Sermon
IT,S MY TIME NOW
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Right, and that means he preparing our meal, y'all. And man,
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they say you don't talk with him mouth fold, so
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I guess he's preparing our meal for us. Harvest time,
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your friends, please put your hand together, for I know
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knowed and devoted man of God, Pastor Charles talking as
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he come to feed his sheep.
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You didn't do it with your name. Good morning, everybody.
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This is Pastor Charles Tompkins at HARVESTEWN Christian Church. We're
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located at three o nine South twenty fifth Street in
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West Memphis, Arkansas. We heard to preach the word and
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teach the word, and it's up to you to live it.
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Get ready to open up your bibles.
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Let's get started, y'all'll sound like he's all right.
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I say, all right, yeah, well, y'all, Yeah you good,
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it's all good. Yeah, he'll do yeah, he'll do. Some
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of y'all saying who you talking about? I'm good, he's
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all right, and I'm glad to be here. What about you?
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You know, I'm not a I guess I don't really
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have to explain it to y'all. Not a pastor who
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who runs off of a script. I run off of God, right,
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now and what God tells me to do and right now,
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you know, M. I always say, when all of the
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singing is done and all the preaching is done and
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the teaching, we're here for souls. A man ay man, sister,
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sister Porter, can you come up here? Since the James,
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can you come up here? And since the can you
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come up here? This soul wants to be saved?
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Thank you?
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Yeah, job, thank you, get you.
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Jee, thank you, sus ports of James, come here. Don't
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pray for this soul, Sislaine, come up with sister Lisa, M.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Heaven is excited.
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Yeah, Lord, yes, thank you you.
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Heaven is excited. Man over this one soul? Amen, what somebody?
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What somebody want to be saved? Y'all have to wait
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on the word. I have to get them where the
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mind is made up. You understand, and see I really
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understand description that no man know the day of the hour.
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Some folks will just have you sit down and wait
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till they have the call. But I want you to
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know something about something that you've been cheaping as a
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tradition at a custom all your lives. That Jesus Christ
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never had an altar call. Are you with me? He
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never had an auto call. We just do that thing
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as a custom and tradition, y'all know. I like to
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follow Jesus, right, and all that other stuff they do
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in all these other places that they call the house
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of God. I don't. I'm not with all that stuff.
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I'm with the following of Jesus Christ. Amen. So I
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want to pray for this soul. Amen, And if you
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can reach heaven, because this ain't a show and I'm
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not trying to entertain you. This is a soul. You
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should already be praying, really, because the soul want to
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be saved. You should have started praying. Father, we want
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to thank your God in the name of Jesus. Thank
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you Lord for this soul, and receive it God, because
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it already belonged to you God, in the name of Jesus. God,
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you help her in her mind. God, help her to
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turning around. Father, in the name of Jesus, help her
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to turning around. In the name of Jesus. Lord, touch
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her right now in the name of Jesus. Help her
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right now. Help the Lord in the name of Jesus.
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Because the enemy is on the move. But we know
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greater as he that would be in prison, and he
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would ever be in the world. God overshadow her. Heal
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up with your spirit. Lord, in the name of Jesus,
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in the name of Jesus Christ, who is our Lord
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and Savior, who she wants to be her Lord and Savior.
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So receive her now, Lord as Lord and Savior, in
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the name of Jesus. God. She comes to you right now, God,
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with a repentive heart. She's already confessed God. She's tired
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of the riotous live in God. She wants to live
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right before you God, in the name of Jesus. She
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wants to live right God. And it's only with the
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help of the Holy Spirit that she can do. So. God,
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she needs you right now. God, make hate. God, rebuke
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the enemy. I rebuke every demon, every demonic frauth that
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we're trying to come against it. Right now, in the
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name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. In the
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name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I rebuke
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every demon, every demonic force Satan. I speak directly to you,
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the Lord, rebuke you. Take your hands off of her.
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She belongs to God. I'm not asking you, and I'm
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not asking you, God Glory, I'm not asking you. I'm
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commanded that you do so by the power of the
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Holy Spirit. Leave now, loose your hold in the name
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of Jesus, and lose it now in Jesus' holy name.
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I command you to do so. In the name of Jesus.
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She's free, and she's free in Eve by the name
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of Jesus. Holy spirits around them. Let the Aesius continue
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you to protect her in the name of Jesus. You're
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not wanted here, Satan, You're not welcome here. We command
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you to go by the Holy Spirit and the power
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of God, who's given us this authority.
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In the name of Jesus Christ. I believe it to
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be Soul. I believe it to be Soul. Lord continued
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to protect her. We know the enemy is going to
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be coming at us, But Satan, the.
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Lord rebuke you and all your cohorts. Go back to
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the dark places where you belonged. In the name of Jesus.
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I command it to be so, And so it.
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Is in Jesus' names, in Jesus' name, Jesus' name, Jesus' name, Jesus,
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Jesus Jesus.
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And it is so, and so it is. You've got
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some praise. Tell him, thank you, tell him, thank you.
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They come right together. That's good. Father. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Yeah.
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Well yeah, every every hour, every minute, every second of
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the day. Yes, God blessing.
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Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Thank you Lord, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank
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you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Yes, you're
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gonna have to stay close to God because the enemy,
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it's gonna come after me. He don't play fair. He's
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a dirty player and he's not prejudiced to who he
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turns to evil. He'll tell you anybody, but God will
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only take those that want to do right before me
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and live right. Stay in prayer, and I'm praying that
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God would turn you right when the enemy would try
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to turn you left. You need to get in a Bible,
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Sunday school based ministry and a preacher that's preaching truth
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and not entertainment and not your pockets. One that's here
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for the souls of God people that he was called for.
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I'm not campaigning. I'm telling you get in one, whether
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it be here or wherever. But when you do, make
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sure you ask God. Am I in the right place?
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Make sure you in the right place. A whole lot
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of people in the wrong place. I don't mention a
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whole lot of names of a whole lot of folks
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I know and d and although you know too that
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they don't care nothing about your soul. They just cared
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about your pocket. And they want these pews to stay
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full because they want they pockets to stay full. It
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ain't about you, It's about them. And it's been proven.
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I asked a young lady. She goes to a megature.
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I said, Uh, when the last time you walked up
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and talked to the past? Oh? No, he he kind
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of you know? Uh do you know you? Do you
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know his phone number? She said, no, I don't know.
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It's fun you don't know its phone number. I said,
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everybody in my church know my phone number. Am I
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supposed to be like Jesus? Am I supposed to be
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like Jesus. One of the part one of the One
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of the parts of being like Jesus being accessible. You
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got to be accessible. I don't care where you live,
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living behind them gates in the big can't nobody get
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tell you? Oh, make an appointment. I ain't seen nobody
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making no appointment with Jesus. I ain't see the lady
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with the issue of blood. Say, can I get an
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appointment because I've been believing for twelve long years and
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I need an apartment so I can talk to you.
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I didn't see blind Bartimaeus make an appointment. Once he asked,
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who is it that this crowd is praising over. It's Jesus, Oh, Jesus,
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Jesus of Nazareth, by son of David. Jesus. I need you.
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He didn't make no appointment, y'all got it twisted? You
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not imparting at all. Jesus is the reason. Well, let
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me pray. Father, I want to thank you for another day.
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Thank you for these heir temples in your house. We
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thank your God even for this Synagonu. We thank you
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you for this temple that we allowed to come in
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worship here. And we thank you God that you, who
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are so holy, allowed little o us to come in
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such a holy God's presence. Thank you God. It's such
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an honor and a privileged god to be before you
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Lord today. It's an honor. It's a privilege that you
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even woke us up this morning and allowed us to
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get up with our minds stayed on you. We know
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that the world out here is chasing Easter bunnies and
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the eggs right now, but we know God that they're
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desecrating the very death bearing resurrection of you, our Lord
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and Savior. But God, you always got around in the
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bush upholding your righteousness and your truth. And we want
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to thank Your God for a mind to be right
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before you. Lord. In the name of Jesus, we want
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to thank you Lord that not only did you wake
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us up this morning in our right mind, but you
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allowed us to get up. God. We know God, there
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somen that didn't wake up. We know God, there are
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some that woke up that couldn't get up. But you
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blessed us. God. Thank your God. And we use the
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activities of our limbs to dress ourselves, to drive ourselves
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and to walk up in your house. God. And since
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we're here today, God, we gonna praise you, we gonna
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glorify you. We're gonna give you the honor. Let no
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flesh glory in your presence. God, for you are the
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only audience in the house. We thank your God. We
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will glorify you. Hallelujah. You are the one and only God.
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Now I know other God besides you, None besides you God.
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We didn't have to make you God. You already was God.
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And there's many making their own selves God. But we
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didn't have to make you. You already God. That's why
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we know you real, and that's why we know you
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the only true, in living God. And we come today
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heal word from your Lord, a word that will help
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us in this walk. Help us, Holy Spirit, teach through me.
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Use me work these lips of clay, this tongue you
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made in the name of Jesus. For your glory and
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your righteousness. My flesh shall not glory in your presence, none,
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whether it be any here today, but you get the
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glory in the hoymor and praise God. Help me today,
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Holy Spirit, help me to teach your word and preach
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your word and open up the eyes and ears of
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your people, bring them into the like God, so many
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preachers today. And I know that your responsibility God, and
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I know you already know it. But I'm praying today, God,
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that you even touched they minds to turn it around,
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that I deceive in your people God, in the name
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of Jesus, because it's not your will that any of
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us should be lost, any of us should perish, but
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all shall receive the truth of salvation. It is my prayer.
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Look upon this government, Look upon our wicked president. Look
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upon the demons that directed him in every way that's
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pushing him to the left, the right, and up and down.
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God help him. God, in the name of Jesus, help
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this government. God, turn them around. God. But have your way, God,
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have your way, and your will be done. In Jesus
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Holy imprecious name. We rebuke every enemy that tries to
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come against this message. We rebuke every devil, every demon
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and Satan. The Lord rebuke you. Now, God, fill this
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house continually with your spirit, and every temple that abides
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in this house. Feel it now to overflowing that no
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evil can get in. And in all I get in today. God,
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let us get an understanding. And it's in Jesus name,
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I prayer, and the church say, Amen, Amen and amen.
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If you will turn with me to the Book of
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John sat John and the twelfth verse, Saint John, and
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the twelfth chapter, Saint John and the twelfth chapter, and
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we're gonna start at the twentieth verse. I was wondering
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what God was gonna get me. He just gave it
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to me right now, thank you, Lord. And the Bible
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says in verse twenty of Saint John, chapter twelve. And
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there were certain Greeks among them that came up to
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worship at the feast. The same came therefore to Philip,
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which was about Cheetah of Galilee, and desired him, saying, sir,
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we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and tell it Andrew,
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and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. And Jesus answered them, saying,
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the hour is come that the son of man should
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be glorified. The hour has come that the son of
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man should be glorified. Now, when we think about it
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being glorified, our mind don't come to what Jesus talking about.
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And he says, very rarely I say unto you, except
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a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die
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it abided alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth
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much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it,
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and he that hated his life in this world shall
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keep it until life eternal. Y'all get that in this life,
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if any man serve me, let him follow me. If
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any man serves me, let him follow me. If any
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man serve me, let him follow me. And where I
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am there shall also my servant be if any man
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serve me him. Will my father honor? Now? This is
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my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father? Save
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me from this hour? But somebody say, but for this
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cause came I until this hour? Can you save me
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for it? But I know this hour was the reason
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why I came. So Father, glorify thy name. Go ahead
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and do what you gotta do God, and get the glory.
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Then came their a voice from heaven, saying I have
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both glorified it and will glorify it again. The people
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therefore that stood by and heard it said that it
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funded up. Others said an angel spoke to him. See,
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when God ain't talking to you, all you hear is
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a bunch of noise. But when he's talking to you,
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then you hear it. And his children always hear his voice.
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But the other they can't understand it. That's why they
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heard thunder when others heard when he was actually speaking.
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Jesus answered and said, in verse thirty, this voice came
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not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is
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judgment of this world. Now he's speaking futuristic right now. Now,
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shall the prince of this world be cast out? The
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rule of this world? And I and I if I
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be lifted up, if I be lifted up, he ain't
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talking about how we lift him up from the earth
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will draw all men unto me. And this he said,
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signifying what death he should die. Can you say, man,
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he man, you may be seated in the house of
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the Lord. Jesus said, now now means at the crucifixion,
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not when he is bound before the millennium, when he
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is cast into the lake of fire. It was at
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the cross when Jesus was lifted up that Satan lost
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all power. He didn't, he said, now, which means when
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I be crucified, I'm taking over dominion. Now comes back
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to me that I gave to humanity, and humanity gave
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to the devil by the first Adam, a man, somebody,
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you see. The devil had power because of Adam one.
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But when Atom two at the cross, gave up all power,
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gave all power back to us. You know, Jesus, the
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Bible said, he got up with all power, not some power,
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not a little bit of this and a little that,
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Dad of do, but all power. So see, Jesus, I
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don't want to blow your mind. When Jesus before the crucifixion,
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he didn't really have power. Wait a minute, He he
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did because he healed this one and delivered. He had
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no power. The Bible says he got up with all power.
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So if he got up with all power, that means
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he didn't have the power. What he had was faith
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in the Father and believed in truth to know and
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obedience to God. See when you got obedience to God
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and you believe in him and you trust in him,
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that's power all bad self. So if Jesus got up
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with all power, see, I got to question this thing.
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It's the least I already know where I'm going. I
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can tell when people know where I'm going, and people
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can tell when I know when where they're going. But but,
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but but if he got up with all power, this
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is sea live moment for all y'all and those that
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are listening over the airwaves. If he got up with
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all power, yeah's crashed my head. And when you got saved,
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Jesus came into you. Let me let me, let let
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let me, let me look at this. If Jesus got
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up with all power. If that be the case, then
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we today should be operating with the power of Jesus
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that works on the inside of us. See see see
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the reason why a whole lot of saints of God
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are not operating in it because they don't know what
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it is, and they're still operating in the flesh instead
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of the spirit. You see, I know you see these
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pews in him, and I know you see these chandeliers
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and everything that's in here. When you leave here, you
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see everything out there, but that stuff don't really exist.
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We live in a spiritual world that saints of God huh,
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faith in the subs of things hoped for, in the
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evidence of things not seen. So in saying that when
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we begin to walk like God caused us to walk,
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he called us to walk in the spirit, not in
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the flesh. And when you walk in the spirit, you
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recognize you have died and He's living in you. I know,
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we say a whole lot of stuff. Oh, I must decrease,
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that he increased. Well why are you still increasing and
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he ain't increased yet? Why I still see you and
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I don't see Jesus. Since you decreasing and he's increasing,
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Why you still got a problem loving folks, forgiving folks.
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When you said, he live in you, and he don't
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have no problem for giving folks. And if he don't
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have no problem loving folks, So if you got a problem,
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he ain't living in you, something wrong with your walk.
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And if he's living in you, let's get back to
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the power. Then you got the power to love and forgive.
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It's somebody with me. Well let me move on, let
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me move on. Now. Jesus goes on to say, if
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I'll be lifted up, Well, let's understand what Jesus was saying.
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What Jesus was saying is different than I lifted him up.
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See I understanding means it is in its application when
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we said were lifting up Jesus, But when Jesus said it,
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it is in his direct form. What are you saying, preacher, Well,
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I don't know, but I'm gonna tell you what's being saved.
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There are many applications of the scriptures, but only one
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direct meaning. Hey man, there are many applications, but there's
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only one direct meaning you can read out of the
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Bible amplified the King James, the New King James. But
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there ain't but one meaning. See, that's what people get
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confused talking about well that's your opinion. Well I don't
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have an opinion, and I'm not gonna give you an
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opinion because my opinion don't mean nothing. If I can't
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tell you what this say, I ain't telling you what's right.
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I can make up something to make you feel good.
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When you're talking about you a man, and you love
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that man, I can tell you something. I'm gonna tell
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you what God says about. See, I don't have to
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be twisted all up and and frightened and trying to
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say something that don't mess everybody up. I just don't
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tell you what God said. You got a problem with it,
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tell go to God. I ain't got nothing to do
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with it. I'm just the youth here setor express for
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the Lord. All I get it would bring you your package.
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You got a problem with your package, go to the source.
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So if you ask me, because I got the truth
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in me, which is Jesus Christ, I'm gonna tell you
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what's wrong with you man, and you man, and you
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woman and you woman. I'm gonna tell you God said
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you an abomination. I said God said you an abomination. See,
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the preachers ain't got no problem telling you God said,
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there's twenty people out there with one hundred dollars gonna
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get in line. But they ain't gonna tell you God
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said you an abomination. No, no, they gonna get on
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TV and say when I don't see anything wrong with
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as long as they love each other, God I want, says,
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shut up and tell the truth. You can't show me
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that in the Bible. But what I can show you
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in the Bible is when a man lay with another
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man like a woman, he's an abomination. And that's the
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truth from here to glow. You nasty, God said your bomination,
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which means you are detestable to God. A word abomination
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means detestable.
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No, God ain't made no no mistakes because he's perfect.
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Hey man, He's perfect and he don't need nobody opinion.
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So there are some applications of the scripture that man
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mix up. But Jesus Christ only had one direct form
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of the scriptures. See, we are saying we lift him
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up by giving him praiers, lift up year praise him.
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Or we may lift him up by the way we
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live holy before him, are before others, letting our lights
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so shine. Hey man. But when Jesus talked about lifting
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him up. He gave a direct meaning about it, and
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that had nothing to do with the way we apply
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it ourselves. But his direct interpretation, he was talking about
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being lifted up on the cross. He was talking about
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being crucified. He was talking about being crucified, not by
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you giving it and praise and glory, but his crucifixion
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brought about praise and glory. And man, somebody, you see
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we today as Christians. And I've said many times, even
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on this day that's supposed to be a holy day,
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because God said in the Old Testament, I don't have holidays,
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I have holy days. My days are holy, not holidays,
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and his holy days. The world has desecrated it, and
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the Church has taken it on and accepted it. That's
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why the world is in the condition that's in now,
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because the Church made itself acceptable to the world and
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allowed the world to come into God's house and do
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whatever they want to do. Since it's up in the choir,
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fornicators in the choir, liars in the choir, wanting to
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be entertained, an entertainer in a choir. That's why the
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ain't no choir. Because when you understand what the choir represents.
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It don't represent none of that. You see. I have
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to tell you this today because of what today is
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supposed to represent. Today is supposed to represent a meant
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somebody for God gets the glory Man, but we forget
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about the cross when we get saved. It's the cross.
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It's the reason why we even allowed to be saved.
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You see, a lot of people get the wrong God
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did when they get saved. That's why you got folk
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runing around talking about whence you saved, you're always saved.
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That's a lie from the Pizel Hill. Because if that
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was true, then the scripture wrong. And we know the
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scripture ain't wrong. The scripture right. Revelation says that those
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that endure somebody saying do them till the end, shall
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shall be saved. Paul said, I follow good fight. Why
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was he fighting? If he got saved and if he's
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already he ain't have to fight no more? Diddy, he said,
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I follow a good fight. Huh. I stretched far for
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the prize of a high calling in Jesus Christ. See
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folks be lying the folk. See if you believe once
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you get saved, you always saved, that means you can
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go out and drink and smoke and commit a dodgy
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And because you saved, you done, got saved you good?
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Now you saved all the way to hell. That's what
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you say. The good fight was the fight of faith.
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It's gonna fight. We fight the enemies after our faith
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in God, and we gotta fight to keep it because
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the ballot is not ours. But we gotta fight a
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good fight of faith. Hey man, it's like we get
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saved and we forget God, just like when we get
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in trouble, we forget Jesus. Jesus ain't never forgot the Father.
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Jesus didn't want to go to the cross because he
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was thinking of the Father, if it be possible take
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this cup from me. It wasn't that that he had
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a problem with. It was this connection. He didn't want
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to be disconnected from God at no period of time,
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not even for a sentiment of a time. But he
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knew when he took oh, not in the sins in
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the world, that God was gonna turn from him. He
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didn't wanna be disconnected at no time. And if he's
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in you, you shouldn't wanna be disconnected at no time.
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And saying disconnects you get saving.
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You think you're in some kind of paradise, forget about
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the blood and the suffering. I think you can just
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take it easy in rest. But there's no rest for
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the saints. It's on the other side of the Jordans.
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On this side, there's gonna be some suffering. In fact,
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when Paul talked about knowing the Lord, he said that
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I might know him in the power of his resurrection
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and in the fellowship of his suffering. In other words,
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you don't look forward to a resurrection if you have
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not also been involved in his suffering.
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Right.
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And here's another thing. You first gotta die, ay man.
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In fact, you don't need to resurrect if you have
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not already died. So you gotta go through the suffering
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process and the process of self and flesh dies before
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you can even have hope of a resurrection. You can't
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resurrect nothing that ain't die. You ain't died to see it.
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How you gonna be resurrected. See, Jesus was doing what
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he's doing now in me. He was trying to prepare
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his disciples for his debt and in his and in
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this chapter of this verse twelve, it actually begins in
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verse twenty three when Jesus says the hour has come.
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So he's trying to get them ready for his death,
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burial and resurrection. Why because he's preparing them for the
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Kingdom of God. Amen. And there's no way in his
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preaching where he talking about all these material blessings to them.
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I not one time as I follow Jesus in his
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word to my Look here, Peter, if you just continue
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to bless me and praise me, you're gonna get that
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house you're looking for. Come on in here, John, you
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gonna get that car and that job. But what he
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did tell them about that is that if you would
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just seek first the Kingdom of heaven, and if you
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would just seek first the Kingdom of Heaven.
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And his righteousness, oh things will be added unto V.
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But first, let me teach you to seek first the
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Kingdom of Heaven, so that your mind will stayed on him.
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God's mind is on your car, his mind is on
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your house. His mind is on your husband, your wife,
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and your life. As long as you keep staying on him,
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he stayed on what you need. David said, I've never
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seen the righteous forsaken, the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
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begging bread, because when you keep your mind stayed on him,
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he gonna take care of you because he promised, and
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he's not a man that he should lie. Are the
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son of man that he should repent. And he went
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to the cross to prove his promise. He went through
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a lot to show you that he's real about what
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he's gonna do and what he's says, he real about it.
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Jesus here is trying to prepare his disciples here for
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his death. And in this chapter of John, chapter twelve,
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it actually begins in verse twenty three when Jesus says
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that our has come that the son of Man should
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be glorified. And when we hear that, we think of
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him being glorified as being caught up on the cloud
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in the heaven, he being glorified, he being caught up
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on the cloud. But that ain't what he was talking about. No,
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you see, Jesus was talking about being glorified in his hour.
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He meant the hour of betrayal. We might not be
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able to see the glory and the betrayal, sister Elaine,
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but the betrayal had to come that he might be glorified. Amen.
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He was talking about the hour betrayal, and the hour
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of suffering, and the hour of death, and then the
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hour of his resurrection. So Jesus was saying, if you
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want to see me be glorified, yeah, you first have
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to go and see me suffer. Hey man, you gotta
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first see me suffer and go through. But in the
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end of it, it's not going to last very long.
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And then he goes on in verse twenty forty. Let
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him know that he meant. What he meant was he said,
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as verily, very good, verily very I say unto you.
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Except a corn or grain of wheat fall into the
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ground and die, it abide it along. But if it dies,
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it bringeth for much fruit. If I took a grain
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and set it right here on this arge, it ain't
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gonna do nothing. But if I take it and put
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it in the ground and it died, it's gonna bring
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some stuff to life. You don't hear what I'm saying.
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Jesus was telling them about the process of germination, that
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when you take a seed and keep it, it produces nothing.
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But when you put it in the grind a man somebody,
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when you put it in the ground, it's gonna die.
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And then when it dies, it's gonna live again, and
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it's gonna bring forth much fruit. Understand, keep this in mind.
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You have to take the grain and put it in
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the ground. Once it goes in the ground, it has
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to be nourished. And once it begins to get the
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right nourishment, and you water it as part of nurishment,
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then God gives it the increase. Amen, keep that in mind.
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You gotta put the seed in the ground for the
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seed to become something more than what you're looking at.
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I missed that that sea gonna come out looking like
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more than what you were looking at. The seed dies,
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and then it pops open under the ground, and out
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of it comes a little sprout. And that sprout comes
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up and becomes a stalk, and on that stalk our
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many more ears of corn. See, it came up looking
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a whole lot different than it did when it went
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in their ground. It went in a little bit of
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seed what some other man sowing. Also, Shelley, reaping and
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sewing is not greater than reaping. Reaping is greater than sowing.
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So you sought the little sea, but you reaped a
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great horvest that goes with ways that goes, but ways
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you plant a bad seed. I don't have to go
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no fucking do it. You're gonna reap a great harvest
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upon yourself of evil. Amen, some bad and all of
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this from one little seed, all this corn. But you know,
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the grain would have been nothing but a grain if
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it had not been put in the ground. I keep saying,
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if it had not been putting the ground, if you
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hadn't put it down in the ground, if you hadn't
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put it in the ground. Amen, it had to go
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on the ground. And then when it went in the ground,
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it went through the process of germination. The process of
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germanation was the suffering. Are you listening to me? It's
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the suffering because you put the seed in the ground, Amen,
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and once to see you went in the ground, it
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had to suffer. It suffered through all that dirt trying
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to get back up to the top of the ground.
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It's suffered through the weeeede, Its suffered through the roots
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that were down there. It's suffered through the rocks and
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all of that hard dirt. But at one time, at
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given time of its germination, it puts out. You ain't
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even had a suffer through the dirt first to get
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to the light. What am I trying to tell you?
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Is that Jesus was saying, if you just let me
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keep walking around in Galilee, you just let me. And
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that's what. If I just keep on walking around on
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this earth and I don't get planted in the ground,
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salvation ain't gonna sprout up. I got y'all, got the y'all,
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I got the as my hour has come down, y'all
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where I got to be put in the ground. So
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when I pop up, you ain't gonna be able to
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stop what's gonna happen once I pop up. Once I
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pop up, it's old and pop in. I don't know
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if I just keep walking around here, I know I'm
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gonna pick this one up. And because I'm well right now,
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my name is where veright now. They might not have
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seen me, but my name is whereveright now. Because someone
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said I heard, they ain't seen nothing I heard. That's
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what they said in the words I heard of this man.
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But I want to be more than just heard of. See,
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if you put me in the earth when I come
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back up, You're not ever gonna be able to stop
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what's gonna happen. Ain't nobody being able to stop Folks
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being saved. She got saved today. You ain't gonna stop
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see when see when I when I pop back up
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and I start sprouting up, It's not only gonna happen
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in Harvestime Christian Church. It's gonna start happening in all
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ministries all over the world. You ain't gonna be able
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to stop what's gonna happen once I pop back up.
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It's gonna happen all over the world. Just because they
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hung him on the cross, you and me are here
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today because of that. He said. Let me, he said,
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lift me up, and you'll never be able to stop
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what's gonna happen next. Because if you think that chilling
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me is gonna be a victory for you, devil, you
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better think again. It's a victory for me. It ain't
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a victory for you. It's a victory for me. You see,
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since the enemy is not all knowing, he decided to
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hunt the sun a man down to take him out,
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But he didn't know he was ignorant of the fact
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in taking him out, he was gonna bring all his
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other about. He thought he had help at one time,
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but when he decided to get in the minds of
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him to take him out. He didn't know he was
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producing even more enemies for hisself. Yeah, I don't hear
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what I'm saying. So he didn't get the victory. Jesus said,
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the victory belongs to me, and not just me, but
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for me and my people. That's who gets the victory
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for my suffering and for you putting me in the ground. See,
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Jesus Christ is the only one that offers this salvation
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that the world seeks. Even though people today are focused
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on a brand new suit, a brand new dress, a hat,
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some eggs. They ain't even each the eggs because rabbits
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don't even lay eggs. That's how you know it's dumb
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in the first place and has nothing to do with God.
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There's already enough of lost focus in God's uh, in
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the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And they
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adding all this other stuff to it, each the eggs
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and fat people in red and white suits and stuff.
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It's already enough stuff and preachers telling you it was
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the heel you went in with the heels lying to
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you up in the poor pit, preaching damnation, and folks
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don't even get it. But see, that's because the focus
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is off of what this day really represents the death,
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burying resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I said,
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Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. A whole lot of
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people want to save you, but they don't want the
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lord part. Save me, Lord, but please don't tell me
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what to do. That's what they're saying. I wanna be saved.
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Save me from this unruly man, Save me from this
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court date, save me from this jail on this prison time,
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save me from these drugs, But don't tell me what
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to do. See, if you ain't got Lord and Savior,
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you ain't got the full package. And if you don't
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have the full package, you not gonna make it. How
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many you want to have a rope when you done
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fell over to the mountain side and they gonna put
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a rope down you weigh down there, the rope stops
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right here. You ain't got a whole rope. You want
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the whole rope, don't just so you can reach the rope.
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Salvation only comes from Jesus Christ. It don't come from
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no man. It don't come from no woman, no money.
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You're gonna be blessed if you just give all this,
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if you're serving God, you already blessed, You got already blessed.
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I heard a preacher preach one time I was at
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the service, and he says, all y'all blessings come off
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of him. I said, not mine, not mine, because he
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ain't even right. So how my blessing gonna come off him?
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My blessings come from up above? Heard the preacher tell
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me one time he said I'm the bishop, and I say,
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I said, you might be the bishop, but God, you
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ain't Jesus. And he might be the business, but you
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ain't Jesus. I do what Jesus said. Do now, if
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you tell me some Jesus told you to tell me
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to do, and I know he told me because I'm
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he already gonna tell me to do it for he
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tell you, just tell me to do it. It don't
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work like you think it works. Well, you think I'm
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supposed to be all impressed because you call yourself a prophet.
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You can't tell me nothing God ain't already told me.
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And if you tell me anything outside of what God said,
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you aligned prophet. See if people get prophecy mixed up,
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they think it's some wonderful thing, some mystical things that
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some man does. And even Jesus had to operate out
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on the power of God. He said, I look up
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with the five thousand plus and I pray, and I
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break every time he prayed and break. God gave him
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creative power. God put creative power in his hand. He
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looked up to the Father and prayed, and he prayed,
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and he was seeing all the folk, and still had
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left those wife because the power of God got in
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his hand, not his own power. Oh Lord, come to
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some reality. Nobody stands up here. It's all great. Anything
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great is gonna come from God, because all good things
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come from up above. He ain't did nothing. You can't
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find salvation in no man, no woman, no money, no
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nothing outside of Jesus Christ. Some folks running around think
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they can get it at any Muhammad. You can't get
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it out of Muhammad. Mo Muhammad is a cult. Buddha
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is a cult. Ain't man, somebody, ain't no salvation, and
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nobody but Jesus Christ. Because the Bible says there is
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no other name under heaven and above under heaven or
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above heaven, that we might be saved. But by Jesus Christ.
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You can't get saved by Allah. Buddha, Harry Kishener, Joel Osteen,
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none of them. Kreflold Dollar, you can only get saved
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by Jesus Christ. He's the only one that has the power,
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because the Bible says that he got up with all power.
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He's the only one with the power to save you.
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I can pray for you, I can't save you. There's
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nobody I can save you. So don't get twisted when
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folk come up here and get prayed. It ain't me.
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I'm just I'm just touching an agreeing with him. I'm
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only doing what they want done. And I can't do
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no more. If I come from praising you for something
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you want and you really don't want it, I can't
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help you. God deals with the heart. It's a matter
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of the heart, he said. At the end of it all,
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every nee go on about, and every shall bow to
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the name of Jesus, not to the name of our law,
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not to the name of Buddha. And I saw these
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church in Africa where this man was setting in a
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chair like a throng, and all these people in there
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with their ignorant self were coming up to him, bowing
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down to him with their dumb self like he was
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Jesus Christ, somebody. They ain't gonna go to Hell. I
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believe they are all gonna be holding hands if they
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don't turn from the wicked ways. Ain't no need to
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be bowed too, but Jesus Christ. Even when in the
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Bible where they tried to bow before the angels, oh no,
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don't do that, they knew, I'm not the one you
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bow to, gave but one, the one that went to
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the cross, is the one that we bow to. As
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I live and die, every neede shall buy, and not
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only that, every tongue shall confess that he alone is God.
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And Jesus is Lord. And he was lord over all
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the problems you had. He was lord over all the
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habits you had. He was lord over all your confessions.
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He was lord over your state of mind when your
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state of mind was jacked up and man somebody, and
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he was lord over what you couldn't do. He could
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do until one day he came into our lives. And
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what a wonderful change did take place. It's a wonderful
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change when Jesus come into your life. I don't know
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how folks can go back in the other direction. It's
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a wonderful change. If the building is in golf in
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fire from all the windows and the front in the
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back door, five flames just shooting out of that and
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you made it out, why would you run back in
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the building. I'm confused. I'm totally confused. A man, somebody,
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you know, some of us we get saved, and we
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were ashamed of salvation. Get saving us, and you're ashamed
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of being saved. Some folks get saved. They don't even
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want folks know. They say they want to get with
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the crowd. They the crowd to come around you. You
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ain't got to get with them. They'll come around you.
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And then you don't want the crowd to know you saved,
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so you start acting like them instead of instead of
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you trying to fit in. You're supposed to be withdrawer,
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not being drawn. I remember many times I would minister
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the people in the store, on the street or wherever
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I might be. Got over work clothes. Folks, you know,
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they can't imagine. So sometime they look real good. You
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know what I'm saying. You had to look real good sometime.
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And then something when I start speaking and they really
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get it right, You must be a preacher. But I
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be with folks claiming the same salvation, and I get
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to talk to him.
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Now run off.
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Oh there he go, he talking about Jesus again. I'll
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be right back. Brother. You supposed to stand with me.
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It's a soul when you running off, fron the soul
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need to be saved. I don't get it. I don't
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get it. All I know is when Jesus came into
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my life, it was a wonderful change. A wonderful change
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took place in my life because he had to reach down.
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You understand, he had to reach down and lift me
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up because I was down in the ground, and he
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had to cultivate me and lift me up out of them.
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He had to water me. Can't nobody want to water me? Brother,
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he wanted They didn't believe in it. So Jesus knew
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it because he knew my heart. He said, let me
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put some water on his brother. Let me put a little,
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a little little feed on. Anybody got flowers in the
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front of house they had in front of their house.
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They got to put a little little fertilized on it
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to help me pop up out of that ground. You
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don't hear what I'm saying, Jesus said, if I be
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lifted up. You see, I told you to keep remembering
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that when you put the seed in the ground, it's
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not until you put the seed in the ground that
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the seed can come to life. Then you gotta understand
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the same thing happened to our Lord and Savior when
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he was beat unmercifully and he had to carry the
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cross all the way to God God, and then when
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he got there, they laid him down on the cross,
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nail on his hands to the cross, naw his feet
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to the cross. Then they lifted up the cross. And
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you know what happened out they lifted up and lifted
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him up on the cross, they dropped him down in
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a hole. They put him in the ground. And when
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they put him in.
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The ground, he began to grow some relationship, went everywhere
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he had to go in the ground that he made
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him die and didn't live again.
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See, they literally dropped the cross in the hole. And
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when they did that, immediately the enemy was going out
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of messed up. I'd have messed up now I didn't
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gotten them folks head and they donet beat this man
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and put him on the cross. And now he done
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rolls up, beat me out of my own house, took
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away all my power, gave it back to them. Now
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I gotta really be that trickster I've been called to be. Now,
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I gotta really try to trick him and tell him
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that didn't really happen. Y'all, there ain't no such thing
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as having our hell and I really don't exist. See,
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that's the biggest trick he ever gave anybody to try
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to make you believe he don't even exist, and got
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folks running around trying to show you what he looked like.
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He got that hotel on him with a point and
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them two horns on his head. He'll say that in
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about what it does says he was one of the
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most beautiful angels in heaven. And what it also says,
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which is most important, is I'm trying to figure out
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how they got a physical description of the devil when
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he's a spirit. How do they get a physical spirit?
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How do they get a physical description of him? Brother?
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And he's a spirit. Even when John went, does God
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put him to sleep and gave him an alibody experience?
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He looked, but he couldn't describe the way God really looked,
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or there had been sacrilegious But y'all, know how the
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devil look. I can tell you how he look too.
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Sometimes he looked like an individual acting of food. That's
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the devil. I know how he look. When I see
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you shooting people that ain't done nothing to you, that's
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the devil. That's how he looks. So if you're not
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ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or ashamed of salvation,
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you got to tell somebody. I'm so glad. I'm so
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glad by him being lifted up. You know why, because
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when he got lifted up, I got lifted up. I'm
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so glad he got lifted up because when he got
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lifted up, I got lifted up. You don't hear what
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I'm saying. I got lifted up because he got lifted up.
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I'm so glad he was obedient unto death that he
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didn't turn back from what God called him to do.
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I'm so glad he didn't turn back from what God
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called him to do. So glad he didn't turn back
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from what God called him to do. So glad he
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didn't backslife. He came on a mission to complete a purpose,
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and the enemy he does the same thing. He comes
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on a mission to complete a purpose in you, and
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when he does. See. The difference between the enemy and
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Jesus is that when he comes on a mission to
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complete a purpose. The devil, once he completes the purpose,
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he leaves you to deal with the circumstances of the situation.
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He leaves you. But God came on a mission, send
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Jesus on a mission to complete, on a mission to
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complete a purpose in you. And when that purpose was
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completed in you, he stayed with you that the purpose
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may continue to be completed. But the enemy, he leaves
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you to deal with it on your own. You on
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your own. That's why people say what they say. Man,
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I don't they when they set up back in their
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mind they sat in court going what I shoot him for?
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Now you've got some reality. But God give you that
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reality in the beginning. Hey man, And I didn't give
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y'all a title of this message. That's because I'm not
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a script preacher. But if you just want a title,
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Jesus is saying an these scriptures, it's my time. Now.
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See the devil he done took over for so long,
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and now I'd have made it to the cross. You
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hear what I'm saying, deep, And then I've made it
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to a borrow grave because all of this had to happen,
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because it's my time. Now, it's my time to stop
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all this foolishness and bring about some salvation in this world. No,
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God ain't gonna do what he did to the first world.
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I said to the first world, see the second world.
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I'm gonna have to let this go on and let
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them make this choice of theirs. I'm gonna help them
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to live and not die, but the choice will be
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theirs to make, whether they want to live or not die.
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I say this in my clothing. God is not in
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the force feeding. He's not in the breaking an enery,
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and he ain't in the kidnapping. He ain't gonna break
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into your heart. He ain't gonna kidnap the devil's children,
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and he's not gonna force feed you the word of God.
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He ain't into none of that. He all lay it
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out for you, and it's for you to get if
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you want it. Hey, man, he did all he know
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to do to save your soul. He went to the cross,
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destroy the power of the enemy, restore the power back
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to humanity. And all humanity gotta do is receive the
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power and receive Jesus Christ into they life. Pick up
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this Bible, which are your instruction The b l e.
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Basic instructions before leaving the earth is right here. And
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if you read it and believe it. You can't just
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read it. You gotta believe it and hold it fast.
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You gotta meditate on them. You gotta put it in
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your memory banks. So when your trials and tribulations come,
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you know where to lean on me. It ain't no
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good to you. If you can't lean on me, you
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ain't gonna be able to lean on nothing. You don't know.
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Folks run around trouble. Why you trouble? You run around
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talking about you broke. I never say I'm broke. How
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we broke? When the Father that I got owns everything
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I count on a thousand heres, the earth, and the
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fullness the ever belongs to him. If my money is shut,
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I've just got a slow money flow right now. But
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I ain't broke because I serve with God, who promised
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to supply all of my needs according to his riches,
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not yours, not the bank, not the credit cards, but
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his riches in glorious and since he's eternal, his never
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runs out of what he can give me,