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The Love Letter Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Now, I know I sound a little old school, but
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  Speaker 1: I came up at a time that people sang.
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  Speaker 2: About love, even in the world. And I have to explain.
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  Speaker 1: This to the other people because you came up at
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  Speaker 1: a time that they just sing about sex. But let's
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  Speaker 1: not get sex and love confused. Or you're going to
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  Speaker 1: lead a very empty and frustrating life trying to scratch
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  Speaker 1: a love itch with a sex utensil. That old sex
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  Speaker 1: utensil is too short to reach that love itch.
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  Speaker 3: This is the part of time Now we're into this
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  Speaker 3: love thing we've been talking about, and it really started
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  Speaker 3: transforming our church, and I pray that it will bless
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  Speaker 3: you in a special way.
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  Speaker 1: This series is called The Love Letter, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the title message. You will want to follow this one
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  Speaker 1: really closely as we share the title message, The Love Letter.
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  Speaker 1: When I told you to read Philemon, you kind of gasped.
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  Speaker 1: Philemon is not discussed much, not preached, not taught on,
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  Speaker 1: not talked about. It is one of the unique Pauline epistles,
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  Speaker 1: the shortest one in the New Testament. People have overlooked
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  Speaker 1: it for years thinking that it had no value because
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  Speaker 1: unlike Ephesians or Hebrews or Romans written to bodies of believers,
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  Speaker 1: Philemon is a personal letter pinned by an old man
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  Speaker 1: in a cold, dank cell, perhaps in Rome, scribbling on paper,
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  Speaker 1: on papyrus, to send a note to his son in
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  Speaker 1: the faith, Philemon, to receive a character named Onesimus.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Philemon is.
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  Speaker 1: A son to Paul, much like Timothy was, but Timothy
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  Speaker 1: gets the spotlight. Philemon doesn't get a lot of light,
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  Speaker 1: Philemon was a son of Paul, said we don't hear
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot about, but Paul thought enough in his
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  Speaker 1: old age to write to Philemon. But he doesn't write
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  Speaker 1: to Philemon about Philemon. He writes to Philemon.
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  Speaker 2: About another son, a new son.
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  Speaker 1: That has been begotten in his old age. The new
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  Speaker 1: son's name is Onesimus. The irony is, is that Philemon
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  Speaker 1: is a slave owner. And Onesimus is a runaway slave.
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  Speaker 1: Now we kind of know why we haven't heard a
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  Speaker 1: lot about it. Philemon is a slave owner and Onesimus
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  Speaker 1: is a runaway slave. Now, if you look at it
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  Speaker 1: with your Western mind and your American history, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to miss the greater point. Philemon is a slave owner
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  Speaker 1: because it shows in their culture a symbol of wealth.
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  Speaker 1: When you were wealthy, when you were accomplished, you could
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  Speaker 1: afford to have servants and slaves that served you. Philemon
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  Speaker 1: is not a lower class man. He's an upper class
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  Speaker 1: individual that has come to Christ by faith and accepted
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  Speaker 1: him and believed on him through the ministry of Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Paul had the kind of ministry that reached high and low.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that Paul's arms were long enough to
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  Speaker 1: reach a Philemon who was wealthy and Onesimus who is
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  Speaker 1: a runaway slave? Real good ministry, real good ministry can
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  Speaker 1: reach just.
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  Speaker 2: As far high as it can low.
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  Speaker 1: And maintain the same integrity going one way as it
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  Speaker 1: can the other. Real good ministry is not relegated to
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  Speaker 1: the hood. Real good ministry will work just as well
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  Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills as it will in Watts. Real good ministry.
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  Speaker 1: We'll preach just as effectively on Preston Road as it
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  Speaker 1: will over in South Dallas. Real good ministry reaches all
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  Speaker 1: types of people from all walks of life with the
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  Speaker 1: same integrity. Real good ministry will do that. Philemon has
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  Speaker 1: no real doctrinal value. It does not set up the
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  Speaker 1: order of the church. It doesn't deal with deacons or elders.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't deal with immoralities and things like that. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't deal with things that have been profitable to preach.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a simple, quick letter written by the shaky hand,
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  Speaker 1: the trembling hand of an old man who resists arthritis
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  Speaker 1: long enough to pen a few words because he thought
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  Speaker 1: it was important. To stand in a position and officiate
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  Speaker 1: for this runaway slave. The Bible is unclear as to
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  Speaker 1: how a guy like Onesimus would run into Paul, saying
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  Speaker 1: that Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Is a prisoner.
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  Speaker 1: Now look, I want to set this up for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: You got a prisoner who is incarcerated outwardly, but free inwardly.
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  Speaker 1: writing to a slave owner, trying to get the slave
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  Speaker 1: owner to receive a runaway slave. Each man is in
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  Speaker 1: some way incarcerated, and each man is in some way liberated.
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  Speaker 1: Paul is bound on the outside, but he's free on
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  Speaker 1: the inside. And he's writing to Philemon to say, Onesimus
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  Speaker 1: by all rights is your slave. You paid the price
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  Speaker 1: for him. He didn't treat you good. He didn't serve
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  Speaker 1: out his time. He ran away. But I want you
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  Speaker 1: to receive him back because he ran away from you
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  Speaker 1: but ran into me. And in the process of him
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  Speaker 1: running into me, I converted him.
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  Speaker 2: And Onesimus, who was your slave, is now my son.
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  Speaker 1: Now Philemon, this puts you in a dilemma because if
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  Speaker 1: Onesimus is my son, then he is your brother. And
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  Speaker 1: if he is your brother, he can't be your slave.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Touch somebody and say, Onesimus is a runaway slave. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what it is to be a runaway slave.
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  Speaker 1: You're running away from something and.
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  Speaker 2: Can't deal with it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And you might not admit it, but all of us
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  Speaker 1: in here have.
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  Speaker 2: Been a runaway. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get ethnic on me. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: black to be a runaway slave. Anytime you're running away
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  Speaker 1: from how you have been defined, anytime you're running away
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  Speaker 1: from how folks saw you, anytime you're running away from
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  Speaker 1: the limited perspective people had on your life, anytime you
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  Speaker 1: refuse to be bound and you got to get away
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  Speaker 1: from a trap, you've been a runaway slave, been on
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  Speaker 1: the run. Some of y'all running right now. Running from
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  Speaker 1: the limited way people view you. Running from your past.
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  Speaker 1: Running from your background. Running from who you used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Running from what people think about you. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: are on the run right now. Onesimus was a runaway slave.
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  Speaker 1: He ran up on Paul and got liberated. Now he
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  Speaker 1: is liberated on the inside. But he's still on the
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  Speaker 1: run on the outside. And if you're a runaway slave,
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  Speaker 1: you lived in danger of being destroyed. Paul, who can't
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  Speaker 1: get out of prison, is writing a letter so that
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is out can be free. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: work on this till you get it. And he writes
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  Speaker 1: to Philemon and he writes a letter and he says
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  Speaker 1: to him, he says, Philemon, I believe you. that Onesimus
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  Speaker 1: is more profitable to you now than he was before.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have the grace to forgive him and
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  Speaker 1: receive him back as your brother, he says, then everything
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  Speaker 1: is going to be all right. And he says, I
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  Speaker 1: know he didn't treat you right. I know you didn't
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  Speaker 1: get your value out and the transaction hadn't been ratified.
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  Speaker 1: And I know he might have done something to you.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't say what he did, but he might have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you run, you generally take something on
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  Speaker 1: your way out. And there's no.
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  Speaker 2: violation.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't been violated until somebody steal from you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a feeling. I tell you, it's a feeling all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: When somebody steals from you and he says, but Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: now I know you might not want to forgive him
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  Speaker 1: because he's done some injustices to you. He said, but
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  Speaker 1: just take him back and if he owes you anything,
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  Speaker 1: put it on my account. If you want to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to the debt, you can hold on to it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, but just move it from his column.
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  Speaker 2: Over the mind.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you know I'm good for it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: pay you when I return. Oh, you're waking up with
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  Speaker 1: me now. You're about to catch on to me now.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I'll pay you when I get back. He said,
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  Speaker 1: but by the way, he said, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You owe me everything.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm writing you this little love letter because
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to send Onesimus to you and I want
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  Speaker 1: to test you to see if you're big enough to
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  Speaker 1: receive somebody you've been angry with. Because I'm suggesting to
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  Speaker 1: you that you're going to need him. And the only
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  Speaker 1: way you can receive him is if you're big enough
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  Speaker 1: to get over what you were mad about so that
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  Speaker 1: he can bring you into how God wants to use
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  Speaker 1: him in your life. So I'm writing you this love letter.
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  Speaker 1: This problem between Philemon and Onesimus is a test.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a test.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God will test you with people. When you're asking
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  Speaker 1: him for mercy and asking him for second chances and
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  Speaker 1: asking him for grace, sometimes God will test you with
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's asking you for mercy and asking you for
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  Speaker 1: grace just to see if you're big enough to sow
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  Speaker 1: something so you can reap something. Oh, y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a runaway.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a runaway from where I started. I'm a runaway
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  Speaker 1: from what I've been through. I'm a runaway from how
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  Speaker 1: they limited me. I'm a runaway from abuse.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a runaway.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't got time to play. Steal away. Ain't got long
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  Speaker 1: to stay here. On the move.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a runaway.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said no greater love have any man than
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  Speaker 1: this that he would lay down his life for his friend.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you now honestly and openly that love
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  Speaker 1: is expensive. It will cost you something to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It may even cost everything to give it. But when
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  Speaker 1: it returns, it comes back pressed down, shaken together and
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  Speaker 1: running over. It's a hard test to pass, but it's
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  Speaker 1: worth taking it because you cannot graduate from life without it.
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  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and say, Onesimus is coming. I prophesied
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  Speaker 1: to you today, Onesimus is coming. Somebody who did you wrong,
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  Speaker 1: Onesimus is coming. Somebody that you have every right to
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  Speaker 1: be angry with, Onesimus is coming. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to hear about this anymore, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to crack this egg right in your skillet. Onesimus
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  Speaker 1: is coming to see if you've grown any, if you've
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  Speaker 1: developed any, if you've learned anything, if you've grown in
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  Speaker 1: any way. Onesimus is coming to see if you're still
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  Speaker 1: petty and if you're still small and if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: grown enough to enter into the arena that God wants
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  Speaker 1: to put you in. Onesimus is coming to see if
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  Speaker 1: you've learned anything from all the teaching that you've been getting,
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  Speaker 1: Onesimus has got to come. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see if you can receive Onesimus.
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  Speaker 2: As a brother.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see if your perspectives have grown to
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  Speaker 1: the degree that you can receive somebody that you defined
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  Speaker 1: in one light. Can you now see them in another light?
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  Speaker 1: I want to see if you can receive the new
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  Speaker 1: and improved version of Onesimus. I want to see if
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  Speaker 1: you will hold Onesimus hostage to how you used to
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  Speaker 1: define him. Or have you grown enough to receive him
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  Speaker 1: as he is rather than how he used to be?
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  Speaker 1: I know how he used to be. He was useless
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  Speaker 1: to you before. But I wonder if you will give
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  Speaker 1: Onesimus the same thing that you need.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy into the growth in Onesimus. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I know that he was useless to you before, but
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  Speaker 1: he is useful now. Now, Paul is being smart. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: Paul is an intellect. And when he writes his love letter,
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  Speaker 1: he writes it from the unique perspective of playing on
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  Speaker 1: words here. Because what you don't know is Onesimus' name
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  Speaker 1: is useful. Onesimus literally translated means I'm useful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm useful.
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  Speaker 1: But his use had been limited to servitude.
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  Speaker 2: Onesimus could not reach.
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  Speaker 1: His destiny with Philemon because Philemon only saw him as
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  Speaker 1: a slave. Sometimes you can't reach your destiny with people
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  Speaker 1: who limit you to how they met you. Y'all ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to me. Y'all not gonna say nothing
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  Speaker 1: to me. Once people see you from a particular perspective,
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  Speaker 1: they will hold you hostage to how they met you
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  Speaker 1: and they won't let you grow and you can't reach
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  Speaker 1: your destiny because what they heard about you or what
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  Speaker 1: they thought about you or what they.
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  Speaker 2: Saw you do had one season in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Onesimus was useful, but he could not find his use
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  Speaker 1: Or his purpose with Philemon. Because Philemon saw his usefulness
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  Speaker 1: only through the parameters of how he met him. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't unlock his destiny because he was in love with
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  Speaker 1: his history. People who lock into you based on who
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  Speaker 1: you used to be. seldom can unlock your destiny. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have to get away from where you came from. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all aren't going to say nothing to me. I have
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  Speaker 1: noticed throughout my life that people who knew me when
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  Speaker 1: will always kind of get an attitude over who I
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  Speaker 1: am now. And they'll say, you forgot where you came from. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't forget. But I sure do wish you would.
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  Speaker 1: Tell three people to say run away, run away, run away.
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  Speaker 1: Run away, run away, run away. Run away from anybody
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  Speaker 1: who wants to hold you down to a childhood decision.
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  Speaker 1: Run away from anybody who wants to lock you down
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  Speaker 1: to how they met you. Run away from anybody who
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  Speaker 1: wants to live your.
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  Speaker 2: Life out as a slave. Slavery is not real use.
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  Speaker 2: It's abuse.
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  Speaker 1: And most useful people have been abused before used.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you're useful, you have a giving heart. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have a giving heart, people will take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of you and they will abuse you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into this Philemon thing this morning.
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  Speaker 2: They will abuse you.
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  Speaker 1: And from all of this, Onesimus ran away. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever had to run away from somebody who didn't get
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  Speaker 1: who you really were, tell somebody, say, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: run away. I'm a runaway. I'm a runaway from where
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  Speaker 1: I started. I'm a runaway from what I've been through.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a runaway from how they limited me. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: runaway from abuse.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a runaway. Ain't got time to play.
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  Speaker 1: Steal away. Ain't got long to stay here on the move.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a runaway.
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  Speaker 1: Paul now puts Philemon in a jam. There is no
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  Speaker 1: way that Philemon would receive Onesimus on his own. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way that Philemon would receive Onesimus had he just walked.
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  Speaker 2: In the house.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way in the world that Philemon would have
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  Speaker 1: received Onesimus.
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  Speaker 2: At all if it weren't for a love.
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  Speaker 1: Letter from Paul. Now he's in a predicament. Because the
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  Speaker 1: person that he's angry with is coming to him through
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle of the person that he loves. If he
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  Speaker 1: does not take Onesimus back, he jeopardizes his relationship with Paul. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. See, sometimes you need
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  Speaker 1: somebody else to speak for you other than you. Onesimus
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  Speaker 1: has no favor with Philemon, but Paul does. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God will give you favor with somebody who has favor
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  Speaker 1: with somebody you don't have favor with to.
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  Speaker 2: Put them in a predicament. If Onesimus would have.
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  Speaker 1: Come to Philemon without the love letter, then Philemon could
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  Speaker 1: have killed Onesimus. The only thing standing between Onesimus and.
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  Speaker 2: Death was a love letter. Oh, you didn't get that.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing standing between Onesimus and death was a
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  Speaker 1: love letter from Paul. Now, Paul leverages who he is
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  Speaker 1: as a spiritual father, and he writes to Philemon, his son,
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  Speaker 1: in the faith. He says, son, uh, Daddy's had another baby.
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  Speaker 1: And incidentally, the new kid on the block is your
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  Speaker 1: old slave, Onesimus. He said, I started to keep him
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  Speaker 1: myself because I fell in love with him and he's
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  Speaker 1: my son and I found him to be profitable to me.
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  Speaker 1: He's useful to me. I'm not sending him back to
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  Speaker 1: you because he's useless. I'm sending him back because he
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  Speaker 1: is useful to you. Some theologians suggest that the book
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  Speaker 1: of Philemon is only included in the canonical scriptures because
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  Speaker 1: Philemon became useless. the book of Philemon became a work
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  Speaker 1: that Onesimus includes because Onesimus becomes a penman for the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul and becomes useful. Others suggest that it goes
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  Speaker 1: even deeper than that, that Philemon becomes an apostle and
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  Speaker 1: does a great work in And Onesimus ends up pastoring
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  Speaker 1: Timothy's old church and becomes the bishop over the church
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  Speaker 1: at Ephesus. And he started out a slave. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand this morning that it doesn't matter where
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  Speaker 1: you start.
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  Speaker 2: It matters where you finish.
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  Speaker 1: You might not have had a real good start, but
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  Speaker 1: that don't mean you can't have a happy ending. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I love about a good old love story is
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  Speaker 1: that it always has a happy ending. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to somebody who had a rough start, but you
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  Speaker 1: expect a happy ending.
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  Speaker 2: I want to.
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  Speaker 1: I want to send you this This little love letter.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't start so well, baby. But you're going in good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hang in there.
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  Speaker 1: Don't move.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back in just a minute. If he commands
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  Speaker 1: me to do it, it must be within my power
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish it. Because it wouldn't be just to command
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  Speaker 1: me to do something that I cannot do.
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  Speaker 2: So that means that love is controllable. I give up
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  Speaker 2: everything to follow you.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't give up a ham sandwich at 11 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at night. Imagine how your personal relationships would change if
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  Speaker 1: you loved the people in your life like you love yourself.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is we always want to get more than
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  Speaker 1: we're willing to give. So this second scripture obliterates selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: It's not what we did yesterday that's messing us up.
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  Speaker 1: It's that you won't grow with me.
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  Speaker 4: Receive The Love Letter. Four passionate messages on CD or DVD.
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  Speaker 4: And learn how to love God, others, and yourself better
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  Speaker 4: than you ever thought possible. Just visit our website or
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  Speaker 4: call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today. Be lifted up from tragedy to testimony.
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  Speaker 2: It's not in the place, baby. It's on the way.
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  Speaker 1: We're praying about the destination, but God is planning for
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  Speaker 1: the journey. Where you get in a mundane rut of
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  Speaker 1: low expectations. Ordinariness is the enemy of miracles.
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  Speaker 4: You don't need any more money. You need a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: God's getting ready to lift your entire situation.
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  Speaker 4: For helping us reach others with your gift of $ 75
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  Speaker 4: or more, you will receive Lift Me Up on CD,
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  Speaker 4: along with a coaster set with words of encouragement. Just
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  Speaker 4: write us, visit our website, or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of crying in this house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak to my death and my fear
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  Speaker 1: and my loneliness.
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  Speaker 4: And when your gift is $ 150 or more, we will
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  Speaker 4: include Bishop Jake's book, God Longs to Heal You, helping
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  Speaker 4: you free your mind, body, and spirit. Be lifted up today.
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  Speaker 5: What arose in America as the biggest event of its
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  Speaker 5: kind is back. And now the stage is set.
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  Speaker 1: You have never seen a meeting like this.
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  Speaker 5: Together again at Megafest 2013.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking over Dallas. Get ready. You're going to catch abundance.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to catch God's blessing.
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  Speaker 5: Encouraging women.
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  Speaker 1: Peacemaker is somebody who declares war on anything that disturbs
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  Speaker 1: their peace. There is a principle that will cause a
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  Speaker 1: shift in your situation. If he can.
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  Speaker 2: Deliver me, he can deliver you.
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  Speaker 5: Equipping men.
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  Speaker 2: We have it. More fear in running out.
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  Speaker 5: Than we do faith in running over. This is going
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  Speaker 5: to be big. Meet us in Dallas, Texas, August 29th
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  Speaker 5: through 31st. Register at mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
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  Speaker 2: We do it big in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm out of time. I've got to stop there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a real joy and a real delight
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  Speaker 1: to share the word of the Lord with you. This
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  Speaker 1: thing about love, it's really important. If we don't get
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  Speaker 1: a better grip on it, our churches are splitting. Our
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  Speaker 1: marriages are falling apart. Our homes are collapsing for the
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  Speaker 1: lack of love. Think about it and have a great
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  Speaker 4: Week.