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The Law of Honour · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Alive. Pless that be the name of the Lord. Good morning, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Let me start by.
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  Speaker 2: Extending my appreciation to the Angel over this house. Appolsto
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  Speaker 2: good heart, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You, sir, thank you, sir so much.
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  Speaker 2: And then to the first lady, the woman of God,
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  Speaker 2: pastor Bimble, thank you, thank you, man, truly, honor you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a joy to bring the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and I trust that the Lord will bless us in
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  Speaker 2: no small way this morning. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: please keep standing. I want to teach on something.
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  Speaker 1: This morning that.
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  Speaker 2: I believe will transform our lives in no small ways.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that the entrance of Thy word giveth light,
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  Speaker 2: and then it gives on the standing to the symbol.
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  Speaker 1: By the grace of God, I have been a student.
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  Speaker 2: Of scripture, and God has granted me the grace to
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  Speaker 2: learn the systemic character of God. And I have had
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  Speaker 2: the honor and the privilege to learn the laws of
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom. And one of the things that I have
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  Speaker 2: learned about the laws of the Kingdom is that God
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  Speaker 2: invested a dimension of his power in the laws of
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom. The reward without restraint, but their vicious disciplinarians
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  Speaker 2: that when the laws of the kingdom are violated, it
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  Speaker 2: only take the messy of God to bring us back.
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  Speaker 2: But if the laws are kept, they will turn any
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  Speaker 2: life into a silent wonder.
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  Speaker 3: So we have come with open hearts, all landed ancient words.
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  Speaker 1: They are ancient words, have a true changing me and changing.
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  Speaker 1: We have come.
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  Speaker 3: We all open hearts.
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  Speaker 4: Oh landy s worlds one more time.
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  Speaker 1: They are ancient worlds, but ever.
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  Speaker 4: Changing and changing.
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  Speaker 5: Well help us this morning, Spirit of the Living God.
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  Speaker 2: And let Jesus be glorified. In Jesus' name, God, bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Please be seated, Please be seated. Will start off this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and honestly, if I wear you, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: kind of price you have to pay, but I will
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  Speaker 2: personally request that you make the sacrifice to listen to
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  Speaker 2: what I have to say.
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  Speaker 1: To completion. If that would mean you making.
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  Speaker 2: The sacrifice, even for the second service, believe me, it
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  Speaker 2: is worth it. There are words that are precious, there
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  Speaker 2: are words that are make us.
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  Speaker 1: And this morning I trust that the Lord will help.
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  Speaker 2: Us and use these truths to elevate or the new
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  Speaker 2: dimensions in Jesus name, Allelujah. God designed his kingdom in
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  Speaker 2: a way and a manner that when you come into
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom through the experience that we call the new birth.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible tells us that you are introduced to the
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  Speaker 2: ministry of the Holy Spirit. And scripture says when he
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of truth is come that he will guide
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  Speaker 2: you into all truth.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together just take it down and bait to
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  Speaker 1: the king. So when.
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  Speaker 2: You expose yourself to the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that you stand to enjoy is
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  Speaker 2: that he begins to teach you doctrine. But then he
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  Speaker 2: extends to now introduce you to the Kingdom, and he
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  Speaker 2: now teaches you the modus operandi of the Kingdom, how
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  Speaker 2: this kingdom operates. One of the most powerful revelations that
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  Speaker 2: I had in my life is the revelation of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the way the methodology of the Kingdom. Jesus is not
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  Speaker 2: only a person. Jesus is God authorized formula for living
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  Speaker 2: a victorious life in the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: So he is the living logos.
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  Speaker 2: You must encounter Jesus the way the methodology of the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, there is a way that semed right
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  Speaker 2: onto a man a will together, it says, but the
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  Speaker 2: end thereof are the ways of death or destruction.
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  Speaker 1: So it is important.
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  Speaker 2: This is why it is very the convergence of believers
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  Speaker 2: is so beneficial, because it gives us the platform to
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  Speaker 2: be exposed, exposed, not just in worship to the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God, but we have the opportunity to learn the
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  Speaker 2: ways of God.
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  Speaker 1: Press the name of the Lord, the principle that I
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  Speaker 1: want to teach you in my reign.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it is the second most powerful spiritual
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  Speaker 2: law I have lanted in my life. I am humbled today,
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  Speaker 2: and I must admit that I am truly humbled at
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  Speaker 2: what God is doing in your church, your pastor.
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  Speaker 1: I look at my life.
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  Speaker 2: Every day and sometimes I let my tears do the
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  Speaker 2: speaking in gratitude for the messy and the grace of God.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, what you are going to learn this morning
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  Speaker 2: are not canningly devised fables. They are not even opinions
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  Speaker 2: of men. They are as ancient as the one who
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  Speaker 2: brought the truth. Allelujah, are we together? This for me
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  Speaker 2: is only second to my encounter with the lodges of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I have watched people violate this spiritual principle to their detriment.
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  Speaker 2: I have watched individuals, ministries, ministers, people in government and parliament,
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  Speaker 2: business people. I have watched aspiring people neglect this law
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  Speaker 2: to their detriment. And I pray in the name of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus that God again will give us a chance to
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  Speaker 2: learn a way together the law of honor.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be teaching on the law of honor.
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  Speaker 2: All failures in life, all literally, with no exception. All
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  Speaker 2: failures in life can be traced to dishonor All failures,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what fashion it appears. All failures in
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  Speaker 2: life can be traced to dishonor dishonor to God dishonor
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  Speaker 2: to men dishonor to principles.
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  Speaker 1: Are well together.
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  Speaker 2: All failures in life can be traced to dishonor dishonor
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  Speaker 2: to God dishonor to men dishonor to principles.
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  Speaker 1: What then, is honor? Very quickly write this down, please.
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  Speaker 2: Honor is the discerning, the celebrating or celebration, and the
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  Speaker 2: rewarding of uniqueness of usefulness of excellence. Honor is the discigning,
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  Speaker 2: starts with discernment, command the celebrating, and if need be,
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  Speaker 2: the rewarding of uniqueness of usefulness and of excellence. One
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  Speaker 2: more type that honor is the decian the celebrating and
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  Speaker 2: the rewarding of uniqueness, the rewarding of usefulness, the rewarding
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  Speaker 2: of excellence.
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  Speaker 1: This is what honor is.
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  Speaker 2: So honor starts with discernment, discernment of uniqueness, discernment of usefulness,
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  Speaker 2: discernment of excellence.
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  Speaker 1: Let me quickly define dishonor. What is this honor? Write
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  Speaker 1: it down please.
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  Speaker 2: Dishonor is the trivializing of value of usefulness. To dishonor
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  Speaker 2: means to take for granted. To dishonor means to lightly esteem.
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  Speaker 2: One more time, the trivializing of value, the trivializing of usefulness.
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  Speaker 2: It means to take for granted. It means to lightly esteem.
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  Speaker 2: Away together, this is a very powerful principle. It has
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  Speaker 2: changed my life. And I've had the opportunity to study
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  Speaker 2: the books of many many people. I have studied the
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  Speaker 2: biographies and the autobiographies of several people, and I have
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  Speaker 2: not found one person lifted by God genuinely who did
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  Speaker 2: not obey and work in keeping with the law of honor.
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  Speaker 2: I said, all failure can be traced to dishonor.
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  Speaker 1: This is true.
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  Speaker 2: If you learn honor, you can access any environment on earth.
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  Speaker 1: If you learn the law of honor, there is no
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  Speaker 1: dawn that will remain indefinitely close. In fact, let me
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  Speaker 1: put it this way. The Kingdom operates base on the
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  Speaker 1: law of seed, time and harvest. We know this Genesis
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 2: When you read from verse twenty two, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: seed time and havevest, shall not see. That means it
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  Speaker 2: is vain to look for a havervest whose seed you
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  Speaker 2: did not sow.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? A wi in agreement pray the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: That means, if I want to learn, learning is a harvest.
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  Speaker 2: The seed that I sow for learning is listening. Listening
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  Speaker 2: is the seed for learning. Knowledge is the seed for
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  Speaker 2: change and transformation. That if I desire a harvest of transformation.
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  Speaker 2: If I desire a harvest of change, I must sow
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  Speaker 2: the seed of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: I wish still together or no is the seed for access.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I desire access, I don't just say doors open,
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  Speaker 2: ah ah.
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  Speaker 1: I have to sow that seed.
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  Speaker 2: It is fraud as a matter of fact, to desire
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  Speaker 2: a harvest for a seed that you did not sow.
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  Speaker 2: Because the earthworks based on the law of seed, time
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  Speaker 2: and harvest. A question is the seed for an answer.
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  Speaker 2: An answer is unnecessary until there is a question.
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  Speaker 1: Alleluyah. Honor is the seed for access.
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  Speaker 2: That means that dishonor is also the seed for closed doors,
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  Speaker 2: is the extended seed for retrogression, for stagnation.
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  Speaker 1: Please pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible is full of men and women who practice honor,
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  Speaker 2: and the untold benefits, the lifting power, the preserving power
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  Speaker 2: of those benefits.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible is.
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  Speaker 2: Full of men and women who communicated to the communicated
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  Speaker 2: dishonor and the grave consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Let's run through it you. Let's start with this honor.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible tells us in Genesis chapter nine, I may
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  Speaker 2: not read the verses, you just write them down.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter nine.
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  Speaker 2: When you read from verse twenty to twenty seven, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible talks about Noah and his sons.
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  Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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  Speaker 2: He says how that after the flawed that for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: Noah took wine, and the Bible records that he was drunk, and.
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  Speaker 1: He lay neaked.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says that some of his sons came together,
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  Speaker 2: they called one another and came.
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  Speaker 1: To laugh at their father. Now this is the most
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody told Noah that the sons were looking at him
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  Speaker 2: while he slept.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he was drunk.
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  Speaker 2: When he came back, he still had that grace and
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  Speaker 2: he knew something had gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Honor is very powerful, and he cost.
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  Speaker 2: One of the sons and said, his servant of servants,
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  Speaker 2: shall you be dishonor another?
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  Speaker 1: Sarah and Hagar Genesis chapter sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: When you read from verse one to ten Genesis sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: verse one to ten, the Bible tells us that for
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  Speaker 2: a very long time Sarah could not bear a child,
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  Speaker 2: and then one thing led to the other, and Hagar,
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  Speaker 2: now being pregnant and having a child, she.
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  Speaker 1: Began to spite.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah, and that dishonor led Sarah to complain to her husband,
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  Speaker 2: and he had to banish her. And notice, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: I think we should look at that scripture. There's something.
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  Speaker 2: There's a very powerful lesson there. Sarah said to Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start from verse five. They are my wrong b
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  Speaker 2: upon d I have given my maid into thy bosom.
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  Speaker 2: And when she saw that she had conceived, I was
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  Speaker 2: despised in her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Are we seeing this now?
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  Speaker 2: It says the Lord judge between me and the we're
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  Speaker 2: reading to verse ten, verse six, what Abraham said to Sarah,
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  Speaker 2: thy maid is in thy hand due to her, as
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  Speaker 2: it pleased thee. And when Sarah dealt hardly with her,
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  Speaker 2: she fled from her face. You would think that's the
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  Speaker 2: end of the story. But watch the response of God.
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  Speaker 2: And the Angel of the Lord found her by the
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  Speaker 2: fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in
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  Speaker 2: the way of shore verse seven.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, heygard Sarah's maid. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So in spite of her dishonor, God was telling her
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  Speaker 2: the real position, that you are still Sarah's maid in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: We recognize that Sarah is above you. Can you imagine this?
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  Speaker 2: He says, when came ast thou and whither will thou go?
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  Speaker 2: And she said, I flee from the face of my
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  Speaker 2: mistress Sarah. And the Angel of the Lord said, unto her, Madam,
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  Speaker 2: you are violating a lord. Return to thy mistress and
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  Speaker 2: submit thyself under her hands. This is God, He's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Your running will not give you freedom. You have violated
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  Speaker 2: all that even Heaven cannot back you. The solution is written,
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  Speaker 2: and submit yourself. Recognize that there is a spiritual lord.
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  Speaker 2: You are violating number Chapter twelve, the Bible talks about Moses,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron and Miriam. Very interesting story arguments came about Moses
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  Speaker 2: marrying an Ethiopian woman, and Aaron and Miriam they began
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  Speaker 2: to discuss and to spite Moses because of it. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible lets us know that God he came to
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  Speaker 2: hear that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing, He was.
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  Speaker 2: Not invited, or he came to hear, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: And they said, have the Lord indeed spoken only to Moses?
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  Speaker 1: And had he not spoken to us? And the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had it caught? The long story shorts.
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  Speaker 2: The glory of the Lord descended, and Miriam became lepros
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  Speaker 2: as white as snow.
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  Speaker 1: The sequences of.
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  Speaker 2: Dishonor let me give us one more Second King chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: when you read from verse twenty three to twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Second Kings two twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: And twenty four, the Bible talks about Elisha the prophet
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  Speaker 2: and a few kids who came around and began to
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  Speaker 2: mock him. They were mocking him because of his bald head.
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  Speaker 2: And they said they were mocking him and laughing. At
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty four, the Bible says something very interesting. You
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  Speaker 2: would think that they should be spared because they were children.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a prophet. You have a very
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  Speaker 2: serious business. Why should children be punished for this? The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, And he turned back and look on them
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  Speaker 2: and cost them in the name of the Lord. And
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  Speaker 2: there came forth two sheep bears out of the wood
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  Speaker 2: and tear forty and two children. Forty two children.
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  Speaker 1: So far in an.
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  Speaker 2: Instance, because of dishonor, I have watched people lose precious
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  Speaker 2: positions in government, precious positions in business, precious positions in ministry,
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  Speaker 2: because of one word dishonor.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, yes, how the Bible puts it.
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  Speaker 2: When you read a st Chapter one, just write it
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  Speaker 2: down for reference. The Bible tells us that there was
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  Speaker 2: a man called a Hazardous.
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  Speaker 1: He was a very noble king, a king over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty seven provinces. Then the Bible tells us that there
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  Speaker 2: was this woman who.
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  Speaker 1: Then was his wife, called Vashti. I went together.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was right in that kingdom except one woman's dishonor,
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  Speaker 2: and the kingdom was about to split into two.
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  Speaker 1: It was not that the treasures were about to be stolen.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was not that the warriors were rebels. The
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  Speaker 2: king beckoned on her, and she communicated dishonor, and the
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  Speaker 2: kingdom was going to be in this array. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says the elders came and counseled the king and said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: this woman is in a position where her dishonor will
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  Speaker 2: become a model.
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  Speaker 1: If you do not deal with this.
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  Speaker 2: It will spread and all over your province you will
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  Speaker 2: have people manifesting dishonor. And the king banished Vasiti. There's
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  Speaker 2: no record in scripture or vasity coming to say, oh, King,
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  Speaker 2: show me messy.
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  Speaker 1: This honor is dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Honor is also the willingness to place value, the willingness
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  Speaker 2: to place value. Now, let me say a few things,
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  Speaker 2: and then we just tie up some things and pray
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  Speaker 2: for this first service. Honor is not a gift. It
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  Speaker 2: is a chosen virtue. There is no place in the
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  Speaker 2: Bible where we have the gift of honor. It is
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  Speaker 2: a virtue that you choose through enlightenment. In fact, the
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  Speaker 2: Ten Commandments were simply a system of ensuring that the
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  Speaker 2: law of honor is not lost.
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  Speaker 1: The Ten Commandments.
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  Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, it was a principle carved out
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  Speaker 2: to help men honor God and honor men.
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  Speaker 1: I have learned as a.
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  Speaker 2: Principle that you do not give people access just because
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  Speaker 2: of their potentials. You must also judge them by their
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  Speaker 2: sense of honor. It is dangerous and it is risky.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, here's how I put it, that a gifted.
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  Speaker 1: Rebel is not an asset, is God blessing us.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that one day God will grant the grace
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  Speaker 2: to return here again and teach on a revelation the
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  Speaker 2: Lord shared with me. There are seven currencies that we
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  Speaker 2: used to purchase realities in the realm of the spirit,
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  Speaker 2: and in.
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  Speaker 1: This physical realm. Money is the least of them.
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  Speaker 2: And my prayer for you is that you will never
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  Speaker 2: become so poor that all you have is money. In
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ, one of the superior currencies
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  Speaker 2: that we used to purchase realities in.
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  Speaker 1: This kingdom is called honor.
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  Speaker 2: Honor is currency everything money can buy.
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  Speaker 1: Honor can buy.
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  Speaker 2: Please pay attention. Honor is very very powerful. Is the
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  Speaker 2: currency that makes you.
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  Speaker 1: Master over now and master over the future.
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  Speaker 2: According to scripture, there are a number of personalities that
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  Speaker 2: are deserving of honor, and I'll run through them very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Romance chapter thirteen and verse seven. Romance, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse seven. As I attempt to run through
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  Speaker 2: a list of individuals that the Bible mandates that we
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  Speaker 2: show honor, the Bible says render therefore to all their dues,
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  Speaker 2: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom fear,
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  Speaker 2: to whom fear honor, to whom honor. That means there
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  Speaker 2: are individuals that are deserving of honor. Number one, God,
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  Speaker 2: first Samuel, chapter two and verse thirty.
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  Speaker 1: God deserving of our honor.
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  Speaker 2: Wherefore the Lord God of Israel said, I said, indeed
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  Speaker 2: that thy house and the house of thy father should
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  Speaker 2: work before me forever. But now the Lord said, be
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  Speaker 2: it far from me For them that honor me, I
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  Speaker 2: will honor, And there that despise me, I will likely esteem.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: God loves everybody, but he does not work with everybody
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  Speaker 2: at the same pace. There are people who have communicated
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  Speaker 2: such honor, and God has decided to invest back that honor.
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  Speaker 2: It says he that honors me, I, in spite of
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  Speaker 2: my reputation, I will honor. I will honor them with grace,
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  Speaker 2: I will honor them with open doors. I will honor
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  Speaker 2: them with access, with influence. The rising and the lifting
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  Speaker 2: of men is not predicated on the love of God alone.
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  Speaker 2: These are the forces of the kingdom that distinguish men honor.
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  Speaker 1: God is ever deserving of our honor. God is ever
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  Speaker 1: deserving of my honor. Are we together? Number two? Very quickly?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible lets us know that parents deserve honor Deuteronomy
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, and these sixteen parents, spiritual parents, biological parents,
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  Speaker 2: honor thy Father and thy mother.
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  Speaker 1: Can we read together?
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  Speaker 2: Please want to read honor thy Father, ahah and thy mother,
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  Speaker 2: as the Lord thy God had commanded the what's the result?
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  Speaker 2: That thy days may be prolonged, and that it may
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  Speaker 2: go well with d You don't want to live long
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  Speaker 2: when it will not.
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  Speaker 1: Go well with you. That that is a dangerous way
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  Speaker 1: to live. Now, watch this.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible tells us that just for showing honor to parents,
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  Speaker 2: you see why many young people are not doing well
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  Speaker 2: in spite of education, in spite of the leverage of endorsements, etc.
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  Speaker 2: Most times we wonder, why do we have a father
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  Speaker 2: who is a politician, maybe someone in government, a businessman,
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  Speaker 2: and then you have children who don't seem to be
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  Speaker 2: able to be extensions of that legacy dishonor. Our world
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  Speaker 2: today has this honor as a trait of masculinity, a
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  Speaker 2: trait of maturity that means, the more matured you are,
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  Speaker 2: the more you should be vocal about dishonor.
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  Speaker 1: It is my right, it is my life. We say,
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  Speaker 1: it's God blessing us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Parents, parents, Patriarchal blessings are powerful. Yeah, our parents are
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  Speaker 2: deserving of honor.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. The Bible mandates that.
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  Speaker 2: Spouses show honor one to another, a husband and a wife,
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  Speaker 2: First pit Touch, Chapter three, First pit Touch, Chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: from five to seven.
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  Speaker 1: First Peter, Chapter three. For after this.
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  Speaker 2: Manner in the old time, the holy women also who
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  Speaker 2: trusted in God, had done themselves been in subjection onto
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  Speaker 2: their own husbands Verse six, Verse six. Even as Sarah
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  Speaker 2: orbed Abraham, calling him, Lord, whose daughters ye are as
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  Speaker 2: long as ye do well and are not afraid with
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  Speaker 2: any amazement, He said, likewise, ye husbands dwell with them
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  Speaker 2: according to knowledge. Many men believe that it should be
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  Speaker 2: only the wives who should show on one respect.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the Bible bringing balance.
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  Speaker 2: It says giving honor not only love, giving honor onto
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  Speaker 2: the wife as onto the weaker vessel. And as being
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  Speaker 2: heirs together of the grace of life.
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  Speaker 1: Why that your prayers be not hindered. Believe me, this
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  Speaker 1: culture works.
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  Speaker 2: There are many, many people who dishonor, their wives, and wives,
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  Speaker 2: their husbands, and everybody runs to God for consolation, and
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  Speaker 2: God says, I love you, but I must obey these
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  Speaker 2: spiritual principles. The only prayer that is guaranteed to be
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  Speaker 2: anside in the presence of dishonor is the prayer of brokenness, repentance,
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  Speaker 2: and messy.
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  Speaker 1: Are we blessed? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Number four those deserving of honor authorities, authorities talks of
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  Speaker 2: government or any kind of leadership structure above us Romance
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse one. Romans thirteen and verse one. Romance
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse one. The Bible says, let every soul
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  Speaker 2: be subject onto higher powers, for there is no power
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  Speaker 2: but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God.
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  Speaker 2: This is very powerful that, in principle every soul should
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  Speaker 2: be subject to higher powers authorities. It's amazing how many
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  Speaker 2: people insult their bosses, insult their directors.
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  Speaker 1: And keep praying.
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  Speaker 2: They admire the positions, they admire those the offices, and
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  Speaker 2: yet they keep sowing seeds of dishonor, and keep wondering
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  Speaker 2: why they never rise to that position. Allelujah, are we
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  Speaker 2: blessed now those in a authority? The Bible never said
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  Speaker 2: good people in authority. He said, those in authority, provided
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  Speaker 2: by any means, they are in authority, they are deserving
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  Speaker 2: of honor. Number number five am I right, Men and
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  Speaker 2: women of God. Men and women of God, according to scripture,
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  Speaker 2: are deserving those who minister, those who label in word
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  Speaker 2: and in doctrine. First Thesalonians, chapter five. Please from verse
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  Speaker 2: twelve and thirteen. First the Salonian chapter five twelve and
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  Speaker 2: verse thirteen. He said, and we beseech you, brethren, to
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  Speaker 2: know them which labor.
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  Speaker 1: Among you and are over you in the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: admonish you. Verse thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says to esteem them very highly in love
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  Speaker 2: for their works sake, and be at peace among yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That you esteem them for their work sake.
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  Speaker 2: One more scripture, Firstimoti, chapter five and verse seventeen. Firstimoti,
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  Speaker 2: chapter five and verse seventeen, it says, let the elders
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  Speaker 2: that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially
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  Speaker 2: they will label in word and in doctrine that the
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  Speaker 2: eld does that rule well be counted for double honor,
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  Speaker 2: and there which rule well.
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  Speaker 1: In word and in doctrine. Now it is very very
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  Speaker 1: please look up.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the challenges that we experience in life require
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  Speaker 2: honor in the equation for libor and freedom.
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  Speaker 1: From those challenges.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether the challenges appear from a financial standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: from a health standpoint. It will take dissernment, and it
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  Speaker 2: would take the communication of honor for.
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  Speaker 1: You to get out of that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when Jesus came and worked upon the earth, even
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  Speaker 2: though he was God made manifest in the flesh, he
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  Speaker 2: could not do ministry, and he could not even be defective.
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  Speaker 1: Until he is such around and look for the man who,
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  Speaker 1: until his coming was the face of God and his
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  Speaker 1: purposes I will together. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that he came and met a man
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  Speaker 2: called John, John the prophet who was baptizing, and then
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  Speaker 2: he beckoned on John to baptize him and announced him publicly,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: and John said, no, I know who you are. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even worthy to untie the latchet of your shoe.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus made a very instructive statement. It says, so
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  Speaker 2: fie to be so, this is an ordinance that scriptures
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  Speaker 2: will be fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, you're Jesus. You've heard me say it.
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  Speaker 2: He worked for thirty years as Jesus on die close heaven.
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  Speaker 2: His heaven as Jesus was not opened until John dipped
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  Speaker 2: him in water.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible records, I will see students of scripture.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, and coming out of the water, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, the heavens opened, and God now spoke and said,
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  Speaker 2: this is my beloved son. Who was he before? It says,
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  Speaker 2: in whom I am well pleased. Then he gave a command.
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  Speaker 2: Hear ye him access to the heart and the voice
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  Speaker 2: of creation. Jesus would go to the mountain. The crowd
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  Speaker 2: would follow him. He would go to the valley. He
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  Speaker 2: would beckon on someone, give me your boat, give me
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  Speaker 2: your donkey. If Jesus did not fulfill the law of honor,
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  Speaker 2: he would have been surprised for carrying someone's donkey or
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  Speaker 2: taking someone's boat.
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  Speaker 1: I went together the law of honor.
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  Speaker 2: My life is full of stories and instances where I
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  Speaker 2: communicated honor and the blessings that came from it. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you one, and then would tie up a
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  Speaker 2: few things I remember years ago, Ma I was in Jos.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Very interesting story. I went to buy sugar cane. I
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  Speaker 2: way together and then.
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  Speaker 1: I saw two women, mothers, elderly women.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: They were struggling to buy sugar cane to and I noticed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they have a way of time money. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: then they reached down and try and they were struggling to,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you know, pull it out. And I said, please, please,
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  Speaker 2: you are mother's you're my mother's. Would you give me
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  Speaker 2: the honor.
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  Speaker 1: Of paying for this?
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  Speaker 2: Said no, no, no, no no, I said please, I insist.
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  Speaker 2: And then I said, all right, it was not more
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: than a hundred niner. I what the sugar came for them?
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  Speaker 2: And they kept blessing me for some reason, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why.
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  Speaker 1: I did not pay attention to what they were saying.
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly I heard one of them and she said,
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  Speaker 2: my son, forever walk upon gold.
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  Speaker 1: That was what she told me. Not every human is human.
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  Speaker 2: There are people carrying deep and ancient mysteries on them,
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  Speaker 2: waiting for your honor to unlock those dimensions. Now behind
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  Speaker 2: every glory, truly, I tell you there is a story.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask God's servant, Apostle would and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: they would tell.
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  Speaker 2: You see great manifestations of honor that has been a
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  Speaker 2: track record all through their life and ministry.
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  Speaker 1: To have brought them this far.
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  Speaker 2: Ask any CEO, ask any person of had an enviable destiny,
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  Speaker 2: they will tell you. I had the privilege and the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: honor of sitting with one of really great people in
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  Speaker 2: this nation recently, and he was giving me a very
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: interesting story about a young man who wanted to start
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  Speaker 2: business and he just used his credibility to write a
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  Speaker 2: note and he secured some loans. And when the gentleman
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  Speaker 2: made profit, he came with everything and met him and said, sir,
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  Speaker 2: just to thank you for what you have done.
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  Speaker 1: This is it.
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  Speaker 2: And he said what will I do with it? He said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I need your blessing. You have to take something from it.
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  Speaker 2: And this was not a Christian, you understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: It came to him and the man said, no, no, nom
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  Speaker 2: a blessed man. You just go the Lord on you.
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  Speaker 2: And he refused. He took two hundred thousand from that money,
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  Speaker 2: took it to the man's wife and said, please, if
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  Speaker 2: you truly love me, take this money. And they came
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  Speaker 2: back and they were discussing as a couple and they said,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: this young man looks like he's a great person, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: they endorsed him again. Cut the loan story short. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the third leaders in his field in this
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: nation today. Honor not knowledge. There is a realm you
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: get to where everybody is knowledgeable. Your age no longer
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  Speaker 2: becomes knowledge, your edge becomes honor. There is a realm
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  Speaker 2: you get to where everybody is a professional. Your age
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  Speaker 2: will no longer be intellect honor. Many of you are
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: sitting here listening to me, and God is showing you
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: why you probably have been going through stagnation.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: In business, stagnation in ministry.
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  Speaker 2: There are pastors who criticize everybody. God is doing great things,
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  Speaker 2: and they have not raised anybody.
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  Speaker 1: They have not led anybody, and they would criticize every church.
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  Speaker 1: They will criticize this.
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  Speaker 2: They call every pastor achieve, they call they say all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things and.
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  Speaker 1: Secretly admire the annointing.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, anything you criticize, you give
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  Speaker 2: an authorization in the realm of the spirit that that
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  Speaker 2: virtue should run away from you indefinitely.
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  Speaker 1: It is a law.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: There are many young people who have not raised children.
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  Speaker 2: They've not done everything, but they have the gods and
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  Speaker 2: the audacity to insult parents.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on my father, Shame on my mother.
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  Speaker 2: They said they've not raised anybody, They've not paid anybody's
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  Speaker 2: cool fees, they cannot manage themselves, and yet they criticized
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  Speaker 2: people all around. And then when they do so, they
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: package your CV and believe that just because there is
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  Speaker 2: a first class or there is a two one, the
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  Speaker 2: door will open.
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  Speaker 1: No, sir, I went together. Growing up.
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  Speaker 2: I used to talk a lot about my dad. There
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: were all your things I saw that I thought and
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: felt he would have done better and generally.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But when God brought me to the position of.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Leadership, I started cultivating.
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  Speaker 1: A healthy respect for him.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: You know, some times God delivers you by putting you
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  Speaker 2: where you are criticizing, so that it would give you
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  Speaker 2: room to taste and see that it is easier said
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  Speaker 2: than done. There are some times some doors, even though
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  Speaker 2: they shouldn't have opened, God opens it so that you
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  Speaker 2: will know what it means to be in that position.
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  Speaker 1: I have a.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Wicked uncle who never gives any body a job, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I spoke to him and he's five months he's not.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Responded to me.
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  Speaker 2: Then God promotes you, and you think it's breakthrough. He
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: promotes you in a position where there are five demands
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  Speaker 2: in one day. Can you help us? This is why
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: you see the older people get the more silent they become.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: That silence is a message. It's young people that make
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of noise. You find someone just keeping quiet.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: White people are raising doors, They are just watching, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: they're saying, I have a lot of stories to tell.
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  Speaker 1: I was a noisemaker to find out why I'm.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Suddenly silent at fifty, at sixty, and at seventy. If
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: God is giving you wisdom, say amen allelujah. You cannot
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: receive from a grace a person a platform that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: You do not sincerely honor.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I have found out from scripture and an experience that
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the major course of dishonor not the only one, but
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: the major course of dishonor. It's a very strange mystery
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: that we really cannot there's nothing we can do about it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: We can only manage it through revelation. It's called familiarity.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Please write it down. There's something about men, generally speaking,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: we teach that scarcity increases value.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: There is a weakness in us men like mankind that
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the moment you are a thing is too available. The
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: moment a thing is too accessible, a person or whatever
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: it is, usually we begin to demean, we begin to downplay,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: we begin to trivial life.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we do it consciously, sometimes we do it unconsciously.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: So many times you have children, because they have parents
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: who they can access every day, they fail to discern
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  Speaker 2: that this your father that you play around with is
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: somebody's boss.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? Yes. He can be in the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: middle of a.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Conversation and a child will come and interrupt it. This
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: is a conversation that is leading to millions and billions
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and the serious discussion going on, and here comes a child.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It is my father, it is my house, It is
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: my father's money. Familiarity. Familiarity is dangerous. It has made
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  Speaker 2: people to lose anointings. It's made people to lose relationships,
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  Speaker 2: It's made people to lose so many things.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Because, for some reason, the more you.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Have access that wow factor, that ability to consider a
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  Speaker 2: person and a thing special, it's.
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  Speaker 1: No longer there. It begins to fade, it begins to
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: go down.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: And if you do not train yourself to make the
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: object of your admiration, whether it's God, or a mentor
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: whoever to keep it special. This is one of the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: reasons why it is very powerful when we worship God
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the way we do, because it's a way of refreshing
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: our passion to say, Lord, I've known you for ten years,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: for twenty.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Years, for thirty years, but I would never trivialize you.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And every once in a wild when God sees that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: you are getting too familiar, he will introduce something to
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: your life that will remind you again that this man
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: who plays with you all the time is still the
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: God of the universe. There is a very interesting way
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: God brings us back to order.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: And it's also a leadership principle. You notice that many.
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  Speaker 2: Times when people give you on usual access and you
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: trivialize it, what happens is that they close that door.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Then the absence of the benefit that access brings is
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: what will school you. It will now make you go
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: back and say, wow, I didn't realize that I've been
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: standing on this level of advantage free of charge. As
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: a principle, there is no visionary leader who will keep
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: back on it on closer as dis honor increases.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: No leadership is such that once.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: People tell you take a step they observed your sense
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: of honor. If it remains consistent or ever growing, then
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: you have signed up for more.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Are we together? Now? This is true.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus had several disciples, He had seventy two, he had twelve,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: he had two, and he had one, and the name
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: of that one.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Was the beloved.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: The beloved something about his sense of honor. When I
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: learned this principle, Because you see, I didn't come from
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: a background that had so much advantage. I knew I
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: was going into ministry. I knew what God had put
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: upon my life. And I said, if I do not
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: understand this law, I would never rise. Let me tell you,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I submit to you. This law has opened doors that, dear,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: there are things that gifts.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: And talents cannot breathe believe me when I tell you this.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Honor is powerful or not to God or not to men,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: or not to principles. It is also the reason why,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: not respectfully speaking, did you notice that in most homes
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: or organizations, and sadly even churches, strangers seem to be
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the greatest recipient of that grace? Have you have you
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: noticed this as a trend generally? It is why it's
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: easy to believe that certain miracles or testimonies are stage managed,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: because most people who are within either that church or
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that organization continue to wonder, why is it that our boss,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: our ceo, our pastor, it seems like we are not
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: receiving all of these things they are. In fact, there
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: are men and women of God who deliver more when
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: they are outside of their churches. The minister with power
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: because they are received, They are welcome, the expectation, the hunger.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: But when they return.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Back home or he's back, for instance, when the boss
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: returns from a trip negotiating businesses, you have people sit
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: down and or guys back. Whereas nations and kings and
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: presidents where the people who have courted that man to
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: make deliberations at a national level. So they we have
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: the honor of celebrating a woman who came from this
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: nation and now is representing the world at a global scale.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I said this respectfully. Let the same person return to
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: certain circles in this nation, and you will be surprised
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: the level and the extent of this day. For some reason,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: there is a weakness in Africa. For some reason, there
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: is a weakness in this nation. We have a way
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: of trivializing great things. We respect wickedness, we respect viciousness.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: When people are very mean and unfriendly, they seem to
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: command our respect. But once you have a heart that
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  Speaker 2: is loving, a leader that is thoughtful, a businessman that
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  Speaker 2: is empathetic for some reason, it's a weakness we must
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  Speaker 2: be delivered from. As i'm speaking, many of you are
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  Speaker 2: looking at your companies. Now, you're looking at your businesses,
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  Speaker 2: and you're saying, my God, if these people knew the
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  Speaker 2: plans that I had for them, their dishonor deflated my
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  Speaker 2: passion to do more for them.
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  Speaker 1: We must obtain grace.
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  Speaker 2: This morning, I was glad when they said, unto me,
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  Speaker 2: let us go to the house of the Lord. I
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  Speaker 2: have seen people who do not really qualify for certain
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  Speaker 2: contracts in this nation, but they are dishonor they are
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  Speaker 2: dishonor where like extra certificates their honor, and meant to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, this man is not deserving of this.
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  Speaker 2: However, you have done too well. You have honored men,
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  Speaker 2: you have honored systems. You can I don't know your
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  Speaker 2: way to any realm and any dimension. I once gave
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  Speaker 2: one of my people an instruction, and I told her,
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  Speaker 2: I said this is what I want you to do.
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  Speaker 2: Go and meet your boss, get package, a bottle of
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  Speaker 2: wine and maybe some money.
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  Speaker 1: Go and meet you. Go down on your knees. I
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  Speaker 1: know you were employed, but this is what I want
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  Speaker 1: you to do. Thank you, Ma, says sir. I am
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  Speaker 1: truly grateful.
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  Speaker 2: I do not take for granted that you have given
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  Speaker 2: me the privilege to work in your organization. And I
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  Speaker 2: may not be at my best now, but I'm committed
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  Speaker 2: to growth and this is just a token of my
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  Speaker 2: gratitude and to thank you so much. Let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you what will happen. Usually he will act like it
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  Speaker 2: does not make sense. Learn how leaders work. It will
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  Speaker 2: just say okay, thank you, thank you. I'm busy. But
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  Speaker 2: I tell you there are not many people who show
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  Speaker 2: or not, so he cannot treat your life such a
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  Speaker 2: display of maturity and wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time. You will know the
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  Speaker 1: value of what you have done.
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  Speaker 2: When there is a board meeting and there is a
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  Speaker 2: decision about to be taken, Can we throw this person
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  Speaker 2: out and his eys? For what was it not the
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  Speaker 2: honor of Daniel that made the king not to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: Now you want to destroy a man who loves me
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  Speaker 2: so much, you made me sign something that I'm a
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  Speaker 2: victim of.
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  Speaker 1: Now. The king could not sleep in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: He ran and said, Daniel, has your God delivered you
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  Speaker 2: the moment he had Daniels, he said, well, are those
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  Speaker 2: guys all of them?
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  Speaker 1: Bring them inside that pitch. It was not part of
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  Speaker 1: what he signed.
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  Speaker 2: The lifting power of honor, the ability to discern honor
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  Speaker 2: starts with discernment. Who is this man that I'm always
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  Speaker 2: eating with? A man can be eating.
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  Speaker 1: With his wife who carries a grace for favor for
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  Speaker 1: many years.
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  Speaker 2: He will suffer this favor until he looks and said,
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  Speaker 2: I know I married you.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're twelve years in marriage. But who are you?
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  Speaker 2: I have noticed money never finishes from your hand, whether
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  Speaker 2: you are working or not. What is this mysterious grace?
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  Speaker 2: And she will tell you. In nineteen eighty one, my
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  Speaker 2: grandfather told me, kneel down, let me release something on you.
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  Speaker 1: That day.
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  Speaker 2: You are not that person. As touching what they carry,
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  Speaker 2: you receive that grace is God speaking to us in
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  Speaker 2: every church, in every organization. They are wealthy, blessed, intelligent,
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  Speaker 2: privileged people.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you why they.
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  Speaker 2: Remains you because those who are not so privileged always
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  Speaker 2: have a critical and an angry spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You see a good guy, you say, here, they are
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  Speaker 1: these tiefs on your way to the House of God.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas that person slept under the bridge for many years,
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  Speaker 2: which somehow we do not have the hearts, the passion
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  Speaker 2: and the humility to research. How did people rise? How
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  Speaker 2: did you encounter this anointing? This woman did not become
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  Speaker 2: SEEO by bribery and corruption. Find out her story we're
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  Speaker 2: selling in church. I made up my mind as a principle,
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  Speaker 2: you will never hear me criticize or talk about any
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  Speaker 2: man of God. If you ever hear me mention the
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  Speaker 2: name of anybody, it is to honor him. By the
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  Speaker 2: grace of God. There is almost no denomination in this nation.
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  Speaker 2: I have not preached him with all humility. Usually the
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  Speaker 2: way it is in ministry is that a region, or
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  Speaker 2: a particular tribe, or a particular geographic territory will accept you.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true, especially one that is sympathetic with where
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  Speaker 2: you are coming from? But I said, no, we can
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  Speaker 2: break this. I saw it in the life of Dard Bonke.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it in the life of Billy Graham. He
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  Speaker 2: was the only evangelist that preached in North Korea. I said,
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  Speaker 2: there must be something he was doing right. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: have to preach across several denominations within a short period
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  Speaker 2: of time. Who's divide in terms of doctrinal perceptions are.
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  Speaker 1: Very, very wide.
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  Speaker 2: I have my core convictions, but you see, adaptation is
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  Speaker 2: proof of honor. You must sustain the flexibility. Don't come
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  Speaker 2: and climb the pull pitch for instance. Tear down everything
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  Speaker 2: in ministry represents the label that the servant of God
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  Speaker 2: and all that has been done for Yes, just because
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  Speaker 2: you are advocating your convictions. No, someone say honor one
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  Speaker 2: more time?
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  Speaker 1: Say honor?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Now you understand what I mean when I
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  Speaker 2: say all failure can be traced to dishonor dishonor to God,
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  Speaker 2: dishonor to men.
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  Speaker 1: When I found this principle, I rejoiced.
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  Speaker 2: I found my way out of mediocrity, found my way
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  Speaker 2: out of weakness, found my way out of a life
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  Speaker 2: of competition and jealousy and envy.
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  Speaker 1: I found my.
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  Speaker 2: Way someone Right now, you came to church, and God
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  Speaker 2: is showing you a roadmap that twenty twenty one can
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  Speaker 2: be like every other year if you want it.
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  Speaker 1: So or you can make up your mind in this
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  Speaker 1: morning service.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you may need to call your parents, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how old you are, after this service, and said, Mama,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just calling to say how are you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: calling to let you know that I sincerely honor you.
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  Speaker 2: I love you with all my heart. I've you money
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  Speaker 2: every day, but that was just donation. Now I want
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  Speaker 2: to honor you, not by the size, by the dissernment.
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  Speaker 2: Many years ago, the Lord gave me an instruction that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to send me to Canaan Land. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember I took a seed. It was such a
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  Speaker 2: costly seed. And then I went there and I had
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  Speaker 2: the honor of, you know, just honoring God's servant. And
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: I came out. I was to get into the car,
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  Speaker 2: just to look for somewhere to rest and then return
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  Speaker 2: the next day. And the Holy Spirit told me come out.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: He said, put your hand on the ground. I placed
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  Speaker 2: my hand on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: There, I said, from.
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  Speaker 2: Today you have entered the overflow anointing. Do you realize
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  Speaker 2: that nothing just happens. I'm sure you've heard a postle
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  Speaker 2: said many times, truly, nothing just happens. It is on
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  Speaker 2: the wings of honor. We have to find somewhere to
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  Speaker 2: stop this first service. But I wish and I plead
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  Speaker 2: that you listen to what else I have to say,
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  Speaker 2: because it is important that we understand this. Unbelievers know this,
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  Speaker 2: particularly Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: They are masters of honor. They know this.
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  Speaker 2: They will go to any length to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they secured there.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, Father, give us the grace, Give us the grace
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  Speaker 1: to be discerning.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the grace to be discerning. Many of us
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  Speaker 2: have lost opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me.
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  Speaker 2: We're happy on any door that one's opened, and it's
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  Speaker 2: no longer opened. Let me tell you what closed it?
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  Speaker 2: Dishonor you've been praying, Lord, what is wrong? I'm answering
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  Speaker 2: your prayer nown by the spirit. If that door ever opened,
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  Speaker 2: once it is you remain open forever. What closed it
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  Speaker 2: was your dishonor. You may be well meaning, but.
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  Speaker 1: Sincerity is not the only key for success if you
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  Speaker 1: break the laws.
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  Speaker 2: I told you that these spiritual laws are lavish rewards,
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  Speaker 2: but they are vicious disciplinarians. A door that was once opened, politically,
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  Speaker 2: financially opportunities, and now those doors are closed, dishonor closed them.
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  Speaker 1: But the good news. To wrap up this first service.
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  Speaker 2: Is that there is a word in the Bible that
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  Speaker 2: really comforts me. The world is again again is a
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  Speaker 2: very powerful word. And Adam knew his wife again.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: The prodigal son departed. The Bible says, do you know
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  Speaker 2: it was dis honor? He had so many things that
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  Speaker 2: is becon call, but he wanted it in his name.
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  Speaker 2: God does not give us ownership. God gives us access.
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  Speaker 2: You may freely eat, but it's not yours. The day
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  Speaker 2: you want it in your name, you will pay the bills.
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  Speaker 2: That's when luck comes. The prodigal son said, I want it,
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  Speaker 2: I want everything in my name, and the father gave
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  Speaker 2: him and he went. He started degenerating until he got
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  Speaker 2: to a point where he was feeding with swine, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says one day he came to himself. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is speaking to someone in this service. You need
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  Speaker 2: to come to yourself. It's time to rise. It's time
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  Speaker 2: to stop wishing. It's time to stop hoping. It's time
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  Speaker 2: to stop saying one day it go better. That's a
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  Speaker 2: sociologically comforting statement, but it does.
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  Speaker 1: Not really carry any power. Time does not change anything.
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  Speaker 1: Time only reveals decisions create changes.
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  Speaker 2: He said, how many highed savants does my father have?
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  Speaker 2: And I am here feeding with the swine. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I will arise and I will go back to my father,
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  Speaker 2: and I will say, Father, I have seen against you
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  Speaker 2: and against heaven. I am not worthy to be called
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  Speaker 2: your son. Take me as one of your servants. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, while he was afar of coming, the father
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  Speaker 2: saw him.
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  Speaker 1: Honor always has a restoring power.
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you this from any point and any
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  Speaker 2: position you can start for you. It can be today
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  Speaker 2: there's someone who have had the grace. You may need
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  Speaker 2: to rush and call someone you know. You have always
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  Speaker 2: been my classmate, but now this is not classmate issue.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen a grace on you. You never are
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  Speaker 2: without job. What is that grace? Please pray for me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I have three minutes. Let me wrap up
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  Speaker 2: this first service with a story. This is true story.
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  Speaker 2: A man of God shared it somewhere many years, very
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  Speaker 2: many years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago, and it touched me so much. And here's the story.
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  Speaker 2: There was a pastor and his wife, true story, very
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  Speaker 2: great man doing great things for the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Testimony is in the church.
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  Speaker 2: But things were not going right in their home financially,
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  Speaker 2: especially they were plunging down, plunging down, And one time
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  Speaker 2: while he was preaching service, just like this, you can
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  Speaker 2: imagine if the Woman of God just gets up and
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  Speaker 2: walks out of this place, you wonder why is she living?
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  Speaker 1: But that's what happened in that story.
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  Speaker 2: The woman of God got up and walked out of
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  Speaker 2: the church, and everybody was wondering, what's I hope she's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the man.
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  Speaker 2: Finished service quickly, did you know a few counseling sessions, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then rushed back home. Honey, what is wrong? She didn't
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  Speaker 1: answer him.
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  Speaker 2: He sat down, waited for his meal. Did I do anything?
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  Speaker 2: Did I say anything?
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  Speaker 1: I can apologize? What is wrong? No word?
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  Speaker 2: And then this woman is bringing out plates. You know
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  Speaker 2: there are plates that women eye, those holy of holies.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: He noticed that the plate she was serving him now
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  Speaker 2: was different, and she brought everything, and then the last
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  Speaker 2: item she would bring on the table, she brought it
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  Speaker 2: out and looked at him and got down on her
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  Speaker 2: knees and said, Servant of God, my home needs a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. The man was embarrassed. My wife, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: We've been married for a long time. Let's not do this.
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  Speaker 2: Children's thing. I'm not serving my husband today.
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  Speaker 1: My home is dying servant of God. That grace that
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  Speaker 1: only speaks in the church and has refused to enter
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  Speaker 1: my home. I use honor to draw it today.
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  Speaker 2: And the man said, suddenly there was the same grace
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: that he felt on the poltice.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to die every time is entering his card
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  Speaker 1: to go back home. That Christ came.
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  Speaker 2: And he laid his hands and said, in the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus, who called me woman, not his wife, or.
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  Speaker 1: I speak to you, and I release you and your home.
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  Speaker 1: You see, you will learn this from the second service.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is multi dimensional. The dimension you honor is the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: dimension that will release the grace. Every man is a brother,
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  Speaker 1: a friend, a colleague, and a man of God.
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  Speaker 2: If you honor the brother, you will receive information about
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  Speaker 2: the welfare.
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  Speaker 1: Of the family. That is the broadst reward.
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  Speaker 2: If you honor the friend, you will receive relationship. You
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: must dis sandwich dimension. You can be around the answer.
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  Speaker 1: To your prayer, but you will need the miracle of
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  Speaker 1: open eyes. Show us the age shapers. Will you lead
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  Speaker 1: us alone? It turn up highway. We want to fall
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  Speaker 1: the way self cheasers.
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  Speaker 4: We want to enter your rest, shousty, Will you lead
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  Speaker 4: us alone?
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  Speaker 1: It turned highway.
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  Speaker 4: We want to fall the.
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  Speaker 1: Foods of cheeseers. We want to please. Can we rise
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  Speaker 1: just a minute to pray for this service? Your face
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  Speaker 1: to face with an opportunity again the Lord is giving you.
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  Speaker 1: Please listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Life is as hard or as easy as our spiritual
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: understanding makes it. We're surrounded by opportunities, opportunities that can
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  Speaker 2: be for our lifting if we know how to tap
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  Speaker 2: into it. And one of these mysterious.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Keys is the law of honor.
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  Speaker 2: Just one prayer, Father, grant me the grace to discern,
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  Speaker 2: grant me the grace to celebrate, and grant me the
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  Speaker 2: grace to reward uniqueness.
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  Speaker 1: Lift your voice and prayer. While you are praying, the Holy.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit is going to be speaking to you for some
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  Speaker 2: of you. He will show you points of action that
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  Speaker 2: you need to take for your.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: Life, for authorities over you, for parents, for your spouse,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: the discernments to recognize, the discernment to celebrate, the discernment
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: to reward, and the discernment to.
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  Speaker 1: Receive from the investment of the spirit that is upon
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  Speaker 1: that individual. And we pray