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In Between Fights - Bishop T.D. Jakes - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Get your bibles and go to Acts chapter nine, verse
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  Speaker 1: eight through twenty one. That's a lot of verses. But
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  Speaker 1: some of y'all ain't read your Bible all weed and
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  Speaker 1: look at your neighbors, say, I'm in between fights. Just
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  Speaker 1: come out of one and don't know what I have
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  Speaker 1: to fight. But in between fights. Now we're jumping in
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a Bible story, very common Bible
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  Speaker 1: story to those of you that have been in church
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  Speaker 1: a while. We're on the road to Damascus. We're not
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  Speaker 1: on the Jericho road. We're on the road to Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: We're not on the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem. We're on
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  Speaker 1: the road to Damascus where everybody traveled by foot or
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  Speaker 1: by course or by mule. And we're watching the man
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  Speaker 1: named Saul that you know as Paul have an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with God on the road to Damascus. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to set this up for you, but that's why we're
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  Speaker 1: jumping in the middle of it. I want you to understand,
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  Speaker 1: Saul has been knocked off his beast by.
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  Speaker 2: The power of coming.
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  Speaker 1: You ever had God knock you off your beast? And
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  Speaker 1: to get Saul's attention, he knocked him off a beast
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  Speaker 1: and showed a great light and disrupted everything in his life.
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  Speaker 1: And Saul arose from the earth. And when his eyes
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  Speaker 1: were open, he saw no man blind. But they led
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  Speaker 1: him by the hand and brought him into the Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: And he was three days without sight, and neither did
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  Speaker 1: eat nor drink. And there was a certain disciple at
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  Speaker 1: Damascus name Anonius. And to him said the Lord in
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  Speaker 1: a vision Annius. He said, behold, I am here, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said in him, arise and go into
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  Speaker 1: the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the
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  Speaker 1: house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus. From
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  Speaker 1: behold he prayeth, And have seen in a vision a
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  Speaker 1: man named Anonius coming in and putting his hand on him,
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  Speaker 1: that he might receive his sight. We wait, the blind
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  Speaker 1: man still saw in a vision. And that's something. Yeah, insight, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no eyesight, but still got insight. He's seen in vision
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  Speaker 1: a man named Man and I is coming in, putting
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  Speaker 1: his hands on him, that he might receive his sight. Then,
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  Speaker 1: and I says the Lord, are you serious? I have
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  Speaker 1: heard by many of this man how much evil he
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  Speaker 1: have done to thy saints at Jerusalem. And here he
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  Speaker 1: have and here he hath authority from the Chief priest
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  Speaker 1: to bind all that call on thy name.
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  Speaker 2: And you want me to go pray for.
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  Speaker 1: Him, But the Lord said, unto him, go thy way,
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  Speaker 1: for he is a chosen vessel, unto me. See, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to pick who God chooses. Yeah, he is
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  Speaker 1: a chosen vessel under me, to bear my name before
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For
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  Speaker 1: I will show him how great things he must suffer.
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  Speaker 2: For my name's sake.
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  Speaker 1: And Annas went his way and entered into the house,
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  Speaker 1: and putting his hands on him, said look at what
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  Speaker 1: he said. Look at what he said. Look at what
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  Speaker 1: he said To the man he was scared of, and
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  Speaker 1: he called evil. But just because God said that he
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  Speaker 1: belonged to him. He hadn't even laid hands on him yet,
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  Speaker 1: but he just just called him on credit. Brother Saul,
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  Speaker 1: brother Saul. The Lord even Jesus had appeared unto thee
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  Speaker 1: in the way as thou camest have sent me, and
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  Speaker 1: thou mightest received that thou might have received thy sight.
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  Speaker 2: And be felled with the holy ghosts.
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  Speaker 1: And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had
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  Speaker 1: been skills, and he received sight for with and arose
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  Speaker 1: and was baptized. And when he had received meat, he
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  Speaker 1: was strengthened. Then was saw certain days with the disciples
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  Speaker 1: which were at Damascus. And straight way he preached Christ
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  Speaker 1: in the synagogues. Wait a minute, and straightway he preached
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  Speaker 1: Christ in the synagogues that he is the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: But all that heard him were amazed. Has said, is
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  Speaker 1: not this he that destroyed them which called on this
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  Speaker 1: name in Jerusalem. See even back then people would bring
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  Speaker 1: up your pass and came hitherfore that intent, and he
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  Speaker 1: might bring them bound unto the chief priest. That's the
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  Speaker 1: end of the text. The subject is in between fights,
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  Speaker 1: Father God, in the name of Jesus, we approached that
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  Speaker 1: throne humbly. Before you you to move in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of your people.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you in.
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  Speaker 1: Advance for what you're going to do. Have your way,
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  Speaker 1: Great God, that you are in Jesus' name. Someone shout,
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  Speaker 1: a man, you may be seated in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Let's go to work. In order to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the texts, we have to look at the context in
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  Speaker 1: which the text is extrapolated from the pretext tells us
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere that exists during this time. It is an
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of newness, It is an atmosphere of new beginnings.
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  Speaker 2: It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Disciples embarking on Christ's work without Christ physically being there.
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  Speaker 1: And they start the work of the Lord at a
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  Speaker 1: deficit because all through the Synoptic Gospels they are referred
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  Speaker 1: to as a twelve, but now they only have eleven
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  Speaker 1: because in the process of the crucifixion, Judas has hung
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  Speaker 1: himself and his guts have spilled out on the polished field.
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  Speaker 1: So they have the name the twelve, but the reality
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  Speaker 1: is eleven. Sometimes your name can be greater than your situation,
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  Speaker 1: and when your name doesn't have equilibrium with your situation,
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  Speaker 1: you want to fix that thing so that you become
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  Speaker 1: authentically what they call you. And in the process of
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  Speaker 1: them attempting to fix it, they meet together and prayed
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  Speaker 1: and selected two men, and they began to cast lots
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  Speaker 1: to see who would be Judas's replacement. They cast lots,
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  Speaker 1: and they cast lots, and the lots fell on the
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  Speaker 1: lot fell on Matthias, and Matthias became, in their view,
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  Speaker 1: the replacement for Judas. And I'm not saying that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the replacement for Judas. But it is interesting to
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  Speaker 1: note that he didn't that there's no recordings of Matthias
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  Speaker 1: doing anything amazing, no books written by their disagreement about
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  Speaker 1: where the churches were founded bying He's not mentioned any
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  Speaker 1: place in all of the epistles, but they had picked
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  Speaker 1: him by casting lots. In total contrast to that, God
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  Speaker 1: has chosen Saul, who we call Paul, to be a
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  Speaker 1: New Testament apostle. Now, Matthias, according to my research, had
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  Speaker 1: been walking with the disciples and around Jesus all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and in my colonel mind, it makes sense that Matthias
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  Speaker 1: would be a replacement because he is a witness to
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  Speaker 1: the miraculous power of God. Saul, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: has no real experience with the power of God. But
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  Speaker 1: rather than having experience with the power of God, he
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  Speaker 1: is totally opposed to Christianity. In fact, when he meets
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, he meets the Lord on the way to
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  Speaker 1: capturing more Christians to bring back to Jerusalem, though they
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  Speaker 1: were not yet called Christians. It was called the Way, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he was trying to find people who were in
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  Speaker 1: the way to bring them back to Jerusalem, to persecute
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  Speaker 1: them and yet he has an encounter with God. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help but think of the difference between in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament between King Saul, who was somebody that got
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  Speaker 1: gave Israel because they desired a king, and David, whom
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  Speaker 1: God chose. Many are called, but feel I chosen, And
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament Saul was called.
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  Speaker 2: But David was chosen.
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  Speaker 1: You will remember when the kingdom was rejected from Saul
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  Speaker 1: and Samuel was weeping. God said, why weeps now over
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  Speaker 1: what I have rejected. I have found a man after
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  Speaker 1: my own heart. Look at the contrast between Saul and David.
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  Speaker 1: Saul it looks like a king by all natural rights.
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  Speaker 1: He has every reason to be king. He has his
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  Speaker 1: stature and the demeanor of a king. He is from
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  Speaker 1: the tribe of Benjamin. He comes from the pedigree that
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  Speaker 1: is prophesied that he would be king.
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  Speaker 2: David comes from the house.
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  Speaker 1: Of JETI see he doesn't have the pedigree or the background.
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  Speaker 2: He's from the tribe of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the history behind him that connotes kingship.
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  Speaker 1: Saul stood ahead and shoulders above all men. He had
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  Speaker 1: the right look, but David had the right annoying. David
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  Speaker 1: had the right annoyingty. And while we pick people that
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  Speaker 1: look good, God will pick people that are anointed for
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  Speaker 1: the service and for the task. And all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden we find ourselves in this situation that is mirrored
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament as a reflection of the Old.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas we are talking about Saul versus David in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, in the New Testament, we're talking about Matthias.
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  Speaker 2: Is he the twelfth Apostle or is it Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Some would even argue that Paul is the thirteenth Apostle.
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  Speaker 1: But my concern is I don't see where Matthias ever
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  Speaker 1: did anything. And I'm a living witness the folk I
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  Speaker 1: pick on my own. I'm just gonna let that hang
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  Speaker 1: out there because enough people laugh to let me know
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  Speaker 1: that you know what I'm talking. Is there anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here that ever picks somebody on your own? Cast lots,
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  Speaker 1: pick somebody because your mama was born in May, and
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  Speaker 1: my mama was born in May, and grandma's name was
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  Speaker 1: thell Man. Your grandma's name was Thel And it makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to you. But everything that makes sense to you
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  Speaker 1: isn't what God.
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  Speaker 2: Has for you.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, more times than not, God will pick something
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  Speaker 1: that makes no sense at all and raise it up,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be scared to receive it, because what God
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  Speaker 1: has in his heart for you doesn't agree with what
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  Speaker 1: you had.
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  Speaker 2: In your mind for you. That's just the case here
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  Speaker 2: in the text.
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  Speaker 1: The very fact that Saul would be chosen was so
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  Speaker 1: shocking that even Ananias and his faithfulness to God did
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  Speaker 1: not really want to go lay hands on Saul, because
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  Speaker 1: Saul was snatching people that followed Jesus and taking them
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  Speaker 1: and persecuting them. And yet Saul has an encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody saying an encounter with God. He hasn't an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with God. And it is not wheth somebody witnessed to him.
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  Speaker 1: It is not where somebody preached to him. It is
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  Speaker 1: not where somebody persuaded him. God did not use any
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  Speaker 1: human hand or sticks like lots to choose him. God
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  Speaker 1: stepped into Saul's life. And if you read the whole text,
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  Speaker 1: you will read it was a fight on the road
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  Speaker 1: to the Dabascus. It starts out with a fight. There
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  Speaker 1: is a fight between God and Saul. Now Saul has
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  Speaker 1: gotten permission from the high priests to go down and
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  Speaker 1: attack Christians. He's got permission from the priest, but not
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  Speaker 1: from the one who the priest served, and he is
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  Speaker 1: credentialed to go down there and attack Christians. But God
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  Speaker 1: has another plan. He intervenes in his life. He disrupts
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  Speaker 1: his life, and he starts wrestling with him. A great
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  Speaker 1: light appeared and knocked him off of his beast, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then he said, who is it? Lord?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, it is Jesus, whom thou persecuted? Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, I got to talk about that. Of a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Saul had never done anything to Jesus. He had only
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  Speaker 1: attacked those who followed Jesus. But Jesus takes it personal
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  Speaker 1: when you attack his kids. It is Jesus whom thou persecutor.
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  Speaker 1: You think you're just rounding up my disciples, but you're
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  Speaker 1: actually persecuting me. That's why we try to teach you
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  Speaker 1: that the battle is not yours. It belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: Because people think they're fighting you, but they're not fighting you.
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  Speaker 1: They're fighting the God that annoyed you. The battle is
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  Speaker 1: not yours, and you don't have to get even, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to feel bad because you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the last word in, and you don't have to fend
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, and you don't have to struggle for yourself
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  Speaker 1: because God has a way of dealing with your enemies.
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  Speaker 1: I prophes how to somebody. Your enemy is about to
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  Speaker 1: get knocked off his path. He's about to get knocked
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  Speaker 1: off his beast. This is a radical, warlike conversion. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a nice, easy conversion. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: polite conversion. It is not that somebody gave him a track.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that somebody prayed with him, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not that somebody talked to him. It's not that somebody
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  Speaker 1: intellectualized him. God just came on the road and knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. Oh God, have mercy, Glory to God. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just in my introduction, I'm trying not to get happy.
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  Speaker 1: But when I started thinking about all the things that
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  Speaker 1: God knocked over, is there anybody in here that's had
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  Speaker 1: God knock over some stuff? Glory to God, that was
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  Speaker 1: coming to get you and you knew it was coming
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  Speaker 1: to get you, and God knocked it over you. It
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  Speaker 1: might not be but ten people in here, but you're
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  Speaker 1: praising God not for a new car or a new house,
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  Speaker 1: or a new job or a new place. You're praising
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  Speaker 1: God because when the enemy was coming at you. God
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  Speaker 1: knocked it over. Nudge somebody and tell them he knocked
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  Speaker 1: it over. They were after me and he knocked it over.
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  Speaker 1: They were after my job. He knocked it over. They
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  Speaker 1: were after my mind and he knocked it over. They
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  Speaker 1: were after my peace and he knocked it over. They
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  Speaker 1: were after my sanity and he knocked it over. They
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  Speaker 1: were after my family, and he knocked it over. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm still praising God. How God can overthrow the plans
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy, the tactics of the enemy, the wilds
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. When God gets ready to do it,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to run out to the middle of
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  Speaker 1: Damascus road God, or meet him in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the road and knock them off their beasts. Can I
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  Speaker 1: get about ten seconds of praise for a knockover? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a knockover. I knock over, I knock over,
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  Speaker 1: A knock over, I knock over.
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  Speaker 2: God can knock it over.
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  Speaker 1: Threw him on this back, knocked him to the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, who is it, Lord? And the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: it is Jesus, whom thou persecuted. This Lord is enough
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  Speaker 1: to make you be careful about who you attack, because
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  Speaker 1: you can inadvertently be attacking Jesus, fighting people and get
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  Speaker 1: knocked over because you didn't even realize who you was
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  Speaker 1: fooling with. Saul has no idea that it is Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that he is persecuting. Anytime you get in the way
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  Speaker 1: of God's purpose with your opinion, your opinion does not
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  Speaker 1: equate to God's purpose. God has a purpose, and when
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  Speaker 1: God has a purpose, your opinion don't amount to God's purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And if you put your opinion in the way of
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose, God's gonna knock it over. It is Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: so loud persecuted. And the Bible said that when Saul
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  Speaker 1: humbled himself that he when he got up, he saw
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  Speaker 1: no man. So watch, watch, watches, because you got to
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  Speaker 1: see this. This is a radical This is a radical
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  Speaker 1: fight out here on the road to Damascus between a
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  Speaker 1: belligerent individual who is courageous enough to snatch people out
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  Speaker 1: of their house and drag them back to Jerusalem, and
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  Speaker 1: a God who don't care nothing about his personality, says
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  Speaker 1: I will come against you. I don't care how tough
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  Speaker 1: you think you are, and knocked him right over. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of Jacob being on penial, and how he
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  Speaker 1: comes to penial, and how God dealt with him and
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  Speaker 1: wrestled with him and brought him down and changed everything
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  Speaker 1: he thought about himself, his name, his destiny, his background.
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  Speaker 1: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had that kind of radical conversion. There are some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that had a radical conversion. God
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  Speaker 1: just came into your life. You wasn't planning for it,
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  Speaker 1: You weren't expecting it, You had no intentions of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all used to talk about church folk, never
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  Speaker 1: thinking in your life that you would end up clapping
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  Speaker 1: your hands and jumping around in church today. Can we
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  Speaker 1: be real for a minute. Some of you never thought
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  Speaker 1: you'd be in the Potter's house, and here you are
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the Potter's House clapping your hand because God
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  Speaker 1: did something radical in your life to turn you around.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God, Glory to God. Glory to God, Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Some of you never thought you belonged to
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  Speaker 1: a big church. You said, I don't like big churches.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like being in crowd. But God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of knocking you off of your beach and sending
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  Speaker 1: you in a completely different direction. Anybody that can be
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  Speaker 1: real in here and be honest ARide call a ridical converse,
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  Speaker 1: a radical converse, a radical converse. We don't use the
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  Speaker 1: word conversion much in church. We don't talk about conversion,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't talk about conviction. It used to be
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  Speaker 1: in the church they talked about conviction. People would come
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  Speaker 1: to the altar convicted. Now they come to the altar
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  Speaker 1: taking pictures. Now people come to the altar facetiming you
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  Speaker 1: and doing u Facebook life.
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  Speaker 2: You had the altar.
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  Speaker 1: Supposed to be looking for Jesus, and you do. You
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  Speaker 1: think you're a film producer, But when conviction gets a
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  Speaker 1: hold of your life, you cut your camera off and
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  Speaker 1: lay down on the altar with tears running down your
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  Speaker 1: faith because you've had a radical encounter with God. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about coming up to the altar because your
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  Speaker 1: dress is cute. I'm not coming up to the altar
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  Speaker 1: because you want a picture to take home to show
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  Speaker 1: your friends who were there. You don't come to see me.
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  Speaker 1: You come to see Jesus. You don't come to see people.
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  Speaker 1: You come to see Jesus. You don't come because you're
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  Speaker 1: a film producer. You come to see Jesus faradic converge,
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  Speaker 1: cold it up. I want all the folks who got
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  Speaker 1: convicted about your life and your mess and your stuff
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  Speaker 1: and the way you live, to jump up on your
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  Speaker 1: feet and just fair witness that there's still some conviction
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  Speaker 1: left in the church. Conviction about sin, conviction about evil,
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  Speaker 1: conviction about wicked. There still exists a convicting Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just a dancing Holy Spirit. There's a convicting
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. They're the holy Spirit that will knock you
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  Speaker 1: off your beast, bring you down to your knees, make
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  Speaker 1: you surrender, make you sell out. There's a convicting Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that will make you walk away from people you
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  Speaker 1: thought you couldn't live without. A convicting Holy Spirit that
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  Speaker 1: will disrupt you, that will change your life, that will
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  Speaker 1: make you uncomfortable with stuff you like. A convicting Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that all come into your life and speak to
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  Speaker 1: you about your nasty, sendingful way. A convicting Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: that will bring you down to your knees and make
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  Speaker 1: you surrender to God and say yes to God.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care how.
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  Speaker 1: Long you've been doing it. And because we have little conviction,
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  Speaker 1: we have little conversion, because you can't have true conversion
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  Speaker 1: until you have true conviction. Glory to God. I can't
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  Speaker 1: make you be convicted. I can't talk you into being convicted.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You have to have an encounter with God that shows
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you yourself. And all of a sudden you see him
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  Speaker 1: like you've never seen him before. Who is it? It's Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: whom thou persecuted. And he shows up as light. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: shows up as light. In him was life and the life.
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  Speaker 1: What's the light of men? Jesus shows up as light.
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  Speaker 1: Stop making choices in the dark. Jesus shows up as light.
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  Speaker 1: He illuminates situations. He'll show you perspectives. See the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Now all the prophets can see everybody but themselves. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little bit leer on people who know what you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: ought to do but don't know what they ought to do.
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  Speaker 1: How come you can see my life and you can't
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: see your life? How come you can see my child
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  Speaker 1: but you I can't see your child? There you are
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  Speaker 1: talking about my child. Your child was out there with
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: my child? Shut up? Did I say that out loud? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I did?
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  Speaker 1: I said it out loud. I said it out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I said it out loud. I said it out loud.
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  Speaker 1: He had a moment with God. I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about four things. I'm gonna talk about the moment,
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  Speaker 1: the misfit, the messenger, and the message. The moment, the moment,
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  Speaker 1: the moment, the moment. It's a moment. It's a moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's how salvation reaches you. Boom, It's a moment, the moment,
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  Speaker 1: the misfit, the messenger, and the message.
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  Speaker 2: He had a moment with God, a moment.
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  Speaker 1: With God that disrupted every everything he knew about himself.
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  Speaker 1: He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: about himself. He was a Pharisee. He was a Pharisee,
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  Speaker 1: the most conservative group. He was a Pharisee. Concerning the law.
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  Speaker 1: He was zealous. He was committed to what he believed.
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  Speaker 1: He had lived all over his life up under the law,
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  Speaker 1: and in one moment, it was all disrupted. Do you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been in a religion.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been following an idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many generations it's been in your fireman,
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  Speaker 1: one moment with Jesus can radically revolutionize your life. Somebody
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: listening at me. You're trying to hold on to your
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: traditions and get a little bit of Jesus. And you
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  Speaker 1: like some of the stuff Jesus said, and you think
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that religion as a smorgast. Boy, I have a coup
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  Speaker 1: of this and a little bit of that, had a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: little bit of than other, and I'll mix it all
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  Speaker 1: up together. Me and God got my own thing. No,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: if you encountered Jesus, you got to give up everything
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you encountered before had walked away from it. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, I counted all as dung. Everything I knew, everything,
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  Speaker 1: I learned, everything I lived for. I had a radical
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  Speaker 1: moment with God that changed my value system. My values
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  Speaker 1: have been misaligned. And all of a sudden, Paul, who
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  Speaker 1: was leading men, ends up being led by the men
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  Speaker 1: he was leading, and they had to lead him because
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  Speaker 1: he was blind. Because God said, I'm gonsa shut your
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  Speaker 1: eyes till you get this right. I'm gonna shut you
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  Speaker 1: down till you get this right. I'm gonna shut up
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  Speaker 1: your finances till you get it right. I'm gonna shut
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  Speaker 1: up your strength until you get it right. God has
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  Speaker 1: a habit of shutting you down till you get it right.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when you're stubborn, especially when your heart headed, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you like to fight. God knows how to shut
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  Speaker 1: you down. He said, I'm gonna bring you to a
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  Speaker 1: place of vulnerability where you're gonna need the people that
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  Speaker 1: you used to lead, and they're gonna have to lead
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  Speaker 1: you as I bring you into the truth.
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  Speaker 2: It was some moment.
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  Speaker 1: It was some moment that change the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: moments for the next two thousand years. And God didn't
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  Speaker 1: trust no evangelist to do it. He appeared unto Saul
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  Speaker 1: on the road to the Matxis.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the criteria of being an apostle is to
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  Speaker 1: be an eyewitness to the resurrection, and Saul wasn't at
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  Speaker 1: the tomb. So Jesus did a special appearance. Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: God will do us special appearance. He'll come in your room,
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  Speaker 1: He'll come in your hotel. He'll come in the club,
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  Speaker 1: he'll come in the bar. God will do a special appearance.
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  Speaker 1: He'll come right where you are and just shut.
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  Speaker 2: Up, go reay to God. Somebody holler. He shot up.
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  Speaker 1: He showed up in my life. I wasn't planning to
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  Speaker 1: get saved. He showed up when I came back to
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  Speaker 1: the club. I went to Columbus. I brought two sets
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  Speaker 1: of clothes. I said, I'm gonna go to the convocation
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  Speaker 1: and at night, I'm going to the club. I never
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  Speaker 1: got to use the second set because he's shout up.
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  Speaker 1: I had packed all my sharp stuff too. I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be clean, baby, I was gonna be clean. I
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  Speaker 1: put a couple of suits in there. You know, give
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  Speaker 1: God a nod. How you doing, Jesus, Yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to the club, quick change out to church. Never made
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  Speaker 1: it to the club because he's.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm walking down now with tears running down
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  Speaker 1: my face and Mother Macassle singing all of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say yes, Lord, and I'm crying in an offering,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: coming back to the Lord. Have you had a moment
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus or do you just go to church?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Have you had a moment with Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: Or is there a nice looking girl in his church
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  Speaker 1: and you're coming over here because you're trying to convince
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  Speaker 1: her that you you and Jesus are you cool?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Were cool? I'm giving Jesus a nod. Now it's really you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out to.
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  Speaker 1: You can experience suppont his house and not experience Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You can experience me and not experience Jesus. If you
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  Speaker 1: have a moment with Jesus, it will radically change your prospectives,
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  Speaker 1: your attitude. And look at how look at how how
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wrecked everything that that Saul's life was built on
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  Speaker 1: it Suddenly, in one moment, it's gone. You can't be
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  Speaker 1: a member of the sand heedron and preach Jesus. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be a pharisee and preach Jesus. You can't be
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  Speaker 1: zealous concerning the law and teach grace. Wow. It changed
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  Speaker 1: his head, It changed his identity, It changed his personhood,
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  Speaker 1: It changed everything about him. He wiped the God wiped
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  Speaker 1: the slate clean, completely clean. This is why you here.
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  Speaker 1: Paul s ain't over. I profess to know nothing but
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  Speaker 1: Christ and him crucified. He is not going to fall
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  Speaker 1: into the trap of thinking he's smart again. He's spoke
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  Speaker 1: in five different languages and he says, I am a
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  Speaker 1: fool for Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He's call what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And he has a moment with God alone, with nobody
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  Speaker 1: there but the men who were with him, and they're
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  Speaker 1: leading him. They're leading him into Damascus. And this is
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  Speaker 1: not how he planned to go into Damascus. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: plan to come into Damascus blind being led by men.
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  Speaker 1: He planned to come into Damascus strong, attacking men, snatching
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  Speaker 1: women out of the house. But it doesn't always end
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  Speaker 1: up like you thought. Just because you think something right
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  Speaker 1: now doesn't make it true. He comes into Damascus helpless.
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  Speaker 1: The powerful man is now helpless, blind, groping, depending on.
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  Speaker 2: Them to lead him.
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  Speaker 1: And God tells him to go to a man he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even know, name Anonius. And there he is on
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  Speaker 1: a street called street. Doesn't even know anoniusis address. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. And Annius, when God tells
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  Speaker 1: Anonaius to pray for Saul, he says, are you serious,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Saul of Tarsus? You want me to pray for him?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You want me to go pray for him. See, we
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  Speaker 1: get in these cliques and sometimes we won't pray for
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  Speaker 1: people because they're not in our clique. I'm not praying
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  Speaker 1: for no Democrat. I'm not praying for no Republican. I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: not praying for no white folks. I'm not praying for
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: no black folks. I went through something y'all know what
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  Speaker 1: I went through. I don't care what you went through
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  Speaker 1: when you was a child. God will humble you down.
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  Speaker 1: Because God does not promise to always use who looks
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  Speaker 1: like you, votes like you, dresses like you to bless you.
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  Speaker 1: God uses whoever he wants to use. He don't meet
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  Speaker 1: with you. He doesn't do a poll, he doesn't do
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  Speaker 1: a census, he doesn't meet with the committee. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need board approval. When God gets ready to snatch or
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: y'all got quiet. When God gets ready to snatch somebody,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he will snatch somebody.
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  Speaker 2: And and I just doesn't want to be seen with Saul.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad for his brand, it's bad for his reputation,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it could be bad for his life. And yet God says,
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  Speaker 1: he prayeth now, there ought not be nothing that supersedes
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  Speaker 1: the command of God in your life. When God says, forgive, forgive,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: When God says, let it go, let it go. When
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: God says it'll all be over in the morning, It'll
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: all be over in the morning. When God says, we've
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: been made to do it for tonight, but joy comes
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in the morning, he don't ask you how you feel
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: about it. Well, Lord, I just don't feel like and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like this morning. It don't feel like
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: morning to me. Shut out. If God says this morning,
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  Speaker 1: this morning, it may still be dark out this morning.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: You do know that morning starts in the dark. When
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: God says it's morning, it's morning. So he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to rejoice like this morning. He wants you to shout
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  Speaker 1: like this morning. He wants you to move like his morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that anias, he wants you to go down to
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  Speaker 1: a street called straight and pray for a man who
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  Speaker 1: was coming to kill you.
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  Speaker 2: Cardon us. How do you pray for a man.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Who is coming to kill you, a man you have
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  Speaker 1: art against. That's why God won't accept your gift if
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you have malice in your heart. He said, leave your
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: gift at the altar and reconcile yourself with your brother.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Because whatever they did, it ain't worth you losing your
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: authority with God. Whatever they said, it ain't worth you
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: losing your power with God. No matter how it hurts you,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You still got to do what you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: got to do. And if God says do it, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do it. See, we don't use this word any word,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the old word obedience obedience It's better than sacrificing. Obedience
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  Speaker 1: is better than sacrificing. I appreciate whatever you sould, but obedience,
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  Speaker 1: it's better than sacrificing. You can't give your way, it
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  Speaker 1: does getting your license to do wrong. So Anna and
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  Speaker 1: I its obeyed God. And he goes down there and
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  Speaker 1: he lays hands on the man who was gonna lay
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  Speaker 1: hands on him.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do it? No?
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Serious, can you do it? Can you lay hands on
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the person who was coming to hurt you? And an
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  Speaker 1: Ice lays hands on Saul who was gonna lay hands
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  Speaker 1: on him, and the power of his obedience casts the
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  Speaker 1: scales to fall from Saul's eyes. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to, but I'm talking to somebody that if
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you would just do what God says do and stop
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  Speaker 1: wrestling with your ego and your pride and to humble
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: yourself the power you would have the scales fall from
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. And suddenly Saul can see and he goes
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  Speaker 1: from having a moment with God to a moment as
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: a misfit. I want you to feel this. How can
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: he go back to the Sanhedrin court and tell him
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: about Jesus because he is no longer one of them.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: There is no seat for him amongst the Sanhedron. He's
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: lost all of that. He's lost all credibility with Thehedron
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: because he has taking on this Jesus philosophy that they hated.
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  Speaker 4: They have empowered him to attack what he has become.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: So he she got to think, so he can't.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: He can't go back. There is a point in God.
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  Speaker 5: It's not that you don't want.
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  Speaker 2: To go back.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that you ain't tempted to go back. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't that your flesh don't want to go back. But
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  Speaker 1: there is a point in God where you cannot go back.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Not somebody's word watching right now. You cannot go back.
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  Speaker 1: You can't go back and undo what God has done
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  Speaker 1: in your life. You can't unknow what you know once
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  Speaker 1: you know who Jesus he is. You can't unknow that.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I don't care how you drink, how much weed you smoke,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: how high you get, I don't care how many light
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: dances you get. Once you know Jesus, there's a mark
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: on your life that something is always gonna be missing
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: until you say yes, you can't go back. The problem, however,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: is not just that he can't go back because I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: can leave one group if I connect with the other,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I can. I can I can be rejected by this
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: group if I'm accepted by the other. The problem with
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Saul is when he comes to the Apostles, they don't
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: believe in him. They don't believe him. They don't believe
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  Speaker 1: in him. They don't like him, they don't accept him,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and so he has to accept being a misfit. You
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  Speaker 1: have to accept being a misfit. You can change your hair,
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  Speaker 1: you can change your clothes, you can change your style,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you can change your walk. They still not gonna like you,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: because when God has called you out, you can't go
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: back in. You have to accept being a misfit. Look
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: at somebody, say I'm different. I'm different. You ain't never
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: seen nobody like me before. You're never gonna see anybody
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: like me again. I'm different. And after years and years
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: of low self esteem and crying about it, I'm finally
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: starting to accept that I'm different. I'm cool with it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. I can live with it. I
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: understand that I've been trained in it. I learned how
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: to be a misfit. It doesn't matter that you don't
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: like me, and It doesn't matter that you don't believe
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: in me. I can stand on my own because I
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: had an encounter with Jesus. And so when Saul, who
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: is now called Paul, starts to minister, he ministers from
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the place of a misfit. All my misfit people hear me.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: The reason you have the annointing is because you're a misfit.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: The reason you have your anointing is because you're a misfit.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Had they accepted you, you wouldn't have had the annointing.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Had they embraced you, you wouldn't have had the annoyingty
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Because Paul was a misfit, he gives us most of
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the New Testament epistles because he does not fit in
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: with either groove. He's an outcast on both sides. But
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: when you're an outcast with men, you are in cast
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: with God. Until you hear what I'm saying, I'm talking
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to somebody I don't even know who it is. You
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a misfit. Stop fighting it, Stop changing yourself, stop redoing
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: your philosophy. Stop trying to be what everybody else wants
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: you to be. You were meant to be a misfit.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Your Savior was a misfit. The stone that the builders
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: rejected has been made the chief corner stone. Stop crying
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: about it, Stop worrying about it, Stop being frustrated about it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: You don't want to be in with them. God saved
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: you from being in with them. He meant for you
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to be different. Look at your neigh and introduce him.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Say hello, I'm different. Yeah, my name is different. My
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: name is that, my walk is different, my talk is different.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: The way I think it is different, the way I
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: believe is different, the way I flow is different. I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: understand it if you don't like me. Everybody can't walk
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: with a misfit. You have to be a misfit yourself
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to understand another misfiting when you see it. I want
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: some misfits in this room to give God a pray.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: You don't fit in with your family, you don't fit
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: in with your community, you don't fit in with your neighborhood.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: You just a misfit for Jesus.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Often it takes half your life to accept being a misfit,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: because we are always advertised, marketed, modeled, and promoted fitting in,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and it hurts to not quite be either.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: One.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: It's lonely. It's lonely being a misfit. When you are
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: a misfit, you are misunderstood. They accuse you of being arrogant.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: They accuse you of being high minded. They accuse you,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: we used to say, are being such a much. They
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: accuse you of walking around with your head up in
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the air. They accuse you of forgetting where you came from.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Come on, misfits, back me up on this. Being a
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: misfit means that you have to learn to be okay
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: with being misunderstood.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: That ain't easy. That ain't easy.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: That ain't easy. It was not to be the apostle Paul.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: It was not easy to be shunn by your future
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and rejected by your past. It'll make you pray harder
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: because you don't have nobody to depend on.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: But the Lord.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: It'll make you get up and come to church on
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. I don't care how cold it is outside.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: You wrapped up and came to church because this is
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the only place you fit. Not the building, the presence
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: of the Lord, the glory of the Lord, the annoying
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. This is a place where we feed
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the misfits. Hey, misfits. Dinner is served and the minos
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: says that immediately Paul started preaching immediately, Ain't that's something.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Immediately he starts preaching in the synagogue, he doesn't come
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: back to the synagogue to be accepted. He knows they
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  Speaker 1: think he's crazy, but he's preaching in the synagogue. He
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: has to fight all of his life, but in between
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  Speaker 1: the fights he's writing most of the New Testament. In
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  Speaker 1: between fights. He came to Listra and they threw rocks
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  Speaker 1: at him, and they stoned him till his head was
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: busted and his back was bleeding, and they drug him
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  Speaker 1: out of the city as half dead. But as soon
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: as he woke up, he got in between the fight
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  Speaker 1: and started preaching again, saying stuff like, there is therefore
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  Speaker 1: now no condemnation to them that are in Christ, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: who walk no longer after the flesh, but after the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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  Speaker 1: All old things have passed away, the whole old things
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  Speaker 1: have become new.
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  Speaker 2: For we know, if this earthly house or tabernacle.
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  Speaker 1: Shall be dissolved, we have another building eternally in the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: Having this assurance that God, who has begun a good
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: work in you, shall perform it unto the day of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I want to talk to everybody in here
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that's been in the fight. Out to fight, out to fight,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, in between the fights, preached the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: lay hands on the sick, open up blinded eyes, rebuilt
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the devil, and keep on going. That put him on
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the boat, and the boat fell apart. He survived, the shipwrecked,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and the snake bid him. But in between the fights
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: he come on, telling them Jesus is Lord, to the
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: glory of God. I wish I had a hundred people
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that would praise God in between the fight. You're still God,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: your steal God. The ship has wrecked, but your steal God.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: The snake has bid me, but your steal God. The
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: rocks made me bleed, but your steal God. See, it
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: ain't no praise till your praising God with blood running
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: down your face. There ain't no praise till your praising God.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: In the middle of rejection and pain. Let the redeemed
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: of the Lord say, soul. I'll give you thirty seconds
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: to give God a praise like you lost your man.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: You got ten seconds to open your hour. Every misfit
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: in the building here every misfit online, every misfit in
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the mouth.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: For that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: You got five seconds, though, and you're my house, and
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: give God some praise and settle in. I'm being disliked,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: settle in, I'm being controversial, settle in, I'm being mistreated.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: This is why it's okay, said it said out. This
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: is this is why it's okay to be a misfit
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: because number three, you're the messenger, and you can't be
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: the messenger if you fit in.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: That's what's wrong. Now.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: We got too many folks trying to fit in, too
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: many preachers trying to fit in. If you're gonna be
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the messenger, you gotta be willing to be the misfit
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: glory there. You can't be common with the people that
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: you're trying to lead. That's why we don't have parents
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: no more, because they're too busy trying to be friends
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: with their kids. You so busy trying to be friends
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: that the kid ain't got no parent. And now if
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: you're not a friend, you're not a parent. The devil
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: is a lie. You gotta understand that you gotta be
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: a misfit. You gotta be a misfit. If you're gonna
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: win this battle. If you're gonna be a boss, you
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: gotta be a misfit. You can still be nice, but
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: you ain't got no business chasing them behind people trying
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: to make them like you.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: This ain't no election. Your paycheck voted me boss.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: I'm the boss.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: You can't cash the check and not recognize who signed it.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Come on, we might as well clean it up in here.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Look at somebody saying clean it up. You are the messenger.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: You are the messenger. You are the messenger. I don't
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: care whether you're a preacher or not. You're the messenger.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: You're still a witness. You're a soul winner. Stop trying
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: to be an undercover agent on your job. You don't
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: want nobody to know that you saved so that you
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: still got permission to live out your own life. Go
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: ahead and be a messenger. Start praying for people on break.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: You're a messenger. God didn't put you on the job
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to make money. He puts you on the job to
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: change lives. You could have made money anywhere. You're on
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: an assignment. You're a messenger. You got a message. You're
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: on a mission. That's why the enemy keeps fighting you
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: it's because you're a messenger. He wouldn't try to shut
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: you down if you didn't have something to say. He said,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: he's attacking you. It's because you're a messenger. I want
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: every messenger in here to clop your hands. I'm a messenger.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: a messenger. I'm a messenger. But messengers get fought with
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: being misfits because being a messenger means saying yes to
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: being a misfit. So when the enemy wants to shut
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: down your message, he'll show you how bad you don't fit.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a preaching right, I say, I am preaching right. You
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: are a messenger. Most what we know about church, about
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: the fivefold ministry, about the resurrection from the dead, about
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the mystery of the Godhead, about the peace that passes
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: all understanding, about having peace with God, about no condemnation.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Most of what we know about the resurrection came from Paul,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: not Matthias. Stop worrying about who they picked. God picked you.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: God pigged you. I'm gonna say it again. God pigs you.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again. God pig you. And you
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: don't have to be eighty, and you don't have to
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: be seventy, and you don't have to be sixty. You
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: don't have to be fifty. Jesus started ministering when he
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: was twelve because God pigged. You have to understand that
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: God picks you, and it's not because your past is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: in alignment. It's because you had a unique moment with God.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And stop being frustrated because you can't teach people how
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: to have a moment that they didn't have. Oh God,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: that's so good, Thank you Jesus. I'm gonna watch this
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: on YouTube again myself. Some of you that are messagers
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: are frustrated because in your loneliness, you are trying to
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: make disciples out of people who do not have your moment.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: And if they did not have your moment, they cannot
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: have your mantle. Let me tell it to the people
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: over here. If they did not have your moment, they
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: cannot have your mantle. That's why Elijah told Elisha, if
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: you see me when I'm taken up, you can have
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: my mantle.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: You can't get my mantle just.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Because you want it, just because you think you got
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: a write to it, just because you gave me a
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: love offering. You can't buy me off and get this
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: until you've been knocked off your beast, until you've had
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: an encounter with God, until you walked around blind, and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: until you're willing to be a misfit. You can't teach
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: people how to be what they didn't see. So forgive
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: yourself for not being able to reduplicate yourself when Jesus
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: picks out twelve to say, y'all pull it at me. Now,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: when Jesus picks out twelve disciples, you know the first
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: thing he tells them, take up your cross and follow
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: me because.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: You're gonna hear me.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Teach all you want to, but you're not gonna get
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: my mantle off of what I teach. You're gonna get
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: my mantle off of what I suffer. So the invitation
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: is until you have a shared experience, you cannot receive
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: my spirit without receiving my cross. Most of us are
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: stuck in the misfit stage, hindering our message because we
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: are still grieving over not fitting.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: And until you resolve.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: And say yes not only to God, but yes to
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: not quite fitting in with either group, Yes to being peculiar,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: yes to thinking different, Yes, to having a flow that's
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: different from other people's flow. You will never discover your message,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: your message, which is your purpose, number for your message,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: because you are a messenger. Your purpose is predicated on
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: your message, not your emotions. God didn't call you for
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: your feelings. He called you for your message, because you
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: are a messenger to a dying world.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: To model.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: What love looks like, what strength looks like, what maturity
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: looks like, what diligence looks like, what commitment looks like,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: what fortitude looks like. In between fights, you gotta keep
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: teaching people how to be survivors.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: How to walk alone.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Sometimes am I helping anybody?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Most of the divorces that we're having we should have
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: never had, because we are trying to get something out
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: of marriage that it is not designed to give you.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: You're taking marriage for therapy, and when you don't get
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: therapy out of it, you get out of it. If
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: you want therapy, go to a therapist. It is not
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: my job to fix you. It is my job to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: love you. The reason I can't fix you is that
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to fix me, and it is wrong of
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: me to expect you to fix me. Because whatever's broke
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: in me was broke when you bought me. I'm the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: house you bought as is. I'm a fixer upper. The
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: drain don't work, and the lights flash on and off,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and when it rains real hard, I leak in the kitchen.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: But I'm still your house, y'all don't hear me? And
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: you are angry with me over stuff I don't know
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: nothing about. You're trying to work out in me stuff
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: you had going on with your daddy. I'm trying to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: work out in you stuff I had going on with
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: my mama that ain't even fair.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: You wasn't even married. You don't even know what happened.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: And if I tell you, you only get my side. And yes,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I got a devil to fight. How many people in
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: here are honest enough to say you got a devil
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: to fight. That's why I'm at church this morning, because
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I got a devil to fight. That's why I was
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: wipping my hands and praising God when you were singing,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: because I got a devil to fight. That's why your
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: job is so important, because you helped me fight my devil.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: That's why I can't cross my legs and look cute
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: in church, because I got a devil to fight, and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I came to here this morning to get some ammunition to.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Help me the fight.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Because when I leave this place, I'm going back to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the front lines, and I'm gonna have to do battle.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about going battle with people.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about going battle with me, doing battle with
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: my own head, doing battle with my own pain, going
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: battle with my own self, sometimes doing battle with my prophecy,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: with my destiny. Am I ready? Can I handle it?
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Can I pull it off? Am I enough? No?
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not enough? But with God, I'm more than enough.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Can I get a praise in this place? Can I
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: get a praise in this place? So?
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: When no.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Gets down to the end of his life, he sends
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: a message to his mentee. He does not tell Timothy
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: about all his revelations. He does not tell Timothy about
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: all the places he traveled. He does not tell Timothy
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: how he was trained at the feet of Gamil. He
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: does not tell Timothy how many languages he spoke in.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: He does not tell Timothy that he is solely responsible
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: for the Gospel reaching the Greeks, that he preached the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Gospel on Mars Hill until a whole nation got saved.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: He does not tell Timothy that it was not Peter
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: alone that brought the Gospel to Rome. But that's why
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: the shipwrecked, was to keep him from getting to Rome.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Because when Paul got to Rome, the whole game change
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and the headquarters of Christianity slipped over from Jeru It
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: was a little over to Rome. He didn't tell him
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: any of that. You know what he tells him, I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: thought a good fight.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: I fought.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: A good fighter. I did it when I felt like it.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I did it when I didn't feel like it. I
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: did it when things were going good. I did it
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: when things were going bad. I did it when I
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: was on the mountain. I did it when I was
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: in the valley. I did it when people liked me.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: I did it when people hated me. I did it
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: when they understood. I did it when they didn't understand.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: I have fought a.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Good fight, and you got to learn how to clock
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: for yourself and say I have fought somebody clopped for yourself.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: I thought a good fight. I raised the kids by myself.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a single mother, but I fought a good fight.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Holly low Yah. I divorced some mother, but I kept
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: on taking care of my children. I fought a good fight.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I met people who didn't like me. I came to
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: work where they talked about me. I kept on going
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: to work, even though the person I trained ended up
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: getting the job I should have gone, But I still
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: came to work, and I fought a good fight. I
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: want to talk to some people that have been into
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: some fight. I don't want to talk to these cutie
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: people that ain't been through nothing yet. I want to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: talk to some real soldiers that's been in some real fights.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Paul tells Tim a time I fought, I fought. I
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: fought a good fight.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: I fought fights other people wouldn't even take up. I
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: fought fights I could have avoided. I fought a good fight.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: You know what. I kept the faith.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes that was the fight.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: Some of that.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: See y'all think I'm fighting with people. Sometimes the fight
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: is to keep the I fought a good fight. I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: kept the faith. Wait on this, here's what you've been
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: waiting on.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Laid up for me is a crown of righteousness. Didn't
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: get it when I wanted it, didn't get it where
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: I worked at it, some stuff only God can give you.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: Now laid up for me is a crown of righteousness.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: We used to sing stuff like we shall behold Him.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Or that other song.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: The marketplace is empty, no more selling in the streets.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: The King is coming. We don't sing about heaven right
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: now because we got better cars.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: We don't think.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: About heaven because we got air conditioning. We don't think
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: about heaven cause we got dishwashers and garbage supposals and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. But the truth of the Mighty is
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: nothing you own is your crown. None of it is
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: a crown. There is a crown for those of you
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: who have fought a good fight. And it ain't down here.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: It ain't down here, bro, it ain't down here. Why
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: would you appreciate Because every time I open up the paper,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: somebody else has committed suicide. You know why most people
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: commit suicide because they never got the crowd. They put
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: in the fight, and they didn't get the crown. But
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Paul tells Timothy, now laid up.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: For me is a crown.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Of righteousness, and not for me only, but for all
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: of those who await.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: His appearing.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: Stand to your feet. If God spoke to you today.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Give him some kind of praise.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Quick.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Teacher's review is make your life count in between fights.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Don't survive a fight only to be in misery about
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: an old fight. You wasting your free time talking about
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: your old time in between fights. Makes your life count.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Do something purposeful. That's what the fight was about in
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the first place. In between fights, do what you were
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: created to do. This is a teacher's review. The power
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: of obedience. Understanding that sometimes you have to go against
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: your feelings and obey God and lay hands on people
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: who were trying to lay hands on you. Because this
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: is not your business. This is God's business.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: You do it.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm saying? Teachers review? I want
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: you to understand. You didn't choose God. God chose you.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Teacher's review. Fitting in is overrated.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: Be okay with being different.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Nobody writes books about ordinary, only extraordinary.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: Be cool with it.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: All of not all, but most of our heroes were
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: lauded after they died. If you demand payment up front,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: you are distracted from your destiny. Who am I talking to?
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: When you worry about being a misfit? You put your
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: happiness in the hands of someone else means I can
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: only be happy if you like me. That's too much
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: power to give to any clique, any group, any crowd,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: any coworkers. That's too much power to give anybody. You
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: gotta be cool with doing you, y'all. I often joke
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: talking about how my wife loves Christmas. And she got
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: the house. You know, it looked like Santa Claus lived.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: There, and uh and and the one.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Who always teasing her about it? I said, how come
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: you ain't playing your music?
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: You know why.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: It ain't my thing, but it's hers. And if it
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: gives you joy, turn the music off. It takes a
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  Speaker 1: long time to stop trying to change people and just
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  Speaker 1: love them like they are. It ain't nothing wrong with that,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, I let me turn the music on, let
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  Speaker 1: me help, let me do something. Stop trying to make
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  Speaker 1: people into you, because.
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  Speaker 2: Can we be honest a minute.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't that happy being you, so why are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to make me.
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  Speaker 2: Be you?
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  Speaker 1: Early in the message, I used two words that I've
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  Speaker 1: said we don't use much conversion and conviction. Conversion the
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  Speaker 1: right to change, the right to be somebody else is important.
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  Speaker 1: Don't walk yourself into situations you can't get out of
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  Speaker 1: because your conversion is a process, and conviction is the
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  Speaker 1: decision that I need to change directions. Now. I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe that somebody in this room or watching
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  Speaker 1: online has been knocked off your beasts, the wind knocked
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  Speaker 1: out of you, blackout, you can't see your way clear.
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  Speaker 1: And God has disrupted your life because He's got something
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  Speaker 1: for you that's different than where you were headed. And
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  Speaker 1: you can be hard headed and come to him on
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  Speaker 1: a cart Lord down through the roof, or come to
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  Speaker 1: him in a dread disease, or you can come to
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  Speaker 1: him now.
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  Speaker 2: And say, Lord, I need to make some changes.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no need of me having a new year if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a new man, even if
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  Speaker 1: I am despised, if I have to leave my clique,
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  Speaker 1: my gang, even if I have to change jobs, whatever
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  Speaker 1: I have to do to fulfill what you created me
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of fighting you. God.
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  Speaker 1: It's enough to fight me. You know what Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: Paul that I left out. He said, it is hard
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  Speaker 1: for you to kick against the pricks. The prick was
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  Speaker 1: something that they put at the end of the stall
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  Speaker 1: to stop the mule from kicking the stall, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get away. It was a sharp object that the more
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: you kicked against it, the more it hurt you. And
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  Speaker 1: when God says it's hard for you to kick against
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  Speaker 1: the pricks, he said, you kicking against me
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  Speaker 2: And hurting you,