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T.D. Jakes God Uses Broken People FULL SERMON TBN · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Beware of all the people who tell you they are enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sure sign that you're dealing with a fraud,
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  Speaker 1: because the questions the world is asking are too complicated
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  Speaker 1: for you to answer with a degree. The problems people
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  Speaker 1: are having now required divine intervention. Was seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 1: I laid down and went to sleep, and while I
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  Speaker 1: was sleeping, I dreamed I was reading a verse that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know existed at the time. God was saying
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  Speaker 1: to a young man, before I formed THEE in the belly,
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  Speaker 1: I knew THEE, or I ordained THEE, and I sanctified
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  Speaker 1: THEE to be a prophet to the nations. And when
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  Speaker 1: I woke that morning, I just took my Bible with
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  Speaker 1: childlike faith and just let it fall open, and it
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  Speaker 1: fell over on Jeremiah, and he said, before I formed
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  Speaker 1: THEE in the belly, I knew THEE, and I ordained THEE,
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  Speaker 1: and I sanctified THEE to be a prophet unto the nations.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, I remembered all the stories
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  Speaker 1: my mother told me about when I was born. I
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  Speaker 1: was born with a veil over my face, and that
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  Speaker 1: one of the neighbors came down and said, look, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord it's given you a prophet. And Mama said a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: She said, yeah, he has a veil over his face.
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  Speaker 1: Then membrane boring over some babies faces. I was one
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  Speaker 1: of them. That membrane, the old folk said, was a
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  Speaker 1: sign you were a prophet. But I didn't know I
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  Speaker 1: was a prophet. So I was a wow, crazy, foolish, ignorant,
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  Speaker 1: rambuctious kid who got into everything and anything all the time,
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  Speaker 1: driving people crazy. And I was having a good time
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  Speaker 1: doing my own thing until God came along and messed
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  Speaker 1: it all up by bringing this stuff again about me
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  Speaker 1: being and the preacher, and I've ran from my caller.
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  Speaker 1: I purposely got drunk and went wild and got high
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  Speaker 1: and partied and did everything I could to convince him
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  Speaker 1: to go away. Get one of them people with the
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  Speaker 1: little doorllings on their head and the long skirts on
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  Speaker 1: and then old makeup who pray all day and talk
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  Speaker 1: in tones all the time, and leave me alone because
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  Speaker 1: I am not one of them. I'm crazy, I'm ignored,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wold, I'm uncouth. I will embarrass you, I will
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  Speaker 1: disgrace you. Please don't call me. This is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be good for you, and it's not gonna be good
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  Speaker 1: for me, and we should not do this together. But
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  Speaker 1: God didn't ask me to vote. He asked me to obey.
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  Speaker 1: And after several years of running, and after several years
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  Speaker 1: of going in clubs and sitting on barstools where one
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  Speaker 1: drunk would lean over to me and say, funny man,
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  Speaker 1: I had the crazy dream about you. I dreamed you
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  Speaker 1: with preaching in this church. And I got up and
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  Speaker 1: ran out of the club. And I felt like, David,
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  Speaker 1: if I make my bed in health, ore there, and
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  Speaker 1: if I take the wings of the morning and I
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  Speaker 1: send to the other most parts of the earth are there,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be able to outrun this.
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't understand that God wouldn't let me go.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why God picked me. If I get
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  Speaker 1: to heaven and we're only allowed one question a piece,
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  Speaker 1: I simply.
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  Speaker 2: Want to know, why did you call me? A boy
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  Speaker 2: from the.
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  Speaker 1: Hills of West Virginia, the son of vagianitor and a
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  Speaker 1: school teacher. Why did you call me? And I had
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  Speaker 1: lots of excuses, Like Moses, I had a speech impediment.
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  Speaker 1: You can't call me, you can't call me. I didn't stutter,
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  Speaker 1: but I had a list. I can't be a speaker
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  Speaker 1: because I have a list. But all of us have
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  Speaker 1: areas where we feel inadequate. If you don't, you're disqualified
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  Speaker 1: because humility is framed from feeling inadequate. When you say
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  Speaker 1: I am not enough, it makes you pray harder, it
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  Speaker 1: makes you seek harder, it makes you ask for more grace.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of all the people who tell you they are enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sure sign that you're dealing with a fraud
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  Speaker 1: because the questions the world is asking are too complicated
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  Speaker 1: for you to answer with a degree. The problems people
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  Speaker 1: are having now require divine interventions, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: have somebody who has heard from God, not from themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter in my weakness. He's made strong
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  Speaker 1: in my weakness. His strength is validated, so he chooses fragile, broken,
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  Speaker 1: limited people. So you won't be confused where the ointment
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  Speaker 1: comes from.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the glory that we.
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  Speaker 1: Have is not of ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: that has given us the glory, and it's Him coming
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  Speaker 1: out of us. It's not our talent coming out of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not our skill coming out of it. It is
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  Speaker 1: him coming out both to do and to will according
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  Speaker 1: to his own good pleasure. That's the facts. And what
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  Speaker 1: makes God all the more real is recognizing that he
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  Speaker 1: can work with such poor material, that he can be
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  Speaker 1: so masterful as Michael Angelo to paint the Sistine Chapel
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  Speaker 1: with a broken brush. And I am the brush, and
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  Speaker 1: you are the us, and you are the brush, and
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  Speaker 1: you are the brush. And he chooses broken brushes so
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  Speaker 1: that there will be no glory to the brush.
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  Speaker 2: Only to the artist.
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  Speaker 1: When the Master, the Master Geitner, plans to transplant you, arguing,
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  Speaker 1: will not stop it. He will not let you go
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  Speaker 1: until he's moved you to the place that he has
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  Speaker 1: prepared for you, and you for it, and placing you
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  Speaker 1: in that place, you begin to grow, and you will
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  Speaker 1: know you're in the place when, like Joseph, your branches
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  Speaker 1: reach over walls. When God plants you, your branches reach
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  Speaker 1: over every denominational, racial, generational wall that ever stood.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe he wanted you to hear this at
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  Speaker 2: this moment.
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  Speaker 1: In your life. Imagine being in the wilderness, miles and
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  Speaker 1: miles of sand, hot coaching, hot sand beneath your feet,
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  Speaker 1: the blazing sun above your head. Imagine walking and seeing
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  Speaker 1: nothing but repetitions of what you're walking on, not just
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, but in the wind, in your nostrils,
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  Speaker 1: in your clothing, all around you. This was the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: that Israel walk through to get through the promised land.
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  Speaker 1: Sand under your feet, sand in your nostrils, in your hair,
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  Speaker 1: heat in the day, freezing cold at night, the only
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  Speaker 1: covering they had with the presence of God, and they
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  Speaker 1: had to stay up under it because He gave them
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  Speaker 1: heat in the night and shade by day. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the shade you gave me. Thank you for how
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  Speaker 1: you put a buffer between me and the things that
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  Speaker 1: I went through. And in the middle of the desert
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  Speaker 1: with the twelve tribes of Israel, God decided to have
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  Speaker 1: a date with Man. And he decided to have a
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  Speaker 1: date in a tabernacle. And the Hebrew word for tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: is ohelmohead. It means a tent of meeting. It's a
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  Speaker 1: rendezvous place. It's a place where a divinity courts humanity.
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  Speaker 1: It's a place where the celestial dates the terrestrial. It's
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  Speaker 1: a place where the divine touches the mundane. This was
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  Speaker 1: the tabernacle. It is God playing etcher sketch drawing Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in the Tabernacle. Because everything the Tabernacle was in shadow,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was in reality. He is a place where humanity
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  Speaker 1: and divinity cohabitate. He is a place where the celestial
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  Speaker 1: touches the terrestrial. He is everything that the Tabernacle embodies.
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  Speaker 1: He is triune in his being, the outer court that
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  Speaker 1: intercurt the holies of holies like man, body, soul, and spirit,
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  Speaker 1: like God, father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. God shows
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  Speaker 1: us in the Tabernacle glimpses of his grace, just inklings
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  Speaker 1: of grace, just drops and clues and elements for us
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  Speaker 1: to see how bad.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to hang out with us.
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  Speaker 1: He preps us for thousands of years because the Tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: is a shadow of Jesus, and he's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: us ready for his entrance. Because everything the Tabernacle was
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness, It was surrounded by the twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, and He was the one who sat in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of his people, and everything the Tabernacle was
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness, Christ was in reality. That's why when
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  Speaker 1: the baby was born they called him Immanuel. God.
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  Speaker 2: Tabernacled with us. He is a dwell amongst us God,
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  Speaker 2: not the dwell among you. God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have him and restrict me from getting him.
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  Speaker 1: The Tabernacle was designed so that each tribe was able
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  Speaker 1: to have access to him. Whether you were Benjamin or Isacar,
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  Speaker 1: or Dan or Goad or Judah or Nephthali, we all
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  Speaker 1: had equal.
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  Speaker 2: Access to God. In the same way.
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  Speaker 1: God has so fixed himself that no particular people can
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  Speaker 1: restrict any other group of people from being able to
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  Speaker 1: access him.
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  Speaker 2: He is a dwell amongst us God.
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  Speaker 1: It is this understanding of God that makes us realize
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  Speaker 1: how far He would go to date you, from glory
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  Speaker 1: to Earth, from eternity to time, from celestial to terrest you.
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  Speaker 1: The Divine came upon Mary and said, let me borrow
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  Speaker 1: a tent of flesh so you can see me walk.
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  Speaker 1: So the voice of the Lord that walked through the
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  Speaker 1: cool of the garden in the Book of Genesis didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a tent to wear. But the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that walked in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John was
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  Speaker 1: dressed up in the tent of Mary's flesh. And he
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  Speaker 1: is the Tabernacle because he is the dweller amongst us God,
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  Speaker 1: and he dwelt among us, and we beheld the wonder
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  Speaker 1: of his glory, the only begotten of the Father, full
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  Speaker 1: of grace and truth. And everywhere his feet trod we
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  Speaker 1: had seen God. Philip said, show us a father, and
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  Speaker 1: it's afficer. And Jesus said, have I been so long
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  Speaker 1: time with you and you still don't know that I
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  Speaker 1: and my Father are one. I am God dwelling amongst you,
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of you, in your camp, so I
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  Speaker 1: can hang out with you, so that you can get
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  Speaker 1: to know my Daddy, so that you can see me,
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  Speaker 1: so that you can understand me. In fact, I am
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  Speaker 1: Daddy loving you. God is loving you through me, touching
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  Speaker 1: you through me, healing you through me, coming to you
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  Speaker 1: through me. The table had been set, the water drowned,
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  Speaker 1: the hands washed, the meal prepared, the evening said in order.
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  Speaker 1: It was not unique or different or strange or odd
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  Speaker 1: or fresh. It was to passover as it had been
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  Speaker 1: observed for years and years and years, commemorating the lamb
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  Speaker 1: that was slain in Egypt. It was not any different
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  Speaker 1: from any other passover until Jesus sat down at the
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  Speaker 1: table and took us from the ancient blood of an
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  Speaker 1: lamb that was sacrifice for Israel to saying, it is
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  Speaker 1: no longer about the lamb, it is now about me.
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  Speaker 1: And passover slid over into communion, and law collapsed on grace,
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  Speaker 1: and dispensations collided together, all at the dining table of
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  Speaker 1: the Master what we would call as supper. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: there will never be another supper like that supper, because
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  Speaker 1: his supper stands in the class all by itself. It
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  Speaker 1: is not just a change, it is a paradigm shift.
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  Speaker 1: The physical body of Jesus Christ sits down at the
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  Speaker 1: table to serve the memorial body of Christ. For the
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  Speaker 1: elements are the memorial body of Christ. As often as
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  Speaker 1: you do this in remembrance of me till I come.
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  Speaker 1: So the bread and the wine is the memorial body
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  Speaker 1: of Christ being served by the physical body of Christ
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  Speaker 1: being served to the mystical body of Christ, which is
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  Speaker 1: the Church, whose blessed hope is to have the glorified
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ. So at the table we see four
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  Speaker 1: representations of one body. Is he the body or the body?
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  Speaker 1: Or the body?
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  Speaker 2: What the body? No wonder? He told Moses, who shall
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  Speaker 2: I say? Sent to me?
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, you can't explain me. I must be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: You can't explain me, because to the unbeliever, all they
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  Speaker 1: will see is bread and wine, and they will not
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  Speaker 1: know that this is a new Testament in my blood.
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  Speaker 1: They will not know that the blood, that the wine
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  Speaker 1: is my blood, and the bread is my body. They
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  Speaker 1: will not know that when they ingest the wine and
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  Speaker 1: the blood, they are taking in Me, and that each
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  Speaker 1: one of them will hold a portion of the mystery
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  Speaker 1: that only brings the bread together through their unity. That
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  Speaker 1: is the mystical body of Christ. And that is why
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  Speaker 1: I say Itan hates for the Church to be united,
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  Speaker 1: because when we all come together, and your peace comes
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  Speaker 1: together with my piece and his piece, and her piece
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  Speaker 1: and their piece, and we all connect, we become the
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  Speaker 1: loaf and come one to get Father. I pray that
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  Speaker 1: these may be one, even as you and I are
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  Speaker 1: also one. Let's sit down at the table and see Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Because there are some things about Jesus that cannot be
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  Speaker 1: learned from the pulpit. They can only be discovered at
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  Speaker 1: the table. At the table, the mystical body of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Church, beheld, the memorial body of Christ
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  Speaker 1: being fed to them from the physical body of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting the glorified body of Christ at the table. Later,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus will be crucified and raised from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: he will meet two disciples on the road to Immaeus,
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  Speaker 1: and he will talk to them in a seven mile
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  Speaker 1: stretch and use all of the Old Testament in seven
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  Speaker 1: miles as a short walk for a big book. He
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  Speaker 1: discussed every shadow and every type that represented him, and
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  Speaker 1: when he had come to where they would depart, he
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  Speaker 1: made as if he would go further. He didn't go further.
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  Speaker 1: He just acted like he would because God is an actor,
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  Speaker 1: like as a mighty rushing wind, like ass, clothing, tongues.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit descended like as a dove. God is an actor.
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  Speaker 1: And he made as if he would go on. Yes
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  Speaker 1: he did, but they stopped him. And something that they
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  Speaker 1: did not learn from looking at his face, or the
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  Speaker 1: stains in his clothing, or the holes in his hands,
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  Speaker 1: or the piercing in his eye. And something that they
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  Speaker 1: did not learn from his preaching and teaching. Now that
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  Speaker 1: seven miles stretch they learned at the table when they
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  Speaker 1: sat at the table with him on the road to Hemayus.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? When they sat down with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you have to sit down with Jesus. It
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  Speaker 1: can't just be a Sunday morning experience. You have to
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  Speaker 1: sit down with Jesus. You have to sup with him.
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  Speaker 1: You have to connect with them. When they sat down
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, he did a simple thing in their midst
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  Speaker 1: that was more profound than anything he did on the road.
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  Speaker 1: He did more at the table than he did at
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  Speaker 1: the road, because God always performs miracles.
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  Speaker 2: At the table.
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  Speaker 1: And he sat down at the table, and the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: he took the bread and broke it and blessed it
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to them. And they saw him in
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  Speaker 1: the order of the breaking of bread. It is the
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  Speaker 1: same phrase that we see at the Last Supper. He
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  Speaker 1: took it and blessed it, and broke it and gave
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  Speaker 1: it to them. It is the same phrase that we
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  Speaker 1: see with the five thousand, when the little boy gave
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  Speaker 1: him the lunch. He took it and blessed it and
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  Speaker 1: broke it and gave it to them. It is the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that is happening in your life. He takes
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  Speaker 1: you and blesses you, and breaks you and gives you
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  Speaker 1: to the world. You cannot be given to the world
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  Speaker 1: until you've been taken by the Master, blessed by God,
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  Speaker 1: broken by life, and then given to the world. And
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  Speaker 1: the more he takes you and blesses you and breaks you,
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  Speaker 1: the more he multiplies you so that you can meet
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  Speaker 1: the needs you couldn't meet before. Because the multiplication is
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  Speaker 1: in the breaking. It's not in the blessing. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the breaking. And if God didn't break you, he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: give you to them. But every time he breaks you,
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  Speaker 1: he multiplies you and increases you, and you become a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more than what you were before, because you
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  Speaker 1: were in the Master's hands and he took you and
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  Speaker 1: he blessed you, and he broke you, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: you to them,