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Count 'Em Up //12PM// Pastor Terrance Richmond
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the
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church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
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your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
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some tea, and get ready to receive.
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Let's get into it. Last few weeks we've been
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talking about the family that God intends, right?
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We've been talking about family matters.
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Somebody say family matters. We also understand that marriage
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matters. Somebody say marriage matters.
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We talked about the blessing. We talked about alignment.
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We talked about the ripple that our lives create.
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Good or bad, life or death. Somebody say the ripple, and I
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don't know about you, but I have been checked by the spirit is
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well liberated at the same time, because not that I blame my
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environment, my family, my trauma, but to be able to
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identify the root of or the origin of a behavior, especially
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a pattern, it liberates me because now I have identified
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the root issue of why this fruit is remaining in my life.
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Because what happens in a home does not stop in the home.
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It ripples. Somebody say it ripples, faith
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ripples, honor ripples, brokenness ripples, blessing
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ripples. What we build today becomes the
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story our children inherit tomorrow, and Scripture shows us
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this over and over again. When a father walks with God, it
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shapes generations. When a home forgets God, the
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ripple moves the other direction.
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We look at David, one of the clearest examples of this
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ripple. If you've been here for the last
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few weeks, we have looked at David's life, not only what his
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sons and daughters inherited, but also what he may have went
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through that could have caused some of the ripple in his life,
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like being overlooked, being misunderstood, being left out of
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the equation. When the anointing came to his
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house, when it was time to anoint one of the sons, he was
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not invited to the party. So we see how throughout time,
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patterns are generated for generations.
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And I'm here to tell everybody in here, your family is not
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doing anything new unless you do it.
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Meaning the devil been tracing your tracks.
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The enemy knows some of the patterns in your bloodline way
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better than you do. And So what he loves and he's
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banking on is that you remain ignorant to why you are the way
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you are. That you say this ignorant
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statement is just who I am, and it may not be your fault that
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you inherited it, but it is your fault that you won't change it.
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David, watch this scripture tells us that David was not
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perfect. Amen.
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David had failures. Amen.
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David had messes. David had moments that damaged
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his household, but Scripture still says something remarkable
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about David and it says this clean statement.
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David is a man after God's own heart.
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How you murder somebody? How do you commit adultery?
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OK, you commit adultery with one of your soldiers wives, then you
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kill him, then you marry her, then your daughter gets raped by
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your first son. You do nothing about it.
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He is one of the worst sinners by you know, if we was the judge
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sin because you know, we put sin on different levels.
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He murdered, he committed adultery, and he goes down in
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the Bible as a man after God's own heart.
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How do you murder? How do you commit adultery?
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How do you covet and go down in history as a man after God's own
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heart and then put your name as Jesus Godfather or step up like
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like like Jesus son of David. That would be like Jesus son of
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Adam, Jesus son of Terence, Jesus son of Jasmine.
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That was just David guys wasn't an Angel.
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It wasn't Jesus, it was David shepherd boy commit adultery
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murders, he goes down and his name is in history Jesus, son of
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David in the same sentence as not just Jesus, but in the same
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sentence as have mercy on me. So we would be foolish to just
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look at the ripple in David's bloodline, but not really hone
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in on although David had this craziness in his family, how is
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he a man after? How is God like?
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If there's anybody I want y'all to be like, I want you to be
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like David. So are you saying God, you want
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me to go kill somebody? So you want me to commit
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adultery? What about David has that watch
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this. That is David's obituary, that
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that's how we remember David when we look at David's sin.
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That's the way in the Old Testament David's life is pulled
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into Jesus walk. David's life is pulled in.
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They approached him that way. They didn't say Jesus, son of
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God. They didn't say Jesus lion of
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Judah. They said, Jesus, son of David
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and son of David, please have mercy on me.
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Why? Because David had a reflex that
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a lot of us don't have. When David sinned, he returned.
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When David was overwhelmed, he worshipped.
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And when David faced battles, he remembered the faithfulness of
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God. See it all through the Psalms.
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Watch this. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
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forget, not forget, not forget, not forget.
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Not all of his benefits. Unfortunately, there are some
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people in here. You are dead tired today.
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When I say tired, not just physically, but mentally,
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because you have forgotten. It's not the devil, it's your
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memory. David constantly remembered and
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the remembrance turned into a praise.
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Remembrance. Family protects the ripple
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because when a house remembers what God has done, gratitude
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fills the home. Praise fills the home, faith
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fills the home. But when remembrance disappears,
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gratitude fades, praise grows quiet, and slowly but surely the
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story of God disappears from your house.
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Luke 17 says this. Then Jesus asked.
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We're not ten of you cleansed. Where's the other 9?
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Why did only one return? Why is only one got a praise?
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Did not bless all y'all. Why only one of y'all passionate
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about my grace. Did not bless all y'all family
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watch this. 10 experienced 10 experienced mercy. 10 received a
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miracle, but only one, somebody, say 11, return to honor the one
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who did it. Families.
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Here we go. Families tend to drift into
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forgetfulness. Over the last few weeks, we have
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been building something intentional in this house.
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We have been talking about family blessing, generational
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alignment, and the kind of culture Heaven intends to live
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inside a home. Because watch this.
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Families do not drift into health.
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You do not drift. No one drifts into help.
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No one drifts into better. No one drifts into deliverance.
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You don't drift into freedom. Families tend to drift into
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forgetfulness. We remember disappointments.
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Yeah, we do. We remember the let downs.
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Yeah, we do. We remember the failures.
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Yeah, we do. We remember the persecution.
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Yeah, we do. We remember the abandonment.
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Yeah, we do. But we forget the faithfulness.
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If you had some type of AI tracking how much you remember
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his goodness versus how much you complaining or worried about
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what's next, what would that feedback be?
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Forgetfulness is dangerous. God never asked us to erase the
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past. He invites us forward with our
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eyes on Him. But along the way, the Father
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keeps whispering. Remember my hand, remember my
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heart, remember my love, remember my character, remember
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my promises. Watch this because when you
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remember who God has been, you regain confidence in who God
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will be. Yeah.
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Forgetfulness makes you think you survived because you were
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strong. Forgetfulness makes you think
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the breakthrough came because you were smart.
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Forgetfulness makes you interpret mercy as normal.
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So today, before we ask God for the next thing, people, before
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we pray for the next door, before we talk about the next
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miracle, today we are going to do something very holy and
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royal. We are going to count them up.
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Somebody say count them up. Somebody say count them up,
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count them up, count them up, count them up.
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All you got to do is turn around.
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All you got to do is turn around.
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What if I told you all you got to do is turn around?
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Where family matters, praise matters.
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I want you to pause for a second and I want you to think for like
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maybe 30 seconds. If you can pull your mind to
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that 30 seconds of all the Lord has done.
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Now you couldn't take do that in 30 seconds.
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Can you at least think of one thing God has done?
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And if you can't think of nothing, think you got here
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safe? You're worshipping with a roof
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over your head. Anybody, I think everybody,
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everybody ate at least last night or at least this week.
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You got food on your table, everybody looking good, you got
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clothes. Nobody in here naked like you.
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You good. Take 30 seconds and just pause
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and everything the Holy Spirit brings up, just say thank you.
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Just say thank you. You should be thank you, thank
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you, thank you, thank you. But just say thank you.
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And I want you to think of all the Lord has done.
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Hallelujah. Deep praise, deep praise, deep
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praise be praise be praise be praise forever.
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All he brought us out of pause, all he kept you from all the
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prayers he answered, all the doors he opened.
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Watch this and all the doors he closed that would have destroyed
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you. Yeah, it's it's it's pretty
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crazy that that that we only praise him or not for the things
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we're aware of. We don't realize that the devil
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had a plan too. While you was driving here
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today, the devil had a plan too. While you were asleep last
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night, the devil had a plan too. And for the things that God did
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not allow to destroy us there, that deserves a praise.
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I, I know I got some. So I I know I got some survivors
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in here that should be dead, that should be in jail.
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It should have took you out. It should have took you out.
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It should have tell your neighbor.
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It should have took you out. Yeah.
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What? There's a question for you.
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What did God keep you from that you never even saw?
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Like, can you just take your mind off of what you saw?
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What did God keep you from that you didn't see?
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I don't know about you. I know I'm not the only person
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that was looking for some stuff to happen, but it never showed
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up. Yeah, I was looking for a bad
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doctor report, but it never showed up.
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I was. I was looking for people to
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flake on me, but it never showed up.
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I was looking for people to give up on me, but it never showed
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up. I was, I was looking, I was
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looking to get caught when I was sneaking around in the streets
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doing criminal things, but it never showed up.
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I'm not praising doing criminal things, but I praise God for the
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things I didn't get caught doing.
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I'm not talking about getting away with it from God.
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I'm not talking watch this. I'm not talking about things my
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wife still don't know. She know everything.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
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But what I am talking about is the things that didn't punish
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me, the things that didn't enter my life.
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And then it just destroyed my family.
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It destroyed my mind. I I got high, but I still got my
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mind. So I'm not going.
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I'm not going to play with my life no more.
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But thank God, when I did get high, it wasn't the one high
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that killed me. It wasn't the one pill you
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popped that put you in the hospital.
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What did God keep you from that you never saw?
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You might have got COVID, but you didn't see cancer.
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You might have saw cancer, but you didn't see death.
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What did God keep us from that we never ever saw?
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Can somebody just right there say thank you, Jesus?
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What did he keep us from? What, What, what accidents never
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happened? You ever, you ever drove by that
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car accident on the highway that just happened?
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You, you ever been by something that hit something and didn't
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hit you? You ever been in the hospital
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for something you did or just you were sick, but next to you
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somebody was dying? That's death on the other side
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of the curtain. What accident never happened?
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What betrayal never reached you? They could talk about you, but
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but, but the darts didn't reach you.
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He's just like, oh, there's all these darts around me.
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It's darts that people shot but they didn't reach.
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Or they hit you, but they didn't stick.
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They they talked about you, but they didn't Pierce.
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They gave up on you, but they didn't stick.
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What what betrayal never reached you?
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What, what disaster never formed because the hand of God
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protected you. No weapon formed against you
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shall prosper. Those are weapons that formed
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that didn't prosper. What about the weapons that
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couldn't form? Watch this.
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The enemy tried to form a weapon, but he fumble it.
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He tried to pull it back, but it didn't.
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It didn't quite stick. What?
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What momentum God didn't allow to build to take you out.
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Well, did God interrupt immediately?
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It was inconvenient, but it was immediately graceful.
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Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters God
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prevented. Yeah, right.
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We only count miracles. Like I was blind.
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Now I see. What about?
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I never got blind. Yeah, I was lame.
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But now I walk. What about you?
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Still got good legs. Why why why are miracles stuck
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in the department of God rescued me.
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What what the what, what if what if What about the miracle that I
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don't got it? What about the miracle?
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Everybody was getting sick around me, but I didn't get sick
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right. Common flus have taken people
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out. OK, what?
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What about, oh, everybody getting sick around me?
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Everybody getting I God protected me?
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Yeah, question. What season should have broke
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you Count them up, count them up, count them up.
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But you still here. Like that's that.
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That's where I get happy. But I'm still here.
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Oh, I got I got seasons. I got seasons I can count that
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should have took me out. Some of them was my fault.
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Some of them was what? I ain't even giving the devil no
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credit. OK, No, it's seasons that should
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have taken me and my family out. Should have took my marriage
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out. Watch this.
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It can't wait. Here's here's here's here's
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where you get mature, Natalia. Here's where you get mature.
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When while I'm talking, you are like thinking about that season
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could have took my daughter out, that season could have took my
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son out, that season could have took my wife out, that season
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could have took my Mama out, but my mama's still here.
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So I got so much to praise God about what he brought me
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through. But let me tell you, if that
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thing would have killed my kid, it would have impacted me.
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So since God kept it from killing my kid, I got to put a
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praise on for what He did to you and what He did for you and what
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He did for you and how He kept you and how He kept you and how
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He kept you. The mature praise goes beyond
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what He's doing for me. What God's doing in Lily's life
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is what He's doing in my life. What God's doing in Judah's life
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is what He's doing in my life. When you prosper, I prosper.
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That's why I got you. Don't ever run out of appraise.
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If you can't thank him for something he even did for you,
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look around the room. When I think of what he's doing
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in Andrew's life, it's the impact in my life.
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Somebody shout out, I'm still here.
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You should have collapsed under that pressure.
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You should have lost your mind under that pressure.
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You you should have lost your identity under that persecution.
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You should have walked away. But somehow God sustains you.
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Come on, shout out. I'm still here.
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You've been grinding, you've been building, you've been
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believing, you've been planning, you've been faith in.
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And when life moves fast, it becomes easy to always look
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forward. Because all you got energy for
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is tomorrow. You don't even got energy for
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tomorrow if you don't got energy for now.
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If you ain't got energy for now, you ain't got energy for
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tomorrow. But the Kingdom teaches
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something. You guys different.
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We look forward with hope, but we look backwards with
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gratitude. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no for me, Andrew, if you've done anything in this community,
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brother, this community should be a memorial.
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You, you, you. Every time you drive around this
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community, you should just maybe just ghost ride the whip, hop
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out the car one day right where you used to do what you do and
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put a praise on that spot. Reclaim the territory.
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I I dare you to go back to a place that held you captive and
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put a praise on it. I dare you, I dare you.
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I dare you. I dare you today if you got the
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ability to go to a bedroom that you used to be depressed in and
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go in that bedroom and turn around.
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Whoa, dance on that grave, dance on that grave, dance on that
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grave. When, when we go, when we go do
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shows at Gildan Co or clubs, man, you better, you better
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understand. When I go in the club, I'm not
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just going for no reason. Every time I walk in Gildan Co,
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I'm dancing on the grave that I once stood in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Every time we do a show in the
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club, I go shake the the bartenders hands.
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I go say how you doing? Y'all?
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They don't know it, but y'all used to serve me the devil
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syrup, man. I went over to the bartender.
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I went and shook their hand at the end of the night the other
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day and they and the bartender was like, thank you all for
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coming back. You guys are phenomenal.
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I remember y'all was here the last time and I was hoping y'all
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would come back. It was phenomenal.
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Now the bartender knows this phenomenal from a different
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point of view, because when it's phenomenal, they keep they they
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buy more drinks. When it's phenomenal, people
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stick around so the bartender and you messing with their money
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because if it ain't phenomenal, they're not getting tipped.
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The bartender's like, I hope to see y'all again.
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Every last one of them. What?
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This is the place I used to stumble out of and now I go in
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there. If you was there, This is why
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people that don't understand why they going out are going out to
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the club. So the only holy thing you do is
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hand out food. So what about those people?
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How do you reach those people? Watch this.
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You give food to hungry people, right?
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Right. The people in the club ain't
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hungry. They're lost.
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So what do you give them? You give them music.
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That's what they showed up for. Music.
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What if we went to Guilton Co handing out sandwiches?
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They wouldn't look at us like we crazy.
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They like we don't need none of this.
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We're out to out for a good time, man, it was a moment.
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TVI love those faces because it's the moment.
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I don't want to get sidetracked, but I I think it's something to
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understand how God takes territory back because under for
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for several hours, for four hours, they were under our, our
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authority. So you might be like, oh, but
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how are they under your authority?
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And they were buying liquor. So God doesn't show up because
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there's liquor. So where did he meet you?
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When I really met God, it wasn't it wasn't it?
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Really. Look, I got to the altar because
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he met me in the club. No, no, no, he, he, I was, he
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was talking to me when I was getting high and he was still
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loving me when I woke up the next morning and hungover
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saying, I'm still here, son. Whenever you're ready to come
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home. I'm still here, son.
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So all we did was March into the club and tell God's children
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whenever you're ready, He's still here for you.
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He still loves you, right? We are a testimony.
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We are a testimony. We are a testimony and I
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remember the moment like the cool thing about those places is
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most of the people don't know your music.
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So you spend some of the time building relational equity.
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If you skillful in how you set up your set.
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So you're building relational equity.
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And then there comes a time if you do your job well, you got
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the room, man. It was.
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It was a time the whole room was screaming Yahweh.
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You, you just said the wrong name.
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Watch this, watch this, watch this.
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So, so I do read a scripture that that, that, that those that
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confess his name. Now, I'm not saying right there
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because your heart and your mouth got to be in alignment.
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But what I do understand is you can't say his name without
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heaven turning towards you, without something.
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We, we, we understand life and death is in the power of the
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tongue. The moment they cried out or
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screamed out Yahweh, what they drink Yahweh, right, Right.
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And So what you got to understand is you don't say his
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name. He's a covenant God.
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His name is covenant, you say a name that represents that is
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covenant. Every last one of those people
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received that seed, whether they know it or not.
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You have folks on the dance floor.
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Look, no, bring it down, bring it down.
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Bring it down. Bring it down, bring it down.
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You have to see what God is doing.
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Somebody you don't know, watch this.
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I was in the club, but my grandmama was praying me out.
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I wish somebody would have showed up at one of the clubs I
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was at and did dope music and was just like, I swagged out and
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it was just like, whoa, that's an encounter you don't
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understand. And then for those people to be
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like, we want more of that. What we're about to see is
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sometime the people out there get God more than the people in
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here. My, my, I got the privilege of
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having a wife who was an adult conversion versus growing up in
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church. She don't like playing the
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church people games. She because she didn't grow up
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in all of that. So she got a little different
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tolerance for church, but her conversion sometime I envy how
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she encountered God. I was born in it.
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So I don't know. It's like you born wealthy you
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that's all you know is wealth. I I was born in it.
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So I just been saved ever since I I came came out the womb.
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But man, for somebody to encounter Jesus and they broken
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this and I don't know about you, but you have a place that you
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have a reference point of his goodness.
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We are not turning back. We are building memorial.
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Let's look at this Scripture. While Jesus was on the way to
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Jerusalem, he was passing along the border between Samaria and
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Galilee. As he entered a village, he was
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met by 10. How many 10 lepers who stood at
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a distance? Why were they standing at a
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distance? Because it was Jewish customs or
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law that if you were a leper you could not be close.
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So they lepers were isolated people socially, spiritually and
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physically. Somebody say at a distance it
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may feel distant, but God still hears.
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And they raised their voices and called out Jesus, Master, have
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mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to
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them, go and show yourself to the priest.
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And as they went, they were miraculously healed and made
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clean. How many of them was it?
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10, One of them, one of them when he saw that he was healed,
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turn back. All you got to do is turn
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around. 1 out of 10 turned around once he noticed God
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brought him out. Now I could challenge every
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person in here that God has brought you out of at least one
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thing in your life. This guy saw fit that it was
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worth turning back, and if you turn back, you're turning away
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from something. It was on his heart to turn
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back, glorifying and praising and honoring God with a what?
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Come on say. Loud voice with a loud voice.
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Loud voice. Yeah, loud voice.
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Shout out one time and he lay face downward on at Jesus feet
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thanking him, not only thanking him because he was healed, but
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watch this guy's. This is something that we may
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not really do when God touches us, heaven touches us, he bows
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representing noticing authority. Watch this.
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He was thanking him over and over again, not just one Sunday,
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not just when he feel like it, but over and over again.
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He was a Samaritan. Why is that important?
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Sometimes outsiders recognize grace faster than those that's
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on the inside. Jesus asked.
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We're not ten of you cleansed. Where are the other 9?
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Was there no one found to return and to give thanks and praise to
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God except this foreigner? Jesus said to him, get up and go
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on your way. Your faith, your personal trust
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in me and your confidence in God's power has restored you to
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health. Anything that you don't get in
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this, you can go listen to the stream this week from this
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morning. I'm going over that.
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But there's always things to continue to extract.
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But I want to keep moving through it so we can try and get
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a couple new things before we close.
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The miracle happened as they went.
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Somebody say as they went one more time, say as they went.
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It wasn't as they stuck around and was like God, like why you
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not doing nothing. It was as they went, as they
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kept being faithful, as they kept serving, as they kept
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sowing, as they kept loving, as they kept forgiving over and
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over again. Every time you forgive somebody
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that's saying thank you God over and over again.
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Every time you sow is saying thank you over and over again.
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Every time you get back up is saying is saying thank you over
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and over again. Every time you love your
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enemies, they're saying thank you over and over again.
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Somebody shout out over and over again.
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The miracle happened as they went.
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They obeyed. Before they saw the
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manifestation. They obeyed.
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Before change came, they obeyed. Before they saw the
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manifestation, they obeyed. Healing met them in motion.
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Healing met them in faith. Healing met them in motion.
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Somebody say motion. I'll say it again. 10
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experienced the same miracle, but only one came back.
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Why only 1? Here it is.
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The war is against remembrance. You, you see stuff on social
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media and now like, like they're, they're, they're, you
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know, selling some AI stuff, selling apps, selling things to
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help you strengthen your memory, your muscle memory and things of
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that nature. And I get it.
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There's science behind it. We're in the backwards talking
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about Alzheimer's and dementia. That to me, to me, to me, that's
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demonic. That's demonic.
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But when's the last time you came against it?
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Memory loss As you get older or as you are younger, the war is
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against your and I memory. 10 men were healed, 10 men
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experienced mercy, 10 men received a miracle, but only one
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returned. Only one returned.
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Only one honored or practice Thanksgiving.
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Only one honored Jesus. What happened to their memory?
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Luke 17 Jesus says where are the other 9?
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Didn't I heal all of you? Why only one of you saw fit to
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turn back? We could also look at this,
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watch this talk into the room. Why only some of y'all in this
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room find it fit to repent? Why don't some of y'all in here
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as good as God's been, don't find God's goodness enough to
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change? God's goodness enough to put
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that thing down? God's goodness enough to stop
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having potty mouth? God's goodness enough to stop
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having a nasty attitude? God, whatever it may be, why
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have you not saw fit to turn back?
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Him coming back. It's like God healed me in spite
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of my nastiness. We can look at leprosy as your
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sin and God still tells you why you thought that you and God
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wasn't close because of your filth.
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God still healed you. Is it when?
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When is it going to be the perfect time for you to turn
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back? The enemy does not just fight
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your future, he fights your memory of God's faithfulness,
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because memory fuels faith. Faith, faith don't just come by
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hearing. Watch this.
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Faith comes by hearing what I remember.
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There you go, John, right there, right there.
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That's a nugget for you. Rather, I rehearse negativity or
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rehearse the goodness of God. I will have faith for whatever I
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remember. But I even deeper, I will have
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faith for whatever I rehearse. I remember Jesus.
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If the enemy can get you to forget what God did, he can get
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you to question what God can and will do.
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How'd that cinnamon roll? See ya.
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It's good. They back there sharing having a
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cinnamon roll. Girl, where?
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Where's she at? Where's she at?
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Girl, you can bake. Watch this.
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This how this how good your bacon is.
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You got people not is willing not to hear the word for your
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cinnamon runs. They are distracted by your
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sugar. Amen.
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You girl, that's a compliment for you.
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That's a blessing. You are anointed, but they
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letting that sugar steal the word just it's right there.
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Amen, Amen. It's I love them.
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I love I love them. I tried to say I I wouldn't
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listen. Go buy all them cinnamon buns,
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girl, when I think of what OK, he had a cinnamon bun.
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Amen. Yes, Lord, Hallelujah.
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You can't hide, Lindsay. Why you go back for why you
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hiding way back there? Girl, just bring your cinnamon
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bun in church girl. She back there like oh,
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painting. That's that's crack right there
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when you hide and you're like, come on one more night with the
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frogs. Amen.
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Just one more night. Don't tell me you came off the
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camera for a cinnamon bug. Amen.
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She like Hallelujah, Hallelujah. It's all there's so much love.
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It's so much love. Watch this.
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I thank God that some of you have allowed me to be that in
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your life versus like all PT doing too much.
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No, it's it's it's actually love.
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I'm sorry. I actually value God's word.
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I want I I know that's the only thing that can save your life.
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You can set up a wisdom session all you want to.
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If you don't do it God's way, you wasting your time and my
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time. And we need more adults that
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care about the young ones because we going to read later.
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There was a whole generation put in the Bible and they were
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marked by they did not know God's goodness.
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I agree the cinnamon buns are great but the word is sweeter.
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Are you living like God is faithful or are you living like
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everything depends on you, huh? How y'all family's doing?
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How y'all, how y'all couples doing all right?
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Are you living like God's faith or are you living like it's all
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on you? All the provision is on you?
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All the change in your house is on you.
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All the success in your business is on you because when memory
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fades, pressure increases. Some of the pressure you're
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experiencing in your life is because you forgot that he
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brought you out when you didn't have nothing.
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Now you got more than you ever had in your life and you think
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you're the one going to sustain it.
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He said. Is it the Holy Ghost that
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brought you in and now all of a sudden you're going to work your
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salvation out with just yo you? When you was broke, he brought
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you out. When you was making $30,000 a
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year, he brought you out. Now you're making $100,000 a
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year. And now you are involved way
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more than you need to be. Yeah, God the the blessing of
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the Lord makes rich. It adds no sorrow.
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Watch this. Why is God when he blesses
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people in the Bible he always says, but do not forget me watch
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this, watch this, watch this Eji just thought about it because
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people think they remember him because they give him praise.
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But when you really remember him, it shows up.
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When pressure comes, you don't switch.
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I am still look before before this blessing and before this
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increase, I had a certain faithfulness to God's Kingdom or
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I had a certain faithfulness to God's church or I had a certain
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faithfulness to my spouse. But soon as increase come,
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here's how I know that I forgot is because now I have to manage
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what he blessed and that's not the stewards.
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Adam never was afraid to go without sin made him afraid.
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And a lot of times some of you are overworking because you
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don't think you are able to keep up.
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So you overwork because you don't trust you.
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Watch this because there's something in us that knows that
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we are not able to provide in the way that God impregnates us
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with. God will never impregnate you
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with a promise that only you can sustain.
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And some of you, some of our marriages, I remember that
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ministry, watch this as as, as as hard as we go in ministry.
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Ministry will never tear up my marriage ever.
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Never. Everything in my life, for the
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most part, I am doing what God needs me to do.
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And whenever he's like, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah.
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If I can, I'll pull back. Some of you are working you,
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some of you are distracted. Watch this.
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Some of you are trying to keep up.
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Some of you are doing good stuff at the cost of peace.
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So how good? What is the profit a man to gain
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the whole world stuff but lose your soul.
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Rest you're not talking about lose your soul to hell.
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He could you could but what is it just for all to say folks,
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How does that scripture because sometimes when you save you
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think that Scripture ain't for you like when he talks about
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unequally yoked long as they save we equally.
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No, we ain't equally. Oh I didn't I didn't cheat on my
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spouse but you but but you committing adultery with God
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because you're not faithful to him.
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That's what he's talking about adultery in the Bible.
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So losing your soul, you ain't even got time for you.
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I was talking to a wise man the other day and all of us want
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that. Hopefully well done, thy good
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and faithful servant. One part of that is how did you
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tend my sheep? But Troy, what I got from this
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wise man the other day is how much of the well done thy good
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and faithful servant Natalia, will be.
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How well did you keep your soul? What if you showed up and you
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watched over everybody's soul but you?
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You show up to heaven's gates raggedy.
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Oh, I'm glad. I'm glad I made it to the pearly
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gates. Oh, life hard out there.
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That's how you're going to show up.
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No, when you watch over your soul, the well done is not just
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for how well I tend to you. Because the Bible tells me I'm
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not worthy of being a pastor or a Bishop if I can't take care of
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my own home. Why?
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So no wonder we have less disciple makers, because you
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don't want nobody to follow you. So today we reclaim remembrance.
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Yeah, the one who returned glorified God with a loud voice.
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Ain't that what he said? A loud voice?
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Somebody say loud voice with a loud voice with a loud voice.
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Watch this. Here it is guys.
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This is so powerful. Gratitude does not stay quiet
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that long. You, you ever, you ever bless
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somebody and they, they don't apologize.
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Let's talk about our kids and they, they, you give them
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something and they don't say thank you.
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And you be like what? You're welcome.
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And they say what you talking about.
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I did say thank you. Wait a minute.
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Your ask was louder than your thank you.
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How your praise disappeared now that I've broken through what
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you asked for. Gratitude does not stay quiet
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very long. When you remember what God
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brought you out of. When you remember the night you
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cried yourself to sleep. When you remember the diagnosis
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from the doctor. Am I?
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Am I talking? I'm going to save this message.
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I'm going to preach it in Louisiana or some or Atlanta or
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something. I'm going to pray preach it
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where somebody had been through something.
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I know ain't nobody in here been through nothing.
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Ain't nobody got no doubt this is heaven.
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Canada is heaven every. Ain't no sickness or disease,
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ain't no broken homes, ain't none of that.
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But I went. When you remember the night you
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cried yourself to sleep. Do people people ever cry they
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self to sleep? When you remember the diagnosis,
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when you remember the financial pressure, when you remember the
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addiction, when you remember the moment your life could have gone
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another direction? You you cannot whisper that
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praise. Yeah.
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Thank you God for keeping me. I thank you God for delivering
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me. I thank you God for freeing me.
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You freed my family, you freed my children, you freed you freed
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us. Some of y'all you ever lose a
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loved one? And that grief was so heavy,
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man, man, you didn't even know how you was going to make it.
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It felt like somebody sitting on your chest.
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You couldn't breathe. And now look at you.
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Your lungs is wide open. You look, you look vibrant.
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God has kept you. God has kept us.
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Come on, shout out. I'm still here.
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Watch this, watch this, watch this.
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There's some people are like, man, why you?
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Why you, you stir. Yeah, we've had people, I've had
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people say that's manipulation. Why you stir up the people,
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right? Would you, would you go to a
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concert And, and, and and the people at the concert, the
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person you paid $150.00 to seat came out like y'all don't be
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seated. Like what's up?
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How y'all doing? Like throw your hands in the air
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if you want to, but only if you want to.
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Only if you want to. No, no, no, no, start.
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Don't start, Don't start. All right, Don't start, Don't
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start. Don't start.
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Don't start, please. So, So what you got to
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understand is a part of the anointing.
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The the Bible tells that like, I'm anointed to stir, stir up
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the I'm not stirring you up for me.
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I'm stirring the whole, the gifts up the Holy Ghost.
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I'm stirring up your memory. I'm stirring up your memory and
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watch this, watch this, watch this.
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I am no different than that friend you just sat with for two
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hours gossiping. They stirred up your memory of
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what was bad, who was wrong, who did this, who did that.
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You wasn't saying why you stirring up negativity and then
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now because you don't feel like giving God a praise you like, Oh
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my God, PT just preach the message.
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We hear you, but you got two hours.
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You got No, no, no, no. I'm going to pay for that coffee
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for somebody to just stir up doubt.
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I'm here to stir up faith. You don't mind spending time.
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You got people, if they call you right now, you like, oh, they
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you got, you got that kind of time.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You got it twisted.
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And that's what the devil is banking on is that you give your
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mind to more hours of darkness than you do liked.
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And so as we are praising God, as we are jogging each other,
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the Bible says to stir up, to spur, it is our job to get each
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other excited about God. Watch this, watch this, watch
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this, watch this, watch this, watch this.
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It's in the Bible. Angels cried out to one another,
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holy, holy, holy. And what, what would church look
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like if when we walked in those doors, it was a known thing.
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We put down whatever was outside.
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And the only thing we're going to talk about in here is the
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goodness of God. Like we walk in here, we get our
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coffee. God is good.
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Ain't he good? Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah. How was your week, man?
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It was tough, but God. No.
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But nobody's telling you to deny your rough week.
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But can you end it with a but God?
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Can you end it with a but God? I got fired this week.
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But God, me and my wife ain't doing that good this week.
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But God, But God, somebody shout out.
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But God, Yeah, What, what, what can I ask you another question?
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What What did God deliver you from that you used to call
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normal? You used to call it normal,
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right? There's some stuff that I've, I
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mean, count them up. Count them up.
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There's some stuff that I was just watch this.
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Watch this, watch this. It's not normal.
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I don't care what you say. I don't care what you say.
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It is not normal to fly anywhere, let alone from here to
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Australia and land. Eat 3 meals in the air.
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No, the air for birds. I've always asked, I've become
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aware that I have this thing where even when I'm driving, I
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try not to let it transfer into anxiety, but but there's this
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awareness of my fragility. There's this awareness of how
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fragile my life is that it's not fear.
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It's this awareness that God, I got another day with my kids.
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See, the awareness allows you to be present with the blessing.
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When I'm with EJ, I can't just be so familiar that I'm not
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aware that, man, this is a gift in my life that he's spending
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his time with me and he's giving me.
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He's listening to me. This brother got more degrees
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than everybody in my family and he's listening to me.
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I'm his pastor. I don't want to become familiar
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with that. And that's how people, you get
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familiar with me, you get familiar with PJ.
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Oh, that's just PJ. That's just our pastor.
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You know how many people don't got a pastor?
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You know how many people don't got people praying for them?
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You know how many people don't have a church home to read the
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Bible where it's safe? There's people getting killed
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for reading the Bible publicly. How many things have you been
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blessed with or delivered from that you just call normal?
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No, it's thank you, Jesus. Every time I get out the
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airplane, Hallelujah. Every time my kids come home and
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make it from a flight or a drive, they every time my kids
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walk back in the you know how many parents are waiting at home
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for their kid to walk in the door, but they never will again.
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And then how quick families get attitude with each other when
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it's noisy in the house. Let them make noise.
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That noise ain't going. What you going to do when it's
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quiet in the house because they're not there?
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The blessing of having noisy children.
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The blessing of cleaning up spilled milk 30 times a day.
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One day you not going to have the chance to clean up milk.
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And then some parents, the stuff they stress over their kids and
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then one day all of a sudden a kid not here car accident and
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now they sleeping in their kids beds because they like if I had
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one more day with my kid, I would let them yell at me.
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I wish they had my kid in this house out man.
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They can put all their underwear all over the house and I'll pick
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them up If I could just have right.
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It's crazy how when you don't have it, you're willing to do
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anything to get it back. Let me tell you something.
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Every time we come here on Sunday, this is not normal, that
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you get to sit down and get a word right.
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And what the enemy wants you to do is judge and critique and
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who's preaching the word? He wants you to look at my
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frailties and my mistakes. So you can't hear the word.
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But watch this, no matter my mistakes, God's word still is
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true. And that's the problem.
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You're looking at me and you're not looking at God.
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If God can talk to a donkey, he can talk to Terrence.
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And I think I'm a little bit more annoying than a donkey.
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But how donkey ish is it of you to take gathering on Sunday for
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granted? We all should repent for just
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taking God for granted, taking blessing for granted.
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Oh I need AI, need a better car. What nice car?
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And you can have desires, but to the point where you just can't
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be grateful for just having what you got to every time you get in
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the car you like mad you driving in OK, So if if you mad at the
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car you got do me a favor today or tomorrow, give it away, sew
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it. Nah, Nah, PTI can't do that.
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I can't do that. So shut up or praise up however
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you want to do it. How, how, how can I do this do
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y'all? Can y'all give me a few, just a
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few minutes. I'm going to skip like 30 slides
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and I'm going to go give y'all something real quick that I need
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to give y'all. If if you want to hear this
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morning, I I need you to go listen this week.
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If if you want the word this week, no, I'm not going to do
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that. That's going to distract me.
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The Bible commands us to remember, create memorials.
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Psalm one O 3 says forget not right.
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Forgetfulness is not just emotional state, it's a posture.
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Forgetfulness is a posture, you hear me?
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In Scripture, God often instructs his people to mark his
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faithfulness. I want you families to see this.
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He tells them to take 12 Stones as they cross the Jordan.
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We only think promised land. We don't see process to promised
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land. We only see he parted the Red
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Sea. We don't see that they created a
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more. We only see Noah getting out,
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but we don't remember Noah made an altar and he said put the
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take these stones because your children one day go ask you what
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these stones are. In other words, I need you to do
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something that's going that's going to provoke a question and
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you going to tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut
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off. God got us across in high
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season, high tide. There was no way that we were
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supposed to make it in that season, but God performed a
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miracle to assure our arrival at what He promised.
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Memorials marked the ground of God's faithfulness.
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Watch this question. If your children asked you
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today, what has God done in your family?
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What stories would you tell? Would they know about the
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miracles? Would they know about the
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prayers? Would they know about the nights
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God came through? See, when you're when you come
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out of a bloodline of slaves, then, then, then gratitude marks
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the bloodline. No matter, no matter what you
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say about a people, It's something about people who have
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been in slavery or have been treated in justly.
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Because the only way I made it through was a praise.
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But but then I knew the only way I made it out was his goodness.
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So even in some of the areas family may have been ignorant or
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less intelligent, One thing they had was a praise.
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And what I do understand, and I'm going to read this in the
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end, we we're in a region where you pride yourself on
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intelligence and you are more cognitive, you are more cerebral
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than you are a celebratory. And So what you have is a lot of
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celebration comes from people who come from different parts of
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the world because celebration is a part of their roots.
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This country's more Christian because people came here
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Christian because if we if we do not tell the story, the next
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generation will never know the faithfulness of God.
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Some of y'all afraid to close the chapter.
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That's why you can't start the praise because if you forget
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deliverance, guys, you drift back towards slavery.
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Romans 8 tells us we're no longer slaves.
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But when you forget, just know every time you forget, every
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time you get yourself in a complaining cycle, you're
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heading towards bondage. And here's the warning.
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Judges too says there was a generation grew up that didn't
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know anything of God. Watch this.
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We have a generation, some of us in here.
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We are raising families and your kids going to know how to work
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hard. But if money ain't there, they
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ain't going to know how to faith.
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They ain't going now to persevere under pressure.
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When people walk out on them, they're not going to know how to
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stand right. What are you teaching your kids
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confidences from? Where do your kids, where does
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your family get confidence from? What miracle have you slowly
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turned into an expectation? What miracle have you slowly
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turned into an expectation? What blessing became normal?
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What mercy became routine? Because familiarity with
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blessing slowly silence his gratitude.
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Can I give you 5 things that happen when you forget?
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She. She.
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Five things that happen when you forget #1 Entitlement replaces
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gratitude. You turn that off.
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Entitlement replaces gratitude. The Lord says my power and the
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might of my hand produce this wealth.
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This is called prosperity amnesia.
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You, you forget God did it. You forget God prospered, You,
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you forget. Man, let me tell you something
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right now I look, ain't it funny when somebody else realized how
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blessed you are and you try to deny it, right?
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It's this simple. Somebody tell you, you look good
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and you like stop. No, I don't, because you feel
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not beautiful, or you feel unhealthy or you feel whatever,
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you deny it. The same thing with God.
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You, you're a man. Ain't nobody in here not
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blessed. I don't care.
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Put everything you going through on the altar, run your list
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down, and then I'm gonna run God's down. yo-yo, what God has
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done for you in one day can't. You can't even match what you're
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going through. Not to deny what you're going
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through, but come on, magnify the Lord with me #2 What happens
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when we forget? Fear increases.
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Psalm 7711. That's why he says I will
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remember the deeds of the Lord. Why is this?
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In the Bible, fear grows when memory shrinks.
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He says they that you want to a man after God's own heart, no
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matter his sin, he never forgot. It's crazy because his son built
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God's a temple, right? This so.
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So no matter the sin that was inherited, no matter the
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negative ripple, faithfulness rippled as well #3 the third
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thing that happens when we forget.
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Idols multiply, idols multiply. Watch this substitutes for God
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up here. So substitutes for peace appear.
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Oh, I could just go do this and just calm down.
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Well, even when you calm down, they don't mean you got peace.
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Substitutes for financial provision instead of gyra.
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No, no, no, I'm going to go make this happen.
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Idols multiply #4 The fourth thing that happens when we
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forget Honor erodes. You see it in church all the
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time. People get familiar.
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And the church that she was excited about, now you're so
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familiar with in your murmur and complain and guess what You're
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doing Dishonor. Honor erodes.
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When gratitude disappears, honor disappears.
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You know that person in your life that that's such a blessing
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to your life, but you're focused on what they're not doing for
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you. What you're, you're you're
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you're complaining about how they're not showing up, but
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you're ignoring all of this. It's it's that Adam and Eve
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center. He just just don't eat from this
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one tree. Oh, you want to focus on this
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one thing that person's not doing for you.
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And now honor erodes. And now, before you know it, the
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enemy got your mind and now he can whisper to you.
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And when honor disappears, watch this relationships fracture.
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Yeah, you might like me, but you don't honor me.
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This might be your church home, but it don't mean you honor your
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church. If you honor your church, you
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had certain conversations you just wouldn't even allow to
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enter your life. If you honor your pastors, your
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elders, your friends, there's certain things you just wouldn't
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entertain, you wouldn't do. But there was a time you'd throw
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these things, but because you forgot, you forgot what this
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place meant to you. You forgot watch this.
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You forgot what God said this place meant to you.
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And #5 the fifth thing, when we forget, watch this very
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important testimony, culture dies.
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We should have AI see why grandma on every Saturday had
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prayer. Prayer wasn't just like sit
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there Father God. No, it was just like go around
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and say, can you tell me what God is doing?
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Well, he bought me my Tonka truck.
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Amen. He brought to your Tonka truck.
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OK, but but if no one tells the story, guys, this is what I know
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about next door. God's building a testimony and
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then guess what? You know how you go to museums,
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we're going to walk around and we're going to we're going to
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show you all them little places because why it takes so long?
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It must not going to be happening.
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It must know. No, it must be failing.
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It must be man, get get out of here.
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Do you know who's building the building God is?
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You know who's providing for the building?
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Even if you don't give, guess who is going to provide?
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God. Did you get what I'm saying?
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It's all God. You see how we said we think,
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well, if I don't give, then they ain't going to get it.
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Or if I do give, they get out of here.
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You missing out, but we're going to walk over there four years,
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four years, Troy, the people that were look, here's what I
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look across the street when you leave, go look across the
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street. Ain't no way.
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I am declaring at minimum 50% new believers going to be living
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in there looking for a church. And because we're in BCA, lot of
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people like churches that's close to where they live.
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So even if people got a church over here and they drive an
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hour, they go, they might be like, oh, that's the nice church
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down there. I ain't got to drive over there.
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I go to this church. But do you know the people, the
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lost people? Do you know how many people
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moving over there? More than enough to fit our
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building. Yeah, If no one tells the story,
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faith becomes theory instead of memory.
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And then five things that happened when we do remember #1
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faith rises. Testimony is oxygen to faith.
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Testimony is oxygen to faith. My lungs expand when I begin to
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testify. That's in the Bible.
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My lungs expand when I put the praise of God on my lips.
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Testifying helps me breathe better.
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Testimony is oxygen for faith #2 Second thing that happens is joy
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stabilizes when we remember the joy of the Lord is your strength
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and your stronghold. Number three thing.
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The third thing that happens when we remember is worship
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becomes strong, praise becomes right.
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It's totally different when you worship from revelation.
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That's why some folks can't lift their hands because they don't
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got no revelation. Oh, these his hands, yes Sir,
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God's been good. Yes, I'm going to give him
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everything. If I can lift whatever I'm going
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to give it everything word should become strong.
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Praise becomes real, not hype, not music, but memory.
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How can I sit down when I remember his goodness?
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What the goodness of God should just cause like like what gets
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you excited? You get excited about going out
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to a nice dinner and you see you get that film excitement or that
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that good song man, come on the memory of the goodness of God.
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He's been faithful from generation to generation.
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Number four thing when we remember generations gain
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identity. Come on, come on.
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Can I give you a fist pump on this one, EJ?
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People don't understand that testimony forms character,
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right. My kids, my kids know the
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goodness of God. They're not just observing.
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Oh, OK. What?
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No couch there now It's the couch there.
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OK, Well, I guess God did bless us.
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No, no, no, no, no. This is why I tell our stories
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in the house. And and sometimes our kids hear
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stories sitting there, but they hear it over and over.
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So you know when they get married, do you know the kind of
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hope they going to have when trouble hit their marriage?
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They didn't just see Mama be married.
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They heard of how we could have gave up.
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They heard of how it was hard. They heard about the first five
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years. There's things you all know
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about my life. They heard how God brought us
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out of them tents. You see how God blessed us and
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we didn't have to watch the tents this winter.
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Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Sir.
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Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Sir.
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Thank you, Sir. Right, right.
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People don't know why we shook their hand.
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Because there's a few young men in here.
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Overnight on a Saturday, they would sleep in the office and
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scrape snow off the tent because we lost some tents before.
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So it's a few young men. Young men, young men, young men.
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Pastor. And I didn't even have to ask
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them. They saw, oh, no, that's the
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House of God. But watch this, watch this.
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And then I got to go back because faithfulness ripples.
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No, no, it wasn't they, Mama and Daddy watching the tents, but
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they saw Mama and Daddy. You, you see the elders
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constantly here. Oh, oh, yes, Sir.
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Yes. We and their kids, they got
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faithfulness in their bones, right?
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Right. You see?
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You see Judah? You see, you see Judah.
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He's faithful. You don't think this young man
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tired? You don't think this young man
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he tests all? You don't think this young man
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got temptation? You don't think when the wind
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blew, this young man wasn't tempted?
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You don't think he got friends? But where's his mom and his
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daddy? Elder faithfulness.
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What's this? What's this?
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What's this? I, I I've only met Noel's
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parents one time. Met his mom one time, but boy, I
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don't got to meet them to know his parents was faithful, right?
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Faithful faithfulness. But watch when, when, when,
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when, when, when, when there ain't no quit in the bloodline.
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When your kids don't see quit and wavering and hopping all
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over the place and they don't see no, we need faithfulness in
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a generation. These I know their kids been
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seeing their parents get hurt. I've heard the stories.
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So how did mommy and daddy handle people hurting them?
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And then how how they handled it determine how they handled it
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and how they handled it taught them how to handle it when it
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happened to them when they gone. So is it worth fixing your
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marriage? Absolutely.
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So you can get divorced out of your bloodline, So you and you
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and your wife might tolerate each other, but the next
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generation, they ain't going to have no intimacy.
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They ain't going to never know what public affection looks
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like. They ain't going to never hear
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that daddy called a Mama. Sweetie, honey, you OK?
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They ain't going to never see yo-yo Mama or your dad.
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No, you are modeling generation to generation.
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So it's worth fixing that marriage.
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It's worth fighting for your health.
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It's worth fighting for your mental health.
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It's worth your kids saying, I don't got to, I don't got to ask
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my kid to go out there and work out and and chase his NBA dreams
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when he was young. You can go back on Instagram.
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He saw his daddy on his treadmill, he saw his Mama, he
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saw his Mama and his daddy running.
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Was it matter if we wanted to or not?
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So now when he got to grind for what's his, when he got to fight
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for his health, he's not just like, how do I do that?
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Watch this, watch this. And the person that teaches your
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kids the basics might have the door to give them the poison.
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So sometimes daddy ain't never took daughter nowhere and some
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guy come along and take him. But they were that person
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because they never experienced that.
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That son never experienced affection.
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So the first person that show him affection now has his heart.
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And now once he has his heart, now I can testifying his
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protection as well. Generations gain identity lastly
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#5 identity becomes firm. What a shame it would be if we
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drag our kids to church, raise our kids in church.
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They get older and they walk away from church because it was
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just church. See, church don't keep people
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like that. But when people understand the
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God that they serve, like think about what the Bible is, it's
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listen, people want to argue about the Bible and really it's
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God just left us a testimony. OK, Old Testament, New
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Testament. It's showing God's faithfulness
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throughout generations throughout history.
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And we sitting here arguing and can't just focus on what God's
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good in in judges got the oh that's wrong.
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You can't speak God's good. He's good in Genesis.
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He's good in Leviticus, He's good in Exodus, he's good in
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Deuteronomy. He's good.
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He's good in January, he's good in April.
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May, he's good. Ain't that the good news?
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British Columbia. That was a I'm sorry, I
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shouldn't have left that in there.
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That was that was options graphic.
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I didn't want to. Yeah.
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Thank you. That that wasn't a part of it.
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Amen. They like, what's that?
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OK, OK. But I kept it in there so I can
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save the colors. It's that Campbell game right
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there. It's that Campbell game right
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there. What's this?
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British Columbia? We have a quiet form of
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unbelief. It's not loud rebellion, it's
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just quiet independence. Life becomes comfortable for us
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and faith becomes private. Gratitude becomes silent.
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But in this house, I believe we just a little bit different.
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We will be a house that remembers, a house that praises,
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a house that marks the ground of God's faithfulness.
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I want to ask you a question. Where has gratitude gone silent
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in your life? Where has gratitude gone silent
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in your life? Where have you under
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appreciated? Where you should even over
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appreciate where have you gotten so familiar is I don't even
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bring flowers. I don't even bring a balloon no
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more. It's just happy birthday.
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It's where have you in your marriage?
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Where are you just so familiar? That's just my husband.
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He he well, let me help some of your wives.
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Your husband like surprises too. And some husbands like flowers.
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It don't got to be a birthday. Let me help culture.
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Females ain't the only ones that like spontaneous gifts,
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spontaneous attention. Don't.
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Don't celebrate me casually when you caught me with excitement.
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Culture wants you to think that one gender likes this more than
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the others. Where?
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Where have you stopped celebrating your spouse?
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Watch this. Where are you tired of
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celebrating them? Be careful, even when they
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birthday come around, you kind of celebrate it, but you
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celebrate everybody's with like don't celebrate your kids more
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than you celebrate your spouse. Where has gratitude drifted?
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I just declare we're a House of praise and a house that marks
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the ground of God's faithfulness.
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We cannot stop remembering. We cannot stop remembering
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because I personally feel like a part of Love Quest's journey for
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these last eight years or however long it's been.
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It's been a long time for my wife and I, but it's like the
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children in the wilderness. I am just coming in the point,
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I'll be honest, where I haven't stopped fighting, but I've let
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my faith rest. No, no, no, that that sounds.
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I haven't stopped faith thing. Elder Brett, I've just turned
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the deadline over to God. I'm not getting through the
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ribbon. He's going to bring me through
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the ribbon. And if it's five more years, if
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it's two more years, if it's two months, if it's two weeks, I am
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not waiting for anything but God.
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The pressures of meeting other people's expectations, can we
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put those down? Can you think as we close can
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you think of one thing one thing that God has brought you through
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or out of and if you're flooded with 10 every everyone thank you
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Lord, thank you Lord. But what I challenge you is as
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the Holy Spirit brings that memory back to the faithfulness
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of God. If you're if you're not ashamed,
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just give God some sort of praise.
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Rather it's quiet, rather it's a shout, rather it's a dance,
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rather the music fits the pace, rather it's you lift your hands
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rather it's you on your knees. But today what I want to end is
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I want to memorialize this place.
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When we give our offering today, let it be a memorial offering.
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Let it be something that's saying God you did it before you
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going to do it again not you can do it again you going to do it
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again. I want to end this day with
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grad. I don't care what you're going
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through. Watch this couples if you
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beefing with your spouse, maybe this is a time where you grab
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their hand and y'all be thankful together.
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I promise you, a house divided cannot stand.
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That's the Bible and God does not go back on His word.
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So So what? You showed up at church?
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If you don't leave unified, then you are giving the enemy.
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God healed me and God healed you.
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So are you OK taking the next couple of minutes to remember
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and those that are unashamed, let a let, let a let a worship
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rise from within your belly as the Holy Spirit brings to
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remembrance. Ain't it funny?
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He says as often as you do this, do this in remembrance.
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There's something about the memory.
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Go for it. You at home, even if you want to
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write it down, however your brain works, you want to write
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it down, whatever it is. But don't distract yourself from
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responding with a praise. Respond with a worship, respond
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with gratitude. Today we are switching our
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posture. Negativity will not be the
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landlord of my mind. This is why the Bible hates and
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shuns gossip. Because gossip.
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It causes you to forget the goodness of God that is in
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people, the goodness of God that God is doing in the land.
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With our phones, all we can do is look at negativity all day.
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So there's a fight for our memory.
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But right now I come against if it's in your bloodline.
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I come against dementia in the name of Jesus.
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Your grandmama, your daddy, your, your Mama may have had it,
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but I break it now in the name of Jesus.
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I break the spirit of Alzheimer's in the name of
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Jesus. I declare over your life you
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shall live long life and be satisfied.
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I declare you will have a witty mind in your old age.
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In the name of Jesus. Your faculties will work as God
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has planned in the name of Jesus.
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So Lord, we thank you for a healthy mind.
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We thank you for a healthy brain.
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We thank you in the name of Jesus, for a healthy spirit.
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We thank you for a healthy soul. Edify us now in the name of
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Jesus. What the Word says.
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We have the mind of Christ, Lord, when we remember like
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Jesus remembered, come on right where you are.
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Just remember, gratitude can't stay quiet too long.
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Come on. So as you meditate, as you
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meditate, allow the Holy Spirit to stir up gratitude.
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Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.
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We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.
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the drill, you know the motto. Get your love fixed man and
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we'll see y'all real soon.