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The Pain of Believing - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the house. We're so glad you joined us today.
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  Speaker 1: Choosing to tune in to this sermon was not by accident,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe God has a word just for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: God is always using the people of this house to
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  Speaker 3: speak his word. So whether you're watching from across the
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  Speaker 3: street or maybe you are across the world, you are
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  Speaker 3: not just a viewer. You are our family.
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  Speaker 1: And we believe that worship doesn't have walls and experiencing
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of God's spirit doesn't always require a commute.
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  Speaker 3: So are you ready to join us as we fellowship
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  Speaker 3: and unite in spirit and in truth? I want your
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  Speaker 3: hearts to be open because we are going to encounter
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  Speaker 3: God together.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We see you.
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  Speaker 2: We love you.
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  Speaker 1: And we believe this word is going to change your life.
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  Speaker 2: Jump up to your feet, we're going to the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God, the Gospel of St. John, chapter 20, verse
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  Speaker 2: 25 through 28. There you will find my assignment for
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  Speaker 2: this morning. The text is brief and simple, but the
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  Speaker 2: message behind it is profound and prolific. It comes at
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  Speaker 2: a moment in history... that Jesus has gone to the cross.
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem is in total chaos and confusion. The Romans are
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  Speaker 2: trying to manage it. The temple is trying to diminish it.
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  Speaker 2: The disciples are trying to dodge it because their leader
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  Speaker 2: is gone. Or so they thought. A lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that look gone on Friday. Resurrect on Sunday morning. The
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  Speaker 2: devil will try to talk you into thinking it's over.
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  Speaker 2: And this is somebody that the enemy in some area
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  Speaker 2: of your life has convinced you that it's over. But
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  Speaker 2: it's not over. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's
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  Speaker 2: not over. Just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's not over.
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  Speaker 2: One of the disciples in particular had a hard time
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  Speaker 2: with it, and I'm going to focus on him today.
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  Speaker 2: The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall
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  Speaker 2: see in his hands the print of the nails, and
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  Speaker 2: put my finger into the print of his nails, and
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  Speaker 2: thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
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  Speaker 2: Repeat those last words. I will not believe. That is
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  Speaker 2: a strong statement coming from a person who has given
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  Speaker 2: their life over to the Lord fully. I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: just gotten a conversion card and gone on about their life.
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  Speaker 2: These people dropped their jobs, walked away from their families,
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  Speaker 2: did everything to walk with Jesus. I'm going to explain
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  Speaker 2: a little bit why their dedication was so intense and
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  Speaker 2: so powerful and what their expectation was because sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: expect one thing from God and God does something else.
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't always answer in the way that you think
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  Speaker 2: he should answer. And it leaves you with questions in
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  Speaker 2: your mind. If I'm talking to you, say amen. And
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  Speaker 2: after eight days again, Notice how many days it was.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say eight days. After eight days, again, his disciples
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  Speaker 2: were within and Thomas with them. He wasn't with them before.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't with them. Then came Jesus, the door being shut,
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  Speaker 2: and stood in the midst and said, peace be unto you.
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  Speaker 2: Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and
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  Speaker 2: behold my hands. And reach hither thy hand and thrust
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  Speaker 2: it into my side. And be not faithless, be not faithless,
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  Speaker 2: but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, my
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  Speaker 2: Lord and my God. This is restoration at its finest.
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  Speaker 2: Remain standing for a moment. I want to pray with you,
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  Speaker 2: but my subject this morning is the pain of believing.
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  Speaker 2: The pain of believing. We know about the power of believing,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody prepares you for the The pain, the difficulty,
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  Speaker 2: the struggle, the pain of believing, the misunderstanding that comes.
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Torres talked to you a little bit about believing
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  Speaker 2: and he's going on to talk to you about knowing.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to digress for a moment and talk
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  Speaker 2: just a moment about the pain of believing because while
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  Speaker 2: others rush in to believing, And go on to knowing
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  Speaker 2: there are stragglers that are left behind because of how
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  Speaker 2: much it costs them to believe in the midst of
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  Speaker 2: the pain that they went through. And it is easy
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  Speaker 2: to judge other people for their pain when you haven't
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  Speaker 2: gone through what they've gone through. It's easy to quote
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  Speaker 2: scriptures and tell them what they ought to do and
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  Speaker 2: how they ought to handle it. Until it's your child
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  Speaker 2: laying in a casket up front, until your house has
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  Speaker 2: been foreclosed on, until you've been snatched out of a car,
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  Speaker 2: you should kind of be quiet sometimes. Yeah. And when
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  Speaker 2: you see me crying, just hand me a handkerchief. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the word for me. Just hand me
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  Speaker 2: a handkerchief and keep your mouth shut because I may
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  Speaker 2: be going through the pain. of believing. Father God in
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus I stretch my hands, my heart,
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  Speaker 2: my spirit, my soul, my bones, my toes, my corpuscles,
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  Speaker 2: my blood, my hemoglobin, everything that I have I yield
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  Speaker 2: it over to you. Come into this place and be
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  Speaker 2: made manifest and show the devil who's boss. Throw your
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  Speaker 2: weight around this room. Reach into somebody's chest and do surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Reach into somebody's heart and give release. Reach into somebody's
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  Speaker 2: mind and fix their mind in such a way that
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  Speaker 2: they can go from faith to faith and from glory
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  Speaker 2: to glory. And we're not afraid to give you the
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  Speaker 2: praise in advance. We're not afraid to thank you for
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  Speaker 2: it in advance. We believe you're going to have your way,
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  Speaker 2: great God that you are. Have your way in this place.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, somebody with the voice that
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  Speaker 2: you use when you're hollering at your kids, shout amen.
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  Speaker 2: You may be seated. God bless your children, Jesus. I
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  Speaker 2: was going to bake a banana pudding, but because Pastor
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  Speaker 2: Tore put us on a fast. He didn't say how
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  Speaker 2: long it would be. Yeah, yeah, I'm teasing you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: teasing you. Yeah, just a couple of days. Just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days. I looked at Dr. Jill and started laughing,
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  Speaker 2: thought about all the times we've been sitting down there
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  Speaker 2: fellowshipping around the table, eating peach cobbler and banana pudding
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  Speaker 2: and all that. But that's the past, forgetting those things
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  Speaker 2: which are behind us and reaching to those things which
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  Speaker 2: are before. We press toward the mark of the prize
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  Speaker 2: of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I
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  Speaker 2: ain't bothering nobody this morning. There's an argument to be
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  Speaker 2: made about Thomas. It is only in the last few
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  Speaker 2: centuries that he has been nicknamed Doubting Thomas. The early
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  Speaker 2: church did not trivialize his experience down to a nickname.
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  Speaker 2: There was a spirit of Thomas that we need to
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  Speaker 2: contextualize in the text, and we can only do that
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  Speaker 2: if we understand the times. The times that they were
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  Speaker 2: living in were times that are almost mirrored to the
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  Speaker 2: times we are living in today. They are controlled by
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  Speaker 2: a sovereign nation that has come into their country and
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  Speaker 2: taken complete control. They are at home, but they're not
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  Speaker 2: at home. The Romans ruled with an iron hand. They
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  Speaker 2: were a sovereign kingdom. generally taking over by dominance, taking
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  Speaker 2: whatever they wanted, doing whatever they wanted to do. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't the first ones by any stretch of the imagination
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  Speaker 2: the way of the world if you study the way
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  Speaker 2: of the world only the strong survive and people will
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  Speaker 2: take a moment of a vulnerability a moment of weakness
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  Speaker 2: not only to attack you but to take over your
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  Speaker 2: whole country if you're not careful you were just one
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  Speaker 2: step away because Countries survive off of ideas like democracy.
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  Speaker 2: It's just an idea. It's just a thought. And if
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  Speaker 2: you don't support it and you get a rise up
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  Speaker 2: of people who think their voices don't matter and their
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  Speaker 2: vote doesn't matter and their counsel doesn't matter and nobody
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  Speaker 2: says anything about it, it is easy to take over.
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  Speaker 2: If you read about World War I, you read about
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  Speaker 2: what Hitler did, you see how he gradually in stages
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  Speaker 2: took them deeper and deeper till they ended up in
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  Speaker 2: Auschwitz and I know it's hard for you to imagine
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  Speaker 2: but it's not as hard as it used to be
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  Speaker 2: as we turn on our TV sets and we see
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  Speaker 2: people snatched out of cars and woke up at four
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  Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning and naked babies and pregnant women
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  Speaker 2: drug out of cars it's not easy it doesn't take
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  Speaker 2: long for power to get out of control And besides,
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  Speaker 2: in order for Rome to be the empire that it was,
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  Speaker 2: it became an empire and not just a great country
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  Speaker 2: by its ability to come in and take over other
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  Speaker 2: geographical areas. And the more areas they took over, the
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  Speaker 2: stronger they became. The more taxes they took in, the
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  Speaker 2: more money they made, the more influence they had, the
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  Speaker 2: more they were revered. But once they took over those countries,
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  Speaker 2: they had to manage those countries better to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that those countries were submissive to their will. The same
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  Speaker 2: thing happened with Senegal. Senegal has been systematically closing French
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  Speaker 2: military sites and plans to complete the withdrawal of all
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  Speaker 2: French forces by the late 2025. It's happening right now.
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  Speaker 2: You don't feel it because it's not happening in your houses.
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  Speaker 2: You don't feel things that are going on in other
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  Speaker 2: cities until it happens to you. Until they drag your
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  Speaker 2: daughter out of the car pregnant, you will keep on
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  Speaker 2: singing and clapping and going about your business and be
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  Speaker 2: totally blind to the turmoil that goes on. When one
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  Speaker 2: person or one group or one class or one creed
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  Speaker 2: of people, any kind, take over another person, the other
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  Speaker 2: person becomes subjective to their own malicious will and purpose.
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  Speaker 2: They become submissive, is a better word, to their own
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  Speaker 2: will and purpose of the perpetrator who has set out
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  Speaker 2: to destroy them. And you don't feel it until it's you.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just the abuse alone. It is the
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  Speaker 2: feeling of being home and not at home. It is
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  Speaker 2: the feeling of laying in your bed and wondering, will
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  Speaker 2: you make it through the night? It is the feeling
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  Speaker 2: of now when I grab my wallet, I grab my passport. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't go too far without it anymore. I just
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  Speaker 2: keep it with me just in case some lone ranger,
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  Speaker 2: some overdoer, some perpetrator, some obsessive person comes along and
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  Speaker 2: tries to make a lesson out of me. I know
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  Speaker 2: that I am not an illegal immigrant. I know that
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a murderer. I know that I'm not a killer,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know what you think of me. And
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  Speaker 2: so for fear of what you think of me, I
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  Speaker 2: have to walk with a certain kind of fear that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have to walk into five years ago. Senegal
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  Speaker 2: has completely disrupted France. Nigeria has also disrupted France. France's
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  Speaker 2: military presence has ended. Their diplomatic ties were reduced with
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  Speaker 2: French forces departing The country, the French people were marching
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  Speaker 2: in the streets just a couple of months ago because
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  Speaker 2: they were losing power over all of the colonies that
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  Speaker 2: they had made in Africa and elsewhere. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? America was originally meant to be under
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  Speaker 2: the rule of greatness and under the control of the UK.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we celebrate July the 4th. That's the moment
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  Speaker 2: that we declare our independence and we're getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate 250 years of separating ourselves from them controlling us
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  Speaker 2: or we would have been subjugated and controlled by the
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  Speaker 2: ethics of Parliament in the UK and still had to
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  Speaker 2: function and still had to deal with it but we
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  Speaker 2: would have had to deal with it as second class citizens.
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  Speaker 2: And there's something about being a second class citizen People
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  Speaker 2: have a way of making you know that you're second class.
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  Speaker 2: They treat you with an air of second class. There's
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  Speaker 2: a certain way, a little side-eyed way that they look
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  Speaker 2: at you. The power corrupts, but total power. Totally corrupts.
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  Speaker 2: And you can tell that power, when it gets out
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  Speaker 2: of control, will belittle you and demean you. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not just one group of people. It's anybody that gets
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  Speaker 2: too much control over you. You got to be careful
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  Speaker 2: about who you let have control over you. You got
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  Speaker 2: to be careful about who you marry. Y'all not going
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  Speaker 2: to talk to me. You got to be careful about
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  Speaker 2: where you go to work. You can be... Subjugated to
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  Speaker 2: submissiveness in your own house and little by little they're
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  Speaker 2: telling you what to wear and don't wear those shoes
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  Speaker 2: with that. Don't do this and don't go over there
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  Speaker 2: and don't take the car and little by little power
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  Speaker 2: can erode until you have no control or say so
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  Speaker 2: over yourself. And you'll have to do a revolution in
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  Speaker 2: your own living room to get back control of what
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  Speaker 2: you eat and where you drive and where you live.
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  Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying? I want you to see
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of the times that they lived in. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to understand that they were besieged by the
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  Speaker 2: Roman Empire. And not just Jerusalem, but all across the world,
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  Speaker 2: Rome had stretched out its arms and was controlling Rome.
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  Speaker 2: more and more geographical locations, and the whole city and
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  Speaker 2: the whole nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: was besieged. They had leaders that were not like them,
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  Speaker 2: that didn't share their background, that didn't share the things
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  Speaker 2: that they thought about. They had language issues. They had
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  Speaker 2: cruel beatings and muggings and horrible things happening to them,
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  Speaker 2: and they had to become used to, they had to
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  Speaker 2: become used to I know all of you tell me
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  Speaker 2: what you would do if you were born in slavery
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  Speaker 2: times and what you would do. I hear all the
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  Speaker 2: stuff you said. But if you see enough people hanging
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  Speaker 2: from trees and enough people beheaded and enough people beaten
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  Speaker 2: to death, you're not quite as bad as you think
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  Speaker 2: you are. You're not quite as tough as you think
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  Speaker 2: you are. As any woman in here that's been a
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  Speaker 2: victim of domestic violence, sometimes it's not as easy to
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  Speaker 2: get away from power out of control. As the neighbors
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  Speaker 2: next door say, if that was me, I would do
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  Speaker 2: such and such a thing. But she has to consider
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  Speaker 2: her kids, her livelihood, her future, where she's going to move,
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  Speaker 2: where she's going to live. Power can be a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 2: It can be a disruptive thing. It can be a
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  Speaker 2: painful thing. That's why I'm glad I'm not a child anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like being a child because you don't have
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  Speaker 2: much control as a child. I had to eat what
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  Speaker 2: they ordered. I had to wear what they laid out.
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  Speaker 2: I had to do what they said do. When I
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  Speaker 2: grew up, I was so glad to be able to
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  Speaker 2: dress myself. I dressed myself this morning. I put on
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  Speaker 2: what I like. I wear what I like to wear.
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  Speaker 2: I go where I want to go. I do what
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  Speaker 2: I want to do. And as much as I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a bad childhood, but I don't want to go
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  Speaker 2: back to it. enjoy the freedom of being able to
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  Speaker 2: make my own choices. How many people in here enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the freedom of making your own choices? I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what you got on, a blue jeans and a t-shirt,
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  Speaker 2: a rag around your head. I don't care what you
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  Speaker 2: got on, what you put on, what you wanted to wear,
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  Speaker 2: and you did it. There was nobody controlling you, telling
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  Speaker 2: you what to do and where to sit and where
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  Speaker 2: to go and when to leave and how to move.
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  Speaker 2: It's important if you're going to have dignity to have
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  Speaker 2: a degree of control. If you're going to have self-esteem,
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  Speaker 2: you have to have a degree of control. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want control of the world. But over my decisions and
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  Speaker 2: my choices in my house, you don't get to come
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  Speaker 2: in and paint my house because you don't like the
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  Speaker 2: color of my living room. I painted it that color.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if I made it striped. It's my
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  Speaker 2: living room. If I can live there, you can visit there.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your mouth out of my business. Come on, talk
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  Speaker 2: to me, somebody. Keep your mouth, keep your mouth, your mouth, M-O-U-T-H,
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  Speaker 2: out of my business. You paint your house polka dots,
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  Speaker 2: and I won't say nothing about it. I might not
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  Speaker 2: stay long, but I won't say nothing about it. But
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  Speaker 2: that was not the circumstance for the Jews. That was
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  Speaker 2: not the circumstance for Jerusalem. That was not the circumstance
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  Speaker 2: for Israel. So when John the Baptist came along and said,
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  Speaker 2: repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, the
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  Speaker 2: first thing to come across their mind was liberation. from
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  Speaker 2: the abuse and the turmoil that they were under. The
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  Speaker 2: first thing that come to their mind was being free
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  Speaker 2: from Caesar and his control and his dominance. The first
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  Speaker 2: thing that came to their mind, the dominance had become
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  Speaker 2: so strong that he had even infiltrated their religion. That's
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  Speaker 2: why the temple is called Herod's Temple. And Herod wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even fully a Jew. And yet he has taken over
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  Speaker 2: the temple and he's taking taxes and making money from
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  Speaker 2: the church people to support taxes in the government. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why Jesus kicked over the tables. It was not
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  Speaker 2: because they were frying chicken. and selling chocolate bars at
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  Speaker 2: the door. It was because the government had come in
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  Speaker 2: and taken control over their religious freedom and their faith.
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  Speaker 2: Power gradually eats you up like cancer. It don't start
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  Speaker 2: with big stuff. It starts with little things. It starts
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  Speaker 2: with little things. Where are you going? What time are
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  Speaker 2: you going to be back? I thought you'd be back
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  Speaker 2: at 9 o'clock. It's 9.15. Tell me where you've been.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like your hair cut like that. Little by little,
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  Speaker 2: it just escalates. It don't start out with physical abuse
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  Speaker 2: and punching you in the mouth. It starts out with
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  Speaker 2: shoving you just a little bit. It starts out with
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  Speaker 2: insults and verbal attacks. And little by little, I want
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  Speaker 2: to give you some signs this morning. so that you
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  Speaker 2: can begin to understand when you're being besieged, when you're
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  Speaker 2: being attacked, when you're being overridden. So when John the
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  Speaker 2: Baptist came along, it was important because John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: was one of the few remnants left their faith they
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  Speaker 2: had already lost their Kings and they were about to
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  Speaker 2: lose the lineage of their priesthood and when when when
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth got used an old woman to have a baby
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  Speaker 2: because he thought it was so important that they have
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  Speaker 2: a lineage to continue that when he was born it's
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  Speaker 2: been a whole lot to them can I take my
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  Speaker 2: time this morning because they were trying to hold on
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  Speaker 2: to their priesthood but the problem was he was not
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  Speaker 2: like his father And we're living in a time that
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  Speaker 2: we cannot just be like our fathers. We can't just
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  Speaker 2: have a Zachariah anointing. That's why the Bible, his name
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  Speaker 2: should be called John because none of his kindred have
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  Speaker 2: been called by that name. To the young people, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to hear me for a minute. The other Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: I got something came over me so strong. I almost
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  Speaker 2: interrupted the service. You're going to have to do more
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  Speaker 2: than we did. You're going to have to withstand more
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  Speaker 2: than we withstand. The situation is different. The times are different.
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  Speaker 2: The demons are different. The level of attack is different.
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  Speaker 2: The financial components are different. The economics are different. The
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  Speaker 2: emotions are different. You weren't shaped out of the same
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  Speaker 2: clay we were shaped out of. You have a different clay.
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  Speaker 2: You have certain comforts that you're accustomed to. And you're
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  Speaker 2: not used to being up under attack. And therefore you
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  Speaker 2: are emotionally fragile in ways that we grew up in
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  Speaker 2: turmoil and pain. And so you have to have a
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  Speaker 2: little different approach. You're going to have to fight things
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  Speaker 2: that we didn't have to fight. Some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that you were fighting are things that weren't even talked
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  Speaker 2: about when we came along. And you have to fight
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  Speaker 2: that fight. Now, older folks, you got to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit tender with them and a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: understanding because they didn't come up with washboards and clotheslines.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't come up with outhouses and circumstances that we
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  Speaker 2: grew up, that we call normal. They don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to make cornbread without jiffy. They don't know how to
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  Speaker 2: freeze green beans. They don't know how to can corn.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know. They don't know how to make jelly
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  Speaker 2: out of skins of apples. Talk to me, somebody. You
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  Speaker 2: know I'm telling the truth. The times you're living in
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  Speaker 2: affects how you progress and how you move and how
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  Speaker 2: you deliver. So when John the Baptist came along and said, repent,
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom of heaven is at hand, they're thinking about
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  Speaker 2: an earthly kingdom. They're wanting to crown Jesus as king.
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  Speaker 2: They're wanting to see Jesus rule. They want to see
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  Speaker 2: Jesus overthrow the Roman, the siege and the Roman power
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  Speaker 2: and the Roman autocracy that has taken over their land.
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  Speaker 2: Because you must understand that these are people who walked
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  Speaker 2: 40 years to get to their land, only to get
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  Speaker 2: in their land and not be free in their own land.
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  Speaker 2: I might not be free in the grocery store. I
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  Speaker 2: might not be free at the gas station. I might
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  Speaker 2: not be free at the school. But I'd be doggone
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not going to be free in my own house.
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  Speaker 2: And they had learned, come on, somebody. When I go
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  Speaker 2: into my yard and close that gate, it ain't none
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  Speaker 2: of your business. I get to be whoever I want
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  Speaker 2: to be. That's why I make the payments every month
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  Speaker 2: so that I can be free somewhere. But they weren't
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  Speaker 2: safe anywhere. They were snatched out of their houses. Does
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  Speaker 2: it sound familiar? They were abused in the street. And
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  Speaker 2: I hate to shock you like this, but Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: not nearly the first person to be crucified. Crucifixions were
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  Speaker 2: as common as hangings were during slavery. And Nina Simone,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was, sung Strange Fruit, how you could
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  Speaker 2: walk down the forest anywhere and see bodies hanging under
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  Speaker 2: the abuse of slavery in the same way you could
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  Speaker 2: see crosses anywhere. And they meant for it to bring
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  Speaker 2: you to an open shame because terrorists were always go
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  Speaker 2: not by the attack but by the terror that it
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  Speaker 2: causes it gives you control it makes you submit it
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  Speaker 2: makes you hush your mouth it reminds you that i
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  Speaker 2: have control over your life those were the times that
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  Speaker 2: they were living in up against those obstacles and when
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  Speaker 2: john the baptist said repent for the kingdom of heaven
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  Speaker 2: is at hand i don't blame him i would have
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  Speaker 2: jumped into jordan I would have swam into Jordan. If
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  Speaker 2: you told me that all you had to do is
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  Speaker 2: dump me and the kingdom was at hand and I
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  Speaker 2: was going to get control of the land my fathers
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  Speaker 2: marched 40 years for, I would be baptized right now.
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  Speaker 2: Baptized in any name. Baptized in any circumstance. I would
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  Speaker 2: go through anything just to be free. John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: had a full congregation because they were looking for liberation.
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  Speaker 2: God is always on the side of the oppressed talk
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  Speaker 2: to me somebody God is always on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the oppressed he's always on the one that's downtrodden he
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  Speaker 2: walks past the person that's well to lay hands on
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  Speaker 2: the person that's sick God is always for the one
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  Speaker 2: that's oppressed God is on your side because of the
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  Speaker 2: oppression and the inequities of power that exist in your life,
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  Speaker 2: in your house, in your community, in your marriage. God
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  Speaker 2: is always on the side of the oppressed. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you've never been oppressed, that don't mean nothing to you.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've had to live in a situation of oppression,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to shout me down right now. The disciples
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  Speaker 2: had given up everything to go with Jesus. Thomas was
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  Speaker 2: not weak. He was very powerful. When Jesus made up
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  Speaker 2: his mind to go to Jerusalem, there was a plot
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  Speaker 2: that had been set off to kill him. And Thomas
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  Speaker 2: was the one who said, we must go and die
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  Speaker 2: with him. That doesn't sound like a doubter if you're
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  Speaker 2: willing to die for a cause. But sometimes people will
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  Speaker 2: forget all the good things you said and hold on
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  Speaker 2: to the bad thing that you said and define you
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  Speaker 2: by a weak moment. But the truth of the matter,
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  Speaker 2: Thomas was courageous. He was strong. He was powerful. The
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  Speaker 2: very fact that Thomas was not in the upper room
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  Speaker 2: with the other disciples because they were hiding for fear
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  Speaker 2: of the Jews and Thomas was walking up and down
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  Speaker 2: the street tells you he's a bad Negro. Anytime you
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  Speaker 2: can walk down, y'all ain't going to talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime you can walk down the street where other people
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  Speaker 2: are afraid to go, you got to be some kind
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  Speaker 2: of bad. There's some bad folks in here that'll go
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  Speaker 2: someplace that other people wouldn't go. And you'll go because
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  Speaker 2: you got the courage to do whatever you got to
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  Speaker 2: do to get wherever you got to go. There's some
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  Speaker 2: bad sisters in this room. Don't let the hair fool you.
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  Speaker 2: They will pull that hair down, take that wig off,
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  Speaker 2: pull them nails off, yank them eyelashes, and fight you
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  Speaker 2: like a dog in the street. See, it don't have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with size. It's not the size of
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  Speaker 2: the dog in the fight. It's the size of the
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  Speaker 2: fight in the dog. Oh, hallelujah. Thomas was a strong fighter.
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  Speaker 2: He was a liberator. He was an emancipator. He was
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  Speaker 2: a deliverer of those that were bound. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to stay locked up like a dog
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  Speaker 2: in a cage. I'm going to and fro as I will.
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  Speaker 2: So when Jesus came there, they were shocked because Thomas
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  Speaker 2: was not there. The others were hiding, but Thomas was
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  Speaker 2: going on about his business. And he was not there.
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  Speaker 2: What I like about the text, what I like about
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  Speaker 2: the text is that Jesus came back eight days later.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say eight days later. Eight days later. You're eight
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  Speaker 2: days away from a new beginning. You're eight days away
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  Speaker 2: from a mighty change. You're eight days away from a resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: You're eight days away from a phone call. You're eight
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  Speaker 2: days away from an email. You're eight days away from
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  Speaker 2: a complete resurrection. Your situation is eight days away. That's
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  Speaker 2: why the devil's trying to kill you while you're in
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  Speaker 2: the wait. But the devil is a liar. Eight is
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  Speaker 2: the number of new beginnings in the Bible. Whenever you
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  Speaker 2: see eight, it symbolizes new beginnings. When you see seven,
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  Speaker 2: you come down to the end. But when you see eight,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to start all over again. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who I'm talking to. I don't know who I'm talking to.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel an eight-day spirit in this place. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: feel an eight-day spirit in this place. I feel an
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  Speaker 2: eight-day spirit in this place. Somebody's about to get a turnaround.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible said that Thomas... came along on the eighth day,
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  Speaker 2: he comes back in the room. You must understand. Y'all
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  Speaker 2: sit down because you're going to make me, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to make me. You're going to make me. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to make me. You're going to make me. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to make me. You're going to make me.
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  Speaker 2: Slap somebody
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  Speaker 2: and say eight days. Your whole life can turn around
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  Speaker 2: in eight days. Your circumstance can change in eight days.
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  Speaker 2: Your breakthrough can happen in eight days. Your deliverance can
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  Speaker 2: happen in eight days. Don't kill yourself till you have
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  Speaker 2: your eighth day. God can fix it in eight days.
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  Speaker 2: God can fix it and make it new all over
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  Speaker 2: again in eight days. And the Bible said that when
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  Speaker 2: it was eight days away, Thomas comes back in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Might I remind you that the Bible teaches, according to
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  Speaker 2: Levitical law, that children, male children, weren't supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: circumcised till the eighth day. On the eighth day, God
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  Speaker 2: cuts away the flesh. On the eighth day, God takes
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  Speaker 2: away what is not needed. On the eighth day, God
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  Speaker 2: brings about a mighty deliverance. Eighth is the number of
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  Speaker 2: new beginning. So Thomas waited till it was the eighth day.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says, the Bible, the Bible, the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, the Bible says, The Bible, the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible, the Bible says, the Bible, the Bible, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, the Bible, the Bible says, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: on the eighth day, he come walking in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody drug him, nobody snatched him, nobody handcuffed him, nobody
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  Speaker 2: chained him. He was walking in freedom while they were
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  Speaker 2: walking in bondage. Fear makes you be in bondage, but
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  Speaker 2: faith will liberate you. Faith will cause you to walk
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  Speaker 2: around like ain't nothing happening when there is something happening.
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  Speaker 2: And he walked in the room on the eighth day
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  Speaker 2: and he came in the room. But that is not
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  Speaker 2: what excites me. What really excites me about the text
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  Speaker 2: is that Jesus came back for an audience of one.
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  Speaker 2: Now I understand what he meant about the prodigal son
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  Speaker 2: and leaving the 99 and going after the one and
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  Speaker 2: the widow who swept the house looking for one coin
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  Speaker 2: even though she had nine. Now I understand why the
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  Speaker 2: father ran off the front porch to meet his one
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  Speaker 2: son God cares about you as an individual he cares
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  Speaker 2: about you he knows your name he knows your background
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  Speaker 2: he knows your circumstance the hairs on your head are
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  Speaker 2: numbered not counted They're numbered. He got a number. If
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: it gets caught in a cone, he knows that's hair
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  Speaker 2: number 548 and 92. God so cares about you. If
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  Speaker 2: his eye is on the sparrow, then he watches over you.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you sit there and think that you are forsaken, forgotten, rejected,
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  Speaker 2: and cast aside. The devil isn't like God. God knows
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  Speaker 2: exactly where you are. If you make your bed in hell...
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  Speaker 2: God is there. If you take the wings of the
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  Speaker 2: morning and sail to the uttermost parts of the earth,
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  Speaker 2: God is still there. The church calls doubting Thomas that,
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  Speaker 2: but heaven knew him as disappointed Thomas. Thomas was disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: The king, he had to watch his king die. Let
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: me say it this way. He had to watch his
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  Speaker 2: dream die. You do realize that Jesus was the first
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  Speaker 2: one to die on the cross in that setting. All
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  Speaker 2: the other men that were crucified that day, when they
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: came to check them, they were already dead. But when
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: they came to Jesus, I mean, when they came to
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: check them, they were still alive. When they came to Jesus,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: he was already dead. That's why they didn't break his legs.
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  Speaker 2: Or at least that's why they thought they didn't break
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  Speaker 2: his legs. The truth of the matter is they didn't
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  Speaker 2: break his legs because Leviticus has said that in order
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  Speaker 2: for him to be a lamb, not one bone in
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  Speaker 2: his body would be broken. Good God Almighty. So when
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  Speaker 2: it came to Jesus, Jesus died first so no bones
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  Speaker 2: could be broken. If the bones had been broken, it
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  Speaker 2: would nullify his right to be the Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 2: But he presented himself holy. And spotless before his father.
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  Speaker 2: I feel a preaching anointing coming in this place. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: feel the spirit of the living God coming in this place.
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  Speaker 2: And he stayed there. And they found him dead. He
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: was the first one dead. And Thomas and the disciples
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  Speaker 2: had to watch him die. They took him down off
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  Speaker 2: the cross. and put him in a tomb that Nicodemus
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  Speaker 2: helped to bring about. It was a borrowed tomb. You
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: don't borrow nothing that you're not going to give back.
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  Speaker 2: It was a borrowed tomb and they put him in
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  Speaker 2: the tomb and they thought it was over. They had
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  Speaker 2: to take his rigor mortis ridden body down off the
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  Speaker 2: cross and take his stiff hands and push them down
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  Speaker 2: on the side. They had to push his left hand down.
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  Speaker 2: on the side. They had to put his legs together
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  Speaker 2: and wrap him in one-inch strips, as was the custom
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  Speaker 2: of the time, to wrap him till he looked like
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  Speaker 2: a mummy. They knew he was dead. He couldn't move.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't walk. Blood and water came out of his body,
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  Speaker 2: which means that his body's blood had separated Because it
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: had been up there so long that the clear part
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  Speaker 2: of his blood had separated from the red corpuscles in
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  Speaker 2: his blood. They knew he was dead because he'd lost
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  Speaker 2: all heat in his body. All the temperature was gone
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  Speaker 2: out of his body. He was fragmented. He was broken.
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  Speaker 2: And most of all, he was silent. Had he spoken,
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  Speaker 2: the angels would have come. and delivered him and brought
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  Speaker 2: back the kingdom and ushered in the millennium too soon.
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  Speaker 2: Had he spoken, the warring angels were stronger than the
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  Speaker 2: Roman Empire. They were greater than Caesar. They were greater
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  Speaker 2: than Rome. They were greater than Herod. They were greater
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  Speaker 2: than Herod the Great. They were greater than anything. But
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  Speaker 2: he was gone and his words were gone. Peter said,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in your hands are the words of eternal life. And
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: they saw blood come out of those hands. And they
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: saw blood come out of his side. And they saw
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  Speaker 2: the nail that was in one nail in two feet
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: representing the Jew and the Gentile coming together up under
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  Speaker 2: one gospel. And they nailed him with one nail. And
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: they had to pull that nail out. They felt the
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  Speaker 2: thud of the nail coming out of his feet. In
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: between his foot joints, it came out. They knew he
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: was dead because they prepared his body for burial. And
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Thomas had every right to doubt the rumor that Jesus
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: was still alive. Some people said that they'd stolen his body.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Some people said that they had robbed the grave. It
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: was not uncommon to rob the grave in the days
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus. They thought that he had robbed the grave.
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  Speaker 2: And so when Thomas comes in on the eighth day
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  Speaker 2: and they tell him he's alive, he's alive. I know
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: that Thomas said, I don't want to hear that. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear that. That's what got me in trouble. Believing.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: That's what broke my heart. That's what upset me. That's
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: what caused me to quit my job. That's what caused
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: me to be away from my children. It hurts to believe.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: It hurts to believe. Once you've been disappointed, it hurts
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: to believe. Once your heart has been broken, it hurts
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: to believe. Once you've been tied down, it hurts to believe.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Once you see somebody you put all your trust in
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: nailed to a tree, it hurts to believe. He said,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear your message because I don't
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: want to go through the disappointment of of another loss
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in my life and he said I will not believe
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the same one who said I will die with him,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: turns around now and says, I will not believe because
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: believing hurts. Believing hurts when you are disappointed. Somebody in
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: here knows what it's like to believe in somebody and
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: they disappoint you so bad that your heart is broken.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Somebody in here knows what it's like to cry yourself
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: to sleep. Somebody in here knows what it's like for
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: your dreams to be dashed against the rock. Somebody in
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: here knows what it's like to go through hell and
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: high water and go to work and smile and go
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: home and cry. And get in the car and let
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: tears run. Somebody in here understand what it's like to
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: deal with disappointment. You thought it was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't happen. You thought you'd be there by now.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: And it didn't happen. You thought you could count on it.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And it didn't happen. You thought everything would be all right.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And it didn't happen. And in other words, he was
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: saying like the old song they sung in my day.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Now that I've cried my love to sleep, don't wake
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: it up. I don't want to believe anymore. It reminds
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: me of the Shunammite woman when Elijah told her that
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: she was going to have a baby. And she said,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: don't play with me. Don't play with me. Don't play
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: with me. It hurts too much to believe. And now
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: that I finally got used to the fact that I'm
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: going to have to go through the rest of my
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: life alone, don't you come along and give me a promise.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: But God has a way. of giving you a promise
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: even after all hell has broken loose. I got a
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: message for somebody in the room today. God has a
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: way of resurrecting your faith even though it hurts. God
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: has a way of restoring your mind and your heart
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  Speaker 2: even when you're backed up in a corner and shoved
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  Speaker 2: to the wall. God has a way of making you
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: take it back. You see, Thomas' name is also called Didymus.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: In the Greek, Didymus means twin. One part of him
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: wants to quit. The other part of him keeps coming
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: back again. One part of him says, I'm through with it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: The other part of him keeps reaching back again. It
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: feels like he's schizophrenic because on one hand, he left
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: the room. On the other hand, he came back to
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: the room because all of us got a twin. And
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: one twin wants to go one way and the other
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: twin wants to go the other way. Paul said it
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  Speaker 2: this way, when I would do good... evil is present
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  Speaker 2: with me that which I would do I do not
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  Speaker 2: that which I would not do I do oh wretched
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  Speaker 2: man that I am who shall save me not from
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  Speaker 2: demons not from devils not from witches but save me
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  Speaker 2: from my twin I got a twin I gotta control.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anybody else in here that got a twin
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  Speaker 2: you gotta control? My twin don't wanna go to church.
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  Speaker 2: My twin don't wanna live right. My twin wants to
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  Speaker 2: cuss you out. My twin will bust you in your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: My twin will drive the car right through your living room.
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  Speaker 2: My twin will act a fool like you ain't never seen.
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  Speaker 2: And I have to watch my twin because if I'm
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  Speaker 2: not careful, we look alike. We wear the same clothes.
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  Speaker 2: We dress alike. We even walk alike. But I got
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  Speaker 2: a twin that will freak out in here. I got
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  Speaker 2: a twin that will go slap off in here. If
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  Speaker 2: I don't keep him in his cage, he'll get loose
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  Speaker 2: and you'll see somebody you have never met before. You
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: met Bishop Jakes, but my twin is not Bishop Jakes.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anybody else in here that's been dealing with
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  Speaker 2: your twin? struggling with it. One day I'm in. One
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  Speaker 2: day I'm out. One day I'm okay. One day I'm
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  Speaker 2: not okay. One day I can take it. One day
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  Speaker 2: I can't stand it. Is there anybody in here that's
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: had your twin wait till you got in the bed
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  Speaker 2: and be waiting for you and there you are crying
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  Speaker 2: in the bed. There you are frustrated in the bed.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas had a right to be disturbed. Because it is
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  Speaker 2: painful to believe. He didn't want to go through that again.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to have his hopes dashed against the rocks.
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  Speaker 2: He loved Jesus. He absolutely adored Jesus. He had given
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  Speaker 2: up everything to follow Jesus. He thought Jesus was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the answer to Jerusalem's problem. He thought Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was going to be the liberator that set them free
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  Speaker 2: from their oppressor. He was going to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to be the Harriet Tubman of their situation.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to bring them out of trouble. Judas
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  Speaker 2: was so disappointed that he hung himself because in his
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  Speaker 2: own mind, according to the book of Judas, which is
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  Speaker 2: not a canonical book of the Bible, Judas thought, yeah, baby,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you. Judas thought that if he forced Jesus' hand,
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus would force himself out and show them who
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  Speaker 2: he really was. But instead of calling 10,000 angels, he
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  Speaker 2: never said a mumbling word. And when Judas saw him crucified,
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  Speaker 2: he went out to the potter's field and hung himself.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't take it because his plan backfired. Watch out
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  Speaker 2: for your plan. Watch out for your scheme. Watch out
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  Speaker 2: for your trick. Sarah will tell you that your plans
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  Speaker 2: will go awry. Don't get Haggai to have your baby.
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  Speaker 2: Though it hurts, have your own baby. Though you've grown,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: have your own baby. There's some people in here that
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: regret the mistake you made because you had a plot
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: and you had a plan and it went wrong and
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: it went wrong and you suffered. Lean not to thine
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  Speaker 2: own understanding, but trust in the Lord. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who I'm talking to. but you got to trust God
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  Speaker 2: when you can't trace him. You got to trust God
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: when you can't see him. You got to trust God
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: when it looks like he's not working. You got to
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: trust God when it looks like you're losing. You got
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: to trust God when it looks like you're going backwards.
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  Speaker 2: You got to trust God when people are laughing at you.
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  Speaker 2: You got to trust God when your twin is mocking you.
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  Speaker 2: You got to trust God when you're running out of food.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: You got to trust God when you're running out of time.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Somebody watching online, this word is for you. You got
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: to trust him now like you never trusted him before.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Thomas said, I will not believe. You've been wrestling in
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: your mind. You're scared to believe God for that job,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: for that house, for that car, for that entrepreneurship. You're afraid,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: but you got to trust God because God is about
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  Speaker 2: to do something. Slap three people and say it's your
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: eighth day. It's your eighth day. It's your eighth day.
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  Speaker 2: This is the day that something happens. This is the
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: day that the story changes. This is the day that
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the yoke is broken. This is the day that the
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  Speaker 2: handcuffs fall off. This is the day that you get liberated.
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  Speaker 2: This is the day that God does the impossible.
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  Speaker 2: It was shut. But Jesus came in anyway, looked
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  Speaker 2: at your Jesus, who's God enough to walk through the
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  Speaker 2: door and man enough to eat fish once he gets
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  Speaker 2: inside the door. He said, don't limit what I can do.
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  Speaker 2: You can't lock me out of your room. You can't
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  Speaker 2: lock me out of your business. You can't lock me
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  Speaker 2: out of your plan. And just to show you that
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: I'm more than a ghost, I think I'll sit down
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: and have me a little fish sandwich. To remove all
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: doubt that I got all power, all power. Can I
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: preach like I want to preach? I got all power
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  Speaker 2: down in my hand. Turn around and tell somebody he's
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  Speaker 2: got all power. I don't care if you're on a
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  Speaker 2: kidney machine, he's got all power. I don't care if
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: you're suffering from leukemia, he's got all power. I don't
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: care if they say you got four stage cancer, he's
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: got all power. I don't care if you got a
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: heart that skips beats, he's got all power. I don't
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: care if you're on a respirator, he's got all power.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I don't care if your son's in jail, he's got
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: all power. I don't care if your daughter's living on
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: the street. He's got all power. I don't care if
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: they curse you to your face. He's got all power.
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  Speaker 2: He walks through doors whenever he wants to. Lord, walk
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  Speaker 2: through a door this morning. I feel God walking through
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  Speaker 2: a door this morning where the enemy has set up
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  Speaker 2: a roadblock and tried to shut you down from what
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  Speaker 2: God said he'd give you. God is about to walk
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  Speaker 2: through the door. He's coming in your direction. Stop. Let
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: me ask you a question. Who am I preaching to?
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: You've been standing at the door crying because the door
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: is shut, but you forgot that Jesus can walk through
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  Speaker 2: a door. He'll come and get you, even if they
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  Speaker 2: put you in the prison, if they put you in
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  Speaker 2: the inner sanctum of the prison, even if they got
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  Speaker 2: several gates before you get out, he'll lead you out
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  Speaker 2: of every gate and every wall. Don't let your other
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  Speaker 2: twin Tell you that all hope is gone because God's
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: got a plan. Help me preach this word. Touch three
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: people and say God's got a plan. God's got a plan.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: God's got a plan. God's got a plan. God's got
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  Speaker 2: a plan for you. God's got a plan for you.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the group. God's got a plan
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  Speaker 2: for you. I'm not talking about all the disciples. God's
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  Speaker 2: got a plan for you. The reason you got out
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  Speaker 2: of the bed this morning is because God's got a
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  Speaker 2: plan for you. He's got a plan for your life.
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  Speaker 2: And no weapon formed against you. Shall be able to prosper.
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  Speaker 2: They might shut it. But it won't work. They might
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  Speaker 2: curse you. But it won't work. They may back you
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  Speaker 2: in a corner. But it won't work. Because when it's
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: your time. To come out. You're coming out. Tell your
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: neighbor excuse me. I'm coming out. I'm coming out this morning.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I'm coming out this morning. I decree and declare that
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I'm coming out this morning. I decree and declare that
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming out of this situation right now in the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. Jesus came back for one person. If
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  Speaker 2: there's only one person in this room that believes God,
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  Speaker 2: he'll come to you. If there's one person in the city,
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  Speaker 2: he'll save the whole city. Is there one person in
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: the potter's house? that's got enough faith to see God
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: bring things out? Is there one person in the balcony
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  Speaker 2: that believes God for a miracle? Is there one person
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  Speaker 2: in this house that's not afraid to lift your hands
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  Speaker 2: and open your mouth and shout, Jesus, thou son of David,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: have mercy on me. Jesus, I've been blind all my life,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: but Jesus delivered me. I've been backed in a corner,
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  Speaker 2: but I can still open my mouth. My eyes don't work,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: but my mouth does work. Don't you know if your
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  Speaker 2: mouth works, you can get out of anything. You shall
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  Speaker 2: have whatever you say. The power of life and death
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  Speaker 2: is in your tongue. That's why the moment you get depressed,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: the first thing the devil tries to do is to
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  Speaker 2: get you to shut up. But the devil is a lie.
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  Speaker 2: I've been quiet long enough. I'm going to open my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what the demons do. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what hell does. I don't care what the witch does.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to open my mouth. I need a crazy person.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Better open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open
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  Speaker 2: your mouth. Open your mouth. Break the silence. Break the quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Break the pain. Break the curse. When you open your mouth,
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  Speaker 2: heaven assembles. When you open your mouth, healing hits your body.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: When you open your mouth... Doors swing open. When you
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: open your mouth, God will supply every need. The power
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  Speaker 2: of life and death is not in his tongue. It's
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: in your tongue. You shall have whatever you say. If
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: you confess death, you're going to have death. If you
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: confess life, you're going to have life. One more time,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: let me hear you holler in this room. Let me
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: hear you. Let me hear you. Let hell hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Let hell hear you. Let hell hear you. Let hell
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: hear you. Let demons hear you. Let depression hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Let sickness hear you. Let fear hear you. That thing
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: that's been curving you up at night, let it hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Open your mouth. You might have tied me up at night,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: but joy is coming in the morning. It's coming in
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: the morning. It's coming in the morning. Somebody that's been
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: having a series of rough nights, open your mouth and
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: declare it's morning. It's morning. It's morning. It's morning. It's morning.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible said, can I finish preaching this? The
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Bible said that Jesus came in and spoke to Peter.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't wait for Thomas. He didn't wait for Thomas
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  Speaker 2: to speak to him. He spoke to Thomas. He said,
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  Speaker 2: reach hither your hand and feel the nail prints in
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  Speaker 2: my hand. And reach hither your hand and see where
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  Speaker 2: they pierce me in the side. That represents outside wounds.
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  Speaker 2: That represents the wounds you had that everybody saw. That
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: represents public wounds. That represents public scandal. That represents public pain.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: That represents public divorces. That represents being trapped in that wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to let you touch me. What you already saw,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: the nail prints in my hands and the piercing of
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: my side. Hallelujah. And when you feel, when you feel
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: the prints in my side, you can see where they
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  Speaker 2: whipped my back all night long. You wasn't there when
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: they beat me, but I took the whips for this.
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  Speaker 2: I took pain for this. Paul said, I bury in
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: when you see what I went through, you'll understand who
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  Speaker 2: I am. When you see how I stood, you'll understand
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  Speaker 2: who I am. You think I'm just Sister Sally and
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Brother Joe. But I've been through hell and high water.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had a miracle in this room. Somebody
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: that survived the scourging. Somebody that withstood the beatings. Somebody
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: that still got the scars. Somebody that still got the scars.
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  Speaker 2: The wound is gone. The pain is gone. But the
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: scar is still there. You still got the scars. Use
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: your scars. Because whatever hurts you, God's going to use
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  Speaker 2: it to bless you. Whatever hurts you, God's going to
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: bring ministry out of every wound in your life. Every
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: time you suffered, God's going to give you more power.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Jesus said, I am he that was dead, but I'm
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: alive forevermore. Look at somebody and say, I was, but
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: I am. I was, but I am. I was dead,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: but I am alive. I'm alive. The devil didn't want
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: me to be here this morning, but the devil is
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: a liar. I'm alive. I'm alive in the balcony. I'm
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: alive watching online. I'm alive in the choir stand. I'm
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: alive on the minister's board. I am alive. I've been
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: beat bad enough. I should have been dead, but I'm
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: still alive. Y'all got to come get me because I
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: can't stop preaching. I feel the anointing of how to
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: break a yoke in here. I feel chains about to
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: drop in here. I feel doors opening up in here.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: I feel the spirit of revival about to break loose
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: in this place. If you feel revived down in your soul,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: give God 30 seconds of crazy praise. Give God 30 seconds.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Give God 30 seconds. Give God 30 seconds. Give God
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  Speaker 2: 30 seconds. Give God 30 seconds. If you got to
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  Speaker 2: do it in your seat, if you got to do
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: it in a chair, if you got to do it
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: on the floor, don't worry about your hair. Give God
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: a praise that lets the devil know I'm alive. I'm alive.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: I'm alive.
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  Speaker 4: I'm alive.
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  Speaker 2: I'm alive. Yes. Yes, Lord. Yes. Yes, Lord. I got equipment. Yes. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Clap your hands and give him crazy praise. I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to close, but I need about a hundred people that'll
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: jump out in the aisle and do a victory dance
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: for Jesus. I need about a hundred people that's been
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: through hell, but you got a victory dance. I'm alive.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: I'm back. I've been in the grave. I've been in
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: the tomb. I've been in the fire. I've been beat.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: I've been torn. I've been nailed down. But I'm alive forevermore.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I need about a hundred people. I need about a
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: hundred people that feel the Holy Ghost stirring in their
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: soul to open your mouth, move your feet, clap your
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: hands And give God a praise. I hear God moving.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: I hear God moving. I hear God moving. Somebody's coming
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: out of that tomb. Somebody's coming out of that grave.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Somebody's coming out of that hole. Somebody's coming out. I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: hear stones rolling away. I dare you to praise him.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: I dare you to praise him till the stones move
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: out of your life. I dare you to praise him.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Come on, praise him like you lost your mind. I'm
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: alive forevermore. I'm alive forevermore. I'm alive.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: Forevermore. .
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  Speaker 1: .
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: I'm alive. I'm alive. I'm alive.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: I'm alive.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I'm alive. I'm alive. Oh, yeah.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As I bring this message to a close, the Bible
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: said that Thomas dropped down on his knees and said,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: my Lord and my God, it may hurt to believe,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: but when God gets to finishing what he's doing in
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: your life, Your faith is going to pay off. You're
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: watching right now. Your faith is going to pay off.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: You're in the balcony right now. Your faith is going
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: to pay off. You've been through hell and high water.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Your faith is going to pay off. He dropped down
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: on his knees and said, my Lord and my God,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: you're still Lord over my situation. You're still Lord over
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: my circumstance. And I've got a feeling. that everything is
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: going to be all right. I've got a feeling that
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: everything is going to be all right. I can't hear you.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: I got a feeling that everything is going to be
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: all right. I got a feeling. I just got a feeling.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know where it's going to come from, but
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: I got a feeling everything is going to be alright
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: there's somebody in this room God meant for you to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: hear this word you have gone through the pain of
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: believing to the point that you have anesthetized your faith
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: to avoid the pain you just want the pain to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: stop more than you want Your prayer answered. The pain
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: has taken center stage over the answering of your prayer.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: And now you think victory is the end of pain.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: And you call it peace. But it's really anesthesia. Because
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: you don't want to believe because you don't see it.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: And Jesus said to Thomas, you have believed because you
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: have seen. But blessed are they who have not seen
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: and yet they believe. You haven't seen a thing. but
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: you got that stubborn faith that says he's still going
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: to do it. He's still going to do it. Who
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: am I talking to? He's still going to do it.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: I don't want people who like the message. I don't
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: even want people who like me You don't have to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: like me at all. I want people on this altar
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: who know the word was for them. And God was
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: talking to you while I was preaching about certain things
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: going on in your life. And as the lady said,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: I was reading your mail. I'm delivering this mail to
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: you today. I came like FedEx to drop off a
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: package to you so that you could believe and watch
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: God move in your behalf. That's right. Clap your hands
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: for him. Clap your hands. It is fearful. It's frightening
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: to keep believing. Disappointment don't feel good. And sometimes we
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: run from the things God gave us because they get hard.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Rigor mortis hard. Mummy hard. And we don't want to
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: go through the process of having the resurrection of our faith.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: But why come to church if something's not going to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: jumpstart your faith? I look on Facebook and Instagram and
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: Twitter at all the stuff they say about the church
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: and most of them who are talking about the church
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: don't even go to church. I know they don't go
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: to church. They be talking about And if you build
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: a megachurch, how can you build a megachurch? How can
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: you make a megachurch? People make a megachurch. What you
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  Speaker 2: going to do, come in a city and build a
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  Speaker 2: big building and declare yourself a megachurch? God makes it mega.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: God makes it mega. I did not come to Dallas
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  Speaker 2: to build a megachurch. I didn't even expect it to be.
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  Speaker 2: a megachurch I was coming to Dallas because they said
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  Speaker 2: come to Dallas and if I had to play the
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  Speaker 2: piano and preach with a microphone up against the piano
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  Speaker 2: I was going to preach this word because that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm used to I'm used to a fight hit me
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: if you want it I'm used to a fight I'm
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: used to a fight. I'm so used to a fight
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  Speaker 2: that when people started coming, it scared me. 1,500 people
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  Speaker 2: joined the first Sunday. It scared me to death. I thought, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do with 1,500 people.
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  Speaker 2: By the end of two years, I had 10,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, oh, God. I didn't have 10,000 roaches in
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  Speaker 2: my church. People were driving from Longview and coming from
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: around the world, moving from other cities to be in
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  Speaker 2: this church. I'm telling you, your dream will exceed your vision.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: It'll be more than you expected. The trying of your
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: faith work of patience. And patience work of hope. And
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: hope maketh itself not ashamed. You're not going to be ashamed.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: You're not going to be ashamed. Lift your hands right
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: where you are. You're watching online, lift your hands. And
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: if you've been trying to back away from your dreams,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: If you've been like Sarah trying to find a hay
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  Speaker 2: girl to fill in for the dream. God don't need
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  Speaker 2: your help to give you your baby. And I want
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  Speaker 2: you with your hands raised and your heart open to
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  Speaker 2: let God know I'm sorry that I tried to do
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  Speaker 2: it by myself. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That after you
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  Speaker 2: endured such pain, I gave up so easy. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when Thomas and Jesus came together, they both had scars.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus had scars on the outside. But Thomas had scars
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  Speaker 2: on the inside. He had scars on the inside. He
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  Speaker 2: had walked with Jesus three years only to find out
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: that you didn't have a clue what Jesus was going
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  Speaker 2: to do. Yeah. Your doctrine, your doctrine, your ideology has
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: made the word of God of no effect. We're going
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: to kick open that door and say, Lord, come in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you who to use. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to tell you when to do it. But
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep on believing you. From your heart now.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: From your heart because the enemy is going to try this.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to try you. He's going to try you.
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  Speaker 2: This Sunday morning I confess that it hurts to believe.
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  Speaker 2: And I confess that sometimes I've been double-minded. My other twin,
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  Speaker 2: my other twin walks away. But at this altar, I'm
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  Speaker 2: calling them together to a place of wholeness and oneness.
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  Speaker 2: And I seek unity within myself I'm not seeking unity
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  Speaker 2: with other people. I'm seeking unity within myself. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not ashamed to say Lord I believe you. I still
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  Speaker 2: believe you. I still trust you. I still expect you
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  Speaker 2: to move in my behalf. Whenever you get ready I
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: believe you're going to move. In the name of Jesus,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: we pray. Give him the best praise you got. Honey,
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  Speaker 2: I want you... Where'd my wife go? Honey, I want you...
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  Speaker 2: to write a check for $ 80... I'm believing God for
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: an eighth day. I'm believing God for an eighth day.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: You know there are certain things that we're expecting God
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  Speaker 2: to do. I'm believing God for an eighth day. And
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: I want to challenge as many of you as can
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  Speaker 2: to follow us in connecting with the seed, with the
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: $ 80 seed. If you can't give that anything, you got
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  Speaker 2: an eight in it. $ 28, $ 38, $ 18. Anything that's got
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: an aid in it. I am expecting a new beginning.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I am expecting a new beginning. If you don't have
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: to leave, wait just a moment. I know some of
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: you are going to your pocketbook. But if you don't
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: have to leave, wait just a moment. If there's anybody
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  Speaker 2: in this room that wants to be saved, come and
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  Speaker 2: stand right up front over here. Come through the crowd
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  Speaker 2: like the woman with the issue of blood and say,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be saved. If there's anybody. Do y'all
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  Speaker 2: mind standing up for just a moment? I didn't tell
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  Speaker 2: you to wear them high heels. Come on down if
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  Speaker 2: you want to be saved. Just stand right there. Somebody else,
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  Speaker 2: don't leave her standing by herself. Come on down. If
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  Speaker 2: you're here and you're a backslider, And this message touched you.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: And you want to come back to the Lord. Come
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  Speaker 2: stand right here right now. If you're watching online, there's
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  Speaker 2: a prayer number on the screen. See, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the
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  Speaker 2: word of their testimony. Don't just keep it in your head.
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  Speaker 2: You got to bring it out where you say so.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anyone else? Come right now. You may be
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  Speaker 2: in the balcony. We'll wait on you. The devil will
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  Speaker 2: create any excuse he can to keep you bound. But
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Satan is a liar. I'll wait on you. Come on down.
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  Speaker 2: I'll wait on you. I'm getting ready to pray but
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to leave anybody out of this prayer
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  Speaker 2: anybody that the Holy Spirit is nudging to get down
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: here I want you to come suppose Thomas had not
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  Speaker 2: come on that eighth day that was his moment that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus came just for him and I believe God gave
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  Speaker 2: me this word for somebody He wanted to give you
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  Speaker 2: a chance to change your view. Pray for her as
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  Speaker 2: she comes.
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  Speaker 4: I have no judgment.
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  Speaker 2: To pass on you I know what it is to
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  Speaker 2: be discouraged I understand what it is to get tired
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  Speaker 2: I understand what it is to want to quit I
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  Speaker 2: understand that little voice that says nothing will ever happen
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: to me I understand secret heartbreak. But you won't leave
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  Speaker 2: here like you came. God is going to do something
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  Speaker 2: so real in your life that some of your friends
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: are going to like you no more. Because all of
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  Speaker 2: you is going to die at this altar.
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  Speaker 5: And the new you is going to be resurrected right now.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care what you've been bound by. I don't
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  Speaker 5: care what you've been all about. It's greater than anything
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  Speaker 5: that had you bound. It's still coming, y'all. It's still coming.
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  Speaker 5: It's still coming. It's still coming. grown men coming to
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  Speaker 5: this all give me just a few more.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes just a few more minutes I'm still earlier than
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  Speaker 2: you normally.
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  Speaker 4: Get up I want.
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  Speaker 2: To give one minute for that soul that hell is holding.
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  Speaker 4: Back 50 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: I know the devil don't want you to come, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting 35 seconds. 25 seconds. That word was for me.
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  Speaker 2: Come on down, young man. 25 seconds. That word was
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  Speaker 2: for me. 20 seconds. And I'm going to pray. 20 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Are
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: you sure? Are you sure? Come on down. 15 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Come on down. Hold it for just one second. It's beautiful.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. But hold it for just one second. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to hear this secret. I know you're His
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  Speaker 2: before you ever started walking. Because the Bible said no
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  Speaker 2: man can come to the Father save the Spirit draw him.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: He said, I know them that are mine. He knows you.
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  Speaker 2: He wants you to know Him. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about rejection because you are accepted in the beloved.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus cares about you. Or you wouldn't have felt that
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: pull to be here. There are still some people in
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  Speaker 2: the crowd that don't feel a pull. They've moved so
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  Speaker 2: far away that they don't feel a pull. They've been
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: bound by curses. They don't feel the pull. The very
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: fact that you can feel the pull, the very fact
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  Speaker 2: that you got tears running down your face, The very
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  Speaker 2: fact that you came, I don't care if you was
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  Speaker 2: the last person to come. You belong to him. You
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  Speaker 2: belong to him. Your life is not your own. God
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  Speaker 2: has a plan for you. And I'm happy this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Because when God gave me this word, I got so happy.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait for Sunday to come. I just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: wait for Sunday to come. I preached to my wife.
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  Speaker 2: I called people up on the phone and started preaching
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  Speaker 2: to them. I know my friends were sick of me
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: because I was just a preacher. I had to get
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: it out. I had to get it out. The pain
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: of believing. You can still come. The pain of believing.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: I would never try to stop you from coming to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You can still come. I just want you to know
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: that you can't come if he don't draw you. And
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: he doesn't draw everybody. He draws those that are his.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: He said, my sheep know my voice and a stranger
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: they will not follow. You know his voice and you don't.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: There's still some people standing back there who don't hear nothing.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: But you heard him calling you. And you'll come and say, yes,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: and it's a gift from God to be able to
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: hear him. That I didn't do anything so bad that
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: I went deaf. It means he loves me. It means
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: he cares about me. No matter what. He wanted you. Now,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to pray with you and you're going to
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: pray with me. But if the truth be told, it's
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: already done. It was done when you made up your
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: mind to start walking. By the time you got down here,
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  Speaker 2: the door was open and the Lord was in your
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: room right then. Because you have heard his voice. Bow
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  Speaker 2: your heads with me. Father. Repeat it with me. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I repent. Of my slothfulness. Of my sinfulness. Of all
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: of my doubts. And all of my brokenness. You went
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  Speaker 2: through all of that. To get me out. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that right here and right now in front of
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: all of these people I accept you as Lord in
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: my life. Do what you want to do. Change what
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: you want to change. Fix what you want to fix.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: I'm giving my life to you. I decree and declare
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: that I will never ever be the same again. In
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, amen. Give him all the praise you can
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: give him. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: Give him all the praise.
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  Speaker 4: You can give him.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: Give him all the praise you can give him. Okay,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: we're getting ready to go home. I know y'all try
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: to be the first one in the parking lot to
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: be stuck. You be just running out the door. I
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: know it. I understand it. I just know it don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Let me do something before I dismiss you. And it's
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: going to sound redundant. It may even get on some
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: of your nerves. If there's somebody still standing there and
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: you're fighting with yourself because you didn't come. You almost
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: think you're cursed. I'm going to call you a you
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: again and I'm going to lay hands on you myself.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: I want you to come. You must be mighty special
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: to God. You must be mighty special to God. Because
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: I was going to give the benedictions. He said, give
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  Speaker 2: her one more chance. As I lay my hands on you,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: as I lay my hands on you, every chain be broken,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: every barrier be moved. As I lay my hands on you,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: I break every generational curse. As I lay my hands
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: on you, I go all the way back into your
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: ancestry and I command the deliverance right now In the
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: name of Jesus, you will never be the same again.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: God brought you here this morning. You will not be
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: the same again. In Jesus' name. Now tell God yes.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: Tell him yes. Tell him yes. Tell God yes.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 6: Tell God yes.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Tell him yes. That's right. Here come them tongues back.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: Here come back them tongues. It's coming back. It's coming back.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: It's coming back. It's coming back. It's coming back. It's
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: coming back. Somebody help her. Just for a second. Somebody
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: help her. Oh my God, I love you.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody help me praise him. Somebody help me praise him.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 6: Somebody help me praise him. Somebody help me praise him.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 6: Lift your hands and praise him.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: You free woman. You loose woman. You delivered woman. Right now,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus, it is finished. Clap your
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: hands and praise him, everybody, everywhere. Everybody, everywhere. Well, church,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: I guess he's going to let you go now. Oh,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: that's right. I'm sorry. The people who gave you the envelopes,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: pass it all the way down to the left. Pass
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: it all the way down to the left. PMPs, serve them.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: I pray God give you a special blessing Because you
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: were so anxious to give that you would not let
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  Speaker 2: me forget to collect that offering. I pray a double
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  Speaker 2: portion on your life right now in the name of Jesus.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: Is you online? That blessing goes to you too. Right
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: now in the name of Jesus. Pass it all the
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  Speaker 2: way down to the left. PMT, serve the people of God.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: How many people glad you came to church this morning?
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: I said, how many people are glad? I said, how
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: many people are glad? I feel like preaching, boy. I said,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: how many people are glad? My God. Everybody in the pews,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: touch somebody. We're getting ready to go home. We're going
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: to leave nobody untouched. If you're standing up here, touch somebody.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: We're going to leave nobody untouched. Nobody's going to come
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: to the potter's house and remain untouched. Nobody. Nobody. I
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: care more about your souls than I do anything else.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: I listened to a man lie on the Instagram saying
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: we want your tax returns and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: Never happened in my life. Our first revival was for
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: homeless people. We went into prisons. We went into jails.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: We got people who were castaways. We got people who
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: were teen moms. We got people who were abused. We
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: made a partnership with the house in Dallas so that
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: abused women could escape. Never did what they said in
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: my life. But we are living in a time where
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: you can hardly tell a lie from the truth. It was,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest with you. It was hard
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: for me not to say nothing back. That other twin
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: jumped down off of my shoulder. That twin told me
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: you ought to just let him have it one good time.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: Just one good time. Just one good time. God ain't looking.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: You ought to just let him have it one Good time.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: In the 50 years I have been preaching, I have
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: never seen or asked anybody for a tax return. I
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: have never counted an offering.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: I never touch it. Never. Never. Never. I've had 15
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  Speaker 2: New York Times bestsellers. I have executive produced over six
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: books I mean movies you're playing my stuff now I
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: made some money y'all I didn't give it to them
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: I made some money and then came back home and
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: taught my people how to make money how to invest
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: money how to save money. That's why I came back,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: got out in the community and fed people and had
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: people wrapped all the way up to 30, feeding people
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: when nobody else would feed them. I preached almost three
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: years in this church with nobody in this building, but
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: I stood there and preached the gospel all through COVID.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: I preached the gospel and I started to let them hear.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: I would have wrote a book in that little line.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know when they run out of words. I
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: would have wrote a book and still been talking. And
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: then God said to me, what good would it do?
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: People believe what they like to believe. You are my witnesses.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: You are my witnesses. You are my credentials. You are
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: my living epistles. Yes. to the authenticity of my ministry.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: And I don't need nobody else. I got you. I
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: got you. Now with everybody touching, you said where two
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: or three are gathered together in my name, there am
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: I in the midst of them. We are gathered together
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: in your name. You said if any two or three
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: agreed As touching anything on earth. It shall be done.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: I pray God in the name of Jesus. That not
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: one of these words would fail. But that you would
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: manifest yourself in everyone's life. In a different way. In
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: an unexpected way. In a supernatural way. Let many testimonies
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: come out of this word. And bless our pastors. as
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: they're serving all the way across the country. Bless them
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: right now and bring them back home safely to us.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: Bless the Jackson family in a very special way and
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: give them peace and power in the name of Jesus.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you for every gift you gave our generation. Thank
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: you for every voice that cried loud and spared not.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you for everyone that names the name of the Lord.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: And most of all, we thank you for these souls. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: that come to this altar today. Oh, my God. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for these souls. If all of them could tell
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  Speaker 2: what they've been through, we'd still be shouting. We thank
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  Speaker 2: you in Jesus' name. Amen. I love you. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: At the Potter's House, we are invested in you, not
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  Speaker 1: just what you do or who you're becoming.
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  Speaker 3: We believe that in this house we are better together.
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  Speaker 2: We need one.
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  Speaker 3: Another to be holy, to hold each other accountable, and
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  Speaker 3: to keep growing.
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  Speaker 1: As God positions us to serve every soul, we believe
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  Speaker 1: that an act of sowing is an act of faith
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  Speaker 1: and agreement right where God is speeding up.
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  Speaker 3: And we're honored that we get to partner with you
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  Speaker 3: in reaching lives near and far. This is your official
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  Speaker 3: invitation to not just be a spectator, but to be
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  Speaker 3: a partner, be a member of our family that seeks
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  Speaker 3: kingdom solutions during the challenges of every season.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Your giving, your service, and your love to this house
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  Speaker 1: isn't just generosity, it's ministry.
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  Speaker 3: If this message spoke to you and you believe what
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  Speaker 3: God is doing in this house, we invite you to
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  Speaker 3: become a member today. We want to do life with you.
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  Speaker 1: And share this message with someone you care about, someone
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  Speaker 1: who needs it the most. I believe that it could
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  Speaker 1: be the catalyst for the breakthrough that they're seeking. No
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  Speaker 1: matter where you are, remember, God sees you, He loves you,
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  Speaker 1: and so do we.