Sermon
Fast Food - Pastor J.D. Howell 7-5-2026
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Your bibles. Will you turn with me to the Book
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of Exodus. May I direct your attention to the twelfth
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chapter and verse number eleven. Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter number
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twelve versus number six through eleven. Brother Jesse, First Corinthians,
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Chapter number six versus number eight through eleven. How many
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of you had some barbecue yesterday?
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A few of you?
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How many had some hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad?
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A few more of you?
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How many had some homemade ice creams, some homemade desserts,
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munchie snacks, things like that. Oh yeah, a whole lot
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more of you. Amen, It's good to see you in
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the house of the Lord today, Brother Nathaniel Acts, Chapter
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number twelve versus number six through eleven, My brother, And
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when Herod would have brought him forth. The same night,
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Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,
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and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And behold,
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the Angel of the Lord came upon him, and a
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light shined in the prison, and he smote Peter on
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the side and raised him up, saying to rise up quickly.
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And his chains fell off from his hands, and the
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angel said under him, gird thyself and bind on thy sandals.
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And so he did, and he saith unto him, cast
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thy garment about thee, and follow me.
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And he went out and followed him, and.
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Wist not that it was true which was done by
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the Angel, but thought he saw a vision. When they
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were passed the First and second war, they came into
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the iron gate that leadeth into the city, which opened to.
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Them of his own accord.
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And they went out and passed on through one street
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and forthwith the Angel departed from him. And when Peter
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was come to himself, he said, now I know of
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a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and
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hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod and
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from all the expectations of the people of the Jews.
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So Peter was told to put on his shoes, Brother Jesse,
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first Corinthians six eight to eleven.
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Brother, nay, you do you wrong and defraud, and that
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you're brethren, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
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inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived, neither fornicators,
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nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
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with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous nor drunkers, nor revilers,
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nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such
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were some of you, But ye are washed, but he
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are sanctified. But ye are justified in the name of
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the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.
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All things are lawful unto me, but all things are
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not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I
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will not be brought under the power of any amen.
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And such were some of you. You left one place
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for another place, You left one position for another position. Exodus,
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chapter number twelve, verse number eleven. The Bible says, and
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thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your
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shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand,
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and ye shall eat it in haste.
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It is the Lord's passover. I want to preach a
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message the Holy Ghost title fast food fast food. Looking
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at our golden text again verse number eleven. Your shoes
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on your feet, and ye shall eat it in haste.
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Let's pray, Heavenly Father. We love and we praise you.
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We thank you for the opportunity to be in the
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house of the Lord. We pray God that you would
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annoy it this people help them to hear what the
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Spirit of God says.
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And to the church today through the word of God.
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Thank you for the teachers teaching, the singers singing the
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words of this blessed book. God have been sent forth
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through song and listen. I pray that we would hear
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in heed. I pray even now that we would hear
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what the Spirit of God is said under the church lost,
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set of guard at my mouth, and help me to
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say the things you would have me to say, nothing
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more or less, and not the people and the preacher.
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We pray that we would debard this place joyfully and
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not sorrowly, in Jesus's name. And the church said, Amen,
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reading again our golden text. And thus shall ye eat
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it with your loins, girded, your shoes on your feet,
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and you're staffing your hen, and ye shall eat it
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in haste. It is the Lord's passover. Our text is
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found in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible.
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The Book of Exodus is the second book of the
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Divine Library.
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It is also a book of the pentitug.
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We know that the first five books of the Bible
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are very very special, for within them we find the
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Law of Moses.
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And if it's the law of Moses.
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It must be the law of God, because we know
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that anything that Moses gave to the people came from
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the Lord. And I feel like it's very important today
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that we hear what the Spirit of God is saying
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unto the church. To every preacher in this building, it
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is important that when you minister to a gathered people,
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that they hear from the Lord. They do not need
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to hear a sermon that was plagiarized. They do not
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need to hear a message that was generated through artificial
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intelligent technology, and they do not need to see something
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that has been copied from a book. They need somebody
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to preach unto them what thus saith the Lord. Somebody
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on bended knee, through prayer and fasting, needs to get inspired,
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just as these holy men of God were inspired. The
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Bible said that the holy ghosts moved upon those holy
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men of old, and they gave us these wonderful, wonderful
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words that we find in the Divine Library. Now, some
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of you celebrated Independence Day yesterday. I would suppose every
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single individual with an age of understanding understood exactly why
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we were celebrating here in this twelfth Chapter we can
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find recorded events that have been on my mind and
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I've been unable to shake them. And perhaps this morning
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will be an unshakable moment and movement for somebody today.
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I feel like there's no doubt about it that God
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is speaking to somebody concerning freedom. There's no doubt in
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my mind that God is speaking to somebody concerning a
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pivotal moment that is about to appear in your path.
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I feel like these Israelites knew all too well that
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God had been using Moses to bring about victory in
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their lives. There was much anticipation and expectation when they
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realized that God had heard their prayer and God had
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sent a deliverum. And so they find themselves here at
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this time of their life, at Freedom's Eve. If you
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wouldish deliverance Eve for israel I see in this chapter
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of pivotal Moment for the people of God. Yesterday, on
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the fourth of July, we celebrated freedom or our freedom.
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Let's put ourselves in the Israelites shoes at this time.
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For over four hundred years, For nearly four hundred and
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thirty years they had been in Egypt. Not always were
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their slaves, but for a large part of their time
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there they were slaves, and as slaves they were ready
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for deliverance. There's no doubt. When they were under the
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rule of Joseph, the Hebrew pharaoh, they were not slaves
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and they were not feeling the pressure for deliverance. But
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at this point in time, every single Israelite or Hebrew
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is feeling pressure for deliverance. And so for many, many
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months some had prayed and asked God to send deliverance
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their way, and their deliverance came by the mouth of
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a deliverer that was not afraid to speak to Pharaoh,
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a man that was not a politician, a man without
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fear of favor, a man not looking for affirmation, approval,
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or applause from any dignitary politician or pre eminent man.
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A man that was humble, a shepherd, man that could
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have been the very Pharaoh sitting upon the throne, that humble,
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meek pastor that shepherd Moses put his finger, his bony finger,
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in the face of Pharaoh and said thus said to Lord,
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let my people go, and you all know the process
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of deliverance. There were some plagues, Brother Jesse and the
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rope cap and some others recently taught about the plagues
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of Egypt. I want to call them the plagues of
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God because God had a perfect plan and God was
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using these plagus in order to execute.
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That perfect plan.
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You see, these plagues of Egypt produce this moment, this
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pivotal moment. The plagus brought them to the past over moment.
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The Lord told the Israelie that this month is the
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beginning of months for them. It's a time of new beginnings.
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It's a moment of newness of life. Sister Howell did
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not know what I was gonna preach on this morning,
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and as we were leaving the house, she was playing
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that song sung by Gordon Moe talking about a time
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of newness of life or a time of new beginnings.
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And I feel like there's a handful of people in
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this building today that have cried out by reason of
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affliction and a bondage spiritually. There's people that have sighed
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under their breath, and it's time for them to drawn
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nigh unto God. You can tell the Spirit of God
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is calling some unto him. The Bible said, no man
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coming to the Father except the Spirit draw him. Can
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I tell you it was time for these people to
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be drawn out of Egypt, just as Moses as a
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baby was drawn out of the river. Now it's time
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for these people to be plucked out of their captivity
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and their bondage.
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It's time for somebody.
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In this building this morning to experience newness of life.
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You must be sick and tired of the way you're living.
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By now, the Bible said, if any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold,
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all things have become new. Meaning for that individual, there
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is newness of life. I feel like somebody in this
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building today is on the brink of deliverance. You are
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at freedom's eve.
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You see.
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The Lord knew how to point these Israelites to their
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day of deliverance. And I feel like God has instructed me,
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as your pastor, to point you to your day or
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time or hour of deliverance.
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You see. Passover night would be a pivotal moment.
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For the Israelites, but there was so much more happening
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that night. As a shadow and type, this passover pointed
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to the plan of redemption for mankind, that pointed to
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the spotless and sinless Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who
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would bring forth some redemption to the human race. The
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apostle Paul understood the significance of the passover that took
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place some here found in the record of the twelfth
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chapter of the Book of EXODUSM and he also knew
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of what had happened when Jesus Christ stood as the
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substitutionary sacrifice. The apostle Peter in One Peter, chapter number
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one and verse number eighteen and nineteen, he wrote these words,
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for as much as ye know that she were not
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redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your
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vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with
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the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, without
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blemishop and without spot. You see for every member of
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the human racem who is bound by sin today they
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can find a freedom through Jesus Christ. And every person
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that is bound by sin is sitting on Freedom's eve,
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if they will only look and see that freedom is
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right there at their fingertips.
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Today is today of salvation.
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It is past time for them to leave their sin
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fu lifestyle. It has past time for the Israelites to
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do what God had told them to do. It is
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time to leave the children of Israel had spent right
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at four hundred and thirty years, which is a lengthy
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season of time in this land of Egypt, and they
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were ready to leave some.
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Things behind them. I wonder how.
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Many people in this building today are ready to leave
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some things behind you. The Apostle Paul said, this I
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do forgetting those things which are behind me, and reaching
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forth unto the things that are before. I press forward. Now,
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that's not only talking about the memory of things behind us,
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speaking of what awaits us, what is in our future,
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the possibility of our future, the opportunities ahead of us.
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Apostle Paul was saying, if you're going to receive what
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is in front of you, you have to forget about
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what is behind you. And Brother Samuel Starret touched on
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that a little bit this past weekend. I find the
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timing of this message most interesting, having considered the fact
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that three of our church members have contacted me over
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the last couple of days and told me that they
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have resigned from their jobs. Now, I have not heard
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of any person in this building resigning from their jobs
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in a long time, and their resignation and their resignation
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letters or announcements have nothing to do what I'm preaching today,
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but yet it has a lot to do with it.
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You see, my son in law, brother Jonathan Edwardson, messaged
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me a few days ago and said this, Hey, Papa,
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I hope you're having a great day so far. I
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have received an offer letter from a company called SHM
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say from Human Medicine, and I wanted to ask you
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to look at it, and I want to get your
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opinion on it. What are your thoughts concerning this, Papa,
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He said, I feel like it's God's will to move
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in that direction. I definitely don't feel like it's his
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will to stay here where I am right now. He
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goes on further with saying this, I've not had a
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good feeling about this company since we were bought out
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over a month ago.
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Something does not seem right.
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Basically, what brother Jonathan was saying to me, as his
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father in law, it is time for me to lead
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this place, AmAm, and I'm going to have my shoes
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on and I'm going to get out up here just
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as soon as I can. He said, I don't feel
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right about this whole situation. Doesn't that echo the words
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and the sentiments of the Israelites who were being held
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in captivity in the land of Egypt.
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And the letter continued, and I'll let it stop there.
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Basically, brother Jonathan is saying, I'm sick and tired with it,
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and I'm uncomfortable with it, and if I need to
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take a pay cut, I will gladly take a pay
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cut in order to get out of this place. And
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I told Brother Jonathan, I said, well, it sounds to
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me like him. You've already made up your mind and
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you've already prayed it through because you said, I don't
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feel right.
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About being here.
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I feel uncomfortable with the situation. And I feel like
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finally somebody has got uncomfortable being where you're at. And
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I thank God for the shift in that situation. For
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I remember thirty two years ago, when I got my
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heart fixed in God, I had got uncomfortable in my situation.
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I was miserable, I was unhappy. I was sick and
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tired of the way that I was living, and I
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was ready for a change of place and a change
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of pace. You see, for somebody in this building today,
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it is time to leave. So brother Jonathan Edwards is
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not the old person in this building that turned in
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a two weeks notice. Over the last couple of days,
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brother Aaron Wood turned in a two week notice.
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Brother Bufort Stagg sent me a copy of what he said.
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He said, I am happily turning you my two week
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noticing for the company that brother Jonathan Edwards has just
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resigned from. You see, these three brothers are letting us
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know that they are trading their current situation for something better,
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and so, if not Monday, in the very near future,
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these brothers are going to entertain and operate within a
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new job, Brother Buford, I believe you're pleased already, I
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told Brother Buford, and Brother Jonathan, I said, already, I
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sensed that the weight of the world has been lifted
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from your shoulders. Don't you feel like the Israelites felt
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the same way when after four hundred and thirty years
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of living in Egypt, they finally realize that they can
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leave some things behind.
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I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick.
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And tired of the way this world is a going,
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and one morning I will leave it all behind. The
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cares of life are hard to carry. I'm thankful that
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we have a blessed hope that we can get out
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up here, when I look at the things that my
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seventeenth grandchildren are going to have to face, things like
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I would have never imagined or dreamed of a little.
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Child facing in their lifetime.
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I can tell you I'm saying, Jesus, would you come quickly,
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Lord Jesus. I know that that last person has to
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be saved, that last person has to be sacked upon
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and filled with the holy ghost. But Jesus, would you
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come just as quickly as you can?
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Can?
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I tell you that too many generations had experienced the
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crack of the whip upon their back. These Israelites knew
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it is time to leave this leakedy season of bondage,
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and it was time to leave the older behind. I
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doubt for very long there was somebody saying, I want
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to turn around.
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I know, after a period of time, we know the
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rest of the story.
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We know that some decided that they'd rather go back,
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but better Jesse, they really did not know what they
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were talking about. They had no idea really what they
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were wishing for, because if they went back, Pharaoh would
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have had seven taskmasters to every one that they had before,
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and Pharaoh would assault to it. And that if you
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turn back, and you come back, you never leave again.
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And that's what the devil does concerning those that have
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been saved them and sactified and holy Ghostfield, and who
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turn and walk away from the grace and the goodness
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of God. And the devil says, you know what, then,
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I don't want to ever lose them again to the
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Father for the Father's house, sin seven more, and let
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them occupy the mind and the thoughts of that individual,
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and do whatever you can to oppress it and possess
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them to keep them from ever being liberated again.
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Now you're already in bondage.
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That is why I'm preaching this message this morning with
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two mental outlines, one of them being souls s O
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U l s and the second one being the second
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point being.
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S O L ees souls and souls them.
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Why, oh why would anybody, after the teaching you've heard
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this morning, and after watching a country celebrate us independence,
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after a message like God has given you this morning,
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why would you choose to remain in a not so
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comfort song. You're not comfortable where you're actor and you
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never will be. The Bible said that is relaxome for
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crying out by reason of their bondage. Can I tell
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you are crying and it won't be too long before
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you're dying. You need a deliverer, and it's Freedom's eve.
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You are at a pivotal moment in your life when
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you can turn from that current lifestyle into a new lifestyle.
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You can turn from that unhappy individual into an individual
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that is full of joy. You can walk away from
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being a tormented individual to being a person that possesses.
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The prince a piece and who has a piece that
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passes to all understanding.
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I want to ask you here today, are you willing
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to leave your old identity behind? Are you willing to
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leave for other things behind? The Bible said that they
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made preparation. These israel lifes got ready, They had their
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shoes on, they had the food in their hand.
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And they went when God told them to go.
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I want to ask a handful of people in this
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building today, are your shoes ow? Are you packed up
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and ready to go? I feel like finally somebody is
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ready to walcome away from former mindset, so previous mentality,
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and ready to embrace the foolness of God's goodness and grace.
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That's what you gotta do. You gotta walk out of
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that view.
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Symbolizing the walker, how to beat up, the walk from
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the world, the walk.
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From the old creature state of mind and become a
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new being.
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In Jesus, I realize this Sunday morning, and some of
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us are just waking up. Like Sister House said, we've
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crashed from all that sugar. We've ate, We're tired, we're
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wore out, we're exhausted. But aren't you tired of that
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lengthy season of bondage? Aren't you tired of sitting behind
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bars of iron and watching others enjoy free them and
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liberty and peace of mind. It was time for them
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to leave the old behind, and the walk of faith
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was theirs to own. You had to own this message today.
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You have to own this moment. You have to see
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that this is your pivotal moment. You have to see
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that this is a process. You have to see that now,
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right now, God has done his part. God has raised
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up put a liver his son, and God has proclaimed
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the Pharaoh the devil.
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Let my child go listen. Pharaoh may have.
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Repeatedly heartened his heart and change his mind, but the
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day of deliverance came.
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But I want you to know if.
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God tells Lucifer to let you go, if you rattle
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them change and shake them fetters and say God, I
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won't out of here, you better put your shoes on.
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You better mean what you say. You better say what
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you mean. Because if your meaning victory is coming, I've
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set up your meaning.
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Victory is coming. And the devil cannot harden his heart.
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The devil cannot change his mind, the devil cannot hinder deliberates.
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For whom the sun makes free is free.
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Indeed, I'm telling somebody today, this freedom's eve for you. You
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can be free today.
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Fast food, hurry while there's time.
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Now, here's the moment, today, here's today coming.
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Die Now, the.
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Master callers ay, man, it's the appointed moment.
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It's the appointed time.
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Now, it's the time to pivot and run in the
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other direction. Those eyes that had looked at the oppressors,
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those eyes that had looked wearily at the opposition, those
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eyes that had looked so sadly at the tyrants, those
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eyes that had looked so mournfully at the backs of
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their wounded loved ones. Now when they pivot, their eyes
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of hope, their eyes of desperation, their eyes of if
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I can just get out of here, If I can
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just get out of here. I remember reading Cord ten
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Boone's account of being imprisoned by the Nazis and how
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she lived in that ravens Brook concentration camp, and Brother Jesse,
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how she was looking for the perfect opportunity to escape,
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but she found no opportunity to escape. And when her sister,
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that God fearing woman, Bessie Timboom, passed away, she knew
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that Bessie had successfully escaped, was absent in body from
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her and from the Nazis and Ravensbrook. But Brother Jesse,
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she knew she was in the presence of the Lord.
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And Cord tin Boom said, you know, it'd be easy
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just to end my own life, she said in one statement,
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but I knew that a Christian God fearing person cannot
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end their own life, and so I must endure hardness
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as a good soldier. She knew and practiced and preached.
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I must be faithful unto the end. I must be
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faithful until that gate swings open. I must be faithful
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until I see a window of opportunity raised. I must
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be faithful until I hear the words go. And she said,
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on a certain more unannounced and unexpected her when they
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read the names on the list, and a brief moments
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she heard Corey ten Boom and she realized, freedom is here.
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My opportunity to make a break to safety is here.
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I'll tell you what Corey tin Boom did not do.
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She did not go to her bunk. She did not
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go to her barrick. She did not go to her bed.
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She did not go to all her friends and asked
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them to pray about the situation or asked them to
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escort her to the gate. She got out of there
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when she could. And I'm telling you now is the
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day today, Right now is the moment you have your
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shoes on, I said.
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I feard it him my spirit, you got your shoes on.
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I preached a message the Holy Ghost titled past food.
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You better take other passover.
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Lamb while you can.
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You better put take off other pissover feasta while you
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can get on about it, get moving, get riding, get
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away from that lofestyle.
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Amen.
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They knew the atmosphere was changing, Sister Howell, when they
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started getting spiritual warnings and spiritual instructions. Something went like this,
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take a spotless slamb and kill it and place the
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blood upon the doorpost. Brother Jeremiah Howell, your life was
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forever changed a few nights ago, as you had a
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vision of the base of the cross at Calvary, and
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as you saw the pool of blood at the base
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of that cross. And if you look at our golden
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text Exitus, chapter number twelve, verse number eleven, and thus
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shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your shoes
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on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and
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ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's passover,
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meaning when you hear the sound of a going, when
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God says go forward, you better go forward. When God says,
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my spirits are drawing, you better get in the curing
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of a spirit. When you feel that urge to pray,
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you better pray. When you feel godless sorrow bringing forth repentance,
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you better repent. The Lord told you them to eat
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the supper with their shoes on? Has God told you
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to eat your supper with your sandals on? Here is
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the first record of fast food. These people were expecting
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to leave as soon as possible before sunrise. They wouldn't
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belong to another before sunrise. They would be a free
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individual before sunrise, they would know the taste of freedom.
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Before sunrise, they would enjoy independence. They were dressed for
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the occasion, packed up and ready to go. And I
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feel in my spirit that somebody has tressed for the occasion,
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and you're ready to become a child of God. I'm
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not talking about your outward garment. I'm talking about your
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inward garment. You're putting on the helm and of salvation,
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your feed a shd. You've got the breastplate of righteousness,
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and you're ready to get out of here. You're ready
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to experience a deliberance and victory. Before they could go,
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they had to experience a substitutionary sacrifice, meaning somebody's got
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to pay for this, somebody's got to die for this.
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.
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The lamb must die and the blood must be applied.
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Deliverance only comes by the blood of the lamb. Could
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the church say, Amen, God will bring you out a bondage.
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I said, God can bring you out of homosexuality. God
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can bring you out of fornication. God can bring you
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out of thievery. God can bring you out of drunkenness.
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We may not have any of that here this morning.
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There may be somebody listening. It's in that situation. But
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God can bring people out of bondage. My question for
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these people at this pivotal moment is are you ready?
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Acts Chapter number twelve, verses number six through eleven was
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one of our cotexts, and our brother read about Peter
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the Apostle being in prison, and last Sunday morning we
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talked about the purpose of prevailing prayer, and we talked
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about Mary, the mother of John Mark, who was hosting
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that prayer meeting. And the Bibel said that early the
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next morning, the apostle Peter was going to be executed.
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Herod wanted to.
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Do that, but John Mark's mother, Mary and some praying
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saints went in there and prayed without ceasing. And the
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Bible said, even though he was facing execution the next morning,
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those precious saints of God had prayed.
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I'm telling you, Heaven had.
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Heard, and it was time for Peter to make his exodus.
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The Bible said God helped him, and the Angel the
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Lord came upon him and a light shined him. The
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Peerson and the Angel smoke Peter on the side, and
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he said, arise.
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Get up, Peter and get out quickly.
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And the Bible said the chains fell from his hands.
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Peter had to be woken by an angel. Peter had
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to be shook by an angel. Peter had to be
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picked up by an angel. You know why because even
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Peter understood, without divine intervention, there is no plan of escape,
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and I must just simply trust the Lord. But I
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want you to know you do have divine intervention. You
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do have people praying for you. There's been prayer meeting
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on your behalf. There's been repibles on your behalf, has
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been moves of God on your behalf.
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And just as Mary.
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John Mark's mother and the saints had prayed for the
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release by divine hand, Peter the apostle, even now I
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feel like her by divine hand. Here is somebody pointing
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you out of the prison. There's a light shining on
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your path, telling you the way to go. Will you
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walk her in the gospel lot that shines. Will you
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take the Angel of the Lord by the head and
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let him lead you to the altar gate?
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Will you accept deliverance?
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Put your shoes holder and walk out of that prison.
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Put your shoes holder.
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It's time to get out of here, the Bible said,
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And his chains fell off quickly, and the angel told him,
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girl yourself, bind on them sandals and get to moving.
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And he followed the Angel of the Lord into deliverance.
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God told Peter, put on your shoes, boy. And Israel,
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they were told, put on your shoes. Be ready in
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that moment when you feel that quickening, when you feel that.
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Spirit of God come in.
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Even David and his soldiers were hunkered down waiting on
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the troubling in the top of the Moulbi trees. Even
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all them lame and importent and weak and crippled and
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disabled people that were laid at the gates, laid at
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the pools, they were always just waiting on something to
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come by or someone. It didn't matter if it was
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an angel of the Lord after a long season. It
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didn't matter if his angel the Lord at a certain season.
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It didn't matter if it was the apostles of the Lord,
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James and John at the gate beautiful or at the pool.
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It just doesn't matter.
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They're all waiting on someone, waiting on something to say,
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it is time, It is time. Could you imagine all
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them is set at the gate. Could you imagine them
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saying it's time. Could you imagine all them is set
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at the pool saying it's time.
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You know what?
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They had every excuse in the book, didn't they? A
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lot of them said, I'm laying in my feet. A
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lot of them said, you know, I can't even pull
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myself with my hands and arms. But in this case,
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every person is able to reach Jesus. Every person is
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able to crawl of Jesus, every persons able to call
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out to Jesus.
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What about you right here today?
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Are you willing to put your shoes on and make
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haste and get to where the passover lamb is?
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Amen?
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Deliverance, deliverance, Deliverance is yours. But there's peril and procrastination.
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There's danger in delay, and if your very nature demands
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that you take your time. I've seen some people take
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forever to put their shoes on. I have been amazed
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at how long it takes some people to put their
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socks on. I'm fifty years old, sister, how I could
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probably time it. I'd say, socks and shoes together. I
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always have them on in less than one minute. That
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is both socks and both shoes, and that is actually
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lacing them up and tying them. I'm telling you, brother Samuel,
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what I mean by that's pulling the laces tight and
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tire them. I'm not saying putting new laces in my shoe.
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You know what I'm saying. I mean, I don't waste
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a lot of time putting my shoes on. When I
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was an athlete in high school, I didn't waste a
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lot of time putting my shoes on. And I tell
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you a soldier that's in the foxhole, we're in the
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trenches overseas, if for some reason he has taken off
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his shoes, he doesn't take very long to put them on.
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But I kind of feel like most of them leave
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them on because they don't know when the commander or
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somebody in charge is gonna say boots on the ground. Well,
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boots gotta be on your feet before boots are on
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the ground. And that's what I'm preaching right here today. Hey,
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fast food, come on, it's time to get an altar.
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It's time to eat, it's time to feast, it's time
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to get boot. You gotta have streak for the journey.
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That's what the Angel told Elijah. He said, arise and eat,
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for the journey is great. Oh come, on now, meaning
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you gonna need your shoes on. You gotta go somewhere.
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You gotta move away from here. You gotta move away
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from slowfulness, and you gotta move away from laziness. You
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gotta move away from a bad attitude. You gotta move
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Come on now, are you with me? You gotta move
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away from sometimes. That's what deliverance means to you. You
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gotta move away from ravens Brook. You gotta move away.
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I'm feeling him right now forgetting those things which are
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behind and reaching forth under those things that are before.
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Praise the Lord Jesus help us right now. And I
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want to get in trouble right here before we have
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the altar call and first corint this chapter number six,
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there are some categories of sins, and those that commit
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those sins would be sinners. And the Bible said they're unrighteous,
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they're unholy, they're impure, they're immoral, immoral, and the Bible
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said they will not inherit the Kingdom of God, they
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will not be possessors of the promise, they will not
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enter in And Apostle Paul was talking to members of
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the Corinthian Church that was no doubt drifting back to
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former lifestyles or being tempted or being pulled to former lifestyles.
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In those writings, he tells some of them. He said,
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your saints now, but you were sinners. You have a past.
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You have a dark past. You have a very black past.
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You have a past that nobody needs the resurrect. You
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have some dead zombies, and some dead monsters, and some
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dead grimlins, and some dead minions, and some dead things
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that are beyond the blood that nobody needs to bring back.
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You've got some things that are covered. You got some
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things that are on the other side. And he used
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this word some And during the night I tossed and
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turning around four o'clock in the morning, about the time
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you were getting home. I kept thinking of that scripture
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that said and such were some of you, It did
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not say and such were all of you. Not everybody
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comes from degradation, Not everybody comes from a despicable past.
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Not everybody makes horrible life choices. But the good news
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is deliverance can come to good boys and good girls,
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and bad boys and bad girls. The truth is a
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sin is a sin, But there are degrees and.
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Levels of sin.
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And Apostle Paul said there's some of these sins that
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some of you committed, and I'm telling you he didn't
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expect them to commit them again. And such were some
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of you. It was in your past to be slothful.
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It was in your past to be lazy. It was
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in your past to be effeminate. It was in your
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past to be a truckerd. It was in your past
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to be homosexual. It was in your past. I feel
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the need right here to explain there are plenty of
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scriptures in the Sacred Library that speaks against homosexuality. And
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if you study those particular scriptures that are our second
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co text this morning, you will see that there is
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no doubt about it that the Apostle Paul is speaking
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of two men in bed together or two women in
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bed together, vice versa.
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And there is no doubt that he's talking about.
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An effeminate or a womanish man, one that's girless, one
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that's pampering himself, one that's going to bathroom body works
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and getting their products.
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Are y'all with me?
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A man is becoming a little tender, a man is
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becoming a little delicate. A man is not to slight
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effeminate women. I mean, I thank God for effeminacy. I
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thank God for very girly, girly girly daughters, don't you, brothers, Hey,
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I don't like the tomboy thing. I don't like it
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no more than I like a tomgirl thing or whatever
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you would all that it got quiet right here, right now,
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I don't like it. But I'm telling you what Apostle
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Paul said. Some of you did walk away from bathom
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body works. Some of you did walk away from being
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lip wristed. Some of you did walk away from men
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and men being in bed together. Some of you did
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walk away from homosexuality. Oh, come on, now, I feel right.
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Some of you did walk away from immorality. Some of
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you did walk away from perversion. But he's saying, if
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you go back to it, if you go back to it,
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if you go back to it, you're not gonna make
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it to God's heaven. If you go back to it,
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you're not gonna be called God's child. If you go
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back to it, you're not gonna be known as a Christian.
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If you go back to it, that's not christ Like
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God's people don't do such things as that.
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So this tells me they're not the right.
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Oh but some so there are opportunity for deliverance from homosexuality.
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This tells me they have to run moment.
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Some saw their opportunity to be delivered from effeminacy.
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Somebody saw an open door.
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I'm asking you right here today, do you not see
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the open door?
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Do you not have your shoes on?
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Now?
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Here's the time? Today is Today.
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Are deliverance, the day are deliverance.
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It's so cool. You tell her, You tell her about Freedom's.
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Eve, the donning of a new day, the day of
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new beginnings. If you have your shoes on, you're gonna
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run out of sodom and gomara. If you have your
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shoes on, you're gonna leave that former lifestyle behind. If
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you have your shoes on and you're ready to get
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out of there, you're gonna leave them iron bars.
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If you have your.
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Shoes on, you're gonna leave the prison food behind, and
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you're gonna grab that Paschal Lamb, prays God, and you're
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gonna be ready when he says, go, I'm going just
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as soon as Mosah says he said go, I'm going
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just as soon as the Lord says it's for Piple.
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I'm ready for for Papa as soon as the Lord said,
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come to me, my child, I'm going to use Floyd.
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As soon as the Lord said possessed Canaan, I'm walking
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into cana Come on now, I'm telling.
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You there's a deadline. I feel like yet again, there's
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a deadline. The spell of God is calling. There's a deadline.
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You better get you while you can. While the gate
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is open, run through it. The righteous scarcely make it.
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The door's closing. May we stand the doors closed?
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They say, well, I'm bound by this, and I'm bound
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by that. Really, why not be bound for the promised land.
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I'm bound by Pharaoh, I'm bound by Herod, I'm bound
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by Sin. I doubt we have any gross im moral
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perversion in this place. But if there was somebody tattooed
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from head to toe, brother Jesse, if there was somebody
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tattooed from head to toe, and if they had even
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been through the surgery and have been a transgender from
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a young age and went through surgery at the surgery,
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at the surgery, at the surgery and made the transition.
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When he says transformed, you can transform. It may take
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a year or two to fix the outside. You messed up,
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But He'll fix the inside in a moment. Oh, I
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feel a witness of the Holy ghost. Freedom's Eve, Freedom's Eve,
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so night before they had their shoes on, eating supper.
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Souls and souls eating supper, Keep your shoes on. I'm
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just waiting on brother, how to say God told him
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that doors open. I'm just waiting on God to show
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me one more time that door's open. I'm just waiting
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on God to show me he ain't left me. I'm
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just waiting hold that one mercy drop to break loose
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from the end of.
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My Savior's fingertip.
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Forget having a young man dip his finger in water,
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or an old man dipping his finger in water and
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cooler parts tongue. All you need is one drip of
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that living water, one drip, one mercy drop. The blood.
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The blood says you can. The blood says you can.
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I could take time to tell you of just how
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strong the Bible is against the sin of homosexuality, whether
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committed by acts or committed in the heart. I can
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take you from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
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I can show you these words in First Corinthians, chapter
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number six, and show you just exactly what they mean
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in the Greek a guide is girly at all is
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in trouble with God. And we let them get in
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our pulpits in Pentecostal independent holiness churches, and we want
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to act like it ain't what it is. I'll tell
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you where they blown with their shoes on, waiting for deliverance.
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Not in our pulpit preaching deliverance. But is deliverance there
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for them?
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Yes? And I want to tell some of you.
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You've been battling bad attitudes, some characteristics, we'll call them
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inbred sins. You've been battling some things anger, hatred, malice.
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Could you believe that God is telling you that once
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and for all that enemy can be behind you today?
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Will you believe?
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Will you put your shoes on as we bow our
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heads and close our eyes, would you put your spiritual
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shoes on? And would you get ready to make tracks
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through the gates of deliverance and say God, no more
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evil surmisings, no more mixed notions, no more vain imaginations,
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no more impure thoughts, no more unclean habits, no more
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evil desires, no thieving, no stealing, no cunning, no more conniving,
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no more gossiping, no more murmuring, no more complaining. What
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is it that you're in bodied to? What does the
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Egyptian Taskmaster represent to you? What does Pharaoh in Egypt
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signify to you? What are their types and shadows?
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You know?
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And I don't care to know.
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But what I do care to tell you is the
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type in the shadow of Moses, the pastoral lamb and
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then being ready to go with their shoes on. That's
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all I care about, is you get what you need
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around these altars? Is there somebody else that wants to come,
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that would come right now of this altar and say, Preacher,
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it's not gross sin, just something that bothers me. I've
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been bound to it for a long time. Most people
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wouldn't even consider it sin. But it's just something that
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plagues me. Could it be just as a pivotal moment
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for you to be free of that? Hey man, anybody, Preacher,
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I've got something by buthering me.
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It plagues my mind. It battles me.
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I battle in my mind over it. The devil lies
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to me. The devil tells me I'm not saved. The
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devil tells me I'm not sanctified. The devil tells me,
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I'm never gonna receive the Holy ghost. I'd say there's
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probably at least a half a dozen that's battling in
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their mind in some way. Anybody else old live spirit
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to tell you all kind of things. Wouldn't it be
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great to actually put your foot on the neck of
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the enemy today and the enemy realize you have your
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shoes on. You're running through Deliverance's gate today. That's about
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half the church. I'd say, let's all just bring our
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burdens to the Lord. I'd say, let's all look for
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the open gate. Let's look for the raised windows of opportunity.
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Let's all find a place to pray. Say Jesus, Jesus,
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if you're a vial sinner, say Jesus, would you save me,
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deliver me. I'm having supper with my shoes on. I've
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feasted at your table today, and I'm ready to turn
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and to go and send no more