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Trusting Beyond Knowing - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I want you to go to the gospel of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter 21 verse 2 through 9. A very predictable
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  Speaker 1: and practical text considering that we have just stepped into
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  Speaker 1: Holy Week. And it is introduced to us through a
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  Speaker 1: rite and a memorial of what we call Palm Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And I always preach occasional messages. but indulge me this
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  Speaker 1: morning as I share with you the oracles of God.
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  Speaker 1: I have found that the flowers shall fade and the
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  Speaker 1: grass shall wither, but the word of the Lord shall
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  Speaker 1: stand forever. When you have it, say amen. Saying unto them,
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  Speaker 1: go into the village over against you and straightway ye
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  Speaker 1: shall find an ass tied in a coat with her.
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  Speaker 1: Loose them and bring them unto me. And if any
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  Speaker 1: man say ought unto you, you shall say the Lord
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  Speaker 1: have need of them and straightway he will send them.
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  Speaker 1: All this was done, careful now, that it might be
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, Tell ye
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee,
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  Speaker 1: meek and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the
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  Speaker 1: foal of an ass. And the disciples went and did
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus commanded them, and brought the ass and the
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  Speaker 1: colt and put on them their clothes, and they set
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  Speaker 1: him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments
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  Speaker 1: in the way. Others cut down branches from the trees
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  Speaker 1: and strewed them in the path. And the multitudes that
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  Speaker 1: went before and that followed crying saying, Hosanna to the
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  Speaker 1: son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Hosanna.
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  Speaker 1: Hosanna. In the highest. Can you say amen? I want
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  Speaker 1: to use an odd subject, but hopefully before I finish,
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  Speaker 1: I'll weave it together in some symmetrical ideology that helps
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  Speaker 1: you to understand the profundity of what I'm about to say.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about trusting beyond knowledge. Or trusting
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  Speaker 1: beyond knowing. It's one thing to know and it's another
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  Speaker 1: thing to trust. Jesus told Thomas, you have believed because
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  Speaker 1: you have seen, but blessed are they who have not seen,
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  Speaker 1: and yet they believe. Spirit of the living God, fall
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  Speaker 1: afresh on us as we open up the book and
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  Speaker 1: delve into your word. I thank you. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for what you're about to do. I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your presence and your glory and your impact and your anointing.
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  Speaker 1: And I invite your presence to have your way in
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  Speaker 1: this place in a supernatural way. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we pray, amen. You may be seated. Now, much to
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  Speaker 1: your surprise, the early church, the apostles, Peter, James, John, Paul, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: knew nothing of Palm Sunday. It was not a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: It was not something that was commemorated every year. It
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  Speaker 1: was four centuries after Jesus had departed before we began
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  Speaker 1: to recognize this as a day of memorial. To commemorate
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  Speaker 1: what the traditional Jews understood as to be a messianic
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  Speaker 1: sign of the coming of the son of David. Their
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  Speaker 1: king is coming. And for them, on a very practical level,
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  Speaker 1: that meant that their oppressor was defeated. And you must
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  Speaker 1: understand that we are all looking at the same scene,
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  Speaker 1: but we are seeing it from different perspectives. It's amazing
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  Speaker 1: how a group of people can get excited about the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, but have different points of view. They don't
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  Speaker 1: always understand What is at stake? But the disciples did.
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  Speaker 1: Because people who walk really close with a leader are
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  Speaker 1: privy to information that other people don't have. They know
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when, for instance, I'm preaching as we travel across
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  Speaker 1: the country, they know when I'm jet lagged. They know
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  Speaker 1: when I'm sick. They know when things aren't going good.
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  Speaker 1: They know when I'm worried about something. The audience doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know it. But the people who are closest to you
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  Speaker 1: really get to know you and in some way they
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  Speaker 1: become a kind of family. Several years ago I went
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  Speaker 1: to Whitney Houston's funeral and I was moved by her
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  Speaker 1: mother and her daughter who was living at the time
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  Speaker 1: and their remarks and all the things that people said,
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  Speaker 1: her aunt who presided over different aspects of it, all
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  Speaker 1: of it was touching. But when her band stood up
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  Speaker 1: and started talking, I found it difficult to hold back
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  Speaker 1: my tears. Because I know what it is to travel
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  Speaker 1: with somebody. And when you travel all over the world,
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  Speaker 1: you become a bit of a family. You've seen them
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  Speaker 1: at good times. You've been on the road when a
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  Speaker 1: loved one died. You've been on the road when somebody
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  Speaker 1: got sick. You've been on the road when they got
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. I never will forget we were in Nigeria
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  Speaker 1: and Antar got sick and they told me to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and fly home. And I said, are you crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not leaving Antar in Nigeria. Sick with malaria. Hop
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  Speaker 1: on a plane, they thought he had malaria, he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But hop on a plane and leave him behind? I'm
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  Speaker 1: old school. If he's not going, I'm not going. So
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  Speaker 1: we might as well settle down, get an extra night,
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  Speaker 1: get an extra three nights, whatever we got to do
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  Speaker 1: because we're in it together. We've been in deserts. We've
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  Speaker 1: been in dry places. We've been in places where there
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  Speaker 1: were no bathrooms. We've been in places where there was
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  Speaker 1: no food. We've been in places where we got sick.
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  Speaker 1: There's been times I've got sick and he had to
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  Speaker 1: nurse me back to health. There was one time I
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  Speaker 1: was in a hotel, had fallen out on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: He came in and got me up off the floor
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  Speaker 1: and treated me till I got better. And you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to leave him in Nigeria? You must be
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  Speaker 1: out of your mind. Are you tripping? I'm never as
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  Speaker 1: happy when I preach as when I have Marcus on
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  Speaker 1: the organ because Marcus has been playing for me since
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  Speaker 1: I'm 17 years old. Since he was 17 years old.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't 17. When I was 17, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: he was born. But he was 17 years old and
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  Speaker 1: he don't even have to look at me. He knows
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  Speaker 1: my body language. He knows my movements. He knows everything
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  Speaker 1: about me and I don't have to explain nothing to him.
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  Speaker 1: It's powerful. When you travel with people, a special bond
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  Speaker 1: erupts out of that and a closeness that comes out
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  Speaker 1: of that situation. And so when we step into this
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  Speaker 1: particular text, the disciples are not feeling what the crowd
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  Speaker 1: is feeling because they are privy to information that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is going to Jerusalem to die. And Thomas has said,
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  Speaker 1: I must go and die with him. So the palpable
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  Speaker 1: feeling of anxiety was exactly that. It was palpable. It
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  Speaker 1: was tangible. It was real amongst the disciples because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know how the story was going. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: gotten into something you don't know for sure how the
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  Speaker 1: story's going to end and there's a certain ominous feeling
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  Speaker 1: hanging over your head because you got a feeling this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be a happy ending? My mother,
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  Speaker 1: when she was down with Alzheimer's, she was trying to
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  Speaker 1: prepare me For the death, she said, every story don't
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  Speaker 1: have no happy ending. And I knew what that meant.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to act like I didn't know what it meant,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew what it meant. She was trying to
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  Speaker 1: prepare me. They were going to Jerusalem. Jesus had set
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  Speaker 1: his face to go to Jerusalem. There was no stopping him.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he knew that to go to Jerusalem was
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  Speaker 1: to sign a death sentence. And the disciples were going along.
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  Speaker 1: They've been with him everywhere else. They've been with him
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  Speaker 1: in every other situation. They had been with him with
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  Speaker 1: the woman with the issue of blood. They had been
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  Speaker 1: with him as Lazarus was raised from the dead. They
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  Speaker 1: had been with him as the man with the withered
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  Speaker 1: hand stretched forth his hand and got healed. They had
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  Speaker 1: been with him when he ran through the cornfields and
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  Speaker 1: they ate of the cornfields. They had been with him
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  Speaker 1: when the Pharisees tried to trap him and he eluded
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  Speaker 1: their trap. They had been with him In every situation,
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  Speaker 1: in every circumstance, they've been with him. When he took
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  Speaker 1: the two fish and five loaves of bread and fed 5,000,
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  Speaker 1: they had been with him. When he walked out on
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  Speaker 1: the water in the middle of the night and came
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  Speaker 1: walking to him and they thought he was a ghost,
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  Speaker 1: they had been with. him when he told them to
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  Speaker 1: go down there and pay the taxes out of the
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  Speaker 1: fish's mouth. They had been with him in every situation
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  Speaker 1: and it would have been a bit nefarious to walk
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  Speaker 1: away now. But the real test of discipleship is not
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  Speaker 1: walking with somebody when they're performing miracles. The real test
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  Speaker 1: of real discipleship is to walk with them when they
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  Speaker 1: walk through the valley of the shadow of death. To
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  Speaker 1: go through the garden of Gethsemane and hang out with
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  Speaker 1: them and watch them sweat drops of blood is proof
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  Speaker 1: of being a real disciple. I'm not impressed with people
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  Speaker 1: who want to follow me up on the mountain. I'm
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  Speaker 1: impressed with people who hang with you in the valley.
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  Speaker 1: Am I talking in the right place? So the disciples
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  Speaker 1: are on edge. So as they near going to the
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  Speaker 1: place of Jerusalem and starting the Holy Week, they run
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  Speaker 1: into blind Bartimaeus. And the reason I believe that the
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  Speaker 1: disciples snap at blind Bartimaeus is because they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: time for it. And everybody in here, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how saved you are, there are times when I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you catch me at the right time, you get Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But if you catch me on the wrong day and
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got time for it, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that foolishness.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up!
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  Speaker 1: We through healing people. We got problems. We didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem to heal no blind people. We might die here.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up! Master, send him away. He cries after us.
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  Speaker 1: That's the stress they're carrying. That's the stress they're carrying
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  Speaker 1: because they are going to Jerusalem to die. And there
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  Speaker 1: he is in this situation. And in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this situation, he exhibits throughout the week a three-fold deity,
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  Speaker 1: an operation of deities prophet, priest, and king. He is
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  Speaker 1: priest enough to serve the last supper, the sacraments of
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  Speaker 1: the pastor. He is priest enough to do that. He
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  Speaker 1: is prophet enough to look into another city that he's
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  Speaker 1: not in and says, there's an ass and a coat
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  Speaker 1: tied up I get happy when I get to that
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  Speaker 1: part because I have to figure that if God knows
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  Speaker 1: where a donkey is, then I don't have to get
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  Speaker 1: down on my knees and explain to him where I'm at.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was aware of a colt and its foal tied up.
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  Speaker 1: He knew exactly where it was tied up. He said,
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  Speaker 1: go get him. God ain't making this thing up as
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  Speaker 1: he goes. He had had that ass and that coat
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  Speaker 1: tied up for years waiting on the right time. I
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  Speaker 1: want to take a minute and talk to somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: been tied up. God has not forgotten you. He will
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  Speaker 1: tie you up until the time is right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how many people go ahead of you. When it's
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  Speaker 1: your time, it's your time. And when God gets ready
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  Speaker 1: to pull you, he'll pull you out. He knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: where you are. He knows exactly what you got tied up.
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  Speaker 1: And the tie is as much God as the calling
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  Speaker 1: is that when God gets ready to loose you and
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  Speaker 1: let you go, no devil in hell can hold you back.
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  Speaker 1: Loose him. And let him go. He is priest enough
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  Speaker 1: to serve the first communion. Previously a Passover, now a communion.
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  Speaker 1: He is prophet enough to be aware of the donkey
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  Speaker 1: and its baby. Good God. Every little voice in you
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  Speaker 1: that says that God doesn't understand, just got to whoop it.
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  Speaker 1: Because you know if God knows where an animal is,
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  Speaker 1: If his eye is on the sparrow, if the hair
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  Speaker 1: on your head is numbered, all that stuff you're doing
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  Speaker 1: trying to explain to God your situation as if you
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  Speaker 1: needed to educate him is a waste of spit and wind.
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  Speaker 1: God knows exactly where you are. And if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to praise him when you get loose, you got to
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  Speaker 1: praise him while you're tied up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I want the folks that's tied up to praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Because the truth of the matter, the rope isn't holding me.
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  Speaker 1: My divine purpose is. And when it's time for me
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  Speaker 1: and the stage is set, hell can't make a rope
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  Speaker 1: that can hold me back. When God gets ready to
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  Speaker 1: loose me, he'll loose me. I ain't worried about you
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  Speaker 1: putting your foot on me because he'll break your foot
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  Speaker 1: before you can hold me down. If he wants me up,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't strong enough to hold me down. They're the
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  Speaker 1: cult and the foe, tied up in the next village.
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  Speaker 1: And prophet Jesus knew where they was. And prophet Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew what posts they were tied to. And prophet Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew what rope was around in there. And prophet Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly what village they were in. And he's going
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  Speaker 1: to die and he's thinking about animals. If he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: about animals while he's dying, then while he's resurrected, I
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  Speaker 1: can surely believe he's thinking about me. Look at your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and tell him God is thinking about you. What
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  Speaker 1: is man that thou art mindful of him? Or the
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  Speaker 1: son of man that thou visited him? For you have
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  Speaker 1: made him a little lower than the angels and yet
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  Speaker 1: you've crowned him with honor and glory. When I think
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that God's mind is full of me.
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  Speaker 1: And before the week is out, they will put a
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  Speaker 1: crown of thorns upon his head and mockingly call him
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  Speaker 1: the king of Jews when in reality, He is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: what they called him, the king of the Jews. What
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  Speaker 1: it is that fascinates me in the early journey of
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  Speaker 1: this text, the inaugural display of this text, the embryonic
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  Speaker 1: development of this text, is the mixed expectations of the people.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I think expectations have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: do with the text is that, write this down, expectations
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  Speaker 1: control disappointment. I can't control what you do to me,
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  Speaker 1: but I can control what I expect from you. And
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  Speaker 1: the way, once I find out what you are capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing, I lower my expectations to your capabilities so
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  Speaker 1: I can't get shocked by your behavior because I can't
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  Speaker 1: control what you do, but I control what I expect
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  Speaker 1: because to the degree that I control what I expect,
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  Speaker 1: I monitor my disappointment because disappointment is the end result
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  Speaker 1: of lofty expectations. And it is in fact about the
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  Speaker 1: expectations that I have come to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 1: They all said the same thing and they all experienced
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  Speaker 1: the same moment The disciples went and obeyed him and
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  Speaker 1: they got the colt and they bought him. And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: if any man stop you in the way, tell him
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has need of him. And that means that
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  Speaker 1: somebody gave up their donkey so Jesus could have a ride.
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  Speaker 1: What have you given up? That was yours that you
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  Speaker 1: raised up and fed and grew up and nurtured and
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  Speaker 1: yet you're willing to give it up so that God
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  Speaker 1: can use it. There is no success without sacrifice. Just
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  Speaker 1: because you aren't the one who paid it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that somebody didn't pay it. You can come in this
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  Speaker 1: church for years and throw $ 5 in an offering plate
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  Speaker 1: and walk away and pay it no mind. But it
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  Speaker 1: is not your $ 5 that paid for that pew. It
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  Speaker 1: is the people who gave $ 500 and $ 5, 000 and $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 1: and $ 1, 000 for years. And you get to sit in
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's sacrifice while you pass the plate and do
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  Speaker 1: nothing just because you didn't pay it doesn't mean it
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  Speaker 1: didn't get paid for Just because you didn't buy the
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  Speaker 1: milk in the refrigerator and you left it out on
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  Speaker 1: the counter for it to go bad doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: mommy or daddy didn't pay for the gallon of milk
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  Speaker 1: that you chose to waste because you can waste it
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  Speaker 1: until you start paying for it. Yeah, when you start
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  Speaker 1: paying for it, I bet you'll put it back in
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  Speaker 1: the refrigerator. My kids used to turn the air conditioning
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  Speaker 1: on and the fan. Said they couldn't sleep without the
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning and the fan on. When they moved out,
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  Speaker 1: they learned how to sleep without the air conditioning on
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  Speaker 1: and the fan on. Because when the bills come in
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  Speaker 1: your name, you learn how to cut stuff off. You
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  Speaker 1: ought to see them going through the house, cutting that
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  Speaker 1: light out. Ain't nobody in that room. We don't need
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  Speaker 1: no light. I think, where were you 10 years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is literally sitting on the benevolence of a follower
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  Speaker 1: which is built on the integrity of his name. Tell
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  Speaker 1: him the master has need of him. I'm not going myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not calling him. I'm not reaching out to him.
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  Speaker 1: You just tell him what I said. My name will
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  Speaker 1: open up doors to access other people's resources. That's when
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  Speaker 1: you got power. You ain't got power because you got muscles.
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  Speaker 1: You got power when you can put your name on
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  Speaker 1: something and it opens up. I mean, it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: have muscles. I'm not hating on nobody. I got a few.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem with it, ain't nobody fighting no more.
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  Speaker 1: So you can box like Muhammad Ali, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: box a nine millimeter. Power is when your name has
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  Speaker 1: enough weight that all they have to do is go
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  Speaker 1: in your name and doors open because you said it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you want to aspire to, to get the
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  Speaker 1: power and the integrity behind your name that's strong enough
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  Speaker 1: that your name opens doors and you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: walk around wearing Brioni. What are you wearing, me? I'm
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  Speaker 1: wearing me. Yeah, I'm dressed in me. This is my company.
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  Speaker 1: This is my suit. This is my tailor-made business. I'm
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  Speaker 1: wearing me. Because I'm tired of investing in other people's names.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start investing. Y'all can't handle that. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get out of there. The mixed expectations of the
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  Speaker 1: people are mighty because the fact that Jesus has summons
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  Speaker 1: the colt to ride into the city reinforces the expectation
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  Speaker 1: of the people around him that he is coming as
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  Speaker 1: the son of David to be king. You see, throughout
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  Speaker 1: most of the Old Testament, they saw the peaks of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains, but not the valleys. So they saw the
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  Speaker 1: first advent and the second advent, the coming of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: The return of Christ. And they prophesied about the birth
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  Speaker 1: of Christ and the return of Christ. But they said
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  Speaker 1: very little about the death of Christ. So the death
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  Speaker 1: of Christ was hidden from view. Because the death of
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  Speaker 1: Christ is process. The return of Christ is promise. And
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  Speaker 1: God very seldom gives us details about process. Because if
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  Speaker 1: he gave you the details about the process, you would
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  Speaker 1: give up on the promise. So he gives you a
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  Speaker 1: vision about the promise. And then he throws you into
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  Speaker 1: the process. And you say, Lord, I didn't know it
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  Speaker 1: was going to take all of this. I wanted a
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  Speaker 1: good marriage, but I didn't mean, I didn't mean, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect to shut up. You didn't tell me I
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  Speaker 1: was going to have to bite my tongue. I want
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  Speaker 1: a husband. I don't want to watch no dirty draw.
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  Speaker 1: I want a wife. I don't want to be understanding,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: listening to her chatter about people I don't know. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: learned how to handle that. When my wife does that,
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  Speaker 1: I respond, shut up. Get out of here. No, she didn't.
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  Speaker 1: She know better than that. I can't believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: keep right on reading the paper. Shut up. Get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. She know better than that. Shut your mouth, girl. No,
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  Speaker 1: she didn't. She know better than that. No, y'all can't
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  Speaker 1: steal my stuff. That's mine. It's patented. You can't have it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's why we've been married 40 years. And as
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  Speaker 1: long as she don't question me too deep, because I
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  Speaker 1: might not even know what she talking about, but I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: did look good in the moment. These are the kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things that you go through when we are living
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  Speaker 1: life together, but having two completely different experiences. My wife
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  Speaker 1: and I live in the same house, but we have
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: two completely different experiences. We go to the same party,
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  Speaker 1: the same dinner party. We get in the car and
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  Speaker 1: go home, and it's like we were at two different events.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she don't like her husband at all. Couldn't
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  Speaker 1: you tell? No, I couldn't tell. I was talking. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't checking to see whether she liked her husband or not.
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  Speaker 1: The lady in the red shoes had an attitude. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't even want to come. I didn't even see the shoes,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't even know who you're talking about. Are
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  Speaker 1: you sure we was at the same event? Because I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was trying to wrap up this deal with Microsoft. You
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: trying to smoke out these red shoes. You keep the
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  Speaker 1: shoes I want to deal with. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 1: just because we have the same experience, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: the same expectation. The crowd expected Jesus to fix their lowliness.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd is an oppressed people in their own land.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: We talk about slavery amongst African Americans a lot and
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  Speaker 1: it was horrific and terrible and it deserves to be
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  Speaker 1: studied and understood like the Holocaust so that it is
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  Speaker 1: never repeated again. We have to study it not from
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  Speaker 1: an accusatory perspective but from a human behavior perspective so
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  Speaker 1: that we understand what humans are capable of. When we
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  Speaker 1: lose equity of power, we set ourselves in threat. No
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  Speaker 1: matter the color of your skin, too much power totally corrupts.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You hear what I'm saying? But the Africans have a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: completely different experience because they were colonized in their own
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  Speaker 1: country and restricted out of the places they owned. with
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  Speaker 1: signs that said no blacks allowed in my own city
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  Speaker 1: and house. So colonization was as traumatic for them as
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  Speaker 1: slavery was for us. The Jews are being enslaved, entrapped,
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  Speaker 1: second-class citizens in their own house. And much of their
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  Speaker 1: culture has been lost and their food has been lost
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  Speaker 1: and their religion has been tampered with by Herod who
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  Speaker 1: is partially Jewish and partially Greek. And he has infused
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  Speaker 1: his purpose and way to the point he is selling
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  Speaker 1: them offerings. And Jesus freaked out in the temple because
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  Speaker 1: he never intended for government to get in church business.
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  Speaker 1: The reason Jesus is flipping over tables is not because
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  Speaker 1: they're selling chicken dinners after church. The reason Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: flipping over the tables is because Herod is making money
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  Speaker 1: off of their belief system. That's why it is called
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  Speaker 1: Herod's temple. It was never meant to be Herod's temple
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  Speaker 1: if it was God's house. Can I work? I'm going somewhere.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere. I want you to understand the climate
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  Speaker 1: of this situation. And so they desperately needed Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: be the long-awaited Messiah. They expected his return to liberate
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: them from the oppressors. of Caesar. The Roman dominance that
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: prevailed over their city had left them a second class
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: citizen in their own house. Now you can belittle me
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: in the public a little bit. You can belittle me
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in the public Oh, wow. When you come in my
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  Speaker 1: house and you get up in my face in my
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: house and try to tell me who I'm not, you're
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: going to get a most unsavory side of me. Am
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I the only one? I pay too many mortgage payments
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to be intimidated in my own house. I pay too
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: much property taxes to be intimidated in my own house.
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  Speaker 1: I put too much work in to be intimidated. I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: will put you out. I have been known to walk
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: over and open the door and say, I'm the president
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in here. I am the chief executive officer of my house.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I am the, well. You stopped me just in time.
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  Speaker 1: You know your brother. You know your brother. You better
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  Speaker 1: pray me on through. Because I get in them alphabets
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  Speaker 1: I forget, girl. I almost told him who I was
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  Speaker 1: right in church. You prayed me out of that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so thankful for you. Keep on interceding for the man
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of God. You keep on interceding for the man of God.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Because I will flip out over my stuff. They are
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: oppressed in their own city. Much of their traditions have
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: been compromised. Their religion has been diluted. Their culture has
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: been diluted. They are holding on by the mere skin
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of their teeth to their priestly order. John the Baptist
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: is a priest. After the order of Zacharias and yet
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: completely different from him, they're holding on to a little
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: bit of their ceremonies and rituals in spite of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: fact that the Ark of the Covenant is gone. You
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: know how it is when people are robbing you of
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: who you are and you're trying to hold on to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit of your personhood? That's where a lot
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: of relationships are. They will rob you of who you
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: are until you have to fight for the threads of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: being yourself. I don't want you if it means losing me.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Write that down. I don't want you if it means
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: losing me. Yeah, you can accept me. You can love me.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: But God did not call you to change me. You
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: are not my pastor. You are not my savior. You're
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: not my deliverer. We can share life together. But I'm
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: going to do me. You do you. We do us.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: That's how that works. You see how that went? That's
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: how that works. They had lost themselves in the dominance
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  Speaker 1: of their masters. And they were waiting for the master
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to come. And there were multiple points of views. And
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Jesus calls for the donkey to come that Zechariah 9,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: 9 through 12 may be fulfilled. For in Zechariah 9,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: 9 through 12, it says, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout,
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  Speaker 1: O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king cometh unto thee.
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  Speaker 1: He is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon
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  Speaker 1: an ass and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So when they saw him coming on the colt, they
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: saw him as the king. So they called him Hosanna
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  Speaker 1: to the son of David because they said our liberator,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: our Dr. King, our Nelson Mandela has finally come. Our
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Quintaconte has a role. Wakanda forever, this is it. We
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: get ready to take over this mug. It's going to
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: be some trouble up in here. Sockazooloo. Shaka Zulu. We
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: get ready to swing down on the trees and we're
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: going to drive you out of Israel. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: drive you back. You can have Rome, but you're getting
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  Speaker 1: up out of here today. Hosanna to the king of kings.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that the scripture says I will cut off
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  Speaker 1: the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the battle bow shall be cut off and he shall
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: from the sea even to the sea and from the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: river even unto the ends of the earth. They knew that.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: They knew that he would say, as for thee also
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent forth
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  Speaker 1: thy prisoners out of the pit where there is no water.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: That means I'm going to loose the prisoners. Turn you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Did you hear that?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Turn ye to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. You
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: ought to write that prisoners of hope now. Because you
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: need to be a prisoner of hope. You need to
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: be incarcerated by hope. Ye prisoners of hope. Even today
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: God says I'm going to give you a double for
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the trouble. So no wonder they started singing Hosanna to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the king. Because they said this means that we're going
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to break the band set around our neck. This means
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we can own our own businesses again. This means we
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: can rule ourselves again. This means we're going to get
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: double for the trouble. And we have been bound for years.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: And this is a sign. Hosanna. Hosanna to the son
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. But they are feeling joy while the
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  Speaker 1: disciples are feeling pain. Because they think that Jesus is
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: going to Jerusalem to kick butt. And the disciples know
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that Jesus is going to Jerusalem to die. And Jesus,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the Lord of glory, the I am of Israel, the
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  Speaker 1: mighty God, the day star, the kinsman redeemed. Jesus, the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: lily of the valley. Jesus, the I am of God. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: ruler of the universe. Jesus, prince of peace. Chooses not
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: to ride in on a stallion. He's saving that for
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the encore. He's not going to ride in on a stouser.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: He chooses not to ride in on a chariot. He
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: chooses to come in on what a child would ride,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: what a poor pauper child would ride. Jesus, the Lord
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of glory, who commands the angels, is not riding on
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: chariots of fire. He's riding on the back of an ass.
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  Speaker 1: to show you that I am the God of the downtrodden.
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  Speaker 1: I am the God of the broken. I am the
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  Speaker 1: God of the oppressed. I am the God of the denied.
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  Speaker 1: I am the God of the forsaken. And if it's necessary,
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  Speaker 1: I'll humble myself down from the corridors of heaven and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: sit down on a donkey and walk amongst you right
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  Speaker 1: where you are. I'm as kin to you as this
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  Speaker 1: donkey is. I'm connected to you as this donkey is.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, when you read through the Bible, all the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: miracles I ever did, I used stuff you had. I
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: will bring my glory within your reach. I will not
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: put my glory in somebody else's house. If it's a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: jawbone of an ass, it will be in your reach.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: If it's two fish and five loaves of bread, it
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: will be in your reach. If it's a pot of oil,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: it will be in your reach. Whatever it is, I'm
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: going to put it in your reach. Oh, somebody ought
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to shout me down because I'm telling you, your next
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: miracle is within your reach. Stop looking in somebody else's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: house for your miracle. Your next miracle is in your house.
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  Speaker 1: It's in your head. It's in your thoughts. It's in
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: your mind. It's within your reach. Whoever that's for, praise
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  Speaker 1: him like you lost your mind. It is the importance,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished, the importance of balancing the extremes. He
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: is the Lord of glory, but he is sitting on
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a horse. The extremes of the donkey waiting and the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: master's urgency. A waiting donkey and an urgent master. This
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: text is full of extremes. The coronation, Hosanna to the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: son of David. The crucifixion, crucify him. Praise is in
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the air. Palms are on the ground. Resistance at Gethsemane.
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  Speaker 1: Submission at the village. It is the oxymorons of life.
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  Speaker 1: The highs and the lows, the north and the south,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the east. and the west. Everybody in here has polarities
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: in your life. If you show me this side, I'll
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: think you're amazing. If you show me that side, I'll
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: think you need to be saved. Don't you sit there
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: with your holy self and don't act like you don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: have a side you don't want nobody to see because
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: everybody in here has got a side that contradicts the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: other side. And how you balance those two sides is
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: how well you do in life. You can't kill either side,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: but you can control the other side so that you
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: can be the best version of yourself. Who am I
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: talking to? I'm in here. I'm in here. They think
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  Speaker 1: he is headed to be their king. After all, he
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: has sweated till blood has come through the pores of
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  Speaker 1: his skin. He knows he is headed to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: And they are all experiencing it together. He knows that
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  Speaker 1: he has to fulfill what is called a scapegoat. In
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the Bible, a scapegoat is sent into the wilderness after
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the Jewish priest has symbolically laid the sins of the
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  Speaker 1: people upon it. When John saw him and said, behold,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the world, he is both the Lamb of God and
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: the scapegoat of God. It was the custom in the
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: book of Leviticus to to pray the sins on the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: scapegoat and send him into the wilderness. That's why after
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost had fallen upon Jesus in the Jordan River,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: they sent him in the wilderness because he is our
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  Speaker 1: scapegoat and he carried away our sins. Jesus going in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness in the shadow of Jesus going to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: So he's riding on a goat because he is carrying
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  Speaker 1: away the sins of the world. To God be the glory.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how much God carried away out of your life.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: He carried away stuff out of your life that you
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: have been guilty about, that you have been worried about,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that you have been turmoil about. God has carried away.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Since God has carried it away... Why are you still
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: carrying it? I'm going to ask you over here. Since
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: God has carried it away, why are you still carrying it?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and tell them it's gone. He carried it away.
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  Speaker 1: He carried it away. They slapped him and sent him
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  Speaker 1: into the wilderness. They carried him away. He got on
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  Speaker 1: the goat and carried it to the cross. And on
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  Speaker 1: the cross, he nailed to the cross every ordinance. that
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: was ever against me, every curse, every witch, every hex.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: That's why I ain't scared of none of you witches
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: in here. Because all of your spells are nailed to
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the cross. Greater is he that's in me than he
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: that's in the world. I wish I had some warring
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: saints in here. Let the warring saints make some noise.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Let the warring saints make some noise. Let the warring
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: saints make some noise. I don't care if you get
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a lock on my hair. I don't care if you
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: bury it up under the porch. I don't care if
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: you kill a dead cat. If you kill all the cats,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I'm still blessed. If you get all my hairbrushes, I'm
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: still blessed. If you bury my drawers, I'm still blessed
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: because you can't curse what God has blessed. I feel
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: the anointing. of the Holy Ghost in this room. I'm blessed,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm blessed in the city. I'm
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: blessed in the field. I'm blessed in my uprising. I'm
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: blessed in my downside. I know you don't like me,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm still blessed. I see you rolling your eyes.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: but I'm still blessed. I know you hate me, but
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I'm still blessed because you can't curse what God has blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I need 30 seconds of crazy praise in this. I'm blessed.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I'm blessed.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed from the crown of my head
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  Speaker 1: to the soles of my feet. I know I'm blessed.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I want somebody to shout till hell gets nervous. Shout.
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  Speaker 1: Shout till demons tremble. Shout. Shout. till spells are broken.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Shout till curses are destroyed. Shout until you get a
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: sense of direction. Shout till you come to yourself. Shout
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: till you get new power. Shout till you get your backbone.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Shout till you stand up straight. Shout till you feel
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the anointing of God. Shout till demons start running out
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  Speaker 1: the door. Shout till your son gets saved. Shout till
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: you get your breakthrough. I feel an anointing, a breakthrough anointing,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: a delivering anointing, a stand-up anointing. I I am blessed.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Shout it out. I am blessed. I'm blessed if I
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: ride a Cadillac. I'm blessed if I'm driving a Volkswagen.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed if I'm sitting on a chariot. I'm blessed
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: if I'm riding on a donkey. I'm blessed if I'm
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: sitting in first class. I'm blessed if I'm sitting on
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the back of a bus. It is not the bus
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: that defines me. I'm blessed in my spirit. I'm blessed
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: in my soul. I'm blessed in my mind. Somebody blessed.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Praise Him like a blessed man. Praise Him like a
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: blessed woman. Praise Him like a blessed daughter in Zion.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I can't hear you.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and nod at them. Yeah, I know
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I don't need to date you to know
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I don't need you to affirm me to
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: know I'm blessed. When I woke up this morning, I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: knew I was blessed. You can add to it, but
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you can't take from it. I am blessed. I am blessed.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I am blessed. I am blessed. Did you hear me?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Tell the hell I'm blessed. Tell the hell I'm blessed.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line. Put it in your computer.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Write it in your heart. Tell the devil I'm blessed.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Tell cancer I'm blessed. Tell depression I'm blessed. Tell fear
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. The same people that say Hosanna will turn
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: right back around and say crucify. I want to talk
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to 10 people that's been betrayed. They said a hosanna
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: one minute and then they said crucify him. It wasn't
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: what they said that hurt you. It was who said
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: it that hurt you. Can I get a witness in here?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been hurt by somebody you thought you
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  Speaker 1: could trust? Be a witness for me. Jump up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Let the world know I'm not a liar. They can
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  Speaker 1: change on you in a minute all of this happened
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  Speaker 1: sit with me give me five minutes I'm done I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost done Can I come down here? I want to
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  Speaker 1: come down. I want to come down. All of this
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  Speaker 1: text came through giving. The son gave his life. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big story. The owner, he gave the colt The
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  Speaker 1: disciples took their coats. Now, they didn't go to the
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  Speaker 1: warehouse and buy a coat. Their coats were made. Took
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  Speaker 1: hours of labor. And they took their coats and covered
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  Speaker 1: the ass so Jesus could sit on their sacrifice. When
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  Speaker 1: was the last time that you gave something that cost
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  Speaker 1: you something? So Jesus could sit on the colt. Now, Tutman,
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  Speaker 1: here we see Jesus riding the colt like his mama.
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  Speaker 1: You will remember that when his mama was carrying him,
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  Speaker 1: she came riding to the manger. And she was riding
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  Speaker 1: on the coach. Isn't it amazing how God will bring
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  Speaker 1: your life full circle? The first time it was the
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  Speaker 1: mama riding. And here comes Jesus riding like his mama.
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  Speaker 1: God said, I'm going to do a new thing in
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  Speaker 1: your life. I'm going to turn it all the way
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  Speaker 1: around again. And the first time you came in, you
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  Speaker 1: was riding on a colt in your mama's belly. And
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  Speaker 1: the next time you come in, I'm back on the
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  Speaker 1: colt again. Somebody holler, I'm back. The devil tried to
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  Speaker 1: kill me, but I'm back. Hell tried to take me out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to feel like preaching. Hell tried to take
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  Speaker 1: me out, but I'm back. I need a survivor that
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  Speaker 1: I shout out back. Sit down. I'm almost here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost here. Tell somebody, tell them something's about to happen
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  Speaker 1: in here. I can feel it in my hands. I
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  Speaker 1: can feel it in my feet. I can feel it
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  Speaker 1: in my soul. I can feel it in my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Warn your neighbor. Something is about to happen in here.
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  Speaker 1: If I leap, don't think I'm crazy. If I run,
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  Speaker 1: don't chase me. But I feel a breakthrough. Coming in
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  Speaker 1: this place. I feel the deliverance of the Lord coming
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  Speaker 1: in this place. Somebody help me praise him. Somebody help
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  Speaker 1: me praise him. Somebody help me praise him. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the balcony that will praise the Lord? Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in the balcony that will praise the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the balcony that's about to get
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  Speaker 1: a turnaround? You about to come around full circle. Ride, baby, ride. Ride, baby, ride.
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  Speaker 1: God is about to do something in your life. Make
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  Speaker 1: some noise. Come out of your closet. Show yourself strong. Online,
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  Speaker 1: show yourself strong. I feel the breaking of day. I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost where I want to be. There are three levels
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  Speaker 1: of giving. There are those who gave their coats. Some
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  Speaker 1: put them on the donkey and some put them on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. But they gave something that they had an
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  Speaker 1: investment in to the kingdom of God. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: invest in the kingdom, how dare you ask the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: to invest in you? If you're not willing to give
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  Speaker 1: something that costs you something, that you sweated for, that
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  Speaker 1: it took you months to make, that you had to
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  Speaker 1: be fitted for, that was made for you, but you
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  Speaker 1: gave it to him. That's sacrifice. It ain't sacrifice when
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  Speaker 1: you buy me something. It's sacrifice when you give me
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  Speaker 1: something you want it. As long as you give me
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  Speaker 1: something you don't like, you ain't sacrificed. But if you
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  Speaker 1: give me something that you wish you had yourself, that's
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  Speaker 1: a sacrifice. They put their coats on the ground. There
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  Speaker 1: was something about Jesus that they looked at their coat
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  Speaker 1: and said, you ain't nothing. Paul said, I count it
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  Speaker 1: all done that I might win the excellency of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you see Jesus, you put things in the proper perspective. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: son of a boy. Whenever you see Jesus, anytime I
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  Speaker 1: see somebody stuck on yourself, you've seen church, but you
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  Speaker 1: ain't seen Jesus. If you ever see Jesus, it'll make
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  Speaker 1: you throw your coat on the ground. If you ever
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  Speaker 1: see Jesus, it'll change your priority. If you ever see Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: it'll make you put everything up under your feet. Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: I counted all but done that I might win the
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  Speaker 1: excellency of Jesus Christ. Somebody who knows the word, give
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  Speaker 1: the Lord a praise right now. Slap somebody and say,
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  Speaker 1: throw it down. Whatever you've been exalted, throw it down.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you've been proud of, throw it down. Whatever you
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  Speaker 1: put your hope in, throw it down.
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  Speaker 2: Throw it down, down.
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  Speaker 1: Throw it down, down, down.
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  Speaker 2: Throw it down, down, down.
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  Speaker 1: Throw it down, down, down.
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  Speaker 2: Throw it down.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's worship. When you throw it down, slap your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, throw it down. There were three levels
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  Speaker 1: of giving. The giving of the coat is something that
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  Speaker 1: was for you. But when you saw him, you counted
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  Speaker 1: it as done. And you threw it down for him.
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  Speaker 1: The second level is the cutting of the palm tree.
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  Speaker 1: Which costs you nothing. But you wanted to do something.
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  Speaker 1: So the only effort you expended was cutting down what
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  Speaker 1: was easy. Some of you have never given an offering.
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  Speaker 1: All you've ever given was palm trees. You just reached
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  Speaker 1: up and cut down something that was close anyway. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't have nothing invested in it. It didn't cost you nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but it looked good in the crowd. You cut down
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  Speaker 1: the palm tree and laid it down at his feet
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  Speaker 1: and you thought you had done something big. But to
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  Speaker 1: the folks who dropped their coat, your palm tree don't
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  Speaker 1: mean nothing at all because you cut down what didn't bleed.
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  Speaker 1: You cut down what you cared nothing about and you
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  Speaker 1: gave it to God as if you were doing something big.
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  Speaker 1: all based on what you thought he was going to
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  Speaker 1: do for you. You cut down the palm trees because
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  Speaker 1: you thought you was going to get double for your trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You cut down the palm trees because you thought you
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  Speaker 1: had a new king, the son of David. I gave
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  Speaker 1: my coat because I esteemed who he was to be
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  Speaker 1: greater than what he did. If you don't do anything
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  Speaker 1: else for me, if I can do anything to make
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  Speaker 1: you more comfortable, if I have to give you something,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the shirt on my back because I
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  Speaker 1: love who you are, not what you do. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to die, I'm going to die with you. Notice,
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  Speaker 1: most of the coat givers were disciples. They knew he
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  Speaker 1: was going to die. Most of the branch cutters were
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  Speaker 1: people who lived up under the illusion that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to set up his kingdom. Because as long as
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  Speaker 1: you only serve God for what he can do for you,
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  Speaker 1: you will give something, but it will cost you nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have fallen in love with God, And
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  Speaker 1: when you esteem him above your chiefest joy, it changes
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  Speaker 1: the way you give because your value changes. So one,
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  Speaker 1: you had coat givers shut up. Secondly, you had palm cutters.
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  Speaker 1: And then you had lip service.
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  Speaker 2: Hold that up!
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  Speaker 1: You ain't cut nothing. You ain't gave nothing. You just
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: making noise. I have learned over the years, the loudest
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: folk in the church do the least giving. Them people
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: that gets out of control and runs all over the
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  Speaker 1: place and you can't do nothing with them and they
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: dance and break their shoe and they hollering and falling
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: all over top of everybody, don't give $ 10. The people
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  Speaker 1: who make all the noise, Hosanna to the son of David.
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  Speaker 1: Hosanna to the king of kings. Where is your branch?
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  Speaker 1: Where is your coat? Where is your sacrifice? Wherein has
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: a man robbed God? With your mouth you draw nigh
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: unto me, but with your heart you're far from me.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: You must be praying for me, because I feel like preaching.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: And if I feel like preaching, something is going to
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: break in this place today. feel the anointing of the
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost about to break loose in this place. Somebody's
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: going to get delivered. Hallelujah. God don't just want your
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: lip service. He wants your sacrifice. Somebody shout yes. That
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: was cute, but I said shout yes. Stop being impressed
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  Speaker 1: with lip service. Stop being impressed with people speaking in
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: tongues at the grocery store. Stop being impressed with bathroom profits,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: because anybody can make noise, but you have to be
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: a special person to make change. And I feel change
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: coming in the atmosphere. I feel change coming in the atmosphere.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I wish I had a hundred old saints that knew
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  Speaker 1: how to go into a sanctified place. Somebody, how do
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I feel a change? So this is my point and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: I'm closing. They did all of that giving the three
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  Speaker 1: levels of giving, the coats, the palm trees of praise.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: And they was good with it till he got to
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  Speaker 1: the Sanhedrin court. Till he was apprehended by Pilate. And
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: then he was apprehended by that which they thought he
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: was going to apprehend. So the same people who said
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  Speaker 1: Hosanna You get it? Now that I see that you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do what I thought you was gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: now I got no more use for you. Watch out
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: for people who throw you away. Stop crying over who
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: threw you away. Because you didn't lose nothing in the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: first place. When they were saying Hosanna, they were opportunists.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: When they said crucify him, they were opportunists. The only
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: reason they mad at you is because they can't get
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  Speaker 1: out of you what they want to get out of you.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: And there you sit up crying, thinking you lost something
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: that you never had. You never had them in the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: first place. Hey! I feel that preaching. I feel the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: anointing of the Holy Ghost. Somebody's getting delivered from people.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: You've been delivered from alcohol. You've been delivered from drugs.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: But now God is getting ready to deliver you from people.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: If God is delivering you from people, take about 10
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  Speaker 1: seconds and praise him like you're trying to clear your world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm through. I'm through with people. I'm through with worrying
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: about it. I'm through with trying to get along with it.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: I'm through with worrying about people. Two things that I'm done.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: The Bible said, Thomas, you have believed because you have seen.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Or in other words, you believe and trust because of
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: what you know. But blessed are those who have not
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: seen and yet they believe. All of these other folk
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: lost their blessing because their Hosanna turned to crucify him.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: But there were a few people left on the cross
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: that said, though he slay me.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Yet shall I trust him. If he die, I'm going
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: to trust him. If they bury him, I'm going to
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: trust him. If they put him in a grave, I'm
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: going to bring frankincense and my... I feel like preaching
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: this word. Does anybody want to hear this word? So
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I asked God. I said, since... they did not start
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: celebrating Palm Sunday until the fourth century after the early church.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: And it didn't get big till the eighth century, 800
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: years after the resurrection, before Palm Sunday became embedded in
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: the Christian theology. So before it was a tradition, why
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: did you spend so much time articulating the text to me.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: He said, because I want my people to have trusting
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: beyond knowing. To trust me when you don't know how
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: things are gonna turn out. This is important, please. God
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: told me this is important. He said, I want somebody
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: to trust me before knowing. To trust me when I
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: make a U-turn. To trust me when I had something
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: in mind different from what you had in mind. To
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: trust me when you had bad theology. To trust me
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: when you thought I was going to do something one
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: way and I did it another way. To trust me
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: when you understand that you think of earthly kingdoms and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: my kingdom is not of this world. And sometime I
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: have to disappoint you to elevate you. Come on, come on,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: come on, come on. Trust me, trust me. If I
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: break your heart, Trust me. If I let you down,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: trust me. You were going after Pilate. I was going
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: after Satan. Trust me. You got a bigger enemy than
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: what you see. And while you're trying to get me
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: to deal with somebody that I know is going to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: be overthrown in a few years anyway, I'm going after
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: your real enemy. Trust me. He was wounded for my transgressions.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: He was bruised. I got to stop there. For my iniquities.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: The chastisement. of my peace was upon him. And with
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: his stripes, I am healed. For this purpose was the
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Son of Man made manifest, that he might destroy us. Oh,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: God have mercy. I'm about to feel like I'm 41,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: that he might destroy the works of the devil. I
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: didn't come to destroy Pilate. I told you he's going
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: to destroy himself. Not one stone will be left standing
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: upon another. But I came to destroy the works of
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the devil. Somebody shout destroy Pilate. Destroy cancer, holler destroy.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Destroy suicide, holler destroy. Destroy mental pain, holler destroy. Destroy
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: kidney disease, holler destroy. Destroy leukemia, somebody holler destroy. And so,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Here is our great challenge. It's to not be like
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: the palm throwers and the lip service people. To be
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: like the disciples means they gave their coat to a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: savior that they knew was gonna die. Now that's worship.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: To trust beyond knowing That means I give you my
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: coat if you don't restore the kingdom. That means I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: give you my coat if I keep on living out
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: my same old normal routine as long as I got you.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: That means that I keep on praising you married or not.
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  Speaker 1: Boyfriend or not. Big house or not. Mutual funds or not.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: That means that I praise you job or not. That
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: means if my hair stop growing, I'll praise you with
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: a bald head. That means if my hair turns white,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I'll praise you up until my old age. That means
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: if the building is empty, I'll still praise your name.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: If there is no crowd, I'll still praise your name.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: If I have to preach in the jailhouse, I'll still
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: preach your word. Because it's not about dollars and cents.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: It's about purpose and passion. And I want to raise
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: up somebody who trusts beyond knowledge. Stand to your feet.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: I'll close with this. The ways of the Lord are
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: high and lifted up. Even the people who pose to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: know what he's doing don't know. Even the people who
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: think they know don't know. I tell all the preachers
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: all the time, do all the teaching you're going to
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: teach down here. Write all the books you're going to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: write down here. There will be no bookstores in heaven.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: If you're going to be a professor, be a professor
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: down here. Because there will be no professors and there
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: will be no universities in heaven. Because all of our
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: knowledge amounts to foolishness. When he shall appear, there'll be
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: none of us teaching him theology, hermeneutics, homiletics, all of
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: these man-made names, pneumatology. We won't be teaching nothing. We'll
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: sit down at his feet. Amen. we'll sit down at
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: his feet and he will say I love you because
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: you trust me beyond knowing now there are people in
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: this room that are dealing with all kinds of stuff
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and you deal with the stress of not knowing how
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to turn out you don't know if you're
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: going to get the home back together or not You
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: don't know if the kids are going through school or not.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: You don't know if they're not blowing your hard earned money,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: smoking up their tuition. You don't know if they're coming
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: home pregnant or HIV positive. You don't know for sure
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: if you're going to get laid off tomorrow. You cannot
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: have faith based on knowing Because I'm going to tell
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: you the truth, man. I'm going to tell you the truth.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: if everything's going to be okay. I don't know if
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I don't want her to cry. I don't know who
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: I have to say goodbye to. I don't know if
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: this is the last time. I don't know. I don't
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: know if the market's going up or down. I don't
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: know if my house will sell or not. I don't
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: know if I'll finish my strategy or drop dead when
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I walk off the stage. I don't know, but the
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: beauty of my pace is that I can trust beyond knowing.
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  Speaker 1: To all my brothers and sisters who have to know everything.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Where we gonna stay? Where we gonna live? What we
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: gonna eat? What we gonna do? How much money we
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: gonna make? Let me see how much rent we gonna pay.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Let me see if it makes sense to me. To
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: all of you people who have to know everything, you
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: are canceling out a chance to walk with God. Because
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: to walk with God is to be cool with uncertainty.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: To be cool with uncertainty. You don't know whether your
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: patients are going to live or not. You do everything
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: you know how to do and you pray and you
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: sow and you give and you're great doctors but you
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: don't know. Don't nobody know but God. You look at
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: all evidence and make a decision as a judge but
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: you don't know. We don't know. It's okay to not know.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to know everything. They saw the cult and
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: they thought it was the kingdom. But the kingdom was
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: not of this world. And the reason they could with
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: such venom say crucify him is because they were disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason they were disappointed is because they expected
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  Speaker 1: something that was not in God's plan. What have you
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  Speaker 1: expected that is not in God's plan? And you got
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  Speaker 1: the nerve to tell God he let you down. How
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  Speaker 1: dare you say he let you down? Like it's his
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  Speaker 1: job to fulfill your desire. God don't work for you.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't work for you. You work for God. God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work for you. And it is not his job
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill your desires. You done carried that boss thing
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  Speaker 1: too far. You done run up on the real boss now.
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  Speaker 1: The real boss. The ruler of the universe. And his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are above our thoughts and his ways are above
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  Speaker 1: our ways. And he told me to tell you and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it's for. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: you're in the room or in the back or in
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  Speaker 1: the balcony or you just got in or you're logged on.
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  Speaker 1: But God says he's not going to let you know.
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  Speaker 1: So stop asking him to make you know. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he requires of you that you trust beyond knowing. My
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  Speaker 1: third close. He won't stop talking to me. He told
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  Speaker 1: Abraham to get up early in the morning and take
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  Speaker 1: the son that he waited a hundred years to have
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  Speaker 1: And he said, take him to a place I will
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  Speaker 1: show you. So Abraham loads up the wagon and takes
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  Speaker 1: his son. And his son, where we going? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll know it when I see it. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you live your life. You want to know. You can't know.
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  Speaker 1: You can't know. You have to follow on to know.
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  Speaker 1: You have to just, where are we going, Daddy? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. He said, it's somewhere out here. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: know it when I see it. And I trust beyond knowing.
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  Speaker 1: And when he, the Bible said he was three days
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  Speaker 1: off from the place and he looked up and he
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  Speaker 1: saw the place. He said, that's it. Now I know
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  Speaker 1: the place. And so he starts up the hill and
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  Speaker 1: he says to the servants, stay here, me and the
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  Speaker 1: lad are going down there to worship. And he starts
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  Speaker 1: up on the hill to go from one not knowing
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  Speaker 1: to another not knowing. The boy says to him, daddy,
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  Speaker 1: I see the knife and I see the wood. Where
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  Speaker 1: is the sacrifice? He says, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where it is. I just know that God himself
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  Speaker 1: shall provide the sacrifice. Here's God's word to you. Here's
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  Speaker 1: God's word to you, warriors. It'll be there when you
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  Speaker 1: get there. Abraham goes up on the mountaintop, raises up
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  Speaker 1: his knife to slay. You have to have a son
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  Speaker 1: to understand it. This is unthinkable. This is just something,
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  Speaker 1: I can't hardly even preach it. To lay my son
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  Speaker 1: on the altar and raise a knife to stab my
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  Speaker 1: son as I can't even preach it. And Abraham raises
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  Speaker 1: his hand to slay his son and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden he heard, Abraham, stay your hand. Behold, I have
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  Speaker 1: a ram in the thicket. You didn't know it. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it. God says you don't know what he
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  Speaker 1: has in store for you. Stop saying stupid stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to kill myself. My life is not worth living.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up! You have to trust me on knowing. Because
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what's coming up the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the hill. While Abraham was coming up this side, the
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  Speaker 1: answer was coming up on that side. And faith is
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  Speaker 1: not about what you know. It's about what you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are they who have not seen and yet they believe.
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  Speaker 1: Bowed heads and closed eyes, I'm done. Thank you.