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GOD IS TRYING TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING—DON’T IGNORE IT - T.D. Jakes Messages and Purpose · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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  Speaker 1: A place where you're neither quite here nor there. God says,
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  Speaker 1: worship me right there in a confusing place, in a
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  Speaker 1: tumultuous place, in a chaotic place. He says, that's where
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  Speaker 1: I want you to pitch your tent and worship me
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  Speaker 1: right there. I'm not going to put my tent in
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  Speaker 1: your promised land. I'm going to put my tent in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of your problems because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: worship me in the wilderness. So we started teaching last Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: are there no graves in Egypt? In other words, the
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  Speaker 1: people were trying to escape slavery. They were leaving Egypt saying,
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  Speaker 1: are there no graves in Egypt? The moment they tried
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  Speaker 1: to break away, now Pharaoh is chasing them. Fear made
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  Speaker 1: them want to go back into Egypt. And to die
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt was no more glamorous than to die in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. Don't we ask God stupid questions? Are there
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  Speaker 1: no graves in Egypt? Why can't we die in Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: Dead is dead. If I'm going to talk to God
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  Speaker 1: about something, I want to talk to God about something.
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  Speaker 1: Can we move past choosing where we die? Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted
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  Speaker 1: their eyes and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. This
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  Speaker 1: is a bunch of people. Don't see this like you
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  Speaker 1: saw the movie. This is 600 chosen chariots. This is,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt is the superpower of the era. The Pharaoh is
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  Speaker 1: known for his power and his authority and his ability.
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  Speaker 1: If he said die, you die. If he said live,
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  Speaker 1: you live. If he said behead her, she was beheaded.
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  Speaker 1: If he has absolute rule, there is no Congress. There
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  Speaker 1: is no legislature. There is no Supreme Court. There is
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  Speaker 1: no defense attorneys. There are no prosecuting attorneys. There is
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  Speaker 1: no recourse. There is no boycott. There is no picketing.
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  Speaker 1: He is absolute. Monarchy in complete control. So they were
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  Speaker 1: afraid and the children of Israel cried out to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord who they had not talked to for 400 years.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just because they're derelict. Faith erodes when
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  Speaker 1: you don't teach your children. These are the children of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: They started out on a solid foundation. But over 400
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  Speaker 1: years of mixing more with the Egyptians than they did
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  Speaker 1: with each other, their faith had deteriorated to the point
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  Speaker 1: their language had deteriorated, their culture had deteriorated, their self-esteem
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  Speaker 1: had deteriorated to the point that they had not had
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  Speaker 1: a relationship with God for 400 years. And God was
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  Speaker 1: intent on bringing them into relationship with him like he
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  Speaker 1: is with you. God is intent on bringing you into
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him then they said to Moses because there
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  Speaker 1: were no graves in Egypt have you taken us away
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  Speaker 1: to die in the wilderness those are my two choices
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  Speaker 1: why have you so dealt with us to bring us
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  Speaker 1: up out of Egypt Is this not the word that
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  Speaker 1: we told you in Egypt saying, let us alone that
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  Speaker 1: we may serve the Egyptians. Leave us alone in our chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Leave us alone in our poverty. Leave us alone in
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  Speaker 1: our shame. Leave us alone in our disgrace. Don't bother me.
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  Speaker 1: I like being corrupt. I like being perverted. I like
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  Speaker 1: being broken leave us alone that's what the world is
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  Speaker 1: saying to the church today leave us alone leave us
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  Speaker 1: alone we like it like this don't raise any opposing
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  Speaker 1: opinion go along with us let us alone that we
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  Speaker 1: may serve the Egyptians leave me in my bondage leave
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  Speaker 1: me committing suicide leave me hating myself leave me slitting
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  Speaker 1: my wrist leave me needing more therapy more and more
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  Speaker 1: therapy taking more and more pills pills to go to
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  Speaker 1: bed pills to get up in the morning pills to
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  Speaker 1: get a smile on my face leave us alone That's
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying to the church right now. Just shut
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  Speaker 1: up and go along with the program. Leave us alone.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say nothing about anything to anybody. Go with the flow.
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  Speaker 1: You got to follow the culture. No, the culture's got
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  Speaker 1: to follow the Christ. For it would have been better
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  Speaker 1: for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should
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  Speaker 1: die in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 1: And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, your emotions are talking. If you let
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  Speaker 1: your emotions talk, it will destroy you. It will kill
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  Speaker 1: your marriage. It will kill your children. It will kill
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  Speaker 1: your promotion. It will kill your advancement. All you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is let your emotions get the mic and
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  Speaker 1: it will tear down everything God is trying to do
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  Speaker 1: in your life. I'm already preaching. I'm just reading the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: He says, do not be afraid. Stand still. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You're too busy. Stand still. You talk too much. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: You got too much opinion. Stand still and see the
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  Speaker 1: salvation of the Lord, which he will accomplish for you today.
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  Speaker 1: For the Egyptians, whom you see today, They're not in
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  Speaker 1: your future. They're in your present, but they're not in
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  Speaker 1: your future. They're in your past, but they're not in
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  Speaker 1: your future. I'm preaching already. I don't know what's in
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  Speaker 1: your present and in your past that God says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to totally annihilate it out of your future. You
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  Speaker 1: shall see again.
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  Speaker 3: No more forever.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will fight for you. And you shall hold
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  Speaker 1: your peace. Stop calling people. Stop finagling. Stop manipulating. Stop
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  Speaker 1: trying to dominate and control everybody. The Lord will fight
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  Speaker 1: for you. And you will study to be quiet. To
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  Speaker 1: shut up. Get your emotions away from the mic and
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  Speaker 1: shut up. Stop screaming. Stop popping your neck. Stop going
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  Speaker 1: off on people. It ain't working. Well, I'm just like you,
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  Speaker 1: my mama. It didn't work for her. I'm just like
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  Speaker 1: my daddy. It didn't work for him. Still faith. Quiet faith.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is not always loud. It's resolute. It's not always rambunctious.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't always sport muscles. It's quiet power. It still arrives.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm going to talk to you today It's
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  Speaker 1: my second deposit on the series Worship in the Wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to look at somebody and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to give them the title. Announce my title to them. Say,
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  Speaker 1: we will not die here. That's our decision. That's our affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: That's our declaration. Tell them again. We will not die here.
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  Speaker 1: Father God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your presence and your glory and your grace. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all things worked after the counsel of
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  Speaker 1: your own will. We thank you that our emotions are
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily our reality. And how we feel about it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make it so. We thank you that as people
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  Speaker 1: of faith, we are learning to walk. in the truth
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  Speaker 1: of your word, and to believe what you said over
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  Speaker 1: how we feel about any particular given moment. We seek
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  Speaker 1: your face. We crave you. We long for you. We
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  Speaker 1: need you like a junkie needs a fix. We need
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  Speaker 1: you like a flower needs a raindrop. We need you
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  Speaker 1: like an ocean needs water. We need you like tear
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  Speaker 1: ducts need salt. Father, in the name of Jesus, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot exist without you as a deer paneth at the
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  Speaker 1: water brook. So pant I unto thee, O God, feed
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  Speaker 1: us until we want no more. I rebuke every spirit
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  Speaker 1: of fear that has plagued us, that's made us restless
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  Speaker 1: and tormented us and kept away our sleep and made
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  Speaker 1: us miserable in our own bodies and made us forget
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  Speaker 1: that we are healthy and made us forget that we
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  Speaker 1: are mobile and made us forget that we had a
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  Speaker 1: roof over our head. Because we're so afraid by the
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  Speaker 1: threatening sound of what could be, what might be, what's
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  Speaker 1: coming up behind us. I rebuke the spirit of death
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  Speaker 1: and suicide and agony and pain and strife. And I
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  Speaker 1: command you to let God's people go. In Jesus' name
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  Speaker 1: we pray. Somebody shout amen. On your way down to
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  Speaker 1: your seat say we will not die here. Now I
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  Speaker 1: want to preface this because I want you to understand
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  Speaker 1: something about God. Can I teach you some things about God?
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  Speaker 1: God is eternal. Eternity transcends time. So we are creatures
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  Speaker 1: of time, hence we have birth dates. Because time determines
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  Speaker 1: our awareness. God is preexistent of time. That's why in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Genesis, it says in the beginning, God. See,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't tell you the beginning of God. Because God
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  Speaker 1: has no beginning. And he has no ending. From everlasting
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  Speaker 1: to everlasting, thou art God. So I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that so that you can understand that time limits
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  Speaker 1: your perspective. I think differently at this age than I
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  Speaker 1: did 10 years ago. I think differently at 50 than
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  Speaker 1: I did at 40. I think differently at 40 than
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  Speaker 1: I did at 20 because time allows me to increase
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  Speaker 1: in experience and ability and understanding. So it's not good
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  Speaker 1: to make permanent decisions with temporary information. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that again for the people in the back. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you are making permanent decisions with With temporary information.
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  Speaker 1: How you feel about it now may not be how
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  Speaker 1: you feel about it in 20 years. Look at the
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  Speaker 1: people who got tattoos. I love you so much I
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  Speaker 1: want to write your name on my chest. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can't stand her. You haven't seen her in five years.
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  Speaker 1: You're dating somebody else, got married to them, and got
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  Speaker 1: a baby. Now you're trying to get somebody to burn
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  Speaker 1: her name. Permanent decisions over temporary situations. When I went
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  Speaker 1: to school, Pluto was a planet. It was nine planets
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  Speaker 1: and Pluto was the last one. Then I picked up
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  Speaker 1: the paper one day, they decided it wasn't a planet.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a planet. We don't know everything. Your doctor
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know everything. Your pastor doesn't know everything. Your mama
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know everything. Your daddy doesn't know everything. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't know. So God has an eternal plan that works
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  Speaker 1: itself out in time. Why am I starting there? Because
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that God is not making
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  Speaker 1: this thing up as he goes. He's not saying, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, Pharaoh's coming. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, I didn't know Pharaoh was going to come.
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  Speaker 1: God knew the end from the beginning. In fact, God
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  Speaker 1: had prophesied to Abram that this was going to happen
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  Speaker 1: before Moses' mama got pregnant. God had already planned their
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  Speaker 1: escape before they ever went into Egypt. He told Abram
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  Speaker 1: that your people are going to sojourn in Egypt for
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  Speaker 1: 400 years and afterwards they're going to come out with
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  Speaker 1: great substance. And Moses wasn't even born yet. Jacob wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even born yet. Joseph wasn't even born yet. God had
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  Speaker 1: the future figured out before the characters ever came on
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  Speaker 1: the stage. And there you are thinking that you are
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  Speaker 1: conspiring with God to plan the future. Your future was
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  Speaker 1: already planned before you got here. It was already set
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  Speaker 1: in motion. And you might be shocked at what happened,
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  Speaker 1: but God is not shocked. what's going on in your
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  Speaker 1: life God already knows everything that's going to happen in
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  Speaker 1: your life and he made a way of escape before
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  Speaker 1: you ever ran into the problem so when God gets
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  Speaker 1: ready to bring you out no devil no witch no
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  Speaker 1: hex no soothsayer no weakness no dumb decision you made
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  Speaker 1: can stop the hand of God so stand still If
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  Speaker 1: God started it, God is going to finish it. And
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  Speaker 1: he's planning, we know for sure he's planning at least
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  Speaker 1: 400 years in advance. At the bare minimum of this text,
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  Speaker 1: we know that God is thinking 400 years ahead. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't even know what you're going to wear to
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  Speaker 1: work tomorrow. The truth of the matter is, because the
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  Speaker 1: book of Revelation says that the Lamb was slain from
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world, God sticks all the way,
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  Speaker 1: millenniums ahead. He is sovereign. Sovereigns. He is absolute. There
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  Speaker 1: is no one above him. He is God all by himself.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I looked for someone to swear by that
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  Speaker 1: was greater than myself and finding no one greater than myself,
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  Speaker 1: I had to swear by myself because ain't nobody better
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  Speaker 1: than me. Ain't nobody better than me. Ain't nobody greater
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  Speaker 1: than me. Ain't nobody stronger than me. Ain't nobody smarter
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  Speaker 1: than me. Your artificial intelligence is just that. Artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: I am absolute intelligence. I am the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise God.
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  Speaker 1: So play with your toys and play with your gadgets
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  Speaker 1: and Ask them all the questions you want, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: the one with the answer. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: have an experience with me. So I determined that Moses
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  Speaker 1: would be born. And I determined that Moses, whose name
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  Speaker 1: means drawn out, would be born a Hebrew, by a
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew slave. And I determined that in spite of Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: who was supposed to be the absolute power, that Moses
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  Speaker 1: would not see death. So he escaped. He beat the odds.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people for just a
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  Speaker 1: second in this room whose mama had a story about
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  Speaker 1: your birth. If your mama had a story about your
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  Speaker 1: birth and you know you were a miracle baby, stand
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  Speaker 1: up on your feet. then you ought to understand the
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  Speaker 1: power of this text. You're looking at a miracle. Your
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  Speaker 1: birth was a miracle. Your start was a miracle. If
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  Speaker 1: you started out, you didn't have no Bible, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have no prayer life, you didn't speak in tongues, and
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  Speaker 1: yet God let you be here today. If God protected
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  Speaker 1: you before you had a mouth, how much more ought
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  Speaker 1: God to be able to protect you right now? Who
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  Speaker 1: am I talking to? I want to see some miracle babies.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some babies that escaped free of death.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some babies that should have been
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  Speaker 1: a stillborn. I want to see some babies that the
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  Speaker 1: doctors were shocked that you made it. But when God
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  Speaker 1: wills you to be into existence, you are here. You
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  Speaker 1: ought to shout the place down. You are here. You
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  Speaker 1: are here. Whether you got a car or not, whether
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  Speaker 1: you got a house or not, whether you got a
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend or not, whether you got a wife or not,
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  Speaker 1: whether your kids like you or not, your breath is
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  Speaker 1: a miracle. Let me stop. It's too early for me
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  Speaker 1: to go off. I feel like going off right there.
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  Speaker 1: All the miracle babies touch somebody and say, don't make
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  Speaker 1: me go off. I'm a miracle baby. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: get a t-shirt and wear it and say, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: miracle baby. I don't care if you're 103 years old.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to wear the t-shirt and say, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: miracle baby. I'm a miracle. My life started as a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: I got here by a miracle. God willed me to
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  Speaker 1: be here. So ain't no need of you rolling your
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  Speaker 1: eyes and hating me because you're rolling your eyes ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to make me go back. If I came through
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  Speaker 1: and survived all of that, ain't no way you can
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  Speaker 1: kill me with a tweet. The devil is alive. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a miracle baby. Moses was a miracle baby. I got
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  Speaker 1: to hear it. Moses was a miracle baby because God
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  Speaker 1: purposed him to be. He purposed him to be. He
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  Speaker 1: purposed him to be born in the house that he
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  Speaker 1: was born in, to the mother he was born to,
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  Speaker 1: at the time he was born, in the situation he
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  Speaker 1: was born, in the middle of chaos and confusion. God
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  Speaker 1: purposed his mother to hide him for three months in
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  Speaker 1: a tent. a slave woman a little raggedy hut how
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  Speaker 1: do you hide a baby in a hut from a
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  Speaker 1: trained experienced soldier but when God gets ready to hide
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  Speaker 1: you he'll hide you he'll hide your greatness he'll hide
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  Speaker 1: your anointing he'll hide your gift he'll hide your talent
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  Speaker 1: sometimes God didn't mean for you to be exposed he
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean for you to get the job he didn't
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  Speaker 1: mean for them to recognize you had they recognized you
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  Speaker 1: they would have killed you so stop crying about who
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  Speaker 1: didn't recognize your gift God hid your gift to protect
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  Speaker 1: you So God puts him in the ark and lets
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  Speaker 1: him float down the Nile. You know the story. And
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  Speaker 1: he lands in the arms of Pharaoh's daughter. And he's
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  Speaker 1: raised in the house of his enemies. Because for what
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  Speaker 1: God is going to do in his life, he cannot
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  Speaker 1: think like a slave. You see the liberation of the Hebrews,
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  Speaker 1: they went in a family, but they came out a nation.
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  Speaker 1: So Moses is designed to lead a nation. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are called to lead a nation, you have to
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  Speaker 1: hang around with people who lead nations. Because you can't
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  Speaker 1: think like somebody who's running a fast food restaurant and
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  Speaker 1: run a nation. So Moses got to be in the
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  Speaker 1: room with national thought. With leadership skills. Where decisions were made,
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  Speaker 1: not obeyed, made. He was born and obeyed. He was
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  Speaker 1: raised and made. There are little clues that happen in
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  Speaker 1: your life, all your life, that give you glimpses of
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  Speaker 1: where you are to be in life. Because God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make it up as he goes. He planned it from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. So he's already making deposits on your destiny
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  Speaker 1: while you're trying to figure out who you are and
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  Speaker 1: where you are. This is a fight between nations. Like
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  Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. It's a fight between nations. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just a fight between slaves and masters. It's a fight
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  Speaker 1: between nations. The Hebrews left Egypt as a nation. And
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh was intimidated by them because they were a nation.
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  Speaker 1: But they thought like slaves. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: So when we start talking about this text today, God
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  Speaker 1: has spared no expense in their liberation. I want this
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  Speaker 1: to sink in. Now I'm getting into where I want
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  Speaker 1: to be. God has spared no expense on their liberation.
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't use nuclear war he doesn't use the techniques
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  Speaker 1: of our times but he uses unique devices to cause
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  Speaker 1: them to prevail first he says to Moses go down
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  Speaker 1: there and tell Pharaoh That I said let my people go.
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  Speaker 1: But before you go tell him. Practice in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh. I don't have time. I can't do this Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do this. My mother used to walk up
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  Speaker 1: on me in the basement of my house. Preaching. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: nobody down there. I just wonder, you can't tell me
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  Speaker 1: that the God I serve... And she'd come down the
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  Speaker 1: stairs and look at me like, who you talking to? Nothing, mama.
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  Speaker 1: God's got somebody practicing for what you're going to do
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  Speaker 1: in life. Don't hate rehearsal. And love performance. Because performance
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  Speaker 1: without rehearsal will always lead to failure. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? So Moses is out in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness practicing his stuff before nobody. Nobody's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Moses is in the middle of the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's looking at him. Nobody's clapping for him. Nothing. He's
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  Speaker 1: just sticking his hand in his clothes and coming out
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  Speaker 1: with leprosy. He's taking it back in. It's coming out whole.
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  Speaker 1: Pouring out water. It's turning into blood. And he's just
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  Speaker 1: going through his stuff. Throwing down his rod. It turns
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  Speaker 1: into a snake. Doing stupid stuff. Makes no sense because
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  Speaker 1: Moses is in time. And when you're looking at your
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  Speaker 1: situation in time, it makes no sense. But from eternity,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like rehearsal. It looks like preparatory school. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like I'm getting ready to do something amazing in
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  Speaker 1: your life. And I want you to have the confidence
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  Speaker 1: in your craft so that I can bring you before
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  Speaker 1: great men and you won't faint on the stage. So
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  Speaker 1: act one, Moses goes down there with Aaron who he
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  Speaker 1: didn't need, but he thought he needed because you can
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  Speaker 1: be great and still be insecure. God, I'm preaching so
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  Speaker 1: good this morning. You can be great and still be insecure.
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  Speaker 1: You can be strong and mighty and still doubt yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can perform miracles and still stutter. And sometimes people
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  Speaker 1: see your greatness, but they don't see your stutter. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that God is not just a God of
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  Speaker 1: my greatness, but also the God of my weakness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He's not just a God of my victory. He's a
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  Speaker 1: God of my failure. He's not just a God of
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  Speaker 1: my mountain. He's a God of my valley. And I
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  Speaker 1: can be just as honest with him when my stick
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  Speaker 1: turns into a snake as I can when my speaking
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  Speaker 1: turns into a stutter. I can bring both things before
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  Speaker 1: him at the same time because one does not contradict
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  Speaker 1: the other. All things are open before him with whom
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  Speaker 1: we have to do. All things. And just because you
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  Speaker 1: stutter doesn't mean God won't use you. And just because
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  Speaker 1: you made a mistake doesn't mean God doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: plan for your life. And just because you're going through
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  Speaker 1: a bad time right now doesn't mean that you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a great ending. And just because you went backwards
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  Speaker 1: don't mean you won't go forward. And just because you're
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  Speaker 1: in a down setting moment doesn't mean you're not about
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  Speaker 1: to stand up on your feet like you never stood
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  Speaker 1: in your life before. I'm talking to somebody and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who it is. And if you're watching online
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  Speaker 1: and you know somebody who needs to hear this, text
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  Speaker 1: them right quick and tell them to log on right
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  Speaker 1: now because God has given me a message that they
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford to miss. You're frustrated because you're not getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: This is practice. We don't pay you for practice. We
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  Speaker 1: pay you for a performance. That's where practice pays off
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  Speaker 1: is in the moment of performance. So don't despise the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: day of small beginnings. I preached in the woods. I
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  Speaker 1: preached in the shower. I preached in the basement. I
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  Speaker 1: preached to animals. I preached to crickets. I preached to
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  Speaker 1: roaches before God gave me people. Don't despise the day
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  Speaker 1: of small beginning. You don't get paid in the practice.
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  Speaker 1: You get paid for the performance. My first business deal
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  Speaker 1: was to take walnut hulls and boil them and turn
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  Speaker 1: it into dye and sell it in mason jars for
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  Speaker 1: a quarter. I was eight. I know they didn't need
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  Speaker 1: that purple dye. They just bought it because it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: And then mama grew greens in the garden. I sold
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  Speaker 1: them in brown paper bags for a dollar, from a
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  Speaker 1: quarter to a dollar, and gave a receipt. And I
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  Speaker 1: gave a receipt. They were talking about me and my
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  Speaker 1: brother's civics class. Because an eight-year-old was doing business. Whatever's
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  Speaker 1: in you, God, lets you practice. That's why you got
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  Speaker 1: to watch your kids. Because their prophecies and their habits
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  Speaker 1: and their details and the little stuff they do and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the little things that sometimes get on your nerves, they're
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  Speaker 1: little glimpses of what's going to be in their life.
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  Speaker 1: You don't become Michael Irvin when you join the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: You become Michael Irvin when you're backed up in the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina somewhere where nobody knows your name and nobody cares
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  Speaker 1: about your name and nobody's thinking about you. It is
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  Speaker 1: not about what they think about your name. It is
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  Speaker 1: about your diligence and going after what God has for you.
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  Speaker 1: I got to move on. And so he says, go
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  Speaker 1: down and tell Pharaoh. I said, let my people go. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Moses has the power to walk into Pharaoh's house because
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  Speaker 1: he was raised in Pharaoh's house. So he walks up
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  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh's house and says, God said, let my people go.
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  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh thinks he's a god. Because in his life,
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  Speaker 1: he is a god. He serves a god, a deity.
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  Speaker 1: But he has so much power, he's drunk off of himself.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not careful, success will make you drunk off
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  Speaker 1: of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody can tell you that you're not a God
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  Speaker 1: and nobody can tell the king that he has no
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  Speaker 1: clothes because if everybody you surround yourself with is on
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  Speaker 1: your payroll, you can't be sure you're getting the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who that's for, but it's for somebody.
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  Speaker 1: So let me show you the scripture right quick because
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I got to make some ground. Are y'all enjoying this?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to Exodus 7, 8 through 12. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to see what happened in the palace. And
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  Speaker 1: the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you,
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  Speaker 1: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, That's when you're going
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  Speaker 1: to find out why you've been practicing out in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: When I put you on stage, that's when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to activate the things you've been rehearsing. Take thy rod
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  Speaker 1: and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
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  Speaker 1: And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh and they
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  Speaker 1: did so as the Lord had commanded. And Aaron cast
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  Speaker 1: down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and
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  Speaker 1: it became a serpent. Pay attention to that. The rod
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  Speaker 1: became a serpent. That's going to have power all through
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. The rod became a serpent. This is not
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  Speaker 1: just a moment. This is a glimpse. Then Pharaoh also
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  Speaker 1: called the wise men and the sorcerers. Pharaoh said, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't nothing. I can do that too. So he called
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  Speaker 1: his wise men, his magicians, his sorcerers, and now the
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  Speaker 1: magicians of Egypt. They also did in like manner with
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  Speaker 1: their enchantments. That's why you got to be careful of
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  Speaker 1: Christians who follow miracles. Because Satan does tricks too. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: in here's mama's name is Helen. Somebody in here, you
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  Speaker 1: dropped out of school in the seventh grade. You got
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to be careful about following people over this fanatical kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. You got to be rooted on a solid foundation,
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  Speaker 1: on the word of God, on the truth, on the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of God, on the presence of God, and not
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  Speaker 1: on what you see with your eye. Because Pharaoh said
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  Speaker 1: that ain't nothing. Them tricks you've been practicing, we do
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  Speaker 1: that too. So Pharaoh called for his magicians and they
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  Speaker 1: cast down every man his rod and they became serpents.
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  Speaker 1: But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. Do you hear that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear that? They had more serpents. Aaron only
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  Speaker 1: had one rod that became a serpent, but it was
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  Speaker 1: stronger than all of the serpents put together and it
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  Speaker 1: ate up his rods. And look at this. I want
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  Speaker 1: to spend a minute talking about sticks and snakes. Sticks
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  Speaker 1: and snakes, sticks and snakes. This is powerful. We often
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  Speaker 1: overlook the relationship between the stick and the snake. The
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  Speaker 1: stick became a snake. It was a stick in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: but when he cast it down, it became a snake.
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  Speaker 1: Sticks and snakes. was on his way to Rome, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible said that while he was gathering sticks, that a
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  Speaker 1: snake came out. There's something down between the stick and
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  Speaker 1: the snake, the stick and the snake, the stick and
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  Speaker 1: the snake, the stick and the snake. Thy rod comforteth me.
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  Speaker 1: Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. There's something
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  Speaker 1: between the stick and the snake that makes no accident
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  Speaker 1: that the snake was a stick. And the one that
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  Speaker 1: was a stick and became a snake devoured all the
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  Speaker 1: snakes of the magicians. This is Calvary. You don't see
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  Speaker 1: it yet. The Bible says. that Christ carried a cross
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  Speaker 1: up the hill. That's the sticks. And he carries it
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  Speaker 1: up the hill, that's the stick. But when he got
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  Speaker 1: on the stick, he became a snake for us. The Bible,
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  Speaker 1: let me put it in biblical language, he became sin
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  Speaker 1: who knew no sin, that we might be the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: of God. And by him becoming that, when he lifted up,
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  Speaker 1: he said, if I be lifted up from the earth,
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  Speaker 1: if you... If you cast me out, I'll turn into
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  Speaker 1: the cure for the venom that bit you in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. So it was snake to snake. And Satan said,
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  Speaker 1: I hexed, I cast spell, I sent curses. But when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus went to the cross, the Bible said he bore
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  Speaker 1: every curse. That was ever against us. Every hex. Every
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  Speaker 1: spell that was ever against us. That was that one
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  Speaker 1: snake eating up all them other snakes. He devoured every
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  Speaker 1: last one of them. This is the first glimpse that
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  Speaker 1: we see. Between the stick and the snake. Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: have died on the whipping post. But it wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: exemplified the stick and the snake. They could have beat
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  Speaker 1: him to death. They could have thrust him through with
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  Speaker 1: a sword. But in order to fulfill the draw and out.
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  Speaker 1: That Moses was going to do. And to establish the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament church. There had to be an association between
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  Speaker 1: the stick and the snake. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't just die as the lamb of God. He
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  Speaker 1: became sin for us. He became the cure from the
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  Speaker 1: venom of sin that the first man, Adam, partook of.
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  Speaker 1: He is the stick that became a snake. He became
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  Speaker 1: sin for us that we might be the righteousness of God.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't care who hex you. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who got a piece of your hair I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who worked roots on you I don't care what they
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  Speaker 1: said about you no weapon formed against you shall be
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  Speaker 1: able to prosper because God said I'll eat it up
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat up what they said about you I'll eat
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  Speaker 1: up what they did to you. I'll eat up the
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  Speaker 1: spell they cast on your mama. I'll eat up every
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  Speaker 1: generational curse. You're going to be the first one of
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  Speaker 1: your generation that's going to break the curse. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to eat it up. It got your mama.
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  Speaker 1: It got your auntie. It got your uncle. It got
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  Speaker 1: your grandfather. It got your great uncle, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to get you. Everybody who's breaking a generational curse,
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  Speaker 1: give him 30 seconds of crazy. You're watching on TV,
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  Speaker 1: type it on the line. Eat it up, Jesus. Eat
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  Speaker 1: it up, Jesus. Eat it up, Jesus. They menace for evil,
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  Speaker 1: but eat it up, Jesus. Eat it up, eat it up,
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  Speaker 1: eat it up, eat it up. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One snake ate up all the snakes of all the
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  Speaker 3: magicians and all the curses and all the spells.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get off it, but slap the name
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  Speaker 1: and say one. You only need one, just one, just one,
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  Speaker 1: just one, just one, just one, just one. If you
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  Speaker 1: got one rod, it's more than all the rods that
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  Speaker 1: have been beating you down. If you got one snake,
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  Speaker 1: it'll eat up every snake that came up against you.
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  Speaker 1: If you got one praise, it'll break a yoke that
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  Speaker 1: come against your life. That's why the Bible said, bring
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  Speaker 1: you all the tithes and offerings into the storehouse that
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  Speaker 1: there might be meat in my house. And prove me
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  Speaker 1: now herewith, if I will not open up the windows
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  Speaker 1: or the floodgates of heaven and pull you out. Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: One blessing. You won't have room enough to receive. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one thing that's going to
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  Speaker 1: fix everything that messed up anything that was happening in
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  Speaker 1: your life. You only need one thing. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: thing have I desired of the Lord. That will I
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  Speaker 1: seek out. You better get up off me. I feel
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  Speaker 1: something on me. I feel something on me. You better
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  Speaker 1: get up. You've been asking for too much stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: just need one thing. You just need to be one
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  Speaker 1: with God. You need to be one in his presence,
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  Speaker 1: one in his glory. Put away your list of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: At about 22, I won't dance. And when I'm 31,
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  Speaker 1: I won't dance. And I want to buy my home
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  Speaker 1: when I'm 70. Shut up! Seek ye first the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God and his righteousness and all these things. stop
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  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I don't need but one thing
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  Speaker 1: I love you but I don't have to have you
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  Speaker 1: I like you but I don't have to have you
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be impressed I want you to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate me but if I never win your appreciation I
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  Speaker 1: only gotta have one thing God said I'm gonna show
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  Speaker 1: you who's God I'm gonna show you who's boss. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna show you who's in charge. I'm gonna use stuff
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  Speaker 1: that you ain't got. I'm gonna whip you without a chariot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat you without a horse. I won't even
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  Speaker 1: use a sword to take you down. I'm gonna kill
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  Speaker 1: you with locusts. God said, I'll use stuff that's not
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  Speaker 1: under your regime and not in your power. I'll turn
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  Speaker 1: your water into blood. God said, I'll release frogs. I'll
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  Speaker 1: send frogs up out of the rivers of Egypt until
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  Speaker 1: you can't see the ground for the frog. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll send lice after you. I'll send the livestock. We'll
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  Speaker 1: all get sick. boils all over your body I'll send
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  Speaker 1: hell down on top of you I'll send locusts and
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  Speaker 1: darkness and the killing of the firstborn I'll kill every
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  Speaker 1: baby coming out of your womb until you turn me
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  Speaker 1: when God gets ready to bring you out he'll send
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  Speaker 1: stuff you thought couldn't be done to get you out
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  Speaker 1: of the body look at how much God paid for
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  Speaker 1: To get you out of what some of your kinfolks
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  Speaker 1: are still into. But God reached down and snapped you out.
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  Speaker 1: And to God be the glory for the things he
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  Speaker 1: has done. He brought you from a mighty long way.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you sit there with your lips glued together
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  Speaker 1: and act like you can't praise God. Girl, you know
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  Speaker 1: you wasn't born like this. God just brought you out.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's dangerous to be an enemy against somebody
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  Speaker 1: that God wants to use. It's not that they're dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: God is dangerous. God don't take no mess. God will
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  Speaker 1: kill you with stuff that they ain't got no name for.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be in the hospital and they'll say, we can't
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  Speaker 1: figure out what's wrong with you. We did an MRI.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: We did an EKG. We did an x-ray. We don't
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: have no kind of machine to determine why you died.
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  Speaker 1: You'll just be dying. God said, touch not mine anointing.
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  Speaker 1: Do my prophets know a heart? When I sent a man,
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  Speaker 1: shut up. You might not agree with him, but shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh in all of his might had no response to
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  Speaker 1: fight lice. He knew how to fight armies, but not boils.
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  Speaker 1: He knew how to fight people, but not locusts. God
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  Speaker 1: will hit you where your weapons don't work. All of
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  Speaker 1: this to let my people go. Can I take you deeper?
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  Speaker 1: Now this is what I want you to get. Sit down.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I want you to get. This is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: what I want you to get. My God, I feel
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost in you. Glory to God. Glory to God.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: It's not good for me to preach with a mic
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: because it pushes me. When I get a mic in
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  Speaker 1: my hand, I go, you know, I'm trying to be professorial.
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  Speaker 1: And this mic, it messes me up. Make me think
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a storefront somewhere. Next thing you know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be running down the aisle, walking across pews, leaping up
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  Speaker 1: and down in the air, talking in tongues, shaking devils
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  Speaker 1: and rebuking witches and cashing out... Because I always keep
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  Speaker 1: my stuff with me. I'm always packing. I'm never by myself.
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  Speaker 1: I always got just a little extra in case you
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  Speaker 1: come at me at the very queen. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to call nobody to pray for me. I got enough
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  Speaker 1: power inside of myself. Don't get it twisted. I was
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  Speaker 1: preaching when you got here. Ain't no such thing as
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  Speaker 1: a bad crowd if you got a real anointing. I'll
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  Speaker 1: flip this place over in the floor if God be
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  Speaker 1: for you. Who am I preaching to today? Now, I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: got to get you where God wants me to get you.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. I don't know who it is, but something
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  Speaker 1: just broke in your life. And you can't hardly hold
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: your peace. Because you just got a breakthrough. And hell
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: can't do nothing about it. Have you got anything to
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: thank him for? Have you got anything to thank him for?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Then do it right now. Don't just watch them. Thank you!
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, sir!
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir!
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful! I'm grateful!
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful!
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I'm grateful!
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  Speaker 2: Thank you!
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you! You're Lord of the breakthrough. Of the breakthrough.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: You're Lord of the breakthrough. You're Lord of the breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: So Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, I wanted you to get that
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  Speaker 1: anointing out of you so you could think. Because there
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: is a glory that gets so high you can't think.
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  Speaker 1: When the glory is real, how the priest came minister.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said when the glory fell on Solomon's temple,
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  Speaker 1: the priest lay prostrate in the floor. Because there is
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  Speaker 1: a glory that gets you so intoxicated, you got to
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  Speaker 1: get that out. Look at the difference there. I had
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  Speaker 1: to get that out. What's this? Moses is leading them
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  Speaker 1: forward almost against their will. Because while he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get them out from under Pharaoh, when they heard Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: army coming up behind them their emotions took over their
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  Speaker 1: intelligence have you ever had your emotions take over your
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  Speaker 1: intelligence so out of their emotions affecting their intelligence their
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  Speaker 1: reasoning is so flawed that they start arguing over where
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  Speaker 1: they're going to die Were there no graves in Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: Why did you bring us into the wilderness to die?
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  Speaker 1: This whole conversation is stupid. It's like saying, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to die in the bedroom. I want to die
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  Speaker 1: in the living room. Why did you bring me in
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  Speaker 1: the living room? I wanted to die in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: Dead don't make no difference. It doesn't make any difference
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  Speaker 1: at all. You don't get in the presence of God
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  Speaker 1: and talk stupid. God is intelligent. Moses immediately, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: say nothing about being afraid. They just gave a stupid
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  Speaker 1: conversation and Moses said, be not afraid. Do we attack
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  Speaker 1: people that we ought to discern?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Are we so focused on what they say that we
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  Speaker 1: don't think about why they said it? Moses doesn't wrestle
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  Speaker 1: with the what because the what was ignorant. He goes
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  Speaker 1: right to the why. He says, don't be afraid. See,
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  Speaker 1: they're dealing with somebody they had seen commit atrocities, buried
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  Speaker 1: people alive, split them in two. Of course they were scared.
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  Speaker 1: They had not seen God's hand for 400 years. He
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  Speaker 1: had worked around them. But he had not worked in them.
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  Speaker 1: He said let my people go. That they may worship me.
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  Speaker 1: In the wilderness. So the word we call tabernacle. In
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew is. It is a tent of meeting. God
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  Speaker 1: said I'm taking them on a date so they can
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  Speaker 1: find out who their husband is everything else I did
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  Speaker 1: for them the locusts the lice the boils the water
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  Speaker 1: turning into blood the afflictions attacking the animals all the
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  Speaker 1: ten of the plagues I did for them but having
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  Speaker 1: God doing things for you It's different from having God
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  Speaker 1: doing things in you. Now, here's where you're at. They
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  Speaker 1: have come down to the Red Sea and they think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to die. And Moses says, shut up. I'm paraphrasing.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up. I like shut up. I was raised off
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  Speaker 1: of shut up. My mother did not negotiate. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as you finish talking, I would like to interject a thought.
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  Speaker 1: Shut your mouth. You sound stupid. And you know what
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  Speaker 1: I did? So what Moses is saying to them is
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  Speaker 1: shut up. See, we don't have the kind of faith
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  Speaker 1: today that can take an insult.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: You will leave the church because somebody sat in your chair.
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  Speaker 1: You can't take a good shut up. That's why Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: keeps eating you up. Because until you can endure correction,
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  Speaker 1: you're not a son. I don't care what your DNA says.
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  Speaker 1: He says, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: For the Egyptians that you see today. you shall see
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  Speaker 1: them no more he didn't say they wouldn't have to
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  Speaker 1: fight again they had to fight all kinds of people
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of people but what you're worried about you
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna never see them no more So settle this
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  Speaker 1: in your mind. I will not say this in a
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  Speaker 1: provocative way because it is too profound to be provocative
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  Speaker 1: and because I want both your spirit and your soul
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  Speaker 1: to hear this. Settle this in your mind. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of the footprints that you hear through your senses coming
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  Speaker 1: up behind you and the snorting of the horse's hot
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  Speaker 1: breath and the images that have been in your head
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  Speaker 1: for 400 years of what Pharaoh can do to you
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  Speaker 1: And now he is after you. It's like the image
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  Speaker 1: I had when I went down to the power company
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  Speaker 1: years ago and asked them to keep the power on.
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  Speaker 1: And the woman said she was going to cut it
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  Speaker 1: off anyway. And I walked out of Appalachian Power Company
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  Speaker 1: crying walking down the street because I saw an image
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  Speaker 1: of me pushing a go-kart. And me and my wife
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  Speaker 1: and my two kids was going to be homeless. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's an image you're fighting. I was crying and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't stop. I was crying over an image. David
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  Speaker 1: said yea though I walked through the valley of the.
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  Speaker 1: There are death has shadows. Anybody understand what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody ever been up all night over an image? It
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even happened yet, but it's an image. Anybody in
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  Speaker 1: the Elijah running from a threat from a Jezebel that
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  Speaker 1: you ain't even seen who said you would be dead
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  Speaker 1: in 24 hours and the 24 hours has elapsed and
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  Speaker 1: you still running? Anybody still running from a ghost? Something
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  Speaker 1: somebody said about you in the first grade? Something your
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  Speaker 1: stepmother told you? Something somebody said about you? Something your
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  Speaker 1: big sister said about you? You still running from it?
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  Speaker 1: This is why I want to speak to your spirit
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  Speaker 1: and to your soul. And this is why you're logged
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  Speaker 1: on to this broadcast right now. This is why you
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  Speaker 1: cannot move. Because the Holy Ghost said, you will not move.