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GOD IS GIVING YOU A SECOND CHANCE AT THE BLESSING YOU LOST Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: People have reduced the Word of God to just the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: but the Word of God existed before there was anybody
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  Speaker 1: to write it down. The Word of God deals with
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  Speaker 1: the character of God, the integrity of God, the promises
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  Speaker 1: of God, what God has said. God has said, not
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  Speaker 1: what man has written, what God has said. And what
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  Speaker 1: we have before us is a recording of pieces of
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  Speaker 1: what God said down through history. And then we had
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  Speaker 1: that recorded Word of God, which we call the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: has been translated from ancient languages into contemporary languages. One
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  Speaker 1: of the first languages were the Word of God, which
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  Speaker 1: was originally written in Hebrew, is now written in English,
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament primarily in Hebrew, a little bit of Aramaic,
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  Speaker 1: but also in the New Testament, Aramaic and Greek, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And then it was translated eventually into English around 1611,
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  Speaker 1: actually 1525. And then the authorized King James Version comes
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  Speaker 1: in 1600. This is way before that. This is way
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  Speaker 1: before that. Now, the translations, we're gonna talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about translations so that we can do this intelligently.
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  Speaker 1: You have to understand King James Version was actually translated
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  Speaker 1: by a gentleman named William Tinsdale in about 1525. William
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  Speaker 1: Tinsdale translated the ancient scriptures into English, and then King
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  Speaker 1: James made it the official King James version of the Bible, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And so when I came along, I didn't know any
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  Speaker 1: of that. All I knew is that the old folks
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  Speaker 1: taught us if it wasn't the King James version, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't God. We didn't know where it came from. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't know where it started. We didn't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: The only word of God for me is the King
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  Speaker 1: James Version. That's all they knew. So what we learn
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  Speaker 1: is limited to the level of the teacher that's teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, somebody. And so some of the people who
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  Speaker 1: taught us early on couldn't even read. Okay. And in
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  Speaker 1: lieu of revelation or information, they came up with rules
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  Speaker 1: and regulations. You know, you got this holiness of hell
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  Speaker 1: and don't wear makeup and don't wear earrings. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of that was to fill in the blanks. for not
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  Speaker 1: really being able to study the word as astutely as
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  Speaker 1: we can today. Now, as we look at these different translations,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you different translations of the verse. And
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  Speaker 1: as I show you, I want you to notice how
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  Speaker 1: the word of God becomes clearer and clearer with each translation.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to understand that the translation is
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  Speaker 1: not just written so that you can have a contemporary
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  Speaker 1: version because you don't like old English. That's not just
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  Speaker 1: why it was done. The greater reason is as our
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the original language increases, we get a more
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  Speaker 1: clear translation of the word than we did at first. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just that we're trying to take old King
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  Speaker 1: James English and make it hip. It is that we
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  Speaker 1: are studying the word of God with more precision because
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  Speaker 1: we are living with more information than we ever had before.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same way with medicine. The way my grandmother
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  Speaker 1: treated a condition is a lot different from how my
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  Speaker 1: children treat a condition. Medicine has improved, and the doctors
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  Speaker 1: have said, oh, we don't do that anymore. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even have to go through that many generations.
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  Speaker 1: You can wait five or ten years, and the whole
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  Speaker 1: procedure changes. Because as you get more information, you become
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  Speaker 1: better at this. Are y'all following me? I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: borrow Tore's statement. Y'all tracking with me? Yes. Did he
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  Speaker 1: kill us Sunday? Wasn't that amazing? Yeah, yeah. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna borrow from him tonight. I like that. Are y'all
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  Speaker 1: tracking with me, okay? So you read the first one
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  Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna put it up in the NIV
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  Speaker 1: and it'll give you a little clearer understanding because I
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  Speaker 1: really wanna dig into this. So it says,' Simeon and
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  Speaker 1: Levi are brothers.' Their swords are weapons of violence. Let
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  Speaker 1: me not enter into their council. Let me not join
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  Speaker 1: their assembly for they have killed men in their anger
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  Speaker 1: and hamstrung oxen as they please. Okay. Let's go further.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the American Standard Version, and let's see
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  Speaker 1: if we can get a clearer vision of it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my soul, come not thou into their council, unto their assembly.
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  Speaker 1: My glory, be not thou united. For in their anger
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  Speaker 1: they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked
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  Speaker 1: an ox. Okay, let's go deeper. Let's go into the
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  Speaker 1: next translation, which is the Young's literal translation. Each one's
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  Speaker 1: going to make it clearer. Now, clarity does not take
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  Speaker 1: away from the substance of the text, but it makes
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  Speaker 1: it more understandable because we have better clarity as to
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  Speaker 1: the original intent of what he said. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? The Bible said in all thy getting,
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  Speaker 1: get an understanding. So the difference between preaching and teaching
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  Speaker 1: isn't whether I raise my voice or not. When I
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  Speaker 1: grew up, the difference between preaching and teaching was whether
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  Speaker 1: you could hoop or not. Oh, my God. Hallelujah. They said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he can preach. And if you start talking like that,
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  Speaker 1: they say, he's a teacher. Which was a nice way
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  Speaker 1: of saying you were boring. You see, but the difference
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  Speaker 1: between preaching and teaching isn't the voice inflection. It is
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  Speaker 1: the depth to which you study and delve down into
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, irrespective of your voice articulation. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so when we get into the little translation, into their
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  Speaker 1: secret come not, O my soul, unto their assembly be
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  Speaker 1: not united. Don't hook up with these guys, O my honor,
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  Speaker 1: for in their anger they slew a man and in
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  Speaker 1: their self-will eradicated a prince. Oh, wait a minute. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was an ox. No, it's a prince. In
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  Speaker 1: ancient times, they referred to princes as oxes because the
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  Speaker 1: burden of leadership rested upon them. So the more you
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  Speaker 1: begin to understand the difference in the terminology, it is
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  Speaker 1: not a disagreement with that which was written before. It
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  Speaker 1: is that now we have a clearer understanding that the
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  Speaker 1: word translated there should have been prince and not an ox.
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  Speaker 1: And in the process of knowing that we're not just
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  Speaker 1: talking about an ox and cutting loose the hamstring of
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  Speaker 1: an ox, that we're going deeper than that, we begin
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  Speaker 1: to understand that Jacob is still upset about what they
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  Speaker 1: did to Joseph. And even as he is dying, he's
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  Speaker 1: still angry about it. Can I go deeper? So as
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  Speaker 1: you can see from this, it can mean either uproot
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  Speaker 1: or to sever the hamstring in the hocks. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the hocks or back legs of a large four-legged animal.
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  Speaker 1: What he's really talking about, you've uprooted. You uprooted, you
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  Speaker 1: tore down, the King James Version says you tore down
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  Speaker 1: a wall. It seems that having decided that the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: word means wall, the translator of the King James Version
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  Speaker 1: decided to render the Hebrew word in the sense of
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  Speaker 1: digging up the roots of a plant as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: uprooting the wall resulting in the rather awkward, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how do you uproot a wall? It's a poor translation,
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  Speaker 1: dig down a wall. What they were trying to do
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  Speaker 1: was to understand that he had uprooted something. He had
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  Speaker 1: uprooted something. And Jacob is talking to them as he's
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to pass away. And he says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a blessing for you because I'm still upset about
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  Speaker 1: what you did. Now, you know that Joseph is the
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  Speaker 1: beloved son of Jacob. He got the coat of many colors.
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  Speaker 1: He was favored by his father. Some Hebrew theologians suggest
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  Speaker 1: that Simeon and Levi, he's angry with them about two things. One,
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  Speaker 1: what they did to Joseph. And the other thing he's
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  Speaker 1: angry with them about is what they did to the
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  Speaker 1: men of Shechem. And I'm going to make that plain.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go into that. I'm going to make
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  Speaker 1: that clear. Because Simeon and Levi got together, they was
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  Speaker 1: like bam and wham. When they got together, there was
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  Speaker 1: always some craziness going on. Now, the Hebrew scholars suggest
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  Speaker 1: that it was Simeon and Levi primarily that led the
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  Speaker 1: deceitfulness that was bestowed upon Jacob in saying that Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was dead. So Joseph had lived all those years in pain,
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  Speaker 1: mourning over his son being dead, only to find out
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  Speaker 1: in his old age that his son was alive. And
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to figure out how to title this because
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  Speaker 1: I almost called it Family Matters. Because anybody, how many
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  Speaker 1: of you got a family? If you got a family,
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  Speaker 1: you got some matters. And this is a declaration that
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  Speaker 1: even though this is a family of God, even though
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  Speaker 1: these people are chosen by God, they still have some
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  Speaker 1: issues and some emotions and some feelings and some pain
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  Speaker 1: and they're held together, but they're still not really together
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  Speaker 1: because Jacob is angry with them and he's upset with
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  Speaker 1: them and even to his grave, He knows he's dying.
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  Speaker 1: He refuses to bless them because they have made him miserable.
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  Speaker 1: And when you study what they did, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to study it in a minute, what they did
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  Speaker 1: with Dinah, which was, Dinah was Jacob's daughter through Leah.
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  Speaker 1: And you begin to find out what happened to Dinah
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  Speaker 1: when she ended up getting raped and what they did
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  Speaker 1: to the men and killed out a whole group of men,
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  Speaker 1: a whole nation of men, utterly destroyed them deceitfully. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: is angry about that, the bloodshed, the loss, the deceit,
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  Speaker 1: the betrayal. Just like in your family, there's been some
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  Speaker 1: betrayals and there's been some hurts and And you have
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  Speaker 1: to be a strong man of God and a strong
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  Speaker 1: woman of God to act like you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you know. Come on, somebody. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: That's why everybody's holiday is not a good holiday. Because
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  Speaker 1: when all them relatives come, around you got to act
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  Speaker 1: like you don't remember what you remember come on we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep it real in here tonight yeah and so
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  Speaker 1: they're all gathered around the bed and they're all related
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  Speaker 1: and they're all connected but they're not really connected because
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  Speaker 1: the secrets get in the way of the connection And
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is angry with them because he has endured much
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  Speaker 1: pain all of his life because of what they did. Now,
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  Speaker 1: and consequently, he has now embarrassed them in front of
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  Speaker 1: all of their brothers. Everybody else, just about everybody else
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  Speaker 1: is getting blessings and promises. And this, a blessing is,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to make you understand how important a blessing is.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob fought for his father's blessing. He wrestled in the
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  Speaker 1: womb for the blessing. He came out and fought off
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  Speaker 1: Esau and got his blessing for a bowl of soup.
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  Speaker 1: A blessing was a big deal. It was a big deal. Today,
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  Speaker 1: in our Western culture, it becomes difficult to translate it. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: in the African, in many of the African cultures, it
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  Speaker 1: is easier to translate it because there's still a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of respect for a patriarchal blessing. In our Western culture,
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  Speaker 1: we just run off without anybody's blessing. We don't think
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  Speaker 1: that we need covering. We don't think that we need
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. We don't think we need permission. We just
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  Speaker 1: kind of live our lives on our own, okay? So
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  Speaker 1: when we read this, we don't get the impact of
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  Speaker 1: what is being said here. In front of all of
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  Speaker 1: his brethren, now Simeon and Levi have to face the
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  Speaker 1: scorn of their dying father. It's traumatic enough that I'm
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  Speaker 1: losing my father, but in his last breath, he curses me.
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  Speaker 1: That means there's no more chance for me to fix
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  Speaker 1: this with him. This is over. It's done. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you something right now. It is much better to
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  Speaker 1: have grief than guilt. I'm going to say that again.
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  Speaker 1: It is much better to have grief than guilt. Grief
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  Speaker 1: is painful. I'm not underestimating. It's real painful. But guilt
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  Speaker 1: will make you try to pull mama out of the caskets.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. It'll make you scream
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  Speaker 1: and holler and fall out and pass out in the
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  Speaker 1: floor because a lot of times when you realize you're
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  Speaker 1: never going to get it straight. You're never going to
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  Speaker 1: get it worked out. You're never going to get the
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  Speaker 1: love you should have got. You're never going to resolve
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  Speaker 1: the issue. You're never going to get over it. And
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  Speaker 1: now she's gone. Now we're screaming and we're hollering and
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  Speaker 1: we're chasing behind the casket. We used to watch a movie.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be a certain age to remember Imitation
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  Speaker 1: of Life. Come on, talk to me, somebody. And the
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  Speaker 1: girl is running behind her mama, screaming and crying because, see,
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  Speaker 1: dead people can't hear. That's why you ought to fix
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  Speaker 1: stuff while people are living. You ought to fix it
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  Speaker 1: while they're living because once they're gone, they can't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: They can't straighten things out. You ought to forgive them
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  Speaker 1: while they're living. You ought to straighten it out while
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  Speaker 1: they're living. You ought to get it together while they're living.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to pull it together while they're living so
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  Speaker 1: that you can get things straight. If you love somebody,
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  Speaker 1: tell them now. If you were wrong, say it now.
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  Speaker 1: If you need to repent, do it now. Don't wait
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  Speaker 1: till they're gone and then live with the guilt and
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  Speaker 1: the grief of losing the person. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: needs that, but somebody needs that tonight and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give that to you for free. Thank you, Jesus. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you can make a decision in your haste In your youth,
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  Speaker 1: in your selfishness, from your point of view, you felt
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  Speaker 1: justified to do it. But then in retrospect, as you
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  Speaker 1: mature and you get older, you look back at it,
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  Speaker 1: if you're fair and wise, and you see the other
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  Speaker 1: person's perspective, and all of a sudden you change your
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  Speaker 1: attitude because you get wiser about things. That's why y'all
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  Speaker 1: not write things in stone too early. You haven't lived
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  Speaker 1: long enough. You haven't seen enough. After a while, when
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  Speaker 1: it's your turn, things look different. One of the great
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  Speaker 1: joys about being a grandfather is that I get to
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  Speaker 1: watch my children try to do it. And I just
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  Speaker 1: sit there like that. Daddy, you won't believe what you did.
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  Speaker 1: I said, oh yeah, I believe it. Yeah, I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you, do I remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder where she got that from. Wonder where that came from.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me, somebody. See, now what we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at is decisions and consequences. I'm gonna move you along.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at decisions and consequences. These boys have made
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  Speaker 1: some decisions. They made it with Joseph. They made a
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  Speaker 1: decision because they were jealous. They made a decision because Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob really to me, this is just my opinion, was
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  Speaker 1: not a great leader. Okay, he didn't balance his love
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  Speaker 1: and he was very overt in letting the other brothers
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  Speaker 1: know that that's my favorite one right there. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: am I, Swiss cheese? Yeah, I'm gonna feel some kind
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  Speaker 1: of way about that. Yeah, I'm gonna feel some kind
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  Speaker 1: of way. And they got so besides themselves that they
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  Speaker 1: started hating him and decided to kill him. And then
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  Speaker 1: they threw him in a pit in lieu of killing
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  Speaker 1: him and then dipped his coat of many colors into
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  Speaker 1: blood and animal's blood and brought it up. And when
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  Speaker 1: Jacob starts talking about you digged it up by the root,
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  Speaker 1: you messed with the root of the family. You messed
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  Speaker 1: with the root, the promise, the future, the legacy, the
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  Speaker 1: reason Jacob loved. See, there was a reason why Jacob
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  Speaker 1: loved Joseph so much because Jacob loved his mother, Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: She was the love of his life and he had
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  Speaker 1: worked 14 years to get this woman and Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: the love child of their connection. And every time he
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  Speaker 1: looked at Joseph, he saw his mama. And there they
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  Speaker 1: have dug up a wall. They have dug up a wall.
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  Speaker 1: They have uprooted him. They have destabilized him. They've broken
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  Speaker 1: him down. They put him in a situation and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: felt disrespected as a father. He felt betrayed. He felt
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  Speaker 1: deceived because all of this time you told me he
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  Speaker 1: was dead, you lied to me for years. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: are people listening at me right now who can relate
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  Speaker 1: to this because you were lied to for years. For
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  Speaker 1: years you didn't know. You didn't know who your daddy
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  Speaker 1: was for years. For years you didn't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: For years you didn't know what happened between grandma and grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: For years you didn't know the real story. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: died and didn't tell you. And it's a hard thing
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  Speaker 1: when you've been lied to for years. And it affects
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  Speaker 1: your heart and your self-esteem and your identity. And these
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  Speaker 1: decisions have consequences. I want you to write that down.
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  Speaker 1: Decisions have consequences. Decisions have consequences. It's not just about
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  Speaker 1: prayer and anointing yourself with oil. Decisions have consequences. Decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. Elections have consequences. Marriage has consequences. You get
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  Speaker 1: married to prove to your parents, I'm grown and I
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  Speaker 1: can do what I want to do. That's good on
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  Speaker 1: the short side. On the long side, that decision is
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  Speaker 1: going to have consequences. You showed the parents a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two, but now you got to live with that
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  Speaker 1: thing or two. Come on, talk to me, somebody. Decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. Just because you're saved doesn't mean that decisions
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  Speaker 1: don't have consequences. You can be saved and filled up
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost, but if you go out here
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  Speaker 1: and get on 30 and you start going 180 miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour, decisions have consequences. So when you get arrested,
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  Speaker 1: don't blame it on the devil. Because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times we spiritualize things as being demonic that aren't demonic
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  Speaker 1: at all. They are the consequences of decisions. And you
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  Speaker 1: can dance all over the church, but if you don't
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  Speaker 1: change your decisions, you can't change your consequences. You can
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  Speaker 1: fall out and be slain in the spirit. But if
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  Speaker 1: you go home and keep doing what you were doing before,
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  Speaker 1: your life is still going to be where it was.
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  Speaker 1: We can decree and declare a blessing all we want to.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't learn how to budget your checkbook
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  Speaker 1: and balance your savings account and handle your finances, then
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  Speaker 1: all the blessing of Abraham is coming upon me. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to do you any good because whatever comes
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  Speaker 1: upon you is going to go to the ball. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to kill your joy preaching like that. Yeah, decisions
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. That's why it's good to be slow to
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  Speaker 1: make decisions. It's good to be slow to make decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let nobody rush you into making a decision that
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  Speaker 1: you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob was disrespected as a father. His consequential patriarchal curse
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  Speaker 1: is a result of the pain he has. And you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand that about it. But I wonder, I wonder,
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  Speaker 1: could some of Jacob's dying wrath be fueled by his
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  Speaker 1: own guilt? Okay. First of all, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: look at this, we're going to go to the scripture
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to look at this a little deeper
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. In the Torah, it clearly says, that
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  Speaker 1: when those two boys, Simeon and Levi, went out and
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  Speaker 1: decided to bargain with the men of Shechem and tell
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  Speaker 1: them they needed to be circumcised, what they did is
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  Speaker 1: told the men of Shechem, you can have our sister
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  Speaker 1: and marry her if all the men in your country
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  Speaker 1: get circumcised. And they did it. Now, listen, brothers. It
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  Speaker 1: probably ain't gonna happen, you know what I'm saying? if
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  Speaker 1: all of us have to get circumcised so that one
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  Speaker 1: of us that just don't seem like no good deal
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  Speaker 1: excuse us sisters we'll be back in a minute but
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  Speaker 1: this is a brothers conversation just like y'all talk about
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  Speaker 1: having babies and stuff brothers talk back to me I
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  Speaker 1: ain't about to do it okay you gonna live a
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  Speaker 1: lonely life man if I have to yeah so all
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  Speaker 1: of the men got circumcised and while they were healing
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  Speaker 1: and hurting They came in and killed them. God, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have time to get into this part too deep,
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  Speaker 1: but God always hates people who take advantage of other
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  Speaker 1: people's weaknesses. This is free. It's not going to cost
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  Speaker 1: you nothing, but I'm just going to throw it out
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  Speaker 1: here at you. The reason God hated the Amalekites is
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  Speaker 1: that the Amalekites were known for coming in and taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage of other people's disadvantage. That's why later in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: when David comes back and the Amalekites have taken all
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  Speaker 1: the women and children, they captured the weakest part, the
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  Speaker 1: people who couldn't fight back. They took them captive and
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  Speaker 1: God hated. The Bible said God remembered Amalek and God
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  Speaker 1: hated Amalek. Anytime you take advantage of somebody's weakness, God
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  Speaker 1: is always on the side of the oppressed. So while
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  Speaker 1: these men are sore and trying to recover, they came
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  Speaker 1: in and killed all of them. And Jacob had made
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  Speaker 1: a deal with Donna's boyfriend. He had made a deal.
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  Speaker 1: And these sons came along and deceived them and caused
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  Speaker 1: them to be killed. Jacob never got over it. But
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  Speaker 1: the thing that stands out to me when I studied
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  Speaker 1: it closely in the Torah it says explicitly it comes
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  Speaker 1: out and says that while they were doing it Jacob
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  Speaker 1: said nothing. And though he didn't do it is he
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  Speaker 1: not complicit? Is his silence part of the reason of
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  Speaker 1: his pain? Has he transferred his guilt into their hatred Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all ain't talking to me now. Sometimes when you know
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  Speaker 1: you are complicit, you won't deal with your own complicity
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  Speaker 1: in the issue because you'd rather blame the other person
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  Speaker 1: than confront the fact that you didn't stand up like
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  Speaker 1: a man and speak up when you could have. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if Joseph was dead, why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: go down there and look for him? So while you're
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  Speaker 1: blaming them for killing Joseph, I don't read where you
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  Speaker 1: went to look for him as a man. You just
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  Speaker 1: accepted that he was dead? You didn't go see? You
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  Speaker 1: didn't ask for his body? You didn't have a burial?
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have a funeral? You didn't have a service?
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  Speaker 1: How in the world can you sit up there and
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  Speaker 1: blame Simeon and Levi for something that you weren't man
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  Speaker 1: enough to investigate? See, and then while we're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's reaction and the guilt of it, let us not
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  Speaker 1: forget that Jacob was deceitful first. And what he is
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  Speaker 1: cursing in Simeon and Levi, he was guilty of himself.
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  Speaker 1: He tricked Esau out of his birthright. He put on
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  Speaker 1: Esau's garment and deceived Isaac into getting his blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: he was always deceitful. His mama Rebecca was deceitful. Her
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  Speaker 1: uncle Laban was also deceitful. This is a generational problem.
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  Speaker 1: So what we're looking at tonight is how do you
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  Speaker 1: cancel a culture? Now, I know what it means in
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  Speaker 1: contemporary times, but I mean it this way. How do
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  Speaker 1: you cancel a culture that's running through your family? How
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  Speaker 1: do you break free of something that you can see
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  Speaker 1: that has been modeled in front of you, it's been
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated in front of you, your mama had too much mouth,
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  Speaker 1: your grandmama cusses everybody out, your Aunt Lucy barked away
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  Speaker 1: everybody and died by herself, and here you come, 17
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  Speaker 1: years old, acting just like your family. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: things that have to be broken in your life, and
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  Speaker 1: if you don't break them off of your life, you
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  Speaker 1: will find yourself a victim of a culture that exist
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  Speaker 1: in your family. There's a culture in your family. There's
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  Speaker 1: a culture in your company. There's a culture in your workplace.
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  Speaker 1: There's a way things get done. There's a culture in
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  Speaker 1: a church. And every now and then, there's a toxic culture.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're not careful, what was modeled in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, you become. Now, you become it, but you
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  Speaker 1: want mercy. But when I become it, you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: stone me. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, y'all see what I'm saying? So there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of dynamics playing out here. I'm not excusing
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi, but I'm saying they didn't get there
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  Speaker 1: by themselves. Jacob had been a con in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: And Rebekah, well, in fact, Jacob's name means trickster. So
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  Speaker 1: the old man who's laying there with the blessing, the
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  Speaker 1: only reason he got the blessing was through deceit. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's looking at it in his son, and he's
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  Speaker 1: hating in his son what is a reflection of himself. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. This is Bible study. Let's study this. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you can hate in other people what you see in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You won't judge it in you, but you'll kill it
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  Speaker 1: in me because you don't have the gall or the
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  Speaker 1: gumption or the strength to confront it in you. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you do it and God covers it. But when
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  Speaker 1: I do it, I need to be put out. These dynamics,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible comes to us that we might learn lessons
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  Speaker 1: about life as well as discover our relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: It also affects our relationship with one another. Are you
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  Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying? God is not just concerned about
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  Speaker 1: your relationship with him. The Bible said, how can you
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  Speaker 1: say that you love God whom you have not seen
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  Speaker 1: and hate your brother who you see every day? How
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  Speaker 1: can you praise God and cuss me? How can you
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  Speaker 1: say you love God and walk past me and not speak?
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  Speaker 1: That we only got two commandments, that we love the
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  Speaker 1: Lord thy God with all your heart, your mind, and
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  Speaker 1: your soul, and that you love your brother as you
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  Speaker 1: love yourself. Two commandments. Jesus said, if you get these
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  Speaker 1: two right, you got everything else right. If you learn
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  Speaker 1: to love God with all your heart, your mind, and soul,
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  Speaker 1: and if you love your brother as you love yourself,
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  Speaker 1: then all of the commandments are comprised in this one pill.
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  Speaker 1: You take this one pill, you got everything. It's a
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  Speaker 1: multifamily vitamin. You got C, you got vitamin D, you
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  Speaker 1: got vitamin E. You took one pill, you got all things.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you get these two things right, so
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to learn 10, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: learn 20, you don't have to learn 12, He said,
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  Speaker 1: if you just focus on loving God with all your
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  Speaker 1: heart and all your mind and all your soul. And
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  Speaker 1: then he said, when it comes to other people, I'm
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  Speaker 1: measuring that too, that you love your neighbor as you
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  Speaker 1: love yourself. If you wouldn't do it to you, don't
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  Speaker 1: do it to me. Now, Jacob has forgotten what he did,
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  Speaker 1: but he has not forgotten nor forgiven what they did.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get into this? Yeah, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Genesis 34, one through 13. This is where
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  Speaker 1: the plot thickens. First of all, Dinah, girl, if you
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  Speaker 1: had just stayed over there where you were supposed to stay,
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  Speaker 1: we never would have had this problem in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: So when the Bible brings it up, it says in
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  Speaker 1: verse one, and Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she
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  Speaker 1: bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
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  Speaker 1: the land. Hold it right there. Go back. Hold it
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  Speaker 1: right there. Dinah, the daughter of Leah. Let's stop right there.
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  Speaker 1: Because first of all, her mama was wounded. Her mama
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  Speaker 1: was hurting. Her mama was rejected. Her mama had never
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  Speaker 1: been loved. Her mama had to give up man drinks
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  Speaker 1: to get Jacob to go in to her tent to
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  Speaker 1: go to bed with her. So this wandering daughter comes
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  Speaker 1: from a wounded mother. I'm going to say that again.
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  Speaker 1: The wandering daughter comes from a wounded mother. So the
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  Speaker 1: Bible identifies Dinah as the daughter of Leah. That is
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  Speaker 1: no accident. The Bible doesn't waste words when it goes
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  Speaker 1: into letting you know Dinah, the daughter of Leah, not Bilhah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: not Rachel. It said, I want you to know that
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  Speaker 1: she is born from the tangle-eyed consolation prize that Laban
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  Speaker 1: tricked Jacob with. That was her mama. Now, the wounded
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  Speaker 1: woman produces a wandering child. Are you hearing what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to you? And when you're in pain over your own,
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  Speaker 1: see the whole reason she was in pain, every child
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  Speaker 1: she had, including Levi and Simeon, was an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: get Jacob to love her. Levi means joined. And she said,
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  Speaker 1: maybe now that I've given him another son, he will
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  Speaker 1: be joined unto me. Simeon hearing, if he hears that
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  Speaker 1: I've had a son, maybe he'll love me. This wounded
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  Speaker 1: woman who never got to any peace until she had Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Because Judah means, now will I praise the Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: have given up on Jacob. Now will I praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: She had finally turned to God and given to God
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  Speaker 1: what Jacob wasn't interested in. You can sit here and
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  Speaker 1: act like you don't know what I'm talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: this is Old Testament stuff, but it is current to
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in life right now. And sooner or later,
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  Speaker 1: you'll come to a point that if I can't give
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  Speaker 1: it to him, Talk to me, somebody. The ages have changed,
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  Speaker 1: the clothes have changed, the skin tone has changed, but
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  Speaker 1: life is still life, and people are still people, and
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  Speaker 1: it don't matter what dispensation you're in, humanity's still humanity.
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  Speaker 1: This woman has been rejected all of her life, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, what's wrong with me, Daddy, that you
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  Speaker 1: use me as a trick? Donna is the daughter of Leah.
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  Speaker 1: Leah was set up. Her daddy gave her to him
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  Speaker 1: as a joke. So not only did she not have
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  Speaker 1: the love of a husband, she had never had the
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  Speaker 1: love of a father. Can I go deeper? And it
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to know how to love a husband if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't had an opportunity to love a father. You
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  Speaker 1: don't understand men's ways. So you talk to a man
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  Speaker 1: like he's a woman, and you read him like he's
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  Speaker 1: a woman, and you jump to conclusions like he's a woman,
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  Speaker 1: and it may not even be your fault. It may
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  Speaker 1: be your daddy's fault that he never was in the
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  Speaker 1: house in the first place, and you're guessing at men.
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  Speaker 1: But regardless, it'll make you wander. And so you end
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  Speaker 1: up with somebody that does more damage to you already
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  Speaker 1: wounded because you are a wandering woman born of a
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  Speaker 1: wounded woman through the rejection of a father, and now
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  Speaker 1: you're wandering out there amongst these strange people talking about
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  Speaker 1: you looking for the daughters of the land. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Dinah? You about to mess up wandering. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to me tonight in this Bible class. Stop wandering. Stop
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  Speaker 1: wandering from pillar to post, from here to there. Be
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  Speaker 1: still and know that God is God and wait on
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  Speaker 1: God to put it together and straighten it out. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've been hurt. I know you've been wounded. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've been ostracized and I know it wasn't your fault.
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  Speaker 1: But if you wander, Dinah, you're going to make it worse.
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  Speaker 1: Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Stand still.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. Stand still. You've been running all
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  Speaker 1: your life. You're about to run into something you can't
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  Speaker 1: get out of, and God's got you logged onto this
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  Speaker 1: broadcast tonight to give you a warning to just stop
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  Speaker 1: running and be still. You run from job to job,
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  Speaker 1: from church to church, from man to man. You keep
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  Speaker 1: going because you're wounded. And you learn how to handle
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  Speaker 1: your pain from your mama. Or perhaps your daddy. Regardless
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  Speaker 1: of where you got it from, it's handed to you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't speak English because you were taught it in school.
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  Speaker 1: You speak English because they spoke it in your house.
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  Speaker 1: So you never had to learn English like somebody from
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: another country would have to learn it because it was
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  Speaker 1: modeled in front of you. So it was easy for
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  Speaker 1: you to speak it. You might have had to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to write it, but it was easy for you
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  Speaker 1: to speak it because it's all mama spoke to you in.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Want some more milk, baby? After a while, the baby
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  Speaker 1: say milk, milk, milk, milk, milk, milk. Whatever is modeled
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  Speaker 1: in front of you is behavior that's easy to repeat.
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  Speaker 1: If mama gets mad and throws stuff, then you learn
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  Speaker 1: when you're angry, you should throw something or cuss him
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  Speaker 1: out or go into a rage. or have a drink.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of what becomes our behavior, we have
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  Speaker 1: adopted from the culture we are surrounded with. Now Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Leah, let me go home, which she
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  Speaker 1: bare unto Jacob. See, this is code. This is code.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get off it. I got to stay here. Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, is code.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know the story to understand what the
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  Speaker 1: writer is telling you. went out to see the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of the land. It's bringing up everything I just taught.
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  Speaker 1: And when Shechem, the son of Hamer, the Havite, prince
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  Speaker 1: of the country, saw her, he took her and lay
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  Speaker 1: with her and defiled her. If she would have stayed
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  Speaker 1: her hips where she was supposed to be, it would
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  Speaker 1: have happened in her. I know today you say, don't
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  Speaker 1: blame the victim. Yes, the victim is complicit. If you
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  Speaker 1: stay within boundaries, a lot of things won't happen. That
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  Speaker 1: does not absolve the guilt of the man in any
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  Speaker 1: way at all. What they did was horrendous and horrible
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  Speaker 1: and tragic and awful, but it is also a cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 1: You don't jump in everybody's car. You don't go to
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  Speaker 1: everybody's hotel room at three o'clock in the morning. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not popular. Nobody's saying this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get a lot of hateful emails,
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  Speaker 1: but it is true. We got to go back to
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  Speaker 1: raising our children. You stay within boundaries. It's eight o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: go to bed. You get up in the morning, you
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  Speaker 1: brush your teeth. He don't bathe but once a week.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? No boundaries has created this situation.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing about it is when Hamer saw her
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  Speaker 1: and raped her, the next verse, his soul clave unto Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Jacob. He fell in love with the
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  Speaker 1: girl he raped. Let that sink in for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: He fell in love with this strange Hebrew girl. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe he saw her because she was strange. Come on, fellas,
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  Speaker 1: you know how we like strange. It's not like there
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  Speaker 1: weren't any daughters of Shechem, but they were used to
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of Shechem. Here comes this Hebrew girl with
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  Speaker 1: an accent. She talks funny. She walks different. She's a
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  Speaker 1: different culture. And he raped her, fell in love with her.
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  Speaker 1: And his soul clave unto Donna, the daughter of Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: And he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damsel.
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  Speaker 1: And Shechem spake unto his father. How you go back
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  Speaker 1: and tell your daddy you raped this girl? But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and Shechem spake unto his father Hamor saying, get me
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  Speaker 1: this damsel to wife. Okay. He doesn't ask her to
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  Speaker 1: marry him. He goes to his father because of patriarchal blessing.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, these are arranged marriages. Many, many cultures
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  Speaker 1: today still arrange marriages. The parents make the decision. And
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: when he goes back to his father, he says, get
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  Speaker 1: me this daughter, the wife. And Jacob heard that he
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  Speaker 1: had defiled Dinah, his daughter. Now his sons were with
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  Speaker 1: his cattle in the field, and Jacob held his peace
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  Speaker 1: until they were come. Come on. And Hamar, the father
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  Speaker 1: of Shechem, went out unto Jacob. Here the two fathers
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  Speaker 1: are coming together to have a conversation about their kids.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. And the sons of Jacob came out of
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  Speaker 1: the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved.
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  Speaker 1: They were mad, and they were wroth, which means anger
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  Speaker 1: with fire. So they were past mad. They were wroth.
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  Speaker 1: They were angry with fire. Because he had wrought folly
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  Speaker 1: in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, they understood that
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  Speaker 1: God had already commanded them not to fool with people
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  Speaker 1: who were idolaters. And now he has defiled her, ruined
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  Speaker 1: her from the possibility of a Hebrew man because now
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have any blood to ratify the covenant. Can
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  Speaker 1: I go there for a minute? She's given the blood
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  Speaker 1: to somebody with whom she has no covenant. Not because
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to, because he defiled her. That's what defile meant.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain this. In the Bible, on the night
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  Speaker 1: of your wedding, once the marriage is consummated, you would
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  Speaker 1: come out and wave the bloody sheets. And that was
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  Speaker 1: a part of the ceremony because marriage was not just
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  Speaker 1: a word covenant, it was a blood covenant. The whole
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  Speaker 1: purpose in the hymen in the body, the body works
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  Speaker 1: just as good with it as it does without it.
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  Speaker 1: But the purpose of the hymen in the body is
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  Speaker 1: to cut the covenant. Because the blood covenant is the
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  Speaker 1: strongest covenant possible. In many religions, in many traditions, outside
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  Speaker 1: of Christianity and Judaism, it is still true. Blood covenants
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  Speaker 1: are the strongest covenants possible. Now, she has lost her
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  Speaker 1: blood without her permission at the whim of Hamer. And
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  Speaker 1: Hamer communed with them saying, the soul of my son,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Shechem, went to his father Hamer. Now Hamer
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  Speaker 1: is trying to work this out because the kid's in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: How many parents in here have had to work something
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  Speaker 1: out because the kid's in trouble? And when the kid's
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, you're in trouble. Whether you ask for it
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  Speaker 1: or not, now you're in trouble. Now Hamer goes down
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  Speaker 1: here to meet with Jacob to try to work this out.
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  Speaker 1: The soul of my son Shechem longed for your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: I pray you give her him to wife and make
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  Speaker 1: ye marriages with us and give your daughters unto us
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  Speaker 1: and take our daughters unto you. and ye shall dwell
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  Speaker 1: with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell
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  Speaker 1: and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we're willing to become one with you and be connected
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  Speaker 1: with you and become one people. And Shechem said unto
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  Speaker 1: her father and unto her brethren, let me find grace
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  Speaker 1: in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me
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  Speaker 1: I will give. He said, whatever I have to do
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  Speaker 1: to calm you boys down, I'm willing to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I realize I messed up. Let's get this right. You
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  Speaker 1: just say what it's going to take to straighten it out.
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  Speaker 1: This is a family mess. And don't sit there and
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  Speaker 1: look at me like you ain't had no family mess.
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  Speaker 1: Because a family mess will keep you up all night.
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  Speaker 1: A family man said, hey, you walk in the floor
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  Speaker 1: at 3 o'clock in the morning. A family man, you
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  Speaker 1: can't get out of it. You can't ignore it. You
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  Speaker 1: can't turn your back on it. You can't act like
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  Speaker 1: you don't care because you do care. And love will
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  Speaker 1: make you have to get in there and deal with
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you wouldn't have to deal with if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't for the fact that your cousin went down in
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  Speaker 1: 7-Eleven and got himself into this situation. And now there
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  Speaker 1: you are. I know you said you weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: get him out of trouble. But there you are at
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  Speaker 1: 2 o'clock in the morning trying to get up some
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  Speaker 1: bail money and waking people up. Sit there and act
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  Speaker 1: like you don't know what I'm talking about. Trying to
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  Speaker 1: straighten out something. And now you're working overtime trying to
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  Speaker 1: get some money to pay a lawyer to straighten out...
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  Speaker 1: Ask me never so much diary and gift, and I
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  Speaker 1: will give according as ye shall say unto me. But
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  Speaker 1: give me the damsel to wife. He says, whatever I
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  Speaker 1: have to do to fix this and make it right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to do it. We can be one people.
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  Speaker 1: You can have part of our land. You can have
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  Speaker 1: our women. We can work together. We can do business.
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  Speaker 1: We can interact together. And the sons of Jacob answered
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  Speaker 1: Shechem and Hamer, his father, deceitfully. Wait a minute. This
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  Speaker 1: is where our Hebrew scholars say Jacob, said nothing why
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  Speaker 1: are the sons talking when the fathers are speaking oh
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  Speaker 1: God I can take off on that and go somewhere
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  Speaker 1: else but okay and the sons of Jacob answered they
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even talking to you Shechem and Hamer his father
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  Speaker 1: deceitfully and said because he had defiled Dinah their sister Okay,
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  Speaker 1: go back, go back, because I lost track of that.
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  Speaker 1: Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the next verse, move forward. Go back
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  Speaker 1: to verse 11. Do we have it? And Shechem said
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  Speaker 1: unto her father and unto her brethren, let me find
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  Speaker 1: grace in your eyes. And what ye shall say unto me,
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  Speaker 1: I will give. I will do whatever I need to
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  Speaker 1: do to make this right. Okay, that's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: We got a problem. We got a problem because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take you to the next verse and show
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  Speaker 1: you where the problem is. Go down to verse 25.
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  Speaker 1: And it came to pass on the third day. So
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: let me explain what happened. So the boys told them,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: they said, if you're circumcised, it'll straighten it out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: circumcision is a sign of the covenant. Same thing as
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  Speaker 1: the hymen is the blood of the woman. The cutting
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  Speaker 1: of the foreskin of the man meant I have a
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  Speaker 1: covenant with God. And what is happening here, everybody's breaking covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's breaking covenant. The rape was a break of a covenant.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've got these men who have no relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Jehovah getting circumcised and wasting their blood like she
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  Speaker 1: wasted hers. You see how this is going down a hole?
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  Speaker 1: And so all of the men of Shechem, who are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be prominent throughout the scriptures, so I hope you
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  Speaker 1: really listen to this, because the men of Shechem end
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  Speaker 1: up in so many stories throughout the Bible, you need
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  Speaker 1: to know the backstory that led to it. All the
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  Speaker 1: men of Shechem are sore. Now, let me say something
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  Speaker 1: to you ladies. If a grown man gets circumcised, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just three days, sore is not a good translation.
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  Speaker 1: Sore and sorry and swollen, and in pain unimaginable. And
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  Speaker 1: it is into this environment that the two sons of Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: there's the sword that Jacob is talking about on his deathbed,
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  Speaker 1: and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males.
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  Speaker 1: Only one man raped her. They killed, y'all don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: They killed all the men in the country and they
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  Speaker 1: slew Hammer who did it and Shechem, his father, and Shechem,
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  Speaker 1: his son, with the edge of the sword and took
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  Speaker 1: Dinah out of Shechem's house and went out. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob came upon the slain and spoiled the city
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  Speaker 1: because they had defiled their sister. They took their sheep,
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  Speaker 1: their oxen, their asses, and that which was in the
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  Speaker 1: city and that which was in the field, they robbed them.
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  Speaker 1: They took all their wealth and all their children and
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  Speaker 1: their wives, took they captive and spoiled even all that
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  Speaker 1: was in the house. They wrecked the place. And Jacob
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  Speaker 1: said to Simeon and Levi, ye have troubled me to
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  Speaker 1: make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land.
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  Speaker 1: Amongst the Canaanites and the Perizzites and I being few
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  Speaker 1: in number, they shall gather themselves together against me and
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  Speaker 1: slay me and I shall be destroyed. I and my house.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is scared. Jacob is scared that they have gotten
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  Speaker 1: into something that they can't get out of and that
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  Speaker 1: all the surrounding nations will rise up against him and
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  Speaker 1: kill him. But they didn't. So why is he still
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  Speaker 1: angry on his deathbed? He's still angry with her. And
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: they said, should he deal with our sister as with
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  Speaker 1: a harlot? And the scandal stops there. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to see the backstory behind Jacob now being old, laying
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Bed, and he's still angry. Are you still angry? Jacob,
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  Speaker 2: who found the house of.
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  Speaker 1: God, and saw a ladder descend from heaven and saw
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  Speaker 1: angels ascend and descend is still angry. Jacob, who wrestled
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  Speaker 1: with an angel to the breaking of day is still angry. Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: who found out his name was Israel and he was
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  Speaker 1: a prince and had prevailed with God. He prevailed with God,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't prevail with his own temper. Are you
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: dancing and angry? Talking in tongues, but still angry. laying
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  Speaker 1: hands on people but still angry. Jacob, you don't understand,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob got a blessing. He got a blessing from an angel,
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  Speaker 1: actually a theophonic manifestation of Christ in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: He got the blessing, but he couldn't get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the burden of his own anger. And I'm teaching tonight,
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  Speaker 1: not just so that you will understand another Bible story,
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  Speaker 1: I'm teaching tonight so that you will see what unmanaged
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  Speaker 1: rage will do to your destiny. Now Levi and Simeon
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  Speaker 1: are cursed in front of their brethren and they live
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  Speaker 1: with this curse. Now the reason this is important is
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  Speaker 1: because each one of Jacob's sons represents a tribe. And
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  Speaker 1: now they can't inherit like they should inherit because they
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  Speaker 1: are living up under a curse and denied a blessing.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: You see how problems produce problems produce problems produce problems
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. And now they're still up under the
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  Speaker 1: curse until Exodus 32 verse 23 through 30. Go right there.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus 32 verse 23 through 30. This is hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: years have passed. Hundreds of years have passed. No massive victory,
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  Speaker 1: no conquering, no massive success. In fact, the tribe of
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  Speaker 1: Simeon ultimately converged with other people and became part of
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  Speaker 1: the lost tribes, disappeared, untraceable, can't find them, not sustained.
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  Speaker 1: Simeon never got it back. not his descendants, not his
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  Speaker 1: children's children's children, not his children's children's children. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: we're not in Genesis anymore, we're in Exodus. If we're
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  Speaker 1: in Exodus, exit us, exit us. Exodus is where us exits.
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  Speaker 1: If this is where us exits, we have been slaves
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  Speaker 1: for 400 years. And we have been in Egypt for
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  Speaker 1: 30 years, so we know at least 430 years have
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  Speaker 1: gone by.
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  Speaker 2: 430 years.
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  Speaker 1: Am I boring y'all? 430 years is over 10 generations.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're coming out from captivity with Moses. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, let me see how I'm doing. Yeah, I'm good, okay. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're coming out of captivity with Moses. And
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  Speaker 1: we're about to see the breaking of a curse. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason I want you to see it is because
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  Speaker 1: it is possible. Touch your neighbor and say, it is possible.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand it is possible to get
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  Speaker 1: a second chance at a blessing. Yeah, you type it
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  Speaker 1: on the line. It is possible to get a second
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: chance at a blessing. Now, this is the situation. Moses
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  Speaker 1: has been in his own mess. He's been in his
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  Speaker 1: own mess. Isn't it amazing how God uses messed up people?
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  Speaker 1: Y'all ought to be shouting right now. You ought to
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  Speaker 1: be sad right now. You know why? Because you messed up.
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  Speaker 1: And isn't it amazing how God uses messed up people?
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  Speaker 1: What I love about Old Testament theology is that it
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  Speaker 1: shows us how messed up they were. And then in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament, it comes along to these were men,
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  Speaker 1: we are men of lack passions. That God can use
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  Speaker 1: people that are all messed up and their stories are
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  Speaker 1: all messed up and there are contradictions in their life.
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  Speaker 1: And yet some kind of way, God's purpose prevails over
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  Speaker 1: my pain. I will say that again. God's purpose prevails
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  Speaker 1: over my pain.
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  Speaker 1: Your latter day shall be greater than your former day.
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  Speaker 1: I speak to you right now in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that you have a God that is able to give
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  Speaker 1: you a second chance and a blessing. And if you
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  Speaker 1: would just take 10 seconds and praise him for a
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  Speaker 1: second chance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody grateful. Everybody thankful. Everybody appreciative. Thank God for a
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  Speaker 1: second chance. Thank God for amazing grace. Amazing grace. Thank
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: God for a second chance. Thank God for a second start.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for a new beginning. Thank God that God's
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  Speaker 1: purpose prevails over your pain. The purpose of God. He
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  Speaker 1: used harlots. He used hookers. He used street people. He
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: used idolaters to accomplish his purpose. If God could use Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: If God could use Rahab, if God could use Tamar,
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  Speaker 1: then God can use me. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: God used Rebecca. God used her in spite of her treachery.
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  Speaker 1: God still used her. And if there's somebody in here
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  Speaker 1: that wants God to use you, open your mouth and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: begin to give God the praise. Now, let's go deeper.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get something in. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: something in. I want to get something in. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: feel this. I feel this. I feel this. I feel this.
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  Speaker 1: I feel this. I feel this. Somebody's about to get
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  Speaker 1: a second chance. This is a prophetic class. This is
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  Speaker 1: a prophetic class. This isn't just a Bible class. I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was going to be a Bible class. But
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: this is a prophetic word. God is going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a second chance at a blessing. You've lived in guilt.
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  Speaker 1: You've walked in shame. God said, I'm going to give
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you a second chance at a blessing. That's why you
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: had to be here tonight. That's why you had to
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: be online right now. Because God is about to open
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  Speaker 1: up a door and give you another opportunity to correct
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  Speaker 1: and break curses. He's going to turn it all the
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  Speaker 1: way around. He's going to spin it all the way around.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: God is about to turn some things in your life. Oh,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Somebody help me praise him. I feel
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  Speaker 1: a yoke breaking. I feel a door opening. I feel
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a curse being released. I feel the anointing of the
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Somebody shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, I will be triumphant.
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  Speaker 1: I will be triumphant. That's why I'm going to shout
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  Speaker 1: unto God with the voice of triumph. I might not
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  Speaker 1: look triumphant right now, but before it's all over, I
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  Speaker 1: will be triumphant. I will get it back. I will
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  Speaker 1: get a second chance. If I'm teaching what you need
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  Speaker 1: to be receiving, give him some glory. Online, give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise. Type of praise. Make a joyful noise. Make
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: a joyful emoji. Make a joyful sentence. Shout unto God
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  Speaker 1: in this place. Okay, sit down. We got to go
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: back to work. Now. Whew. Now, this is what has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Moses has been raised with the Pharaoh in the palace
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years. He's raised up in finery. He's educated
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  Speaker 1: in a way he would have never been educated. He
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  Speaker 1: has a boldness that he never would have had in
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  Speaker 1: his mama's house as a slave. He's raised up amongst
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  Speaker 1: kings and leaders and he has a finesse and a
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  Speaker 1: strength because his environment was different. You see, his environment
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: was different. And so, because God is raising him up
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  Speaker 1: to speak to kings and he does not want Moses
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  Speaker 1: to end up walking up on Pharaoh talking about, yes
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  Speaker 1: sir boss, I sure is glad that you made time
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  Speaker 1: to see me. Oh, I got a word from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord for you. If you don't mind me telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I am that I am sent me. No, he wants
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  Speaker 1: him to come boldly into it and say, I'm sent
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  Speaker 1: by God and I have a word from you. Thus
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord God unto you. And some of you,
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  Speaker 1: God had to put you in a different situation. so
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  Speaker 1: that you would have a different attitude. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: you don't fit in with your friends, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: you don't fit in with your family, because God is
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  Speaker 1: raising you up for a divine purpose. You don't think
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  Speaker 1: like them, you don't act like them, you don't walk
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  Speaker 1: like them, because you got a different destiny. My God,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: let me stop. Who am I talking to? I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to somebody tonight. Down through the years, God has been
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  Speaker 1: good to you. Now let me show you something, because
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you something. Sit down, sit down,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: sit down, because you'll make me get happy. If I
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: get happy, I won't get finished. Glory to God. How
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: many glad you came to Bible class? Now I want
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: you to think about this. Moses spends 40 years in
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's house. Then he tries to execute his destiny off
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  Speaker 1: schedule and rises up and ends up killing an Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: and has to go on the run for 40 years
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  Speaker 1: in the desert. Now Moses is now in the desert
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  Speaker 1: with Jethro for 40 years. And he's in the desert
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  Speaker 1: as an outlaw. And he stays there until Pharaoh dies.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: And Pharaoh rises up. They didn't know him. But even
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  Speaker 1: though he's an outcast from the palace, God has purpose
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  Speaker 1: in his pain. Because it's no accident that Moses has
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: spent 40 years, he spent 40 years learning how to
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  Speaker 1: be a Pharaoh, now he spends 40 years learning how
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  Speaker 1: to survive in the desert. Because his destiny is tied
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  Speaker 1: to the desert. And he's going to end up leading
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel through the desert. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: he can lead them through the desert is because he
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: spent 40 years in the desert. When God is going
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  Speaker 1: to take you somewhere, he exposes you to the thing
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be yours before you get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I talking to? And so Moses, he's the
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  Speaker 1: only one that could have led them out of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: because he spent 40 years learning how to survive in
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  Speaker 1: the desert under the tutelage of Jethro, the Cushite, which
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: means burnt face. So the burnt face Cushite man taught Moses,
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrew man, how to survive in a hot place.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden when Moses goes down there
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  Speaker 1: to tell Pharaoh to let my people go, he is
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: releasing a people that he's kin to but estranged from.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: They haven't seen Moses for 80 years. And now Moses
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: is leading them away from the familiar into the unfamiliar.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: and they have seen the glorious power of God at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea and they've had a moment of encouragement,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: but it was tough to get it because until Pharaoh drowned,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: they were scared to death and they wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: back and rightfully so. Because they don't know nothing about Moses.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: They don't know nothing about Moses. Now, Moses has got
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  Speaker 1: him through the Red Sea and now he's gone up
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  Speaker 1: on the mountaintop and he's gone a while. And while
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  Speaker 1: he's gone, they said this, verse 23. For they said
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  Speaker 1: unto me, make us gods, which shall go before us.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: For as for this Moses. That's right. For as for
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: this Moses. See, that statement right there, I'm so glad
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: you threw that back at me. As for this Moses.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: You don't say that, this Moses, if you know the guy.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: If I say as for this Robinson, that means I
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  Speaker 1: don't know him. For as for this Moses, the man
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  Speaker 1: that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: we would not what has become of him. Moses is
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  Speaker 1: just some dude who brought them up out of the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt. And he has no roots with them.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime you're trying to lead somebody that you are
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  Speaker 1: not rooted in, It becomes difficult for trust to be
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  Speaker 1: sustained where there are no roots. And I said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: whosoever hath any goal, let them break it off. So
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: they gave it to me. This is Aaron. Then I
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: cast it into the fire. He lied. And there came
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  Speaker 1: out a calf. That's like a seven-year-old lie. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just walked past the kitchen and the kitchen door
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  Speaker 1: came open and the ice cream just jumped out the freezer, mama.
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  Speaker 1: That's the stupidest lie. They gave me the earrings. I
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  Speaker 1: threw it in the fire and the calf came out.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, dude. And when Moses saw that the people
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  Speaker 1: were naked, for Aaron had made them naked unto their
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  Speaker 1: shame among their enemies, then Moses stood at the gate
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  Speaker 1: of the camp and said, who is on the Lord's side?
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  Speaker 1: Let him come unto me. And Levi said, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: this is my chance. All the 12 tribes of Israel
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  Speaker 1: were gathered around and Moses just left it open and said,
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  Speaker 1: who is on the Lord's side? And Levi said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to jump in right here. And I came to
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: tell somebody tonight, you can jump in right here. You
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. You've been cursed
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  Speaker 1: all your life. Let me stop. You've been cursed all
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  Speaker 1: your life. You always had to take a back seat
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else. But God said, this is your chance.
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  Speaker 1: Who is on the Lord's side? Somebody holler, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to my who is on the Lord's side scripture.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, who is on the Lord's side? Let
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  Speaker 1: him come unto me. and all the sons of... Come on,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together
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  Speaker 1: unto him. They said, we're on the Lord's side. And
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  Speaker 1: they said unto him, thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: put every man his sword by his side and go
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  Speaker 1: in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp
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  Speaker 1: and slay every man his brother and every man his
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  Speaker 1: companion and every man his neighbor. And wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: They reversed the curse with the same thing That brought
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  Speaker 1: the curse in the first place. Y'all don't want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to me. Y'all don't want to talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't want to talk to me. Y'all don't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to me. God's going to take what was
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  Speaker 1: working against you and turn it around and let it
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  Speaker 1: work for you. Who am I talking to tonight? And
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses.
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  Speaker 1: And there fell of the people that day about 3,000 men.
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  Speaker 1: For Moses has said, consecrate yourselves today to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even every man upon his son and upon his brother,
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  Speaker 1: that he may bestow upon you a son. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: hear this word. Y'all don't hear this word. God bestowed
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  Speaker 1: on them a blessing that they couldn't get from their father,
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't get from their mother, that they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get from their brethren, that they couldn't get in captivity,
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't get from Pharaoh, but God has decided
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  Speaker 1: to bless you. Type on the line, God has decided
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  Speaker 1: to bless me. Say it to your neighbor, God has
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  Speaker 1: decided to bless me. Tell your other neighbor, God has
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: decided to bless me. Tell your haters, God has decided
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: to bless me. Tell your neighbors, God has decided to
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  Speaker 1: bless me. And it came to pass on the morrow
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  Speaker 1: that Moses said unto the people, ye have sinned a
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  Speaker 1: great sin. And now I will go up unto the Lord. Perventure,
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  Speaker 1: I shall make an atonement for your sin. And that
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  Speaker 1: was how they broke the curse. Now, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get in. I'm done. I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you this. Moses' problem is that
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  Speaker 1: he's leading a people with whom he's not been rooted.
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  Speaker 1: And when there is no root, every time you leave,
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  Speaker 1: they doubt you. When there is no root in the relationship,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: every time you step aside, they doubt you. And you
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: say they're needy. They're not needy, they're doubtful. They're doubtful
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: because there is no root. And you are in a
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  Speaker 1: position for which there is no root. Now, you came
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: back into the boy's life and he's 30. And you
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: want to pick up where you left off. It's not
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: that he hates you, there's no root. You gotta build
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  Speaker 1: a root system. You remember when they said that Levi
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  Speaker 1: and Simeon had digged up a wall and then the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: next translation came along and said that he had uprooted.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that? It said he had uprooted. See, when
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  Speaker 1: you are not connected to who you're trying to lead,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: you uproot things. And a rooting system is important in
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  Speaker 1: order for there to be fruit. And some of you
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: are trying to get fruit out of a relationship where
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  Speaker 1: you have no root. So Moses had no root with them,
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  Speaker 1: so every time he left, they wanted to leave. We
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: don't know what has become of this man called Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Let us make us some gods and go back to
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  Speaker 1: something that we have roots to. No root in a relationship.
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  Speaker 1: No root in ministry. You're trying to lead people that
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  Speaker 1: you're not rooted to. If there's no rooting system, if
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  Speaker 1: there's no rooting system, if you can't talk to a
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: crowd like this, you can't talk to the stadium. People
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: who have been in this church a long time know
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: that I taught for years and years and years every
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. And we would have thousands of people in
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: here every Wednesday night because I knew that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: just lead a church from Sunday morning. You have to
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  Speaker 1: root it on Wednesday. Amen. See, right now, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing? I'm digging amongst the roots. I'm digging
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: amongst the roots. Yeah, yeah, Sunday morning, I'm gonna talk
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: to the branches and the fruit and the leaves and
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: everything else. Wednesday night, I'm digging amongst the roots. And
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: if you're listening at me right now, you need a
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  Speaker 1: rooting system. You need to build a rooting system. Your
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: marriage isn't over, you just need a rooting system. Your
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: career isn't over, you just need a rooting system. You're
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, you need a rooting system. You can't be
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: uprooted and then every time you move away, they leave,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: you get mad, you can't figure out why they left.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: They left because they don't know you. They don't have
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: your spirit. They don't know your voice. My sheep know
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: my voice. A stranger they will not follow. In order
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: for your sheep to know your voice, you have to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: stick around long enough for them to have some roots.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: You need roots in your marriage. You need roots in
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: your family. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one more scripture and I'm
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: going to close. Can I give you one more scripture?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Go to the Gospel of St. Mark chapter 4 verse
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  Speaker 1: 1 through 9 and I'll be done. This is good.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Is this good? I thought it was good. It was
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: good when I got it. Yeah, it was good when
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: I got it. Mark chapter four, verse one. This is
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  Speaker 1: important because this is what Jesus is teaching. And all
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: of this is ultimately tied back to this blessing. Why
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: you get it or don't get it really comes down
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: to how you're rooted. That's why the Bible said, be steadfast, unmovable,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: and always abounding in the work of the Lord. Because
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: in order to be rooted, you got to be stable.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: You got to get someplace and stick. You got to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: stick it out when it's good and stick it out
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: when it's bad and stick it out when it's working
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: and stick it out when it's not working because even
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: when it's not working on the surface, it's working underground. Oh,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: my God. I helped somebody. I don't know who it is,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: but I helped somebody. You up there looking for leaves
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: and stuff, but let me tell you something. Bad weather
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: will kill all the leaves and all the branches, but
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: if it don't kill the roots, it's going to come
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: back up again. Amen. You're trying to produce fruit so
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: you can put it on Instagram. Don't worry about putting
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: fruit on Instagram. Put roots underground. If you put roots underground,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: the fruit's going to take care of itself. Listen to
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: that Jesus teaching, 4th chapter, Gospel of St. Mark. And
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: he began to teach by the seaside. And there was
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: into the ship and sat in the sea. And the
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: whole multitude was by the sea on the land. Jesus
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: sitting in the boat teaching. And he taught them many
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken, behold,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: there went out a sower to sow. And it came
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: to pass as he sowed, some fell by the wayside.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: And the fowl of the air came and devoured it up.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: And some fell on stony ground where it had not
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: much earth. And immediately it sprang up, because it had
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit of earth, because it had no depth
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: of earth. Come on. But when the sun was up,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: it was scorched. And because it had no root, and
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: because it had no root, and because it had no root,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: it withered away. This time, if you're going to win,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to be rooted. I'm telling you,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the battle you lost before, you can win now if
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: you get the rooting system in place. You didn't lose
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: it because the seed was bad. You didn't lose it
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: because God didn't love you. You didn't lose it because
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: the devil had more power. You lost it because you
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: didn't have no root. And some fell amongst thorns and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the thorns grew up and choked it out and it
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: yielded no fruit. Come on. And others fell on good
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: and brought forth some 30, some 60, and some a hundredfold.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: And he said unto them, he that hath, let him
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit is saying. That's what God wants
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: you to know. He that hath an ear, let him hear. Okay,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: let me do this. I'm gonna take, sit down for
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: a minute. I'm gonna take, I'm gonna follow Cora's lead.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Pastor Cora did something last week. I'm gonna do it
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, I know, I know, I saw it.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: I was watching too. I was watching too. She taught
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: on the names of God, didn't she? Yeah, so what
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: she did, somebody get a mic. What she did, I'm
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: going to do it for about 10 minutes. And you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: that's online, if you get a good question online, you
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: all send it to me. I'll answer a couple of
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: questions online. I'm going to take about 10 minutes. Who's
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: got the first question? Okay, where's the mic? Where's the mic?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I asked for the mic. Somebody ought to be moving
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: with the mic. Yeah, thank you. She's coming. She's coming.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: She's coming. I'm excited. Calm down. Okay, yeah. I have
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: everybody running. Yeah. Here we go. Yeah. Yes. How do
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: we build a rooting system? How do we what? How
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: do we build a rooting system?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: You're teaching we need a rooting system, R-O-O-T-I-N-G.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: How do we build that? In what area? Are we
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: talking about families or business or?
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: Family, business, personal relationships, just kind of.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Does it depend? Each one, the answer is different to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: every question. Okay. Like for a lot of times in business,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Our businesses don't succeed because we go for the glam
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: and we don't have the infrastructure. So you want to
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: build an infrastructure and if you only got limited resources,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: you want to put it in the legal infrastructure of
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: the business more than the glam. There are delis that
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: are open in New York that still have the furniture.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: they had 100 years ago, and they're still open. And
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: if we owned it, we would have redecorated it and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: blinged it out and put chandeliers in it, and they
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: put it in the profit, and they have a rooting system.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: In a personal relationship, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm going
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: to get there too. In a personal relationship, the rooting
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: system has to be built deep by not making demands. Okay.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: before you're in demand. See, we go in making demands
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: of people that we don't have enough demand to make demands.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: And so you want to build a rooting system of stability,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: of loyalty, of connectivity, of understanding and transparency. All of
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: that is your underground work that has to be built.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: So you know why? So when something goes wrong, you
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: have something to hold on to. You understand what I'm saying? Okay,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: so for example, you can go through midlife crisis. I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: can go through midlife crisis. You can go through menopause.
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  Speaker 1: We can withstand it if we had roots. Wow. I
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: can love you now over who you used to be.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: Come on, yeah.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: And I know you would do different if you could. Yes.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: But if there's no, if I marry you in the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: middle of the crisis, then I don't have enough roots
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: to have anything to hold on to to stabilize me
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: in the storm.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: So would you say compatibility?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Compatibility is a part of it, but longevity is better. See,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: longevity is better because trust takes time. We are never
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: commanded to trust another person. We are commanded to forgive them,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: but we're not commanded to trust them because trust is
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: not something I can make myself do. I can make
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: myself forgive you, but I can't make myself trust you.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: You can make me trust you by consistency. If you
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: just be consistent, if you just be there long enough,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: eventually trust is gonna be a result of your consistency.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Consistency is important. And you have to build a rooting system.
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  Speaker 1: You have to build a rooting system by being there
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: when I'm in trouble. Being there when I'm in a
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: crisis and you have to build a rooting system, not
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: only by giving love, because I can already see people
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: typing on the line, though I can't see it. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: can see them say, I did all that and it
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: still fell apart. Not only is it important that you
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  Speaker 1: give it, but that you find somebody who can receive
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: it and reciprocate it. Because it has to be mutual.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: It has to be mutual. It can't be one-sided. This
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: is not witchcraft. You can't make me love you. You see,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: and some of you have made good investments in bad ground. Okay,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: so the first thing in a relationship you want to
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: know from a companion, and you can't just ask them this,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you have to observe this. Are you safe to love? Yes.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Are you safe to love? And one of the ways
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: you can observe it is watching how they handle other
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: people they say they love. If you've divorced everybody that
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: came into your life and you can't get along with
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: nobody else in your life, what in the world would
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: make me think that I'm gonna be the one exception
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: in your life that's gonna beat the odds? The best
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: predictor of future behavior is past practice. If you see
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: somebody who has had several longstanding loyal relationships that continued
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: over a period of time, you begin to understand it
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: is within your ability to be loyal. Some people don't
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: have the ability to be loyal. And Jesus said, in essence,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: you are casting your pearls before the swine. I'll take
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: two more. Here's a question from online. How do I
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: block out other voices and focus on God's voice? That's
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: a good question. That's a good question. One of the things,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: and I could spend a long time on this. One
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: of the reasons we have worship services is to feed
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: your spiritual ears to hear. We have spirit, just like
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: we have five senses in the flesh, we have five
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: senses in the spirit. He that hath an ear, let
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: him hear what the spirit is saying to the church.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he that hath a physical ear, that's everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That means somebody who has an ability to hear what
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: the Spirit is saying. How do I get my spiritual
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: ear exercised? By worship. Because worship makes you practice communicating
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: with somebody you cannot see with your natural eye nor
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: hear with your natural ear. And as that relationship becomes strong,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: prayer does it. Worship does it. Communication with God does
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: it until he becomes more and more voluminous in your life.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: But you can't watch TV all day, scroll through Facebook,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: interact with friends, listen to that crazy music all day
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and expect to hear God's voice. If you want to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: hear God's voice louder than other voices, spend more time
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: with God. Get a rooting system with God. Let's get
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: you on a prayer diet. Let's get you on a
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: prayer diet. Let's get you on a worship pattern where
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: every day, I know you're busy. If you don't do it,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: but when you're in the shower, let's make that time
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: God's time. While you're driving to work, cut off the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: music and start commuting with God until it becomes something
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: that becomes routine to you. And then God's voice will
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: be louder. The other voices will always be there because
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: God intends for there to be a trial in your
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: garden of Eden. If you kill the other voices, then
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: you don't choose him. So it's not about killing the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: other voices. It's about calming them down so that you
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: can say, God, I hear them, but I prefer you.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I'll take another. Am I helping somebody? Amen. How long
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: did it take for the descendants of Levi to be
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: blessed again? We know it had to be at least
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: 400 and some years before, because they went into idolatry.
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  Speaker 1: They went into Egypt and they started seeking other gods.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that it took God 400 years to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but they had turned away from God. And this is why.
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  Speaker 1: They had become enslaved by the Egyptians and they took
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  Speaker 1: on the ways of the Egyptians. And so God had
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  Speaker 1: to separate them from the environment that had infected them
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  Speaker 1: To purify them in the wilderness. The Bible said he
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  Speaker 1: proved them in the wilderness. So the word prove is
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  Speaker 1: to test. He's pruning them. He's untangling their roots. They
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  Speaker 1: had become so much like the Egyptians that when they
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  Speaker 1: got ready to build a god, they built the Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: god as an image. You become who you hang around. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why it took so long. So there is
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  Speaker 1: no specific length of time. It's how fast do you turn?
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  Speaker 1: God said, if you return unto me, I will return
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  Speaker 1: unto you and I shall be your God and you
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  Speaker 1: shall be my people. So it's not how long does
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  Speaker 1: it take God to do it, it's how long does
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  Speaker 1: it take you to do it? Next question, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: one more question.
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  Speaker 3: How do you truly surrender?
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  Speaker 1: I am literally.
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  Speaker 3: The willing vessel. I'm the spiritual curse breaker I am
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  Speaker 3: the one. And I always got blamed for things when
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  Speaker 3: I was young because I didn't know certain things. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have that model before me. And so now in
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  Speaker 3: the last past couple of years, it feels like I
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  Speaker 3: get all the backlash. I get all the rejection. And
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: I've been independent for a while, but there are good
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  Speaker 3: times where I need help. And I'm just tired of
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: having to be the strong friend all the time. I
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  Speaker 3: pour into people every single day, even when I'm empty.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that some people say you can't pour
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  Speaker 3: from an empty cup. It's just in me to pour
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  Speaker 3: into people no matter of my circumstance. I've put myself
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  Speaker 3: in places where I aspire to be. I invest in
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: myself even when I can't even finish paying my bills.
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  Speaker 1: I believe.
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  Speaker 3: But how do you truly, and I guess it's the
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  Speaker 3: second question, but how do you truly keep believing when
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  Speaker 3: your own family really just don't believe in you. They
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  Speaker 3: see you for who you are now, but not who
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  Speaker 3: you are becoming.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need them to believe it. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: them to believe it. You really, a prophet is without
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  Speaker 1: honor in his own country. And it's not unusual for
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  Speaker 1: the people closest to you to not see you in
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  Speaker 1: that light because that's not the relationship that they have
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  Speaker 1: with you. The relationship that they have with you has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with your destiny. It has something to
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  Speaker 1: do with your history. And their connection to you is
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: as a family member, not a vision supporter. So stop
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: going to people who don't see it, trying to get
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  Speaker 1: support from them. I'm not saying leave them alone. Still
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  Speaker 1: love them as a family member, but don't connect your
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  Speaker 1: spiritual destiny to somebody who is just a family member.
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  Speaker 1: And I hear pain in your voice. Yeah, I hear
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  Speaker 1: pain in your voice. And there's two things I want
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  Speaker 1: to say to you. Oh, glory. There's two things I
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  Speaker 1: want to say to you. The reason everybody uses you
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: up is because you draw people who need you and
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: not people who feed you. When you get in a
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  Speaker 1: room with people who can feed you You don't feel
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  Speaker 1: worthy of being in the room that you're in. So
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: you find yourself gravitating toward people who need you because
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: then you can lead them. But they leech off of you. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying to you, what I want you
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  Speaker 1: to do is to go into rooms where people are
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  Speaker 1: above you and resist the temptation to run. until you
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: own the new you on the inside. You're trying to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: get everybody else to believe something about you that you're
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: struggling to believe about yourself. And you're hurting for support
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: because you need reinforcement because the voice on the inside
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: says you're not worthy of what you believe in God
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: to do. And I want you to receive this for
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: yourself because I believe I can help you. I believe
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  Speaker 1: I can help you. I believe I can help you.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to what I'm telling you, it will really,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: really help you. You're going to go into the room
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to feel unworthy and you're going to
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable and you're going to feel incapable and you're
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: going to feel scared. Stay anyway. Stay there. The only
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: reason you feel uncomfortable, unworthy is not because you're not
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: worthy of it, it's because you haven't rooted yet. If
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  Speaker 1: you stay in the room long enough, it will become
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: your norm and you will have a rooting system to
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: support you. Instead, you're trying to root with your family
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: and not with your destiny. You don't have to try
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: to root with your family because your family is supposed
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: to love you for who you are, not what you have,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: not what you drive, not how many degrees you have.
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  Speaker 1: They're supposed to love you just because you are. We
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: should never prostitute our family where we make our relationship
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: with them predicated on their performance. You don't have to
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: earn my love to be my child. I'm gonna love
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: you anyway. I can't help it. I'm gonna love you
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: if you're a drug dealer. I might be hurt, but
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna love you if you're a drug dealer, because
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  Speaker 1: you're my child, okay? That's a whole different relationship. I
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: am not the supporting system necessarily that's gonna take you
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: into your destiny. I am the supporting system that got
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: you here. What got you here may not be what
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: takes you there. You understand? You see that? You see it,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: don't you? Okay, now watch this. The way you see
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: yourself makes certain types of people drawn to you. And
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: they are drawn to you because they are reflecting how
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: you see you, okay? Now, I'm not saying get rid
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: of all of those people who need you because there's
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: a certain degree of gratification you get out of serving
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: and helping and doing all that. I'm saying to irrigate
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  Speaker 1: your desert and put streams in your desert By streaming
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: water into those dry places. The reason you are drying
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: out is that you don't have no water coming into
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: your desert. And that water is going to come from
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: other places. But the funny thing about the water when
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: it comes, you're going to be scared to drink it.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Because it's unfamiliar. And you're a little bit scared of it.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: And so you go back and get more people who
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: need you. And then you're empty and you're draining. You say,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: I keep pouring out. And I keep pouring out. And
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: you say, they say you can't pour out, but I can.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with pouring out if you're taking in.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: So I want you to be intentional. Here's your homework.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: I want you to write down all the people in
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: your life who need you. And then I want you
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: to write down all the people in your life who
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: feed you. And I want you to notice how short
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: the list is of the people who feed you versus
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: the people who need you. And I want you to,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: here's your homework, is to lengthen that list of people
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: who feed you. And it doesn't always mean that you
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  Speaker 1: have to be in their face. It can come through podcasts.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: It can come through going to operas and plays. It
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: can come through going through places off the beaten path
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: where you have never been before and wouldn't think to go.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: You should go. and you should go and you should
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: meet people and you should make friends until you become
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: comfortable in the conversation in places where you've never been before, okay?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: I want you to remodel your life, your wardrobe, your appearance,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: your vernacular, your tone, your temperament to where you're going,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: not where you've been. When you go back into the
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: areas where you've been, you can always speak that language.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: You know that language. You didn't have to learn that language.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: You know how to speak that language. But I want
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: you to adopt the language of your destiny and not
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: just your history. And this is going to take time.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Here's the good news. It can start in church. You
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: know why? In a church like this, there's all kind
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: of people. There's people from the shelter. There's people that
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: are homeless. There are people that are entrepreneurs. There are
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: people who are coming up from the shelter going to
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: be entrepreneurs. There are people with degrees. There are people
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: with doctorates. There are people who can't read. In a church,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: there are all kinds of people. You get to choose
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: where you sit. You get to choose who you connect with.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: You get to choose who you go to eat with.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: And get in some small circles. If it's one or
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: two people, it don't need to be 20. Just one
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: or two people that are going in the direction you're
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: going and hop in the car. Hop in the car.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Go along for the ride. Get into something that is positive.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to go a little bit deeper because
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: I think I'm talking to you and I'm talking through you.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: Get into an environment of people who feel whatever it
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: is that you're trying to be. If it's artsy, go
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: to art shows. You're an entrepreneur? Okay. Okay, give her
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: the mic back so they can hear.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm an entrepreneur. I actually did network marketing
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: starting in 2020 of a health and wellness franchise. I'm
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: a life coach getting my life together, but I have
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: been able to just grow in different aspects. I do
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: credit repair as well, and I just... I just became
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: a member not too long ago, and I love you
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: because you are just so unorthodox. And I feel like
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: if I want to go be a doctor tomorrow and
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: I want to be a photographer the next day, then
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: that's what you could do. God has placed so many
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: gifts in me that is, like, so amazing, you know?
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: And I struggle sometimes with that because I need to
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: figure out how can I impact people through what God
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: has blessed me, but also how can I... How can
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: it be sustainable?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: So you're a life coach and you're an entrepreneur. Is
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: that the entrepreneur part? What else do you do?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, so credit repair and a healthy wellness franchise.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, everything you're doing is fixing people. Right, right. Okay,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: that's telling me something. That lines up with the profile.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: What you chose to go into is what you're complaining about.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Because if you're a health and wellness coach and if
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: you're a credit repair person, you're making your money from
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: people who need you. I want you to pick something,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: don't have to give that up, but I want you
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: to pick something that feeds you to balance that out. Okay,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: to balance that out, to balance that out. I don't
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: hear you talking about being connected with groups of people
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: that feed you, that you can be a little girl
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: in the room.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, so when I say I've been investing in myself,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: I have literally been putting my, like two weeks ago
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: I went to Atlanta for a mastermind, Neil's mastermind, and
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: literally just uncomfortable. My last two years of my life
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: been uncomfortable. Two years ago, I was homeless. I lived
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: in California, grew up in Compton on Proud Root Street,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: and literally took a step of faith and moved here
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: about almost two years ago. So, it's a long story.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to hold you. Hold up. Let
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: me tell you something. Yes, sir. That you are not getting.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: You are doing good. Yes! You are doing good. You
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: are doing good. I want that to break through the
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: wall that you have built in front of yourself. You
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: don't clap for you. You need to clap for you.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: You need to celebrate you. If you were homeless, you
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: grew up in Compton, and now you're doing all of
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: that stuff, you are doing much better than you are feeling.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: Your emotions are still homeless. Your emotions have not caught
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: up with where you're at yet. And I want to
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: bring your emotions into where you are right now. You
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: are doing good. You deserve to be here. You belong here.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: You're in the place you're supposed to be. Your emotions
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: eventually will get the memo. They don't get the memo
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: at first. Because they're still carrying the scars from all
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: the things you said and didn't say that happened to
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: you in your life. Your emotions are still back there.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna bring them up here by celebrating where
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: you are right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: don't know what your financial level is now, but when
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: your financial level gets strong enough, I want you to
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: get therapy.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: Here at TD Jake's ministry.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: Good, good, good, good. Get the therapy. And the reason
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: you get the therapy is not to say you're crazy.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: It's not to say, yeah, yeah. You need to move on.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: Your emotions need to come out of that. You know
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: why you've been traumatized. You've been traumatized. And the reason
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: you don't clap for yourself is the walls that you
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: built to keep the pain out. Also won't let the
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: love in. Okay, so you build the wall to protect
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: yourself to survive the vicissitudes of life. The problem with
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: the wall is now nothing comes in. Okay, nothing comes in.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: And you don't know how to tear down your own wall.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: Therapy helps you to brick by brick tear down the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: wall so that you can receive the sunlight on the
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: other side. The wolves are gone, but the sunlight can't
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: get in. Love can't get in and the clapping doesn't
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: come from another person. person if it doesn't come from you. Okay?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: So that's a process that's going to take time, that's
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: going to take going back to the trauma, and let's
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: see how deep it is and how bad it is,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: and why you can't cough that up and get that
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: out and get you on wellness so that your emotions
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: can catch up with where you are now. You got it?
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Clap your hands, give God a praise.