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The Door of Expansion - Bishop T.D. Jakes [March 10, 2019] · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I want you to get your Bibles. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go right into the Word of God. We'll receive the
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  Speaker 1: offering at the end of the service. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: go right into the Word of God. We're going into
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  Speaker 1: the book of Acts chapter 10.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to read verse 5 and then verse 24
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  Speaker 1: down through verse 29 of the book of Acts. When
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  Speaker 1: you have it, say amen. And now send men to
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  Speaker 1: Joppa and call for one Simon whose surname is Peter.
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  Speaker 1: And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea and Cornelius
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  Speaker 1: waited for them and had called together his kinsmen and
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  Speaker 1: his near friends.
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  Speaker 2: And as Peter.
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  Speaker 1: was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at
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  Speaker 1: his feet and worshiped him. But Peter took him up saying,
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  Speaker 1: stand up, I myself also am a man. And as
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  Speaker 1: he walked with them and as he talked with them,
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  Speaker 1: he went in and found many that were coming together.
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  Speaker 1: And he said unto them, Ye know how that it
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  Speaker 1: is an unlawful thing for a man that is a
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  Speaker 1: Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation.
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  Speaker 1: But God hath showed me that I should not call
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  Speaker 1: any man common or unclean. Therefore came I unto you
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  Speaker 1: without gainsaying. As soon as I was sent for, I
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  Speaker 1: asked therefore, what intent ye have sent for me? Go
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  Speaker 1: back to verse 25 because I'm really going to focus
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  Speaker 1: there and then I'm going everywhere. But I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: start at verse 25 and maybe even verse 26. And
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  Speaker 1: as Peter was coming in, as Peter was coming in,
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  Speaker 1: As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell
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  Speaker 1: down at his feet and worshiped him, but Peter took
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  Speaker 1: him up saying, stand up, I myself.
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  Speaker 2: Also am but a man.
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  Speaker 1: I want to use a subject this morning, the door
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  Speaker 1: of expansion.
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  Speaker 2: The door of expansion. I'm going to say that again,
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  Speaker 2: the door of of expansion.
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  Speaker 1: Get it in your head, get it in your heart,
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  Speaker 1: get it in your mind, get it in your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: get it in your life.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming to a door. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: You're coming to a door of expansion, a stretching place. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: A door of expansion. Let's pray.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on us today.
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  Speaker 1: We come here, Lord, empty before you, saying, fill us.
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  Speaker 1: We come thirsty that we might drink. We come hungry
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  Speaker 1: that we might eat. We come ignorant that we might learn.
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  Speaker 1: We come open that we might be filled. We come
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  Speaker 1: here available that we might experience. We are not just
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the building. We are not just here with
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  Speaker 1: our minds somewhere else. We are present and accounted for.
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  Speaker 1: We come because we respect you and we honor you
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  Speaker 1: and we want to hear from you. We come because
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  Speaker 1: we esteem your word more than our necessary food. We
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  Speaker 1: come because we know how wicked we are left without you.
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  Speaker 1: We come because we know how wicked our generation is
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  Speaker 1: around us. We come because we have enemies that seek
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  Speaker 1: to destroy us. We come Because we have a devil
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  Speaker 1: to fight, we come. Because we want to shield around
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  Speaker 1: our families, we come. Because we lack wisdom without you,
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  Speaker 1: we come. Because we are fools without you, we come.
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  Speaker 1: Because your direction is better than our own, open our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and open our spirits that we might be filled
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  Speaker 1: with the word of God. Thank you for what you're
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  Speaker 1: about to do in this place. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we pray. Somebody shout amen. You may be seated in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord. On your way down, look
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  Speaker 1: at somebody and say, hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hi. That's about as country as you can get. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Especially if you put a little Texas twang to it.
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  Speaker 2: Hi. The book of Acts all by itself is quite complicated, really.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It is an expression of a man's first attempt to
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  Speaker 1: carry out the mandate of God without the physical presence
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  Speaker 1: of God there to steer him. It is the trial
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  Speaker 1: flight of these new apostles as they step into leadership
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  Speaker 1: and more importantly, understanding what the leader has spoken. There's
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  Speaker 1: a great gulf between what the leader has spoken and
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  Speaker 1: what the student understands.
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  Speaker 2: I have learned as a pastor.
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  Speaker 1: That just because you teach something one time doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: people got it.
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  Speaker 2: I have learned in.
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  Speaker 1: The process of teaching on Sunday morning that there are
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  Speaker 1: people who do not hear what you said. Then there
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  Speaker 1: are people who hear what they want you to have said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm amazed, I'm so glad that I live in a
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  Speaker 1: generation of social media because sometimes they write what they
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  Speaker 1: got out of the message and I can tell that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that, you know, but they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord spoke right through you and told me to
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  Speaker 1: leave my husband. I didn't say a word about your husband.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know your husband. Don't use me as
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  Speaker 1: the fall guy. If you're gonna leave, just leave. Don't
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  Speaker 1: blame the bishop.
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  Speaker 2: People don't really, really get it all at once.
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  Speaker 1: And so the apostles are now grappling to see how
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  Speaker 1: they have successfully retained an adequate understanding of the word
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  Speaker 1: of God because you cannot teach what you do not understand.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot teach what you do not understand. And this
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  Speaker 1: book is quite interesting. They are now up under the
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  Speaker 1: administration of the Holy Spirit. The Christ that was with
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  Speaker 1: them is now in them. And now the voice that
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  Speaker 1: surrounded them now speaks from the inside. And the problem
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  Speaker 1: with the voice that speaks from the inside is that
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  Speaker 1: it is not.
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  Speaker 2: The only voice that speaks. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When God speaks within you, you have to filter because
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  Speaker 1: there are other voices that speak inside of you. Your past,
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  Speaker 1: your history, your religious tradition, your own opinion, your own ideology.
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  Speaker 1: And it is easy to confuse the voice of God
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  Speaker 1: with your own opinion. And so the disciples are trying
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to differentiate what is God and what
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  Speaker 1: is me. What is God and what is my teaching?
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  Speaker 1: What is God and what is my tradition? What is
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  Speaker 1: God and what are my personal proclivities? What is God
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  Speaker 1: and what is religion? And understanding the difference between those
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  Speaker 1: voices is a process through which they grapple with all
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  Speaker 1: of their lives and they disagree amongst themselves. And the
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  Speaker 1: disagreement becomes intense and exciting. I'm exhilarated to know that
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  Speaker 1: the apostles fought amongst themselves. It gives me some sense
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  Speaker 1: of comfort to know that because I know that preachers
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  Speaker 1: today are still debating And it's good to know that
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  Speaker 1: even those who heard Jesus directly heard different ideas and.
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  Speaker 2: Grappled to understand what he said.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that because he said, my thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: above your thoughts and my ways are above your ways.
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  Speaker 1: As high as the heaven is above the earth, so
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  Speaker 1: are my thoughts above your thoughts. If he were easily understood,
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  Speaker 1: if he were easily diagnosed, he would not be God.
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  Speaker 1: If he could be explained, he would not be God.
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  Speaker 1: Because anything that can be explained can be managed. God
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  Speaker 1: can never be explained. Stop trying to explain God to people.
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  Speaker 1: Stop arguing at work trying to explain God. This thing
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  Speaker 1: about God is not received through intellectualism. God cannot be explained.
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  Speaker 1: He must be experienced. He must be revealed. He must
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  Speaker 1: be revealed, walked out in your life and in your circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: And little by little, he weans us from the elementary
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  Speaker 1: fundamental ideologies that started us on our way. And we
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  Speaker 1: graduate from faith to faith and from glory to glory
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  Speaker 1: in our understanding if we are not afraid to let
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  Speaker 1: go of what we once held as truth. Addition was
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  Speaker 1: all that was true until they taught me multiplication. And
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  Speaker 1: multiplication was all that was true until they brought up algebra.
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  Speaker 1: And algebra was all that was true until they introduced
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  Speaker 1: me to trigonometry. And every round got higher and higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher. And in order to embrace the next principle,
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  Speaker 1: I had to be willing to move beyond the one
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  Speaker 1: that I was taught before. Oh, but moving beyond is
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  Speaker 1: so hard. It is so hard to move beyond. When
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  Speaker 1: we come to the 10th chapter of the book of Acts,
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  Speaker 1: after the explosion in the chapter preceding it, chapter 2,
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  Speaker 1: we have the invasion, the inauguration, I should say, not invasion,
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  Speaker 1: the inauguration of the Holy Spirit. as it fell on
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  Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost, inaugurating the dispensation of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit reigning over this era of the church age. And
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  Speaker 1: the regalia is so powerful that it comes with wind
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  Speaker 1: and sound and tongues as of cold and fire as
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit sits upon the throne of authority and
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  Speaker 1: takes over his residence over the early church. It is
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  Speaker 1: so powerful that the men who experience, not explain, experience
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  Speaker 1: God were accused of being drunk.
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  Speaker 2: Drunk up under the power of God. Intoxicated.
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  Speaker 1: So drunk and so rowdy and so noisy that it
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  Speaker 1: disrupted a city and people who were doing business stopped
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  Speaker 1: doing business and came to see what wine these men
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  Speaker 1: were drinking. It was powerful because behind that we have
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  Speaker 1: demonstrations of the Holy Spirit healing and delivering and setting
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  Speaker 1: people free. Delivering them from all of their conditions. We
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  Speaker 1: have the lame man at the gate called beautiful. When
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  Speaker 1: Peter and John come up at the hour of prayer
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says, they said, look on us. And
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  Speaker 1: the man was healed and leaped up on feet that
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  Speaker 1: didn't work before and started dancing and leaping and praising God.
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  Speaker 1: Their power was so strong that their shadows were falling
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  Speaker 1: on people and they were being healed. But it is
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  Speaker 1: possible to have more power or talent than you do understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes your gift or your talent or your anointing will
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  Speaker 1: take you into places that your head.
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  Speaker 2: Is not ready for.
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  Speaker 1: I shudder to think of some of the opportunities I
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  Speaker 1: had early in my ministry. My ministry had brought me
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  Speaker 1: into places that my experience was not prepared for. And
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, as I get older, I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: do a do-over because now I understand more expressly what
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  Speaker 1: is expected of me than I did at the time.
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  Speaker 1: In the moment, up under the stress of having an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for which I was not ready to handle, I
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  Speaker 1: gave what I could but not what I should. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get a witness somewhere? Now God is dealing with
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  Speaker 1: their minds and dealing with their spirits. And I am
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  Speaker 1: fascinated because the 10th chapter, I have never seen a
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  Speaker 1: chapter in the Bible where it is so apparent that
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  Speaker 1: God is weaving lives together. that he is preparing simultaneously
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  Speaker 1: two different men from two different worlds, from two different cultures,
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  Speaker 1: from two different ideologies, one without the knowledge of the other,
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  Speaker 1: that he weaves their experience together, that by the time
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  Speaker 1: they collide, something happens. It is here that we understand
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  Speaker 1: the providence of God, that God is not just getting
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  Speaker 1: you ready for it, God is getting it ready for you.
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  Speaker 1: It is here that we appreciate that while Abraham was
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  Speaker 1: walking up one side of the hill with his son Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: that the ram was walking up the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the hill so that the ram would be there by
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  Speaker 1: the time that the son got there so that Abraham
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  Speaker 1: would not slay his son. God said, behold, a ram
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  Speaker 1: tied in the thicket. They must have been climbing at
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  Speaker 1: the same time without each other's awareness. And it makes
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  Speaker 1: me wonder what God's got coming up the hill for you.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're so engrossed with the journey of what you're
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  Speaker 1: going through and the rocks and the ridges and the
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  Speaker 1: hills and the valleys you have to climb, you are
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  Speaker 1: not cognizant of the fact that God's got a blessing
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  Speaker 1: coming up the same side, the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain coming up to meet you. That when God orchestrates
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  Speaker 1: our affairs, it's not just you that he's moving. It's
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  Speaker 1: situations and circumstances and other people. And sometimes it's not
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  Speaker 1: the problem whether you are ready or not. The problem is,
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  Speaker 1: are they ready or not? And God has to get
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  Speaker 1: them ready so that when we're ready, we all get
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  Speaker 1: to the same place at the same time. And such
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  Speaker 1: is the case. in the doorway of Cornelia's house. It
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  Speaker 1: all collides in the door. It all collides in the door. Cornelius,
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  Speaker 1: this Italian centurion who is a head of a band
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  Speaker 1: of soldiers called the Italian band. Cornelius, who is a
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  Speaker 1: devout and spiritual man. Cornelius, who is a generous man
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  Speaker 1: who has given alms all of his life and a
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  Speaker 1: man of prayer and consecration, a man of discipline and
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  Speaker 1: a man of order, but is a Gentile man. Cornelius
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  Speaker 1: is a man that God has noticed and touched, and
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  Speaker 1: moved in and out of his life, even though technically
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  Speaker 1: he was without covenant, not of the commonwealth of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: not one of the sons of Abraham. Amen. Not one
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  Speaker 1: that you would traditionally think of as being a believer
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  Speaker 1: as such. And yet he has had an experience with
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  Speaker 1: God that has won the commendations of God. It must
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  Speaker 1: be these type of people that Jesus was speaking of
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  Speaker 1: when he said, other sheep have eyes. who are not
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  Speaker 1: of this fold, them also must I bring. I want
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  Speaker 1: to point that out to you because traditional Orthodox Judaism
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  Speaker 1: would have considered Cornelius a dog. A dog is a
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  Speaker 1: biblical name for somebody who is not of covenant. It
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  Speaker 1: would not have considered him eligible to receive the kind
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  Speaker 1: of blessing or have the depth of relationship that he did.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me wonder if there are some people that
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  Speaker 1: we have asked out that God has extended. And it
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  Speaker 1: makes me wonder because God says to Cornelius, your prayers
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  Speaker 1: have gone up before me as a memorial, and I
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  Speaker 1: have watched your giving. I have watched your generosity. I
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  Speaker 1: have watched how you took care of others. I have
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  Speaker 1: watched how you have given alms. I have watched how
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  Speaker 1: you supported. It lets me know that God watches over
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  Speaker 1: your giving. That could be a scary thought for somebody,
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  Speaker 1: but just take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe in, breathe out. It's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's why Jesus sat by the table and was
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  Speaker 1: watching their giving when the widow gave her might. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew and took attention of what they were giving.
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  Speaker 1: He sat by the offering table and watched them as
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  Speaker 1: they gave. He told Cornelius, I've seen your giving and
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  Speaker 1: I've heard your prayers and now I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: do something awesome in your life. He does this through
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  Speaker 1: a vision. He shows him through a vision. I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to do something awesome in your life. I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to do something amazing in your life. I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to blow your mind. I'm not going to give
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  Speaker 1: you any details. I'm not going to go into much
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  Speaker 1: depth about it, but I'm getting ready to blow your
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  Speaker 1: mind with what I'm about to do. in your life,
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  Speaker 1: and God is big on ideas, but he's short on details.
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  Speaker 2: You miss it.
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  Speaker 1: God is big on ideas, but he's short on details.
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  Speaker 1: And so he will give you an overview, but he
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  Speaker 1: won't give you a detailed synopsis of glory to God
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  Speaker 1: because he wants you to walk by faith and not
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  Speaker 1: by sight. And if he explained too much, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: need faith. And so God is not big on details.
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  Speaker 1: He just says something amazing is about to happen. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why he's got me preaching this this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Except I sense that there are some people in this
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  Speaker 1: room that every time the enemy tried to kill and
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  Speaker 1: destroy you, you held on if you had to hold
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  Speaker 1: on by a thread because you kept on believing that
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  Speaker 1: something amazing was about to happen in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: can't explain it. I don't know where it's coming from.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it's coming through. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether to be here Tuesday or Friday night, but something
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  Speaker 1: amazing is about to happen in my life. And God's
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  Speaker 1: given me an idea, but I don't have details. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll die today. I think I'll fight
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  Speaker 1: death off today. I don't think I'll quit today.
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  Speaker 2: Even though my arms are weary and my.
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  Speaker 1: Back is aching and my feet are tired, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I'll quit today because I'm taunted by tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 1: think something is going to happen. But I don't know exactly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what it is. Cornelius invites all
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  Speaker 1: of his friends and all of his family to come
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  Speaker 1: over to his house after he comes out of this
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  Speaker 1: dream and sends his servants to Joppa and sends them
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  Speaker 1: up through Caesarea and sends them to the coast to
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  Speaker 1: the Tanner's house where Peter is lodging. There in the
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  Speaker 1: Tanner's house. Peter doesn't even have his own place to stay.
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  Speaker 1: He's staying with Simon the Tanner. You know Simon. Simon
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  Speaker 1: whose house is down by the seaside. Cornelius has now
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  Speaker 1: sent his servants. Notice Cornelius is wealthy enough To have servants.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful enough to have a hundred men up under him.
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  Speaker 1: He now sends his servants, go to Joppa and fetch Peter.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said that he would be at Simon the
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  Speaker 1: Tanner's house down by the seaside and bring him here
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  Speaker 1: to me. Why? I don't know. What's going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. All I know is that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: told me. Now, on the other hand, while the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Cornelius about what to do and who
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  Speaker 1: to send for and how to send for them and
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  Speaker 1: even knew his address. If I was at home, I
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  Speaker 1: would shout by myself because I get happy when I
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  Speaker 1: think that God knows my address. He knows where I
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  Speaker 1: live and whose house I'm staying in. He knows where
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  Speaker 1: to find me when other people don't know where to
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  Speaker 1: find me. Have you ever had people try to find
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  Speaker 1: you and they didn't know where you were at, but
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  Speaker 1: God knows exactly where you're at? You know Simon down
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  Speaker 1: the tanner. He's over in his house over by the seaside.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to get you, He knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: where you're at, and He knows how to reach down
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  Speaker 1: and send for you and get your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, back home at the ranch....
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  Speaker 1: While God is appearing in a vision to Cornelius, he
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  Speaker 1: is appearing to Peter in a dream. Peter is hungry
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  Speaker 1: and they're fixing him something to eat. Peter is hungry
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  Speaker 1: and they're fixing him something to eat and he goes
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  Speaker 1: up on the rooftop and falls asleep. And while he
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  Speaker 1: falls asleep, he falls asleep hungry. He's hungry and he
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  Speaker 1: falls asleep. And while he's hungry and he falls asleep,
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  Speaker 1: he dreams. And like most people who fall asleep hungry,
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  Speaker 1: he dreams about food. What else would you dream about
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: if you went to bed hungry? You dream about food
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: because he was hungry. And while he was dreaming, he
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  Speaker 1: saw articles coming down out of heaven, all types of animals,
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  Speaker 1: four-footed beasts of all types and descriptions. These are beasts
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  Speaker 1: that the Old Testament would have said were unclean. They
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  Speaker 1: were coming down out of heaven. They were unclean. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: when they came down, the voice spoke and said, rise, Peter,
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  Speaker 1: slay and eat.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, no, Lord, I.
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  Speaker 1: Have never, ever eaten any of these beasts, which means
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  Speaker 1: I have been devoutly committed to my teaching all of
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  Speaker 1: my life. I have never tasted it. Maybe he was vegan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not throwing off at nobody. I'm not looking at nobody.
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  Speaker 1: He had never eaten any of these meats. And God says,
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  Speaker 1: how dare you call what I have cleansed uncommon or unclean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still stuck that the unclean beast came down out
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. That something that looked wrong came from someplace
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  Speaker 1: right is still amazing to me. Something that was forbidden
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  Speaker 1: by law came down out of heaven. And God said,
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  Speaker 1: how dare you call what I have cleansed uncommon or unclean?
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  Speaker 1: He did not deny that they were unclean animals because
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  Speaker 1: God cannot deny his own law. When God says something
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  Speaker 1: is unclean, it's unclean. But if God said it was
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  Speaker 1: unclean and his word made it unclean, then his word
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  Speaker 1: can make it clean. Amen. It is what God says
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  Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, if in Leviticus he says it's unclean,
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  Speaker 1: it's unclean. But if in Acts he says it's clean,
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  Speaker 1: that which was unclean is now clean. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in that, you don't believe in salvation. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe in that, you don't believe in redemption.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe in that, you don't believe
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  Speaker 1: in regeneration. And if you don't believe in that, you
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in you. Because you who were uncommon and
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  Speaker 1: unclean have been cleansed at the word of God. They
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  Speaker 1: have been sanctified by the word. The word has liberated you,
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  Speaker 1: but somebody still sees you by your old definition. And
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  Speaker 1: we all have to live with people who see us
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  Speaker 1: by our old definition. God always lets somebody survive to
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  Speaker 1: bring up what you used to do. to doubt the
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  Speaker 1: integrity of where you are now, to question the legitimacy
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  Speaker 1: of your salvation, your conversion, your sincerity, your marriage, your life,
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  Speaker 1: your tenacity. There's always somebody who's reading old data about you.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Much good you do, there's always somebody who's reading.
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  Speaker 2: Old data on you.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was reading old data. And he had decided that
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  Speaker 1: the meats were unclean. Now God is using the meat
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him about men.
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  Speaker 2: This text is.
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  Speaker 1: Not about food. It's about bias. It's about religious ideas.
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  Speaker 1: It's about disagreements and hating people and ostracizing people because
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  Speaker 1: they do not fit your traditional understanding of who God
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  Speaker 1: is or what God does or what God would like
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: or what God would have. All you gotta do is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: learn five scriptures and you become an expert on who
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  Speaker 1: God loves and who God has. And if you learn
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: 10 scriptures, you get the keys to heaven so you
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  Speaker 1: can send people to hell that disagree with you because.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't.
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  Speaker 1: That how it works? That's how people act like it works.
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  Speaker 1: That now you get to say where I get to go,
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  Speaker 1: whether I get to go to a place that you
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: ain't got yet. That always kind of, that just kind
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of boggled my mind that you get to lock me
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: out of some place that you have never been kind
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of confuses me. So all the people who are tweeting
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you and getting on your sites and telling you you're
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: going to hell and that you can't go to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: remember they haven't got.
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  Speaker 2: There yet either.
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  Speaker 1: You can't lock me out if you ain't in. We
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  Speaker 1: can debate whatever you want to debate. We can talk
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  Speaker 1: about whatever we want to talk about, but we need
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it as men. Not as if you
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  Speaker 1: are God and I am man. not on two different levels. No,
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  Speaker 1: we have to talk about it like men with mutual respect,
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  Speaker 1: because if you don't humble yourself to have conversation rather
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: than condemnation, you lift yourself up as a God. And
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  Speaker 1: after all, do you really know what you're talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Do you really know? I mean know. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about believe. Do you really know what you're talking about?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And God begins to deal with Peter and he's getting
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  Speaker 1: Peter ready because he's been talking to Cornelius. And if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't get Peter ready, then when Cornelius sends his servants, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Would never go.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me stop here just a minute because in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: my mind, Peter should be further than this. Peter should
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  Speaker 1: be further. See, the reason Peter wouldn't normally go is
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  Speaker 1: because he would have to eat with the Gentiles. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And in my mind, Peter should be further than this
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus has demonstrated his power in the life of
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  Speaker 1: Gentiles before. He has healed the Syrophoenician woman, healed her
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  Speaker 1: daughter anyway, and acknowledged that he has not found so
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  Speaker 1: great a faith.
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  Speaker 2: In all of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He has seen Jesus go outside the box and sit
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  Speaker 1: down by the well and wait for the woman from
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  Speaker 1: Samaria to come.
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  Speaker 2: He has heard Jesus preach on.
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  Speaker 1: The good Samaritan, redefining, as I did last week, who
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  Speaker 1: is your neighbor? He was there on the day of
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  Speaker 1: Pentecost when the Holy Ghost fell and God said, you
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  Speaker 1: shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come
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  Speaker 1: upon you. And he plainly said, you shall be witnesses
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  Speaker 1: unto me in Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. You would think that all of these classes
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  Speaker 1: would have led him to a deeper revelation of God.
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  Speaker 1: But people don't change easily. You wouldn't think that Peter
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  Speaker 1: would need a dream to confirm what he had heard
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  Speaker 1: Jesus say right out of his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: But something that has been hammered into you.
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  Speaker 1: Deeply does not come out easily. So for fear that
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  Speaker 1: Peter is not prepared for this opportunity, for fear that
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  Speaker 1: some hidden implicit bias might be operating in his life
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  Speaker 1: that makes him reject a moment that would change the
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  Speaker 1: rest of his life, for fear that Peter would miss
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  Speaker 1: this door For fear that Peter would walk away from
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  Speaker 1: what was meant to be a life-changing experience in his life.
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  Speaker 2: For fear that Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Would be hungry for something and yet be so biased
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  Speaker 1: that he would refuse to eat. That's why I took
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  Speaker 1: the time to emphasize that he was hungry. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: are hungry for something and when God sends it, we
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  Speaker 1: reject it because.
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  Speaker 1: Our hunger is not even enough to make us think
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  Speaker 1: beyond our tradition. Hunger is one of the strongest cravings
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  Speaker 1: in the human body. But even that was not enough
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  Speaker 1: to overcome bias. By the time Cornelius' servants get married,
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  Speaker 1: down to Simon the Tanner's house and go up through
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  Speaker 1: Joppa and come down by the seaside and say, you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: have been invited to come to Cornelius' house. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing that makes him go to Cornelius' house is that
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  Speaker 1: he has had a dream that a door is about
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  Speaker 1: to open. I told them, but only five people got it.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that made him take the risk and
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  Speaker 1: go is that he has had a dream that a
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  Speaker 1: door is about to open. I think about 100 of
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  Speaker 1: them got it. The only thing that made him take
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  Speaker 1: the risk and go where he had never gone before
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  Speaker 1: is that he had had a dream that a door
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  Speaker 1: is about to open. Yeah, and I got a big
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  Speaker 1: crowd from over there. Somebody over there has a dream
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that a door is about to open. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: any details, but you know a door is about to open.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know when, but you know a door is
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  Speaker 1: about to happen. You don't know whether it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be on the south side or the east side, but
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  Speaker 1: a door is about to open. You don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: it's coming through this job or that job, through.
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  Speaker 2: A friend or an enemy. to a friend or an enemy.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that a door is about to open
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  Speaker 1: because God doesn't always use your friends to bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God uses something that you would reject. What do
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you do when God puts your blessing in a house
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  Speaker 1: whose door you would never go in? What do you
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: do when God sends your healing in a church that
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you said you'd never come to? What do you do
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: when God has the answer to the problem in your marriage,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: but you don't like that preacher? You don't agree with
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that theology, you don't embrace that doctrine, and you don't
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: embrace him that do. And yet God would put your
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough behind what you might perceive as enemy lines. If
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  Speaker 1: he didn't ever do that, you would never be stretched.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to stretch you, he puts your
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: blessings in places that challenges your traditions. When God gets
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  Speaker 1: ready to bless you, he puts your blessings in places
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that challenge your comfort zone. When God gets ready to
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: bless you, he takes you out of your element and
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: puts your blessings in a place of discomfort because God
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: wants to stretch you the way you think, the way
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you function, the way you do, the way you move.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Have you ever had God stretch you?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Now, Peter is going down to Cornelius' house. And they're
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  Speaker 1: coming down from Joppa down to Cornelius' house to have
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: an encounter with God. And Cornelius has invited all of
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  Speaker 1: his friends and his family to something special. He's not
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  Speaker 1: really sure what he's invited them to, but he's so
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: excited that the house.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Is full of people.
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  Speaker 1: And then he hears that knock at the door. What
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  Speaker 1: drew me to the text in the first place is
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  Speaker 1: not the meat or the clean and unclean, and it's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: not the Italian soldiers. It's none of that that drew
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  Speaker 1: me to the text. In the first place, what drew
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  Speaker 1: me to the text in the first place was the door. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading the text and I got stuck at
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  Speaker 1: the door. And I asked myself, what.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Is a door? What is a door?
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: The word door is not used. It just says that
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  Speaker 1: Peter entered in. But I have enough sense to know
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  Speaker 1: that if you entered in, you had to come in
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  Speaker 1: through the door because doors are how you get in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. For anything I want to get into, I have
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: to find the... Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't find the door, I'll never get in.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And when I think about a door, I think about
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a wood frame and a doorknob and a handle and
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: something I turn and I open and I come in
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and I walked in the door. And that's how my
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: mind pictures a door until I remembered that Jesus said.
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  Speaker 1: And so suddenly I begin to realize that my understanding
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  Speaker 1: of a door is limited.
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  Speaker 2: To my past experiences.
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  Speaker 1: That I see doors as wood and brass handles, but
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: God sees doors as access to new dimensions. Because when
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Jesus says I am the door, he is neither wood
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  Speaker 1: nor handle. He is a place of access to the
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  Speaker 1: next dimension. And for everything you're trying to get into,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: there is a.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: There is a door. And I want to warn you
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: that all.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Doors are not made of wood and all doors don't
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  Speaker 1: have handles, but all doors do access something that you
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: were locked out from before. And somebody in this room,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, you're standing at a door. You're standing
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  Speaker 1: at a door, and I want you to be careful
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  Speaker 1: that you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think that a door is always a door.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a person, it might be a job,
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  Speaker 1: it might be an opportunity, it might be a place,
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  Speaker 1: but God said you're standing. Tell somebody, say, this is
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: a door. You don't understand it, but this is a door.
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  Speaker 2: This is a door. This is a door.
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  Speaker 1: This thing, this thing that's going on in your life
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  Speaker 1: right now, the Holy Spirit said, this is a door.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: This thing, this thing that you're contemplating right now, this
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: thing that you're wrestling with and grappling with, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost said it is a door. It is a door.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: It is a door.
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  Speaker 1: It may not have wood. It may not have handles.
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  Speaker 1: It may not have a lock and a key, but
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  Speaker 1: it is a door. It is access. It is a
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  Speaker 1: point of entry.
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  Speaker 2: It is a door.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I have met people that were doors. I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken places that were doors. That one place opened up
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  Speaker 1: a door. Preachers, don't wait on the big engagements because
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  Speaker 1: doors are not always big. The room may be bigger
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  Speaker 1: than the door. One time I spoke at a little
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  Speaker 1: place that didn't have but 40 people, but one person
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  Speaker 1: heard me and brought me before thousands of people. The
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  Speaker 1: room is always bigger than the door. So don't save
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: your best stuff for the big crowds. Use your best
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: stuff even when the door is small. Just because the
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: door is small doesn't mean that the room is small.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: No matter how big the room is, Brother Oscar, you
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: must come in at the door. Oh, y'all are too
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  Speaker 1: young to.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Know nothing about them old songs.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: But the old songs say you must come in.
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  Speaker 2: At the door. So what drew me to the text
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  Speaker 2: was the door.
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  Speaker 1: And I struggled to understand the door because when Cornelius said,
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  Speaker 1: opens this door, and he sees Peter. He prostrates himself
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. He prostrates himself on the floor and
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: worships Peter. He is a man in and under authority.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: He is a man of power and influence. You have
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to be a big guy to go low. Only little
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: guys stay puffed up. Because they don't feel safe enough
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  Speaker 1: to go low. You have to be strong to go low.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know who you are to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to get down low. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is so good, I'm about to shot myself.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I learned a long time ago that people who are
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: arrogant are always small. That small people dress up in
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: arrogant clothes to make themselves look big so that you'll
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: be distracted from knowing that inside I am small. You
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: have to be big enough inside to get down low.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Because you know if I got down, I can get
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: back up again.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Oh, I feel like.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Getting down this morning. Cornelius went down low. Cornelius went
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: down low because he was high. Cornelius went down low
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: because humility is important at the door. You will never
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: get in the door if you're too high. Humility is
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a prerequisite for access to the next dimension. Trust me
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you, you'll never get in too high.
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  Speaker 1: But if you get down low, If you get down low,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: if you get down low, you can get in where
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: high people get stuck at the door, but low people
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: can slide in through the crevice. But you can't get
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: low unless you're big enough. Big people do not see
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: humility as a problem. because they know who they are,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: no matter what position they're in. I've noticed when we
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  Speaker 1: have our leadership conference, the smallest pastors demand the biggest seats.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: The people with the least name cry for recognition. People
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: with big names try to be obscure. They try to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: slip in and go unnoticed. People with little names demand
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: that they be called and recognized and sit up front
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and move me over here and sit me over there.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And they got four or five security people. Nobody trying
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to kill you. They don't even know you. But when
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  Speaker 1: you're small, oh, y'all can't handle this. When you're small,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: you got to act big. When you're big, you try.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: To be small. So what drove.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Me to the text was the door that Cornelius bows
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: down at his own house. This is my house. I
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: don't have to do nothing. This is my, you came
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  Speaker 1: to my house. I sent for you by my power.
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  Speaker 1: My servants brought you down the road. My horses rode
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  Speaker 1: you down here. You walked up my sidewalk. You came
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  Speaker 1: up to my door and now Cornelius lay prostrate.
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  Speaker 2: In his own house.
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  Speaker 1: I told you he was big enough to go down low.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: It's one thing for me to bow down in your house,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: but it's another thing for me to bow.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Down in mine.
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  Speaker 1: I make the payments up in here. I own this
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: house up in here. Come on, somebody. And yet he
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: thought it not robbery. And he humbled himself And he
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: got down on the floor. And his theology is off.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know much because he worships Peter. He worships Peter.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, I wonder how uncomfortable Peter
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: must have been to know that the guy who's on
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: his face worshiping him is the guy that God had
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: to talk you into coming to his house. That's good.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: That's good. Can you see the dichotomy there?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: That Cornelius thinks so much of him that he over-inflates
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Peter's importance. He over-inflates the importance of a guy.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Who didn't even want to eat with him.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: And so when Peter, when I used to read it,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I thought Cornelius is just an orphan, he's just crazy,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and Peter is just humble, and he just tells him,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: get up, don't worship me, I'm but a man. And
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: now when I read it, I don't know whether Peter was.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Humble or guilty.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Because There's nothing like being treated nice by somebody you've
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: been talking about. The Bible said the goodness of God
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  Speaker 1: leadeth to repentance. And that's why Jesus said, do good
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  Speaker 1: to them that despitefully use you. Because when you.
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  Speaker 2: Do good to them, you'll shame them.
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  Speaker 1: You'll shame them because they'll find out that you're not
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  Speaker 1: what they thought you were. See, you mess up when
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  Speaker 1: you try to go toe to toe and be nasty
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  Speaker 1: to their nasty.
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  Speaker 2: Be nice to.
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  Speaker 1: Their nasty because when you are nice to their nasty,
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  Speaker 1: you disgrace them. Here you're supposed to be the man
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  Speaker 1: of God. I'm supposed to be the dog.
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  Speaker 2: And here I am at my own house.
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  Speaker 1: So what drove me to the text, Kelly, was I
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  Speaker 1: got stuck at the door. I got stuck at the door.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly I realized that God is stretching both of them.
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  Speaker 1: He is stretching both of them. He is stretching Cornelius
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  Speaker 1: with an opportunity that is beyond his wildest imagination.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Cornelius' house is the icon.
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  Speaker 1: It is the app that opens up a new dimension
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  Speaker 1: of salvation to the Gentiles. An app is what you
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  Speaker 1: click on to access a program that is bigger than
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  Speaker 1: what you touch. Cornelius House is the app Peter had
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  Speaker 1: to touch to open up the Gentile nation. Oh, do
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  Speaker 1: you hear what I'm saying to you? Oh, do you
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying? And God is stretching Cornelius. He said,
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  Speaker 1: your arms have gone up before me. Your prayers have
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  Speaker 1: gone up before me. I'm getting ready to take you
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  Speaker 1: into a new dimension. A new expression of yourself. Can
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  Speaker 1: I teach this word?
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  Speaker 2: Cornelius doesn't know that he is a door. He thinks
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  Speaker 2: he's at a door.
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  Speaker 1: See, some of you think that you're at a door
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  Speaker 1: and you don't recognize that you So, so, so, so,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to get happy off my own preaching.
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  Speaker 2: Because suddenly I realize I got a door and a door.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to drive this home. Can I drive
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  Speaker 1: it home? Lay your hands on yourself and say, I
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  Speaker 1: am a door. Yeah, yeah, I am a door. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus said, I am a door. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to be like Jesus. Lay your hands on yourself and say,
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  Speaker 1: I am a door. It may be possible that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy may not be attacking you because you are you.
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  Speaker 1: It may be possible that the enemy is attacking you
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  Speaker 1: because you are a door. It may be possible that
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  Speaker 1: the enemy is trying to take you out because he's
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  Speaker 1: after what's behind you.
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  Speaker 2: You are a door. I don't know who I'm talking to.
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  Speaker 1: But you had to be here this morning because you
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  Speaker 1: are a door. That's why your childhood was so rough.
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  Speaker 1: That's why your life has been so tough. The enemy's
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  Speaker 1: been trying to stop you, not just because you're at
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  Speaker 1: a door, but because you are a door. When you
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  Speaker 1: get loose, everything around you.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody give him 30 seconds of praise in front of him.
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  Speaker 1: Touch three people and say, I am a door.
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  Speaker 2: I am a door. I am a door. I am
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  Speaker 2: a door. I am a point of entry. I am access.
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  Speaker 2: I am access to another dimension. I am a door.
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  Speaker 1: There's something behind me. There's something that I open up.
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  Speaker 1: There's something that I bring that nobody brings like I bring.
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  Speaker 2: When I bring it, I am a door.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the devil hates me because I am adored.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the Lord called me because I am adored.
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  Speaker 1: That's why people are drawn to me because I am adored.
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  Speaker 1: That's why people are attracted to me because.
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  Speaker 2: I am adored.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You open up to something. You open up to something.
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  Speaker 1: You open up to something. Cornelius does not know that
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  Speaker 1: he is a door. He knows that he is a soldier,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't know that he's a door. He knows
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  Speaker 1: he's a commander, but he doesn't know that he's a door.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that he's a giver, but he doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: that he's a door. He knows that he's a prayer warrior,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't know that he's a door. He knows
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  Speaker 1: that he loves God, but he doesn't know that he's
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  Speaker 1: a door. Sometimes you need to know you're a door.
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  Speaker 1: That's why everybody's trying to get next to you, because
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  Speaker 1: you're a door. You lead to something. You open up something.
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  Speaker 1: You got access to something. Knowing you gets me into something.
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  Speaker 2: You are. Tell somebody to say, I am adored.
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  Speaker 1: Now I see why he was a giver. Because when
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  Speaker 1: you're adored, you're a giver. You get fulfillment by giving something.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're adored. When you're adored, you're humble. Because you
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  Speaker 1: know it ain't about you, it's about the room. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the room. I'm just a door. It's about
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  Speaker 2: the room. I am the door.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody lives on a door. Nobody eats on a door.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody raises their family on a door.
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  Speaker 2: A door is access.
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  Speaker 1: A door is access. We got a door standing at
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  Speaker 1: a door. We got Peter who preached the inaugural message
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  Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecost who is also a door.
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  Speaker 1: Peter is a door because he unlocks the New Testament
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  Speaker 1: experience of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Jesus called him, a rock. Peter, thou art
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  Speaker 2: the rock.
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  Speaker 1: And upon this rock, I'll build my church. The revelation
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: you got is what I'm going to build my church on.
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  Speaker 1: And so Peter, too, is a door. Coming to a
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  Speaker 1: door to meet a door. And they are all stuck
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  Speaker 1: at the door. And this is a place of expansion.
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  Speaker 1: When doors meet doors.
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say that to all in the balcony.
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  Speaker 1: When doors meet doors, you've been meeting locks, but you're
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  Speaker 1: about to meet a door. When doors meet doors, things expand.
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  Speaker 1: When doors meet doors, things expand. God has a door
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  Speaker 1: coming to meet a door, standing in a door, because
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  Speaker 1: somebody's about to be expanded. If you're about to expand,
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  Speaker 1: give him a praise right now. I want to go
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  Speaker 1: on and I keep getting in this thing. All of
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  Speaker 1: you doors need to meet doors. All of you doors
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  Speaker 1: need to meet doors. Doors deserve doors. All of those
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  Speaker 1: opportunists are not doors. They're trying to get to you
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: so they can get through you. But when doors meet doors,
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  Speaker 1: there will always be expansion. I had a meeting with
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  Speaker 1: a guy the other day. I'd never met him before
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  Speaker 1: in my life, but when I met him, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I'd always known him. And he was telling me
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: about his story. He's a billionaire now, but he started
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: out talking about eating hominy grits and being raised with
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: nothing and slop jars at outhouses. And his story sounded
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: like my story. And I liked him without trying. And
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I told myself to slow down and not like him
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know him. But I knew him without
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: knowing him Because doors know doors. Doors know doors. Y'all
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. When a door
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  Speaker 1: meets a door, you recognize it as a door. It's
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: something philosophically connected between the two of you where you
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: connect on a level without strain.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I was sitting across.
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  Speaker 1: The table from a door and we were staring at
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  Speaker 1: each other trying to figure out what we could do together.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: What we could make together, what we could build together,
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  Speaker 1: what we could become together. Because I knew I had
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: made an appointment with a door. And the door was
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: looking at the door. And we knew it was a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: point of expansion. Now this is a prophetic word. This
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: is not a sermon for your entertainment. This is a
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  Speaker 1: word of direction for your edification. This is a word
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: from the Lord saying that he is bringing a door
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  Speaker 1: to your door.
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  Speaker 2: And that you are.
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  Speaker 1: A door coming to a door and you are coming
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  Speaker 1: to a place of expansion. Oh yes, you're coming to
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  Speaker 1: a place of expansion.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: Word of revelation from the Lord saying to you that
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: you have to be willing to give up on your
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: past revelation to be stretched into a new direction. This
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: is a word from God preparing you that these will
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: be unlikely doors. They will not be obvious doors. They
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: will be doors that challenge the way you think and
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the way you perceive things. They will be doors that
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: do not meet within the landscape of your normal philosophical ideas. Yes.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: This is a word from the Lord warning you not
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: to walk in what he has said. Oh, this is
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: tough now. This is tough now. This is a word
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: from the Lord saying, you cannot get there walking in
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: what I have said. You have to get there walking
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: in the word that I am saying. Because if Peter
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: continued to walk in the word that God had said,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: he would have never come to Cornelius' house because it
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: was God that said, don't eat with the Gentiles in Leviticus.
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  Speaker 2: But now in.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Acts, he has cleaned what was unclean and what was
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: wrong is now right. And you have to be broad
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: enough to handle a God in transition and not just
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: a God of tradition. Amen. Because doors are transition, not tradition.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Doors are transition and you cannot have transition if you
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: hold on to your tradition. And that's where God is
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: stretching you. Because if he does not break your old normal,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: you will miss this new opportunity.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: My God, I feel the Holy Ghost. Can I go deeper?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Now the door has come to the door, and they're
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: standing at the door, and Cornelius has prostrated himself on
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the floor. And Peter, who would have thought himself a
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: seed of Abraham and Cornelius a dog, in the face
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: of Cornelius' humility, reaches down and raises him up and says,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I am but a man. In other words, we are
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: the same. The guy who wouldn't go to his house
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: because they weren't the same now sees them as the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: same because Cornelius has lowered himself to the point that
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Peter now humbles himself to say, you don't have to
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: worship me. I am but a man. Can I teach this?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: And Peter says, you know my tradition says that I
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: should not be here. The only reason I came is
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: that God gave me a dream to come. Why have
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: you sent for me? In other words, I have come
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: to a place of uncertainty. Now listen, lean in on this.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Everybody at this place, this door, is at a place
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: of uncertainty. Peter has traveled all the way to get
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: to a place of uncertainty. Wow. Help me, Holy Ghost.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: You have come from a place of once being sure
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Help me, Lord.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: To a place of uncertainty. The stress of being uncertain.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: is weighing you down. Because you are saying, why am
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: I here? What am I bringing? Do I have any
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: value in this situation? The worst thing in the world
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: for a leader to feel is uncertainty. Both of these
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: men are leaders, but how can I do what I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: do when I don't know why I'm here and I
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: And I am in a place of confusion And I'm
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: trying to act like.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: I got it together. Because I don't mind worshiping. And
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: I don't mind laying prostrate on the floor. But it's
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: hard for me to admit that I'm worshiping confused. Because
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: I have come to a stage, listen, listen, I've come
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: to a stage in my life.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: That I'm not sure what's going to happen next.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: And Cornelius has brought all these people to his house,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: but he's not sure why he invited them. Because he
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: could not know what was about to happen. And Peter
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: has come all the way down from Joppa. The teacher,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: the inaugural preacher on the day of Pentecost comes to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: a door and says, why am I here? I want
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about the feeling you have not
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: been talking to anybody about.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: But has you sitting on the side of the bed
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: at night? saying, why am I here? What is my
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: value here? I have come to a place of uncertainty.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: And uncertainty is uncomfortable. Because I cannot for the life
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: of me figure out what's going to happen next. I
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: have been led to a place of confusion.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: And I am not sure where I belong. What I'm
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: What I'm to say.
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  Speaker 2: I act sure. I dress sure. I walk sure. I
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: talk sure.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: But when I take off all of this stuff and
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: I lay down in the bed at night, I whisper
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: to my God, I'm not sure.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I used to know when I was 20,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I thought I knew. I knew, you know, I knew everything.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: I knew.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: Now, at the time that I'm older and should know
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: the most, I know the least.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: No wonder Cornelius laid prostate on the floor, because it
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: is in the doors of uncertainty that we develop humility.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: It is....
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: See, when you think you know everything, you're arrogant. When
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: you come to.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: The point that you're willing to admit, I don't know.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Somebody just said, I don't know. I'm here but I
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: don't know. I came but I don't know. I invited
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you but I don't know. I got company but I
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: don't know. I got witnesses but.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: I opened the door but I don't know. I took
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the job but I don't know. I got married but
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I bought the house but I don't know.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: I came to you because of what you whispered in
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: your bed. God answered in my head.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: I came to you.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to?
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: God. Would you stop? Stop. What you doing? I couldn't
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: sleep last night. You messing up my rest.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: You got me getting up every hour and a half,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: walking the floor. What are you saying to God? Would
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: you please let me go to bed? Would you please
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: let me get some rest? Because whoever this is, this
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: message is right at your house.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: It's right up in your face.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Because you're just not sure. You're not sure of the
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: people around you. You're not sure of the circumstances around you.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: You're not sure of yourself. You're not sure how you feel.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: You're not sure where you're going. You're not sure what
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: you're going to do. You're just there. and whatever you
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: said to God. Whatever you cried out to God wouldn't
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: let me rest. The Lord said you're at a door
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: of expansion. Tell somebody, tell them you're at a door
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: of expansion. Whatever you're about to expand is confusing. Whatever
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: you're about to expand is uncertain. Whatever you're about to expand,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: you're not sure of yourself. My God, my God, my God.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: That's why God said don't put new wine in old skins.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Because whenever you're about to expand, old skins lack the
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: elasticity to be able to change.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: And go with the flow.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: And God said you got to get rid of your
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: old stuff, your old habits, your old attitude. You won't
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: be able to stand because you're at a door of expansion.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: I got to quit. Oh, shut up.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Touch everybody you can reach and say, something is about
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: to happen. Anybody you can reach anywhere, tell them. All
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: up in the balcony everywhere. All in the choir stand anywhere.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. Something is about to happen.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. Something is about to happen.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. Something is about to happen.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Something is about to happen. The only thing I know
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: for sure The only thing I know for sure is
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: something is about to happen. The only thing I'm certain
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: of is something is about to happen. I can't even
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: explain it, but something is about to happen. I feel
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: it in my bones. I feel it in my soul.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: I feel it in my hands. I feel it in
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: my feet. Something is about to happen. Something is about
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: to happen. Somebody holler, yeah! Yeah!
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Cornelius, why did you send for me? I don't know.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: I had a dream told me to invite you. Why
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: did you come? I don't know.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: I had a vision that told me to obey. Guest,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: why are you here? We don't know.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Cornelius invited us and said, come on over to his house.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: Everybody in the house and nobody knows.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: What's going to happen. Here's my tipping point.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: No, I got two. Can I give you two? First
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: of all, before I give you the one I was
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: about to give you, let me give you this one.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: How good it is to be in the room. I
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: may be confused, but I'm in the room. I may
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: not have all the details, but I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing happens if you're not in the room. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't get in the room, I'm not even talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God said
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  Speaker 1: he put you in the room. He put you in
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  Speaker 1: the environment. He put you in the right place around
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  Speaker 1: the right people at the right time, and something is
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  Speaker 1: about to happen, and it cannot happen if you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the room. If I'm talking to you, thank God
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  Speaker 1: you're in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Come on with me.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. Come on with me.
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  Speaker 2: Come on with me. Come on with me.
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  Speaker 1: Come on with me.
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  Speaker 2: You came a long way to be in the room.
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  Speaker 1: You paid a high price to be in the room.
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  Speaker 1: You came up some rugged hills to be in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Now thank God you're in the room. That's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing I know. Pastor Ontario, that's the only thing I know.
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  Speaker 1: Is that I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen. But I know
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the room. I don't know who God's going
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  Speaker 2: to use. but I know I'm in the room. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what God's going to do, but I know
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the room. My soul knows I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 2: I came too far. I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no devil in hell going to run me out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm shouting because I'm in the room. I'm dancing because
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the room. I'm leaping because I'm in the room. Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: I could have been in hell, but I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 1: The devil should have got me when he had the chance,
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  Speaker 1: but it's too late now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in love, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to clear up this confusion and I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you don't know what to do?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do? What do you do when you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen? And you've been asking God,
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  Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? I'm in a place
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  Speaker 1: of uncertainty. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Peter was at. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Do.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't even say hmm. I don't know what you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do either. I just invited you here. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the first time, watch this, in the New Testament
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  Speaker 1: that this happens. Peter just started doing what he does.
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  Speaker 1: When you are in a place of uncertainty, just do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. And if you do what you do,
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  Speaker 1: it's Shanda Boko Shai. Lord, y'all shouldn't do me like
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  Speaker 1: this on a Sunday. Y'all shouldn't do me like this
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I can feel your spirit pulling at me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get in a place of uncertainty and stop doing
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  Speaker 1: what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Because God brought you to.
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  Speaker 1: That place to do what you do. And the expansion
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  Speaker 1: is going to occur. Expansion is going to occur. Expansion
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  Speaker 1: is going to occur when you do what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Can't you not even tell them I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: do what I do? Whatever it is you do, do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. Whatever it is you do, just do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. Stop moaning and groaning. And just do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. Stop complaining to your friends. Stop being
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: angry with your brothers and sisters. And just do what
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: Do what you do. Somebody holler, do what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Do what.
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  Speaker 1: You do. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So watch this. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost done, but I feel the Holy Ghost I
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: feel a breakthrough coming for somebody. I feel a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of release.
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  Speaker 2: Coming in the room.
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  Speaker 1: I feel an answer to pray in the building right now.
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  Speaker 1: God brought you here to get direction. The enemy didn't
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  Speaker 1: even want you to be at church this morning. But
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  Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. Because something is about to
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: break in here this morning. Every other time, either cloven
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: tongues fell on people or somebody laid their hands on
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: people and they got filled with the Holy Ghost. But
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  Speaker 1: this time, Peter just started talking because that's what he does.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're in a place of uncertainty, if you
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  Speaker 1: do what you do It's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: All by itself.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible said, while Peter yet spake these words,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost fell. Y'all don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost fell on all of them that heard
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  Speaker 2: the word.
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  Speaker 1: No hands, no oil, no touching, no baptism. They just
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  Speaker 1: fell out. Because Peter did what he did. But if
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  Speaker 1: Cornelius hadn't done what he did, Peter couldn't do what
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  Speaker 1: he did. Cornelius invited everybody over there. And it just
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  Speaker 1: so happened that his everybody were all Gentiles. So even
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  Speaker 1: though they didn't understand what they were doing, they were
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  Speaker 1: consistent in what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you just do what you do, I'm inviting
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  Speaker 2: you to something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what it is, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to come. I'm inviting all y'all to come over,
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  Speaker 1: all my friends and everybody. All my cousins and auntie,
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  Speaker 1: big mama, and grandma, come on over. What we're coming to,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but come on over.
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  Speaker 2: Come on over. It's going to be amazing.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Come on over. It's going to be wonderful. I don't
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: know exactly what it's going to be, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be good.
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  Speaker 2: Come on over.
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  Speaker 1: So he was doing what he did. Peter was standing
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  Speaker 1: there in the door, and he just went to talking.
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  Speaker 1: In the door, and while he's talking.
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost fell on all them.
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  Speaker 1: That heard the word. Let me tell you who the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost has fallen on in here. All of you
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  Speaker 1: that hear the word, the Holy Ghost fell. All of
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  Speaker 1: you that ain't listening, you ain't got to worry.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nothing going to fall on you no way. But
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  Speaker 2: all of you that hear the word.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said the Holy Ghost fell on all.
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  Speaker 2: Of them that had the word.
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  Speaker 1: And all Peter did was do what he does. And
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  Speaker 1: all you got to do in this season is do
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  Speaker 1: what you do. Do what you do. Just two?
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  Speaker 2: Shut up. Just two? Who discussed?
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  Speaker 1: A word from God? Holler at your boy if you
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: got a word from the Lord. I know you feel uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: I know you feel insecure. I know it feels like
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: it's not working, but if you get right in the
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  Speaker 1: door and do what you do, the Holy Ghost is
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  Speaker 1: going to do the rest. Yes. And the Bible said
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.
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  Speaker 1: Then Peter said, well, can any man forbid water that
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  Speaker 1: these should not be baptized who have the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: as well as we? He said, well, we might as
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  Speaker 1: well baptize them because God has already baptized them. One
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  Speaker 1: little less epilogue. In Acts 2, they were baptized first
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  Speaker 1: and then filled. In Acts 10, they were filled with
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. and then baptized. God said he's gonna
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: do it out of order. It ain't even gonna make
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  Speaker 1: any sense to you. It's not gonna be like what
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: you experienced before. He's gonna do his thing before you
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: do your thing. By the time Peter knew anything, they
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: already had the Holy Ghost. God said he's gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you undeniable evidence
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  Speaker 2: They're going to have to accept you.