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It’s a Faith Thing! - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Hebrews 11, one through six. My God. I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to see something I have never seen. Hebrews 11, we
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  Speaker 1: begin reading at verse one. It's a very familiar passage
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  Speaker 1: of scripture that does not reduce the redundancy of the text,
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  Speaker 1: does not reduce the relevance of the text. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that you have heard it before does not make it
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  Speaker 1: less true. If I say two plus two is four,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't make it less true because you know it
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  Speaker 1: or you've heard it before. But because the word of
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  Speaker 1: God is living, every time we read it, we see
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  Speaker 1: something we never saw before. It is the living word
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  Speaker 1: of God. It is alive to us. Like cells and molecules,
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  Speaker 1: it is alive. It is alive. It is like tissue.
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  Speaker 1: It is like spiritual tissue. It is alive. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: You are not a body. You are a combination of cells.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. If something breaks out in your cells,
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  Speaker 1: it will affect your body because your body is made
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  Speaker 1: of cells. Your skin, your organs, your tissues, your bone,
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  Speaker 1: your marrow, your blood is all really broken down to cells.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot digest this entire word, if one cell
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  Speaker 1: of this word gets into your system, It is potent enough.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the woman said even a crumb that falls
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  Speaker 1: from the master's table is enough to change my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: That's how powerful the word of God is. Now faith
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  Speaker 1: is not was, not will be, not shall be, not
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  Speaker 1: can be. Now faith is the substance of Of things
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  Speaker 1: hoped for. The evidence admissible in court of things not seen.
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  Speaker 1: For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through
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  Speaker 1: faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. So that things which are seen were
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  Speaker 1: not made of things which do appear. Wait, hold it
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  Speaker 1: right there. Things that are seen are not made of
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  Speaker 1: things which do appear. Everything that's tangible, touchable, physical exists.
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  Speaker 1: Relatable that you can pick up, move, hold, handle, feel,
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  Speaker 1: touch or evaluate. Did not start from the physical realm.
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  Speaker 1: Everything starts in the spirit. Everything starts in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the enemy wants to attack your spirit and
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Because that is the birthing room of everything
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  Speaker 1: that will materialize in your life. Is made of the
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  Speaker 1: cells of your belief. As a man thinketh in his heart. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: talk to me, church. They were not made of things
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  Speaker 1: that do appear. Let's go on, verse four. By faith
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  Speaker 1: Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
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  Speaker 1: by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God
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  Speaker 1: testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead
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  Speaker 1: yet speaketh. By faith, Edom was translated that he should
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  Speaker 1: not see death and was not found. Couldn't find him
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  Speaker 1: with a flashlight because God had translated him. For before
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  Speaker 1: his translation, he had this testimony. That he pleased God.
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  Speaker 1: Not that he pleased the crowd, not that he pleased
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  Speaker 1: his neighbors, not that he pleased his friends, not that
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  Speaker 1: he pleased his husband, wife, kids, none of that. That
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  Speaker 1: he pleased God. Are you spending too much time trying
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  Speaker 1: to please people that have no consequence and have no reward?
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  Speaker 1: But without faith, it is impossible to please him. See,
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  Speaker 1: this comes right off of the heels of Enoch pleasing God.
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  Speaker 1: And you must understand that the context of but without
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  Speaker 1: faith it is impossible to please him is explaining that
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  Speaker 1: Enoch pleased God by faith. We should live a pure life,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't his purity that did it. We should
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  Speaker 1: praise God, but it wasn't his praise life that did it.
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  Speaker 1: We should clap our hands, but it wasn't clapping his
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  Speaker 1: hands that did it. The only way we can please
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  Speaker 1: God is by?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: For he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe that he is, you can't come.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that you don't come. It's not that you
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  Speaker 1: won't come. You can't come. The only way you can
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  Speaker 1: come is that he reveals to you that he is.
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  Speaker 1: That's a revelation. Whenever he reveals himself to you, that
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  Speaker 1: is not because you can see so well. It is
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  Speaker 1: that he made himself seeable. He that cometh to God
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  Speaker 1: must first believe that he is and that he is
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  Speaker 1: a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Can the
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  Speaker 1: church say amen? Look at your neighbor and say it's
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  Speaker 1: a faith thing. Look at the other neighbor and tell
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  Speaker 1: them it's a faith thing. It's not a church thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a money thing, it's not a game thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a faith thing. It's a faith thing. Until you
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  Speaker 1: understand that it's a faith thing, you don't understand anything
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  Speaker 1: at all. Can you say amen? Spirit of the living God,
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  Speaker 1: we evoke your presence in this place Come close.
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  Speaker 3: Hover over us.
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  Speaker 1: Flap your wings over this building. Transform these lips of
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  Speaker 1: clay that they may become the very oracle of God.
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  Speaker 1: Establish your doing in the midst of your people. Let
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  Speaker 1: faith arise in us afresh. Renewing us, preparing us, fortifying us,
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  Speaker 1: strengthening us. I thank you in advance for what you're
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  Speaker 1: about to do. Oh, God, have your way. Move in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of your people. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we pray. Amen and amen. You may be seated. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm back, baby. It would be erroneous to believe that
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  Speaker 1: in the days of Christ and the days of the
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  Speaker 1: early church that there were just one or two religions.
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem was flanked with religions of all types and descriptions.
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  Speaker 1: What made the early church have such a difficult time
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  Speaker 1: is that they were in an ideological war. What is
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  Speaker 1: an ideological war? An ideological war is a war of ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, without a bomb going off or lightning flashing
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  Speaker 1: or thunder rolling or even AK-47 going off, we are
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  Speaker 1: at war. We are at war in this country right now.
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  Speaker 1: It is an ideological war. It is a war of ideas.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be that you had a right to
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  Speaker 1: have your own opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Today people think it is their job to impose their
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  Speaker 1: opinion upon you. And if you disagree they attack you
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  Speaker 1: for having a different point of view. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be strong to stick to your convictions. Because the tidal wave,
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  Speaker 1: the tsunami wave of public opinion and what they call
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  Speaker 1: culture has bombarded theology to the point that theology has laryngitis.
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  Speaker 1: And lost its voice in this present age. And we
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  Speaker 1: are in trouble. And as it is now, so was
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  Speaker 1: it then. There was the Pharisees who didn't really like
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  Speaker 1: the Sadducees but they got together to fight Jesus. Each
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  Speaker 1: one of them having their own versions and ideas and
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  Speaker 1: philosophies that were pervasive in the day. And Jesus withstood
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  Speaker 1: them all. Firm in his conviction. Willing to debate them.
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  Speaker 1: Their doctrines and their philosophies. did not intimidate Jesus because
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  Speaker 1: he understood that it was an ideological war. An ideological
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  Speaker 1: war has no bullets, has no guns, no grenades. It
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  Speaker 1: is a war of opinions and ideas. There was a
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  Speaker 1: group there that existed in the early church called Gnostics
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  Speaker 1: or Gnosticism. Not with a K but with a G.
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  Speaker 1: But it means the same as if we were to
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  Speaker 1: put a K-N-O. There's a G-N-O, Gnosticism. It is where
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  Speaker 1: we get the word agnostic. Agnostic is to not know.
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  Speaker 1: So if somebody says to you, I'm agnostic, they're not
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  Speaker 1: saying that they don't believe in God, they just say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, I don't know. Gnostic is to know.
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  Speaker 1: So Gnosticism in the early church was a prevailing ideology
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  Speaker 1: that suggested that they knew God and that they intellectually
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  Speaker 1: ascended up the ladder to God. In fact, they thought
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was just a step up the ladder to God. Gnosticism.
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  Speaker 1: To know. They thought that the more you know, the
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  Speaker 1: more you transformed into a type of God. The more
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  Speaker 1: you know. Now, the problem with that idea is this.
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  Speaker 1: God cannot be just anymore. And be Gnosticistic. Because in
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  Speaker 1: order to be just, we would all have to have
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  Speaker 1: the same IQ. To the person who is dull of
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  Speaker 1: wit or slow to learn or unable to grasp certain ideas,
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  Speaker 1: God would be beyond their reach if Gnosticism was true.
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  Speaker 1: Because if Gnosticism was true, the smarter you were, the
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  Speaker 1: more like God you were. then God could only be
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  Speaker 1: embraced through knowledge. The Pharisees thought that the way to
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  Speaker 1: approach God was through acts of holiness, self-righteousness. They thought
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  Speaker 1: that the more righteous and the more pious they were,
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  Speaker 1: the closer they were to God. So they were known
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  Speaker 1: for their long praying and their long garments and their
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  Speaker 1: beads and their prayers and their rituals and their routines
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  Speaker 1: because they thought through ritualism and routine was the way
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  Speaker 1: to get to God. You hear what I'm saying to you?
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  Speaker 1: In the midst of all of these varying ideas, the Sadducees,
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  Speaker 1: for example, thought that the spirit of the body didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave a man for three days. That's why Jesus waited
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  Speaker 1: till Lazarus had been dead four days so that the
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  Speaker 1: Sadducees couldn't say he didn't really raise him from the
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  Speaker 1: dead because he wasn't within the parameters of our theology.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus waited till there was no doubt amongst the skeptics
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  Speaker 1: that Lazarus were dead. So Mary says to him, don't
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  Speaker 1: go to the grave now because by now he's stinkin'.
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  Speaker 1: God has a way of not showing up until it's stinky.
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  Speaker 1: God has a way of not giving an old man
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  Speaker 1: a baby until he's impotent. His wife is past childbearing age.
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  Speaker 1: And even if she weren't past childbearing age, she was barren.
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  Speaker 1: And when it was totally impossible with man, God stepped
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  Speaker 1: in and said, now I'm ready to do something. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever watched God let you wear yourself out trying
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  Speaker 1: to do stuff by yourself. And finally, when you finally
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  Speaker 1: give up and say, okay, God, I can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: that's when he steps in and shows himself strong. Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: 11 reminds us that faith is not a New Testament idea.
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  Speaker 1: that it is not a result of the crucifixion of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, that from the creation of man forward, people
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  Speaker 1: have been moved by faith. The book of Hebrews 11
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  Speaker 1: reminds us that faith cannot be confined by dispensations, structures,
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  Speaker 1: or order. Or to break it down simply, it reminds
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  Speaker 1: us that faith never goes out of style. Ha ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ha ha. A lot of other things would go
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  Speaker 1: out of style. By the time I found a pair
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  Speaker 1: of skinny jeans that could fit me and decided that
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  Speaker 1: it might be okay to wear them, now they'd have
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  Speaker 1: gone widely. People change their mind from week to week
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  Speaker 1: to get a little bit more of your money. By
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  Speaker 1: the time you got an Apple 7, they got an
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  Speaker 1: Apple 8. By the time you got an Apple 8,
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  Speaker 1: they got an Apple 10. By the time you got
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  Speaker 1: an Apple 10, they got an Apple 12. I stopped counting.
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  Speaker 1: I said, this ain't as working for me. Faith never
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  Speaker 1: goes out of style. It doesn't wait for the transition
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  Speaker 1: of time or the coming of Moses. It exists before Moses.
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  Speaker 1: It exists before the Pentateuch. It exists before the law.
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  Speaker 1: Faith just is. But the reason why faith is, is
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  Speaker 1: faith is a common denominator that regardless to how intellectual
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  Speaker 1: you are or not, you have equal access to it
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  Speaker 1: because faith is the gateway to everything promised to you.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is deep, but you need to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: You need to understand this because some people who are
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  Speaker 1: exceptionally smart are also exceptionally frustrated because they think that
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  Speaker 1: they should be compensated on the level of their intellect.
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  Speaker 1: And here you come in with less degrees and got
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  Speaker 1: paid more money and they can't understand how you got
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  Speaker 1: what you got. Somebody holler, it's a faith thing. There's
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  Speaker 1: a fine woman looking at a woman that's just ordinary saying,
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  Speaker 1: how did you get a man like that? It is
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  Speaker 1: not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord. It is a faith thing. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: order to have faith, how do I get faith? How
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  Speaker 1: do I get faith? Because today we think faith is willpower.
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  Speaker 1: So we get sick and say, I just believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. I believe it. I believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: confess it. I believe it. I believe it. I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe I'm healed. I believe I'm healed. I just
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I just believe it. I believe I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to hit the lottery. I believe. I believe. I believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. They're all in Vegas pulling the lottery down.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I believe. I believe. But it doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: have faith in faith, it says have faith in God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: faith has nothing to do without hope. You can have
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  Speaker 1: faith all you want, but if you don't have hope,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do anything. The reason that faith is a
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  Speaker 1: common denominator, let me finish that up. The reason that
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  Speaker 1: faith is a common denominator, Jesus says, except you become
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  Speaker 1: like a little child, you should not inherit the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. That means that he has reduced it down.
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  Speaker 1: I use this phrase all the time. It's out of style.
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  Speaker 1: They don't teach it in school like that anymore. But
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  Speaker 1: we used to reduce fractions down to its lowest common
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  Speaker 1: denominator and then multiply. That's how I was taught in school.
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  Speaker 1: They don't teach it that way anymore. They got a
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  Speaker 1: whole different method. So you had to find the lowest
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  Speaker 1: common denominator in order to do it. Faith is God's
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  Speaker 1: lowest common denominator. He's brought it down so low that
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  Speaker 1: you can be illiterate and still believe. If an illiterate
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  Speaker 1: man gets sick beside an intellectual man that gets sick,
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual man has no more advantage over the illiterate
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  Speaker 1: man when it comes to miracles because it is by faith.
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  Speaker 1: The Gentile has no more power than the Jew because
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  Speaker 1: it's by faith. If you walk slowly through the book
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  Speaker 1: of Romans, Paul will prove to you. He teaches you
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  Speaker 1: what the Jews were and how their history were. And
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  Speaker 1: he goes all back to the antiquities. and their ancestry
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  Speaker 1: and he validates who they were and then he counts
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  Speaker 1: it all as done said don't mean nothing Then he
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  Speaker 1: talks about the Gentiles and how wild they were and
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  Speaker 1: how perverted they were and how promiscuous they were. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, it doesn't mean nothing because God has equalized
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  Speaker 1: the playing floor. He's brought it down to just by faith.
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  Speaker 1: There's some righteous women in here. You grew up righteous.
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  Speaker 1: You've always been pure. You've always been virtuous. You've always
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  Speaker 1: been honorable. When you got married, you were a virgin
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  Speaker 1: and you're sitting right behind a woman who was a slut.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get no more glory when the glory falls
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  Speaker 1: than the woman who was a slut. Because it's not
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  Speaker 1: by works lest any man should boast, it's by faith.
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  Speaker 1: This is why you have haters. Because haters don't think
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  Speaker 1: that you deserve to have whatever you have. Because they
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  Speaker 1: think that they are better or purer or smarter or
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  Speaker 1: better looking or brighter. But look at somebody and say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's a faith thing. I know it doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 1: to you that I got a promotion. I know it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to you that I pastor a church
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  Speaker 1: like this. I know it doesn't make sense that I'm
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  Speaker 1: directing the choir. I know it doesn't make sense that
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  Speaker 1: God has raised me up. I know it doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: sense that God put me on the cover of Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have no business on the cover of Time Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make any great discovery. I didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to make sense to you because it's a...
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  Speaker 1: What God is getting ready to do in your life
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  Speaker 1: is totally illogical. It makes no sense. It has no rationale.
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  Speaker 1: You have no background. I don't know who I'm talking to,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm getting somebody ready to receive it. The problem
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  Speaker 1: with you receiving the promises of God, I'm just talking,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got started yet. The problem with you receiving
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God is that sometimes God promises you
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  Speaker 1: the most illogical stuff. As long as I've been walking
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  Speaker 1: with God, God said something to me a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I wrestled with him about three years telling him, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know nothing about that. How could you give
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  Speaker 1: that to me? I don't have no background in that.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't qualified for that. And God was busily building
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  Speaker 1: it up. It didn't make no sense. It scared me
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  Speaker 1: when it didn't make sense. Can I be honest with you?
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  Speaker 1: The person who's teaching you faith got scared. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God has something for you that is so mind boggling.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just be honest with you? I wrestled with
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  Speaker 1: him like Jacob. It was a good thing. It was
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  Speaker 1: a great blessing. It had great purpose, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to touch it because it didn't make sense. And
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  Speaker 1: then I thought it didn't make sense for David to
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  Speaker 1: be king. How do you make a shepherd boy king?
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  Speaker 1: He has no background. He has no protocol. His father
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  Speaker 1: was a peasant. He grew up taking care of sheep.
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  Speaker 1: He had not been trained. He didn't go to school
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  Speaker 1: for it. He wasn't prepared for it. But God said,
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  Speaker 1: I found me a man who's after my heart. And
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be the next king of Israel. For
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  Speaker 1: it is not by might. It is not by power.
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  Speaker 1: It is by my spirit, saith the Lord. And I
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  Speaker 1: say this because there are some things that God said
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  Speaker 1: to you that are frightening. It doesn't make sense. You're scary.
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  Speaker 1: You're reluctant to receive it. You don't feel qualified. You
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  Speaker 1: don't feel ready. And yet God's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And he told me to tell you it is a
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  Speaker 1: faith thing. Whoever I'm talking to, give him a praise. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to pick up this point. Where there is
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  Speaker 1: no hope, faith has nothing to do. Hope. Esteem. Esteem.
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  Speaker 1: Where there is no hope, faith has nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things hoped for. When you
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  Speaker 1: have low self-esteem, low esteem for your life, faith's hands
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  Speaker 1: are tied. So if I were the enemy and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stop faith from being true, I would kill your
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  Speaker 1: hope By showing you what you are not and what
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  Speaker 1: you don't have and what you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I kill your hope, faith has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: work with. Now faith is the substance of the thing
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  Speaker 1: you hope for. The worst people in the world to
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  Speaker 1: preach to are people who have no hope. People who
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  Speaker 1: have decided, well, I guess this is as far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. And they make themselves happy with mediocrity.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that they're happy with it. They make themselves
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  Speaker 1: happy with it because it is all they can grasp.
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  Speaker 1: The people I like to preach to. are the people
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  Speaker 1: who have the audacity of hope. The audacity to believe.
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  Speaker 1: The audacity to believe it's possible. The audacity to think
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  Speaker 1: I could go to school. The audacity to think I
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  Speaker 1: could own my own house. The audacity to think I
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  Speaker 1: could preach the gospel. The audacity to think I could
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  Speaker 1: build a church. The audacity to think I could build
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  Speaker 1: a mall. The audacity to think I could get up
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  Speaker 1: from here. The audacity to think I could make it
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  Speaker 1: without you. The audacity. See, in order to leave a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: woman in an abusive relationship, the first thing an abusive
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  Speaker 1: man does is take away her hope. He cuts off
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  Speaker 1: her conversations. He doesn't want her to talk to her relatives.
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  Speaker 1: And then he tells her, you're dumb and you're ugly
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  Speaker 1: and you're stupid and don't nobody want me but you.
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  Speaker 1: And you better put up with me. I slap you
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  Speaker 1: across this kitchen, you ain't got nowhere to go, you're stupid.
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  Speaker 1: You know what he's doing? He's killing her hope. Verbal
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: abuse kills hope. What that man is doing to that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: woman and nowadays, what that woman is doing to that man,
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  Speaker 1: Because I have found since I've been in Texas that
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: some of these women are just as abusive as men are.
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  Speaker 1: The way you talk to your husband, he'll never get
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  Speaker 1: up because you are just as abusive as an abusive man.
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  Speaker 1: You're just shorter. Mean as a starving rattlesnake. Say anything
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  Speaker 1: to him about him, to his face, about his family,
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  Speaker 1: about his mama, about his kid, because you are cutting
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  Speaker 1: off all access to anything for faith to work with. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't care what you say. I withstand your ideas.
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  Speaker 1: I fight your ideas. I am somebody. I am worth something.
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  Speaker 1: I can build. I can evolve. You think whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to think, but you can't change the way I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: think about myself as a man thinketh in himself. Slap
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say, I think so. I think so. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what you write, I don't care what you tweet,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you text, I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: you blog, I think so. And as long as I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: think so, what you think don't have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with what I think, I think so. Oh, it's gonna
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: get tough in here in a minute. I think so.
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  Speaker 1: How is little Tommy Jason? going to be a preacher?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: How is he going to be a preacher? He got
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a list, but he can't do it. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you think. I think so. And look at me now.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, how you like me now?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Now faith is the substance of the thing I hope for.
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  Speaker 1: If the day you lose your hope, you lost your life,
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  Speaker 1: So the devil isn't so much after your faith, he's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: after your hope. That it could be better. That you
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  Speaker 1: could rebuild your life. That the second half could be
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  Speaker 1: the best half. That the best is yet to come.
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  Speaker 1: That God has more for you. That you're important to God.
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  Speaker 1: That God has a plan for your life. That all
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: things are possible to him that believe. The enemy is
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: doing everything he can to destroy your hope. He always
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: will let somebody bring you some bad news. Oh, but
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like the wicked witch. Don't nobody bring me no
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  Speaker 1: bad news. I'll hang up on you. I can't let
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  Speaker 1: it in. I'll cut it off the TV set. I'll
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  Speaker 1: stop watching it because I know you're trying to infect
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  Speaker 1: my faith. The devil is a lie. My faith is
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  Speaker 1: the substance of the thing I hope for. It is
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  Speaker 1: the evidence of the thing not yet seen. Evidence is
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  Speaker 1: admitted into court. It is proof. It is receipts. It validates.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: It is the evidence. Ashanda. Eyes have not seen. Ears
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  Speaker 1: have not heard. neither have entered into the heart of
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: man the things that God has prepared, the things that
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: God has prepared for them that love him. This is
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  Speaker 1: the evidence of things unseen. Remember when you were a child,
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  Speaker 1: how you had imagination. You had great imagination. You believed
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You had imagination. Somebody told me the other day they
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: jumped out of the window because they thought they could fly.
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  Speaker 1: When you stop dreaming, you stop flying. I have a question.
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  Speaker 1: What took away your hope? When did you stop dreaming?
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  Speaker 1: Did divorce do that to you? Did you let the
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  Speaker 1: rapist take away your hope? Did your mama prefer your
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  Speaker 1: sister kill your hope? Faith is the substance of things.
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  Speaker 1: Hope for it is the evidence of things not seen.
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  Speaker 1: For by it, the elders obtained a good report. They
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't good. They wasn't good. But they were able to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: get a good report by faith. Abraham believed God and
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  Speaker 1: it was counted unto him as righteousness. He wasn't righteous.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham wasn't righteous. Don't make me take you back to
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  Speaker 1: Bible class. Abraham was not righteous. I'm not saying he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a good man, but he was not righteous. But
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  Speaker 1: he believed God and it was counted unto him That's righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: I go crazy talking to accountants. No disrespect to none
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: of you. But you drive me crazy. Because to me,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I bring the money in. I bring it in. Here
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: it is. This is what we got. No, we can't
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: account for it like that. We have to put it
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in this column. I said, just put it in the bank.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I don't care what column you put it in. Just
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: put it in the bank. Well, if you borrow it,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: from this column and put it over here, it's all
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the same money. But it's how you account for it
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  Speaker 1: that passes the audit. Abraham believed God and it was
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  Speaker 1: counted unto him as righteousness. He wasn't righteous, but God
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: marked it up on the ledger as righteous because he
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: had faith. Faith is like food stamps. You ain't got
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: no money, but we'll take it like money. Come on,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: come on. I'm going to teach it till you get it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Everybody else walked in the store with money and American
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Express and MasterCard and Visa, and here come Mammy Wilson
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: with a bag full of food stamps. But she got
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: just as much food as everybody else because the food
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: stamp was accounted. This is why, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand why people hate you, because people hate you because
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: they know something about you. And they know you ain't
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  Speaker 1: that righteous. And they know you ain't that holy. And
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: they know you ain't that good. And they saw you
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: do something stupid. And they heard you did something stupid.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: And they fussing at you right now, saying, I ain't
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: going to listen at her. I'm not going to listen
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  Speaker 1: at him. But what they don't know is God is
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  Speaker 1: a bookkeeper. And he accounted it as righteousness. And what
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: you need to know is once the books say you're righteous,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: stop acting like you ain't. Walk in what God said.
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  Speaker 1: Talk in what God said. Move in what God said.
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  Speaker 1: Preach in what God said. Because according to the books,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you think you're waiting on God God is waiting on
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you God is waiting on you to believe what he
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: said about you not what you remember about you for
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: by it the elders obtained a good report watch this
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: can't go a little deeper through faith we understand Through faith,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: we understand. Faith is the truth we stand under. Through faith,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: we stand under. It is my covering. Through faith, we
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: understand that the worlds were framed. Now, when you read
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that in the King James Bible, it sounds like he's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: talking about the creation. He really isn't. Because when he
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: says through faith we understand that the worlds were framed
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  Speaker 1: by the word of God, that is true of the creation.
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  Speaker 1: But in this particular text, he is not using the
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  Speaker 1: Greek word cosmos. He's using the Greek word eons, which
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: is ages. Through faith we understand that the ages were
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: hemmed in. By the word of God. That my future
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: is locked. That he's got a hedge around tomorrow. I'll
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: prove it to you by the Bible. Satan, Lucifer, go
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: curse Job. You know I can't curse Job. You got
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a hedge around him. A curse speaks to how you're
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: going to end up. How can I mess with his
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: future when you got a hedge around his future? Through
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: faith we understand that the eons were framed by the
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  Speaker 1: word of your tomorrow is already fixed. Your tomorrow is
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: already fixed. you down on your knees crying about how
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make it what I'm going to do
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: how can I get there I don't see no way
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I don't have enough God said shut up I got
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: it already framed in That's enough for somebody to start
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: running right there. Your future is fixed. The witch can't
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  Speaker 1: curse you. The warlock can't curse you. Your enemies can't
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: curse you. Because God's got you hedged in. Your tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: is in his hands. Your next week is in his hands.
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  Speaker 1: Your next year is in his hands. He's got the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: whole world in his hands. Whole wide world. In his hands,
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  Speaker 1: he got the whole world. In his hands, he got
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the whole world. In his hands, he got you and me, brother.
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  Speaker 1: In his hands, he got you and me, brother. In
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: his hands, he got you and me, brother. In his hands,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the.
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  Speaker 1: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Now we're going to the creation.
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  Speaker 1: So that things that do appear were not made of
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  Speaker 1: things that do appear. Honey, would you come here for
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  Speaker 1: a minute? Nothing you got on, not your earrings, not
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: your dress, not your shoes, not your ring, nothing you
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: got on started out as a material. It started out
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: as an idea. Then they picked the material according to
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the idea. It didn't start out as material. It started
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: out as an idea. The material didn't pick the idea.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: The idea picked the material. It passed over wool, it
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: passed over cotton, it passed over linen, because the idea
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: had a specific idea in mind and said, once I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: find what matches what I'm thinking in here, I'm going
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to do out there what I'm thinking in here. So
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: what would you rather have, the dress or the idea?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: That's why I say money is the cheapest part of me.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Because the money don't make me. If all you took
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: was my money, you didn't get much. Now, if you'd
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: have took my mind, I'd be in trouble. But as
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: long as I got my right mind, I could get
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: me some more money. I could make another dress. I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: could create more earrings. I could get more shoes as
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: long as I got the idea. So that things that
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: do appear were not made of things that do appear.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know God has designed a future for you?
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  Speaker 1: And he's already got the right material in mind, the
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: right weight, the right time, the right place, the right moment,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the right way. And if you would get out of
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: God's way. Amen. and stop trying to design your own
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: life and plan your own future and manage your own
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: stuff and fix yourself up and just give it all
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: over to God and say, whatever you want me to have,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. Whenever you think I'm ready for it,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I'll move into it. Whatever you design for me, I'll
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: go for it. If you would step back, that would
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: be faith. But because you got your mouth in God's design,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: that's not faith. And without faith, it is impossible. Sing
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: all you want to. Preach all you will. Dance all
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: you want to. You cannot dance your way into favor.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit further? Thank you, honey.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: So faith is so important. Bishop, how do I get it?
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Faith coming by hearing. And hearing by the word of God.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. So if I'm going to have faith,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I got to protect what I hear. Okay. So I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: got to shut down all these voices. External and internal. Internal.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: because it creates a belief system that either cancels out
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: my blessing or grows my blessing. If I'm sick in
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: my system, I'm gonna be sick in my substance. That's
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: why when I talk to you like this, I'm talking
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: about how you think Because if I'm sick in my thinking,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be sick in my results. I'm going
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: to self-sabotage everything God has for me because I'm not
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: clear right here. Are you hearing what I'm saying? By faith,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Mm-hmm, yeah.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: And through it his blood yet speaketh. By faith Noah
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: being warned of God of things not yet seen built
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: an ark to the saving of his house. So Noah
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: built a boat with no water. In his backyard willing
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: to look like a fool and wait on the rain
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: to catch up with what he built. Some of you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: are gonna have to build something that looks like a
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: fool and wait on the rain to catch up with you.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Where my innovators at? See, most people are building their
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: future around the past. and how it used to be.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: But people who are innovative build around the future and
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: how it's gonna be. Noah built an ark to the
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: saving of his house. His whole house got saved because
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: he was willing to look like a fool for a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: little while and let the rain catch up with him.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Somebody online, the rain is gonna catch up with you.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Stay right where you are and let them laugh at you.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Let them look at you funny. Let them talk like
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you're a fool. Let them say it doesn't make any sense.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: You bought that property. It don't even make any sense.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: There's nothing around it. There's nothing there right now. But
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: don't worry. The rain's going to catch up with you.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: The rain's going to catch up with you. Am I
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: talking to anybody in here? Am I talking to anybody
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: in here? A woman said to my wife this other day, said,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: who would ever thought that you would end up being
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: where you are? She did. They didn't think I'd end
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: up where I was. But the rain caught up with me.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Young people, let the rain catch up with you. Let
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the rain catch up with you. While other people are
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: acting a fool, build something that don't make no sense
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: and let the rain catch up with you. Let the
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: rain catch up with you. Who am I talking to?
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: If I'm talking to you, make some noise in here.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop in a minute. I'm going to
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: hurry this along. You remember when the woman came down
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: to the well and she says to Jesus, Jesus sitting
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: at the well, you know, he's just chilling. He's chilling out.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: hanging out at the well, being cool, looking fly. And
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: he says, woman, give me the drink. She said, you
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: play it. If you really wanted water, who comes to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: a well with nothing to draw with? All I want
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: is nothing to draw with. If you have faith, if
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: you do not have faith, you have nothing to draw with. See,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the woman was right. Who sits by a well with
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: nothing to draw with? So you come to church But
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: if you don't have faith, Shonda, you don't have nothing
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: to draw with. So you scrolling around on your Instagram
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: right now and you think about what you're gonna cook
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: for dinner and did you cut the stove off and
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: where we gonna go eat when this is over. All
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: of that says you have nothing to draw with. You're
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: sitting by a well. You're sitting in the presence of
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a miracle. You're sitting in your destiny. You're sitting in
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: your future. You're sitting in the thirst quenching power of God.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: But if your mind is somewhere else, you won't get it.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Not because the water's not in the well. You don't
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: have nothing to draw with. How many people in here
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: got something to draw with? Have you ever gone to
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: church that really, really, a service that really, really blessed
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: you and you rode with somebody that didn't pay no
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: attention to it? That means that we can be at
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the same place at the same time, but if you
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: don't have faith, you don't have nothing to draw with.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: So you went home dry, I went home wet. Not
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: because we didn't go to the same church, but I
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: had something to draw with, you didn't have nothing to
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: draw with. Do you not know that your faith controls
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: my message? Do you not know that you can draw
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: the preacher out of me? You can draw the teacher
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: out of me? That certain crowds draw things out of
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: you that other people don't draw out of you? Because
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: when they make a demand on the anointing, the anointing
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: shows up in a greater way. I wish I had
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: a thousand people that would provoke me right now. When
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: you come to church, you ought to say, I'm going
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to draw it out of my man of God. I
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: don't care what he feels like. I don't care what
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: it looks like. I don't care what kind of week
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: he had. I came here with something to draw with,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to leave this well until I
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: get this water that I thirst no more. Somebody say,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: it out. Come on, come on. Draw it out, draw
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw it out,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: draw it. Yeah, I want it. Give it to me.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Draw it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: it out, draw it out. Watch this. Y'all ain't gonna
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: like me for this. You're gonna sit out, so you
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: might as well sit out now. There's another woman in
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: your woman. And if you had something to draw with,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: you could draw it out. If you don't believe it,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: wait till the next guy get her. There's another man
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: in the man you got. And the only reason his
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: ex didn't get it is that she didn't have nothing
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to draw with. And if you come in and you
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: know how to draw it out of him, she won't
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: even recognize him when she sees him again. I wish
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I had some drawers in here. Draw it out. Draw
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: it out. Draw it out. Draw it out. Draw it out.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Draw it out. Draw it out. Treasury people say it's
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  Speaker 1: a faith thing. I'ma prove it. I'ma prove it. I'ma
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  Speaker 1: prove it. I'ma prove it. I'ma prove it. I'ma prove it.
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  Speaker 1: I'ma prove it. Somebody's getting healed right now. Somebody's getting healed.
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  Speaker 1: While somebody's sitting around looking, somebody's being healed. Somebody's getting
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough. While somebody's sitting around playing with their phone,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's getting a breakthrough. While somebody's sitting around looking out
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  Speaker 1: the window, somebody's being delivered. Don't let that somebody be you.
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  Speaker 1: I want the person that's getting something from God to
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  Speaker 1: leap up on your feet and praise God like you
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  Speaker 1: had the wind. Praise God like you just got wet.
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  Speaker 1: Praise God like you just dropped your bucket down into
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  Speaker 1: his promises and pulled up your healing and pulled up
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  Speaker 1: your deliverance and pulled up your breakthrough. Somebody start pulling
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  Speaker 1: it up. I'm going to pull it out of this well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pull it out of this moment. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to pull it out. I don't care if I
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  Speaker 1: look funny. I'm going to pull it out right now.
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  Speaker 1: God's got something for me. And I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: leave this well until I pull it out. I got
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  Speaker 1: something to draw with. Do you understand the words that
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? I said, do you understand the words that
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Do you understand the words that I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand the words that I'm saying? Do you
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  Speaker 1: understand it? Do you understand it? Do you receive it?
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  Speaker 1: Draw it out. Make the devil mad and draw it out.
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  Speaker 1: Make hell nervous and draw it out. Break every yoke
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  Speaker 1: and draw it out. Break generational curses and draw it out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to quote this scripture and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: close right here. That's why I had you stand up.
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  Speaker 1: The word... The Bible says in Hebrews 4, 1. Let
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  Speaker 1: us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of
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  Speaker 1: entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to
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  Speaker 1: come short of it. Let's be scared. Let us have fear.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to verse 1. Let us therefore fear. lest
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  Speaker 1: a promise being left us of entering into his rest,
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  Speaker 1: any should seem to come short of it. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: verse two. For unto us was the gospel preached as
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  Speaker 1: well as unto them. But the word preach did not
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  Speaker 1: profit them. Not being mixed with faith, Your prophet is
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  Speaker 1: tied to your faith. No faith, no prophet. No faith,
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  Speaker 1: no prophet. The word did not profit. As strong as
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  Speaker 1: God's word is, it did not profit them. Not mixed
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  Speaker 1: with faith in them that heard it. There were certain
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  Speaker 1: cities that Jesus could not do miracles in. because they
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to draw with. This morning as I close,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop there. I feel like going into
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  Speaker 1: an outright crazy spanked uranium preaching fit.
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  Speaker 3: There is something that God has for you.
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  Speaker 2: And you're gonna need faith to draw it out.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a dancing thing. It's not a shouting thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a scripture quoting thing. This has come down
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  Speaker 1: to a faith fight. And you got to stand still
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  Speaker 1: and steady yourself and strengthen your backbone and stand up
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  Speaker 1: against the enemy. And this is why you got to
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  Speaker 1: talk to him like this. You got to walk right
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  Speaker 1: up to him and say, though he slay me. Yet
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  Speaker 1: shall I trust him. And you got to walk up
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  Speaker 1: to Mr. Devil and introduce yourself to Mr. Devil and say, Mr. Devil,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the head. I'm the head and not the tail.
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  Speaker 1: I'm above and not beneath. I'm more than a conqueror.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed in my uprising. I'm blessed in my down city.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm blessed in Charleston, I'll be blessed in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: If I go to Chicago, I'll be blessed in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Because the blessing is not on the city. The blessing
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  Speaker 1: is on me. And everywhere my feet draw, God's going
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  Speaker 1: to give it to me. You know why, devil? You
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  Speaker 1: know why, devil? Let me tell you why. You can't
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  Speaker 1: stop me. It's a fake thing. It's a fake thing.
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  Speaker 1: You can have my coat, but you can't have my faith.
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  Speaker 1: You can have my shoes, but you can't have my faith.
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  Speaker 1: You can take my car, but you can't take my faith.
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  Speaker 1: Make some noise in this place. Me and my wife
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: got married. We moved to Elvira Road in Dunbar in
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: a little tiny wood frame, simple two-bedroom house. She said
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  Speaker 1: it was nice. That's love. The kitchen was so small
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  Speaker 1: that if you baked something, you didn't have nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: cut up nothing. It was just like a little cubicle.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't remember how I got it, but I
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit of money. Wasn't a whole lot,
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  Speaker 1: but a little bit. Instead of buying a bigger place
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  Speaker 1: or doing something smart with it, I bought a satellite dish.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that satellite dish, man? You remember how big
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  Speaker 1: it was? It was one of the, back in the
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  Speaker 1: old time, they sat like this, about 12 feet. It
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  Speaker 1: was bigger than the house. It looked absolutely ridiculous. When
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  Speaker 1: it moved, you couldn't even see the house. But I
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  Speaker 1: could get all kind of stations. We didn't have central air,
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  Speaker 1: but we had a dish. We didn't have a dishwasher,
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  Speaker 1: but we had a dish. Here's what's funny to me.
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  Speaker 1: Every station that I picked up was already in the air.
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  Speaker 1: All the dish did was make it possible. Yeah. for
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  Speaker 1: me to receive what was already there. I didn't need
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  Speaker 1: the stations to be created. I needed the dish so
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  Speaker 1: I could draw down what was already there. Whatsoever you're
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  Speaker 1: praying about right now, you already got it. It's already done.
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  Speaker 1: It's already there. It's already available to you. Healing is
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  Speaker 1: a children's prayer. Whatever you need is already there. If
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  Speaker 1: I could get you to have faith, You shall receive
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  Speaker 1: power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to have something to receive it with.
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  Speaker 1: Your faith don't create the power. It just makes it
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  Speaker 1: possible for you to receive the power. Throw your hands up.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to have a receiving week this week.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to receive on a level that will
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  Speaker 1: blow your mind. I want you to start walking in
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  Speaker 1: faith and not in fear and not in doubt and
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  Speaker 1: not in worry and not in frustration. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to receive right now in your spirit, in your spirit,
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  Speaker 1: in your heart right now. You're watching online. The anointing
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: is in this place. I want you to receive it
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  Speaker 1: right now in the name of Jesus. It's a faith thing,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: it's a faith thing. It's a faith thing, it's a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: faith thing. Somebody, the Holy Ghost got you sawing on
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: line right now, because you want to get the faith thing.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: It's a faith thing, it's happening right now. It's a
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: faith thing, it's moving right now. It's faith, it's not
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: going to be about works. It's not going to be ingenuity.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be about trickery and scam, and
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: you think you're so slick, and you're so smart, but
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: that's why you lose all the time, because you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand it's by faith. This is a faith thing. Everybody
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: in here that got faith, make some noise. This is
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: so cool. This is so cool. That if you believe
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: God right now, you could be a drug dealer, a gangbanger,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: be strung out on cocaine, crack, I don't care what
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: it is. You have HIV positive, breast cancer, leukemia, I
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: don't care what it is. You could be a cross-dresser, cross-liver,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call yourself. If you believe God,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: he will set you free. Now wait a minute, people
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: still gonna talk about you. They still gonna say whatever
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: they wanna say, but God will set you free right now.
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  Speaker 1: Heads bowed, eyes closed. If you're in this place and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: you don't know Jesus, If you're in him and you
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: know church but you don't know Jesus. If you're in
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: here and you drifted away and now you see something
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: you never saw before, God is making known unto you
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  Speaker 1: the mysteries that were hidden from the foundations of the world.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: He's showing them to you right now. Now you done
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: come down to this well And you just sat through
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: this service and it boils down to one thing. Do
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: you have something to draw with? There's no question that
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: there's water in the well. But have you got a bucket?
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  Speaker 1: Now is the time for you to get something Now
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  Speaker 1: eyes are closed and heads are bowed and nobody's looking
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  Speaker 1: at you but God. Ain't you thirsty? Aren't you hungry
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  Speaker 1: for more? Don't you wonder what you could pull down
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: in your own backyard if you had a satellite? It
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing wrong with the yard. You don't have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to draw it down with. You don't come to the
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  Speaker 1: altar because you're so much worse than anybody else. All
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: of us got some mess. You come down to the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: altar so that you can have faith in God and
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  Speaker 1: it can be counted unto you as righteousness. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to dismiss you in a minute and I'm scared
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to sit by the well and die
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: of thirst because you didn't get the faith you need
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: To draw down into your life what you need to
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  Speaker 1: find out who you are. And I'm going to give
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: you a chance. Now you can play me. You can
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: play me. And I'm going to let you play me.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Because in a few minutes I'm going to walk off
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: this stage whether you come or not. And so if
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: you're playing this game of being hard to get, you're
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: going to win. The prize is hell. Hell after earth
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: and hell on earth.