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Don't Die in the Nest - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: The nests determines what you mean when you say I
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  Speaker 1: love you versus what I mean when I say I
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  Speaker 1: love you. The nest determines the value you place on work,
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  Speaker 1: on integrity, on keeping your word. All of it is
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  Speaker 1: shaped by the nest you came from. You can take
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  Speaker 1: somebody out of the hood, but the question remains, can
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  Speaker 1: you take the hood out of somebody? He seized? God
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  Speaker 1: bless you, my friends. I am so excited. This is
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  Speaker 1: the message everybody's been talking about. I'm glad to be
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  Speaker 1: able to share it with you our church, with myth
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  Speaker 1: arise by it. I used to teaching too, to create
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  Speaker 1: a metaphor of what is going on in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our lives. I want you to understand. The message
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  Speaker 1: is called don't die in your nest, and I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand quite clearly, it is not death that
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  Speaker 1: I am afraid of, for Jesus has taken the sting
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  Speaker 1: out of death and the victory out of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: It is not death that intimidates me. What scares me
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  Speaker 1: to death is that I would die without living purse.
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  Speaker 1: The message is don't die in your nest. Don't die
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  Speaker 1: where you got started. Take a look at this this
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  Speaker 1: will help you. The eagle is a mic bird. From
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  Speaker 1: tip to tip, its wings spread out span over nine
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  Speaker 1: feet in each direction. It is unlike any other bird
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  Speaker 1: in its ability to see. Its vision is so keen
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  Speaker 1: that it can see even in the dark for miles.
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  Speaker 1: It is a strong bird, uniquely set us out from
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  Speaker 1: other birds. The eagle makes love in the air, but
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  Speaker 1: you better stay on the ground. The male eagle and
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  Speaker 1: the female eagle make love in the air. They wrap
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  Speaker 1: up in each other's wings and they spiral downward thousands
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  Speaker 1: of feet in the air. And as they spiral downward,
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  Speaker 1: they make love in the middle of the air. I
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  Speaker 1: think that God had them to do that so that
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  Speaker 1: the eagle would not cohabitate with chickens. Yes, you'll get
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  Speaker 1: it when you get home. There's a certain height that
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  Speaker 1: you have to be in order to interact with the eagle.
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  Speaker 1: The eagle does not cross breed with just anything that's
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  Speaker 1: got wings. You have to have a certain mindset, a
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  Speaker 1: certain mentality. You have to be framed in a certain
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  Speaker 1: way and have a certain vision, a certain keenness and precision.
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  Speaker 1: To earn the right to make love with an eagle,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be an have to be for the
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  Speaker 1: eagle goes where lesser birds cannot fly, so it can
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  Speaker 1: do what lesser birds cannot do. Part of its uniqueness
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  Speaker 1: is not just in its physiology, but its uniqueness is
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  Speaker 1: entrapped in the way that it trains it's young. Unlike
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  Speaker 1: other birds who make nests, some on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: some birds make nests in trees, species of the eglet
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  Speaker 1: of the of the eagle make their nest in high places,
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  Speaker 1: in mountain peaks, on cliffs, so that the eagle is
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  Speaker 1: born up high to keep to keep the eglet from
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  Speaker 1: having a low mentality. When it first opens its eyes,
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  Speaker 1: it's already in a high place. It's it's it's it's mother,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, has been collecting sticks and branches and
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  Speaker 1: flying high into the mountain peaks and finding a cliff.
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  Speaker 1: It begins to gather the sticks and build a nest,
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  Speaker 1: anticip hating the birth of its jump. This process can
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  Speaker 1: take a long period of time to get the nest ready,
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  Speaker 1: so that when the eagle gives birth, the nest is
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  Speaker 1: already built. I got on the phone and I told him,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I want a nest. They say, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I want a nest. They said, we got
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  Speaker 1: a bad connection. I said, I want you to build
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  Speaker 1: me a nest by Sunday because I got a message
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  Speaker 1: I want to preach. So they have been working all
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  Speaker 1: week to build this nest. The nest is built before
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  Speaker 1: the eggs are hatched. If you're waiting for me to preach,
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  Speaker 1: I'm already preaching. The nest is a collection of branches
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  Speaker 1: from where the mother has been. It is the historical
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  Speaker 1: reference to every place the mother has been. She brings
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  Speaker 1: something to the nest before the eggs are ever laid.
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  Speaker 1: The mother's story is in the sticks the eagles eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get to pick its nest. You pick your friends,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't pick your family. You just come here
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  Speaker 1: with whatever you come here with. You don't get to
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  Speaker 1: pick the personality of the family, whether they are soft
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  Speaker 1: spoken or brawlers. When my wife and I first dated,
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  Speaker 1: my wife's family is real quiet and calm and laid back,
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  Speaker 1: and not mine. Our family is the kind of family
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  Speaker 1: that we talk with our hands. We yell and scream
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  Speaker 1: and laugh and hit each other. When you make a
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  Speaker 1: good point, we make faces and yell and noises. And
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  Speaker 1: when her family came to our family dinner, they were
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  Speaker 1: like they thought it was going to be a fistfight
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of dinner. Because because our family
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  Speaker 1: is expressive like that, now I thought her family was sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I started depending on to see if they was alive.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get to pick that. We are born into it.
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  Speaker 1: We step into it. And everything we learn from our neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: from our friends, from our associations, from our generation, from
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  Speaker 1: our political perspectives all helped to shape up who we are.
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  Speaker 1: And all of these experiences helped build the nests. It
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  Speaker 1: makes us become who we are and think the way
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  Speaker 1: we think, and it frames our perspectives and opinions and
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  Speaker 1: how we react when we are a Greek or fred
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  Speaker 1: or worried. It's all in the nest. Never marry anybody
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  Speaker 1: without checking out the nest the nest. The nest determines
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  Speaker 1: what you mean when you say I love you versus
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  Speaker 1: what I mean when I say I love you. The
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  Speaker 1: nest determines the value you place on work, on integrity,
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  Speaker 1: on keeping your word. All of it is shaped by
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  Speaker 1: the nest you came from. You can take somebody out
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  Speaker 1: of the hood, but the question remains, can you take
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  Speaker 1: the hood out of somebody even education doesn't totally fix it,
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  Speaker 1: because they can be educated and well dressed and even
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  Speaker 1: be well spoken, but if you make them angry, they
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  Speaker 1: will flip out and reacts out of the nests that
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  Speaker 1: build them. Still to come on the Potter's town, the
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  Speaker 1: eagle has stirred. The Lord started speaking to me about
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  Speaker 1: your culture, your perspective, what fared you, what nurished you
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  Speaker 1: at one stage in your life, is too small for
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  Speaker 1: what he wants to do in your life. And oh God,
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  Speaker 1: there there comes a time in your life that the
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  Speaker 1: same God that built the ness that hacks you stirs
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  Speaker 1: the mess. I wanted to illustrate that what starts out
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  Speaker 1: as a blessing can end up becoming a burden. That
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  Speaker 1: you know, people think in such storylines and they think
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  Speaker 1: something is good or bad, right or wrong. But some
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  Speaker 1: things that God uses in one stage of your life
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  Speaker 1: to nurture you, he will take it at another stage
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  Speaker 1: and use it to motivate you and make it uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: for you. It doesn't mean that the nest was bad.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. But now it's a transition period and
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  Speaker 1: people have to understand that so they don't use the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance as an opportunity to become bitter, but rather to
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  Speaker 1: become better. The eagle, when she makes the nest, takes
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  Speaker 1: all of the sticks and lays them in such a way,
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  Speaker 1: almost scientifically. It's brilliant to lay the nest in such
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  Speaker 1: a way that when she gets ready to hatch, none
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  Speaker 1: of the sticks are protruding in the nest. The protrusions
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  Speaker 1: are outside, no protrusions on the inside, so that the
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  Speaker 1: eggs can be hatched in a comfortable place. And when
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  Speaker 1: the time is right and all the branches are in place,
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  Speaker 1: then the eagle comes and she lays her eggs in
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  Speaker 1: the nest. Nice cusseh She comfortable nest after its laid
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  Speaker 1: the eggs and hatched the eggs. The eagles eaglets are
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  Speaker 1: born in a high place, in a comfortable place, in
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  Speaker 1: a protected place, and its whole world is its nest.
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  Speaker 1: This is the world, the combination of the stuff my parents,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, my community, my associations brought into it and
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  Speaker 1: everything else. I see it my vision of the world outside.
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  Speaker 1: I see it through the lens of the nest. I
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  Speaker 1: came from my perceptions of right and wrong, and good
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  Speaker 1: and evil and up and down, and all of it
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  Speaker 1: is affected because I see it all through the nest
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  Speaker 1: I was hatched in. We can see the same world,
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  Speaker 1: but have a different view because we came from a
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  Speaker 1: different nest. Are you hearing what I'm saying? The eaglet
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  Speaker 1: hatches its eggs in the nest, and then the motherflies
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  Speaker 1: and she goes and she brings food into the nest.
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  Speaker 1: So we eat in the nest, We sleep in the nest,
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  Speaker 1: We feed in the nest. We manifest all of our
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  Speaker 1: early development in the nest. And the nest that initially
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  Speaker 1: is a blessing becomes a curse if you stay in
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  Speaker 1: it too long. I see people who venture out from
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  Speaker 1: the nest, maybe from nine to five, but then they
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  Speaker 1: go back to the nest. The reason we have difficulty
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  Speaker 1: reducing the rate of recidivism in the country is when
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  Speaker 1: the inmate allows the prison to become the nest. Then
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  Speaker 1: freedom doesn't feel free anymore, and they will purposefully get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble so that they can go back to the nest.
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  Speaker 1: Because the nest is familiar. People can have a good marriage,
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  Speaker 1: but if they're not used to a good marriage, they
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  Speaker 1: will sabotage it and start a fight because a fight
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  Speaker 1: is familiar. Because they will spond in a nest where
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  Speaker 1: people fight and peace is boring. God said, I will
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  Speaker 1: lead you as the ego stirs her nest. The stirring
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  Speaker 1: of the nest is different from the building of the nest.
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  Speaker 1: The building of the nest is a protection to the eggs.
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  Speaker 1: But when the eagle stirs her nest, it only happens
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  Speaker 1: when the eaglets have grown too big to live in
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  Speaker 1: something so small? Are you too big to live in
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  Speaker 1: something so small? Is it tide in here? It's uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: in here, but I stay in here because it's familiar,
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  Speaker 1: a so comfortable. I don't have to try to be better.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to evolve. They bring the food to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay. I got it. I got a
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  Speaker 1: system that fits the environment I'm in. Even if the
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  Speaker 1: environment I'm in is too small for who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable here, and the same mother who made it
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  Speaker 1: cushy and comfortable and nice and relaxing comes along with
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  Speaker 1: the same beak and start stirring up the so that
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  Speaker 1: the protrusions that were on the outside now start pointing
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  Speaker 1: on the inside to make it uncomfortable, back to make
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  Speaker 1: it uncomfortable both for me to stay in my nest.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody this morning about when
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  Speaker 1: the eagle stirs the nest. Have you ever gone to
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  Speaker 1: a stirring in your life? Until until? What used to
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  Speaker 1: be nice and cushy and normal, and it was okay
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't bother you. But now the eagle has
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  Speaker 1: stirred the nest. And when the eagle stirs the nest,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the protrusions that kept away the
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  Speaker 1: wolf are now pushing the eaglets, so that the eglant,
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  Speaker 1: when it tries to sit where it used to sit,
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  Speaker 1: it can't sit there anymore because the eagle has stirred.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord started speaking to me about your culture, your perspective,
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  Speaker 1: what fared you, what nurished you at one stage in
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  Speaker 1: your life, is too small for what he wants to
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  Speaker 1: do in your life. And oh God, there there comes
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  Speaker 1: a time in your life that the same God that
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  Speaker 1: built the nest, that hacks you, stirs the nests. Now
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  Speaker 1: the eglot is facing eviction when the eagle stirs her
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  Speaker 1: nests the eglid's space, eviction from the comfortable excuses you
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  Speaker 1: used to make for not doing anymore or being anymore,
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  Speaker 1: or growing anymore, or becoming anymore. The eagle now has
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  Speaker 1: stirred the nest, and the eaglet has to move. God
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  Speaker 1: says that if we would judge ourselves, we would have
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  Speaker 1: no need to be judged. If the eglet on its
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  Speaker 1: own would fly out of the nest, then the eagle
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  Speaker 1: would not have to stir the nest. But there are
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  Speaker 1: some eglids who are stubborn, and they won't change, and
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  Speaker 1: they won't grow, and they won't explore, and they won't think,
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  Speaker 1: and they won't become because they have developed a system
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  Speaker 1: of survival that is built around the nest. And for
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  Speaker 1: those eglids, I come to preach this morning. The eglids
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  Speaker 1: who handle money the way Mama handled money, The eglids
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  Speaker 1: who are angry with women because Daddy was angry with women.
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  Speaker 1: The eglids who respond to conflict the way Mama did,
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  Speaker 1: have developed a system of survival that says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do anything more than what I'm doing because
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  Speaker 1: I'm being fed in my nest. Job said, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I would die in my nest. He said it was
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  Speaker 1: so cushy and comfortable. I had my wife, I had
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  Speaker 1: my kids, I had my property, I had my job,
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  Speaker 1: I had a good name, I had it going on.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would die in my nests. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever been in a situation that you thought wouldn't change,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, God comes along and stirs,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, somebody already understands what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: touching neighbor and telling I'm all stirred up. Everything that
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  Speaker 1: used to be okay hitting okay anymore. My perceptions are
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  Speaker 1: not the same anymore. My ideas are not the same anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I was satisfied just to do what I do and
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  Speaker 1: act like the world I came from. But now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, everything is gotten stirred up. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who to trust, I don't know who to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where to go. I'm not satisfied to
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  Speaker 1: live like them live. I want something else. I want
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  Speaker 1: to do something. I want to be something. I want
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  Speaker 1: to become something. I want to reach something. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't know what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: my life. Somebody has been praying God, what is going
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  Speaker 1: on in my life? And the Lord told me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I'm stirring up beyondness. There is no comfortable place,
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  Speaker 1: no comfortable place. Listen, let's take a little time out
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  Speaker 1: from the cause and we'll be back to more in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment. Partners, don't miss come home for Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: our special holiday weekend, and the beautiful Kay Lord, Texan Resort.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do any of the things we do without
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  Speaker 1: your support and prayer, and I don't want you to
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  Speaker 1: step into another year without us be able to pray
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  Speaker 1: over the mandates of the Holy Spirit has put on
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  Speaker 1: your life as well. Registration is absolutely free, but we
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  Speaker 1: do need you to register. Space is limited, so reach
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  Speaker 1: out to us today and I'm looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: you on December seventh through the ninth as we come
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  Speaker 1: home for Christmas celebrate the election.