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Finding Christ in the Chaos - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: People say you have to have faith. I say you
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  Speaker 1: got to have stubborn faith. Radical, ridiculous faith. Faith that'll
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  Speaker 1: stand by itself and say, I still believe. Laugh at me,
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  Speaker 1: talk about me, make jokes at me, look funny at me,
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  Speaker 1: but I.
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  Speaker 2: Still believe that he that.
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  Speaker 1: Hath began a good work in me shall provide.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it. This is the part of touch.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings to you in the invincible name of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our King. I am so blessed and so delighted to
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  Speaker 1: have this opportunity to share with you the glorious gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. I'm excited because I believe God has
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  Speaker 1: given me a word that will change your life. You
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  Speaker 1: ought to take a moment and call a friend right
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  Speaker 1: now and tell them to just tune in to this
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  Speaker 1: because I believe this word is life-changing.
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  Speaker 3: As we go into the.
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  Speaker 1: Word of God today, my prayer for you is that
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God will go richly into you and
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  Speaker 1: bring forth fruit in every area of your life.
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  Speaker 3: Now, brothers and sisters, now to the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let's understand the times in which this man is healed.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a time that all the worshipers are
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  Speaker 1: in agreement. It is not a time in the temple
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  Speaker 1: when things are going well. Orthodox Judaism was in trouble
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  Speaker 1: like it had never been in trouble before. They'd had
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  Speaker 1: some problems before. There was that guy with the wild
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  Speaker 1: locusts and the honey who started preaching repent for the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven in that hand. And he had made
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  Speaker 1: a dent into the numbers of Orthodox Judaism in such
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  Speaker 1: a way that thousands of people had followed him out
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  Speaker 1: into the wilderness and were baptized by him.
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  Speaker 3: But they survived. They got past that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, they were going on in spite of that. Then
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  Speaker 1: there was that incident with that carpenter's son that rose
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  Speaker 1: up and started... preaching about the kingdom and he had
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  Speaker 1: started preaching some things that had gotten the ears of
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  Speaker 1: some of their congregants and they were a little disturbed
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  Speaker 1: about it but but it was okay it really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that bad it was some rumors about some blind people
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  Speaker 1: being healed but they were isolated to certain cities and
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  Speaker 1: because they did not have the benefit of newspapers radios e-blast, CNN,
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  Speaker 1: text or blogging. They were able to hush it down
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  Speaker 1: pretty good even though there were murmurings in the camps
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  Speaker 1: and organized Judaism was up under.
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  Speaker 3: Attack by this Christ.
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  Speaker 1: This Christ teaching had gotten loose but they were holding
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  Speaker 1: it down pretty good. What really got disruptive is when
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  Speaker 1: he stopped by Bethany and went over to the tomb
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  Speaker 1: and found a guy named Lazarus who had been dead
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  Speaker 1: four days and And it stood at the tomb of
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus and said, Lazarus, come forth.
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  Speaker 3: And the dead man came back.
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  Speaker 1: And they couldn't dispel it as a rumor because he
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  Speaker 1: showed up at the feast and the testimony. And I
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  Speaker 1: am he that was dead and alive forevermore. That's when
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  Speaker 1: the orthodox movement of religious people decided to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to tear up the synagogue. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: ruin the temple. He's teaching a message that suggests that
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  Speaker 1: the people can get to God without us. And what
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  Speaker 1: then will we do for a job? If the people
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  Speaker 1: don't bring bullocks and lambs and goats and wave offerings
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  Speaker 1: and meal offerings and drink offerings, if they don't bring
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  Speaker 1: them to us to offer up oblations before God, then
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  Speaker 1: our significance is demented by his presence. Anytime somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: significance is diminished by your presence, they become a secret enemy. Amen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's worth taking back home with you. Don't let the
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  Speaker 1: smile fool you. Anytime their significance is diminished by your
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  Speaker 1: presence or success, they are apt to become a secret enemy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what they bought you for Christmas. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: their significance is diminished by your presence, they are apt
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  Speaker 1: to be an enemy in a secret and diabolical way.
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  Speaker 1: And so they were up under attack and they made
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  Speaker 1: a commitment. We've got to get rid of him. He
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  Speaker 1: had 5,000 people. Follow him out into the desert. 5,000
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  Speaker 1: is too many. No tithes from those people, no offerings,
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  Speaker 1: no lambs, no bullets, no goats. They're following this new
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  Speaker 1: guy called Jesus. We've got, do you not know he
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  Speaker 1: had the audacity to say he was the son of God?
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  Speaker 1: And some people are calling him God and he has
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  Speaker 1: the nerve to say he can forgive sins.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: And so for survival's sake, a decision was made by
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  Speaker 1: the high priest of the rabbinical council.
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  Speaker 3: Of the synagogue at that time.
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  Speaker 1: He gave his assent to the crucifixion of Christ for
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  Speaker 1: the survival of Orthodox Judaism. The problem with that was
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  Speaker 1: the 5,000 didn't show up at the cross. They had
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  Speaker 1: to spell the numbers. They had gotten rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: They buried him in the tomb, rolled a stone in
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  Speaker 1: front of it to make sure he did not get
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  Speaker 1: up and there was nobody stole his body and there
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  Speaker 1: was no confusion about that but the problem with that is.
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  Speaker 3: Early Sunday morning early Sunday morning I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't really explain exactly what happened but early Sunday morning
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  Speaker 1: the stone had been rolled away and the tomb was
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  Speaker 1: empty and there were rumors.
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  Speaker 2: That he had risen from the dead though none saw.
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  Speaker 1: Him save his disciples but to them they said he
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  Speaker 1: showed himself alive for 40 days with many infallible proofs,
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  Speaker 1: showing up to the two on the road to Emmaus,
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  Speaker 1: eating with them, showing up in the upper room, eating
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  Speaker 1: fish and walking through doors and even doubting Thomas and
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  Speaker 1: thrust his hand into his side and where they pierced
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  Speaker 1: him and began to believe. And now it was coming
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  Speaker 1: up again. They thought they had it all dead and
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  Speaker 1: it was coming up again. You know how it is
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  Speaker 1: when you think you got something squashed and it starts
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  Speaker 1: coming up again. That was that incident 50 days after
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  Speaker 1: the crucifixion of Christ when his disciples, about 70 of them,
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  Speaker 1: had gathered in the upper room and they were up
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  Speaker 1: there praying. And there was rumors that there was a
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  Speaker 1: shaking and an earthquake and lightning sounded and thunder roared
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  Speaker 1: and thunder. And they were filled and started talking in
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  Speaker 1: other languages. And people came all around them. Some said
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  Speaker 1: they were drunk. But others said, no, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a drunkenness from new wine. Seeing as this is but
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  Speaker 1: the third hour of the day. But this is that
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  Speaker 1: which the prophet Joel spoke of. That in the last days,
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  Speaker 1: saith God, I will put out my spirit upon all flesh.
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  Speaker 1: And now a revolution has started in Judea, Samaria, the
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  Speaker 1: uttermost parts of the earth. And people are walking up
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  Speaker 1: and down the streets praising God in different languages.
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  Speaker 2: And this is out of control.
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  Speaker 3: It was out of control.
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  Speaker 1: I say this because I want you to understand that
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  Speaker 1: there were those who held that view.
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  Speaker 3: In the temple. That view.
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  Speaker 1: Saw Christ. As an anarchy. As a rebel. As a danger.
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  Speaker 1: To orthodox religion. Yeah. They were not happy about it.
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  Speaker 1: Those folks came to church. Now put that aside. And
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  Speaker 1: let me serve this. There is this other group who
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  Speaker 1: had followed Jesus. They were committed to him.
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  Speaker 3: They had served him. They had been on the boat
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  Speaker 3: that night.
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  Speaker 1: When the storm was tossing to and fro. And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: peace be still. And the winds and waves that laid down.
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  Speaker 1: There was even that incident where Jesus came reportedly walking
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  Speaker 1: across the water to them.
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  Speaker 3: And they had believed on him.
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  Speaker 1: They were there when the woman with the issue of
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  Speaker 1: blood touched the hem of his garment and was made whole.
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  Speaker 1: They were there when the ten lepers were healed. Though
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  Speaker 1: they were across the street, Jesus just told them, go
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  Speaker 1: show yourself to the priest.
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  Speaker 3: And his word was so.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful that it healed them without him ever using his hand.
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  Speaker 1: He just sent his word out. And his word healed
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  Speaker 1: and delivered them. What a mighty God we serve. And
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  Speaker 1: even the centurion had had deliverance come to his house.
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  Speaker 1: And one reported named Jairus had had his daughter who
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  Speaker 1: was dead resurrected.
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  Speaker 3: And he stopped a funeral. Touched the casket.
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  Speaker 2: And a dead boy came up out of the casket.
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  Speaker 3: They were there.
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  Speaker 1: They had seen the miracles. They had seen the power.
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  Speaker 1: They had seen the touch of God, but they saw
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  Speaker 1: it from a back row seat because God was using Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: This same Jesus had been crucified. This same Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: been nailed to the tree and now he's gone. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time that the disciples show up
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  Speaker 1: to move in the power of God without Jesus being
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  Speaker 1: present with them and they wondered in their mind will
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  Speaker 1: it work for me like it worked have you ever
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  Speaker 1: wondered in your mind will it work for me like
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  Speaker 1: it worked.
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  Speaker 3: For someone else.
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  Speaker 1: So you see when Peter and John come to the
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  Speaker 1: temple it is not like you coming to church Where
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  Speaker 1: you come into a room full of people who agree
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  Speaker 1: with you. They are coming to a service where their
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  Speaker 1: theology is not accepted, not appreciated.
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  Speaker 3: And not welcome.
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  Speaker 2: And they are coming to the temple.
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  Speaker 1: Not knowing whether God will use them like he used Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: For this is the first miracle since the day of Pentecost.
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  Speaker 1: Their power has not been proven.
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  Speaker 2: Now, had they been in.
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  Speaker 1: A room full of people who agreed with them, at
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  Speaker 1: least they'd have the backup of other people. But sooner
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  Speaker 1: or later, you have to stand up and believe God
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, whether anybody believes him with you.
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  Speaker 3: Or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Or not.
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  Speaker 1: People say you have to have faith. I say you
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  Speaker 1: got to have stubborn faith. Radical ridiculous faith. Faith that
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  Speaker 1: will stand by itself. And say I still believe. Laugh
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  Speaker 1: at me. Talk about me. Make jokes at me. Look
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  Speaker 1: funny at me. But I still believe. That he that
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  Speaker 1: hath began a good work. In me shall provide.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it. I believe. I believe. I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody left in the church that still believes
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  Speaker 1: in the power of God? Tell your neighbor, I got
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  Speaker 1: stubborn faith. You don't have to believe it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to believe it. I still believe it. Take my
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  Speaker 1: house and I believe it. Take my car and I
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  Speaker 1: believe it. Sick in my body and I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Children strung out on drugs and I believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it in a jail cell. I believe it in
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  Speaker 1: a boardroom. I believe it in a crisis center.
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  Speaker 2: If God be for.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I feel the spirit of church in here. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: help me pray with stubborn faith.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on the potter's touch i want to.
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  Speaker 1: Make note of that for somebody who's had a long
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  Speaker 1: standing problem just because it's been there a long time
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's gonna stay a long time sometimes god
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  Speaker 1: will put your trouble on display and let everybody see
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  Speaker 1: you in trouble Be convinced of your trouble so that
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  Speaker 1: when he delivers you, there will be no doubt as
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  Speaker 1: They're moving to the temple, expecting to fight, but not
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  Speaker 1: the lame man to fight the religious mindset that is
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  Speaker 1: waiting for them in the temple. But as is the
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  Speaker 1: case with much of life, it is not the destination
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  Speaker 1: that is important. It is the things that happen along
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  Speaker 1: the way. You'll be trying to get to a particular
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  Speaker 1: place in life and you say, once I get there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get this and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: blessed and I'm going to have that and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to see the power of God. But it is not
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  Speaker 1: the destination. God often shows up on the rest stop
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the road. It is the things
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  Speaker 1: that happen along the way and along the way to
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  Speaker 1: the temple.
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  Speaker 2: There was a man.
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  Speaker 1: Third course, there was a man. He was different from
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  Speaker 1: the first two courses. The first course comes to defend
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  Speaker 1: their position and their significance against the tyranny of this
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  Speaker 1: new theology.
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  Speaker 3: The second group.
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  Speaker 1: Comes to establish a truth that they believe will convert
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  Speaker 1: the orthodox into the contemporary understanding of who Christ is.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't come for either thing. He came because he's broke.
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  Speaker 1: He came because he's crippled. He came because he's destitute.
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  Speaker 1: He came because any crippled person will tell you that
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  Speaker 1: religious people are more apt to be benevolent than other people.
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  Speaker 1: The begging was good over there. Ha ha ha ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ha. Y'all don't like it when I tell the truth.
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  Speaker 1: This man has developed a pathology, a structure, a methodology,
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  Speaker 1: if you please, around his dysfunction. He does not come
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  Speaker 1: to the temple to be healed. He comes to the
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  Speaker 1: temple to get over. He is not like the woman
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  Speaker 1: with the issue of blood saying, if I may but
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  Speaker 1: touch the hem of his garment, I will be made whole.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even ask to be healed. He got up
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  Speaker 1: out of the bed that morning, got some friends to
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  Speaker 1: get him dressed. They picked him up and carried him
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  Speaker 1: over where the begging was good. He got his cup
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  Speaker 1: out of his pocket. And he started into his daily routine, alms, alms, alms.
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  Speaker 1: Now what I want you to see is the cataclysmic
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  Speaker 1: explosion that occurs when three different kinds of people show
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  Speaker 1: up at the same place. each expecting something different. And
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  Speaker 1: yet in the middle of this chaos, God is orchestrating
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  Speaker 1: the affairs because all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nothing but a setup.
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  Speaker 1: Now, brothers and sisters, I wish I could preach this
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  Speaker 1: like I feel it. This man had been lame From
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  Speaker 1: his mother's womb. He is obviously a grown man at
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  Speaker 1: this point. So he has had a lifetime. Of dysfunction.
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  Speaker 1: And God allowed it to be so. He allowed it
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  Speaker 1: to go on for years. To set the stage.
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  Speaker 2: For a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make note of that for somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: had a long standing problem. Just because it's been there
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  Speaker 1: a long time doesn't mean it's going to stay a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Sometimes God will put your trouble on display
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  Speaker 1: and let everybody see you in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Be convinced of your trouble so.
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  Speaker 1: That when he delivers you, there will be no doubt
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  Speaker 1: as to the authenticity.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Help me preach this this morning. I'm a little tired.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to help me preach this morning. Just
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  Speaker 1: touch your neighbor on your right and your left and say,
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  Speaker 1: it don't matter how long it's been that way.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It don't even matter. It doesn't matter how many nights
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  Speaker 1: you cried. It doesn't matter how sick you've been. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what they said about you. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: how long you've been down. It doesn't matter that the
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  Speaker 1: odds are against you. It doesn't matter that you don't
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  Speaker 1: have what you need. This ain't nothing but a setup
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  Speaker 1: for supernatural tactical Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and tell them it's a set up. They
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  Speaker 1: don't believe you. Find somebody else and say it's a
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  Speaker 1: set up. Every night you cried. Everything you endured. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on in your body. What's going on in your marriage.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on in your house. What's going on on
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  Speaker 1: your job. It ain't nothing but us. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who I'm preaching to. But whoever it is. Let me
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  Speaker 1: see if I can identify my courses. My first course
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  Speaker 1: has already got inside the temple.