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Purpose Isn't Petty - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: We're going to the sixth chapter of the book of Joshua,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 20 through verse 25, and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: reading it out of the NIV, and you follow along
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  Speaker 1: with us as we go into the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. I'll give you a minute to find it.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes up. Ah! Ah! I hope you feel good tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. I'm feeling good tonight. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I walked in here and didn't have to roll. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I came in here and nobody had to carry me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling good tonight. Thank you, Jesus. I'm standing on
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  Speaker 1: both my feet tonight. I'm feeling good tonight. I can
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  Speaker 1: see you. I can hear you. I can feel you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed tonight. Glory to God. See, you don't call
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  Speaker 1: that a blessing until something compromises it, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: on your knees praying, oh God, if you just give
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  Speaker 1: me my sight back. But while you got it, you
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  Speaker 1: ought to give God the praise for what you've got
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  Speaker 1: right now. Oh, bless his high name. We are in
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  Speaker 1: the sixth chapter of the book of Joshua, standing on
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  Speaker 1: the precipice of a revolution. We are standing right on
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  Speaker 1: the apex of an invasion where the people of God
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  Speaker 1: are getting ready to invade and take over territory. Look
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  Speaker 1: at your neighbor and say, I'm getting ready to take
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  Speaker 1: over territory. Glory to God. I'm not just going to occupy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take over territory. I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: go into expansion. I'm getting ready to go into increase.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to take over territory. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: Can y'all handle that? Let's start at the 20th verse
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  Speaker 1: and see what thus saith the Lord. When the trumpets sounded,
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  Speaker 1: the army shouted. Listen at that closely. When the trumpets sounded, sounded,
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  Speaker 1: the army shouted. Never heard of a shouting army before.
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  Speaker 1: Normally when you got troops, they fight. But when the
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  Speaker 1: trumpet sounded, the army shouted. And at the sound of
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the
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  Speaker 1: wall collapsed. Glory to God. I wonder what's going to
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  Speaker 1: collapse tonight. My God, something is getting ready to collapse tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You might need a hard hat on tonight because something
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  Speaker 1: is getting ready to collapse. Your faith is going to
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  Speaker 1: do some demolition, some deconstruction, some disruption is getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to go on. Walls are coming down. Look at your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, walls are coming down. If you're watching online,
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  Speaker 1: type it on the line. Walls are coming down. Walls
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  Speaker 1: are collapsing. They're giving way. Things that have been standing
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  Speaker 1: for decades and centuries are collapsing now in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. They are coming down in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. So everyone charged straight in and they took
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  Speaker 1: the city. They didn't give it to them. They took it.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. They devoted the city to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it.
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  Speaker 1: Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, and donkeys,
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  Speaker 1: they destroyed every bit of it. Joshua said to the
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  Speaker 1: two men who had spied out the land, go into
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  Speaker 1: the prostitute's house and bring her out. Now, the last
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  Speaker 1: time I saw them bring out a woman of ill
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  Speaker 1: repute in the Bible, they were going to stone her.
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  Speaker 1: But not here. Go into the prostitute's house and bring
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  Speaker 1: her out and all who belong to her in accordance
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  Speaker 1: with your oath to her. Ah, this is unusual in
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Bible that God has, the Holy Bible is
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  Speaker 1: talking about a hooker. So the young men who had
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  Speaker 1: done the spying went in. They were young men. See,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. They were young men. So they
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  Speaker 1: weren't old men. I ain't gonna bother with that. The
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  Speaker 1: young men who had gone, who had done the spying,
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  Speaker 1: went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother,
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  Speaker 1: her brothers and sisters, and all women. who belonged to her.
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  Speaker 1: They bought out her entire family and put them in
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  Speaker 1: a place outside the camp of Israel. Then they burned
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  Speaker 1: the whole city and everything in it, but they put
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  Speaker 1: the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and
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  Speaker 1: iron into the treasury of the Lord's house. Good God
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  Speaker 1: have mercy. That's a transfer You didn't hear me. That's
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  Speaker 1: a transfer. The entire wealth of Jericho is transferred to
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  Speaker 1: the treasury of the house of the Lord. But Joshua
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  Speaker 1: spared Rahab the prostitute. Why y'all keep telling a business
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  Speaker 1: like that? Just be quiet. Just call her Rahab. No, no.
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  Speaker 1: They tell her occupation, her profession. So that we can
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  Speaker 1: understand clearly the oxymoron of this text, the power of
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  Speaker 1: this text, the flamboyant grace of this text, God's mercy
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  Speaker 1: in this text. That of everybody in the city, not
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  Speaker 1: even a goat escaped. not a pigeon, not a turtle
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  Speaker 1: dove escape, but of all the people in the entire city. Rahab,
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  Speaker 1: the prostitute, with her family and all who belong to
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  Speaker 1: her because, because she hid the men. Joshua had sent
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  Speaker 1: as spies to Jericho because she did God a favor.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you did God a favor?
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  Speaker 1: I just believe tonight that if you do God a favor,
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  Speaker 1: God would do you a favor. And he sent, Joshua
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  Speaker 1: had sent the spies to Jericho and she lives amongst
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites to this day. Now, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about purpose isn't petty. Purpose isn't petty. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: a warning. All the petty people need to leave. This
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be a good night for you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, before you get your
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  Speaker 1: feelings hurt, all petty people go to the exit door
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  Speaker 1: and leave now because purpose isn't petty. Spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: living God fall fresh on us. as we endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: unveil the integrity of the text and to put it
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  Speaker 1: in context and to extrapolate from the context of the
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  Speaker 1: text truth and morsels of bread that are relevant to
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  Speaker 1: our contemporary society. Take the logos and turn it into
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  Speaker 1: rhema and let it be cut to the continuity tailor-made
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  Speaker 1: to what I'm going through right now that I might
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  Speaker 1: hear the word of the Lord. I thank you in
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  Speaker 1: advance for what you're going to do. Have your way
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  Speaker 1: in this place in the name of Jesus with a
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  Speaker 1: loud voice like you're hollering at your kids. Shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: Poor children. Y'all may be seated. I want to back
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  Speaker 1: up for just a few minutes. And put in context
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  Speaker 1: the distinctive of the book of Joshua itself. I talked
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  Speaker 1: about it last week. I won't go into all of
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  Speaker 1: the elements that I talked about last week. You can
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  Speaker 1: go on YouTube and you can really get a fairly
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  Speaker 1: thorough understanding. exposition of the purpose of the book of
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Yeshua the book of Joshua a shadow type of
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of Yeshua Jesus in the Old Testament I
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  Speaker 1: talked about that last week so I won't even go
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  Speaker 1: into that but what I do want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: is that the book of Joshua starts out telling Joshua
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  Speaker 1: I have given you the land I have given you
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  Speaker 1: the land Now, it doesn't seem practical to me that
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  Speaker 1: God would have to say, I've given you something if
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  Speaker 1: it was obvious. Most of the time I've given people something.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to come back and tell them I've
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  Speaker 1: given them something. But because he feels the necessity to
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  Speaker 1: tell Joshua that he has given it to him, that
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  Speaker 1: means that it is not obviously a gift anymore. Because
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  Speaker 1: that would make no sense. If I hand you $ 100
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  Speaker 1: and I put it in your hand, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: to say I've given you $ 100. You say, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know that. I got that. But this is the kind
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  Speaker 1: of declaration that is revelatory from the perspective of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you have it, but you don't know it.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Could that be possible that I could have
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  Speaker 1: something that I don't know? Could it be possible that
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  Speaker 1: the word is excavating out of my life things that
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  Speaker 1: are already intrinsically inside of me, but I am oblivious
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  Speaker 1: to it and I cannot use what I do not
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  Speaker 1: know that I have. God said, I have given you
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  Speaker 1: the land, but you got to possess it. This is
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  Speaker 1: the collaboration between the human and the divine. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time to exhaust that, but all throughout the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: we see the collaboration between the human and the divine.
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  Speaker 1: That God works through people. I have given it to you,
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  Speaker 1: but you still have an obligation to possess it. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't possess it, they're going to keep living in
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  Speaker 1: your stuff. I have given you the land to possess it.
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  Speaker 1: I have given you peace, but you got to possess it.
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  Speaker 1: I have given you joy, but you have to possess it.
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  Speaker 1: I have given you spiritual gifts, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: possess it. I have given you the baptism of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, but you have to possess it. It is
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  Speaker 1: already given. You're praying, God, fill me with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: He's already given it to you, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: possess it because God is collaborative with And he wants
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  Speaker 1: your involvement in possessing what is yours. Oh, we used
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  Speaker 1: to tarry around the altar for hours. And we said
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  Speaker 1: we were waiting on the Holy Ghost to come like
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  Speaker 1: he was riding on a tricycle. And we would just
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  Speaker 1: be waiting till midnight, waiting on the Holy Ghost to come.
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  Speaker 1: And all the while we were waiting, he was already there.
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  Speaker 1: He was already there. The Bible said at midnight Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God and there
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  Speaker 1: was an earthquake. I hate to bust your bubble but
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  Speaker 1: it could have happened at 10. It could have happened
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  Speaker 1: at 9.15. There's nothing magical about midnight. It just so
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  Speaker 1: happened that it took them midnight to possess what was
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  Speaker 1: already there. God says I have given you the land
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  Speaker 1: to possess it. Now this is a process. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about the moat last time. We talked about the Jordan River.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the topography of the Jordan River. We
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  Speaker 1: began to understand how God removed the moat so that
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  Speaker 1: they could grow a cross on dry land. The moat
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  Speaker 1: was the first defense that separated them from any onslaught
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  Speaker 1: or attack. And God allowed them to be able to
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  Speaker 1: enter into Jericho because he stopped it and dried it
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, stop and dry, stop and dry.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it so you wouldn't have to swim across it.
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  Speaker 1: Dry so you wouldn't get muddy. So that when you
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  Speaker 1: got out of it, there would be no residue of
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  Speaker 1: what you've been through left on your feet. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you have some testimonies in this room that you can't
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  Speaker 1: hardly even share with anybody because they won't believe what
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  Speaker 1: you've been through. You don't even look like what you've
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  Speaker 1: been through. You don't have no mud left on you
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  Speaker 1: because God stopped it and he dried it so that
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  Speaker 1: you could cross over onto dry land. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And then when he did that, the
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  Speaker 1: only thing left was the wall. You're down to the
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  Speaker 1: last thing that's got to fall The waters have been parted.
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  Speaker 1: The land has been blown dry. And now you're down
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  Speaker 1: to the last obstacle that stands in between you and victory.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to some people that are close.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha ha. I got about 10 people
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  Speaker 1: over there. I got about 15 over there. I got
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  Speaker 1: about 50 over there. I want to talk to some
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  Speaker 1: people that know in your knower, I am close. I'm
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  Speaker 1: right on the verge of something. And that's why you
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  Speaker 1: can't give up right now. That's why you can't quit
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  Speaker 1: right now. You survived the desert. You've made it through
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  Speaker 1: your dry place. You've crossed over your Jordan. You want
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  Speaker 1: to cross on dry land. You've tasted of the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the promised land. The manna has ceased. You've entered
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  Speaker 1: into new territory. Your spirit knows that something is about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Look at your neighbor and tell him I'm close.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time to argue with you because I'm close.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time to get into no debate with
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  Speaker 1: you because I'm too close. I don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: worry about whether you like me or not because I'm
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  Speaker 1: too close. I'm too close. I got to focus right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too close. Don't bother me. I'm too close. She
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  Speaker 1: thinks she's something. I won't even respond to it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: too close. He thinks he's so much. No, I won't
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  Speaker 1: respond to it. I'm too close. 20 years ago, I'd
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  Speaker 1: have let you have it. But where I'm at right now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm too close to even respond to you. You can't
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  Speaker 1: distract me because something is about to crack in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Something is about to crumble in my life. Something is
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  Speaker 1: about to collapse in my life. I'm closer than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been in my life. Who am I talking to today?
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  Speaker 1: And now they have come, they have come, they have come,
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  Speaker 1: they have come to the final obstacle. The land that
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  Speaker 1: flows with milk and honey is on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: The gold and the silver. Of the Jericho, of the
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  Speaker 1: people of Jericho is on the other side. Most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: the obedience that must be proven to God is on
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  Speaker 1: the other side. You see, Jericho was the first city.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason they had to offer up the city
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  Speaker 1: to God is because it was a first fruits offering.
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  Speaker 1: God said, if you give me the first city, I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you every other one that's coming after it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the first fruits. Bring the first fruits unto God. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the Bible says in the New Testament that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is the first fruits of the resurrection. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: You remember when Jesus died on the cross, dead men
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  Speaker 1: were seen walking the streets of Jerusalem. The reason they
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  Speaker 1: were walking is they couldn't go up ahead of him.
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  Speaker 1: He was the first fruits. He had to go up
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  Speaker 1: before they could go up. And he led captivity captive
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  Speaker 1: and gave good gifts to men. And so even though
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  Speaker 1: the dead men were resurrected and they were walking around,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't go up because the Bible said that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is the first fruits of the resurrection. So whenever God
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  Speaker 1: does a new thing in your life, he says, if
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  Speaker 1: you give me the first fruits. I'll give you everything
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  Speaker 1: that comes after it. That's an important principle. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: The first fruits, the first corn that comes up, the
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  Speaker 1: first wheat that comes up, the first paycheck that comes in,
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  Speaker 1: the first fruits I give it to God. When Hannah
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  Speaker 1: had her baby, Samuel, he was the first fruits. She
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  Speaker 1: had many children afterwards, but she gave the first one
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  Speaker 1: to God. And because she gave the first one to God,
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of them she was able to keep
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  Speaker 1: for herself. God said, I'm going to replace whatever you give,
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  Speaker 1: but bring me the first fruits and give it unto me.
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  Speaker 1: All of that is in Joshua. Glory to God. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. Seek ye first. The kingdom of God and
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  Speaker 1: its righteousness. What? All these things shall be added unto you.
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  Speaker 1: The Hittites, the Jebusites, the Gerasites, all of them, the Ammonites,
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  Speaker 1: they all will be added unto you if you bring
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  Speaker 1: me the first fruits. So Jericho, in essence, was a
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  Speaker 1: first fruit offering. It was a first fruit offering. and
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  Speaker 1: it determined the next victory. If they didn't do this right,
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  Speaker 1: they would be defeated. If you know your Bible, you
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  Speaker 1: already know that Achan stole some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: should have been given to God, and they were defeated
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  Speaker 1: at Ai, little bitty old Ai, something you should have
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  Speaker 1: been able to overcome. But because of disobedience in your life,
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  Speaker 1: many battles you don't win because of the disobedience that
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  Speaker 1: preceded the battle. Anytime the enemy knows that you're about
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  Speaker 1: to get into a fight, he'll tempt you with disobedience,
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  Speaker 1: So that you won't have the strategic advantage to be
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  Speaker 1: able to move in and get the victory. And I
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  Speaker 1: want somebody that's under great temptation to hold out a
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  Speaker 1: little while longer. You can stop it. Hold it back.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you do this and get this right, everything
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  Speaker 1: else that's coming after it, God's going to open up
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  Speaker 1: the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing
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  Speaker 1: you won't have room enough to receive. Am I talking good?
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  Speaker 1: And so we have come now to understand this and
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  Speaker 1: what we must understand about this is that God is
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  Speaker 1: not giving them the land because they're hungry, because he
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  Speaker 1: had fed them all through the wilderness for 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: God is not giving them the land because they are
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  Speaker 1: in need, because he has supplied all of their needs,
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  Speaker 1: even in the wilderness. God is giving them the land
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  Speaker 1: according to his purpose. The companion book to the book
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  Speaker 1: of Joshua in the New Testament is the book of Ephesians.
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  Speaker 1: And both of them start out with giving him. God,
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  Speaker 1: blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who have blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.
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  Speaker 1: They're both talking about the gifts that God has given
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  Speaker 1: unto us. And so when Ephesians starts out, it starts
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  Speaker 1: talking about as he has purposed in himself, he has
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  Speaker 1: given it unto you. Go ready, go. Somebody shout purpose. Purpose.
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  Speaker 1: God has given to me as he has purposed in himself.
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  Speaker 1: So don't be mad. It's not my fault. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: give it to me. He gave me what I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to have. My brother was over there singing a
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  Speaker 1: minute ago. He was singing his face off. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to sing like that. If I could sing like that,
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  Speaker 1: I'd send notes in and request myself to sing. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. I would. I would send an anonymous note
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  Speaker 1: in and say, we need Bishop Jace to come sing
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  Speaker 1: a solo. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And then when they
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  Speaker 1: call my name, I say, okay. But God didn't give
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  Speaker 1: me that, so I can't possess that. If I get envious,
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  Speaker 1: I become covetous. Because God has not purposed to give
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  Speaker 1: that to me. He purposed to give me something else.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime you become envious of other people, you become covetous.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible tells us not to be covetous of
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  Speaker 1: that which he has purposed to give to someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Because God might not have given you that, but he
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  Speaker 1: gave you something. And you need to explore what God
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  Speaker 1: has given you. Oh, somebody bring me a dump truck
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  Speaker 1: and somebody bring me a backhoe because I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to do some excavating in here because there's somebody sitting
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  Speaker 1: here thinking that you don't have anything. The devil is
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  Speaker 1: a lie. There's not a person in this room that
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  Speaker 1: God has not purposed for you to have certain gifts
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  Speaker 1: that exist down inside of you. And he has given
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  Speaker 1: it to you. But are you going to possess it?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you going to murmur and complain and become
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  Speaker 1: petty and religious and sanctimonious? Some of the most bitter
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  Speaker 1: people are sanctimonious, always judging other people because they have
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  Speaker 1: no appreciation for what God has given them. They sit
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  Speaker 1: in the seat of judgment. God has a purpose. He
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  Speaker 1: has predestined everything according to his own will. I looked
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  Speaker 1: up purpose. Purpose is, it literally means the reason for
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  Speaker 1: which something is done or created or for which something exists.
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  Speaker 1: The reason, the reason for which something is done or
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  Speaker 1: created is For which something exists, that's its purpose. The
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  Speaker 1: purpose of this black box is to be an instrument
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  Speaker 1: that produces sound so that as I am speaking, I
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  Speaker 1: can hear myself. I could use it for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. I could sit on it. I'd probably crush it,
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  Speaker 1: but I could sit on it. But that's not its purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I can stand it up sideways and eat dinner on it,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not its purpose. What I must do is
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  Speaker 1: find its highest and best use because it was designed
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  Speaker 1: for a purpose. And if I use it correctly, I
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  Speaker 1: am using it for its highest purpose. And if I
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  Speaker 1: use it for anything else, I am abusing it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So all the people that contorted you into what they
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  Speaker 1: needed rather than what he had purposed, they abused you.
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  Speaker 1: The reason for which a thing exists or was created
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  Speaker 1: is its purpose. So purpose is not about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's about why. It's about why. And I know that's
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  Speaker 1: the funniest thing about most people. Most people, when they
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  Speaker 1: call you up, they say, I got something to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And generally, you know, there's some gossip. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're a gossiper and you're petty, you say, child,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? Nobody says, child, why did it happen? Because
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  Speaker 1: petty always wants to know what Purpose always wants to
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  Speaker 1: know why. I don't know why my son is two
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  Speaker 1: inches taller than me, but God purposed it to be so.
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  Speaker 1: I ate my Wheaties. I went to bed at night.
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  Speaker 1: I grew as tall as I could grow. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: expect him to outgrow me. I started out, he was
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  Speaker 1: just a little bundle in my hand, and now he's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: kissing me on the top of my head. Which kind
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of gets on my nerves sometimes just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because he wants me to know he's taller than me.
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  Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, he needs to be 6'4 and
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  Speaker 1: I need to be 6'2. God purposed it. God purposed
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  Speaker 1: for me to be born at the time that I'm born.
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  Speaker 1: To live in the era that I'm in. In the
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  Speaker 1: generation that I'm in. So why should I be jealous
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  Speaker 1: of somebody older or younger? Because I am called for
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  Speaker 1: such a time as this. This is my hour right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is my time right now. The meanest, pettiest people
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  Speaker 1: are people who miss their time. Saul wanted to kill
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  Speaker 1: David because he missed his time. You'll never be jealous
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  Speaker 1: of anybody if you maximize your time. Oh, I'm preaching good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to raise sin and say I'm preaching better
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  Speaker 1: than you shouting. Let me tell you something. God created
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  Speaker 1: you for such a time as this. He didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: for you to be born any earlier. He didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: for you to be born any later. He created you
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  Speaker 1: for the time you are right now. Stop despising your age.
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  Speaker 1: Stop despising your stage. God has equipped you for the
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  Speaker 1: hour that he created you to shine in because God
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  Speaker 1: had a plan from the beginning. He had a plan.
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  Speaker 1: He had a purpose. He had something for you to do.
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  Speaker 1: God had a purpose for your life. And when you
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  Speaker 1: stop worrying about what happened and start seeking why, Then
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  Speaker 1: you begin to understand that all things work together for
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  Speaker 1: the good of them that love the Lord, who are the,
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  Speaker 1: come on, who are the, who are the called according
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  Speaker 1: to his name. Yeah, so even if it wasn't good,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to work for my good because it's working
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  Speaker 1: according to His purpose. Even if I had to relocate,
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  Speaker 1: even if we had to move five times when I
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  Speaker 1: was growing up, even if my father didn't raise me,
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  Speaker 1: even if I didn't know my mother, even if I
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  Speaker 1: was adopted, God has a purpose for my life. And
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  Speaker 1: when I stop crying about the what, then I can
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  Speaker 1: explore the why. I am attempting to get around the
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  Speaker 1: fringes of describing the psychology of God. The mind of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let this mind be in you, which was also in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. Your God is a mastermind. He has determined
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  Speaker 1: the end from the beginning. Glory to God. He has
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: fixed the last before he started the first. God's mind
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  Speaker 1: is so infinite that before Adam fell, the lamb was
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  Speaker 1: slain from the foundations of the world. That means before
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  Speaker 1: the question was formed, God already has the answer. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Before the sickness came, the cure was already there. Before
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  Speaker 1: the problem arise, God already had the answer. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the truth and the life. No man cometh
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  Speaker 1: unto the Father save he come by me. God already
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  Speaker 1: has the answer. He's given it to you, but are
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  Speaker 1: you going to possess it? it? Purpose gets into the
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  Speaker 1: mind of God, the strategy of God, that God never reacts.
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  Speaker 1: He only acts. Whenever you react, you are the person
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  Speaker 1: who acted first is in control. And you are responding
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  Speaker 1: to them. God isn't responding. He acts. He's sovereign. He's absolute.
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  Speaker 1: He causes all things to work according to his will.
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  Speaker 1: He has never been surprised. He said, I saw you
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  Speaker 1: when you were up under the tree. I saw you
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  Speaker 1: in the dark, in the blackest of night, with all
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  Speaker 1: the lights off. I saw you. I know what's in you.
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  Speaker 1: All things are naked before him with whom we have
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  Speaker 1: to do. So why are you trying to impress God
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  Speaker 1: with your religious phony self when you are naked before him?
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  Speaker 1: I know your thoughts are far off while you're getting
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  Speaker 1: your plan together. God said, I already heard it before
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  Speaker 1: you ever even thought it. I'm God. I work things
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  Speaker 1: after the counsel of my own will. I called it
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the psychology of God. The more theological term would be omniscient.
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  Speaker 1: God is all-knowing, seeing where we get signed. God already knows.
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  Speaker 1: He already knows everything from the very beginning of time.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot teach him. You cannot inform him. He only
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  Speaker 1: asks you to pray so you can come into agreement
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  Speaker 1: with him because God already knows. Do you hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Now, the reason I'm talking this way because
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand the purpose of God. I
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  Speaker 1: told people, and I'm in no way comparing myself. But
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  Speaker 1: just for a purpose of illustration, I hardly do anything
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  Speaker 1: that isn't connected to the next thing. That's the strategy.
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  Speaker 1: I hardly do anything that isn't connected to the next thing.
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  Speaker 1: That isn't connected to the next thing. That isn't connected
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  Speaker 1: to the next thing. That's why there is a continuum
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  Speaker 1: in the scriptures. Yes. What starts out as redemptive in
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Genesis ends as redemptive in Revelations. It starts out with
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  Speaker 1: the blood of an innocent animal. And all through the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament we keep seeing the trail of blood. running
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  Speaker 1: through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers. It runs all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to the book of Revelation through the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament without breaking its properties, its influence, or its purpose
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  Speaker 1: because God had determined it from the beginning and everything
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  Speaker 1: led to the next thing, to the next thing, to
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  Speaker 1: the next thing, to the next thing. And you're just
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  Speaker 1: a part of the continuum. You're just a link in
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  Speaker 1: a chain of events. Are y'all getting what I'm saying?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And so he meant for you to be born. He
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: meant for you to come at this time. He meant
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for you to be broken in a certain place. He
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  Speaker 1: meant for you to have certain needs. It's part of
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  Speaker 1: his plan. It was part of Jesus' plan that when
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  Speaker 1: he took the two fish and five loaves of bread,
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  Speaker 1: he knew when he took it, he was going to
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  Speaker 1: break it. He couldn't bless it if he didn't break it.
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  Speaker 1: Because the blessing was in the breaking and the breaking
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  Speaker 1: was in the blessing. And God determined, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: multiply it by breaking it. All the broken people ought
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  Speaker 1: to shout me down. He sits on the circle of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Heaven is his throne and earth is his footstool.
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  Speaker 1: God's got all things up under his control. Give you
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  Speaker 1: another word, he's sovereign. He sovereigns. He completely reigns. He's
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: never out of control. He's got complete control of everything
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  Speaker 1: going on at all times in all places. He is
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  Speaker 1: not just Lord in the earth. He's Lord under the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He's Lord above the earth. That the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: should be exalted above every name. That at the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess.
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  Speaker 1: of things in heaven and things in earth and things
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  Speaker 1: under the earth. He's Lord of all or he's not
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Lord at all. Lord, I can't hardly get off my
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  Speaker 1: first point. I'm still stuck on my first point. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout purpose. When you know the purpose of God, you
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  Speaker 1: stop struggling. You stop struggling. You stop crying. If you
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  Speaker 1: gotta go, go. You gonna leave me? See ya. All
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that left me couldn't stay. All that stayed couldn't leave.
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  Speaker 1: What God has purposed for me is for me. You
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  Speaker 1: can't get it. You can't take it. You can't rob
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  Speaker 1: it from me. It's mine. I'm going to get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's mine. It's mine. It won't open up until I
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  Speaker 1: get there. When I get there, the door will open.
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  Speaker 1: When I get there, the way will be made. When
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I get there, the waters will part. When I get there,
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  Speaker 1: I'll walk across on dry ground. When I get there,
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  Speaker 1: the wall will crumble. This wall has been waiting on
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  Speaker 1: me to walk up to it. As soon as I
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: walk up to it, it's going to fall like open sesame.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to move out of my way because it's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: for me. Somebody shout, it's for me. When you start
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: understanding the why, and let me tell you something, ministers,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you cannot help people if you are focused on what
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they did. If you focus on what they did, you
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: are petty. Ministry begins when you start praying about why
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  Speaker 1: they did it. the problem with the world today we
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: have too many what preachers and not enough why they
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  Speaker 1: know principles they know when you broke a principle they
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  Speaker 1: know that your disciples shouldn't be eating corn on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day they know that you shouldn't be healing this
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  Speaker 1: woman on the Sabbath day don't you know the sun
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  Speaker 1: has gone down they know what they don't know why
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: what will make you bitter and petty What will make
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you miss your purpose? You want to know why. The
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: greatest question is why. Everything begins with why. And until
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you start asking why, you'll never be a great pastor.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never be a great preacher. You'll never be a
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  Speaker 1: great orator. You must ask why. When you read the text,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you must ask why. When you face the people, you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: must ask why. When you hear the news, you must
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  Speaker 1: ask why. Because you can't get in there where the
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  Speaker 1: surgery needs to occur to make them better if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. If Mephibosheth comes stumbling up to you
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know why he's stumbling, you'll make fun
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  Speaker 1: of him. But if you understand why that somebody dropped him,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you'll be able to minister him more effectively because you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: understand why. When you understand why, you say, it was
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: good for me that I was afflicted. Had I not
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: been afflicted, I would have never discovered the purpose of
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: God for my life. Am I talking to anybody tonight?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: So we're studying the purpose of God, which he had
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: purpose in himself. Oh, let me stop. God, let me stop.
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  Speaker 1: Which he had purposed in himself. He has purposed it
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  Speaker 1: in himself. He didn't meet with the board. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: talk with the committee. He didn't get the legislators to
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  Speaker 1: vote on it. He didn't ask Congress to pass a law.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that God ever set out to do, because he's sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: he purposed it himself. When he said, let there be light,
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  Speaker 1: there was light because he purposed it in himself. When
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'll separate the firmaments above the water from
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  Speaker 1: the firmaments beneath the water because he purposed it in himself.
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  Speaker 1: When he got ready to make man, he didn't need
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  Speaker 1: a woman. He said, let us make man in our
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  Speaker 1: own likeness and in our own image because there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the Godhead that God needed to complete him. Come on, son.
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  Speaker 1: He purposed in himself. If he purposes me to live,
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  Speaker 1: I'll live. If he purposes me to die, I'll die.
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  Speaker 1: If the car wreck wasn't meant to kill me, I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: don't care if it's a head-on collision at 90 miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour, I'll get out. The plane can crash and
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  Speaker 1: I'll walk away. What God has for me is for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the purpose of God. You can't have
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  Speaker 1: faith until you learn this. This is what your faith
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  Speaker 1: is built on. This is the recipe of your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Your faith must rest in the purpose of God. Jesus
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: didn't teach have faith. He said have faith in God.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Stop, stop. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: mean for Abraham to have a son when he was
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: strong and virile. Because who wants to write about that?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody do that. He waited till his body was good
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  Speaker 1: as dead. And his wife was past childbearing age. She
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: had gone through the change. And she couldn't have had
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a child before she went through the change. And when
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  Speaker 1: it was impossible with men, God purposed, now I'm going
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: to do it. I'm going to put my signature on it.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to know it was me that did it.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as you discover that you can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to find out that it was me that
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  Speaker 1: did it. You still got to go in the tent,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: but it's going to be me that did it. You
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  Speaker 1: still got to spend the night, but it's going to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: be me that did it. Don't you walk out the
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  Speaker 1: tent with your chest all stuck out, old man, because
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  Speaker 1: it was me that gave you power. Oh, it is
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: God that gives us power to get wealth. It is
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: God that gives us the power to get wealth. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't give us the wealth. He gives us the power.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I got the power to get wealth.
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  Speaker 1: I got the power. He's already given me the power.
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  Speaker 1: God's already given me the power to get wealth. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: have the power to get wealth. I have the power
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  Speaker 1: to preach the Word. I have the power to pastor
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  Speaker 1: this church. I have the power to raise my children.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to be my wife's husband. He's
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: given me the power. Glory to God. I feel the
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  Speaker 1: power right now. Somebody shout, I got the power. You
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  Speaker 1: better not walk out on this stage and not know
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  Speaker 1: you got the power. This stage will beat you to
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: death if you don't know you got the power. You
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: got to walk out here and know when you get
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: out here that you have the power. You got the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: power because God has purposed you to be in a
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: place for such a time as this. Am I talking
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: good tonight? Let's talk a little bit about Petty because
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: purpose isn't Petty. And you have to understand what it
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: means to be petty. To be petty literally means of
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  Speaker 1: little importance. Trivial. As in both groups are known to
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  Speaker 1: be petty. Now I want you to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't say that petty meant non-consequential. It didn't say
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: that it didn't have any value. Just little value. Trivial matters.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. It's trivial. Petty people
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  Speaker 1: always focus on trivial things. Small minded. spiteful ways, as
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  Speaker 1: in he was prone to be petty, revenge on friends
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  Speaker 1: and family, narrow-minded, of secondary or lesser importance, lower rank,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: smaller scale, minor, a petty official, Now, what I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand about this, that just because they are
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: petty doesn't mean it doesn't have any merit. It just
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: means that it's minor. Small, trivial things. Petty person showing
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  Speaker 1: or caused by meanness of spirit, a petty revenge is
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a petty person. You'd be surprised now. This is going
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to rock some people's world. You'd be surprised at how
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: many people who are saved or say they're saved. But
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: they're still petty. They're still petty. The reason I said
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  Speaker 1: purpose isn't petty is is because most religious people who
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  Speaker 1: were sanctimonious and would read this text would never see
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  Speaker 1: that the gateway to possessing the first city would be
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  Speaker 1: a prostitute. Amen. In fact, most people would never believe
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: that God, who you just got through saying about his holy, holy, holy, holy,
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  Speaker 1: would designate a hooker, hooker, hooker to be the host, host,
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  Speaker 1: host for the prophet, prophet, prophet. Write me a song
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: about that. Write me a song about of all the
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  Speaker 1: people in Jericho that God would use a harlot and
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: place her house on the wall. He placed the prostitute
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: on the wall, positioned her in a particular place to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: be the gatekeeper to his promise. Penny people couldn't see
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: past what she was. Oh, I'm going to preach before
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I leave here. They couldn't see past what she was
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to see why she was. Penny people would never ask
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: why has God put her on the wall? They didn't
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: know that she was on the wall, not just so
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: she could turn tricks, but so the spies could escape.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: So that she could drop a scarlet cord down the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: wall and establish a bloodline. Purpose isn't petty. And you
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: won't really begin to fully get God till you understand
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: that God is a God of purpose and not a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: God of petty. That's why God uses people you don't like.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Somebody be real. Has there ever
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: been somebody that you didn't like and God used them anyway?
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: And you tried to sit on them, and they got
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: on your nerves, and you knew they owed you some money,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and they still ain't paid you the money back, and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: there they are shouting all over the church, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get with them because they two months
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  Speaker 1: behind on the rent, and the check they wrote you bounced,
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  Speaker 1: and all the while you hating on them about the check,
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  Speaker 1: they just falling out up under the anointing, and you
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  Speaker 1: can feel the anointing, but you don't want to accept
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  Speaker 1: the anointing because you still seeing the check. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on. You must understand that
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  Speaker 1: God exalts nothing above His purpose. So I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: to you, see petty doesn't mean that you don't have
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  Speaker 1: an issue. It means that it's menial in comparison to
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of God. Oh, I'm going to mess with
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  Speaker 1: your head a little bit. To accomplish his purpose, he
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  Speaker 1: will speak through an ass. I know I'm in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: To accomplish his purpose, he will use prostitutes and hookers
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  Speaker 1: and idolaters and whoremongers to accomplish his purpose because God
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  Speaker 1: does not exalt the petty above the purpose. That's why
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  Speaker 1: he uses you. With your nasty, crazy self, how dare
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  Speaker 1: you sit there and not praise God? Think I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about Rahab. I ain't talking about Rahab. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: you and all your nasty stuff. And yet God blessed
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  Speaker 1: you and yet God used you and yet God raised
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  Speaker 1: you and yet God perfected you. You ought to shout
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  Speaker 1: the whole house down because you know, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know if it were not for the purpose of God,
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  Speaker 1: you would be swallowed up right now. Forget what you did.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what you're thinking. Let's talk about what's
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  Speaker 1: running through your mind. Let's talk about what's going through
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  Speaker 1: your head. If God put your thoughts on loudspeaker, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: nobody want to ever hear you testify ever again in
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  Speaker 1: your life? But because God isn't petty, He keeps on
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  Speaker 1: blessing you, and then you can't give Him a praise?
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  Speaker 1: You ought to praise him more than anybody in the
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  Speaker 1: whole house. You know you got a house on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: You know you got a house on the wall. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to mess with you a little bit. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to mess with you a little bit. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: mess with you a little bit. But if you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand this, you will never understand grace. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand grace, you will be self-righteous and look down your
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  Speaker 1: nose at other people. If you don't understand grace, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be hard for us to get you to praise God.
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  Speaker 1: It shouldn't be this hard to get a praise. It
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't take somebody who sings that good to get a praise.
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  Speaker 1: I came up in the church where nobody in the
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  Speaker 1: whole church could sing like that. It'd be a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of old scratchy voice, old church mothers beating on a
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  Speaker 1: snare drum. Sometimes the drum didn't have no stand. The
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  Speaker 1: drum would be sitting in a chair and they'd be
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  Speaker 1: in the chair and they'd be talking, I get joy
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  Speaker 1: when I think about what he does for me. I
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  Speaker 1: get joy when I think about what he does for me.
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  Speaker 1: I get joy when I think about What he's done
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  Speaker 1: for me. I get joy when I think about it.
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  Speaker 1: And joy, joy, joy, joy. And joy, joy, joy, joy.
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  Speaker 1: And joy, joy, joy, joy. I said joy, joy, joy, joy.
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  Speaker 1: And joy, joy, joy, joy. You didn't get a riff.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't get a run. They didn't change a key.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't melodious. You didn't want a CD. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: want an album. You didn't want an MP3. But the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost fell. And the reason the Holy Ghost fell
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  Speaker 1: is because we were caught up into the purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: not the petty. Now we're so busy listening at how
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  Speaker 1: good they sound that we can't hear what they're singing about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God. Joshua 6 messes up all my theology. I
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  Speaker 1: knew God used priests. I knew God used prophets. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know God used hookers. Priests, prophets, prostitute. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: telling you to go to no strip club. That's not
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Don't misquote me. That's what I hate
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  Speaker 1: about TikTok. TikTok. They'll take one little phrase and put
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  Speaker 1: it on TikTok and everybody be fighting and arguing about
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  Speaker 1: one little phrase because they heard what you said. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear why you said it. Not only was she
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  Speaker 1: a prostitute, she was a liar. God used her life.
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  Speaker 1: When they was looking for the spies, she said, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't seen none of them. I don't know where none
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  Speaker 1: of them are. See, God couldn't have used no church
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  Speaker 1: mother and got this done. Because the church mother was,
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  Speaker 1: they in their kitchen right now. They sitting by the
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  Speaker 1: sink right now. Go on in there and get them.
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  Speaker 1: God needed a tramp that wasn't afraid. She lied to
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  Speaker 1: protect the spies. Now, what we're talking about, get this,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to write this down. What we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about is the struggle between principles and purpose. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that the principles are bad. It's just that anytime your
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  Speaker 1: principles become more important than your purpose becomes, You have
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  Speaker 1: missed who your God is. There is a struggle between
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  Speaker 1: principles and purpose. And when it comes down to a
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  Speaker 1: choice between principles and purpose, God will always choose his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The law was principles. Principles. And the Bible said what
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  Speaker 1: the law could not do in that it was weak
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  Speaker 1: through the flesh. God sent his own son in the
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  Speaker 1: likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh that we might be the righteousness of God.
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  Speaker 1: If God was more concerned about principles and purpose then
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  Speaker 1: the law would have saved the world. The law was
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  Speaker 1: nothing but principles. You can only walk so far. You
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  Speaker 1: can only move so much. You can only say, when
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  Speaker 1: the sun goes down, you can't do this. Woe unto
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor. Do not mix this fabric with that fabric.
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  Speaker 1: The law was nothing but principles. So we struggle between
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  Speaker 1: purpose and principles. Should we disregard the principle? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that we cannot exalt our principles above His purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes God uses people that you wouldn't approve of
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish his purpose in your life. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? Let's go a little deeper
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  Speaker 1: because I want to unravel this. Look at Amos 3,
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 3 for a minute. Amos chapter 3, verse
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 3. Hear this word that the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: spoken against you, O children of Israel. against the whole
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  Speaker 1: family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
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  Speaker 1: you only have I known of all the families of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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  Speaker 1: God is talking to his people. He says, can two
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  Speaker 1: walk together except they be agreed? How many times have
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  Speaker 1: you heard that third verse? But you didn't hear those
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  Speaker 1: first two. So we use that two walk together save
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  Speaker 1: they agree to talk about human relationships. Well, Lord have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: If that's true, I'd have got a divorce the first year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm married today because we got two cars. We ever
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  Speaker 1: get down to one car, I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I don't know. Might be, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. But we don't agree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm packed for next week. My wife don't know what
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  Speaker 1: she gonna wear tomorrow. Yet we've been married 42 years.
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  Speaker 1: We walked together through life, through death, through sickness, through health,
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  Speaker 1: for better, for worse, for richer, for poor, but it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because we always agreed. Right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the worst places, we've had some of the worst arguments.
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  Speaker 1: Because I thought we ought to do this and she
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  Speaker 1: thought we ought to do that. So when we take
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  Speaker 1: this scripture that is about God's relationship with his people.
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  Speaker 1: And he said if you're going to walk with me
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  Speaker 1: you got to be in agreement with me. Even if
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  Speaker 1: you're not in agreement with each other. And when you
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  Speaker 1: take the text out of context and apply it to people.
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  Speaker 1: Then now you're talking to the spies. What are you
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  Speaker 1: doing at Rahab's house? How can two walk together save
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  Speaker 1: their grief? It don't look right for you to be
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  Speaker 1: up there. Truth out of context is a lie. God
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  Speaker 1: wasn't concerned about it. I'll show you another one. 2
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians chapter 6, verse 15 through 18. Take a look
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  Speaker 1: at this. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or
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  Speaker 1: what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? Come on.
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  Speaker 1: And what agreement have the temple of God with idols?
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  Speaker 1: For ye are the temple of the living God. As
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  Speaker 1: God has said, I will dwell in them and walk
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  Speaker 1: in them and I will be their God and they
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  Speaker 1: shall be my people. Come on. Wherefore, come out from
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  Speaker 1: among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you.
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  Speaker 1: and will be a father unto you, and ye shall
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  Speaker 1: be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Did
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  Speaker 1: he say it? Absolutely. Did he mean it? Absolutely. Who
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  Speaker 1: was he talking to? Why did he say it? He
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Corinth, who was establishing new converts. they
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  Speaker 1: were new converts in the middle of orgies and idolatry
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  Speaker 1: and evil and wickedness and he told them come out
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  Speaker 1: from among them and be separate you're not ready you
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  Speaker 1: can't handle it you're getting drunk off of communion and
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  Speaker 1: You're committing incest in the house. You're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: witness to these people. Come out from among them and
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  Speaker 1: be separate and I will be your God and you
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  Speaker 1: should be my people because I see you. You're worshiping
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  Speaker 1: me and Belial. Why would God say to all of
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  Speaker 1: the church, come out from the world and be separate
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  Speaker 1: and then turn around and say, go into all the
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  Speaker 1: world and preach the gospel to every living creature. I
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  Speaker 1: can't go into all the world and come out at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. Anytime the text is taken out of context,
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  Speaker 1: you destroy the validity of the text. I'll show you
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  Speaker 1: one more. Proverbs 13, 22. Take a look. A good
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  Speaker 1: man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children and the
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  Speaker 1: wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look at this. The wealth of the sinner
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  Speaker 1: is laid up for the, if it's laid up for
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  Speaker 1: the just, how are you going to pull it down
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  Speaker 1: if you don't touch them? If you don't talk to them.
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  Speaker 1: if you can't be seen with them, if you can't
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere with them, if you don't have no business
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  Speaker 1: with them, if you're supposed to remain separate from it,
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  Speaker 1: how is there going to be a download of wealth?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: In our text, there's a download of wealth. The wealth
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  Speaker 1: of the sinner is laid up for the just, but
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  Speaker 1: in order to get it, you had to go in
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: where sinners go in order to get it. In order
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: to get it, you had to go in the Rahab's house.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: In order to get it, you had to be entangled
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: with people, and it didn't look good, But in order
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  Speaker 1: to get the download, God didn't promise to bless you
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  Speaker 1: through church folk. I'm going to say it again for
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  Speaker 1: the people in the back. God didn't promise to bless
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  Speaker 1: you through church folk. I see Christians say some crazy stuff.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: My physician, my surgeon was a Christian. That's nice, but
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: can he operate? My palate is filled with the Holy Ghost,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: but can he fly? No. What are you doing with so-and-so?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: They've been on my Twitter all the time. What are
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: you doing with so-and-so? What are you doing with so-and-so?
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: You were sinners all the time. You got on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't ask the pilot, was he saved? You go
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  Speaker 1: to the family reunion with your drunk uncle and you
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: steal at the family reunion and you brought potato salad.
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  Speaker 1: But the moment you see somebody else, you turn up
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  Speaker 1: your nose because you heard something about them. Now they're untouchable.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Suppose they said to the spy, don't stay in her house.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that's what the disciples did with Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: said if Jesus knew what kind of woman that was
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: that washed his feet, he would stop her. How could
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  Speaker 1: Jesus not know that she was a sinner woman? Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. And yet Jesus stuck his feet out
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  Speaker 1: and let this woman wash his feet. Some of you
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: are more religious than God. And I hope you're watching
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: tonight so I can tell you to your face. Because
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: you're two-faced and you're phony. You work with sinners. You're
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: married to sinners. Your children are sinners. They smoking dope
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: in the attic. And there you are turning up your nose,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: talking about other people. How can the love of God
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: dwell in you? You're petty. You're petty. You're petty. You're petty.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: You're petty. You're petty. You don't see purpose. God used
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  Speaker 1: Rahab's platform to take the whole city. He didn't use
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  Speaker 1: a believer. He used a prostitute. Rahab saved the spies.
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  Speaker 1: And in the 21st through the 25th verse, now because
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  Speaker 1: she saved the spies, now they saved her. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: go with me. Read it again, see if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. They didn't just save her. They saved
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  Speaker 1: her whole family. They saved her father. They saved her mother.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Bible says they saved all them that
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: were with her. Who were they? They wasn't children. Can
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I spend three minutes on this? Sometimes you get blessed
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: just because of who you connected to. Her daddy didn't
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: do anything to deserve to be saved. Her mother didn't
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: do anything to deserve to be saved. And they that
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: were with her sure didn't do nothing to deserve to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: be saved. But because they were connected to one person,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: God saved everything in the house because of one person.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't get here by yourself. when God gets ready
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: to deliver you God will deliver you her brothers got
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  Speaker 1: saved her sisters got saved and everything that belonged to
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  Speaker 1: her got saved they brought the entire family out and
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  Speaker 1: saved everything that was in her house because of one
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: woman while you're chewing on that let me throw something
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: else at you if you happen to be one of
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Noah's kids you never drowned in the flood because of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: who your daddy was Glory to God. They didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: They just happened to be in the right house. And
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: when God saved Noah, he saved everything in his house. Newsflash.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I want to save everything in your house.
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  Speaker 1: Everything connected to you. Everything born out of your loins.
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  Speaker 1: Everything adopted in your family, when God gets ready to
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: bring you out, he's going to bring out people who
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: didn't earn it and didn't deserve it, but he's going
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: to pull them out. That's how I got saved. I
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: got connected with Jesus. And when I got connected with Jesus,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: when God saved him and raised him from the dead,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: I got up with him, not because I'm good, but
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: because I'm connected. Slap somebody and say, you need to
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: be connected. I'm almost finished. Can I go a little deeper?
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Joshua 6, 20 through 25 is a profound, prolific, articulate
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  Speaker 1: depiction of the grace of God because it proves to
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  Speaker 1: us that God kept his word to a prostitute because
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  Speaker 1: the text says, as the wall came down, the text said,
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  Speaker 1: go find Rahab. and save everybody in her house according
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: to your oath. And God saved everybody in the house
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: because he kept his word to a prostitute. Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: my question for you. If God kept his word to
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  Speaker 1: a prostitute, then what makes you think that God won't
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: keep his word towards you? If God kept his word
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and was careful to separate her from the wrath to come.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: And the Bible said they pulled her whole family out
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and set her outside the house of Israel so that
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  Speaker 1: when the city was burning down, Rahab didn't burn up. Oh,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: at the times I should have burned up, but I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: didn't burn up because God set me aside and saved me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not praising him because I'm good. I'm praising
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: him because I'm not. I'm not praising him because I'm worthy.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I'm praising him because I'm not. Let me say it
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: like my old folks used to say, when I think
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: of the goodness of Jesus. And all that he's done
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: for me, my soul cries out, hallelujah. Thank God for
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: saving me. Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on. Come on. And feel the anointing
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost in here. Praise it. You came
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: so close that you could smell the smoke. But God
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: delivered you. You came so close that you should have
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: caught on fire. But God brought you out. And you
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: owe God a praise for everything he's done in your life.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout yes. Somebody shout yes again. Somebody shout yes again.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout yes. Somebody shout yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and tell them I'm not on fire. My
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: neighbor's on fire. My classmates are on fire. My next
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: door neighbor's on fire. But God saved my life. He
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: set me aside. I'm He made a way out of
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  Speaker 1: no way. He delivered me from all of my transgressions
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: to God be the glory. I bet Rahab was outside
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: the city giving God a praise because she knew she
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: should have been in the fire. But because God delivered her,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: she said amazing grace. How sweet the sound. that saved
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I'm found. I was blind, but now I see. I
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: need a wretch to praise him. I need a wretch undone.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I need a drug addict. I need a drug dealer.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: I need a drunk, a wino, a whoremonger. I need
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  Speaker 1: somebody to bring the hell and back to give God
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: the praise. Praise Him in the smoke. Praise Him in
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  Speaker 1: the storm. Praise Him in the flood. Let everything that
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  Speaker 1: hath breath praise ye the Lord. I'm going to behave myself.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to read just a little bit. Can I
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  Speaker 1: read you a little something? The Bible. The Bible. No.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the Bible. Disruptive thinking I wrote. This
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  Speaker 1: little phrase. History provides another potent example of the power
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  Speaker 1: of unlikely alliances. God's about to give you some unlikely alliances.
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  Speaker 1: In 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott, after Rosa Parks was
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  Speaker 1: arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a
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  Speaker 1: city bus, leaders in the black community called for a
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  Speaker 1: boycott of the Montgomery public buses to demonstrate their unified
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  Speaker 1: protest of segregated seating. But that led to enormous logistical problems,
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  Speaker 1: as they would have hoped. as they would have to
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  Speaker 1: provide somewhere around 20,000 rides per day for black laborers
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  Speaker 1: who had to get to work. Having a car was
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  Speaker 1: out of the financial reach of many black families in 1955.
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  Speaker 1: Car owners were among the wealthiest people in town. Martin
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  Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. and other leaders had to call on
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  Speaker 1: these wealthy folks to lend their vehicles to the boycott effort.
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  Speaker 1: King was shocked when more than 150 car owners signed
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  Speaker 1: up to hand over their cars at a public meeting
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  Speaker 1: in December, y'all don't hear me, at the start of
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  Speaker 1: the boycott effort. The automobile was still among the prime
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  Speaker 1: status symbols of the United States and therefore to volunteer
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  Speaker 1: one's car as public transportation was a radical act of togetherness.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Branch wrote in Parting the Waters, America in the
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  Speaker 1: King Years, 1934, the fractious classes of Montgomery Negroes now
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  Speaker 1: promise to blend their daily lives. The boycott was sustained
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  Speaker 1: for an astounding 13 months. 13 months, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most impressive displays of alliances in American history. It ended
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  Speaker 1: with the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses
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  Speaker 1: was unconstitutional. In the Bible, Cyrus the Great is mentioned
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  Speaker 1: more than 30 times, even though Cyrus is a Persian
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't even believe in Jehovah. The pagan king is
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  Speaker 1: important in Jewish history because it was under his rule
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  Speaker 1: that the Jews were first allowed to return to Israel
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  Speaker 1: after 70 years in captivity. In one of the most
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  Speaker 1: amazing prophecies of the Bible, the Lord reveals Cyrus' decree
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  Speaker 1: to free the Jews to Isaiah. And he says, 150
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  Speaker 1: years before Cyrus lived, The prophet calls Cyrus by name
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  Speaker 1: and gives details of Cyrus' benevolence to the Jews. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord says to his anointed. He calls
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus his anointed. Amen. whose right hand I take hold
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  Speaker 1: on to subdue nations before him. I summon you by
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  Speaker 1: name and bestow on you a title of honor, though
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  Speaker 1: you do not acknowledge me. Isaiah 45 and 1. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear what I'm saying? Also 41, 2 through 23
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  Speaker 1: and 42 and verse 6, evincing his sovereignty over all nation.
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  Speaker 1: God says to Cyrus, to Cyrus who didn't believe in Jehovah,
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  Speaker 1: he is my shepherd. and will accomplish all that I please.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop reading there. God will use people.
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  Speaker 1: If you stop turning up your nose, God will raise
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  Speaker 1: up people that you never expected to accomplish His purpose
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And don't be petty, and don't be narrow,
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  Speaker 1: because God's got something He's going to do in your life.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to make your enemies your footstools. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to raise you up. He's going to make you the
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  Speaker 1: head and not the tail, above and not beneath. Let
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  Speaker 1: me show you one scripture and I'm going to close.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to finish after this. Don't you cut me
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  Speaker 1: off till you get this because you got to understand
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of God. They set Rahab over to the
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  Speaker 1: side and Jericho was burning down. They set her to
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  Speaker 1: the side, not just because she kept the spies, not
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  Speaker 1: just because she lied. But according to Matthew chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: verse 1 through 6, Rahab was to be the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Boaz. Wait, wait, wait. Rahab the harlot is the
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  Speaker 1: mother of Boaz. Boaz is the one that Ruth married.
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  Speaker 1: And through them, they begot Obed. And Obed begot Jesse.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesse begot David. So when Christ was born, Rahab
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  Speaker 1: the hooker is in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Because
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  Speaker 1: God had a purpose. for the woman who was a prostitute.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're watching me tonight, I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: kind of sin you're in. I'm not condoning your sin,
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  Speaker 1: but I am condoning your purpose. God has a purpose
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  Speaker 1: for your life. And if you give your life to him,
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  Speaker 1: he will set you aside and raise you up and
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  Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to do things that will blow
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  Speaker 1: your mind. I know this is disruptive thinking. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm messing with your head. I know they told you
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  Speaker 1: you were cursed and there was no way God was
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  Speaker 1: going to use you. But the devil is alive. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: died now. So that you could be saved. So that
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  Speaker 1: you could be free. So that you can be delivered.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, believe all of these
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  Speaker 1: witnesses in the church right now that have been washed
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  Speaker 1: in the blood of the Lamb. If you're in here,
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth and give God a praise. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I said open your mouth and give God a praise.
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  Speaker 1: I said open your mouth and give God a praise.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. As I prepared to close,
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  Speaker 1: I was in my house and I was listening at
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  Speaker 1: a movie. And when they started playing music to the movie,
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  Speaker 1: I got a woofer. And the woofer always makes the
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  Speaker 1: bass sound louder than it is. Well, my woofers turned
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  Speaker 1: up so loud that when they hit a certain bass note,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: I could feel my heart vibrate. And I start thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how the decibel of sound moves objects. And even
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  Speaker 1: though my heart wasn't near the woofer, the sound that
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  Speaker 1: came out of the woofer made my heart started trembling.
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  Speaker 1: And when I thought about that, I thought about the
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  Speaker 1: walls of Jericho. And the Bible said, that when they
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  Speaker 1: blew the trumpet, that the people opened their mouth and
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  Speaker 1: began to shout. It wasn't the trumpet, but it was
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: the shout of God's people. And if we reach a
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  Speaker 1: certain decibel, every wall in your life is going to
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  Speaker 1: come down. things that have been standing in your life
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  Speaker 1: for years and years. God said, I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: it down, but I'm waiting on you to open your mouth. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I have given you the city to possess the land.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need a sword. You don't need a shield.
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  Speaker 1: You need to open your mouth. Jesus said, speak to
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and the mountain will get out of your
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  Speaker 1: way for the next 45 seconds. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth and sound like you lost your mind. Shout, shout. Shout! Shout! Shout! Shout! Shout! Shout!
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  Speaker 1: Till the tumor shrinks! Shout till the cancer moves. Shout
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  Speaker 1: till the dead is paid. Shout till God makes a
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  Speaker 1: way out of no way. The power is in your mouth.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: The power is in your mouth. Open your mouth and shout.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you something? The reason some of you
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: don't get a breakthrough is because you're always giving that
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  Speaker 1: same old petty praise. But if you would get away
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  Speaker 1: from your petty praise and give him a praise of purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Every wall in your life is about to come down.
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  Speaker 1: If you open your mouth, it will come down. Hey! Whoo! Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Hear me. Hear me good tonight. The glory of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is in this place. The anointing of God is here.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that I noticed about Rahab, her life was
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  Speaker 1: all wrong. But her heart was so tender. She might
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  Speaker 1: have been a heathen. She might have been a hooker.
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  Speaker 1: She might have even been a liar. But there was
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  Speaker 1: something in her heart that was tender toward God. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's somebody watching online or in this room you don't
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  Speaker 1: have no spotless record you've done some horrible things but
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  Speaker 1: there's a soft spot in your heart for God purpose
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  Speaker 1: isn't petty If you come to him, he will set
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  Speaker 1: you aside. And save you from the wrath to come. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to save you in your sins. I
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  Speaker 1: don't read where Rahab ever turned another trick in her life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't read where Rahab ever turned another trick in
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  Speaker 1: her life. I do read that she became a great, great, great, great, great, great, great,
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  Speaker 1: great grandmother to Jesus. And Jesus was not afraid to
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  Speaker 1: claim her in his bloodline. And he claimed Bathsheba, called
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  Speaker 1: her Uriah's wife. And he claimed Tamar. And he claimed
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  Speaker 1: Ruth the Moabitess. And if you come to him tonight,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're in this room or not, whether you've been
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  Speaker 1: dealing drugs or in sin or in trouble or done
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  Speaker 1: some things or had some things done to you that
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  Speaker 1: made you feel filthy the rest of your life, he
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  Speaker 1: will set you aside. Because the purpose of God isn't petty.
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  Speaker 1: Your neighbors might be petty. There might be even some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that are petty. But purpose is
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  Speaker 1: not petty. Though your sin is red like crimson. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll wash you white as snow. I'll let you in
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  Speaker 1: my family tree. And nobody can put you out Thank you.