The Holy Spirit can
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: do it. The Holy Spirit can do it. The Holy
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Spirit can do it. The Holy Spirit can do it.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit can do it. The Holy Spirit can
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: do it. The Holy Spirit can do it. None of
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: us can do it of ourselves. None of us can
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: do it. The Holy Spirit can do it. I rebuke
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: the plan of the enemy. I rebuke the plot of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: the enemy. I rebuke what he has up ahead for you.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: I bind it in the name of Jesus. I come
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: against it right now. You will not sift her. You
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: will not sift him. You will not sift that family.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: You will not sift that mind. You will not sift
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: that heart. I come against it now in the name
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you changed me. Right where I stand.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Right now you're defeated. Your plans are defeated. Your plots
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: are defeated. Every issue you raise is defeated. In the
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, it's defeated because Jesus paid. The plan
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: is aborted. The mission is disrupted. The devils are defeated.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: The disease is dissipating. The cancer is shrinking. The curse
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: is broken. The yoke is destroyed. He whom the Son
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: has set free is free indeed because we are converted.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: I dare you to praise Him wherever you are, wherever
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: you are in the world. I dare you to praise Him.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: I dare you to praise me.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: I dare you to praise me.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Praise Him.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Let His glory fill your heart.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You change me.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you changed me. Right where I stand. You
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: changed me. With my hands lifted up.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: You changed me. In my heart you changed me. You
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: changed me. In my heart you changed me. You changed me.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: You changed me. You changed me.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: You changed me.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: You changed me. You changed.
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  Speaker 1: Me.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: You changed me. You changed me. You changed me. You
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: will change me.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: I will rise. You will change me. You will change me.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: You will change me.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: You will change me.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: From this day on.
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  Speaker 1: Listen at me just one minute. I know you've been
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: standing there a while, but I've been standing for an hour.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: So just give me just a minute. this is gonna
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: cost you something. On the easy end of it, on
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the easy end of it, we sow into the kingdom
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: of God, we give into the kingdom of God, we
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: associate our future by the way that we sow. No
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: doubtful farmer plants a seed. A seed is planted because
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: the farmer believes more is coming. It's an act of faith.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: If he didn't have faith, he would eat the corn.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: He sows it because he is sowing against the future.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: And I challenge you that are watching, you that are here,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: that's an important part of what we do. But it's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: not the only part. When Jesus said, now you're going
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: to have to take your own purse, It means that
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: you can't just keep sitting there hoping and a wishing
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: and a wishing and a hoping and a thinking and
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: a thinking and a hoping and I'm fixing to and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready and I'm gonna. It means you're gonna
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: have to take actions. Actions, practical actions to go after
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. It doesn't have to be a thing.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: It could be a business or a company or something.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that. It could be building
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: a relationship with your child. You're gonna have to go
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: after it. It's not just going to happen through divine osmosis.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to bite your tongue if you
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: want that marriage to be better. You're going to have
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: to shut up. This is going to cost you something.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: It's not always going to be about what you want
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: and how you feel and what makes you happy and
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: what you ain't having. He says, now bring your purse.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: This is to be paid for. This won't be luck.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: And right where you are, many, many people are sowing online,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: they're giving online, but right where you are, this is
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: what I want from you. I want you to decide
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: what you are not going to do or what you
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: are going to do better than when you walk away
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: from this altar. I don't care if you're slain in
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: the spirit, fall out on the floor, talk in tongues,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: and hit your head on the concrete. If you don't decide,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: we wasted time. I'm not asking you to turn into
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: an overnight wonder. But if it's just one step closer
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: to the woman you want to be, to the woman
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: he called you to be, if it's just one step,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: I'll take one step, just one step, one step, I'm
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: just not going to do that. Or I'm going to
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: get better about expressing this. I'm going to change this.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: I need some evidence that I have been with Jesus
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: and that he's been with me. I need some real
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: bona fide evidence that I have a legitimate encounter with God.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: And I need it now more than ever because I've
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: been through hell. Because we like to die. Because we
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't make it. And I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: knocked down lower for it to get through my head
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  Speaker 1: that I got to change. Are you with me? And
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, between you and God and God and you,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to give him something. Out of your ways,
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  Speaker 1: out of your habits, out of your heart, out of
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  Speaker 1: your purse, something that you say, Lord, I'm giving this
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  Speaker 1: to you. I am changed. Doesn't mean I won't have
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: more work to do. I've been working on me for
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  Speaker 1: 40-something years, and I still got a whole lot to do.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: A whole lot to do. It don't mean that I'm finished,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: but it means I'm going to set it off. That
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  Speaker 1: the next time the preacher asks me, have I changed,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have a better answer than I had
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: this morning. Are you with me? Okay, you get in
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  Speaker 1: mind right now, What has changed about you? And I'm
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: gonna pray over it like it's an offering because we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna offer it up to God. You know the offering
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  Speaker 1: God asked for? He said that you present your body
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  Speaker 1: a living sacrifice. We're gonna offer it up to God.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, Lord. Lift it up. Here it is, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I offer this up to you as a sweet-smelling sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is. It's 30 minutes more in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's a devotion before I go to bed. It's watching
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  Speaker 1: how I respond when I'm angry. Whatever it is, here
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  Speaker 1: it is. I offer it to you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Now give yourselves an applause and a praise. As we
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: close this service today, people around the world, come on,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: come on, people around the world are offering up things
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  Speaker 1: to God. Some are giving seed, some are giving self,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: some are giving self and seed. Everybody's giving something. But
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  Speaker 1: we want the world to know that we have been changed.
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  Speaker 1: We have been changed. You can forget the messenger, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Who I am doesn't matter. I'm just a
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: guy just like you. I'm no different. Please, never worship me.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm made out of the same dirt you're made
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  Speaker 1: out of. He breathed into me the breath of life
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  Speaker 1: like he did into you. Forget me. But the message converted,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: don't forget that. Go home and read it. Go home
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: and replay it, study it. Catch it again on YouTube.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: And at least learn this much of your Bible. It's
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: already been explained for you. I know some of you
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: have trouble understanding the Bible, but I explained it pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Did I explain it pretty good?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if we don't learn nothing but these verses, put
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  Speaker 1: the scripture up on the board again for me. If
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  Speaker 1: we don't learn nothing but these verses...