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Love Has No Loopholes - Part 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: So Jesus says, who is your neighbor? Was it the priest?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the Levite? Or was it the good Samaritan
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  Speaker 1: who got down off his beast, poured in the oil
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  Speaker 1: and the wine, set you on his own beast and
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  Speaker 1: brought you to the innkeeper's house and all of the
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  Speaker 1: help came through somebody else. that you wouldn't have thought
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  Speaker 1: was your neighbor. Greetings in the name of our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We started it last week. We might as well get
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  Speaker 1: down into it. We're talking about love. The series is
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  Speaker 1: called The Love Letter. And this particular message, I'm continuing.
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  Speaker 1: It says love has no loopholes. Now fasten your seatbelts.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a ride. Check it out.
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  Speaker 1: If you command me to do something, that means I
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  Speaker 1: can do it. Because it wouldn't be fair for you
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  Speaker 1: to command me to do something I can't do. I
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  Speaker 1: command you to be a white man with blonde hair
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  Speaker 1: and blue eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I can scrub and scrub and scrub. If I had time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd tell you a joke. But they might have to
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  Speaker 1: edit it. Little kid up in the hill in West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia saw me. He hadn't seen nobody in my color
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  Speaker 1: in his life. And he looked at me. He said, Mr. Mr. Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: I finally turned around. He said, are you like that
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  Speaker 1: all over? I said, everywhere I could see and everywhere
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  Speaker 1: I could get the mirror to point, it seems to
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  Speaker 1: be a 100% total job. Okay, I'm back on track. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You take that home with you. That don't cost you nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of my little crazy little stories happened to
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  Speaker 1: me when I was going along. If he commands me
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  Speaker 1: to do it, it must be within my power to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be just to command me
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  Speaker 1: to do something that I cannot do. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that love is controllable. Wow, that opens up a whole
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  Speaker 1: nother village over there. Because he legislated love. Love me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, this is how you love me. What I
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  Speaker 1: like about God, God tells you how to love him.
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  Speaker 1: No guessing. Most people want you to guess how to love.
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  Speaker 1: God comes right up. Love me with everything. All your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Want all your mind. All your soul. Ain't core about it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how I want you to love me. He
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  Speaker 1: tells you straight up. And then he says, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if God now legislates love, then love now has indicted
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer. Love has brought an indictment against the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: predicated on the concept that he's guilty. Probably of never
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  Speaker 1: loving the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind,
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  Speaker 1: and soul. But at a very minimum, he is guilty
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  Speaker 1: of not loving his neighbor as himself. And this is
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  Speaker 1: how I know. He's looking for a loophole. Watch this,
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  Speaker 1: watch this, watch this. Y'all doing okay? Y'all good? Y'all good? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: watch this. He says, the Lord who is love made
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  Speaker 1: flesh says, love the Lord thy God with all thy
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind and soul. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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  Speaker 1: And then the lawyer says to the Lord, who is
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor? That's the loophole. He says, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: do you believe? What do you wear? What is your theology?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm going to love you or
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  Speaker 1: not until I find out who is my neighbor. So
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  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be smart. What he is saying is,
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  Speaker 1: do I determine by who lives next door to me?
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  Speaker 1: Do I determine by my ethnicity? Do I determine by
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  Speaker 1: my politics? Do I determine by my orthodoxy? Who is
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor? Okay, y'all with me? If you don't understand that,
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  Speaker 1: then you have never understood the story of the Good Samaritan.
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  Speaker 1: Because the story of the Good Samaritan is Jesus' answer
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  Speaker 1: to the lawyer's loophole. Jesus looks at him. Watch this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. I'm telling you this, I'll be gone. He says,
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  Speaker 1: who is my neighbor? And Jesus doesn't even answer him.
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  Speaker 1: He says, a certain man Jesus is so cool. He's
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  Speaker 1: so cool. He's so cool. Jesus says, a certain man
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  Speaker 1: went down from Jerusalem. The very fact that he said
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  Speaker 1: he went down from Jerusalem says he's a Jew. To Jericho.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, he fell amongst thieves who stripped him
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  Speaker 1: and wounded him and left him half dead. He says,
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  Speaker 1: A Levite passed by and saw him. Levite, Levitical priesthood.
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  Speaker 1: Your pastors. Your religious orthodoxy. Those that epitomize the sacraments
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  Speaker 1: of your faith. The tenants, the one who handled the
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  Speaker 1: theology for you. Passed by, looked at him and turned
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  Speaker 1: and went away. You mean this guy who the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: would perceive to be an okay neighbor didn't help him?
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  Speaker 1: Let me break this down where it becomes relevant to you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been shocked when you were in trouble
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  Speaker 1: at who didn't help you? The person that you thought
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  Speaker 1: for sure that you knew would be your ride or die?
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  Speaker 1: Ride or die is an African-American colloquial that means like
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  Speaker 1: total commitment. It just means to be totally committed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's enough about that. So, okay. And you find out
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  Speaker 1: that when the heat is on, the brother who said
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  Speaker 1: he would always be there for you, act like he
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  Speaker 1: don't even know you, looks at your predicament and crosses by.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side. The priest comes.
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  Speaker 1: Your holy friends. See you in trouble. Saying, girl, if
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  Speaker 1: you need anything, call me. Ain't it funny how you
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  Speaker 1: can be bleeding to death and folks say, if you need.
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  Speaker 1: And they pass by on the other side. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand what Jesus is saying to him. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: He says, and then the good Samaritan. Now, you have
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  Speaker 1: to understand, Jesus is setting the lawyer up. Using an oxymoron.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the lawyer's mind, there is no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as a good Samaritan. The Jews had no dealings with
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  Speaker 1: the Samaritans. In fact, one time when they got ready
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  Speaker 1: to insult Jesus, they called him a Samaritan. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came down to the well to meet the Samaritan woman,
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  Speaker 1: she said, you know your people don't talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how you can limit love to lackness?
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  Speaker 1: Only to find out the old Negro adage, everybody skin
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  Speaker 1: to me and kin to me. So Jesus says, who
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  Speaker 1: is your neighbor? Was it the priest? Was it the Levite?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it the good neighbor? Samaritan who got down
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  Speaker 1: off his beast, poured in the oil and the wine,
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  Speaker 1: set you on his own beast and brought you to
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  Speaker 1: the innkeeper's house and all of the help came through
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you wouldn't have thought was your neighbor. All
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  Speaker 1: the witnesses clap your hands. So here are your takeaways.
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  Speaker 1: God is saying that if you are going to be
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  Speaker 1: like him, you have to love like him. You have
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  Speaker 1: to love people who don't think like you, who don't
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  Speaker 1: look like you, who don't vote like you, who don't
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  Speaker 1: dress like you. And you have to take down the
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  Speaker 1: tribunal whereby you try people before you love them and
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  Speaker 1: begin to understand that love has no loopholes. Don't dress
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  Speaker 1: it up in political clothes. Don't dress it up in
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  Speaker 1: religious clothes. Don't dress it up in tribal clothes. Don't
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  Speaker 1: dress it up in ethnical clothes. Don't dress it up
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  Speaker 1: in status. Love has no loopholes. Now, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: how to begin to learn that is have some children.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you fool around and have some children, you
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  Speaker 1: will begin to understand that love has no loopholes. You
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  Speaker 1: will tell them when you're talking bad, if you do
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  Speaker 1: it again, I'm not going to ever do such and such.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to help you. Don't call me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to loan you no money. If you walk
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  Speaker 1: out that door and get into there, you are in
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  Speaker 1: it by yourself. That's what you said.
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  Speaker 2: But because you love.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tell somebody, say, it's about love. It's about love. It's
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  Speaker 2: about love.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Shake your neighbor by the hand and say, neighbor, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to shake your hand, but you can't shake your responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: You can't shake your responsibility. You can't shake what you
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  Speaker 1: got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Love has no loopholes.
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  Speaker 1: You got to love everybody with all your heart.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so many of us have been abused and misused, ostracized.
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  Speaker 1: They say about us that we have no use at all.
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  Speaker 1: Like Onesimus, they find themselves in predicaments where people have
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  Speaker 1: categorized them and filed them away and said you'll never
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  Speaker 1: be anything. We become imprisoned by their opinions. I want
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  Speaker 1: to break the chains that bind you, open up the
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  Speaker 1: door out of your prison, and cause you to experience
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  Speaker 1: the glorious liberty that comes when you are completely free.
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  Speaker 1: The word liberates. Take it in. See, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what they did. I don't care who they did it with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how much you don't agree with it.
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  Speaker 1: If you really are a lover, Lord will find a
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  Speaker 1: way in a climb over top of stuff and.
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  Speaker 2: Find a way.
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  Speaker 1: Lord will find a way to get you love. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hit three
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  Speaker 1: people and say, ain't no way out. Ain't no way out.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't no way out. Ain't no way out.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get out of it. You got to go
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  Speaker 1: through with it. You may have to cry, but you
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  Speaker 1: got to go through with it. You may look weak,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to go through with it. Your mama
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  Speaker 1: may talk about you and say, you ought not take that,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to go through with it. Love has
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  Speaker 1: no loopholes.
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  Speaker 2: Ten, three people say, no way out. No way out.
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  Speaker 2: No way out.
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  Speaker 1: Ironclad, irrevocable, immutable, unchangeable. Love has no loopholes. And I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm right about it because Jesus himself tried to
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  Speaker 1: find a loophole. For the Bible said that he went
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  Speaker 1: in the garden of Gethsemane and he said, Father, if
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  Speaker 1: it be thy will, pass this bitter cup for me.
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  Speaker 1: It costs too much to love these people. They're all
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  Speaker 1: messed up and confused. And he had to pray three
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  Speaker 1: times trying to find a way out of the contract.
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  Speaker 1: But finally he said, not my will, but thine be done.
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  Speaker 1: And they hung him high. And they stretched him wide
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  Speaker 1: until the sun refused to shine. And the ground began
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  Speaker 1: to tremble and he died. to the bell in the
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  Speaker 1: temple was ripped from the top to the bottom and
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  Speaker 1: he died till law fell over on grace he died
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  Speaker 1: yes he did oh yes he did oh yes he
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  Speaker 1: did oh yes he did Street people say he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get out of it. He couldn't get out of it.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't get out of it. He couldn't get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. He couldn't get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Love didn't have a loophole.
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  Speaker 1: It was not the nails that held him to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: He could have pulled the nails out. It wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: cross because he made the tree.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a.
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  Speaker 1: Mountain because he hollered the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: But for the love that was.
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  Speaker 1: Set before him, he died.
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  Speaker 2: Shake your neighbor by the hand and say neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shake your hand, but you can't shake
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  Speaker 1: your responsibility. You can't shake your responsibility. You can't shake
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  Speaker 1: what you got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Love has no loopholes.
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  Speaker 1: You got to love everybody with all your heart. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God. What I'm trying to get you to see.
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  Speaker 1: Join hands with somebody. What I'm trying to get you
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  Speaker 1: to do. What I'm trying to get you to see.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm trying to get you to understand. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get you to think. You got to be
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  Speaker 1: bigger than this. You can't just love the folks in
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  Speaker 1: your zip code. The folks in your denomination are the
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  Speaker 1: folks in your house. Love has no loopholes. The person
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  Speaker 1: you touch may have been taught wrong. They may have
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  Speaker 1: been taught to only love when the circumstances are right,
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  Speaker 1: when the conditions are right, or if you think like
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  Speaker 1: I think. But life keeps demanding that you broaden your
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  Speaker 1: ability to love. Working with people will demand that you
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  Speaker 1: broaden your ability to love. Even people, can I be honest,
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  Speaker 1: that you normally wouldn't like. These are not the people
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  Speaker 1: that you would invite over to eat hot dogs with,
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  Speaker 1: but for a paycheck, you learn how to... After a while,
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  Speaker 1: you do invite them over. You cannot be a big
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  Speaker 1: person with a small heart. We can teach you all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of principles about being blessed and prosperous and overcoming
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  Speaker 1: and victory. Life can take you to the opiate of success.
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  Speaker 1: But if you end up behind a big desk in
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  Speaker 1: a corner office with a small mind and a small heart,
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  Speaker 1: You will lose everything you have. Because you cannot determine.
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  Speaker 1: Who is your neighbor. Now the person you're touching right now.
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  Speaker 1: They may not tell you. But every last one of us.
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  Speaker 1: Our love is being tested. In some area. A demand
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  Speaker 1: is being placed on your. Your ability to love. Your
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  Speaker 1: ability to understand. Your ability to broaden your perspective beyond
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  Speaker 1: your comfort zone. I may not sing the songs you
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  Speaker 1: grew up singing. I may not preach the way you're
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  Speaker 1: used to hearing it. But if you get hungry enough,
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  Speaker 1: you learn to look past this sweat rag and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that man helped me. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: pass the test. And the only way you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to pass it is if you continue to be a self-enthroned,
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  Speaker 1: egotistical maniac. What does that mean? Everything's about you. Years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I met a woman who'd written a book that stayed
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, never left. It said that the root
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  Speaker 1: of all sin is selfishness. And because I am a thinker,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't get away from the thought. Look at your sins.
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  Speaker 1: Are you selfish? Is your love dwarfed? Are you loving
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  Speaker 1: like an adolescent in the middle of your life? is
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  Speaker 1: everything always got to be about you. And if any
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  Speaker 1: of that pierces you, if there's any part of you
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  Speaker 1: that's not so calloused that you can't hear truth, if
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  Speaker 1: the word was sharp enough to pierce dividing us under
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  Speaker 1: bone and marrow, soul and spirit, and got down in
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  Speaker 1: your heart and challenged you and you say, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: admit it, I am selfish. I understand that because I've
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  Speaker 1: been selfish too. And the truth of the matter is
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  Speaker 1: everybody in here at one time or another didn't play
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  Speaker 1: by the rules, went for yourself and said, I got
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  Speaker 1: to be me and you were selfish. But I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: there is no loophole If you flunk the test, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to take it again. Stay right there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back. If he commands me to do it,
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  Speaker 1: it must be within my power to accomplish it. Because
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be just to command me to do something
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  Speaker 1: that I cannot do. So that means that love is controllable.
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  Speaker 1: I give up everything to follow you. You wouldn't give
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  Speaker 1: up a ham sandwich at 11 o'clock at night. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: how your personal relationships would change if you loved the
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  Speaker 1: people in your life like you love yourself.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is we always want.
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  Speaker 1: To get more than we're willing to give. So this
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  Speaker 1: second scripture obliterates selfishness. It's not what we did yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that's messing us up. It's that you won't grow with me.
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  Speaker 1: That person you're touching has got to leave this place
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  Speaker 1: and go on a love mission. They've got to go
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  Speaker 1: on a love mission. They may not ever go to Africa.
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  Speaker 1: They may not ever go to South America, but they
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  Speaker 1: have got to go on a mission field of love.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got to be selfless enough to swallow the
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  Speaker 1: way they think and the way they've been trained and
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  Speaker 1: their own fears and their own insecurity and go on
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  Speaker 1: a mission of love. That person you're touching right now
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  Speaker 1: will be trapped in a vicious cycle. They'll never embrace
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of what God has for you because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God puts your healing first. in the hands of a Samaritan.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God puts your healing in the hands of somebody
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  Speaker 1: whose theology is different from yours. Sometimes God puts your
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  Speaker 1: healing in a place that's unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: gives you a child who doesn't believe like you believe
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  Speaker 1: or live like you live or think like you think
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  Speaker 1: or act like you want them to act. You got
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  Speaker 1: to go on a love mission and say, you're still
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  Speaker 1: my child. You're still my baby. Come on in this
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  Speaker 1: house and get something to eat. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to think about what you're doing, but I know I
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  Speaker 1: love you. Your love has got to go on a
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  Speaker 1: mission field. Squeeze that hand. And I come against all
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  Speaker 1: arrogance and all areas in your life that have lifted
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  Speaker 1: this self up as being a greater priority.
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  Speaker 2: I want to challenge.
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  Speaker 1: You to love the man you got like you love
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  Speaker 1: your sons. Because he's somebody's son. To love the woman
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  Speaker 1: you got like she's somebody's little girl because she is
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  Speaker 1: somebody's little girl. I don't understand how you can have
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  Speaker 1: so much mercy for your own children and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have any mercy for mine. I don't understand that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't understand that you don't realize that
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  Speaker 1: I'm somebody's baby. Somebody cradled me and nursed me and
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  Speaker 1: held me and fed me and raised me the best
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  Speaker 1: they could. Why can't you love me too? We've got
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  Speaker 1: to close, but I dare not close without taking a
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  Speaker 1: moment to thank God for our many partners who support us.
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  Speaker 1: You mean so much to us. You come to our meetings.
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  Speaker 1: You're behind me in my endeavors. You help me dig
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  Speaker 1: the wells and reach around the world and build homes
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  Speaker 1: for the homeless. You're wonderful people. May God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: May heaven smile upon you. Why don't you consider being
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  Speaker 1: a partner? It doesn't take very much, but it does
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  Speaker 1: make a difference. Until next week, may God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: May heaven smile upon you. I love you. Take care.