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God Goes Undercover! - Bishop T.D. Jakes (1) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you this morning.
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Speaker 2: Out of the Gospel of Saint Look, chapter one, verse
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Speaker 2: thirty one through thirty five, and let's stand and read
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Speaker 2: it together. And as we turn to it, let's understand.
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Speaker 2: Let's understand that we're eavesdropping, that we are sneaking into
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Speaker 2: the room and overhearing a conversation between divinity and humanity,
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Speaker 2: between the celestial and the terrect, between an archangel and
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Speaker 2: a woman of which we have not heard even the
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Speaker 2: mention of her name until the prominence of this conversation
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Speaker 2: brings her into a spotlight that goes on and perpetuates
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Speaker 2: itself throughout time. But now, at the time of the conversation,
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Speaker 2: she's just a girl called Mary, And verses thirty one says,
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Speaker 2: and behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring
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Speaker 2: forth a sun, And his name shall be called Ya
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Speaker 2: Shoa Jesus.
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Speaker 1: He shall be great and shall be called the Sun
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Speaker 1: of the Highest.
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Speaker 2: And the Lord God shall give unto him the own
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Speaker 2: of his father teeth, and he shall reign over the
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Speaker 2: house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom that shall
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Speaker 2: be no end. Good God, abody, can you imagine being
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Speaker 2: some young girl trying to conceive the magnitude of what
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Speaker 2: is being said to a girl who has not had
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Speaker 2: any relationship at all. You're gonna have a baby, period,
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Speaker 2: is mind buggling. The baby's gonna be great. It's still
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Speaker 2: more mind buggy. The baby is God that my head
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Speaker 2: just popped off, and of His kingdom there shall be
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Speaker 2: no invinsity, Mary Angel, this is too much for me.
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Speaker 1: How shall this be seing? I know not a man. See.
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Speaker 2: That's what gets us is because when we start hearing
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Speaker 2: God talk, we start talking about what we do. You
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Speaker 2: can't bless me. I'm too old, you can't do it.
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Speaker 2: It's too lane, you can't do it.
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Speaker 1: You can't do it. I don't have a degree. And
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Speaker 1: that you can't do it.
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Speaker 2: God can do whatever he wants to do whenever he
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Speaker 2: wants to do it, because he's sovereign, and he ain't
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Speaker 2: the answer, and said, hunder her, the holy ghost shall
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Speaker 2: come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
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Speaker 2: overshadow thee. Therefore also that check this out, holy thing.
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Speaker 2: This is the first time in scripture that crisis referred
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Speaker 2: to as a thing, that holy thing. And it's not
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Speaker 2: so much that he is an objective him. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to objectify him as much as he is unexplainable.
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Speaker 2: And when I'm getting ready to do this, shy is
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Speaker 2: a holy thing. You're not even gonna be able to
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Speaker 2: explain it, which shall be born of me and shall be.
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Speaker 1: Called the Sun of God.
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Speaker 2: Can you say, man, I want to use this headline,
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Speaker 2: God goes undercover, God goes Those are the headlines that
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Speaker 2: came out in the Angelic Press that morning.
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Speaker 1: God goes undercover.
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Speaker 2: That's what we are celebrating in this season and at
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Speaker 2: this time, but in deeper ways, we are celebrating it
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Speaker 2: in our own lives as just to understand that God
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Speaker 2: disguises himself, that God disguises himself. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: get ahead of myself, but that God disguises himself and
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Speaker 2: God goes undercover. I want you to type on the
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Speaker 2: line or yell at somebody and holler, God goes undercover.
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Speaker 2: You may be seated. Those are the headlines God goes undercover.
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Speaker 2: Headlines are designed to catch your attention so that you
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Speaker 2: can get into the article and begin to read. And
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Speaker 2: I have been thinking about this for some time because
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Speaker 2: because the Holy Spirit dropped it down into my heart
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Speaker 2: and I was watching my wife as a Christmas person,
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Speaker 2: you know, see she's I'm a Christmas person, but she
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Speaker 2: is like missus Santa Claus. And and everything in my
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Speaker 2: house is blinking, the toast, the bacon, everything is blinking
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Speaker 2: and flashing, and all of it. You can't touch nothing
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Speaker 2: that ain't an angel or something flying in the air,
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Speaker 2: you know, all in the bathroom and everywhere, just flying around,
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Speaker 2: galls everywhere, Christmas balls everywhere, all lit on and it's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's amazing. But what really shocked me is
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Speaker 2: when we got ready to celebrate Christmas and we downsides.
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Speaker 2: We did it very small. Normally we have a lot
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Speaker 2: of friends and people and different ones over and we
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Speaker 2: do a big hullor baloon. But we just had just
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Speaker 2: our family. It's been an unusual Christmas for us. But
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Speaker 2: it was safe and it was good, and it was wise,
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Speaker 2: and we had a good time together and it was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: What surprise me though, it said, everybody in my family
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Speaker 2: is so sneaky. It's not like they just went to
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Speaker 2: the store. They have been hiding stuff for months. Stuff
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Speaker 2: started coming out of the attic, out from under the bed,
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Speaker 2: in closets, up under drape, things tucked away, and I
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Speaker 2: got to I even did okay, all right, I did
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Speaker 2: a little bit of hiding myself. I did a little
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Speaker 2: bit of hiding myself. And when I was reading the
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Speaker 2: text and looking at the family and everybody started bringing
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Speaker 2: stuff out of hiding, I thought to myself, every person
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Speaker 2: in this room is hiding something. You cannot deny it.
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Speaker 2: I hear you there two generations having a conversation. My generation,
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Speaker 2: what goes on in this house stays in these My
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Speaker 2: children's generation is keeping it one hundred. But then they
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Speaker 2: got older and they find out one hundred ain't so cool,
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Speaker 2: so they don't say that as much as they used to.
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Speaker 2: Because the truth of the matter, if you say everything
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Speaker 2: you think, you won't have anybody or anything. If you
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Speaker 2: tell everything you know, you will self destruct. And it's
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Speaker 2: not always good to keep it one hundred at the
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Speaker 2: expense of the absence of prignacy, because some stuff just
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Speaker 2: ain't your business. It just ain't your business. It's just
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Speaker 2: none of your business. Some stuff it's not time for
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Speaker 2: you to know. Some stuff you'll never know. People go
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Speaker 2: through all kinds of things in their lives, and it
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Speaker 2: causes them to hide something. All of them are not negative.
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Speaker 2: You hide your will, you hide your insurance paper, you
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Speaker 2: hide the deed of trust. And hiding isn't necessary evil.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we hide for different reasons. I'm going to talk
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Speaker 2: about that. It's not always about shame or guilt or
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Speaker 2: or something hideous or heenious that leads us to a
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Speaker 2: place of hiding. Now, now, Shame is an emotion that
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Speaker 2: occurs when you evaluate or judge yourself in a negative light,
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Speaker 2: and when you do it, For example, you might experience
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Speaker 2: shame if you view yourself as worthless, weak, bad, or useless.
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Speaker 2: Guilt is when you are upset about something you did
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Speaker 2: a person you owe, or you borrowed money and you
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Speaker 2: didn't pay them, and every time you see them you
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Speaker 2: feel guilty. And guilt is in that way a healthy
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Speaker 2: emotion because sometimes it will lead to repentance and make
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Speaker 2: you change and it'll make you pay me back. But
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Speaker 2: shame isn't about I did something bad. Shame is about.
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Speaker 1: I am bad, And you have.
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Speaker 2: To understand that with that comes a certain degree a
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Speaker 2: trauma and pain and feelings of condemnation. And so when
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Speaker 2: we start talking about things that make people want to
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Speaker 2: hide something, we have to talk about. I picked up
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Speaker 2: four prominent things that stood out to me that make
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Speaker 2: people hide a thing, a thing, anything.
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Speaker 1: Number one is hidden out of our shame.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes, Sarah, some things that we hide because we are
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Speaker 2: ashamed and we don't want anybody else to know, because
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Speaker 2: we personally live with the shame of something we did
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Speaker 2: or something we said, or something that happened, or something
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Speaker 2: that we can't do, or something in some area are dysfunctional,
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Speaker 2: and instead of dealing with that issue, we become shame
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Speaker 2: ashamed of it, and we don't want anybody to know.
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Speaker 2: And it could be something as simple as being dyslexic
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Speaker 2: or or something, or somebody's anirection or has eating this,
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Speaker 2: or whatever it is. The devil makes sure that there's
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Speaker 2: always something you can accuse yourself of, and if you
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Speaker 2: give ear to him, he will talk you not into
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Speaker 2: what I did was bad, but I am bad.
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Speaker 1: And when you.
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Speaker 2: Get in a place of shame, you will find a
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Speaker 2: way to reject any other opinion of you. People who
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Speaker 2: live in shame are often impossible to love because if
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Speaker 2: you love them, they would drive you away because they
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Speaker 2: disagree with you. And anytime somebody thinks highly of you
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Speaker 2: and you don't think highly of you, you will think
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Speaker 2: something is wrong with them because the companionship of your
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Speaker 2: shame has become so all engulfing that there's not room
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Speaker 2: in your life for anybody to contradict and challenge how
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Speaker 2: you see yourself.
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Speaker 1: Even though you don't say it.
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Speaker 2: Anything good, you push it away. Shame comes often with
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Speaker 2: PTSD post traumatic stress disorder, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: we have all of these issues exploding in.
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Speaker 1: Us at the same time.
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Speaker 2: And when we get in this state of beating being,
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Speaker 2: some people are not safe to love. They're not safe
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Speaker 2: to love because they don't know how to receive love.
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Speaker 2: They don't know how to be open to love because
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Speaker 2: they don't feel them worthy of loving. The definition of
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Speaker 2: shame is to feel worthless. And so when I think
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Speaker 2: you are valuable, you will say I don't like him
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Speaker 2: because I disagree with your framework of thinking. It's not
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Speaker 2: always the way we see ourselves because number two leads
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Speaker 2: us into we hide things out of the disdain of
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Speaker 2: others for fear of being shamed publicly. To be shamed publicly,
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Speaker 2: to be humiliated publicly, is one of the most devastating
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Speaker 2: things that can happen to an individual guilty or not,
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Speaker 2: right or wrong. The public is so harsh that whether
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Speaker 2: you're guilty or not, there are going to be consequences
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Speaker 2: when you have public shaming and people hide things because
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Speaker 2: people are cruel to each other. We are better at
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Speaker 2: inflicting pain than we are receiving it. And so anytime
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Speaker 2: your life gets into the public domain and everybody starts
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Speaker 2: weighing in on it, even the people who did something themselves.
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Speaker 1: Will come along and attack you.
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Speaker 2: Because it's kind of like a group mob mentality. Everybody
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Speaker 2: just starts throwing stuff and throwing They don't really even
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Speaker 2: realize what they're doing, but they and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: you are victimized.
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Speaker 1: Your body is what stone me and the Bible they
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Speaker 1: stole me.
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Speaker 2: Everybody picked up stones has starts stoning it, and Jesus
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Speaker 2: stopped the stoning by making them remember that they themselves
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Speaker 2: we're also guilty. I wonder, are you a rock thrower,
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Speaker 2: because I get a lot of amens when I talk
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Speaker 2: about what's being thrown at you. But I know that
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Speaker 2: some of the people that I've had rocks thrown at
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Speaker 2: them are also rocked.
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Speaker 1: Oh see, y'are not gonna talk to me.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bother that because I'm just getting to
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Speaker 2: the point, but I do want you to be as
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Speaker 2: open to admitting that sometimes you are not just the victim.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you're the perpetrator. You can be both. You can
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Speaker 2: be the victim of somebody else's hire and you can
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Speaker 2: contribute to someone else's pain because you jump into conversations
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Speaker 2: and start acting funny toward other people based on things
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Speaker 2: that age business. Two, you don't know it's true. Three
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Speaker 2: you didn't hear the other side of the story. But
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Speaker 2: can I work on this a little bit? And then
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Speaker 2: number three. We hide things out of love, a proposal,
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Speaker 2: a wedding, ring of surprise. We hide things out of love.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we make bad decisions in hiding things out of love.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we don't want the child and know they're adopted.
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Speaker 2: We hide things out of love. We try to keep
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Speaker 2: to protect them from pain. We hide things out of love.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes addictions we hide them out of love. We don't
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Speaker 2: want to hurt anybody. And sometimes we hide out of love.
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Speaker 2: Number four, We hide because something is significant, a document
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Speaker 2: of will, a treasure, A sentimental value doesn't even have
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Speaker 2: to be the normal value, but a sentimental.
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Speaker 1: If something is value.
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Speaker 2: They laugh at me because at Christmas time, when they
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Speaker 2: give me all the gifts, I take mine and put
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Speaker 2: go away and put them away because in the hoopla
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Speaker 2: they might fool around throw away my stuff. And if
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Speaker 2: you treasure something, sometimes.
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Speaker 1: You hide it. It's valuable, you put it away.
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Speaker 2: You don't put your valuable stuff and leave it laying
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Speaker 2: around just anywhere, not just anywhere. I had almost had
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Speaker 2: a heart attacked the other day. My wife said, where
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Speaker 2: is your ring? And when your wife says where is
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Speaker 2: your ring? And you look at your finger and it's gone,
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Speaker 2: and you don't know exactly where it is, you panic
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Speaker 2: because even though she didn't say it loud, there was
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Speaker 2: something in her eye that was red, and I knew
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Speaker 2: I had better find that ring really quick or move.
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Speaker 2: And the weird thing about it is I almost never
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Speaker 2: take it off because it's valuable. And when I do,
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Speaker 2: and when I do have to take it off, I'm
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Speaker 2: careful to remember where I put it because I value it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking about this worth, it's about but that way,
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Speaker 2: but I'm talking about its valuable in sentiment.
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Speaker 1: When something is.
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Speaker 2: Valuable, you often hide it, whether positively or negatively. Everything
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Speaker 2: hidden is important. That's what all four points have in common.
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Speaker 2: Everything hidden is important to us, or we wouldn't hide it.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's based in shame, or whether it's based in
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Speaker 2: the fear of gathering the ire of other people around us,
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Speaker 2: or whether it's based in protecting somebody, or whether it
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Speaker 2: is based in personal value.
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Speaker 1: Everything hidden is hidden because.
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Speaker 2: It's important, whether it's If it's hidden treasure, it's important.
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Speaker 2: If it's hidden documents, it's important. If it's hidden secrets,
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Speaker 2: it's important. It has to be important to be hidden it.
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Speaker 2: And what you have to realize when we begin to
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Speaker 2: grapple with this text is that what Gabriel is telling
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Speaker 2: Mary has been hidden.
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Speaker 1: It is God, God's secret.
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Speaker 2: He announces God's secret to a virgin, not a prophet,
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Speaker 2: not a priest. It is God's secret. How do you
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Speaker 2: know it's God's secret? Because Paul said, great is the
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Speaker 2: mystery of Godliness, for God was manifest in the flesh.
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Speaker 2: If it is a mystery, it had to be hidden.
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Speaker 2: The word mystery comes from the word apocalypse to me
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Speaker 2: to unveil, which means it was there all the time,
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Speaker 2: but it was hidden. The lamb was there all the
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Speaker 2: while because the Bible said that the Lamb was slain
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Speaker 2: from the foundations of the world, but nobody knew because
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Speaker 2: it was hidden. A few times he may have shown up,
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Speaker 2: but they called him the fourth one in the Fiery Furnace.
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Speaker 2: About his name was hidden. They didn't say anything about him.
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Speaker 2: Or he wrestled with Jacob, and he wrestled with Jacob,
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Speaker 2: and Jacob said, tell me thy.
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Speaker 1: Name, and he never answered that question.
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Speaker 2: He told Jacob who he was, but he didn't tell
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Speaker 2: Jacob who he was.
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Speaker 1: Because it was hidden. God knows how to hide a thing.
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Speaker 2: Some things that God has for your life, he doesn't
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Speaker 2: tell you, because if he had told you, you could
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Speaker 2: handle it. And it was hidden from you. The prophet
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Speaker 2: Elijah says, surely the Lord hath hidden this from me,
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Speaker 2: and he was a prophet, and yet God hid it.
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Speaker 2: What would make God hide something and drop hints about it?
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Speaker 2: Because in Genesis three point fifteen he says, I will
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Speaker 2: put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
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Speaker 2: seed and her seed.
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Speaker 1: It shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heal.
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Speaker 2: It is the first Messianic prophecy in the book of Genesis.
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Speaker 2: And every woman thereafter wanted to fulfill that prophecy. Have
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Speaker 2: you noticed that the women in the Bible are crying
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Speaker 2: out for something that women today are not.
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Speaker 1: Give me a child lest God die.
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Speaker 2: Every woman gave birth to a child, remembering the messianic
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Speaker 2: prophecy as it passed down from generation to generation, that
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Speaker 2: what is going to save me? I am going to
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Speaker 2: birth it that went right over top of your head,
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Speaker 2: That didn't touch nobody. Nobody got that but you because
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Speaker 2: you've been waiting on somebody to come and save you.
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Speaker 2: But the premise is what comes out of you is
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Speaker 2: what delivers you. Oh God, y'all, don't hear what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: And this is what made the First Family have so
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Speaker 2: much turmoil because Eve was trying. Eve thought she was
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Speaker 2: the one, and she thought, well, it's going to be able,
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Speaker 2: and they killed Abel and then she looked at Cain
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Speaker 2: and they sent him to the land of Nod. And
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Speaker 2: then God gave herself and the Bible said, another seed.
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Speaker 2: Have God appointed me in the place of the one
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Speaker 2: whom Kaine slew because she's trying to have the seed
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Speaker 2: that is going to stop this conflict between hell and earth,
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Speaker 2: between demons and flesh. Between carnality and spirituality. She's trying
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Speaker 2: to fix this thing, and Cain hated Abel. You have
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Speaker 2: to realize when God has something over your life, people
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Speaker 2: are going.
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Speaker 1: To hate you.
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Speaker 2: They're going to hate you, They're going to want to
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Speaker 2: destroy you. And Eve wanted to fulfill this promise with
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Speaker 2: Eve was.
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Speaker 1: Not the one.
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Speaker 2: Rachel said, Lord, give me a child, let'st i die.
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Speaker 2: And she had significant children, but none of them redeemed her.
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Speaker 2: Hannah stammered into the church like a drunk woman and
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Speaker 2: fell out on the floor, and it had started moving
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Speaker 2: her mouth, though no words came out of her mouth.
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Speaker 2: And Eli thought she was drunk, but she was not
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Speaker 2: a drunk woman. She was trying to burst something that
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Speaker 2: would do something. And any time you're trying to burst
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Speaker 2: something that will do something, you're gonna have to go into.
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Speaker 1: Labor to do it.
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Speaker 2: You're not gonna get it through divine osmosis. You're not
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Speaker 2: gonna get it by hanging around the right circle. You
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Speaker 2: have to go into labor and travail in order to
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Speaker 2: do it. Hannah had to empty out all of her
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Speaker 2: shame and all of her guilt in order to be
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Speaker 2: eligible to be filled.
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Speaker 1: With Samuel.
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Speaker 2: You can't get pregnant with the promise of God while
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Speaker 2: you hold on to the pain.
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Speaker 1: Of the past.
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Speaker 2: Thousands of generations passed down, down through the ages and
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Speaker 2: down through the period, and yet we have not seen
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Speaker 2: the emergence of that which was hidden until we find
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Speaker 2: out that Eve's prophecy is Mary's promise. Eve's prophecy is
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Speaker 2: Mary's promise. Mary never met Eve. Eve never met Mary.
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Speaker 2: They come from two different worlds and errors and time,
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Speaker 2: and yet God spoke something to Eve that came to
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Speaker 2: pass for Mary. Sometimes the word God gives you is
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Speaker 2: not for you. It could be for your children and
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Speaker 2: for your grandchildren. Sometimes the only reason God gave you
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Speaker 2: the promise is to.
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Speaker 1: So it off you.
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Speaker 2: You are the ignission switch. You are the place that
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Speaker 2: gets it started. You are the place that changes the
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Speaker 2: trajectory of the family, that causes him to want something better.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes God opens up a door to cause your family
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Speaker 2: to want something better. It's not even about you, but
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Speaker 2: you set it off. There are some set it off
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Speaker 2: people in here. You may not finish the work, but
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Speaker 2: you see it and you set it off. And every
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Speaker 2: generation is going to take it to the next level,
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Speaker 2: to the next level. To the next level, to the
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Speaker 2: next level, to the next level. Because it's not all
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Speaker 2: about you, boo. It's not about it's not about Rachel,
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Speaker 2: it's not about a Hannah. The prophecy has landed like
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Speaker 2: the dove. The prophecy has landed on this daughter. The
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Speaker 2: prophecy has fallen on marry and behold.
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Speaker 1: Thou shalt conceive that womb and bring forth a son,
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Speaker 1: and thou shall call his name Jesus.
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Speaker 2: This text is startling because from Heaven's perspective, from Earth's perspective,
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Speaker 2: Jesus is an immigrant.
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Speaker 1: He's an outsider coming in his kingdom.
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Speaker 2: Is not of this world. He has to seek legal
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Speaker 2: entry into the world, and legal entry into the world
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Speaker 2: for him to abide in the world, as the Sun requires.
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Speaker 2: That man born of a woman has but a few days,
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Speaker 2: and he has to come in through the woman, because
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Speaker 2: the woman is the door. But when he comes through
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Speaker 2: the door, he can't come through the door as God,
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Speaker 2: because he would blow up the womb. From Heaven's perspective,
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Speaker 2: what are you doing in heaven? There you are pouring
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Speaker 2: out your yourself, your pre existent glory, your your omnipotence,
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Speaker 2: your omnipresence, your omniscience. You're pouring out your pre existent
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Speaker 2: glory and reducing yourself to your lord's common denominator, and
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Speaker 2: then coming down and going undercover. Jesus is God undercover.
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Speaker 2: You know how the police officers when they go undercover.
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Speaker 2: Jesus is God going undercover. Jesus is God reducing himself
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Speaker 2: because he had to reduce himself to incarnate himself, because
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Speaker 2: had he come in the fullness of himself, she couldn't
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Speaker 2: contain all the glory, that it couldn't be housed in
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Speaker 2: her body. And so he laid aside his garments and
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Speaker 2: girding himself with a towel. It's nothing but God going
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Speaker 2: under cover. Watch me, I'm going somewhere. You got to
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Speaker 2: go with me somewhere. You got to think with this one,
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Speaker 2: or you're not gonna be able to get it.
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Speaker 1: God is going undercover.
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Speaker 2: And the angels are shocked that God is pouring out
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Speaker 2: his omnipotence and omni president and I'm missing, and that
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Speaker 2: God would be made flesh, that he would put on
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Speaker 2: a meat suit and become incarnate as Shulman is so
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Speaker 2: studley that angel that Gabriel has to come and announce
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Speaker 2: to the suit God is getting ready to put you on.
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Speaker 2: And when God goes under cover, you're going to access
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Speaker 2: him by calling his name. Yo, hear what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Possits without controversy, greatest the mystery of God. It was mystified.
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Speaker 2: It was with hell, for if the princes of this
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Speaker 2: world would have known what God was up to, it
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Speaker 2: would have changed everything. So God hid it. I wish
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Speaker 2: I had time to work with it, but this ain't
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Speaker 2: Bible class. God hit it. He never lost it, but.
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Speaker 1: He hit it. He hit it.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to some people that have hidden
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Speaker 2: some things. You never lost it, but you hit it.
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Speaker 2: You put it out of sight because you knew they
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Speaker 2: couldn't handle it. You knew they weren't ready for it.
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Speaker 2: There's some things I have for my children that they
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Speaker 2: still haven't gotten yet because I know they're not ready
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Speaker 2: for it. But when the time is right, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to unveil, little by little. That's why I have a
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Speaker 2: will and testament. Y'all, don't hear what I'm saying is
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Speaker 2: you hide some things and face them out?
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Speaker 1: Can I go deeper?
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Speaker 2: This is what Paul says in First Coritis two four
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Speaker 2: through he lived and my speech and my preaching was
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Speaker 2: not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
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Speaker 2: of the spirit and of power, that your faith should
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Speaker 2: stand in the wisdom of men, but not in the
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Speaker 2: wisdom of men, but in the power of God. How
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Speaker 2: bit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet
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Speaker 2: not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes
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Speaker 2: of this world that come to Not because the people
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Speaker 2: who will pretend to be smart and wise in this
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Speaker 2: world are absolutely foolish. But we speak the wisdom of
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Speaker 2: God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God
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Speaker 2: ordained before the world. Unto our glory, God hid it
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Speaker 2: before the foundations of the world. He hid it because
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Speaker 2: he violent juley said, which none of the princes of
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Speaker 2: this world knew, for had they known it, they would
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Speaker 2: not have crucified the Lord of Glory.
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Speaker 1: But this principle brings up something.
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Speaker 2: But as it is written, eyes have not seen nor
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Speaker 2: ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man
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Speaker 2: the things that God hath prepared for them that love it.
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Speaker 2: Because God hides stuff, you can't see stuff that God
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Speaker 2: has in store for you. That's why you can't take
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Speaker 2: your life. That's why you can't say I'll never be nothing.
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Speaker 2: That's why you can't say I'll never get up. Because
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Speaker 2: God has some things that he hides for you. And
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Speaker 2: eyes have not seen and ears haven't heard. Oh, y'all
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Speaker 2: don't hear what I'm saying. But God's going to do it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but God is
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Speaker 2: going to shock somebody. There won't be any wind, there
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Speaker 2: won't be any rain. That's just gonna be water. You're
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Speaker 2: not gonna see it, You're not gonna feel it in
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Speaker 2: your spirit. It's just gonna suddenly immediately come upon you.
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Speaker 2: Because God is masterful. It was yours when you didn't
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Speaker 2: see it. It was yours when you didn't hear it.
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Speaker 2: It was yours because it was hidden undercover. There's some
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Speaker 2: of the stuff you're walking in now that shocks you.
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Speaker 2: But God knew before your mama had you you were
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Speaker 2: gonna be right here for such a time as this.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't tell you.
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Speaker 2: That soona, because you couldn't handle it sooner. But in
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Speaker 2: the fullness of time, God reveals himself. All I'm saying
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Speaker 2: is that God goes undercover with your destiny, undercover with
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Speaker 2: your purpose, undercover with your will undercover with himself. But
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Speaker 2: God have revealed him unto us by his spirit. For
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Speaker 2: the spirit searches all things, yee, the deep things. Oh God,
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Speaker 2: I want to spend a minute there. I want to
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Speaker 2: spend him right there. That's why you get healed in
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Speaker 2: your spirit before you get healed in your body. YA
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Speaker 2: can't handle it. You get prosperous in your spirit before
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Speaker 2: you get prosperit in your bank account. Prosperity is a
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Speaker 2: spiritual thing. It's not a natural thing. If you don't
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Speaker 2: have it in your spirit, you'll never be able to
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Speaker 2: call it into your account.
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Speaker 1: You know what.
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Speaker 2: Jesus could call peace in the middle of the store
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Speaker 2: when the boat was rocking, because he had peace in
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Speaker 2: his spirit. If you have peace in your spirit, you
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Speaker 2: can speak peace on the boat. You can't speak peace
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Speaker 2: if you're in conflict. I'll prove it to you. The
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Speaker 2: storm was raging and Jesus was sleep. He spoke peace
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Speaker 2: because he was peace. You cannot speak what you are
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Speaker 2: not if you don't have it in your belly. You
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Speaker 2: can't have it in your life. Oh, somebody shut me down.
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Speaker 2: I feel the Holy Ghost for what man knows the
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Speaker 2: things of a man save the spirit of the man,
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Speaker 2: which is in him. Even so the things of God
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Speaker 2: know it's no man but the spirit of God. You're
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Speaker 2: asking God for stuff that he can't tell you because
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Speaker 2: it's undercover. Look at somebody say it's undercover. I don't
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Speaker 2: think they heard you. Find somebody else and tell them
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Speaker 2: it's undercover. How you're gonna get out of this is undercover.
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Speaker 2: How God is gonna work this out is undercover. How
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Speaker 2: things are gonna end up is undercover. Who am I
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Speaker 2: talking to the way that God's gonna make for you
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Speaker 2: is undercover. God's got some stuff for you that he
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Speaker 2: can't tell you right now. That's why you don't see
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Speaker 2: it coming. That's why you don't hear it coming, because
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Speaker 2: God is going undercover. If we can't celebrate Christmas, the
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Speaker 2: incarnation of God himself without realizing that God has his
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Speaker 2: propensity to go undercover. Tod stuff and if you get it,
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Speaker 2: you're going to get it in your spirit before you
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Speaker 2: get it in your life. If you get something in
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Speaker 2: your life it's not in your spirit, you're gonna lose it.
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Speaker 2: You can only receive commensurate to what is in your spirit.
35:47
Speaker 2: Or let me break it down another way. As a
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Speaker 2: man thinketh in his heart, so is he the word heart.
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Speaker 2: There is spirit. As a man thinketh in his spirit,
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Speaker 2: so is he. You're healed in your spirit. Let me
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Speaker 2: say it another way. Woman, thou art loose. I don't
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Speaker 2: look loose, I don't feel loose. I'm bent over. I've
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Speaker 2: been bent over for eighteen years. Jesus said, don't go
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Speaker 2: by the outside. I hit it down this side of you.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you in spite of what you see on
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Speaker 2: the outside. Woman thou art loose when she received what
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Speaker 2: he said, look from thy spirit of infirmity. It's a
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Speaker 2: spirit that's got you sick, and it's gonna take a
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Speaker 2: spirit to make you well. Gimme thirty seconds of a
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Speaker 2: deliverance phrase. The reason that I come to church is
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Speaker 2: not to see you. The reason I come to church
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Speaker 2: is not so you can see me. But I have
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Speaker 2: learned that my Sunday morning affects my Monday morning, that
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Speaker 2: if I can receive it in my spirit, it can
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Speaker 2: happen in my life. If I can get peace in
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Speaker 2: my spirit, I can get peace in my life.
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Speaker 1: If I can.
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Speaker 2: Break out in the Holy goold sir, I can break
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Speaker 2: out in my life and when the anointing comes upon me,
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Speaker 2: it's a sign that God just broke something in my life.
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Speaker 1: If I had.
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Speaker 2: Ten people that the Anointing was touching right now. Every
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Speaker 2: time God touches you in your spirit, it is a
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Speaker 2: witness that he's touching you in your life. If I'm
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Speaker 2: talking to you, Jim, God a praise. When God goes
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Speaker 2: under cover, we start asking questions, how can these things be?
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Speaker 2: Seeing as I know not a man seeing senses. My
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Speaker 2: senses do not validate what the Angel is telling me.
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Speaker 2: How can these things be? Seeing as I know not
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Speaker 2: a man. There is not a man in the earth
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Speaker 2: that can stop what God has spoken over your life.
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Speaker 2: They can't stop it, nor can they make it happen.
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Speaker 2: When God gets ready to open a door, no man
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Speaker 2: can shut it. When God shuts the door, no man
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Speaker 2: can hold it. I want to talk about God. I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about God. I want to talk about God.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about God as the ruler of
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Speaker 2: the universe. I want to talk about God as being
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Speaker 2: the sovereign, mighty God. I want to talk about God
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Speaker 2: as being else should die. They're all sufficient God. I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about God as being Jehovah Jabra. The
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Speaker 2: provision has already made while you're walking up the hill.
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Speaker 2: You haven't seen it yet because it's hidden. But when
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Speaker 2: the time is right, look over your shoulder, Look over
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Speaker 2: your shoulder. I already got a ram tied in the thicket.
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Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna get here before you ever
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Speaker 2: got there, but I didn't tell you about the ram.
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Speaker 2: I told you about the place because if you get
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Speaker 2: in the place, I'm gonna show you the provision. Oh
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Speaker 2: my god, if you get the devil that's trying to
39:46
Speaker 2: get you out of the place. Some of us haven't
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Speaker 2: even got the provision yet. We're just shouting because we're
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Speaker 2: in the right place, finally got ourselves lined up in
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Speaker 2: a place to receive something from God. Everybody that feels
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Speaker 2: like you're on the badge of a breakthrough gimming my
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Speaker 2: thirty second, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Do
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Speaker 2: you see how all this word is fitting together? Remember
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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago when I told you you were
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Speaker 2: at an inflection point. Things are getting ready to shift,
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Speaker 2: You're getting ready to go into another dimension. You see
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Speaker 2: how all of this is hide together. God is now
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Speaker 2: telling you I hit it because you couldn't handle it.
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Speaker 2: But All the while you were coming up this side
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Speaker 2: of the hill, the ram was coming up up the
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Speaker 2: other side of the hill. And even though the devil
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Speaker 2: told you you waited too late, I tied the ram
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Speaker 2: in the thicket because what God has for you. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm preaching better than you something. What God has for you.
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Speaker 1: Is for you.
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Speaker 2: Can I go default with this saying? I feel like
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Speaker 2: something's about to happen in this place. I feel like
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Speaker 2: handcuffs are falling off somebody. I feel like chains are
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Speaker 2: coming off of somebody. I feel like God is renewing somebody.
41:39
Speaker 2: You've been through all kinds of stuff this year, but
41:42
Speaker 2: God brought you through it. Stop talking about what you
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Speaker 2: went through and start talking about what you're going to
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Speaker 2: You cannot drive forward looking back. So as long as
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Speaker 2: your belly aching about what you've been through, you're not
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Speaker 2: ready for where you're going to.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question.
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Speaker 2: Do you think God would have brought you through all
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Speaker 2: of that if he didn't have something in store for you.
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Speaker 2: What I'm trying to teach you, respectfully, is that God
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Speaker 2: can be sneaky. He can have a king hidden in
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Speaker 2: a kid. God went under cover as a baby, who
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Speaker 2: would be looking.
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Speaker 3: For a baby, but somebody heard that God might be
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Speaker 3: going under cover, named Herod and tried to kill all
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Speaker 3: the babies because he couldn't tell which baby what's the baby?
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Speaker 1: That was God undercover?
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Speaker 2: Because God was undercover, he wasn't really trying to kill babies.
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Speaker 1: He was trying to kill. And so God.
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Speaker 2: Came as a baby, a helpless, innocent baby.
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Speaker 1: And nursed at the breasts of his mother daughter.
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Speaker 2: He made the milk he drank. God went under cover
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Speaker 2: and said, we can't stay in a hotel because they
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Speaker 2: would expect me to be in a hotel. I can't
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Speaker 2: stay in.
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Speaker 1: A pithouse because they would expect a king to be
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Speaker 1: in a pit house.
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Speaker 2: I can't stand in the middle of a royal entourage
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Speaker 2: because it'll blow my cover. So we got to do
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Speaker 2: this thing in a barn. And so they put him
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Speaker 2: in a barn, and they put him in a manger.
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Speaker 2: And the only thing that lives and barns is animals.
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Speaker 2: But the reason God could do it is that he'd
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Speaker 2: become the lamb of God. So while shepherds were grazing
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Speaker 2: in the field, it makes sense that the lamb would
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Speaker 2: be in the crib because anytime there's shepherds. There's got
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Speaker 2: to be sheep, But the sheep is God undercover, that
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Speaker 2: holy thing. There's land in the milk rags. He is
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Speaker 2: the milk of the word, land in milk rags, born
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Speaker 2: in a manger, swaddling clothing, milk rags, and he's laying there,
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Speaker 2: and the government is on his shoulders, and of his
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Speaker 2: kingdom there shall be no end, and of.
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Speaker 1: His kingdom there shall be no end. Look at the oxamorhon.
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Speaker 2: He is under cover to the point that he is
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Speaker 2: born in a barn, in a manger, which was a trouss,
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Speaker 2: wrapped in swaddling clothes, which was milkregg's, in the night,
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Speaker 2: in the post of abject poverty, with nothing at all,
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Speaker 2: and yet three wise men are coming bringing gold, franking
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Speaker 2: sens and mirror. Look at the oxymoron between the goal,
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Speaker 2: the franking sense and mirror and the manger and the
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Speaker 2: rags and the barn. That means you can't get so low.
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Speaker 2: He's not kin to you, and you can't be so
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Speaker 2: high that God cannot reach you. Either way you go,
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Speaker 2: God is always there. He's the King of kings, but
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Speaker 2: he's a kid and a manger y'all don't hear what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying to you. I'm gonna mess with you a
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Speaker 2: little bit. Thank God, I'm almost done. But I was
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Speaker 2: thinking this, brother, say you don't have to be I
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Speaker 2: was thinking this when we look at the story of
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Speaker 2: the Disciples feeding the five thousand and the Bible said
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Speaker 2: that after they took the little boy's lunch and gave
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Speaker 2: it to Jesus, he took it and blessed it and
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Speaker 2: broke it and gave it to the disciples, and the
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Speaker 2: disciples gave it to the people, and the people did eat.
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Speaker 2: So Jesus is close enough to the disciples to feed them,
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Speaker 2: and they know it is Jesus. They know it is Jesus.
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Speaker 2: And then Jesus goes apart to the mountain to pray,
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Speaker 2: and they get in the boat and start on the water.
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Speaker 2: And then Jesus comes walking on the water. And we
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Speaker 2: preach about Jesus walking on the water, But so far
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Speaker 2: as practicality is concerned, I'm sixty five years old and
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Speaker 2: I've never needed Jesus to walk on the water. It
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Speaker 2: is nice to know that if I'm ever in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the Atlantic and I need to be rescued,
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Speaker 2: that Jesus could walk on water. But for sixty five
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Speaker 2: years I have avoided the calamity of being in a
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Speaker 2: situation so bad that God had to walk on water
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Speaker 2: to come get me. Nor have I been like Peter
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Speaker 2: and had to get up and walk out of a
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Speaker 2: safe place and walk out on water, and walk out
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Speaker 2: on the water literally to meet Jesus.
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Speaker 1: So what is the usable content of the Texas? Many things?
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Speaker 2: You could use any of it, but I'm gonna avoid
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Speaker 2: all of it, and I'm going to use the obscure.
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Speaker 1: Thing that's hidden.
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Speaker 2: The hidden message is in the eleven who were close
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Speaker 2: enough to be fed by him but then didn't recognize him.
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Speaker 1: When he comes undercover. The God who wrapped up.
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Speaker 2: In the meat flesh in the meat coat is now
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Speaker 2: walking on water, and the disciples who just got through
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Speaker 2: eating out of his hands do not recognize him because
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Speaker 2: he is coming in the storm. You recognize God in
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Speaker 2: the annointing, but the question is can you recognize him
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Speaker 2: in the storm. You recognize him in the praise service,
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Speaker 2: but can you recognize him in the storm? You recognize
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Speaker 2: him in the preaching, But the real test of your
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Speaker 2: the discipleship is to recognize him in the storm. Because
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Speaker 2: God goes undercover in your storms. That's why you can't
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Speaker 2: rebuke it. That's why you can't plead the blood. That's
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Speaker 2: why you can't bind it. That's why you can't stop it,
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Speaker 2: because you cannot use God to rebuilt God. God is
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Speaker 2: hidden in your trouble. I'm talking to you, and you,
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Speaker 2: and you and you. What you're going through right now
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Speaker 2: is God in disguise. The wind is blowing, the lightning
50:38
Speaker 2: is flashing, the thunder is erupting, the boat is tossed
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Speaker 2: to control, and there ain't a demon nowhere. It's all God.
50:53
Speaker 2: This is not a storm that Jesus rebuke. This is
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Speaker 2: not a demon, this is not a witch. This is
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Speaker 2: God undercover, which means that sometimes the greatest manifestation of
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Speaker 2: God in your life, it's your storm. Let me bring
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Speaker 2: this home. I told the Lord I was praying. One
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Speaker 2: of my children was going through a storm. I was praying.
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Speaker 2: Told that I don't like that. I need you to
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Speaker 2: fix it. I don't like that. I need you straighten
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Speaker 2: that out. You know my nerves. You need straighten this
51:35
Speaker 2: out before I straighten it out. If I straighten it out,
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Speaker 2: it ain't gonna be good. I need to straighten it out.
51:41
Speaker 2: He said, you need to shut up. Have you lived
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Speaker 2: this long and not understood that I know how to
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Speaker 2: raise your children.
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Speaker 1: You got to trust me even when the lightning is.
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Speaker 2: Flashing, even when the thunder is rough to you, even
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Speaker 2: when you can't see no way out. You can't let
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Speaker 2: the devil tell you it's a ghost when it's just
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Speaker 2: me on the cover working out my will in your life.
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Speaker 2: I know exactly what kind of trouble to put them
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Speaker 2: through to bring out the power that lies inside of you.
52:29
Speaker 2: You'll never find out who you are until you get
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Speaker 2: in trouble. I want to spend my last minute talking
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Speaker 2: to somebody that's in trouble. God is in your trouble,
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Speaker 2: Jehovah Shamah. The Lord is a present help in the
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Speaker 2: time of trouble. That means God is there in the trouble.
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Speaker 1: But he is, He is undercover in disguise.
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Speaker 2: You walking the floor, You're all upset, you're worried, you're
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Speaker 2: in turmoil, your food indigestion, you're not resting well. All
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Speaker 2: hell is breaking loose. Suppose this happens. Suppose that happens.
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Speaker 2: Suppose to see happened. Suppose the other happens. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what's ado. Where is God? Where is God? I'm
53:32
Speaker 2: looking for God. I'm looking for God. I'm looking for God.
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Speaker 2: They were looking for God. They were looking for God,
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Speaker 2: but they were looking for God to look like what
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Speaker 2: he looked like when he fed him. They didn't know
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Speaker 2: that the God who came down out of the mountain
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Speaker 2: was under cover in the storm. God says, I am
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Speaker 2: the same God that feeds you on Sunday, even though
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Speaker 2: you go through trouble on Monday and I don't look
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Speaker 2: like what you heard on Sunday. But I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do what you heard on Sunday through the trouble that
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Speaker 2: you're going through on Monday. Who am I talking to? Listen,
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Speaker 2: there's not a person in this room that, somewhere in
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Speaker 2: your life you are not in trouble.
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Speaker 1: There's not a person in this.
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Speaker 2: Room who was shouting a minute ago that wasn't shouting
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Speaker 2: over top of trouble. If you don't learn how to
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Speaker 2: shout over trouble, you won't shout at all. The Lord said,
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Speaker 2: the reason he hadn't stopped the trouble is that he's
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Speaker 2: using the trouble to work out his will. In your life.
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Speaker 2: And he said, what I want you to do is
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Speaker 2: trust me when I don't look like myself, when I
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Speaker 2: come in another form, when I show up in another way.
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Speaker 2: Peter started drowning in the trouble. He begins to sink
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Speaker 2: in the trouble. But the Jesus he was walking to
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Speaker 2: stretch forth his hand. How did his hand get to
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Speaker 2: Peter when Peter was walking toward him. His hand is
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Speaker 2: a present help in trouble while you yet going after
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Speaker 2: your goal. God isn't just in your destination. He's in
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Speaker 2: your immediate dilemma. The dilemma that's in your life right
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Speaker 2: now is just God under cover one more thing. You're
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Speaker 2: not going to drown in it. The Bible said that
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Speaker 2: he began to sink, but he never finished.
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Speaker 1: You might feel like you're.
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Speaker 2: Sinking, but you're never going to sink because God is
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Speaker 2: in the trouble right with you. I want to talk
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Speaker 2: to somebody who's scared and you're feeling the water getting
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Speaker 2: in your nose. Before you go under God, it's going
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Speaker 2: to reach out his head and snacks you out of
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Speaker 2: the trouble. Because God is in your trouble. If you
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Speaker 2: avoid the trouble, you will miss God. There was no
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Speaker 2: way for Peter to have an encounter with Jesus and
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Speaker 2: not having an encounter with the storm. And God says,
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Speaker 2: there's no way for you to raise your children and
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Speaker 2: pray against the storm, because the storm is what raises.
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Speaker 1: You can't ask me.
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Speaker 2: To raise something and then scream because they're off the floor.
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Speaker 2: Am I helping somebody?
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Speaker 1: You prayed?
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Speaker 2: It looks like God didn't answer because his answer that
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Speaker 2: looked like what you had in mind. They were looking
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Speaker 2: for the fish and bread Jesus. They weren't looking for
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Speaker 2: him undercover in the storm. But I declare un you,
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Speaker 2: there's not a storm in this room that God is
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Speaker 2: not in with you. Standing on your feet, there's not
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Speaker 2: a storm. I'm gonna say it again, there's not a
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Speaker 2: storm in this room.
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Speaker 1: That God is not in it with you.
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Speaker 2: He is not just the God of your Bible and
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Speaker 2: the God of your bishop and the God of your church.
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Speaker 2: He is the God of your storm. He will make
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Speaker 2: your serve his purpose. You said you wanted patience, so
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Speaker 2: he said something to get on your nurse. You said
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Speaker 2: you wanted power, so he sent pressure. You said you
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Speaker 2: wanted resilience, so he gave you some pain because God
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Speaker 2: knows how to raise you too. The problem with how
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Speaker 2: we raise children today is that we give them whatever
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Speaker 2: they say. God is not in the business of spoiling
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Speaker 2: his children. God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
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Speaker 2: He gives us what we need. Let me tell you
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Speaker 2: what brings peace. Accepting where I am, that I am
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Speaker 2: right where i am supposed to be doing exactly what
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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be doing, and it is not about
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Speaker 2: whether it works or not, because even if what I'm
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Speaker 2: doing doesn't work, it still worked.
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Speaker 1: The goal is not.
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Speaker 2: Your goal, it is his goal. And you can accept
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Speaker 2: where you are right now and just trust him that
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Speaker 2: the only thing that matters is not the lightning or
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Speaker 2: the thunder, It is his presence
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Speaker 1: That He is there undercover.