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  Speaker 1: Go to your Bibles, the Gospel of St. Matthew chapter 27,
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  Speaker 1: 11 through 14.
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  Speaker 2: There you will.
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  Speaker 1: Find the word of the Lord. And we're jumping right
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  Speaker 1: into the middle of all hell breaking loose. Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah of Jerusalem, has fallen into the hands of a
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  Speaker 1: Roman governor who is about to make a decision about
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  Speaker 1: his life. Kingdoms are colliding with kingdoms. Disciples are running.
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  Speaker 1: People are scattering. Nobody is sure. They have interpreted the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures differently. expecting God to do one thing, only to
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  Speaker 1: realize that even the scriptures did not fully articulate the
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  Speaker 1: method that God was going to move. They had seen
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah and the prophets had prophesied it, but no
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  Speaker 1: prophecies came through about the cross. Now Jesus is headed
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  Speaker 1: for the cross. And you know how people scatter when
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  Speaker 1: you become controversial. They with you when you're going up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you become controversial, if there's too much talk
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  Speaker 1: at the kitchen table, in the family reunion, at the barbershop,
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  Speaker 1: people start getting away. They just leave. So they scattered.
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  Speaker 1: The 5,000 were gone. The woman with the issue of
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  Speaker 1: blood is gone. All of the people, the 10 lepers
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  Speaker 1: are gone. Everybody's gone their own way. And Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: standing trial before a governor. Matthew 27 and 11. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stood before the governor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. Stood straight up. Stood right in
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  Speaker 2: front of him.
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  Speaker 1: And the governor asked him saying, are thou king of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, thou sayest, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: don't tell me that Jesus didn't get smart. Jesus got
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  Speaker 1: smart in handcuffs. Thou sayest, and when he was accused
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  Speaker 1: of the chief priest and the eldest, he answered nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Palance said, here's how many things they witness against thee.
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  Speaker 3: And he answered him never a word. And he answered
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  Speaker 3: him never a word. In so much that the governor
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  Speaker 3: scratched his head. He's not trying to get out of it.
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  Speaker 3: He's not trying to get away from it. He's not
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  Speaker 3: trying to defend himself. And the governor marveled greatly because
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  Speaker 3: Jesus says nothing at all. And the governor marveled greatly,
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  Speaker 3: not at the wisdom, but at the silence. Can you
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  Speaker 3: hear what I'm saying to you? I want to use
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  Speaker 3: a subject today, the theology of quietness. The theology, the theos,
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  Speaker 3: God quiet, the theology of quietness, or if I were
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  Speaker 3: to use a subtopic, the silence of the Lamb. Spirit
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  Speaker 3: of the living God, fall fresh on us today as
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  Speaker 3: we embark upon your word. Help me to complete my
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  Speaker 3: assignment effectively and skillfully that I might be seen doing
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  Speaker 3: what you called me to do in this last and
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  Speaker 3: evil day. I thank you, Lord, for what you shared
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  Speaker 3: with me and what you're going to do. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 3: name we pray, amen. You may be seated in the
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  Speaker 3: presence of God. It reads like, you may be laughing.
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  Speaker 3: It reads like two men are having a discussion. But
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  Speaker 3: that is very superficial. The veneer of the text looks
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  Speaker 3: like there is a controversy between two men, two powers,
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  Speaker 3: two authorities. It looks like one has dominated the other.
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  Speaker 3: But that is just the veneer. of the text.
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  Speaker 1: Most people when they read the Bible preach from the
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  Speaker 1: veneer of the text without going down to the solidarity
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  Speaker 1: of the wood beneath. The carpenter's son has worked his
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  Speaker 1: way up from obscurity to notoriety. And notoriety always costs
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  Speaker 1: you something. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. People Don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about who they don't notice. Give it up for
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  Speaker 1: Michael Collier. God bless you. Good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I can't pull this message, you get up and
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  Speaker 1: tell some jokes. We're going to be okay. He has
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility of standing hand, head, and shoulders above other
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  Speaker 1: men in what he was able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Saul, it's not that Jesus is tall. His work
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  Speaker 2: is tall. It is impactful.
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  Speaker 1: And it's doing something. And it's stirring up something. And
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  Speaker 1: it has created a problem. A multi-pronged problem. He is
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  Speaker 1: not fully accepted by the religious leaders of his time.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they hated him. Religion always hates revelations. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to be a preacher and move in
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  Speaker 1: faith and you have not gotten healed from your need
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  Speaker 1: to be liked, run. Don't walk, run. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: are not disliked, you are unnoticed. While some are running
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  Speaker 1: to you, some are going to be running from you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the nature of the job. It happened to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen to you. You can't tiptoe around
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  Speaker 1: it and try to be so nice that you don't
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  Speaker 1: make no waves because you were called to make waves.
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  Speaker 1: You were called to stir up stuff. You were called
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  Speaker 1: to get on people's nerves. Don't take it personally because
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  Speaker 1: it is not really two men bantering over an issue.
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  Speaker 1: It is two kingdoms. The kingdoms are in conflict in
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  Speaker 1: the text.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light that is
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  Speaker 1: working in the underpinning of the story. You're praying about
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  Speaker 1: your story, but you don't understand there's a warfare going
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  Speaker 1: on beneath your story. You're praying about the details. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the strategy. You're talking to God about the inconvenience,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not getting to the under fact that Satan
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  Speaker 1: has a plot against you, that he has a plot
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  Speaker 1: against you, and the kingdoms are in conflict. Not only
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  Speaker 1: are the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness
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  Speaker 1: in conflict, you have the Roman sovereign colonialization that was
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  Speaker 1: done then and still being done now to take over
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  Speaker 1: new territories, and we have before us A pilot who
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  Speaker 1: is a governor of a colony whereby Rome is spreading
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  Speaker 1: and taking authority over Jerusalem. Yeah, taking authority, taking authority.
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  Speaker 1: It is not Rome, but it's under Rome. You are
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  Speaker 1: not the enemies, but you can be under the enemy's attack,
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  Speaker 1: under the enemy's control. There was a little boy in
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  Speaker 1: the airport and he was on his father's shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: he had him by the ears and he said, daddy,
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  Speaker 1: go left. And the daddy went left and he turned
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  Speaker 1: his ears and said, daddy, go right. And the daddy
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  Speaker 1: went right. The boy had not possessed him, but he
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  Speaker 1: was on him and had oppressed him. It is not
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  Speaker 1: so much that Satan is possessing you, but he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to control you. Control your peace and control your reactions
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  Speaker 1: and control how you respond and control how you feel.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a battle for control. Power against power.
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  Speaker 1: Leader against leader. Magistrate against magistrate. magistrate. And we have
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  Speaker 1: a governor questioning a king. What kind of madness is that?
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  Speaker 1: That the governor representing Rome... which means he wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: very great governor because Rome has sent him to a
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  Speaker 1: detail that was not highly respected and thrown him down
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem and there little people always try to be big.
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching way better than y'all shall. Little people, you
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  Speaker 1: give a little person a title and you got hell
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  Speaker 1: to pay. And Herod has a little title and he's
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  Speaker 1: standing up here questioning the king of kings and the
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  Speaker 1: lord of lords. He's questioning the ancient of days. The
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  Speaker 1: creator is being tested by the creations. And he's questioning
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  Speaker 1: him under duress because his wife on one hand, women,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being sensitive and intuitive, has had a
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  Speaker 1: dream and told him, you got to be careful about
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  Speaker 1: this Jesus thing because it's not what it appears to be.
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  Speaker 1: I had a dream in the night and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to cause you some trouble. I'm telling you something, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot prove it by the Bible, but there's something in women.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's a chip. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a device, but there is something in women.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say y'all always right, I ain't gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you that much. But you all do have a metal detector.
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  Speaker 1: And Herod's wife had told him, this is not what
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  Speaker 1: it appears to be. There's something working up under this
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  Speaker 1: and you got to be careful how you handle this
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  Speaker 1: Jesus thing, which led to Herod washing his hands with
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  Speaker 1: water because he didn't want the blood of Jesus on
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  Speaker 1: his hands because his wife had kind of shook him up,
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  Speaker 1: telling him, you don't want to get in this mess.
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  Speaker 1: There are some messes you don't take on. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get in every fight. You don't get in every storm.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get in every test. You don't get in
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  Speaker 1: every situation. And so you got that dynamic going on.
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  Speaker 1: And there he is testing the king of kings and
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  Speaker 1: the lord of lords and the mighty God and the
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  Speaker 1: everlasting father and the prince of peace. He is talking
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  Speaker 1: to the I am like he ain't. He is talking
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  Speaker 1: to his creator as if he has power over his creator.
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  Speaker 1: He is talking to him like Jesus is subservient. He
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  Speaker 1: is talking to him like he has power over Jesus' future.
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  Speaker 1: And then shop because Jesus does not answer a word.
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  Speaker 1: And it is hard for you to conceive it because
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  Speaker 1: there are three things that the enemy is after. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get these down. They're very important. The
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  Speaker 1: reason why He is doing what he's doing to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's because he's after your power. He's after your power
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  Speaker 1: until you don't know who you are. He wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: fighting you if you didn't have power. He's after your power.
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  Speaker 1: He's after your purpose. And he's after your prowess. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: your abilities, your talents, your skill, the way you do
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  Speaker 1: what you do and the way that you do it.
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  Speaker 1: He hates the way you can get it done. He
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  Speaker 1: hates the way how people are influenced by you. He
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  Speaker 1: does not want your power. He does not want your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And he does not want your prowess. So anything he
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  Speaker 1: can do to destroy your prowess, he will do it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's keep you up at night, if it makes
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  Speaker 1: you walk the floor in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: if it's oppress your mind, if it's break your heart,
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  Speaker 1: If it's break relationships. If it's worrying you to death
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  Speaker 1: about situations you cannot control.
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  Speaker 2: Anything he can.
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  Speaker 1: Do to incarcerate you, he's doing it because of your power.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing it because of your purpose. And he's doing
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  Speaker 1: it because of your prowess. Because over time, he wants
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  Speaker 1: you to lose your prowess. Where you don't have that thing,
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  Speaker 1: that thing, that nebulous thing, that prowess that makes you
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  Speaker 1: do what you do like you do it. The way
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  Speaker 1: you think, the way you function, the way you drive,
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  Speaker 1: the way you move. He's after your prowess. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to beat you down till you're only a shadow. of
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  Speaker 1: what you could be. He's after your prayers. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you were molested. That's why you were raped. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you were rejected. That's why you were ostracized. The enemy
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have let you go through whatever you went through
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  Speaker 1: if it were not for your power. Your purpose and
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. He wants you to be crippled. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to be needy. He wants you to be shattered.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to be independent or codependent. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to be at your wit's end. He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to have no confidence in yourself because he's after your power.
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  Speaker 1: He's after your purpose. He's after your prowess. He's after
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  Speaker 1: your what? What? What?
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  Speaker 2: Say it again. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: That's the sum total of what you need to get
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  Speaker 1: through this world. You're going to need some power. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to need some purpose. You're going to need some prowess.
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  Speaker 1: Prowess is what sets you apart from every other man
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  Speaker 1: in the room. Prowess is what makes you unique and
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  Speaker 1: nobody can duplicate you. They can imitate you, but they
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  Speaker 1: can't duplicate you because your prowess is as unique as
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  Speaker 1: your DNA. Your prowess, the way you do what you
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  Speaker 1: do when you do it, like you do it, that's
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. And he wants to take it away from you.
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  Speaker 1: And he wants to break you down. And he wants
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  Speaker 1: to make you subservient. And he wants to make you submit.
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  Speaker 1: And he wants to make you answer to him. And
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  Speaker 1: he wants to make you obey him. Because in so doing,
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  Speaker 1: if you answer him, you also acknowledge him as being
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  Speaker 1: the greater power. There are some things you don't answer to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many times they say it, when
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  Speaker 1: you know you're not that, don't answer to it. If
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  Speaker 1: your name is Susie and I'm calling you Mary, keep
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  Speaker 1: on walking. There's some stuff you don't respond to because
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are, you know your power, you
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  Speaker 1: know your purpose, and you know your prowess. Keep your prowess.
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  Speaker 1: You might lose your job, but keep your prowess. You
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  Speaker 1: might have to move in with your mama, but keep
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. You might go through a storm, but keep
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  Speaker 1: your prowess because that's what got you up in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. If you lose your power, If you lose
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  Speaker 1: your purpose, if you lose your prowess, you have lost everything.
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  Speaker 1: Power is your decision-making ability to act on the decisions
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  Speaker 1: you make. Purpose is what guides you as to what
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  Speaker 1: not to fight. Because once you understand your purpose, you
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  Speaker 1: stop swinging at stuff that doesn't have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with your divine purpose. There are some things that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy sends to distract you. Who am I preaching to
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  Speaker 1: in this place? And so Pilate is having this discussion
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus and he's consulted the religious leaders because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to be guilty of making a Roman decision
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  Speaker 1: against the king of the Jews. He wants the Jews
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  Speaker 1: to reject him and he needs to be rejected. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had time. He needs to be rejected
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  Speaker 1: because the Bible said he came unto his own and
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  Speaker 1: his own received him not. And so that the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: might be fulfilled, there are seasons of rejection. You're not
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  Speaker 1: being rejected because you're not good enough. It's part of
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  Speaker 1: the plan of God that you be rejected. You only
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  Speaker 1: praise God when he opens doors, but I praise God
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  Speaker 1: when he shuts them. You only praise God when you're comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm learning to praise God when I'm afflicted. Because
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  Speaker 1: the more they afflicted them, the Bible said the more
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  Speaker 1: they grew.
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  Speaker 2: Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a tough one today, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to preach it until I get where I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to go. And in the middle of the affliction,
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  Speaker 1: keep your power. Keep your purpose. Keep your prowess. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you broke, but....
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're down, but....
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're uncertain. But keep your prowess. Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: the fight is about. Yes. The fight is about your power.
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  Speaker 1: The fight is about your purpose. That means he's not
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  Speaker 1: fighting you over where you are. He's fighting you over
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  Speaker 1: where you're going. Purpose in Kishai speaks to destiny. Purpose
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  Speaker 1: speaks to how things end up. And because you're worried
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  Speaker 1: about where you are, you think the fight is about now. No,
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  Speaker 1: the fight is about tomorrow. The fight is about a
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  Speaker 1: stone being rolled away. The fight is about you ascending
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  Speaker 1: in a cloud. The fight is about you reaching the
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  Speaker 1: throne and putting the blood on the mercy seat.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's after his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The end of all things, eschatology, is purpose,
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  Speaker 1: my destination, my I have arrived. You know how you're
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  Speaker 1: driving your GPS and you get to a certain point
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it stops giving you direction
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  Speaker 1: because it says you have arrived at your destination. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you, the enemy doesn't want you to arrive at
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  Speaker 1: your destination, but hell is a liar because God is
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  Speaker 1: about to do something in your life. Shout hallelujah in
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  Speaker 1: this place. Now we know that Jesus does not want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the cross. It is proven in the
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  Speaker 1: Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus has an aversion to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: We know that he didn't want to go to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: We know that he didn't enjoy being betrayed by a
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  Speaker 1: disciple he picked. By a disciple he fed. By a
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  Speaker 1: disciple he traveled with. That's not fun. We know that
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  Speaker 1: he despised the shame of the cross, but for the
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  Speaker 1: joy that was set before him, he endured it. So
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about endurance. We're talking about enduring things without murmuring.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about enduring things without complaining. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: enduring things without disrupting your attitude. What we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: is not easy. So the Jesus who cried out to
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  Speaker 1: the Father, who cried out to the Father, if it
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  Speaker 1: be thy will, pass this bitter cup for me, gets
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  Speaker 1: before Pilate and says nothing. You know why he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: say anything? Because Pilate don't have no real power. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna empty out how I feel about it, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna empty it out before the Holy Spirit, who is
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  Speaker 1: my comforter, who is my counselor, who is my therapist,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna empty it out in front of
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  Speaker 1: somebody that has no power to change my circumstances. How
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  Speaker 1: many times have we said the right thing to the
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  Speaker 1: wrong person? We know that he's the captain of the
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  Speaker 1: host and that he could have called 10,000 angels. We
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  Speaker 1: know that he has the power of God in him.
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  Speaker 1: We know that the word of God is the sword
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit. And if he had wanted to, he
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  Speaker 1: could have stopped all of it at will just by
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  Speaker 1: opening his mouth. There was so much power in his
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  Speaker 1: mouth that when they came to arrest him and said,
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  Speaker 1: are you Jesus? He said, I that speak am he,
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  Speaker 1: and they fell back for dead. The power in his
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  Speaker 1: mouth was so powerful that we understand that if Jesus
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  Speaker 1: opened his mouth, court would be closed. Y'all didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 1: If Jesus opens his mouth, cancer would disappear. If Jesus
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  Speaker 1: opens his mouth, the gun wouldn't go off even if
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  Speaker 1: it was loaded. If Jesus opens his mouth, how you
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  Speaker 1: gonna fire me? If Jesus opens his mouth. And the
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  Speaker 1: real question of the text is does, is it better
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  Speaker 1: to fight this fight as the lion of the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Judah or the lamb of God. Because Jesus has
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  Speaker 1: duality and so do you. There are two sides and
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  Speaker 1: you don't know which one to throw. Do I come
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  Speaker 1: in on a horse and my sword drawn, ready to
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  Speaker 1: kill or do I come in as a lamb Because
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  Speaker 1: both things are true about all of us. All of
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  Speaker 1: us have a lion and all of us have a lamb.
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  Speaker 1: But not all of us have direction as to which
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  Speaker 1: one you need for the fight that you're in. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you're roaring when you ought to be quiet. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you're quiet when you ought to be roaring. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has decided that in order to accomplish his purpose, he
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  Speaker 1: can't roar through this. Isaiah 30, 15 says, for thus
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, in
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  Speaker 1: returning and rest shall ye be saved. In returning and
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  Speaker 1: rest shall ye be saved. In quietness. In quietness and
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  Speaker 1: in confidence shall be your strength. So this is what
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  Speaker 1: strength looks like. Strength looks like quiet. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: be still and know that I am God. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: hold your peace and the Lord will fight your battle.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm prophesying to somebody and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who it is. It's not that you can't think
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  Speaker 1: of nothing to say. It's just that this is not
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  Speaker 1: the time for the lion to roar. This is the
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  Speaker 1: time that you got to come as a lamb You
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  Speaker 1: got to be wise as a serpent and harmless as
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  Speaker 1: a dove. And you got to know when to lose.
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  Speaker 1: I told a friend of mine was getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: play a golf game. And he's getting ready to play
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  Speaker 1: a golf game against a client. And I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: don't let your ego get the best of you. Lose
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Because sometimes....
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  Speaker 1: What good is winning the game if you lose the deal?
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  Speaker 1: Your ego is stroked, but we lost the deal. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the strongest thing is to let them win. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: could have stopped it all. He could have swallowed Pilate up,
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  Speaker 1: but he held his peace. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Are you with me this morning? I say, are you
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  Speaker 1: with me this morning? He did not open his mouth
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  Speaker 1: because even on the cross with his back beaten and
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  Speaker 1: his entrails hanging out, as long as he kept talking,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't die. Because in his hands are the words
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life. Because he doesn't need anything to make
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  Speaker 1: something out of nothing. Because if he opens his mouth
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  Speaker 1: and says, let there be, it'll be whatever he says.
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  Speaker 1: So death couldn't take him as long as he was talking.
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  Speaker 1: If it's true about you, the power of life and
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  Speaker 1: death is in the tongue, how much more is it
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  Speaker 1: true about Jesus that death could not take Jesus as long.
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  Speaker 2: As he was talking?
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  Speaker 1: And if you're in here right now, you ought to
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth and say something. Let hell know you're
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  Speaker 1: not dead. Give me some power on this monitor. Let
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  Speaker 1: hell know you're not dead. Let the sickness know it
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  Speaker 1: ain't working. Let the enemies know that they can't curse you.
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  Speaker 1: Let the witch know that she can't stop you. If
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  Speaker 1: you just wiggle your toe, the whole building might have
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  Speaker 1: caved in on you. But if you open your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: power of life and death is in your mouth. Slap
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say the power.
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  Speaker 2: Is in the word.
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  Speaker 1: Healing is in the word. Direction is in the word.
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  Speaker 1: Deliverance is in the word. Breakthroughs are in the word. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody say.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the word. It's in the word. It's in
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  Speaker 2: the word. It's in the word. It's in the word.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the word.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with us is we don't understand the difference
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  Speaker 1: between between the Scriptures and the Word. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God. The Bible is the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not all of the word let me
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  Speaker 1: prove it to you John 1 1 says in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning was the word Wasn't no pens in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't no typewriters in the beginning, wasn't no printing press
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, wasn't no Bible in the beginning, and
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  Speaker 1: yet in the beginning was the Word. It doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be the written Word to be the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: When God said, let there be, there was nobody there
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  Speaker 1: to write it down, but it still happened because the
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  Speaker 1: Word stands outside.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying. The Word was made flesh and
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  Speaker 1: the Bible had not been completed. So the Bible couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be made flesh. The Word transcends the Scriptures. Before there
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  Speaker 1: were Scriptures, there was the Word of God standing out
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  Speaker 1: there on absolutely nothing. Word all by itself. The Word
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  Speaker 1: is so powerful. Oh, I feel like preaching. That the
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  Speaker 1: Bible said, speak the word only and my servant will
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  Speaker 1: be healed. There was no New Testament, but the word spoken,
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  Speaker 1: the spoken word. Man shall not live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of God. And the Bible wasn't being finished written, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: yet the Word existed. The Word said, speak to the
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  Speaker 1: dry bones, not the Scriptures. The Scriptures are written in
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  Speaker 1: retrospect to the incident, but the Word pre-existed what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the valley of the dry bones. So I prophesied,
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  Speaker 1: and I was commanded, and there was a noise and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a shaking. Somebody say the Word, the Word, the Word.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the word. There it's translated in Greek.
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  Speaker 1: The very fact that it's translated in Greek means that
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  Speaker 1: it is written after the fact. Paul has not yet
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  Speaker 1: been to Mars healed. The Greek had not yet been converted. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible had not yet been completed. It was completed
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  Speaker 1: in Greek, which comes later after the cross. In the
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  Speaker 1: beginning was logos. And logos was God. And logos was
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  Speaker 1: with God. And traditional understanding of the word logos means
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: not just word, but thought, principle, or speech. Nothing about
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: logos means written. There was no Bible in the creation.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Nineveh had no Bible, and yet they repented. Oldest book
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of the Bible is the book of Job. The Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and Numbers is written by Moses. That's thousands of years
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  Speaker 1: after the creation. This comes later. This is the written Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Word of God. But God is not subject to penmanship.
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  Speaker 1: John 21, 25, let me prove it. And there were
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  Speaker 1: also many other things which Jesus did, the which if
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: they should be written... If it were written what Jesus did,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: if it were written what Jesus did, everyone, I suppose
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  Speaker 1: that even the world itself could not contain the books
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: that should be written. But these were written that you
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  Speaker 1: might believe. So what you have is just a syllabus.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Y'all don't want to play with me this morning. This
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: is just a syllabus. This is just a compacted, concentrated
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  Speaker 1: representative of the wholeness of what God has to say.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes what God has to say, you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: scripture for it, but God said it. God said it
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  Speaker 1: in your belly. God said it in your spirit. God
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  Speaker 1: said it to your grandmama. God said it in your soul.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes!
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  Speaker 1: The sword of the spirit is the word of God.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: If Jesus would have spoke, he'd have stabbed Herod with
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the word. Because the sword of the spirit is the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: word of God.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: No Bible.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is always written in retrospect. It's after the fact.
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  Speaker 1: The word is present tense. By the time Moses wrote,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: let there be light, the creation was over. Never confuse
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  Speaker 1: the word with the Bible. The Bible is the written
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: word of God and these scriptures were written that you
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  Speaker 1: might believe. It is not the full historicity of all
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that God is and all that God can do and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: all that God will do. Oh, let me get out
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of here because I'm into something. Have you ever had
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: God speak something to you? Tell you, don't go tonight.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Don't go on Friday. You ain't got no Bible for it,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: but you got a word from the Lord. Don't get married.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: You got a word from the Lord. There is no
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: verse that says don't get married, but you got a
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: word from God.
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 1: Sit down, I'm just talking to you.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: but I feel like something's gonna happen in here this morning.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I feel glory in this room. I feel anointing in
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this room. I feel power in this room. I feel
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: yoke breaking in this room. I feel deliverance in this room.
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  Speaker 1: You got a word in your belly. You got a
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: word in your spirit. You got a word in your soul.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You got a word to tell you get on the highway.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: You got a.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Word to tell you take the exit ramp. You ain't
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: got no Bible verse for it, but God gave you
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  Speaker 1: a word. You don't know why you did it, but
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: you got off the highway because God leads his children
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: by the power of his word. slap somebody and say
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  Speaker 1: I got a word I got a word that will
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  Speaker 1: protect my power I got a word that will protect
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  Speaker 1: my purpose I got a word that will protect my
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  Speaker 1: prowess you can have my coat but you can't have
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: my dignity ask Joseph take my coat but I'm scared
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: still covered with the favor of God. You can take
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  Speaker 1: my coat and dip it in blood and lie on
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  Speaker 1: me and say I'm dead, but it won't stop the
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  Speaker 1: favor of God because the favor didn't come through the coat.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: The favor came through the word. God said it. Scripture
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  Speaker 1: said it. I am belly.
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  Speaker 4: I am belly.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down, sit down, sit down. I feel something. So
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I got to thinking about it. I said, Lord, I
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: want to understand this Lamb of God. And so it
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: brought me to, is there a difference between lambs in
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Palestine and lambs in the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: So I started studying lambs. The lamb that we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about in Palestine is called an Awasi lamb. It is
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a unique brand of lamb that is designed to withstand
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the climate in the Middle East. You just thought a
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  Speaker 1: lamb is a lamb is a lamb. But an Awasi
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: lamb has a different nature. It has the ability to
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  Speaker 1: survive the hot climate, the sandy dunes, to eat less
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: food and hold onto it for longer.
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  Speaker 2: Periods of time.
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  Speaker 1: It tends to have a dark face because the melanin
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: protects it from the heat of the sun. Put my
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: picture up of the lamp. a little different. Yeah, it
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: has a little different demeanor. This is what our sea
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: lamb has the ability to withstand adversity.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: It is adaptable. It is flexible.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be like the Lamb of God,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: you've got to be adaptable. You've got to be flexible.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: You've got to serve God in season and out of season.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: You've got to preach when you feel like it. Preach
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel like it. You've got to praise
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: when you're happy. You've got to praise when you're blue.
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  Speaker 1: Because an Overseas Lamb is able to withstand whatever. It
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  Speaker 1: produces more wool. It produces more dairy. It has more ability.
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  Speaker 1: It yields 58 to 77 liters of milk during a
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: 150 day lactation. So the Awasi lamb has a different
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  Speaker 1: value because the amount of milk that it is able
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  Speaker 1: to produce. The amount of wool it is able to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: produce puts it in a unique category. It is an
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Owasi lamb. An Owasi lamb has a different personality. It
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: has a temperament of adaptability. I don't care where you
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: put it, it will adapt to wherever it is. I'm
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: talking about some of you. I don't care where we
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: put you, you will find a way to survive because
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: you've got that lamb-like nature down inside of you, whereas
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: your girlfriend is rigid and stubborn and won't listen and
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: you can't tell her nothing, but I don't care where
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: we put you, you will find a way to shine
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  Speaker 1: because you have the nature not just of a lamb,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: but an Oasis lamb is confined to the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? In summary,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: an Awasi lamb is the kind of sheep that are
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  Speaker 1: not only hardy, but also valuable for milk and meat
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: production in the region. Their calm temperament, watch this, their
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: calm temperament and adaptability contribute to their popularity in the
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Middle East. They were loved because they were quiet under
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: attack Jesus acts like the lambs that David raised.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Lamb that goes to the slaughter and doesn't say a thing.
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  Speaker 1: In the garden he was talking but the closer he
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  Speaker 1: got to the cross the less he had to say.
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  Speaker 1: Because he had to be an Oversee Lamb. And an
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Oversee Lamb is just as calm going to the slaughter
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: as it is going to the grass field. So he
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  Speaker 1: humbled himself. And he never said a mumbling word because
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  Speaker 1: it is the nature and the temperament of an Oversee
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  Speaker 1: Lamb to shut up. This is the theology of quietness.
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes God says nothing. Go to a land I
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  Speaker 1: will show you and says nothing else. You shall come
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  Speaker 1: forth as pure gold and says nothing else. If you
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: destroy the temple, I'll raise it up again, no details.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: It says nothing else. And our sea lamb just goes.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it is to the shearers or the slaughterhouse or
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the feeding, it just goes. Jesus' power is proven in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: his submission to the purpose of And because Pilate had
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the purpose, he got no answer.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Anybody that doesn't have nothing to do with your purpose
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: does not deserve an answer. If you argue with them
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: and you win, what do you get? So stop responding
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  Speaker 1: to everything they say on Twitter and Instagram because there
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: is no prize or reward you get. I don't like
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: your hair. So do you think I'm going to change
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  Speaker 1: my hair because some stranger wrote a line that says
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: you don't like my glasses on me? These are the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: tactics of the enemy to distract you from your purpose.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And Jesus doesn't answer him because you can win the battle.
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  Speaker 1: and lose the war. Oh God, I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. Stop letting the enemy
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: distract you with every battle. Sometimes you just don't say nothing.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: It is the theology of quietness. There were times God
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: said nothing at all. What historians call the 400 years
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: of silence. God said nothing at all. It mirrors the
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: 400 years that Abraham's seed was down Egypt for 400
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: years God said nothing at all but just because God
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  Speaker 1: ain't saying nothing that mean that God ain't doing nothing
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: he's always doing something even when he ain't saying nothing
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: though he slay me yet shall I trust him. If
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: he laid me down, he'll raise me up again. If
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: he puts me in it, he'll bring me out of it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: If he puts me in the lion's den, he'll raise
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: me from the lion's den. If he puts me in
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the jailhouse, He'll shake the jailhouse. I feel like doing
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the jailhouse rock because somebody's about to rock their way
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: out of a jail. Everybody laughing at you, but you're
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: coming out. I don't know who I'm talking to, but
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: thus said the word of the Lord. They think they're
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: going to kill you in the morning, but before they
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: get to your cell, I'm going to send a breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And all you got to do is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: go to sleep. like a good Odyssey Lamb and know
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  Speaker 1: that he that have began a good work in you
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: shall perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: give him a sleepy praise. A resting praise. A praise
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: that releases your anxiety. A praise that comforts your mind.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: A praise that renews your spirit. You ain't got to
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: say nothing. Be still and know I'm God.
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  Speaker 2: I got this. The battle is not yours. It belongs
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: to me. Give them to me. Can I go a
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: little bit deeper?
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I wanna make a difference between superficial strength and internal fortitude.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: We spend $ 6 billion a year on weightlifting, equipment, gym memberships,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: personal trainers, and related fitness services, all so that we
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: can look strong and buff, and it's good, it's good
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: for your health. I'm not speaking against it, I'm just
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: making a point. But when you get in a spiritual battle,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Biceps can't help you. Triceps can't help you. It's nice
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: to have abs. I guess I got some down in
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: here somewhere. But let me tell you something, abs won't
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: help you when your soul.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Is up under attack.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Just because somebody looks strong doesn't mean that they are strong.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Just because they talk strong doesn't mean that they are strong.
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  Speaker 1: We confuse strength with anger. So we think that because
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a person is angry, they're strong, and then they get cancer,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: and you find out that cussing cancer out does.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Not drive it out.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: You talk a good fight, but what is under attack
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: is your inner strength, your inner ability, your fight back
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: on the inside, that I will arise, still I rise.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Spit on me, still I rise. Beat me, still I rise.
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  Speaker 1: Nail me to the tree, still I rise. Put me
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: in the tomb, still I rise. Somebody shout, still I rise.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: You ought to be shouting right now. When you look
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: at all the hell you've been through and you still
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: sitting here today, you know you ought to be praising God.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: You know they tried to take you out. You know
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you couldn't defend yourself. You had to hold your peace
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: and still you rise. I want 30 seconds of crazy praise.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I feel a praise. I feel a praise coming in
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the house. I feel a praise coming in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Let it come in. Let it come in this house.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Still I rise. I thought I would have a nervous
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: breakdown But still I ride I thought I would lose
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: my mind But still I ride I thought everything was
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: over But still.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I ride I don't know who I'm talking to but
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: you're still here.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: You need to put on a hat and blow your
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: whistle and throw yourself a party. Stop waiting on anybody
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  Speaker 1: to throw you a party, but celebrate the fact that
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: you're still here. It's not by might. It's not by power.
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  Speaker 1: It's by my spirit, saith the Lord. You may have
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  Speaker 1: had to crawl like the woman with the issue of blood,
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  Speaker 1: but you still touch the hem of his garment.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes.
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  Speaker 4: We spend $ 1. 6 billion getting facelifts. The cost of a
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: face and a neck lift varies depending on what region
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  Speaker 4: you're in.
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  Speaker 2: But $ 1.
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  Speaker 1: 6 billion is old numbers. It's probably about $ 2 billion now.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get in grief, looking younger, when your
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  Speaker 1: daughter get through cussing you out, when you find your
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  Speaker 1: mama with a needle in her arms, this kind of
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: strength don't even matter. Your beautiful sister come in looking beautiful,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: but it don't help if we in the emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: The strength you need is a wasi strength The strength
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  Speaker 1: on the inside, the strength to hold your peace, the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: strength to be still, the strength to intercede, the strength
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  Speaker 1: to survive, grief-stricken, heartbroken, mind confused, don't know where tomorrow's
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: coming from, but still there's something inside of you that
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: has the ability to survive. Am I talking to the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: right people? I'm going to give you just a few points.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit deeper? Inner strength evolves
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  Speaker 1: from exposure to the Holy Spirit because it's not enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to tell you you need inner strength and
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  Speaker 1: not tell you where to get it. Inner strength evolves
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  Speaker 1: from the Holy Spirit. The Spirit led Jesus in the
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: wilderness to be tempted. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: The Spirit led him. The Spirit doesn't just lead you
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  Speaker 1: to the car lot to get a special price on
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the car. The Spirit doesn't just lead you to a
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: house or gold or silver. The Spirit leads you to
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: trouble that strengthens you inwardly. Oh, ain't nobody shouting now.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Because when the anointing come on you, you think the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: anointing just comes for you to come in and take over.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the anointing comes in for you to suffer so
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: that you can develop strength. inner strength. That's why you're confused.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: You say, how can I be so anointed and still
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: be unhappy? Because you think the anointing's job is to
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: make you happy. The anointing's job is to strengthen you inwardly.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: And God wants you to stop murmuring because when you murmur,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: you turn a three days journey into a 40 year
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: trip Because of your mouth, when you murmur and complain,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: you make it elongate. Whereas if you just hold your
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: peace and follow the theology of quietness, it will soon
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: be over. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: It's not just enduring it. It's how you endure it.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to endure it and not
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: change your attitude and not get bitter and not get
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: smart and not try to straighten people out. That's not
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: easy to do. But God said in order to get
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: through this battle you're in right now, you're going to
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: have to shut up.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: The silence of the Lamb, the Awase Lamb. In Jude 1.20,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I want you to have this. This is very important.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I've been knowing this scripture for almost 50 years. It
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: is very important. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. When
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I get up under attack, I start praying in the spirit.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I start praying in tongues because I got to bypass
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: my soulish man. I don't want my feelings to start
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: directing the prayer because if my feelings direct the prayer,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start praying crazy stuff like kill them.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Kill all of them. Kill all of them. May they
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: drop dead and fall over in the floor and may
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: maggots eat them before the EMTs get there.
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  Speaker 2: That's what my.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't trust my mind.
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  Speaker 1: To pray because my mind has been affected by what
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: my flesh is going through. But the Spirit itself maketh
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: intercession for us with groanings and moanings that cannot but
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: be uttered. For he that knoweth the will of God
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: searcheth the heart and the man. It's the catheter. It
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: cleans me out. It sanctifies me. It gets me right.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: It gets my head on straight. So if you want
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: to strengthen your inner man, you got to start praying
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: more in the Holy Ghost. You got to start walking
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: through the house talking about.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: And you say, what good does that do? I don't understand.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: You don't need to understand. That's why we're doing it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: We don't want you to understand. We want you to obey.
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  Speaker 1: We want you to submit. We want you to say yes.
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  Speaker 1: And we want a prayer that has not been polluted
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: by your opinion. This you can do at home. You
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: don't need no equipment. You don't need no trainer. You
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: don't need no device. You can start walking around in
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: your hotel room. I feel it getting to me. I
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: feel it getting to me. I feel it getting to me.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: If I'm going to shut my mouth, I got to
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: be strong enough in the spirit to pray in the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. I feel something about to hit this place.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I feel something about to rock this place. Every witch
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: needs to get out the door because the Holy Ghost
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: is about to hit the house. If the Holy Ghost
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: hit the house, every yoke is going to break. Every
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: warlock needs to run. I feel the presence of God
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: coming in this place. Somebody give him a praise. I
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: just need a praise. I just need a praise. I
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: need a praise. I need a praise. I need a praise.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I need a praise. I just need anybody. Anybody that
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: don't care what you got on. Don't care what you
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: look like. Don't care what you feel like. Don't care
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: how long your hair is. Give him a praise like
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: you lost your mind. Give him a praise out of
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: your belly. out of your spirit, out of your isness,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: out of the depths of your being. I feel something
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: about to break loose. I feel something about to break loose.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: I feel the spirit of God about to take over
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: this place. Hell is nervous. Demons are trembling. Satan is
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: upset because you're getting strength in your inner man. Out
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. I
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: feel water. Coming into your dry places. If you open
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: your mouth and give God the glory, you're going to
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: build yourself up. Build yourself up. You don't need a
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: new man. You don't need a new woman. You don't
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: need a new job. You need to build yourself up.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: Up, up, up. I said up. I said up.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I feel something about to happen in this place. Number two,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I want you to get this number two. You got
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: to understand that inner strength comes from strong associations. You
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: can't run with weak people and get stronger. You got
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: to run with people that are strong. Pick out strong people,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: not mean people, not hateful people. strong people. Pick your
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: friends by how they took a licking and they kept
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: on ticking. Pick your friends that been through hell and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: high water and still they got up.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Do you hear what I'm saying?
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Stop being drawn only to people who need you. For
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: this next year we're going through, you need people that
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: feed you, that pour into you, that challenge you, that
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: make you read, that make you study, that make you pray,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: because you're getting ready to go higher. Slap your neighbor
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and say, I'm getting ready for higher. I'm getting ready
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: for higher. I'm training for the Olympics. I'm training for
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: what's next. I'm training for what God is about to do.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I'm training for my purpose. I'm training for my prophecy.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I'm training for my prowess. I'm training for my power.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I might not look like I got power. I may
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: only be three feet tall and weigh 85 pounds, but
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: man looks on the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I'm stronger than I look like. I'm tougher than I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: look like because I've been through enough hell that I've
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: been exercising the power of God in my life. So
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I want to draw people that got inner strength so
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: that my associations... will reflect where I'm going to. Can
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I go just a little bit deeper? I got two
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: more little quick points. I'm gonna give them real quick
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and I'll be out of the way. Inner strength comes
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: from prayer. And we have raised a church that stopped praying.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: They praise, but they don't pray. They dance, but they
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: don't pray. You don't see any churches anymore that have
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: prayer meetings. Wasn't nobody speaking. Wasn't no big names singing.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: The star of the show was prayer. We came in praying.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: We had a quick devotion, and everybody hit their knees
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: and said, Satan, you're lying. You're coming against my house,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: but you can't have my house. I plead the blood,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the blood of the Lamb, the blood of Jesus. Holy Ghost,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: take over me. Don't let me say what I want
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: to say, but help.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Me to hold my peace. The battle is not mine.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: It belongs to you, Father. I stretch my hands out
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to thee, no other help I know. I'm not looking
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: to you for help. I'm not looking to you for help.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to manipulate you to get help because
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: you ain't my God. So I ain't got to talk
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: to you. Pilot, you didn't get me in this and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: you can't get me out. Now unto him that is able.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, sir. Yes, thank you, sir.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's something happening.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: In the balcony.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: There's something happening in the back row. There's something happening
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: in the center section. Somebody over there got a breakthrough.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Somebody over there got a breakthrough. If you got a
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: breakthrough over there, open your mouth and give God some praise.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: My fourth and final point of how to.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Strengthen yourself is simply this. Inner strength comes from healthy
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: soul talk. What are you saying to.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: Yourself? You are making yourself sick.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Feeding yourself the poison That gives you pain. Rehearsing it.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Over and over again. Envisioning it. Over and over again.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: And you can't be strong. Eating weak food. It ain't
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: what they said about you. It's what you said to yourself.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: It's not what they did to you. It's what you
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: did to yourself. You need healthy soul talk. I'm the
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: man for the job. I know I can do it.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I know the favor of God is with me. I
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: know that God is for me. I know I can
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: do all things through Christ which strengthens me. A thousand
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: may fall at my right side. Ten thousand may fall
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: at my left side. But it shall not come nigh me.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Because I know in whom I have believed. You got
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: to start talking to yourself better. Because if you don't
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: talk to yourself better, you'll start dating anybody that talks
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: good to you because there's such a deficit for some
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: positivity that I can trick you just by being nice
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: to you. You haven't had no niceness in so long
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: that you're so thirsty that any.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Con man can come out loud.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: And say something that you ought to be saying to yourself.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: I date myself. I take myself out to dinner. I
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: buy myself some flowers. I get myself some for the birthday.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Every year I have a birthday. I buy myself a
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: present in case everybody else forget me. I don't forget myself.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I feel the power of the Holy Ghost about to
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: shake this place down. It's about to shake this place down.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and tell them I'm about to shake
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: this place down. If you're nervous, you might better move.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: If you're upset, you might better get out of the way.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: If you got a hearing problem, you might better move.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Because I feel the power of the Holy Ghost about
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: to break loose in this place.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Lift your voice and give God a praise. I said
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: a praise.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: I said a praise, a 30-second praise. Pray them till
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: you start talking right. Pray them till you start thinking right.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Pray them till you feel the power of the Holy
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Ghost in your soul. Pray them till you become your
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: own best friend. Praise Him till you feel a renewal
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: down in your belly.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: Praise Him.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Praise Him. Till you stop needing the validation of pallid.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Praise him until you astound them over what you said
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: nothing about. You never even let on it was an issue.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: And the Bible says Pilate was astonished because.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Of the silence of the lambs.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Jesus could be silent because he knew his purpose. was
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: not with Pallet. His purpose was with the resurrection. He
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: just had to go through Pallet. So he didn't respond
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: to Pallet because Pallet was a part of the process.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Judas was a part of the process. Jesus knew what
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: he was going to do before he did it, but
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: he didn't stop him because he wasn't part of the process.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: After Judas did it, he regretted it and tried to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: give the money back. They wouldn't take the money back
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: because it was too late. He was fulfilling the process.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: And when you're going through the process, you got to
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: shut up. You got to shut up. You got to
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: shut up.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: This is the theology of quietness. This is what makes
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: you a peculiar people. That's what makes you peculiar.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Not dressing weird and acting weird and saying strange stuff
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: in progress. No.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: The ability to just be still.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Until you bring all parts of yourself into subjection and
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: you accept it is what it is. It's going to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: do what it's going to do. It's going to be
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: what it's going to be. When we get through talking,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I still got to go through the cross. When we
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: get through negotiating, I still got to go through the cross.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: But I'm not worried about the cross. Because I know
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: that I might die on Friday evening. but I know
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: it ain't over on Friday evening I might look gone
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: all day Saturday but I know it ain't over based
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: on Saturday but if you happen to get up early
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning Go down to the graveside and see how
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I got over. I didn't say anything over here because
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: actions speak louder than words. And the Lord told me
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: to tell you, you can show them. better than you
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: can tell them. I don't know who I'm talking to,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: but the Lord said you can show them better than
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: you can tell them. Don't say nothing about it. Just
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: be about it. You've been in a Friday night experience,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: but Sunday is coming. And if you hold your peace
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: a little while longer, everybody's going to see God is
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: about to roll the stone Who am I preaching to?
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: If this is your word, make some noise in this place.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: If this is your word, make some noise in this place.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: If this is your word, let the Lord know you
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: heard him speak to you right now.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: So I repent.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I'm closing. I repent from my suffering, from my murmuring
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: and my complaining. I repent because I've been verbal about
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: stuff that don't matter. I repent because I've been hanging
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: around people that made me respond petty because they were petty.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: But I refuse to sink.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Down into the quagmire and the abyss of who you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: are and give up being who I am. The gravitational
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: pull of our relationship has caused me to step back
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: because you're about to make me say something when I'm
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: being graded on my silence.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: The theology of quietness. Elijah in the cave. Lightning. God
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: ain't in it. Thunder. God ain't in it. All kinds
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: of power. Earthquake. God is not in it.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: But then a still small voice spoke and said, get
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: out of here. What doest thou? And the Lord said
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: something and I'm finished. What are you doing in that cave?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: You're a mighty man of valor. You're a mighty man
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: of valor at work. You're a mighty man of valor
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: to your friends. You're a mighty man of valor to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: everybody else. But at three o'clock in the morning, You
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: live in a cave. You caveman. You caveman. You caveman.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: You cut yourself in the tombs. And God said, I
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: did not anoint you for you to hate yourself. I
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: did not anoint you for you to cut yourself. You
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: stopped the other people who were cutting you because you
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: are better at cutting yourself than they were. In fact,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: you only drew them because they reflected how you saw yourself.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: You had the power to push them back, but then
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: you took their job. What doest thou hear that you
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: have lowered yourself to debate somebody who has less rank, authority, power, purpose,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: and prowess, then they don't deserve your answer.