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The despised dreamers - Bro Jesse Howell 3-24-2024
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Prayers. God, don't you appreciate this service? Tonight I was riding there
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on the Siana and uh as I was as I was playing Today's Palm Sunday.
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That's when Jesus came into the city and uh everyone you know he he
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was. He was worshiped greatly. They were singing. Everyone was happy and
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did arrived to Jerusalem there and uh many were happy. They believed palm branches
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in the in the way that he was going with that littan get Palm Sunday
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from because they would they had put the palm branches in there. And I
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begin to think, though, when Jesus wrote into Jerusalem, he was worshiped,
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he was welcomed, he was praised, and I hope when he wrote
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into my town today. I believe God important praise today. I believe they
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go. I was wanting to worship and glory and I prayed it, and
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he wrote into my town today. He looked up and down. My screams,
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he's on wall ranches in the way. Then he saw my coach and
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my worship and my praise in his path, and he fell welcome in my
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city. I thank God so much his great spirit that we have felt you
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can be turned into the Book of Nehemiah, the fourth chapter here this tonight,
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i'd rather I want to say quickly that I missed the pastor and pastor's
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wife the first of eighty. They are greatly missed. Hope they're doing well.
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We pray for them. They said to kill everyone. Hello. I
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talked to death this afternoon. He said, tell everyone. He said hello.
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And I want to say I'm very thankful for this opportunity to preach here
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tonight. I feel like God gave me a burden, and it was maybe
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a few weeks ago that God gave me. Actually I remember it was the
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Sunday before we started revival. I believe it was. Actually it was that
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that Saturday we get started in Bible. God gave me this burden. I
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haven't been able to shake it. Dearing revival. God had given me another
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another thing that I want to preach on one day, a title from a
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hopeless place to amazing grace. That's where I wanted to go today, but
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God wanted me to go here, so maybe I'll preach that later. But
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I do feel like that God wants us to go right here to the Book
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of Neabiah, chapter number four. I said, I said, I'm so
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thankful for this opportunity here tonight. I loved my pastor. I appreciate him.
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I appreciate his vision for this church, to his vision for this ministry.
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And this is kind of the direction that I feel like going here tonight
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about the vision of the Man of God. So mee and Biah chapter number
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four was starting the verse in the first verse, we'll read down to the
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sixth verse. But it came to pass that when Sandballet heard that we building
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the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and marked the Jews.
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And when he's spake and he's faith before his brethren and the army of Samaria,
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and said, what do these feeble Jews? Will they four to five
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themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day?
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Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
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Now? Tobiah the m of night was by him, and he said,
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even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall
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even break down their stone wall. Right here, old God, here,
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oh our God, For we are despised the a Biah speaking and turn their
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reproach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of
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captivity. Now is that away for a child of God to pray against their
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adversaries turn their reproach upon their own head. I believe it's all right.
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I believe it's okay, and the Amiah thinks it was okay. God thought
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it was okay, because the word of God is inspired by God. Right
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reading on verse over five, cover not their iniquity, am I didn't stop.
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Let not their sin be blotted out from before thee. God. Remember
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what they've done to your people, God, take notice of what they're doing
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over in your Let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for
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they have provoked thee to anger. Before the builders so built we the wall,
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and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof, for the
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people had a mind to work. I want to take a little thought out
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of that fourth verse right there here tonight, Neeliah said, here o our
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God, for we are despised, And if the Lord will help me here
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tonight for just a little while. I don't feel like I'll be that long
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unless God has other plans. I want to preach on the despised dreamers here
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tonight. Men of God have a vision, and there will always be devils,
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and there will always be people that despise the vision and despise the dreams
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of the man of God. Would you let your head here tonight, help
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us praise you God, be thank you for your work and heart biness.
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God, we worship you. Give in this place and life. God.
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We want to give him Lord, and you want to give you. Where
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is God? Lets your Lord is like the fire, shut up with eye
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home go Why send you a ward and lame? And my why let him
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go up under your people by love? Understand what this hit. Shave it
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for the churches and take him God, for you are worthy of praise.
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God. Let us get. But you're half of us. God. If
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you'll give a glory, for you'll give him honor, we'll give him praise
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in the love the name of Jesus be praised. He's man and the math
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praise God. We all know the story of Nehemiah. Where he got to
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where he was at. He had heard the story of how the the walls,
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and that the city had been destroyed. The gates had been burned.
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Oh Jerusalem, liat Lord waves the gates thereof are burned with fire. And
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uh so we've all heard the story, and I won't go into all of
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it tonight. But the book of Nehemiah is a testimony of a man with
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a vision of accomplishing something for the Kingdom of God. He had he had,
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he had a great ambition to do something for God. Now, God
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didn't necessarily speak to Nehemiah to go build this wall, but he no doubt
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put it in his heart. You don't read where God spoke by a prophet
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to to to go, said, you know, go repair my walls,
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go repair my gates. None. But God had still put the burden,
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the vision, the tread, and the being of God's heart to repair the
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wall. And so he leave. He he has a dream of Jerusalem being
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restored. He has a dream of recruit, of Jerusalem returning to her former
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glory due to her being the bright, shining city on a hill that she
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once was. That was the man of God's playing, that was his dream,
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that was his vision. That's what he was working towards. Neil Mayel
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was sanctioned by a king on his ersys. He was sanctioned and the king
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gave him his blessing. He gave him papers, and the king said,
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sounds good, sounds familiar, don't it. We've been sanctioned by the king
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to go build. We've been sanctioned by the king to go repair. We've
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been sentioned by the King of kings. We have papers in our hands.
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Yet we will face the spisers. Yet he will face haters and people that
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come against the plant of God. Namiah had the papers of martasers. He's
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in his hand. Ernazers said, go to Jerusalem. His plan and his
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dream was approved by the king. Yet we read in verse number four me
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Amiah said, here, oh God, for we artists. But I thought
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Namiah was doing the King's bidding. But I thought Namiyah was was working towards
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the betterment of Jerusalem. Why did he face, said bat Tobiah. I
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thought he was doing what God had put in his heart. Yet he faced
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the spisers. He was working according to the plan of God, Yet he
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faced opposition. In our tex sind Ballad and to Baya resorted to a childish
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elementary mockery on the planet of God and the vision of the man of God.
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Sam Black said, what do these feeble Jews think they're gonna do?
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What do they think they're gonna accomplish on these walls, feeble Jews. These
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just little nobodies, these little little little people that had been conquered, they
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had been been been brought out with Tobiah. His friend jumps in and he
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says, yeah, if so, my times a little fox jumped on the
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wall and ran across the wall, the whole wall would crumble, right,
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Such mockery, such childish mockery of the plan of God and the vision of
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the Man of God. But me and i Ah reviews to let that detour
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his his his focus on the planet of God. And he refused to let
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mockery and hate to tore him from the vision that God had put in his
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heart or the city of Jerusalem. He refused to let it come between him
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and his plan to repair the law he had. Refused to let it come
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between his plan come beel the gates again that were burned. It matters not
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how much the dreamer or the dream is despised, because that God has offered
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the dream. He will finish the dream if God has put it in his
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heart. It mays not different what the world says. If God has shaked
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him to the dreamer. If God has given the Man of God invent her,
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he will cooling that has planned is accomplished no matter the opposition. The
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Amiah seal. The Emiah's trust in the plan of God forced out all death,
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It forced out all question, and a steady work toward the plan of
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God. He said, he worked toward that work that God had put in
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his heart, that God had instilled in his heart. And I heard the
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ive heard my my father, my pastor, tell the story time and time
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again about the person that came up to him when he was he was freshly
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starting to come down here at the old start of his ministry down here,
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and the man told him, I believe it was a preacher, told him,
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you'll never build a church down there in South Florida, in lavel You'll
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never do that. You'll never make something of that that that people down there,
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you never You'll never get above two or three. You'll never get above
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three or four. I've heard Pactor tell the story. But what that was
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was a despiser. But if that wasn't with somebody, that just God's the
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vision of the Man of God. That was somebody that tried to distorts the
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Man of God from his focus. But just like me Amiah, just like
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me am Iah in the Bible. Then our pastor, thankful Lord didn't let
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that that little discouragement hinder division that was getting the hill of the Holy Ghost,
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helping God bless a wall and a city with gates that we all have
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read into. Ain't Jerusalem that we've all found haven agressed at a place where
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we found shelter from the storms of life that Amiah set forward despite despisers,
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de fight, kery, mockery. We found rest We found restoration, we
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found salvation, we found sanctification, we found Holy Ghost in dwelling, we
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found healing, and we found promise pride. Here the weather man of God
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said forth to bill the wall, hear fur. The man of God said
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for the recid of said to repair the kings. I'm thankful for the vision.
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I'm thankful for the dream that was despised by some God, but absolutely
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adored and appreciate it. I sow many more, I saw many others.
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The vast majority will stand and have stood with the visionary prophet of me.
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If that in our pastor, I'm not preaching this mess is like he had
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a despiser on every hand because he don't but there have been a few throughout
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the year that have been thespisers, some close friends, some family. None
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to this he held through the vision, He held through the pros that God
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had given us. God. Those that once stood back, those that once
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bought and said, you'll never do it. Those that once told the Amiad,
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you'll never build a wall, those that once past talk pastor how you'll
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never build the church, those that told the man of God that he'll never
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repair the gates. Now they must sit back and see what God has done
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with the vision. They must step back and see the dream come into fruition
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in his hand of God. Because in God has a man, and God
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has a plan, it will not fail. Never doubt that you will be
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despised by some Never doubt that you will be despised for your willingness to submit
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to the plan of God. Never doubt that you will be despised by some
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people for the plan that God laid out for you, for your life,
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for your family earth. It could come from family. I'm sure she has
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come from family. It could come from from people that you considered close friends.
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It could even come from religious leaders that you once had confidence in,
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but when they realized that God was moving on your heart, that God was
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giving you a dream, that God was giving you a vision for your family,
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to not stand in the ashes of the past, but to move forward
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into a vision, to move forward toward a dream that they will come again,
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and they will be despised. While some despise, others touched the vision.
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While some despise, others believe in the dream. They believe in the
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possibility. They believed that with God, all things are possible. The Jews
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had already returned to Jerusalem before Neilmiah did. For what I've what I've studied,
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out what I've read, and for close to one hundred years somewhere around
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in there, these these children of Israel, had already returned to Jerusalem.
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They had already moved back into into that area. But no one had caught
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the vision to repair the wall. There were already Israelites living there. There
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were already people sitting in the ashes of the Birthday. But no one had
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dream. No one sol the walls being built, No one saw the gates
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being restored. No one soul the city being be reviled. They were content
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to live in the ashes of the burn gates. They were content to live
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in the rubble under the struggling walls. But they calls me Amiah had a
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vision. They calls Niamiah, called him dream from God. And God had
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put in his heart to knew something about it. See, these people fell
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right in behind him. You can read. You can read in chapter and
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in chapter four, verse six, which we read part of our text,
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the Amayah said, for the people had him on the work. When the
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man of God stepped out and said, I see what can be, I
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see what God wants it to be. The people rallied around here. The
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people had a god to work. The people began to work. It took
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one dreamer, it took one visionary. It took one man of God to
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set forward on a mission of restoration. And when it was all said and
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done, the Bible says there was about forty two different groups, not just
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one person in each group. There were groups, and they would work together
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at this portion of the wall. You can read it. This grew work
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from here to here, and this brew work from here to here, and
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this group work from here to here. They were working on different sections of
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the wall. That was forty two different groups of people that had caught the
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vision that he fought, the dream of a man of God, and then
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saying, what you bill, I'm a pill. What you fight for,
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I won't fight brose. On August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty three, a
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man by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. From the steps of
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the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, d c. He declared that he had a
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dream. Let's go. He had a dream of freedom, he had a
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dream of equality. He had a dream of seeing the land of slavery a
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freed from slavery. He had a dream of seeing a land with no hate.
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And historian John mccam said, with one fray, Martin Luther King joined
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Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who shake modern America. With a
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single phrase, Martin Luther gained the many supporters. Many people believe in that
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tree. Many people caught the vision of Martin Luther when he's saying I have
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a dream. Many people caught the vision. Many people became supporters. Get
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all the supporters. He caught any aspisors he called the spisers of the tree.
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People that didn't agree with the tree, people that said I have a
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dream of it being just like it is people that I had a dream of.
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There be any changes people to have a dream of people, because right
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the way I am Martin Luther's that I have a dreamers have changed. I
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have a new way of looking at James. About four and four years and
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eight months later, if I didn't mind my dates correctly, they missed the
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upside might have but I believe it was far month. Four years and eight
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months later, on the balcony of his second floor hotel room in Memphis,
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Tennessee, he was fatally shot. He died about an hour later in Saint
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Joseph's Hospital. His assassinator was James Earl Ray. James Ray didn't test the
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vision. James Ray didn't see the benefit of Mary Luther's dream, and James
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Ray extinguished the dreamer, but he did not extinguish the dream. Martin Luther's
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dream still lives on today. His speech still lives on today. But people
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would try to discourage the dreamer. People would try to discourage what God is
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trying to do. It too be through mossmery, right, it could be
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through false spirituality or even false wisdom. People can come to you and say
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I heard from God the pla of God, this is the dream of God,
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this is the vision of God. But they really don't have the vision
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that God has given for your life. They really don't have the dream the
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hen result. But God has come for you. And I even watched you,
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and I'm sure most of us here today has gone about the most famous
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dreamer, probably in the Bible, the dreamer of dreams, the man who
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in the world dreamer, it said, are minds automatic to go to a
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young boy named Joseph Right Genesis, chapter number thirty seven and verse five.
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Joseph had a dream. He had a promise to hold you. But those
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that I'm sure he thought would be his biggest support, those that I'm sure
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thought, this would be great to see my brother prosper, This would be
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great to see my brother esell in life and do great, it thinks in
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life. But they turned out to be his biggest as fathers, his biggest
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haters. The biggest hate group he had was his own flesh and blood.
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First number nineteen, the thirty seven chapter of Chances. Joseph's brethren resorted to
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insuls, as did sam Ballet and Tobia. Right when Joseph was coming to
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him, they said, Oh, here comes that dreamer. Here comes das
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favorab little boy, that dreamer, boy that has all them dreams mockery.
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Right, here comes out little seventeen year old boy with all those big plans.
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Here comes the one who aspires to make something out of his life.
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You try to make something out of your life, You try to make something
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out of your family. People will come out of the wood words to discourage
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the dream, to discourage your vision. People will come fromise around just to
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tell you that they're doing it wrong. People will come from old people that
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you didn't even know who you were, to tell you that's a crazy dream
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you got there, You might as well give it up. But Joseph's brethren
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failed to realize who was giving Joseph the dream, right. I think they
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just thought Joseph had something in his head. You know, he probably went
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to bess thinking about it. You know, went to bed thinking I'm gonna
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be the ruler of the world. I'm gonna take over. Right, you
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ever did that? Go to bed thinking about something and you and you have
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a dream about what you're thinking about, go to bed thinking about fast cars,
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and all of a sudden you're in a race. Right, You go
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to ben think about a tiger and anyone's chasing you through the woods. Hey,
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I think that's probably what they thought about old Joseph. I don't know,
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maybe they didn't. Maybe they didn't. Your guess as good as mine.
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I had all for as much as you do. From God didn't say
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he did or he didn't. So if you would, are you he didn't
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then or they didn't? That all? Are you? They did? But
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they failed to realize who the giver of the dream was. They didn't really
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think that God had given Joseph the dream. They didn't think that God had
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put it in the heart of that young man his future plans. They didn't
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think that God had really given Joseph a vision of the future for his life.
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He's too good to be true. He's too good to be true.
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That my little baby brother. In my case, this would be Samuel,
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my second from the youngest, That handsome guy over there. He ain't handome
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enough to run the world. He ain't handsome enough took to be the ruler
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of the known world, right, He just don't have it. But when
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God gives a dream, when God put the man forward, he'll see to
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the vision. You'll see to the dream God had given the man the dream
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God had given Joseph. God had given Joseph the vision. God had put
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it in the heart of Joseph. His brothers hated him. Yet the more
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they weren't happy about the dreamer's dreams. They didn't share the vision with Joseph.
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They could have said, yeah, let's work toward that, Joseph,
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I'll be your right head man. Yeah, I'll be I'll be the one
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that fights your battles. I'll be the one that makes sure that your tables
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are always said. But they didn't catch the vision. Too much hate,
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too much envy, too much jealousy going on in the heart of Joseph's brothers
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for that kind of servity, for that kind of willingness to get behind the
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vision. And there's people in this world they have too much in me,
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They have too much jealousy to get behind the men of God, to get
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behind the vision of God. But do what they want, God will see
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them. Musing through the dream of Joseph was no less God gives because of
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the despising and unbelieving brother just because they despise it, just because they wished
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it not to be. So, it didn't change a single thing. People
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can sit back and despise the dream, right, People can sit back and
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despise the vision even after they've seen it once. Joseph's brethren seeing the seeing
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the fruition of the vision, they didn't despise it no more. When they're
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hardheaded people in this world that they'll despise you in the dream. When you
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have the dream, and they'll despise you worse. When you get the dream.
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When the vision comes to life, they'll despise you. The more they'll
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despise you worse. God. Genesis thirty seven and seven is Ji Joseph's dream
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about the sheaves. Right said, we were in the field. Behold my
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sheaf rose up above y'all's and y'all made o piece to my sheep. I
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was the first dream. Genesys thirty seven and nine. Two months later,
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to Joseph said, hey, I got another dream. I had another one.
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They were bulling my den. Joseph said, behold I dream to dream
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more. Yeah, I got it, guys, it gets better. I
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didn't just have one dream, I got two dreams. God just do one
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thing they want to do two. You got the fourth, Wana tell you
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so. God done for me, I gotta dream more. Praise God.
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Jenesis thirty seven and nine. The sun and moon and stars to me,
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the sun, moon and the and eleven stars. That's his mother, of
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his dad is eleven brethren. Let me tell you something that was good to
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me while I was well, I was studying. I jumped up from the
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dining room table when I read it. There in a while she was in
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the largery room. The boys were already bids. She was full to close.
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I said, I ain't never noticed this before. This is crazy.
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Look right there. Genesis forty six, forty two and six, they bowed
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their faces to the earth. That was the first time. That was the
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first time them on them old boys went into to Egypt to bike horn to
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the earth. That was the first time they went home. Genesis forty three
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and twenty six. Yet again they bowed itself to the ground to two dreams,
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two visions. Two times. They did it without even knowing who the
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man was. That was good to me. Twice Joseph dream and twice they
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did just that. Don't gave him a dream, don't tell him a plan.
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Don't show he just gave you a dream. He can give you a
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plan that something the God's put in your heart. He will see it through.
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They could even me him and hate him all day on him, but
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the plain of God stood. People can scorn thinking mob, they can rid
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it you. They can even despise the dream and the dreamer. But he
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will be to know a hell because God will win that fail. Strengthen the
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hands of the man of God or the word that he's told for God,
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look give you strength. The sad we are a pippies, whither the bodies
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is gone, the whole the finger time, second Samuel six to sixteen.
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Joe David is worship than God. He's giving it always God. He's dancing
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before the Lord mightily. He's giving God everything he had. Kind of like
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they were doing on Palm Sunday, the argum of the Lord was coming back.
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They were coming into the town and they're David out in front of the
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key, just a cutting the rug. And there's a little old woman sitting
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up in the in the in the house, and she's looking now and she's
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despising baby for all he's worth. Right, every move he makes, she
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just fine. Every step he takes, she despises him. How that work
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out for her? Didn't work out too good. Let me tell you.
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Let the despisers do what they want to do. Lett the despisers say what
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they want to say. I planned to catch the vision of the Man of
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God. I plan to catch the dream the Man of God. Herod and
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Herd on the mountain in exs Exitus seventeen. They caught the vision of the
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Man of God. They call what Moses was doing up there. They seen
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the good that it was doing. They've seen Moses is planning for the children
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of Israel. He's seen where God was leading them. They seen Moses laboring.
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He's holding his hands up. Moses is fighting for the vision. He's
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fighting for the dream of what he believes can't be. He's fighting for what
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God has put in his heart. He's fighting for the battle. He's up
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there with his arms up. And as long as he held his arms up,
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they would prevail. But when his arm would get tired, he's like
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man, they would start losing the battle. Well, there was two men
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that called the vision of Moses. They called the plan of Moses. They
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see what the Man of God needed. He needed some people to come up
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aside him and catch the vision. He needed some people to come up inside
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him and grab his arms and to lift him up. You can catch the
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vision in your prayer, falls on your knees. You can test the vision
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and praying these altars for your pastor. You can test a vision and praise
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in the heart and the choir for your church family. You can test the
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vision in the pew and fight for your neighbor. You can test the vision
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of the Man of God. You can catch the plane of God that the
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pastor and the preacher the prophet is laying out. Give yourself through the dream
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of the Amilah. Give yourself to the vision of the Man of God.
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We must be willing workers. We must have a mind to work. We
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must be behind the Man of God. A dreamer or a visionary always forces
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a decision to be made. Some will despise the dream, like Joseph's brethren.
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Some will hate the dream and do all they can to destroy the dream.
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While others put their hearts and their lives into the vision of the Man
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of God, and they unfold the hands of their Moses in prayer and singing
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in song in worship. Moses meant freedom for the children of Israel. Moses
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been freedom for all those little Israeli kids. All the is are likes running
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around there. What does the Man of God mean for our families? I've
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got a family. Now, What does the Man of God mean for my
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friend? What does the Man of God's vision mean for my family? What
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does the dream of Bethel hole in his church mean for my family? I
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must get behind it. I must be a catcher of the dream. What
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would have happened if Moses didn't submit to the planet of God. You say,
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well, God would have raised up enough. Maybe God wouldn't have raised
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up Juntion. Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't have. He probably
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wouldn't have, or he would have would have would have provided for them some
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way, because that is his chosen nation. But nonetheless, Erin in her
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said, that's by Moses. That's my man of God. That's the man
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that that risked it, risked it all for me. That's the one that
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was obedient to the Heavin they called it, and brought freedom to my sons
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than my daughters. That's the one that prayed for my family whenever I was
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in those safe to praying all God, and they lifted up in the hands
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of the Man of God. What about it? Have you caught the vision
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tonight. I believe most of us have. I hear it's just a bying.
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I hear, I hear people that's behind the man of God, that's
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behind the church. God, God, are you with the bienh are you
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so? Are you with the with the crowd that says, let's build the
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wall, let's build the gates? Or do you side with sand Bat and
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Tobio? Which side do you fall on? All We've got enough despisers of
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the dream. We've got enough haters of the vision. We've got enough people
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that despise those that are good. What we need is some more workers.
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Joseph's brothers were blinded by envy. Said Violet was wroth, and he mocked
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the Amiah because what he because because of what he wanted to do. Michael
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despised David for his manner of worship. Jesus came in at the squirrel with
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the Plan of salvation in his hands. Then he despised him. Pilot said,
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I know it's for envy that you brought him. You've delivered him to
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me because you're envious, because you're envious of the plan he has. You're
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envious because of the influence. You're in this because of the spirit of God
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that is on his life. When you're in this because of the miracles that
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are around him. You're envious because of what he's done up and down our
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streets. They ended him without a cause, for no good reason. They
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in the savior that came to save. They're very soul, the one that
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gave his life for their soul. They envy him. I heard it say
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that envy is rotteness to the poem, and it SAPs the happiness right out
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of your life. Because when you're in this, all you do is you
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live to see the dreamer phil When you're in this, you live to see
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the vision perish. David refused to let Michael change his manner of worship.
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Joseph's dreams came to fool fruition despite severe persecution from his brothers. Namah refused
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to let the naysayers discourage or toward him from his vision for the restoration of
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the Wall, the Gate, and the city of Jerusalem. And I thank
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God here tonight for the vision. I thank God for the dreaming tho despised
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by some right love by so many. I'm thankful for the vision of our
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pastor right here at Perthuin wait on. Saul was once a despiser of the
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dream of the early church. Saul was once a despiser of the dream of
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the early Church. But he had a change of heart. The man caught
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the vision. The man seen the potential. He's seen what God was wanting
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to do and what he wants hated, he now made his life for it.
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Right. What he once hated, he now loved. What he wants
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to despise, he now promoted. I've heard it say he was the church's
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number one persecutor. And after he caught the vision, after he had was
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saved, he became the number one promoter. Because Paul caught the vision,
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because he caught the dream of what God wanted to do, he became the
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great apostle Paul that we all know and appreciate, and many are so happy
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about meeting. After they meet Jesus and spend about a million years, many
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people can't wait to see the church's promoter that once despised. Proverbs twenty nine
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of eighteen said, where there is no vision, the people perish. Why
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would you despise something that people's salvation depend on, right, Why would you
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despise something that if if the vision really does die, if what you want
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to happen or really happens, so many will perish. If there is no
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vision, people will perish. If the Man of God loses vision, the
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church perish. If the Man of God losing his grasp on his dream,
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the church wants windle away to nothing. I've seen it, Dad evangelized for
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a few years before we came down here, and I was old enough to
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remember going in some of them churches and seeing a church with no vision,
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seeing a church with no dream, no ambition to do anything but sit there
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and just have what they have, they need, what they need, not
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fight for what they need, not fight for a vision, not fight for
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a dream. What can be but to sit there and dwindle away to nothing.
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But I believe I've joined the ranks with the Man of God. I
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believe I'll joined the ranks of the man with the vision for the future.
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And I believe I'll join the ranks of the church for the dream. Get
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it to them, my Almighty God. Let the stumpers say what they will,
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Let the mockers wont kill they're blue in the face. I'll stand with
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the man of God. I stand with them, and I'll build I stand
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with them his planning to repair the gate. I'll grab a sword and I'll
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stack it right with the men of God. Because I realized that this gate
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and this wall means protection for my school. It means protection from my family,
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for my little ones coming up. This wall is another defense against the
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enim. You say, I don't see the vision. I don't see the
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dream. Well, we read it in Sunday school this morning Revelation at three
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eighteen. John the Revelator wrote it down. God spoke it. He wrote
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it down, and he wrote near the end of that verse in number eighteen,
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he said, annoyed eyes, I say that, vow may it see.
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I believe we've got some people that has caught the vision here to that.
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I believe we got some people that has thigh save on their eyes,
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and they're seeing. I'm reminding of the Prophet and the Young Prophet and in
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the mountain right, and he told the old Prophet. I wish we read
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it, and but God gave it to me just now, so I believe
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he'll help me remember it. The old the young Prophet was in distress.
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If I'm not mistaken, over surrounded. There's nowhere for us to go.
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The old man pray, they said, open his eyes. Lord, God,
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let him see what's actually happening. God, let him see what actually
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is around him. God, let him see that those that are for us,
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I'm more than those that be against us. Wouldn't you stand here this
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morning tonight? Rather, I thank God for the vision of the Man of
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God. Thank God for this church, or the plan of God, the
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vision of God and the dream of the dreamer. I see God has accomplished
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so much in so many lives. In my life, I've seen God do
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things I never thought that I would ever see. Because the men of God
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a vision. I've seen walls repaired, I've seen breaches repaired because a man
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of God. A vision. You feel like praying here tonight finds you a
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place to pray. If you've got the vision, what's I believe you do?
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Spend some time thanking God for that vision. If you've got the vision,
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spend some time telling God you're thankful for the man of God. If
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you don't have the vision, say God, give me the vision. God,
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let me see it the way that I need to see it. God,
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let me see your plan let me see the will of God for my
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life really good at last to go for surely the game. Then it's as
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bad down do you all the weirdness? If you will buy him bad weakness?
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I don't, I not knowing. But but had they the c upon
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the cross of Calvary, the Lord let me the sermon. O, yes,
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doescuse me the door? Don refuse me, for surely the forgain Let
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me do this hopball your lively to crumbble, nor cross me away? How
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work I'll stand for the dear Jesus. The day be come by. I'll
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swear the guy's falted about baby be me that will love the gold cross shee
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olet be willing to say, O, g so sheet steed and a load
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to me to bran Let me you said, nor did how my will you
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you come fool? Do croll me wayld mm hmmm, and no ne