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The Danger of Entitlement - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Hey family, welcome to the house. We're so glad you're
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  Speaker 3: to sow a seed, to build an altar. When there's
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  Speaker 3: something in that message that you know, the light turns
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  Speaker 3: on or it deals with something that you have been
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  Speaker 3: And for me, that comes when I sow a seed.
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  Speaker 1: to change your life and hopefully many others.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm going to give you today is in the
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  Speaker 4: book of Mark, the gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12,
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  Speaker 4: verse 1 through 12. It is extensive. It is fairly unfamiliar,
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  Speaker 4: not often preached about, but it is something that the
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  Speaker 4: Holy Spirit gave to me today to share with you
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  Speaker 4: that you might hear what the Spirit says to the church.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking good this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm feeling good. That's the good part. I
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  Speaker 4: hope I look good, but I'm happy I'm feeling good. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm feeling good down to my toes. I'm feeling good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm feeling blessed. I'm feeling like God is with me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm feeling like the hand. I'm feeling like somebody praying
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  Speaker 4: for me. Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. In the
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  Speaker 4: gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12, verse 1. He records
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  Speaker 4: a parable that was written, that was given by Christ
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  Speaker 4: in response to an adverse crowd who was trying to
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  Speaker 4: trip him up. You must understand that most of Jesus'
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  Speaker 4: ministry was not done amongst his fans, his friends, or
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  Speaker 4: his congregants. Jesus did most of his miracles amongst unbelievers
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  Speaker 4: and people who were doubting and scoffing and trying to
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  Speaker 4: trip him up. You can't pick the crowd God sends
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  Speaker 4: you to. You got to be ready to do whatever
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  Speaker 4: God says do. I've got a podcast with my daughter
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  Speaker 4: one day, and then the next day, starting Monday, I
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  Speaker 4: got a podcast with Jeezy. You got to reach out.
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  Speaker 4: The Bible said all souls are mine. Not just the
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  Speaker 4: ones that sing in the choir. All souls are mine.
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  Speaker 4: You hear what I'm saying? And you ought to be
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  Speaker 4: strong enough by now that you can share your truth
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  Speaker 4: and listen to somebody and still come out and know
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  Speaker 4: who you are. Let them be who they are and
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  Speaker 4: let you be who you are. And you'd be surprised
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  Speaker 4: at the people that don't come to church, but it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily mean that they don't come to the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Some of us make it hard for people to come
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  Speaker 4: to church. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Anyway, it
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  Speaker 4: was good. It was good.
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  Speaker 5: It was good.
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  Speaker 4: It was good. Then he began to speak to them
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  Speaker 4: in parables. He's speaking to them in parables because they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to trip him up. He's delivering truth to them
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  Speaker 4: in a way that they can handle it. If he
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  Speaker 4: talks to them directly, they will become offended and escalates
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  Speaker 4: the crucifixion before it's time. He knows ultimately they're going
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  Speaker 4: to try to destroy him, but not yet. And sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you have to behave yourself wisely because people can't handle
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  Speaker 4: you at full strength. And so he speaks in parables
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  Speaker 4: because it is easier to behold the beam in your
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  Speaker 4: brother's eye than to admit the moat that you have
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  Speaker 4: in your own. And so when I tell it in
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  Speaker 4: a story, it makes it more palatable for you to
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  Speaker 4: understand it. Then he began to speak to them in parables.
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  Speaker 4: A man planted a vineyard. And I want you to
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  Speaker 4: follow this closely because I got something I want to
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  Speaker 4: pull out of here. A man planted a vineyard and
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  Speaker 4: set a hedge around it. Dug a place for the
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  Speaker 4: wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it
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  Speaker 4: to the vine dressers and went into a far country.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Now at vintage time, when it was fruit time,
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  Speaker 4: when it was harvest time, pastor said we're coming into
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  Speaker 4: harvest time. He sent a servant to the vine dressers
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  Speaker 4: that he might receive some of the fruit of the
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  Speaker 4: vineyard from the vine dresser. And they took him and
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  Speaker 4: beat him and sent him away empty handed. Again he
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  Speaker 4: sent them another servant. And at him they threw stones.
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  Speaker 4: Now these are people that the owner sent. But you
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  Speaker 4: know you sent when people throw stones. They wounded him
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  Speaker 4: in his head. And sent him away shamefully treated. And
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  Speaker 4: again he sent another. And him... They killed. It got
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  Speaker 4: worse and worse. All they were coming for, you must understand,
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  Speaker 4: is to get the master's portion of the vineyard. They
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  Speaker 4: were sharecropping in a situation where the master had set
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  Speaker 4: them in a situation that there was a harvest to
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  Speaker 4: be harvested. And yet they would, when the time came
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  Speaker 4: to give him his portion and keep their portion, they
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  Speaker 4: wanted it all. Look at your neighbor and say, are
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  Speaker 4: you greedy? And again, he sent another and him they killed.
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  Speaker 4: They found it easier to kill the man than to
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  Speaker 4: be a good steward. And many others beating some and
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  Speaker 4: killing some. Therefore, still having one son, now here's a hint,
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  Speaker 4: his beloved son, He also sent him to them last saying,
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  Speaker 4: they will respect my son. But those vinedressers said amongst themselves,
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  Speaker 4: this is the heir. Come let us kill him and
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  Speaker 4: the entire inheritance will be ours. We won't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about splitting with anybody. You can't do good business
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  Speaker 4: with bad people. So they took him and killed him
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  Speaker 4: and cast him out of the vineyard. Therefore, what will
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  Speaker 4: the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and
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  Speaker 4: destroy the vine dresses. You're not going to win. And
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  Speaker 4: give the vineyard to others. Have you not even read
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  Speaker 4: this scripture? The stone which the builders rejected. Has become
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  Speaker 4: the chief cornerstone. Sometimes rejection is direction. I know it hurts.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like it. You don't like it. We don't
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  Speaker 4: like it. But sometimes rejection is direction. This was the
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  Speaker 4: Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes. And
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  Speaker 4: they sought to lay hands on him, but feared the multitude,
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  Speaker 4: for they knew he had spoken the parable against them.
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  Speaker 4: This was the Pharisees. They wanted to kill him. But
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  Speaker 4: they were scared to kill him because there were so
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  Speaker 4: many people that were for him. That's why when you're
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  Speaker 4: for somebody, you got to speak up. That's why you've
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  Speaker 4: got to get away from these two-faced people who grin
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  Speaker 4: in your face and stab you behind the back. You
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  Speaker 4: need some people around you that stops what the enemy's
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  Speaker 4: got planned for you because the enemy's not scared of you,
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  Speaker 4: but he's scared of them. How many folks got a them?
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  Speaker 4: You will have to come through them to get to me.
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  Speaker 4: God will head you in with the them. Not everybody
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  Speaker 4: in your life ought to be trying to get something
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  Speaker 4: from you. There ought to be some people in your
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  Speaker 4: life that give something to you. And those that you cover,
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  Speaker 4: they also cover you. Oh, y'all ain't ready for me.
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  Speaker 4: They sought to lay hands on him but feared the
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  Speaker 4: multitude for they knew he had spoken the parable against them.
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  Speaker 4: So they left him and went away. I want to
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  Speaker 4: spend a little time this morning talking about the danger
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  Speaker 4: of entitlement. The danger of.
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  Speaker 2: Entitlement.
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  Speaker 4: Can you say amen? Spirit of the living God fall
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  Speaker 4: fresh on us today. Open up the light from heaven
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  Speaker 4: and shine a little light on our soul. If you
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  Speaker 4: find anything that shouldn't be, take it out and straighten me.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be right. I want to be whole.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be free. I do not want to
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  Speaker 4: be entitled. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated
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  Speaker 4: in the presence of the Lord. Let's go to work.
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  Speaker 4: My God, today there is so much to be understood today.
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  Speaker 4: I about 20 years ago I had a conversation with
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  Speaker 4: a young man and I was telling him how much
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  Speaker 4: it unnerved me 20 years ago to see these young
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  Speaker 4: upstart preachers with security it just bothered me it's just
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  Speaker 4: my personal pet peeve I don't understand why you need
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  Speaker 4: security when nobody know you and uh And they had security.
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  Speaker 4: They had bodyguards. They had briefcases. They had all of
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  Speaker 4: this stuff that they didn't even need yet. And I
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  Speaker 4: told him, for us older folks, it kind of older
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  Speaker 4: then was 40. That's gone. Anyway, Jesus, now if you're 40,
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  Speaker 4: you're a young man. But I said, it kind of
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  Speaker 4: unnerves us a little bit. A lot of times you're
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  Speaker 4: walking in a grace you haven't earned. And he told
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  Speaker 4: me something that educated me. He said, we weren't trying
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  Speaker 4: to irritate you all. We were trying to imitate you.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't hate you. We admired you. When we came along,
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  Speaker 4: that's where you were. But we didn't see how you
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  Speaker 4: got there. And when you see somebody in a place,
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  Speaker 4: but you didn't see the journey they went through to
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  Speaker 4: get there, it creates what appears to be entitlement because
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  Speaker 4: you underestimate what it costs to get there. And anytime
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  Speaker 4: you underestimate what it costs to get there, you feel
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  Speaker 4: entitled for something that you don't own.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 4: You underestimate it. And we were guilty. Number one, we
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  Speaker 4: had unspoken rules. And if you broke one of them,
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  Speaker 4: we would fall out with you. And they're not written
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  Speaker 4: down anywhere. But we had unspoken rules. You couldn't wear
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  Speaker 4: sunglasses in church. You couldn't wear a hat on your
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  Speaker 4: head if you were a man. We had all these
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  Speaker 4: unspoken rules. There's no scripture for it. Don't look for
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  Speaker 4: it in your Bible. But it's just rules we got.
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  Speaker 4: You put your finger up when you're getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: walk out of the crowd. The ushers shut the door
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  Speaker 4: when somebody gets ready to pray. Come on, somebody. Y'all
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm talking about. We had rules. Church people
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  Speaker 4: understand it. People who are not in the church, who
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  Speaker 4: always got something to say about the church, are quick
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  Speaker 4: to say things about something they don't know. The history,
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  Speaker 4: the origin... of where it came from and how it
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  Speaker 4: came about. I didn't understand why we swayed from side
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  Speaker 4: to side till I was in Africa and Kenya and
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  Speaker 4: I saw the Kikuyu tribe and they were swaying from
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  Speaker 4: side to side and I remember thinking, so that's where
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  Speaker 4: we got that from. There's something about tracing your history
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  Speaker 4: that unveils your destiny. If you lose sight of your history,
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  Speaker 4: you don't understand the origin of of what it took
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  Speaker 4: to get you to where you are. Entitlement refers to
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  Speaker 4: a mindset. A mindset or a belief that a person
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  Speaker 4: inherently deserves certain privileges, benefits, or special treatment. That they
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  Speaker 4: deserve it. You didn't understand. I'm not fussing because they
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  Speaker 4: got it. They think that they deserve it. And if
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  Speaker 4: they don't get it, they get angry because they're entitled.
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  Speaker 4: Often without having earned it, Without considering the responsibilities that
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  Speaker 4: it takes to maintain it. We like the title, but
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  Speaker 4: we don't like the word. We want the mantle, but
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  Speaker 4: we don't want to walk the mileage. That's why Elijah
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  Speaker 4: told Elijah, if you're still with me. When I get
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  Speaker 4: through my mileage, you can have my mantle. You can't
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  Speaker 4: just have my mantle because you want it. There's some mileage,
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  Speaker 4: there's some walking, there's some serving, there's some humility, there's
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  Speaker 4: some humbleness that earns the mantle. And then when I
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  Speaker 4: look around and there's nobody else to hand it to
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  Speaker 4: but the person who was faithful, you earn the right
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  Speaker 4: to walk in the glory. And when you smite the waters,
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  Speaker 4: they will part from you. When you didn't freeload and
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  Speaker 4: get it, but you received it rightfully, it's really yours.
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  Speaker 4: When it's really yours, can't nobody take it anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: I thought at least the women would shout me down.
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  Speaker 4: When it's really yours, can't nobody take it anyway. You're
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  Speaker 4: not a friend for somebody to come up and talk
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  Speaker 4: to somebody that's really yours. Because you know when you
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  Speaker 4: get them car keys rattling, they coming on home with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can win the shop all you want to. But
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  Speaker 4: when I get ready to start that car, if it's mine,
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  Speaker 4: they coming on home with me. Thank you, G. When
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  Speaker 4: you're insecure, you'll jump in and fight and wrestle. Because
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  Speaker 4: you don't really understand the difference between ownership and stewardship.
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  Speaker 4: What is happening in this text is an argument between
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  Speaker 4: ownership and stewardship. Ownership has entered into a covenant with
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  Speaker 4: stewardship and says, I'm going to set you in a
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  Speaker 4: situation that is already set up before you got there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to build the tower. I'm going to dig
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  Speaker 4: the back. I'm going to build the hedges. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to own the property. I'm going to buy the land.
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  Speaker 4: And then I'm going to set you into something that
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  Speaker 4: costs you nothing. And you have to be level-headed enough
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  Speaker 4: to walk into it and not be entitled and yet
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  Speaker 4: be confident. Oh, I'm prophesying to somebody. Let me break
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  Speaker 4: it down in the church language. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 4: you houses you didn't build. I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 4: venues that you didn't grow. I'm going to set you
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  Speaker 4: over into stuff that you don't even know what it's
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  Speaker 4: made of or how it got there, but I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to set you in there. But when you get there,
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  Speaker 4: don't feel like you own it. You are a steward
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  Speaker 4: of this moment. You are a steward of this opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: You are a steward of your life of the breath
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  Speaker 4: in your body. You don't own it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: come take it one day, but I'm letting you use
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  Speaker 4: it right now. Don't act entitled like I had to
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  Speaker 4: wake you up this morning. I woke you up this
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  Speaker 4: morning and started you on your way, but somebody else,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even wake them up. Don't you feel entitled
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  Speaker 4: to have an opinion and have an attitude? Because if
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  Speaker 4: I didn't let you, you couldn't catch your breath. So
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  Speaker 4: there's an attitude that comes along with entitlement that is disgusting.
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  Speaker 4: It's irritating. It's aggravating. Especially when the owner has given
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  Speaker 4: you so much. And you think you deserve it and
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  Speaker 4: it's been given to you. It's been lavishly bestowed upon you.
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  Speaker 4: The health you got. The breath you got. The mind
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  Speaker 4: you got. The understanding you've got. The gift you've gotten.
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  Speaker 4: The ability to be able to navigate through the education
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  Speaker 4: you got. That was a gift. That's not you. You're
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  Speaker 4: not really that smart. That was a gift. God just
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  Speaker 4: gave you a supernatural understanding. You can't figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to bake cookies. And you can do a heart transplant.
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  Speaker 4: That's a gift God gave. There are some gifted people
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  Speaker 4: in here that know that you didn't get here by might.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't get here by power. But you got here
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  Speaker 4: by the Spirit, said the Lord. And God has set
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  Speaker 4: you in the place and called you a baker. And
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  Speaker 4: you never took a bakery class. Called you a pilot.
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  Speaker 4: And you only took a six-week course. Called you a leader.
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  Speaker 4: And you never led anybody but two fish and five
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  Speaker 4: loaves of bread. God has a way of setting you
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  Speaker 4: in situations and make you fit. And he will make
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  Speaker 4: people respect you as long as you don't think you
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  Speaker 4: deserve it. He will make people respect you. But when
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  Speaker 4: you start thinking you deserve to be respected and you
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  Speaker 4: start acting entitled, the bigger you are, the smaller they
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  Speaker 4: see you. The smaller you go, the higher they perceive you.
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  Speaker 4: In other words, if you humble yourself, God will exalt you.
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  Speaker 4: But if you exalt yourself, God will humble you. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know who I'm talking to, but the tallest people
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  Speaker 4: are the smallest people. The greatest people are the lowest people.
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  Speaker 4: The more you are humble in your own heart, God
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  Speaker 4: told Saul, when you were small in your own eyes,
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  Speaker 4: I blessed you. But now that you think you're important
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  Speaker 4: and you think you're somebody, now I'm going to take
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  Speaker 4: away everything you got. And there Saul is down there
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  Speaker 4: ripping at the feet of Samuel trying to get back
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  Speaker 4: what he lost because God had made him a king.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't a king. He wasn't a king. God made
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  Speaker 4: him a king. And when you know God made you something,
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  Speaker 4: you know who you are. You know the stuff that
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  Speaker 4: runs through your mind. You know how filthy you are.
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  Speaker 4: You know how nasty you are. And here God made
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  Speaker 4: you something and you done fooled around and believe your
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  Speaker 4: own press. It's entitlement. It's entitlement. I gave you strength
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  Speaker 4: to run. I gave your body agility. I gave your
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  Speaker 4: mind acuity. I put you into a place of opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I put you into a place of opportunity that people
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  Speaker 4: who were more talented couldn't get in and I let
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  Speaker 4: you in. And I let you in even though you
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  Speaker 4: had less talent. I let you in because you had humility.
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  Speaker 4: And if you have humility, I can give you the talent.
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  Speaker 4: But if you have the talent and you don't have
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  Speaker 4: the right attitude, I have to deny you because you
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  Speaker 4: feel entitled. When you entitle a property, you entitle ownership.
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  Speaker 4: You entitle rights. You entitle certain privileges that come with entitlement.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, the value of the property goes up with entitlement.
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  Speaker 4: There's something that when you're in the process of buying property,
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  Speaker 4: that when the property is entitled, the whole valuation of
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  Speaker 4: the property accelerates because it has been entitled. And you
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  Speaker 4: can't entitle your own property. Entitlement has to come from
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  Speaker 4: somebody on the outside who perceives it at a higher value.
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  Speaker 4: But you're trying to entitle yourself. And that's why the
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  Speaker 4: door keeps closing in your face and your nose gets
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  Speaker 4: busted and your lips are bleeding. Because I wish I
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  Speaker 4: could buy you for what you're worth and sell you
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  Speaker 4: for what you think you're worth. I can live off
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  Speaker 4: the profit the rest of my life. That's entitlement. That's entitlement.
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  Speaker 4: That's entitlement. Slap somebody and say, humble yourself. If you
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  Speaker 4: think God's going to take you up, humble yourself. If
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  Speaker 4: you think God's going to give you wisdom, if you
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  Speaker 4: think God's going to give you talent, if you think
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  Speaker 4: God's going to give you wealth, humble yourself. If you
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  Speaker 4: think God's going to make you a leader, humble yourself.
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  Speaker 4: And the more he takes you up, the lower you
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  Speaker 4: got to go. The more you get good at what
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  Speaker 4: you do, the lower you got to be about it.
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  Speaker 4: The more talented you become, the more doors he opens,
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  Speaker 4: the more ways he made. God only blessed you according
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  Speaker 4: to his eternal purpose. He didn't bless you according to
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  Speaker 4: your ambition. He didn't bless you because your mama told
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  Speaker 4: you you was cute. He didn't bless you because you
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  Speaker 4: got all kind of alphabets behind your name. God blessed
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  Speaker 4: you according to his own good pleasure and he chose
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  Speaker 4: to bless you. So that's why you ought to have
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  Speaker 4: a praise because it's just his choice. He chose to
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  Speaker 4: bless you. You didn't earn it. You didn't deserve it.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't dig the ditch. You didn't build the van.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't build the tower. You didn't set the hedge.
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  Speaker 4: You walked in all of that stuff. You stepped into it.
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  Speaker 4: Who am I talking to? Blessed people know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about. Have you ever walked into something and you
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  Speaker 4: don't even know yourself how you got there? You sit
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  Speaker 4: there trying to look like you're supposed to be there.
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  Speaker 4: But when you go home at night, you say, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: what in the world are you doing to put me
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  Speaker 4: in a situation like that? And you got to be
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  Speaker 4: humble because you know you could mess it up at
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  Speaker 4: any moment. And for fear of failure, you got to,
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  Speaker 4: it's better to lay on your face Than to fall
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  Speaker 4: on your face. All God wanted them to do was
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  Speaker 4: to be a good steward. Over what he's given you.
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  Speaker 4: What has God given you? What has God dressed and
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  Speaker 4: bought and dug and prepared and built. And put it
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  Speaker 4: within your reach. And gave you proximity to things that
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  Speaker 4: you never would have gotten on your own. And now
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  Speaker 4: that you're in them, can you stand to be blessed?
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  Speaker 4: Can you handle being blessed? Can you handle favor? Can
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  Speaker 4: you handle what you're asking for? Or are you so
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  Speaker 4: full of ego that you are entitled? I should be
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  Speaker 4: the one not preaching. When are they going to use me?
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  Speaker 4: I should be the one leading the song. That's why
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  Speaker 4: you're not. It don't have nothing to do with your voice.
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  Speaker 4: It has something to do with your attitude. When you
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  Speaker 4: humble yourself and say, Lord, I don't even have no
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  Speaker 4: right to be standing up or singing no song in
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  Speaker 4: front of all those people. Because you know what I
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  Speaker 4: did last week. And you know what I did last month.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what ran through my mind while I
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  Speaker 4: was getting dressed. And yet you choose to bless me.
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  Speaker 4: And when I sing, I start crying. Because I recognize
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  Speaker 4: that the real testimony is that you did so much
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  Speaker 4: with so little. That's my real testimony. You did so
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  Speaker 4: much with so little. And when you see somebody trying
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  Speaker 4: to be big, they're real little. Oh, this is so good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say it again. When you see somebody
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  Speaker 4: trying to be real big, it's a sure sign they're
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  Speaker 4: real little. That entitlement rests in the hands of people
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  Speaker 4: who never did anything to earn what has been given them.
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  Speaker 4: And they are acting like they dug, like they built,
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  Speaker 4: like they had the back, like they built the tower.
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  Speaker 4: They're acting like they own something that they're just a
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  Speaker 4: steward of. The truth of the matter is God has
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  Speaker 4: brought them into a place of favor. He's brought them
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  Speaker 4: into a place of grace. I wish I had some
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  Speaker 4: people who had just stumbled into some grace. And the
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  Speaker 4: other people are in there because they knew somebody. And
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  Speaker 4: the other people are in there because their uncle was somebody.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even know how you got in there. You're
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  Speaker 4: walking around like Gomer Pyle saying, golly. Golly, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how. Golly, I can't believe I fooled around and
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  Speaker 4: earned that property. Golly, I can't believe I got out
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  Speaker 4: of debt. Golly, I can't believe I finally got more
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  Speaker 4: than one credit card. Golly. I bought me a new car. Golly,
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  Speaker 4: I'm headed somewhere. Golly, I got different streams of income.
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  Speaker 4: There was a time I couldn't hardly feed myself. I
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  Speaker 4: was eating beans and rice. Golly. See, you got to
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  Speaker 4: remind yourself. You got to come against this because this
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  Speaker 4: entitlement is a spirit. Can I go deeper? Entitlement is
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  Speaker 4: a spirit. The Bible calls it pride. And it said,
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  Speaker 4: pride cometh before a fall. And of all things that
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  Speaker 4: God hates, God doesn't just hate pride. He hates a
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  Speaker 4: proud look. If you look proud, if you look uppity,
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  Speaker 4: if you walk around with your nose up in the air,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: God hates your face. he hates the way you look
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  Speaker 4: he hates the way you stand all that is in
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  Speaker 4: the world is not about dancing it's not about going
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  Speaker 4: to a strip club that's not what he's talking about
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  Speaker 4: that's worldly but that's not what he's talking about all
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  Speaker 4: that is in the world is the lust of the
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  Speaker 4: eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of
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  Speaker 4: life and we preach about the lust of the eye
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  Speaker 4: And we preach about the lust of the flesh because
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  Speaker 4: those are sins you can see. But we don't say
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  Speaker 4: anything about the pride of life because the pride of
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  Speaker 4: life can hide itself in a choir room. The pride
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  Speaker 4: of life can hide itself behind scriptures. The pride of
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  Speaker 4: life can hide itself behind fake humility, nice deeds, doing
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  Speaker 4: things to help people, trying to get credit as if
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  Speaker 4: you were benevolent. But you know you don't like people.
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  Speaker 4: You did that for you. The pride of life hides out.
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  Speaker 4: The pride of life loves to hang around in church.
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  Speaker 4: And God said, I hate pride so bad that if
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  Speaker 4: you look like you're proud, I despise the way your
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  Speaker 4: face looks. I despise the fact that you won't cry.
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  Speaker 4: I despise the fact that you won't lay prostrate on
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  Speaker 4: the floor. I despise the fact that you got the
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  Speaker 4: nerve to be important when you could be in jail,
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  Speaker 4: when you could be locked up, when you could be
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  Speaker 4: sleeping up under a bridge. If I hadn't intervened in
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  Speaker 4: your life, you'd be a drug addict. With a needle
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  Speaker 4: hanging out your arm. And now you're too proud to
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  Speaker 4: worship me. You ought to beat everybody on the floor.
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  Speaker 4: You ought to be down on your face. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know who I'm preaching to. You ought to be the
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  Speaker 4: first one to hit the floor. While everybody else is
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  Speaker 4: done dancing. You ought to be laying out in the floor.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know if it had not been for the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: That was on your side. You would have been swallowed up.
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  Speaker 4: You have no right to have a sense of deserving.
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  Speaker 4: You have no right to fuss at somebody. That's my seat.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean that's your seat? You was going
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  Speaker 4: to hell in a handbasket and you got the nerve
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  Speaker 4: to have a seat. You ain't got no seat. Shut up.
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  Speaker 4: Sit down wherever you can sit down. That's my chair.
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  Speaker 4: I'm somebody. I need to be brought in this way.
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  Speaker 4: I need to be handled that way. Shut up. God
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  Speaker 4: knows you. He saw you up under the bush. He
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  Speaker 4: saw you up under the tree. You act like you're entitled.
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  Speaker 4: You act like you have a right to this, but
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  Speaker 4: you know the truth. And because you won't tell the truth,
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  Speaker 4: you won't be free. That's why you can't worship. That's
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  Speaker 4: why you can't praise. That's why you can't lay prostrate
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  Speaker 4: because you are trying to look big to people. But
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  Speaker 4: when you give up on trying to impress people and
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: humble yourself, before God, it's funny. The lower you go,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: the more God will raise you because God knows he
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  Speaker 4: can trust you with a blessing. He knows he can
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  Speaker 4: put you in a vineyard that you didn't grow. He
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  Speaker 4: knows that you don't have to dig everywhere else. You
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  Speaker 4: don't have to build every tower. You don't have to
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  Speaker 4: handle every issue. You don't have to plant every hedge.
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  Speaker 4: I'll put boundaries in your life. You know you didn't
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  Speaker 4: always have no boundaries. God put boundaries in your life.
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  Speaker 4: And if he removes the boundaries, you will do everything
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  Speaker 4: you ever did and some more on top of that.
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  Speaker 4: If you've got any willpower, it's because God put hedges
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  Speaker 4: in your life. And don't you act entitled or above
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  Speaker 4: anybody else because there but for the grace of God...
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to preach in a minute. I said there
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  Speaker 4: but for the grace of God. I don't get no
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  Speaker 4: glory out of watching anybody fall, watching anybody go down.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's fun. I don't think that's entertaining
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  Speaker 4: because I always know it could have been me. And
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  Speaker 4: it will be you because the same people that are
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  Speaker 4: with you today will cut your throat tomorrow. And you
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  Speaker 4: got to stop rejoicing in other people's downfall. You need
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  Speaker 4: a spirit of humility. Not entitlement. It's about time she
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  Speaker 4: had it coming. She had that coming. She deserved every
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  Speaker 4: bit of that. Who are you to be handing out
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  Speaker 4: sentences to somebody? If you got what you deserve, you'd
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  Speaker 4: be burning up right now. We'd have to get a
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  Speaker 4: fire extinguisher to put out the fire. You'd burn up
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  Speaker 4: the whole pew if you got what you deserve. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: How dare you sit up and talk about what somebody
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  Speaker 4: else deserves. I'm just in the first verse. I haven't
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  Speaker 4: got out the first verse yet because I'm locked up
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  Speaker 4: in the grace. I'm locked up in the grace. I'm
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  Speaker 4: locked up in the grace of God. I'm locked up
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  Speaker 4: in the fact that these fellas put no work in
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  Speaker 4: and yet they're in charge of everything. Look at you
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  Speaker 4: running stuff you didn't have to pay for. You didn't
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  Speaker 4: have to pay for none of it. And God put
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  Speaker 4: you in that office suite. God opened up that door.
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  Speaker 4: God gave you that opportunity. God gave you a child
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  Speaker 4: when the doctor said you'd never be able to have
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  Speaker 4: a child. God opened up your womb and gave you
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  Speaker 4: a child. And if anybody else is a baby. But
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  Speaker 4: every time you rock it, it's a miracle. Because you
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  Speaker 4: know God did something supernatural. Who am I talking to
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  Speaker 4: in this place? I'm talking to somebody. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: who it is. That's why you shout over stuff that
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  Speaker 4: people don't understand. They don't understand why you're shouting about it.
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  Speaker 4: Because your miracle is somebody else's normal. I said your
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  Speaker 4: miracle is somebody else's normal. So what I'm after is
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: to tear down that sense of automatic deserving. Someone with
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  Speaker 4: a sense of entitlement feels the good outcomes, respect, success, resources,
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  Speaker 4: attention should come to them by default. It's not about
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  Speaker 4: fair reward for effort. It's an assumption of old benefits.
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  Speaker 4: Just because your husband is good to you doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: that you deserve it. Just because your wife is kind
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  Speaker 4: to you doesn't mean that you deserve it. It's an assumption.
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  Speaker 4: Because you're worth, you think that you are worth more
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  Speaker 4: than you are. You think that you are in a
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  Speaker 4: place of uniqueness. It is a spirit of entitlement. And
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  Speaker 4: God has taken these people. And what I want you
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  Speaker 4: to see out of this first verse is that, oh,
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  Speaker 4: there's so much I want you to see. There's so
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  Speaker 4: much I want you to see. First, I want you
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  Speaker 4: to see that the first verse of this text is
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  Speaker 4: really just a type of the Garden of Eden. I
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  Speaker 4: want you to see that what God did for them
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  Speaker 4: in the parable is a picture of what God did
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  Speaker 4: for humanity in the Garden of Eden. That he built
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  Speaker 4: the garden and finished the garden out and put a
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  Speaker 4: system of irrigation in the garden and put a place
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  Speaker 4: of fruition in the garden before he created the man.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't create the man until the sixth day. And
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  Speaker 4: by the sixth day, the stars were already in heaven
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  Speaker 4: and the sun was already shining and the days were
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  Speaker 4: passing in order. And he had already established an environment
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  Speaker 4: that had an oxygen enough for you to breathe, that
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  Speaker 4: had night enough for you to rest. That had ability
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  Speaker 4: enough for you to think. And God didn't bring you
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  Speaker 4: into an unfinished earth. He finished the earth. And then
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  Speaker 4: made you out of his finished work. And brought you
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  Speaker 4: into the finished work of God. In fact you were
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the last thing God did. The only thing God did
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  Speaker 4: after creating man. Was to pull the woman out of
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  Speaker 4: the man. Hallelujah. And the woman didn't come until everything
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  Speaker 4: was done. That's why y'all ask so many questions. Where
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  Speaker 4: are we going? What time are we going to get there?
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  Speaker 4: Who's going with us? What do they serve on the menu?
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  Speaker 4: What part of town is that in? What are they
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  Speaker 4: going to be wearing? What are you going to be wearing?
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  Speaker 4: What time does it open up? What time does it close?
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  Speaker 4: The reason you ask so many questions is that you
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  Speaker 4: didn't come into anything unfinished. You were created in the
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  Speaker 4: finished work of Jesus Christ where all the questions could
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  Speaker 4: be answered before the woman came forward. God didn't bring
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  Speaker 4: you in. You were the crescendo of the creation. And
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: he brought you in at a time that all questions
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  Speaker 4: could be answered. And he didn't bring you in until
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: the man was enamored with you. He didn't bring you
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  Speaker 4: in until there was a man saying, whoa, man. Good
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  Speaker 4: God almighty. Look at that woman right there. She's bone
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  Speaker 4: of my bone and flesh of my flesh. He didn't
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  Speaker 4: bring you in until there was somebody to adore you.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: And that's why you need to be adored. You need
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  Speaker 4: to feel beautiful. You need to feel appreciated because you
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  Speaker 4: were created in an environment of growth. So if you're
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  Speaker 4: taking notes, I want you to understand that this is
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  Speaker 4: a habit of God of creating you into an environment
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  Speaker 4: of growth. He did it in the Garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 4: He did it in the tabernacle. He did not start
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  Speaker 4: the ordinances before he finished the furniture. He made sure
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  Speaker 4: everything was overlaid and all the artisans had completed their work.
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  Speaker 4: And then he brought the priests in. Into that which
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: was finished. He didn't bring the priest. In the work
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  Speaker 4: that the artisans needed to do. The artisans did a work.
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  Speaker 4: That they didn't get to stay in. And the priest
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: got to stay. In a work that they didn't get
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  Speaker 4: to do. Because God is a provider. And God will
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  Speaker 4: provide for you. Everything you need before you need it.
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  Speaker 4: And let you step into something. He'll let you step
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  Speaker 4: into something. He'll let you step into something. He'll let
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  Speaker 4: you step into something. I wish I was preaching to you.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I had some really blessed people that could
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: admit that you just stepped into something. You was just
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: having some coffee and you stepped into it. You wasn't
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  Speaker 4: even on the job interview. And you just stepped into it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you got so many haters. Because they
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: feel like it ought to be them. And they feel entitled.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: But you weren't entitled. You just stepped into it. And
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: that's why when you think of the goodness of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: And all that he's done for you, your soul cries
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  Speaker 4: out hallelujah because you stepped into it. Somebody stomped your foot.
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  Speaker 4: I stepped into it. God said everywhere your feet trod,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: let you step in the stuff where people had more
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: preparation and less opportunity. I'm going to put you in
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  Speaker 4: a position of growth. And that's why you got to
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  Speaker 4: be little because you got to grow into it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to put you into a position where the grapes
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  Speaker 4: are growing. They're not finished. I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 4: a tower before I give you a grape. I'm going
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: to give you a bat before I give you a grape.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I'm going to open up doors for you and build
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: hedges before I produce grapes. So you will grow into
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: it together. Oh, shut up. I don't know who I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: talking to. But somebody in this room is growing into something.
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  Speaker 4: And you're wondering why the grapes aren't there yet. When
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: you are ready, the grapes will be ready. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: God's putting you in a place of growth. He's putting
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: you around people that are saying stuff that you don't
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  Speaker 4: even understand. And you're having to Google up under the
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: table trying to figure out what the conversation is doing
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: because you're going to grow into it. God has put
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  Speaker 4: you into a place of growth to stretch you, to
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  Speaker 4: enlarge you, to increase you. God knew you were tired
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: of traveling around behind the 12th yoke of oxen plowing back.
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  Speaker 4: that that you've already mastered and he put you in
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  Speaker 4: a place of growth how many people in this room
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: are in a place of growth right now You're in
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: a place of growth. You're in a place of uncertainty.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: You're in a place where you're not sure of yourself.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: You're in a place where you're not established. You're in
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: a place where you've got to build a brand for yourself.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: You're in a place where you're dealing with people who
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: are used to what you're just stepping into. You don't
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: have the lingo right. You don't have the movement right.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have the fortitude. You don't have the attitude.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: But God put you in a place of growth and
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: then gave you the grace. to grow in a place.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who I'm talking to, but somebody will
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  Speaker 4: admit that God gave you the grace you've got on
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: that job. Didn't even know how to do it. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: God gave you grace while you were trying to figure
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: out how to do it. God gave you grace. That's
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  Speaker 4: why you on Sunday morning, after being dignified all week,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: you got to code switch and come in and start dancing.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: And praising the Lord. Because you and Jesus know that
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  Speaker 4: you don't even have no business making that kind of money.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: You know you didn't grow up with no money. You
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: know you grew up eating beans and rice. You know
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: you grew up eating macaroni out of a box. And
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: now you're a connoisseur of that which is exquisite. Humble
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  Speaker 4: yourself and come on back down. And come back to earth.
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  Speaker 4: You ate everything. You ate Wheaties. You ate some rice patties.
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  Speaker 4: And went to bed hungry. And now it's got to
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  Speaker 4: be this. Or you can't touch it. You are too high.
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  Speaker 4: Come down. To be. Oh my God. To be in
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  Speaker 4: a place of growth. Is such a grace. When a
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  Speaker 4: plant has outgrown its pot, its roots overflow the parameters
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  Speaker 4: of its pot until the roots are growing down the side.
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  Speaker 4: And then if you're wise and you're careful, you will
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  Speaker 4: unpot it from what was too small and put it
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  Speaker 4: into something that was much bigger. Not just so the
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  Speaker 4: plant can grow, but so that your roots can stretch.
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  Speaker 4: God's stretching somebody. Slap three people and say, God's stretching you.
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  Speaker 4: He puts you in a large place. He opened up
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  Speaker 4: some door. He put you in a place of growth.
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  Speaker 4: He put you in a place you got to stretch out.
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  Speaker 4: He knew you couldn't reach the sides. You thought you
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  Speaker 4: was going to be over here like you were over there.
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  Speaker 4: But this is not that. This is a large place.
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  Speaker 4: It's a bigger place. It's demanding more from you. It's
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  Speaker 4: stretching you because God knew the potentials of your root
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  Speaker 4: was bigger than your situation. So God pulled you out
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  Speaker 4: of your situation and put you in a larger situation.
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  Speaker 4: Now you got more dirt than you got root. Now
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  Speaker 4: you got more root than you got water. Now you're
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  Speaker 4: in a situation where you have to grow into it
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  Speaker 4: and you're scared. And I know you're scared and God
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  Speaker 4: knows you're scared and hell knows you're scared and demons
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  Speaker 4: know you're scared. But God knew what you could do
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  Speaker 4: before he put you in that big environment. And if
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  Speaker 4: you'll let him stretch you He'll stretch you in areas
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  Speaker 4: that you begin to grow into things. Words begin to
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  Speaker 4: come to you. Vocabulary comes to you. Humility comes to you.
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  Speaker 4: Grace comes to you. The grace of being placed in
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  Speaker 4: a room full of growth. You want to be a
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  Speaker 4: big fish in a tiny pond. And then when God
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  Speaker 4: puts you into something bigger, you get an attitude because
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  Speaker 4: you're not getting the reactions. You got to grow into it.
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  Speaker 4: You don't see the stewards participating in the building. The
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  Speaker 4: owner did that. The steward's job is to grow into
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  Speaker 4: that which is finished. And now you're stretching for it.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're reaching for it. Now you're thirsty for it.
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  Speaker 4: God gave you something to make you thirsty. God gave
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  Speaker 4: you something to make you pray. God gave you something
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  Speaker 4: to bring you to your knees. God gave you something
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  Speaker 4: that stopped you from being so independent and made you
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  Speaker 4: need somebody's advice. God put you in an environment where
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  Speaker 4: you didn't know so such a much. God put you
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  Speaker 4: into a place where you needed somebody's experience to help
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  Speaker 4: you to navigate in the water. That's why we can't
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  Speaker 4: have ego in the room because ego will shut you
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  Speaker 4: up from being open to to direction. In the multitude
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  Speaker 4: of counsel, there is safety. And you won't get counsel
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  Speaker 4: when you have fooled yourself into thinking that you deserve
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  Speaker 4: something that you just stepped into. If I'm preaching to you,
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  Speaker 4: make some noise. It is the atmosphere of growth. But
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  Speaker 4: the problem was He put greedy people in the atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: of growth. And when you put greed in the atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: of growth, greed will not grow in the atmosphere of
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  Speaker 4: growth because it's only interested in what growth can do
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  Speaker 4: for them. So because your motive isn't right, You won't
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  Speaker 4: see the growth that you really need because that greed
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  Speaker 4: has kicked in. And when that greed kicks in, now
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  Speaker 4: when it's harvest time, greed doesn't show up. Nobody's coming.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's bothering. Nobody's knocking at the door as long as
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  Speaker 4: there's not harvest time. When it's harvest time, that's when
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  Speaker 4: you know what you got. When it's welfare time, you
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  Speaker 4: don't know what you got. When it's food stamp time,
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  Speaker 4: you don't know what you got. But when you get
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  Speaker 4: two or three little zeros behind your check, now you're
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  Speaker 4: starting to find out what you got. And they were greedy.
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  Speaker 4: And so when the man came, this is another way
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  Speaker 4: to detect greed, they were threatened. They were threatened by
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  Speaker 4: their own agreement that they had made with the owner.
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  Speaker 4: That he would give them all of this if they
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  Speaker 4: would set aside just a portion for him. Now they're
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  Speaker 4: not satisfied to have all of this. They want his
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  Speaker 4: portion too. You can't help some people. Because they're not
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  Speaker 4: satisfied with their portion. They want your portion too. Greedy
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  Speaker 4: people are dangerous. Greedy people can't be trusted. Greedy people
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  Speaker 4: can't be left alone in a place of growth because
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  Speaker 4: they will steal. Will a man rob God? A lot
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  Speaker 4: of blessings God won't give people because he can't trust
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  Speaker 4: them with the blessing. And the church is always preaching
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  Speaker 4: about the wilderness. They don't preach about the place of growth.
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  Speaker 4: And you're talking to people about the wilderness as if
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to spend my whole life walking through sand.
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  Speaker 4: When in reality, God keeps testing me with growth to
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  Speaker 4: see if I've grown up enough. to stand to be blessed,
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  Speaker 4: and I won't get beside myself. God keeps dipping you
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  Speaker 4: in favor. I don't know who it is, but God
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: keeps dipping you in favor to see can you handle it.
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  Speaker 4: God keeps giving you opportunity to see if you can
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  Speaker 4: be responsible enough. God keeps dipping you in the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to see if that greed has died out yet. If
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  Speaker 4: in the process of growth, did you grow inside? You
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  Speaker 4: grew outside. You've got all the implications of growth. You've
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  Speaker 4: got all the trinkets of growth. You've got all of
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  Speaker 4: the bracelets and the necklaces and the clothes of growth.
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  Speaker 4: But on the inside, you're just as broke as you
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  Speaker 4: was when you was a little girl. And God keeps
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  Speaker 4: testing you to see if there's any growth on the inside.
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  Speaker 4: Because when you grow on the inside... greed has got
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  Speaker 4: to go. Growing on the inside creates humility. Growing on
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  Speaker 4: the inside means God doesn't have to watch you. Growing
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  Speaker 4: on the inside means you will deliver to him what
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  Speaker 4: is his. Give unto God what is his. Give unto
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  Speaker 4: Caesar what it is. Growing on the inside means God
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  Speaker 4: can give you more because you grew on the inside.
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  Speaker 4: Some of y'all just now coming into stuff that God
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  Speaker 4: talked to you about 10 years ago, but you just
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  Speaker 4: now grew into a place That God could bless you
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  Speaker 4: like he really wants to bless you. And I know
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  Speaker 4: you got to sit there and act like you don't
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm talking about. But me and God know
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  Speaker 4: that you know exactly what I'm talking about. If God
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  Speaker 4: would have given you that 10 years ago. your head
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  Speaker 4: would have been so big you couldn't have got through
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  Speaker 4: the door. He had to wait for you to shrink
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  Speaker 4: down to be able to receive the blessing that he
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  Speaker 4: had for you. It wasn't that God, you were waiting
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  Speaker 4: on God. God was waiting on you. God was waiting
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  Speaker 4: on you to come to a place where you could
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  Speaker 4: handle what he had for you. And some of you,
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: God's still waiting on you to grow up enough so
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  Speaker 4: that he can give you. And he keeps showing you
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  Speaker 4: something that's not manifesting in your life. And you keep saying,
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  Speaker 4: why are you showing me this? And I'm not coming
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  Speaker 4: into it. And your answer has come today. He's showing
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  Speaker 4: it to you to let you know it's yours. He's
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: withholding it, waiting on you to grow into it. Greedy
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  Speaker 4: hearts corrupt expansion. Greedy hearts corrupt expansion. Greedy hearts make
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  Speaker 4: you not satisfied to be a steward. You got to
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  Speaker 4: be an owner. Greedy hearts. Listen to this scripture. People
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  Speaker 4: don't quote it often. Woe unto him who prospers with
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  Speaker 4: that which is not his. I'm going to say it
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  Speaker 4: again for the people in the back. Woe unto them
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  Speaker 4: who prospers with that which is not his. The problem
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: with taking God's part and using it to make you
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: look good is that what you call prosperity is really robbery.
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  Speaker 4: You said God increased you. No, you spent them tithes.
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  Speaker 4: You spent that offering. That's not an increase. You increased
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  Speaker 4: with something that was not yours. Years ago, I had
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  Speaker 4: a person on staff whenever I got ready to pay
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  Speaker 4: for dinner. They said, oh no, I got it. I
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: got it. Don't worry about it. I got it. I
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: didn't know they was using my credit card. It's easy
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  Speaker 4: to be generous when you're using somebody else's money. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: y'all ain't going to help me. Ain't nobody going to
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: help me in here. And don't nobody know what I'm
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: talking about in here. Don't nobody know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to be generous when you're using somebody else's stuff.
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  Speaker 4: They told me to put my money in my pocket
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: like they had it handled. And then they whipped out
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  Speaker 4: my corporate card and paid for the bill and said,
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  Speaker 4: and lied and said, I got it. No, you don't.
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  Speaker 4: If you got it, use your credit card. The problem
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  Speaker 4: with envy and greed is that it never feels the
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  Speaker 4: satiety of enough. The satiety is the thing that God
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: put in your body That lets your brain know you
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  Speaker 4: are full. And doctors teach us it takes about 20
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  Speaker 4: minutes for your neurological system to convey to your brain
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  Speaker 4: that your stomach is full. And that's why they tell
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  Speaker 4: you to eat slow. Because you can be full and
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  Speaker 4: not know it. And by the time you know you're full,
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  Speaker 4: you're stuffed. And you have overeaten everything because it took
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  Speaker 4: you that long for your brain to realize that your blessing.
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  Speaker 4: The reason I'm preaching like this is some of you,
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  Speaker 4: it hadn't hit your head yet. That God has blessed you.
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  Speaker 4: That God has opened doors for you. That God has
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  Speaker 4: made ways for you. And you say you are not
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  Speaker 4: going anywhere. And you forgot where you could have been.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: You forgot where you should have been. You're looking at
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: all this stuff on Instagram and on TV and comparing
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  Speaker 4: yourself with that. You need to look at where you
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  Speaker 4: came from. And see how far God brought you. And
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: start thanking God. I want to be the nerve system
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  Speaker 4: that carries to your head that God's been good to you.
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  Speaker 4: That sister next to you that keeps jumping up and down.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: That gets on your nerves. It ought to get on
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: your nerves. Because you ought to knock her down. Giving
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  Speaker 4: God the praise. for what you didn't go through, for
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  Speaker 4: what God did in your life. You ought to push
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  Speaker 4: her over in the floor and say, get out of
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  Speaker 4: my way. You can't tell it. Let me tell it.
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  Speaker 4: What the Lord has done for me, where the Lord
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  Speaker 4: brought me from. Oh girl, you don't know nothing about
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  Speaker 4: praising God. You don't know nothing about it. I know
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: what it is to be on the back porch. Picking
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: peas with my grandmother. I know what it is to
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  Speaker 4: smell cow dung in the backyard. You don't know nothing
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: about praising God. Let me show you how to praise God.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: I know what it is when I had to do
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  Speaker 4: my hair myself and bergamot grease and a hot comb
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: was on the stove and mama was frying my head. Now,
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: if your right beautician ain't in town, you can't even
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: go to the beauty parlor. Ain't you cute with your
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: fine self? You've forgotten where you came from. You ought
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: to knock that girl down. Praise God. How dare you
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  Speaker 4: let somebody out praise you? Let me tell y'all, how
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: dare you let somebody out praise you as good as
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  Speaker 4: God been to you. How dare you let them sit
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  Speaker 4: there and give God more glory than you did. You
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  Speaker 4: owe him a praise. You owe him a supernatural praise.
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  Speaker 4: You owe him a shout. You owe him some victory.
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  Speaker 4: You owe him some rejoicing. You owe him a dance.
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  Speaker 4: If you praised him right, we'd have to shut the
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: service down. When you look back over your shoulder and
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: remember all the things that God did for you, it'll
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: make you praise him in the balcony. It'll make you
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: dance down his steps. It'll make you run the aisles
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: in the back of the church. When you think what
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  Speaker 4: God brought you out of. When you think about where
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  Speaker 4: you could have been. When you think about the domestic
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  Speaker 4: violence you were in. And how the gun didn't go off.
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  Speaker 4: And how they didn't kill you. And you made it
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  Speaker 4: out alive. And your children came out alive. How dare
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  Speaker 4: you sit there and not praise the Lord. When they
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: were trying to blow your brains out. And God delivered you.
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  Speaker 4: When you think about you were sleeping with somebody's husband
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  Speaker 4: and they didn't kill you. And God kept you alive
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  Speaker 4: while you were wrong in your sin, in your dirt.
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  Speaker 4: You ought to beat everybody in here. Praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I'm going to give you a chance. It's
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: going to be a quick chance. You can take it
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: or you can leave it. But I'm going to give
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: you five minutes to get up on your feet and
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: praise God like he's really good. Praise God like he's
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  Speaker 4: really good. Praise God like he can do anything. Praise
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: God like he can do everything. Praise God like you
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  Speaker 4: know for yourself where he brought you from. Praise God
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: like you're not ashamed. Praise God like you acknowledge the
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  Speaker 4: fact that God brought you through stuff. That he didn't
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  Speaker 4: give you what you deserve. That he didn't take you
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  Speaker 4: out when he could have. Praise him out your mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Praise him with the fruit of your lips. Praise him
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  Speaker 4: with the psaltery and the harp. Praise him with the dance.
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  Speaker 4: Praise him with the clapping of your hands. Praise him
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  Speaker 4: with the leaping of your feet. You owe him a praise.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: You could have been in a mental institution. You should
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: have been in an insane house. You should have lost
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: your mind. You should have had a nervous breakdown. But
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: God who is rich in mercy. wherein he loved you
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: when you were talking out of your head. God preserved
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  Speaker 4: you when you thought about killing yourself. God brought you through.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd have had your way, you'd have blown your
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: brains out. I'm going to give you two more minutes
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: to give him the praise. I'm going to give you
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: two minutes to come out of your pride. Come on
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: the way out of your pride. Strip down out of
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: your pride. Come down out of your foolishness and start
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  Speaker 4: praying to God like you ain't got no sin. Because
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  Speaker 4: don't nobody know like you know what the Lord, what
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: the Lord, what the Lord has done for you. He
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  Speaker 4: held your head together. He held your mind together. He
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: held your feet together. I got to quit because I
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: feel the power of God. standing up in my soul.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: I feel the anointing in this place. There's somebody in
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: this place that's got a praise down in you for
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: stuff he did 10 years ago, stuff he did five
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: years ago, stuff he did 20 years ago. You owe
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: him the praise. He kept you in the earth to
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: praise the Lord. He kept you in the earth so
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: that somebody up in the balcony would know that Jesus
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  Speaker 4: is Lord to the glory of God is there anybody
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  Speaker 4: in the balcony that's not afraid to praise the Lord
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  Speaker 4: is there anybody up there that's not afraid to lift
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: him up? Is there anybody online that wants to give
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: God a praise for what he's done in your life?
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Is there anybody in there that knows how to glorify God?
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Is there anybody in here that will lift him up
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: in the beauty of holiness? In the beauty of righteousness,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: in the beauty of survival, is there anybody in here
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: that slept with the lions and God brought you over?
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: Would you give him the praise? Is there anybody in
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: here that they threw in the furnace and you came
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: out and you weren't even smelling like smoke? would you
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: give God a praise is there anybody in here that
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: should have died of COVID you had multiple reasons to
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: die of COVID but God kept you alive is there
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: anybody in here whose mama got sick and you were
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: worried about it and you were halfway across the country
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: but God sent his angels in like nurses to raise
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: your mama up is there anybody in here God kept
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: your kids from being mugged in the street. You ought
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: to open your mouth. You got one minute left. You
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: got 60 seconds left. You got 59 seconds left. You
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: got 58 seconds. You got 57 seconds. You got 55
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: seconds to give God the praise. You got 54 seconds
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: to give God the glory. Come out of your cute
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: self and praise him for what he's done. Praise him.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: I don't care who don't understand it. I don't care
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: what it looks like. I don't care if your co-workers
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: are here. You ought to give him the praise for
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: what he's done. You got four seconds left. For the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: next four seconds, take the roof off this building. Take
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: the roof off the building. I can't hear you. Two
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: seconds left. Open your mouth.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: He's watching you. He's watching you. His eyes are going
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: all over the building looking for your praise. He's waiting
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: on you to praise him. You that he healed from cancer.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: You that he brought out from kidney failure. You that
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: he brought through grief and despair and turmoil. He's waiting
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: on you to give him the praise. The eyes of
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: the Lord are sweeping through the crowds. He's going through
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: the crowd looking for somebody who recognizes it was God.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: All the while, it never was me. It never could
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: be me. I couldn't heal myself. I couldn't save myself.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: I couldn't touch myself. I couldn't help myself. I couldn't
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: stop myself. I couldn't raise myself. But to God I...
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: Be the glory. For the things he's done. He's done it.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: He's done it for me. Tore's done it. If he
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: don't do it no more. He's done it for me.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: He's done it. He's done, done, done, done, done it
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: for me. I got nothing to prove. He's done it
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: for me. And when I think of the goodness of Jesus.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: And all that he's done for me. I don't need
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: a cheerleader. My soul cries out. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: I got to thank you. I got to thank you.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: Because I can't let pride take root in my soul.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: I got to thank you for my couch. I got
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: to thank you for my living room. I got to
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: thank you for my guest bedroom. I got to thank
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: you for my garage. and a car in the garage.
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  Speaker 4: I got to thank you for strengthening my body. I
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  Speaker 4: got to thank you for my heart pumping blood. I
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  Speaker 4: got to thank you for my lungs and tissues. I
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  Speaker 4: got to thank you for my corpuscles. With all of
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  Speaker 4: my might, I must give God the praise. Am I
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  Speaker 4: by myself? Is there anybody that'll help me? Is there
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  Speaker 4: one person in the room that's got something to praise
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  Speaker 4: God for? Shall you ask? Shout yes. Shout yes. Shout yes.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes. Shout yes again.
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  Speaker 4: I won't get to point four, but I will give
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  Speaker 4: you point three. Point three. Point three. It's gratitude. So
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: we went from growth to grief to gratitude. I want
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  Speaker 4: you to understand the difference between praise and gratitude. Praise
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  Speaker 4: is an action. It's something that you do. Gratitude is
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  Speaker 4: an attitude. It's something that you are. you don't have
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  Speaker 4: to move anything to be grateful. You can still drive
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  Speaker 4: the car down 30 and be grateful. You can still
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  Speaker 4: answer the phone and be grateful. If you're praising people,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to hang up on them because praise
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  Speaker 4: is an action and you got to praise them with
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  Speaker 4: the fruit of your lips. But gratitude don't have to
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  Speaker 4: say anything because it's an attitude. Gratitude is an appreciation
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  Speaker 4: for what he's done in your life gratitude says I
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  Speaker 4: recognize I recognize that I don't deserve where you brought
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  Speaker 4: me and I owe you I owe you so much
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  Speaker 4: and I give you so little I murmur and complain
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  Speaker 4: and fuss and carry on And don't want to be
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  Speaker 4: bothered with nobody as if I had the right to
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  Speaker 4: be there. When if it wasn't for the grace of God,
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  Speaker 4: I would be on the other side of the problem.
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  Speaker 4: I'd rather give the answer than to be the problem.
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  Speaker 4: And I have gratitude. Gratitude will make you sing a
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  Speaker 4: song that has no words. Gratitude will make you dance
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  Speaker 4: in the shower. Gratitude will make you giggle in the
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  Speaker 4: car by yourself. Gratitude will make your neighbors think you're crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Gratitude will let you sit up and let somebody insult
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  Speaker 4: you and you'll be smiling at them and they think
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  Speaker 4: you lost your mind. They don't know you heard what
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  Speaker 4: they said but it didn't hit you because you had
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  Speaker 4: your umbrella up. The umbrella of gratitude. Gratitude will increase
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  Speaker 4: what God has given you. It will open up doors
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  Speaker 4: for you. It will change your behavior after your attitude.
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  Speaker 4: You've been asking God to change your behavior when what
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  Speaker 4: you need to do is to ask God to change
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  Speaker 4: your attitude. Your behavior is a derivative of your attitude.
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  Speaker 4: And your attitude is a derivative of the way you think.
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  Speaker 4: If you change the way you think, it will change
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  Speaker 4: your attitude. If you change your attitude, it will give
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  Speaker 4: you increase. It will enlarge you. It will build you up.
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  Speaker 4: You are not fighting a demon. You're not fighting a demon.
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  Speaker 4: You think you're fighting demons. You're not fighting demons. You
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  Speaker 4: ain't even ready for a demon. You haven't done enough
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  Speaker 4: good to attract the devil. There ain't no demon chasing you.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't no demon keeping you up at night. It's
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  Speaker 4: you keeping you up at night. It's you and not
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  Speaker 4: being willing to give up that attitude and lay down
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  Speaker 4: in gratitude. When was the last time you got in
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  Speaker 4: your bed and thanked God for your bed? When was
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  Speaker 4: the last time you had gratefulness to tears? You whined
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  Speaker 4: and cry about everything else when was the last time
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  Speaker 4: that you couldn't find a word to express how differently
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  Speaker 4: your life could have turned out are you hearing what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying to you I'm almost done. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to stand up on your feet. There's something in this place,
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  Speaker 4: in this room right now, that we need to pay
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  Speaker 4: attention to, that we really need to give the most
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  Speaker 4: earnest heed to. People who are entitled don't know they're entitled.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: The signal hadn't gone from the stomach to the brain yet.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know they're entitled. In fact, they feel like
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  Speaker 4: the victim. They feel like they're being mistreated. That they're
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  Speaker 4: not getting what they're worth. Because they think so highly
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  Speaker 4: of themselves. Anytime you try to bring them back to earth,
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  Speaker 4: they think you're trying to pull them down. So it
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  Speaker 4: is possible... For this message not to hit you anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Because you don't know God is talking to you. You
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  Speaker 4: don't know you're entitled. It's like kids raised with so much.
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  Speaker 4: That it's their normal. Your ceiling is their floor. They
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  Speaker 4: leave the milk out. They leave the lights on. They
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  Speaker 4: go shopping in your house. Go to the grocery store
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  Speaker 4: in your pantry. Because what you work to build is
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  Speaker 4: their normal. And they don't know that they're entitled. And
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  Speaker 4: you're frustrated because you don't feel appreciated. And you don't
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  Speaker 4: feel appreciated because you know how much it costs you.
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  Speaker 4: To make it possible. You know how many times you
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  Speaker 4: had to go out when you wanted to stay in.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know because they stayed in while you went out.
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  Speaker 4: So entitlement doesn't announce itself. Do you hear what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: Entitlement doesn't announce itself. You can be secretly entitled and
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  Speaker 4: not know it. Because the blessings that you've enjoyed have
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  Speaker 4: become normal to you. And you think you're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: have it. Look at the stuff you think you're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to have. You're talking about where you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 4: Who told you you was naked? Who told you where
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  Speaker 4: you were supposed to be? That mark you conjured up
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  Speaker 4: in your mind about what you deserve. How dare you
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  Speaker 4: Are you serious? I'm not getting what I deserve. You're right.
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  Speaker 4: You're not getting what you deserve. You deserve to go
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  Speaker 4: to hell. You don't have to edit this tape. You
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  Speaker 4: deserve to be completely ignored. You deserve to be completely ignored.
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  Speaker 4: You deserve to lead no one, teach nobody, say anything.
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  Speaker 4: You deserve to be mistreated and ostracized. All the people
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  Speaker 4: you didn't hurt. And you talking about that hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't hurt when you was giving it out. Pain
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  Speaker 4: ain't pain till you feel it. And here you are.
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  Speaker 5: Entitled.
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  Speaker 4: Now, God, I tried to preach. Lord, I tried to
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  Speaker 4: preach what you gave me. I know I didn't finish.
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  Speaker 4: But I tried to tell him, I asked for a
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  Speaker 4: great apocalypse to hit this place, which means a great unveiling.
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  Speaker 4: And I can't do that without you. To turn the
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  Speaker 4: flashlight around backwards, which shines on me rather than shining
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  Speaker 4: on everybody else. And I can see that I'm handling
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  Speaker 4: my life in the spirit of entitlement. And I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: You must be so disappointed to have done so much
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  Speaker 4: for me and gotten so little credit. You must feel
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  Speaker 4: like some of our parents feel who have done so much.
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  Speaker 4: And you get the complaint, but you don't get the
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  Speaker 4: appreciation I'm always on my knees asking you for something else.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I ate up my half and ate up
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  Speaker 4: your half. I spent my stuff and your stuff. And
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  Speaker 4: it still wasn't enough. I ripped you off so I
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  Speaker 4: could have a dress to impress somebody I would never
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  Speaker 4: see again. Because they were more important to me than you.
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  Speaker 4: I would rather offend you and impress her than offend
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  Speaker 4: her and impress you. I'm sorry. My priorities have been
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  Speaker 4: in the wrong place. If it were an action, I
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: could stop doing it. But because it's an attitude, I
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: need your help. I can have an attitude and not
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  Speaker 4: even know it. I can say, that's just how I am.
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  Speaker 4: I can weave it into my personality profile and use
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  Speaker 4: it to describe myself, to convince myself that I can't
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  Speaker 4: change myself because I owned it to myself. And that
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  Speaker 4: ain't how I am. I picked that up. Hanging around
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  Speaker 4: other folks. I didn't used to be like that. I
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  Speaker 4: used to be grateful. When you brought me out of
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  Speaker 4: that hospital, I was grateful. When you pulled me out
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  Speaker 4: of that jail, I was grateful. When the doctor said
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  Speaker 4: I'd be dead in three months and I lived through
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  Speaker 4: my fourth month, I had a party for 30 days
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  Speaker 4: over another month to breathe the air. That's not who
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  Speaker 4: I am. I have lost myself in this crazy world
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  Speaker 4: trying to be like them, and they're not happy. Today, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: I cast down the spirit of entitlement. If you're listening online,
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  Speaker 4: I want you to literally reach up and pull it down. Entitlement.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to come down. It's coming down to the floor.
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  Speaker 4: If you're in this room and this message hits you anywhere,
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  Speaker 4: me and God have been walking the floor with this
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  Speaker 4: text We've been walking the floor with this text. And
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 4: Talking to the right people. And there's somebody in this
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  Speaker 4: room you started not to come. But God pushed you
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  Speaker 4: to be here. He pushed you to be here. Because
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  Speaker 4: he wanted you to hear this. Because he's tired of
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: you praying for the same thing as if he hadn't
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  Speaker 4: been good to you. And if you suspect That you've
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  Speaker 4: been acting entitled. Get down to this altar. Get down
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  Speaker 4: to it now. And let's fix this attitude. If it
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  Speaker 4: were the praise break. And I ask you to jump
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  Speaker 4: in now. You jump in now. You can do that
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  Speaker 4: real good. Because it's an action. But gratitude is an attitude.
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  Speaker 4: My attitude needs adjustment. I'm sorry that I could receive
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  Speaker 4: so much. and acknowledge so little I've been a spoiled
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  Speaker 4: brat and I told everybody it's just how I am
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  Speaker 4: this is not me I refuse to own this spirit
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  Speaker 4: another day When the master came back, he killed all
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  Speaker 4: of the sharecroppers. They didn't need to die. But they
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  Speaker 4: did have to reap what they sowed. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: save you judgment. The Bible said if you judge yourself,
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  Speaker 4: you have no need to be judged. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: say it again. It said if you judge yourself, you
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  Speaker 4: will have no need to be judged. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: say it to you right now. You're watching on television.
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  Speaker 4: If you judge yourself, you'd have no need to be judged.
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  Speaker 4: If somebody you need to call and apologize, they'll owe
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  Speaker 4: you nothing. It's the danger of entitlement. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: it on me. I told God when I was sitting
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  Speaker 4: over there dying, I said, if this is it, I'm
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  Speaker 4: cool with it. Because you've already been good to me.
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  Speaker 4: You've been so good to me. You don't have to
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  Speaker 4: do nothing else. If you want to take me, take me.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to keep me, keep me. That ain't
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  Speaker 4: none of my business. Because if you would have dealt
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  Speaker 4: with me the way you could have, should have, would have,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be gone. So whatever way you bless me, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: I'm cool with it. I just wanted you to be okay.
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  Speaker 4: I was okay. I really was. I was okay.
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  Speaker 5: To live is Christ.
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  Speaker 4: To die is gain.
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  Speaker 5: I was okay.
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  Speaker 4: I was okay. I've been all around this world. I've
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  Speaker 4: been places my mama only read about. I met people
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: that I never thought I would meet. I did things
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  Speaker 4: that I wasn't even trying to do. If I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be ungrateful, what kind of example do I set
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  Speaker 4: for you? I'm teaching you to be greedy. Not grateful.
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  Speaker 4: Close your eyes a moment. Discipline your thoughts for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: And think only of the things that God has done
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  Speaker 4: for you. The things you know he did for you.
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  Speaker 4: The things he did for you personally. The ways he
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  Speaker 4: made you. The people he didn't let curse you and
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  Speaker 4: he didn't let kill you. And they had plots to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: destroy you. And God brought you anyway. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to think about it. I want you to think about it.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to think about yourself as if you
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  Speaker 4: are God's favorite child. As if he dropped his coat
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  Speaker 4: of many colors on you and you are Joseph. And
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  Speaker 4: the prison can't make you forget the favor of God
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  Speaker 4: is on your life. And I want you to be grateful.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: I want you to be so grateful. You're watching online,
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  Speaker 4: I want you to be so grateful till tears run
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  Speaker 4: down your face. My sect to me and all, be grateful.
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  Speaker 4: Double mastectomy. You're sitting there with a double mastectomy, but
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: they got all the cancer. Be grateful. You did dialysis yesterday,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: but you're still here. Be grateful. You got to take
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: your insulin shot before dinner, but be grateful. Be grateful.
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  Speaker 4: Lift your hands. And give all of that entitlement back.
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  Speaker 4: Give it back. Give it away. Cast it on Jesus
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  Speaker 4: so he can carry it to the cross. Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 4: I thank you for this moment. I thank you for
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  Speaker 4: this second. I thank you for my children and my
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  Speaker 4: wife and my grandchildren. I thank you for my mama
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  Speaker 4: and daddy that raised me. I thank you for standing
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  Speaker 4: up at me when I wanted to run away. I
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  Speaker 4: thank you for healing me when I was sick I
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  Speaker 4: thank you for touching my mind when I was distraught.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you for bringing me through danger, seen and unseen.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you for favoring me. For favoring me. I
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  Speaker 4: thank you because you've been a fence all around me.
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  Speaker 4: Every day you protected me and kept me all along
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  Speaker 4: this way. I thank you. I want to thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you for what almost happened and
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: could have happened and should have happened and would have happened.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you for a place to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you for a car to drive.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you because I can breathe real good.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you because I'm oxygenated. I want
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  Speaker 4: to thank you for my energy. I want to thank
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  Speaker 4: you for my drive. Thank you, Jesus. I'm almost 70
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  Speaker 4: and I thank you. I got enough energy to run
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  Speaker 4: all over this church. I thank you, Jesus. My legs work.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: I thank you. My knees are working. I thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 4: I can bend my knees and they don't ache. I
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  Speaker 4: thank you, Lord, for the activity of my limbs. I
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  Speaker 4: thank you that I got my right mind and I
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: can still think and I can still learn. Father, I
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  Speaker 4: thank you. I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 4: .
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  Speaker 5: I'm
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  Speaker 5: so grateful.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry for being spoiled and having little pity parties
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: and temper tantrums. I'm sorry. I give all of it
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  Speaker 4: to you. I renounce it. I repent of it. I'm
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: so grateful. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 5: I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 4: I'm grateful. Lift your hands and open your mouth and
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  Speaker 4: give him the sound of gratitude. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 4: be a word. Just the sound of gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the Potter's house isn't just a place.
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  Speaker 4: It's a movement.
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  Speaker 3: Family, we are so much better when we come together.
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  Speaker 3: And today, we're inviting you to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: something bigger. When you sow a seed, you're planting the
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  Speaker 3: future of hope, healing, and change.
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  Speaker 1: In times of uncertainty, the house stands strong. And because
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  Speaker 1: of you, it keeps standing for others. Your giving isn't
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: just generosity, it's ministry. And what you sow today will
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: be the miracle someone is praying for.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: If this message spoke to you, and if you're ready
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: to step into faith, if you believe in what God
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: is doing here, don't wait. Sow a seed, move in faith.
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  Speaker 3: Every gift, every act of generosity fuels this mission and
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: brings us closer to reaching the lives that need it
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: the most.