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God Is Moving Before You Can See the Change T.D. Jakes Messages and Purpose · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Giving it back to you, but I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand he doesn't always give it back to you through
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  Speaker 1: the same person you gave it to. I know this
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  Speaker 1: from experience. I've gone places to preach and the check
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  Speaker 1: bounced or the offering wasn't any good or it was
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  Speaker 1: a bad check or the account was closed. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in 50 years I've had everything happen. But somewhere along
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  Speaker 1: the way in a grocery store, in a department store,
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  Speaker 1: somebody will walk up to me and say, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: laid on my heart to sow this into your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Because you can't beat God's giving. God will find a
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  Speaker 1: way to get a blessing to you, even if he
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  Speaker 1: has to use your enemy. God will use your enemy
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  Speaker 1: to bless you. Are you with me? And she said
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  Speaker 1: unto her husband, behold now I perceive that this is
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  Speaker 1: a holy man of God which passes by us continually.
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  Speaker 1: That means he was always eating over her house. Like
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  Speaker 1: the good reverend on soul food. He was always coming over.
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  Speaker 1: She was always feeding him. He never asked her. She
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  Speaker 1: just did it. She was a great woman. Great people
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  Speaker 1: do great things. Because they have a great capacity. Because
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  Speaker 1: they are thoughtful. God gives them capacity to live up
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  Speaker 1: to their thoughtfulness. Y'all didn't get that. That went over
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  Speaker 1: your head. They're thoughtful. Some people are not thoughtful. You
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  Speaker 1: have to ask them. And some people you got to
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  Speaker 1: beg them. And some of them after you beg them
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  Speaker 1: they still ain't going to give you nothing. But there
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  Speaker 1: are people that are just thoughtful. And it's not always
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  Speaker 1: about money. It can be about running bath water. It
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  Speaker 1: can be taking your car to wash it. Just some people,
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  Speaker 1: they're just going to give you something whether you ask
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  Speaker 1: for it or not. Anybody like that, wave your hand. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're like that, you have somebody in your
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  Speaker 1: family that's always telling you you're crazy. They're using you.
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  Speaker 1: They're making a fool out of you. It don't take
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  Speaker 1: all that. And what they're doing is talking you out
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  Speaker 1: of your blessing. Because as you bless other people, God
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  Speaker 1: will bless you. Fat is, let me tell you what
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  Speaker 1: fat is. Let me explain what fat was to me
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  Speaker 1: this way. When you fill your car tank up full
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  Speaker 1: of gas and the tank is full of gas and
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  Speaker 1: now it's spilling out, that's what fat is. All that
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  Speaker 1: your body didn't use, it spills out. See, this is overflow.
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  Speaker 1: So when God says a liberal soul shall be made fat,
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  Speaker 1: God says, I'm going to give you more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have overflow. You're going to have gas
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  Speaker 1: running out into the street, all in your tires, all everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The liberal soul should be made fat. Why is he
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  Speaker 1: going to make you fat? Because he knows that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep giving. You're going to keep sowing. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep planting. You're going to keep giving of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: of your time, of your personality. Some of you can't
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  Speaker 1: even give a smile. You're sitting up in church looking
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  Speaker 1: just as mean as a jump yard dog. But when
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  Speaker 1: you're a giver, you light up the room when you
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  Speaker 1: walk in the room. Now she says, let us make
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  Speaker 1: a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall. And
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  Speaker 1: let us set for him there a bed and a
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  Speaker 1: table and a stool and a candlestick. Look at her,
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  Speaker 1: designing a room, building a room. He ain't ask her
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  Speaker 1: for no room. And it shall be when he cometh
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  Speaker 1: to us that he shall turn in thither. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: being tired of him coming over, she wants to make
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  Speaker 1: it comfortable for him to come more. Wonder if you've
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  Speaker 1: made it comfortable for Jesus to come over. Wonder if
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  Speaker 1: you've made a room for him. Wonder if there's space
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  Speaker 1: in your life to have a devotional and have a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Christ. Wonder if you have a bed. And
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  Speaker 1: a table and candlesticks and a chair and you've decorated
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  Speaker 1: it in such a way that he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: break in. Because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He
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  Speaker 1: won't break in. He'll come in, but he won't break in.
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  Speaker 1: You have to invite him in. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: intentional about it. You can be evil if you want to,
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  Speaker 1: but if you decide not to be evil, you can
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  Speaker 1: be intentional about it and start worshiping. And if you
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  Speaker 1: really start worshiping, you will find out you cannot be
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  Speaker 1: evil and worship at the same time to save your life.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do it. You can be mad when you start.
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  Speaker 1: You can be mad because somebody came in, your ex-husband
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  Speaker 1: came in, and he's sitting on the back row with
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  Speaker 1: his new wife, and you got an attitude, and then
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  Speaker 1: the service gets good, and the Holy Spirit just washes
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  Speaker 1: all the way. All that just comes away from you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you following what I'm saying? And it fell on
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  Speaker 1: a day that he came dither and he turned into
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  Speaker 1: the chamber and he lay there. And he said to Gehazi,
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  Speaker 1: his servant, call this Shunammite. And when he had called her,
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  Speaker 1: she stood before him. And he said unto him, say
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  Speaker 1: now unto her, behold, thou has been careful for us.
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  Speaker 1: You have given care to me. With all this care,
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  Speaker 1: what is to be done for thee? This is, I
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  Speaker 1: love this word. I love, love, love this word. I
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  Speaker 1: think this explains so much of the Bible is reciprocity. Reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: In every relationship, there ought to be reciprocity. Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: if I give you my spiritual things, should you not
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  Speaker 1: give me your carnal things? There ought to be reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm kind to you, you ought to be kind
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  Speaker 1: to me. If I'm loving to you, you ought to
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  Speaker 1: be loving to me. It might not be the same way.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be the same thing. It might not
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  Speaker 1: be the same amount. I had a friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: gave me something for my birthday that I just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I just couldn't even believe it. It was
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  Speaker 1: several years ago, but I just could not believe that
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  Speaker 1: I would receive a gift like that. When his birthday
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  Speaker 1: came around, I couldn't give him what he gave me
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  Speaker 1: because I don't have that kind of money. But to
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  Speaker 1: the limit that I could go, I went to the
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  Speaker 1: very limit and found him a watch. It was the
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  Speaker 1: last one in the world. And I had his name
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  Speaker 1: engraved into it and brought it up there and gave
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  Speaker 1: it to him because I believe in reciprocity. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just going to suck up the blessing and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're just nice. You're just so nice. Oh, you're so nice.
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  Speaker 1: You're so nice. You don't ever do nothing. Cook dinner,
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  Speaker 1: make squash, make some cornbread, bake a cake, get some
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  Speaker 1: cookies out, do something so that you have reciprocity. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible said. As long as the earth will remain,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the book of Genesis chapter 8, there will
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  Speaker 1: be a seed. Time and harvest. Harvest is reciprocity to
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  Speaker 1: seed time. There will be day and night. There will
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  Speaker 1: be winter and summer. These things are consistent. Whether you're
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  Speaker 1: saved or unsaved or holy or unholy, they're consistent. Reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to be convicted if somebody keeps being nice
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  Speaker 1: to you and you don't do nothing. It ought to
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  Speaker 1: bother you. It ought to bother you. It ought to
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  Speaker 1: disturb you that you don't do nothing back. You ought
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  Speaker 1: to wash dishes sometime. You ought to cook sometime. Every
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  Speaker 1: now and then when my wife is cooking a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come in and beat her and lay out something
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  Speaker 1: and cook for her and just have something done. Just
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  Speaker 1: to say you ain't got to always cook. Be standing
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  Speaker 1: over no stove cooking. Yes, reciprocity. You ought to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this woman had reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: Say now unto her, behold, the prophet says, behold, thou
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  Speaker 1: has been careful for us with all this care. What
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  Speaker 1: is to be done for thee? Wouldst thou be spoken
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  Speaker 1: for to the king or to the captain of the host?
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  Speaker 1: And she answered, I dwell amongst my own people. She bad,
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  Speaker 1: she bad. She said, I don't need nothing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to introduce me to the king and none of
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. She said, I'm satisfied to dwell
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  Speaker 1: amongst my own people. So she definitely wasn't using him.
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  Speaker 1: When he offered her an opportunity to enter into his
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  Speaker 1: favor with the king, she said, I'm cool. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to be amongst my own people. And he said, what
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  Speaker 1: then is to be done for her? Look, he won't
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  Speaker 1: let her say no. He won't let her say no.
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  Speaker 1: What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, verily,
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  Speaker 1: she have no child. She didn't say nothing about the child. Gehazi,
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  Speaker 1: who was Elijah's servant, says she has no child and
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  Speaker 1: her husband is old. So this is something she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do for herself. I'm not going to explain that, but anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, call her. And when he had called her,
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  Speaker 1: she stood in the door. And he said, about this season,
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  Speaker 1: according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard in the Western culture in the modern time
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  Speaker 1: to explain how important it was to women in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible days to birth a son. But let me take
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  Speaker 1: a stab at it. When you go back to the
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  Speaker 1: third chapter of the book of Genesis, the prophecy goes
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  Speaker 1: out to Eve that the seed of the woman died.
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  Speaker 1: she'll bruise the head of the seed of the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: and the serpent shall bruise his heel. It is the
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  Speaker 1: first messianic prophecy. And it is given to say that
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  Speaker 1: some woman is going to come along. Eve thought it
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  Speaker 1: was her when she had Cain and Abel, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a whole other story. And then finally Seth, she was
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  Speaker 1: hoping she would be the woman that birthed the one
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  Speaker 1: that got back at the serpent for how he tricked her.
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  Speaker 1: But the prophecy was for Mary. Are you hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? But all through the Old Testament, you see
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  Speaker 1: women saying something they ain't saying no more. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a child lest I die. Hannah was crying out for
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  Speaker 1: a child, going in the temple moaning for a child.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when I've seen somebody on the altar
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  Speaker 1: crying crying for a baby. I've seen some crying because
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  Speaker 1: they had a baby. But you have to understand this
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  Speaker 1: is a cultural dynamic for Hebrew women. Okay? And she said, Nay,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto
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  Speaker 1: thy handmaid. Now she has already called him a holy man.
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  Speaker 1: But when he said that she was going to have
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  Speaker 1: a child, she said, don't lie to me. And this,
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  Speaker 1: the word has struck a nerve. it struck a nerve
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  Speaker 1: because this woman has come to a place that she's
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  Speaker 1: at peace now. She dwells amongst her own people. She's
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  Speaker 1: a proper 31 woman. She has a husband. She's doing good.
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  Speaker 1: She's doing business. She can afford to build a room
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  Speaker 1: onto her house for somebody who comes by occasionally. And
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  Speaker 1: she says, don't wake up my desire for a child.
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  Speaker 1: And in spite of that, The Bible says that a
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  Speaker 1: woman conceived and bear a son at that season that
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  Speaker 1: Elijah had said unto her at that season. Look at
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, you got a season. You got
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  Speaker 1: a season to reap. After having seasons to sow, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have a season to reap. It started out
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  Speaker 1: a season she was just cooking dinner. And then she
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  Speaker 1: had a season where she was building a house. She
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  Speaker 1: had a season she was decorating for somebody else to
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  Speaker 1: live in a part of the house that she didn't
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  Speaker 1: even live in. But as sure as she had a
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  Speaker 1: season to sow, she had a season to reap. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible said now she has come into her season.
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  Speaker 1: How many of you feel like you're coming into your season?
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  Speaker 1: Type on the line if you're watching on the stream,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming into my season. Even if you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like it, even if you don't see it, even if
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  Speaker 1: the rent-to-own man came and took your TV out, just
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and just say it by faith. I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: into my season. Your spirit needs to hear your mouth confess,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming into my season. It would do so much
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  Speaker 1: for your mood and for your attitude. I'm getting ahead
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  Speaker 1: of myself. But the way you talk to yourself has
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  Speaker 1: a lot to do with how much peace you have
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  Speaker 1: and how much contentment you have. If most of y'all
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  Speaker 1: think that the devil is after you and the demons
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  Speaker 1: are tormenting you, it ain't the demons. You're doing that
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. You're feeding yourself poison. Oh, what if this happens? Oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: what if this happens? What if the other happens? Then
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  Speaker 1: you tell, I'm scared to death. I'm afraid. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'm going to live long. Mama died when
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  Speaker 1: she was 27. I don't know if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: make it. And you just feed yourself all that poison
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  Speaker 1: and wonder why you're not happy. But in her own
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  Speaker 1: season she brought forth. You got a season coming. You
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  Speaker 1: got a season coming. Don't let the devil talk you
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  Speaker 1: into killing yourself and miss your season. Just because you
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  Speaker 1: had to sow a while before you got to it
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean you wasn't going to get it. You got
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  Speaker 1: a season coming. And when the child was grown, now
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  Speaker 1: look at this. And when the child was grown, it
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  Speaker 1: fell on a day that he went out to his father,
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  Speaker 1: to the reapers. Okay? So it's so much difference between
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  Speaker 1: having a grown child and having a little child. It's
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  Speaker 1: altogether different. It's just a whole different experience. You can
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  Speaker 1: say things to your grown children that you couldn't say
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  Speaker 1: when you were a child. And you got to learn.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just say this real quick and move on.
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  Speaker 1: You got to learn when to let them go and
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  Speaker 1: be grown. You got to give up your role, your
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  Speaker 1: controlling role as a mother or a father and let
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  Speaker 1: them live their own life whether you like that dress
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  Speaker 1: or not, whether you like that coat or not, whether
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  Speaker 1: you like that job or not. You lived your life.
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  Speaker 1: You made your choices. Even if it's a mistake, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you got to let them make the mistake. But because
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  Speaker 1: of your need to be who you were, you can't
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  Speaker 1: transform into who you are. Oh, it got quiet, Jesus. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he's out there with his father. She sent him out
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  Speaker 1: to the father. It's interesting to note when he was little,
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  Speaker 1: he was with his mama. But when he got older,
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  Speaker 1: he went to be with his father. It's already told
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  Speaker 1: you his father was old, but he's still getting something
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  Speaker 1: from an old man that he can't get from his mother. See,
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  Speaker 1: there's something that you get from an old man that
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  Speaker 1: you can't get from a young one. It's a different
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  Speaker 1: level of reasoning. It's a different level of understanding. It's
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  Speaker 1: a different perspective because they have been where you have
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  Speaker 1: yet to go. You see, but I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: this and I'm getting myself in all kinds of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope they don't put this on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: But we got so many young men trying to give
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  Speaker 1: advice to other young men who haven't lived any further
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  Speaker 1: than the young men they're giving advice to. And they're
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  Speaker 1: chief apostle at 19. They got bodyguards and security guards
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  Speaker 1: and briefcases and they're coming in and this is my covering.
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  Speaker 1: This is my spiritual father. Really? Really? You older than
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  Speaker 1: your daddy. And it's nothing wrong because I started out
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  Speaker 1: preaching when I was 19. I love young people. But
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  Speaker 1: for me to teach on marriage. at 19 or 21
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  Speaker 1: would be totally different from me teaching on marriage and
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  Speaker 1: having raised my children. I've learned a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that were theoretical that in reality didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: the way I thought it would work out. Can I
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  Speaker 1: get a witness? Is there a witness in here? I
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  Speaker 1: thought I knew something, but when them kids got through
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  Speaker 1: with me, they took me to school. I now have
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  Speaker 1: a doctorate I have a doctorate degree in what works
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  Speaker 1: and what don't work. But we're losing our fathers. Paul
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  Speaker 1: said we have many teachers, but we only have one father.
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  Speaker 1: And don't fool around and lose your father. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: the enemy cause you to become disconnected with your father.
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  Speaker 1: He don't have to be perfect to be your father.
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  Speaker 1: He still gave birth to you. And he's old. And
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  Speaker 1: the boy has now a grown man, grown enough to leave.
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  Speaker 1: But he's still with his father. And he said to
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  Speaker 1: his father, maybe something he couldn't have said to his brother,
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  Speaker 1: my head, my head. To be able to say where
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  Speaker 1: it hurts. Did you get that? To be able to
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  Speaker 1: say where it hurts, to be able to say what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you, to be able to confide in somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's not going to tell you business. Now, every old
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  Speaker 1: man is not a father. Gray hair don't necessarily make
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  Speaker 1: you wise. It just makes you great. But if you
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  Speaker 1: find a real father, you ought to be able to say,
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  Speaker 1: my head, my head. But today, we spend so much
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  Speaker 1: time trying to prove to our fathers that we don't
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  Speaker 1: need them. That we're not honest with them to say,
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  Speaker 1: my head, my head. Sounds like to me the boy
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  Speaker 1: was having an aneurysm. I don't know. I'm just throwing
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  Speaker 1: in conjecture there. Whatever it was, it killed him. So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a headache. It wasn't a nosebleed. My head,
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  Speaker 1: my head. And he said to a lad, carry him
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  Speaker 1: to his mother. And I talked about that Sunday. About
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  Speaker 1: there's certain things that your mother can do. that your
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  Speaker 1: father can't do, a woman's instinct over a child. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading a periodical that was written by a physician,
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  Speaker 1: says that the cells of a baby never completely leave
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  Speaker 1: the mother. The baby leaves. The baby leaves. But the
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  Speaker 1: cells of a baby stay inside of the mother. So
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  Speaker 1: that when the mother gets sick, part of the defense
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  Speaker 1: that's fighting for her to get well is coming from
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  Speaker 1: the leftover cells of the child. I'm preaching way better
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  Speaker 1: than you shout. And when he had taken him and
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  Speaker 1: brought him to his mother, he set her on her
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  Speaker 1: knees till noon. And by noon he died. And she
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  Speaker 1: went up and laid him on the bed of the
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  Speaker 1: man of God and shut the door upon him and
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  Speaker 1: went out. Don't nobody do that with dead people. She
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  Speaker 1: took the dead child. She carried her dead grown son.
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  Speaker 1: Women get strong when it's their kids. You mess with
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  Speaker 1: their kids, they turn into mighty mouse. And she carried
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  Speaker 1: him and laid him on the bed. And I want
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  Speaker 1: you to sit down so you don't get tired. Now,
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  Speaker 1: but while you're sitting, remember I'm still standing. And I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: older than two-thirds of you, so if you're tired from
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: standing in a few minutes, you ought to be praying
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  Speaker 1: for me and speaking in tongues. Because I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be standing for a while tonight, okay? And what I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: want you to see, this is what I want you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to see that I didn't get to dwell on Sunday
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I want you to see that this woman was highly favored.
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  Speaker 1: That the prophet gave her some, he did her a favor.
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  Speaker 1: He did her a favor she didn't even ask for.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to expose the misunderstanding we have about favor.
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  Speaker 1: Because we think that if we are favored or you
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  Speaker 1: know how we like to say, how you doing? I'm
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: blessed and highly favored. We love to say that. The
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  Speaker 1: favor of God is resting on me. That's how I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: got that job. That was the favor of God. But
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the problem is we only associate favor with success. Oh,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I'm doing so good. We only associate favor with success.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And if you define favor only through success, then you
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: can't explain what happened to this woman. Her child grew
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: up and died on her lap. Her favor died on
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: her lap. But she was still favored. Life is still
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: going to be life whether you have favor or not.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: People are going to die whether you have favor or not.
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  Speaker 1: People are going to get sick whether you have favor
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: or not. People are going to leave you whether you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got favor or not. People are going to break your
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: heart whether you got favor or not. Don't let the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: devil tell you that you lost your favor because you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: lost your friend. Oh, I'm talking so good tonight. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: think I'll dance while I'm standing up here. Favor is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not equated to substance or wealth or good times or
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: feeling good. You can go through a bad time and
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  Speaker 1: still have favor. Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: favor with God and favor with man, but he still
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: got crucified. He was in the will of God, but
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he still bled out on the cross. He bled out
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: because if the blood would have stayed in, it wouldn't
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: have done us no good. He bled out for our redemption.
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  Speaker 1: He bled out for our deliverance. He bled out for
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: our salvation. He bled out. Blind bottom ass got healed
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just in time to see the blood come out. And
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the blood came streaming down. He bled out. Glory to God.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: He'd been walking around with all that blood in him,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but it didn't redeem anybody until he bled out. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have so much favor that God will put
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you in a situation where you have to bleed out.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And it's painful. And you don't like it. And you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in the Garden of Gethsemane. And you say, Father, if
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it be thy will, pass this bitter cup. That means
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: do it. He didn't like it. The Bible said he
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: despised it. He despised the shame of the cross, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for the joy that was set before him. He looked
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: beyond the present circumstance to see what was going to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: come out of it on the other side. I'm helping
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: somebody right now. I can feel it. You're all sitting
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: up soaking in. The temporary circumstance, you're only going to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: be on the cross for a little while. After a while,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to rise again and the cross is going
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to be empty. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. The only way you can endure
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a season of pain is to look beyond it. Don't
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: look at it. Look beyond it. Look beyond it. Having
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: an expectation. Having a hope inside of yourself. Keep your hope.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to not bury your dream, you got
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to keep your vision. For without a vision, the people perish.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you got to get binoculars. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: don't care if you have to get away from negative
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: people and find somebody that believes in your dream. You
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: need to be around somebody that is helping you to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: see beyond. It's still possible. It can still happen. You
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  Speaker 1: might be an old woman, Sarah, but you can still
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: have a baby. Oh, you don't hear what I'm saying. Rahab,
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  Speaker 1: you might be a hooker, but you might end up
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in the lineage of Jesus Christ. They all don't hear
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you. Ruth, I don't care that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you were an idolatress. You can change on the road.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: She wasn't in church. She wasn't in a service. She
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: wasn't in a ceremony. But right in the middle of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the road, she said, thy God shall be my God.
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  Speaker 1: Thy people shall be my people. Where thou lodgest, I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: will lodge. Where thou diest, I will die. She had
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a conversion on the move. she had a conversion while
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: she was walking and she was converted by a woman
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that was depressed and discouraged and didn't even want to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: go on any further y'all don't hear me Naomi don't
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: have to be spiritual and happy to affect Ruth your
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: mentor doesn't have to be perfect to affect you She
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: was going through a bad time. Worst time in her life.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: She want to rename herself. And all the while, while
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: she's depressed, she's still winning souls. Oh, y'all don't hear
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you. She wasn't preaching and singing
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and laying hands and slinging oil on nobody. She was there,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: call me Mara, which means bitterness. I went out full
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and I came home empty. And while she was talking
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: all out of her head, she was still affecting Ruth.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Because sometimes your greatest witness is in your frustration and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: your test. And your trial. And when I see you
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: survive hell and high water. And I see you still
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  Speaker 1: going forward. Even though you don't feel like going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Your greatest witness might not come while you're on the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: It might come while you're in the valley. At your
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: lowest moment. See you're not as powerful when things are
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: going good as you are when all hell is breaking loose.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: There's something about all hell breaking loose that it brings
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: something out of you where people can see you suffer
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and still be consistent. She was depressed but she kept
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: on walking. She was angry, but she kept on walking.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: She was hurt, but she kept on walking. I found
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: out a long time ago, if you keep on walking,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you can walk your way out of anything. If you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: just keep on walking, you ain't got to feel like walking.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You ain't got to be excited about walking. You ain't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: got to be happy about walking. But if you just
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: keep on the steps of a good man, are ordered
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: by the Lord. And if you just keep on walking
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in what God ordered. He didn't ask you to like it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: He just told you to walk it out. I think
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: this is walking out Wednesday. So we need to walk
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  Speaker 1: out some stuff until people get healed and people get delivered.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: That's why the devil hates you now. I learned way
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: more from my spiritual father in his times of grief.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: In his times of loss, in his times of testing
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and trial, I learned way more than I did in
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: his times of success. I watched him suffer. I watched
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: him go through turmoil. I watched him go through all
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. And I thought, Lord, have mercy at
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the things I got to see. Because when you get
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: close enough to somebody that you can see their wounds,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that's what makes Thomas believe. Oh, y'all don't hear what
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. When you see their wounds, see, you're trying
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to see their face, but you need to see their wounds.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Blessed are they who have not seen, but yet they believe.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: But Thomas believed because he saw Jesus' wounds. Jesus didn't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: hide his wounds from Thomas. He showed him his wounds
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: because his wounds was his deed of trust. It was
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: his signature. It was his authenticity. It was his absolute
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: proof that he was the same Jesus that was on
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the cross. And he said, let me show you my scars,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: not my stars. Let me show you my scars. The
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: fact that I'm still here. I've been wounded. I've been depressed.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I cried myself to sleep, but I'm still here. And
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I got favor. Even when it doesn't look like I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: got favor, I got favor to be here. I got
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: favor to still be standing. I got favor to be
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: in my right mind. Somebody get an ass and settle
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the ass because I got somewhere to go. I got
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: somewhere to go because I'm not going to let the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: devil talk me into thinking that I'm cursed. Some of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you have allowed the devil to make you think there's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a curse on your life because you judge favor by
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: your condition. But you need to judge favor by your position.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Your condition is going to change all the time. But
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: your position is going to stay the same. I'm still
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: his child. If I'm broke, I'm his child. If I'm prodigal,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I'm his child. If I'm in the hog pen, I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: his child. If I'm lonely, I'm his child. If I'm
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: backed up against the wall, I'm his child. That's why
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you got to be careful about doing something to me
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: because I'm his child. Saul was wrong as rain, but
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: David said, I'm not going to touch God's anointed. He's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: still anointed. Even though he's wrong and stubborn and even
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: though he tried to kill me, I still respect the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: anointing that is on his life. I'm talking about being
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: favored in a bad situation. Oh God, I hope somebody's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: watching on the stream. I hope somebody's hearing what I'm
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: saying to you. The devil's trying to talk you out
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of your favor and make you think that God don't
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: love you and you're claiming that you're living up under
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a generational curse. You're all under the curse because you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: said you were. If you talk the curse, you're going
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to live in the curse. But if you talk the blessing,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you're going to live in the blessing. Oh, you're on
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a tight end of the line. I'm still favored. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: might be in a bad season, but I'm still favored.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: My roof might be leaking, but I'm still favored. They
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: may have repossessed my car, but I'm still favored. Watch me.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I'll get me another car. I'll come back around again.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I'll buy me another house. I'll get myself together. How? Hallelujah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Because a righteous man will fall seven times, but he
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: keeps on getting up. Glory to God. And just because
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you caught me while I was on the ground, don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: mean I'm not going to get back up again. Glory
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to God. The favor of God is not based on
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: my condition. It is based on my position. My position
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is secure. In him I live. In him I move. Oh,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: let me stop. I'm going too far. Let me stop.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Let me pull myself off that text. My God, I'll
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: start a fight in here right now. You can't tell
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: me I'm not favored. I've been through too much not
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to know that I'm favored. I've suffered too many things
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not to know that I'm favored. I've survived too many
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: things not to know that I'm favored. I'm not perfect,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: but I'm favored. I'm not always prayerful, but I'm favored.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not always in God's will, but I'm favored. There's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a favor that rests on me that's different from anybody
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: else in the world. I ain't jealous of nobody. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ain't got to go see anybody's king. I dwell amongst
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: my own people. I know who I am. I'm favored.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The woman said, I ain't got no child, but I'm
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: still favored. I don't need nothing. I don't need a thing.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Look at how she saw herself. Look at her self-talk.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Look at how she talked to herself. Well, why are
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you talking to yourself some other kind of way? She
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: could have been complaining. I don't have no child. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: got all of this house and I don't have no child.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: She said, I don't need nothing. I don't need to
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: go to the king. I don't need to borrow your favor.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I don't need your influence. I got my own stuff.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I don't need you to tell me who I am.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I don't need a title. I don't need a license.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I don't need a decree. I don't need you to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: believe I'm a preacher. You can say I'm not a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: preacher all you want. There are preachers that don't do
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: nothing but talk about other preachers. You have never heard
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: me get up in the pulpit and give God's pulpit
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: over to talking about another preacher. Because God didn't call
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: me to talk about preachers. He called me to talk
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: about him. And I'm not going to get in God's
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: holy pulpit and start talking about people. Because the one
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you're talking about today, you're going to mess around and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: need tomorrow. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Lord have mercy. Don't you feel that favor? The favor
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is coming off this stage. It's sliding down into the pews.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: It's getting in the aisles. It's coming out of my mouth.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: It's coming out of my spirit. It's coming out of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: my body. I don't have to have no help. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to have no organ. The favor isn't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: coming out of the drums. It's coming out of me.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I have favor in the storefronts. I had favor when
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't have money. I had favor when I had
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to hitch a ride to teach Bible class. But when
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I got to the class, I still had favor. Didn't
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I have favor? Didn't I have favor? Long time ago,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: long time ago, on food stamps I had favor. Back
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: against the wall I had favor. Favor don't have nothing
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to do with your bank account. Favor has something to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: do with your soul account. I got favor. Favor, you
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: can't see it. And this is how you're gonna walk
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it out. You're gonna walk in your favor. You're gonna
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: walk in your favor, but you're gonna understand that your
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: favor does not exempt you from life. People gonna hurt you.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: The fact that the boy died doesn't take away from
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the fact that God gave her the boy. It wasn't
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a mistake. He died. He died. Excuse me. He was grown,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: but he died. He lived a long life. Devil, you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: ain't going to get this. I'm going to keep on going.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: If I have to sneeze every sentence, I'm going to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: keep on going. He still had favor. She got to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: see him grow up. She got to see him turn
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: into a grown man. He didn't die till he was grown.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Still it's favor from God. There is always something to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: be thankful for. There's always something to be grateful for.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: You have to choose what you're gonna look at. It's
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the way you tell your story to yourself that's making
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you sick, that's making you mad, that's making you frustrated.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I can take the same story And spin it around.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And show you God. We could be in hell's kitchen.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And I'll still show you God. You can make your
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: bed in hell. And I'll still show you God. You
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: can be sick with leukemia. And I'll still show you God.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: You can be blind and can't see. And I'll still
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: show you God. Blind Bartimaeus couldn't see a thing. But
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: he heard Jesus was passing by. I thank God for
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: good ears. My eyes might be bad. But my ears
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: are still good. And faith comes by hearing. And hearing
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: by the word of God. I'm not supposed to walk
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: by sight. It depends on what you say to yourself.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: What you get. Tell your neighbor I got favor. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: still got favor. I might be in a bad season,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: but I got favor. I may be knocked down to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: my knees, but I got favor. I may have to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: crawl across the floor, but I got favor. I may
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: be lied on, but I still got favor. I may
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be in the hog pen, but I still got favor.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The prodigal son had enough favor to know he could
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: still go back home. He'd been with the harlots. He
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: had spent all his money. He was broke. He had
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: disgraced his father, but he said, I will arise and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: go to my father's house. He never for a moment
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: thought his father wouldn't take him back because he knew
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: even in his mess, he was still his son. He said,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I'm no more worthy to be called our son, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I'm still your son. Make me a hired servant. I'm
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: coming home. It was favor that brought him back home.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It was favor that brought him to his senses. It
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: was favor that stopped him from eating with the swine.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: it was favor that caused him to survive enough to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: get back to his father's house it was favor that
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: made them kill the fatty calf and you know why
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: they killed the fatty calf because without the shedding of
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: blood there is no remission of sin it wasn't that
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: they killed the calf just so they could throw a
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: party something had to die so something could live I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: heard the father I heard the father say this my
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: son that was dead is alive again And the sacrifice
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: came when they killed the fatted calf. That calf died
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: that the son might live. And he kept on walking.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And that's what you got to do. You got to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: keep on walking. When you feel good, when you don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: feel good, you got to keep on walking. Hallelujah. This
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: is walking out Wednesday. Somebody ought to take a little
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: walk and let the devil know I'm going to keep
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: on walking. If the kids don't call, if the car
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: don't start, If I have to move in the garage,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep on walking. If I have to
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: get a part-time job, if I have to flip hamburgers,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep on walking. I got favor, favor
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: in my hands, favor in my feet. I got favor
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: all over me. I said I got favor all over me.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody give me 30 seconds of crazy praise. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: crazy praise. This is what I wanted you to see.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I wanted you to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the text. That just because you have favor doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that your life always goes right. Doesn't mean that you
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  Speaker 1: win every battle. Doesn't mean that everybody believes in you
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  Speaker 1: and everybody receives you. They hated Jesus. They conspired against him.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to make his life a living hell, but
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  Speaker 1: he kept on walking. They despised him. They called him Beelzebub.
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  Speaker 1: They said he was a wine-bibber, but he kept on
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  Speaker 1: healing the sick and raising the dead. You think the
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  Speaker 1: victory is to change somebody's mind about you. Let them
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  Speaker 1: think whatever they want to think. Let them say whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want to say. If you got the favor of God,
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  Speaker 1: that's something you can't take from me. God has anointed
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  Speaker 1: me to do this and come hell or high water.
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  Speaker 1: If I get ready to do this, can't nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 1: If I get ready! Ah! Get ready. If I decide
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  Speaker 1: to open my mouth, the power of God, the power,
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  Speaker 1: the power. Now, I want you to sit down, sit down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just talking to you. I'm supposed to be teaching.
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  Speaker 1: But I got this little preach on me right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to calm it down. But I got you. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: but I feel some stirring up in my belly. God Almighty. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any Mormons in the house? What would you
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  Speaker 1: do if your child died on your lap? Died right
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  Speaker 1: on your lap. And even then, she took him up
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  Speaker 1: and laid him in the bed. She didn't bury him.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't plan no funeral. She laid him in the
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  Speaker 1: bed and got on her ass and said, slack not
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  Speaker 1: that bitty. And I told you donkeys don't even move fast.
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  Speaker 1: She must have been kicking the donkey. Because when I'm
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  Speaker 1: after something, don't get in my way. I said, when
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  Speaker 1: I'm after something, don't get in my way. If I
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  Speaker 1: decide I'm going after something, you better move. You better
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  Speaker 1: do stuff you don't normally do. If you're going to
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  Speaker 1: stick with me, you got to move. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what your nature is. I don't care what your mood is.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to be with me, you got to go.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm going somewhere. The favor of God is on me.
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  Speaker 1: Come hell or high water. If I tell you... Now
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  Speaker 1: look at this. She went to the man of God.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet said God had hid it from me. So
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  Speaker 1: you can be a true prophet and still not see everything.
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  Speaker 1: You can be a prophet of God and God hide
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  Speaker 1: certain things from you. God is not going to explain
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  Speaker 1: himself to you. He is not going to show you everything.
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  Speaker 1: Some things are going to catch you off guard. even
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  Speaker 1: though you're a prophet. Prophet enough to speak the child
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  Speaker 1: into existence, but not prophet enough to see that he
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  Speaker 1: was dead. Are you hearing the oxymoron between the two things?
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  Speaker 1: Because when I'm on, I'm on. But when I'm off,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a person. And the Lord has hid it
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  Speaker 1: from me. And then he says, Gehazi, take my rod
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  Speaker 1: and And go, you mean I have walked, I have
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  Speaker 1: rode all the way up here on the back of
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  Speaker 1: a donkey to see you and you sent your servant
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  Speaker 1: with your rod? You didn't come yourself? I came to
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  Speaker 1: see you. When I saw your servant, I said, it
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  Speaker 1: is well. Which as you know, I didn't come here
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  Speaker 1: to talk to none of your minions. I went back
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  Speaker 1: to the source. Sometimes you got to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the source. You can't go to the armor bearer. You
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  Speaker 1: got to go to the source, the one who said
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  Speaker 1: it in the first place. And when she made it
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  Speaker 1: to the one who said it in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: he sent the servant with his rod and he failed.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what the devil said to her? Where
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  Speaker 1: are you failing now? The rod must not have no
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  Speaker 1: power in it. It didn't work. Gehazi came back and
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  Speaker 1: told Elisha, I tried it, it didn't work. Boy still did.
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  Speaker 1: Time is passing. He then got hard and cold. He's stiff.
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  Speaker 1: Rigor mortis has set in. But his mama still believe it.
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  Speaker 1: You went through a bankruptcy, but you still believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody living in the house got repossessed, but you still
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  Speaker 1: believe it. You hear what I'm talking about? You still
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  Speaker 1: believe and that's what I'm talking about. That's how you
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  Speaker 1: walk it out. You walk it out by faith. You
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  Speaker 1: walk it out by believing God. Yes, there are going
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  Speaker 1: to be voices that come up in your head and
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  Speaker 1: say you are a fool. Yes, there are going to
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  Speaker 1: be voices that come up in your head and challenge
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  Speaker 1: your faith and say it didn't work. You've been feeding
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  Speaker 1: this prophet. You built a room for this prophet and
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  Speaker 1: it didn't work. That word will leap over top of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the prophet spoke the boy into existence.
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  Speaker 1: It will leap over top of the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: boy lived to be a grown man. And it will, see,
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  Speaker 1: you got to understand something. You can do 10 things
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  Speaker 1: right and do one thing wrong and people will forget
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  Speaker 1: everything you did right and throw it away over one
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  Speaker 1: thing they heard. Don't you count on flesh. Because they'll
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  Speaker 1: say Hosanna today and crucify him in the morning. They
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  Speaker 1: will change on you in a minute. Leave you standing
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. Of course she had voices saying, look at this.
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  Speaker 1: But Elijah said, I'm going myself. And Elijah didn't even
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  Speaker 1: use his rod. He got on top of the corpse.
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  Speaker 1: The corpse, a deteriorating corpse. has so much fungus and
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  Speaker 1: bacteria on it that they used to tie people to
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  Speaker 1: corpses as punishment for murder until the infection from the
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  Speaker 1: corpse got into the murderer and killed him. And Elijah
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  Speaker 1: laid on top of something that should have killed him.
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  Speaker 1: But because he was stronger than the bacteria, He was
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  Speaker 1: stronger than the fungus. He was stronger than the molecules.
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  Speaker 1: He was stronger than the infection. He was stronger than
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  Speaker 1: the disease. Either he was going to get cold like
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  Speaker 1: the courts or the courts was going to get warm
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  Speaker 1: like him.