Sermon
The Third Act
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Transcript
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That's so cool, man.
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Y'all gave me a standing ovation.
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Pastor Robert never gave a standing ovation.
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Just make sure you mention that.
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I'm excited about being here.
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There's gonna be so much.
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There's a lot of cool stuff going on.
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Yo, there's people in overflow, and then you in double overflow.
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Man, that's so cool.
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Get here early.
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But anyway, thanks for being here.
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You know, you just kind of this is a little tight, a little snug where you're at.
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That's all.
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It's cool.
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So we're gonna have some fun.
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It's gonna be so cool.
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There's people getting baptized.
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After this, you can go out, you can get baptized.
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Like, even if you didn't plan to get baptized, they're gonna dip you anyway if you want.
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You just go back there.
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They got clothes and they got all the stuff, man.
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If you see any black people getting baptized, I want you to really to applaud a lot, if you could, because um we don't like water.
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I'm just gonna put that out there.
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So I'm not gonna say all black people don't like water.
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I'm just gonna say all the black people I know don't like water.
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I don't know what it is about the water, and I know with the black women, it's the hair.
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Black women do not want to get their hair wet.
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You could rob a black woman with a squirt gun.
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Take it, just take it, just take it, just take it, just I remember getting baptized.
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Let me tell you how I learned how to swim before I tell you about my baptism, right?
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I'm 11 years old fishing off a bridge, the fishing I bite, and my dad comes over, he's like, Well, let's have some fun.
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That's how I learn how to swim.
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Fast forward like 13 years is a boy, I'm about to get baptized.
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I'm standing in the water, dude gonna push me, right?
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I'm like, you know what?
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I'm not ready yet.
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I'm not ready.
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Dude's gonna push me again.
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I'm like, you know what?
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It's gonna be trouble in the water.
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You push me one more time.
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It's gonna be trouble in the water.
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I'm all creative.
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I'm like, wait a minute.
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It's a white dude, he got on a white sheet?
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I don't know if this is right.
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Are you gonna let me up?
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Are you gonna let me up?
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This is not an eight-minute baptism.
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And when they baptize you, what do they say?
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In the name of the Son, the Father, the Holy Spirit, dunk you underwater.
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I was reading the Bible that Jesus got baptized.
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I was like, well, what do they say to him?
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I love my church.
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Man, if I lived in Dallas, I would go to this church.
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Just so happens I live here.
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I love my church, man.
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This is so awesome.
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Oh, let me say this before I forget.
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I have a grip of merchandise in the back that you guys can buy.
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When I say a grip, that means a lot.
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No, too much slang.
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I'm sorry.
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Uh North Fort Worth, you know what I'm talking about.
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Um so we got a we got a grip of merchandise.
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This is the thing.
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I got my CD, my book, the comedy special that I filmed here, some really cool the children's book documentary.
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This is the thing that I do with my merchandise.
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God told me to do this.
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I'm starting it here.
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Hopefully, we'll continue.
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I know we will.
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The merchandise is really funny.
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Go ahead and buy some stuff.
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If you can't afford it, you walk up to my table, you say, Can I please have whatever you want, whichever item you want, and we're gonna give it to you.
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Because that's how we roll.
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Now, if you're in a position to go and buy the merchandise and then buy more and leave it there, do that as well.
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There's one more thing that I'm adding because God said to do this, and this is certainly not me.
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Another thing we're gonna do, if you can afford my merchandise, this is what I want you to do.
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If you can't afford it, but you know you have an issue with receiving stuff.
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I need you to walk up to the table and I need you to say, Can I please have?
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Because if you can't receive some physical things right here on earth, it's going to be that much harder for you to receive something from a guy that you can't even see.
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Anyway, that was bonus.
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That was extra.
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I'm hanging around with Pastor Robert a little too much.
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I need to get some more, need to get some selfish friends, is what I gotta do.
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I gotta go back and find some self.
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So I'm excited about being here.
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Let me tell you about me in case you don't know.
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I have I got five kids.
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Uh yeah, and um, and I travel a lot, you know, so I could see them all.
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Um I'm just playing, man.
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I don't see them.
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Shoot.
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No, we do, we got five kids, and it's awesome having five kids because, first of all, well, when you got that many, you gotta figure out ways to save money, right?
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And we like we wanted our pictures taken, and having family pet stuff is expensive, man.
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So what we did to save money is we all got in the front seat of the car.
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Look both ways, and ran a red light.
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And that stuff worked out.
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Two weeks later, the picture came in the mail.
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Like, this is awesome.
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I was doing that joke out of prison.
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I do comedy at prison.
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It wasn't like I was in prison, like doing jokes.
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Hey, get off me.
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No, no.
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I go to I went to the prison, I was doing comedy.
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I did that joke, and some of the prisoners laughed, some of the other ones didn't, and I realized they had been there so long, the person next to them had to explain the joke.
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They're like, see what happened nowadays when you run a red light, they take a picture.
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And then he looked at the dude next to him and he was like, A red light is what they have when you travel down the road.
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And then he was like, A road is what they use.
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I was like, Man, where am I right now?
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So I love my family, it's so cool.
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As a comedian, you get to see different things that are funny, and some people don't pick it up.
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Like, we bought a toddler bed for my daughter, um, and it came with a 20-year warranty.
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I'm just gonna wait a few years, I'm gonna take it back.
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I'm gonna be like, I want my money back.
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You're gonna be like, What's wrong?
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I'm like, yo, she's 12, it don't fit.
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My son at six years old, he wanted a pet fish.
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Listen, a fish and a six-year-old.
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This is not gonna work out for the fish.
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We get to the pet store, and it's almost like the young small fish are showing out for my son, like, ooh, pick me, pick me, pick me.
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The older wise fish, they not even making eye contact.
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My son picks one of the older wise fish, he's like, Dad, I want that one right there.
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And for real, the fish goes like this.
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My son was like, Dad, is that fish doing that?
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Because he's close to death?
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I was like, I think he knows it.
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I was like, come on, son, let's go find another fish.
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And I looked back and the fish were like this.
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That's amazing.
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I didn't have a lot of pets as a kid.
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I just didn't have a lot of pets.
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I have remember one pet I had, I had a pet fly, is what I had.
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And I didn't want him to get away, right?
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So I pulled his wings off.
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And I named him Walker.
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What's up, Grand Prairie?
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So that's what I do, man.
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We sit back, and my now my kids they want a dog, right?
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They want a dog.
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And I just think that some people, I think people give dogs more credit than they actually should have.
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I don't think dogs are really as smart as we think they are.
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We just amplify the story to make it seem all great.
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Like every year you hear the story of the dog that saves the owner's life from like a fire.
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This is the story.
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The owner was asleep, the house caught on fire, the dog was inside, so he kept barking and barking and barking until finally the owner wakes up and they're both safe.
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It's almost as if the dog would not leave the owner's side till he woke up.
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I'm just saying, I think the story would have been a little different if the dog knew how to turn a doorknob.
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That dog would have been like, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff.
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So we don't know what to name our dog.
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If we get a dog, we don't know what to name them.
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People would name their dog different stuff, like Coco.
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Every time I do a show, there's a white person in the room with a dog named Coco.
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We gotta talk about that.
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I don't know what that's about.
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So we want to name our dog something, something useful.
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At least I do.
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I want to name my dog something like hear me out.
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I'm gonna name my dog Grandma.
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No, no, no, no, because a dog named Grandma is very useful.
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Your friend calls you up.
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Hey, we need you to help.
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If you could please, we're we're moving to the fifth floor of our apartment building.
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Could you help us move?
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To which I could reply, ooh, I'd love to, but um, I'm supposed to take grandma for a walk.
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But you gotta be careful because people, you'll forget that people don't know your dog name is grandma.
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You'll get you'll be confusing people.
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You get mad at the dog, ooh, dog on grandma?
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Shoot up my shoes and pee on the couch.
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She's getting old, man.
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I think I'm gonna have to put her down, yo.
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The neighborhood I grew up in was kind of rough.
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It was like, it was rough, like it was rough.
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Like if you wanted a pizza delivered, like the police had to bring it.
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It was actually called Popo Johns.
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That was the name of the place.
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South Lake don't know what Popo Johns is.
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North Fort Worth.
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You probably know, that's pretty cool.
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North Princeton Hills, maybe, I don't know.
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We used to play games in my neighborhood.
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We play games just like anywhere else.
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Everybody else plays these games.
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Frisco, everybody play, everybody plays games like this.
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Remember Slug Bug?
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This is a game where if you see a Volkswagen, you get to hit your friend just because you saw a Volkswagen bug.
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In my neighborhood, they would take it a little too far.
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We added to the game.
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We would also play uh Upper Cup Fire Truck.
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You ever play that one?
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You ever play that?
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Mini Van Body Slam?
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What about that one?
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You ever play that?
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There's always one crazy dude in the group who would make up games like Hit You in the Throat, Tall Building.
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Dude, that don't even rhyme.
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It's playing around.
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I remember singing songs as a kid, we would sing songs like oh McDonald had a farm, EI, EIO.
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Then we realized, yo, there's no farms around here.
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So we changed the lyrics to better suit our situation.
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It was the McDonald's family lived in the hood.
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The McDonald's family lived in the hood.
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EI EIO.
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And in the hood there was a gang.
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EI EIO would uh, foo, shut your mouth.
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You don't know me, you better back up.
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I will bustle cap, yo mama here.
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EI EIO.
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I've been trying new sports lately.
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I've been adventuring off, trying new sports, trying to get to know about them.
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I went and I did this one sport called uh it's called uh ball hunting.
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You ever do this before?
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Ball hunting?
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Some people call it golf or whatever.
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Um first of all, that stuff takes all day.
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And I'm like, yo, I heard there were some greens out here.
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Where are they?
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I'm hungry.
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It wasn't the greens I was looking for, let me just say that.
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Pastor David, me and Pastor David went to a Yankees game.
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I'd never really been to a baseball game before, so we go to this Yankees game, right?
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And um we get there, there's some things I don't understand, so from a comedic's perspective, I'm like, yo, let me adventure into this.
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So we get to the game, and first of all, the seventh inning comes along and they start singing, take me out to the ball game.
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And I'm sitting here like, um, we are at the ball game.
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What are you people doing?
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And then this dude gets up on the base, right?
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This this big dude, this big this swollen dude.
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He's just all swollen, he hit the ball, and it's a bass hit.
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He runs to the first base, and apparently at this point, he is done.
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Because he calls in what is referred to, I learned, from Pastor David, as a pinch runner.
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This dude is gonna run for him because he don't feel like finishing.
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That would be awesome to have in real life, right?
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Your wife asks you a complex question, like, does this dress make me look big?
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Like, ooh, you know what?
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Hey, uh, bring it in, bro.
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Bring me in, bring me in, bro.
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Yeah, yeah, she got a question for you, bro.
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That would be awesome, man.
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I used to coach.
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I used to coach my kids in sports teams.
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I used to coach their basketball, football, until they got better at me.
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I was like, whatever.
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But when you coach, you say stuff.
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Coaches have said this, players have heard this.
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All over the country, all over the world, they say this phrase right here.
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Listen, the stuff that I'm teaching right now, it's not just about this game.
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You can apply it to life.
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That ain't always true.
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Straight out of high school, I got a job, I was parking cars for this fleet company.
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One of the cars was really nice.
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I took it for a little spin in my neighborhood.
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The company found out my boss lost the account.
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He was furious, he was yelling at me, screaming.
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I didn't know what to do or say.
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I thought back to my high school football coach.
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I looked at my boss, I was like, you know what?
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You win some, you lose some.
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The important thing is, I went out there and I had fun.
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You know.
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Then I got fired right after that, man.
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You ever have a job that you want to quit, and then your boss they want you to give him like a two weeks notice?
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I was like, yo, boss, two weeks from now, you're gonna notice I ain't been here in two weeks.
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So we're having fun, right?
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We're laughing.
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This is so cool, right?
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I was asking a question, and I asked God, I said, why do we laugh?
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What causes us to laugh?
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You ever wondered what causes us to laugh?
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So, this is what happens when we laugh.
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When we laugh, we have expectations.
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And then there's an alteration, and then we realize this has happened, we have a revelation.
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This is really what causes us to laugh.
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It also causes us to learn as well.
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So when I name the series, when I when I name the title of this teaching, I named it the third act.
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Because in every movie there's a third act where there's a resolution where you figure it out.
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You've seen everything else, you saw the alterations, you saw the expectation, and now all of a sudden you have a revelation, the third act.
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So listen, I'm not that complex when it, I mean, God's gonna not make that thing that hard for me.
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So I'm looking at the third act, and I was like, huh, let me go to Acts 3.
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And I read this story in Acts 3, because I look at things separate, different sometimes.
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My teachers try to tell me I was less distant.
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I'm not gonna explain.
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I'm not gonna explain.
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So I get to this story in Acts 3, and I realize all of these elements are there.
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The expectation, the alteration, and the revelation.
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So I asked Pastor Steve Doolin to read this for you guys, and we're gonna kind of work together to read through this so you can just grab hold of what this is.
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So Pastor Steve's gonna come out, man.
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This is what I do.
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He's so cool.
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Yeah, you can clap if you want to.
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So, um, so he's gonna read Acts 3, 1 through, I don't know what it is.
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He don't want to read it.
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So, um, so if you could just read, that'd be awesome.
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This is the story.
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So the story is, let me set it up real quick.
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The story is a guy who is um he can't walk, and his boys take him and they lay him there so he can beg for money outside the gates.
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Peter and John come by and he asked them for some money, and it's like, yo, won't got no money, and then they heal him in Jesus' name.
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Go ahead, tell the story.
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Let me read it.
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You ain't telling it, I just told you.
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I do either one.
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Cool, cool, cool.
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Okay, man.
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Why do you have one of those?
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Like they don't have them in brown.
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I don't know what that's about.
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Like it's only a like, because if I wear it, it looks like I got cut right here.
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It looked like I got cut.
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I don't know if I trust that guy.
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But go ahead, go ahead.
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That's cool.
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Gave me the black mic.
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You see how that works?
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That's cool.
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Go ahead, you can read it, man.
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What are you waiting for?
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I'm waiting to read.
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I've been standing here.
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Peter and John went to the temple one afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service.
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Okay, wait a second.
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So this is, I'm gonna need you to do something different though.
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I forgot.
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I got this right here.
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It's actually a version of the Bible that I created.
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What by what version are you reading?
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This is uh New Living Translation.
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New Living Translation.
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Cool.
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I got the New Hood translation right here.
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Um I'm gonna need you to read from the Hood translation because some of my boys are probably watching online, some of them locked up.
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Yo, I'm glad you got internet in there, man.
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I need you to read from this translation too, just so they can understand.
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So you read that translation and then this one so they can understand more clearly.
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Go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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So start with yours.
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Okay.
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I mean ours, it's not yours.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Anyway, cool.
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Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
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Peter and John went to the temple one afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service.
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Okay, go ahead.
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Pete and John rolled up to the spot about three o'clock.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So that's that's what.
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All right, cool, cool.
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Keep going.
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Go ahead.
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As they approached the temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in.
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Each day he was put beside the temple gate, the one called the beautiful gate, so he could beg from the people going into the temple.
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Cool, cool.
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Next version.
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A dude with a limp that wasn't a pimp.
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Right, right, right, right.
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He had a limp, but he wasn't a pimp.
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It was just an actual.
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I shouldn't have to explain this.
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I shouldn't have to explain it.
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But you go ahead, go ahead.
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I don't think you can say that in church, Mike.
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But you just said it, so that's that's why I didn't say it.
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Because Pastor Robert is watching right now.
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Dude is tripping, man.
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I don't know why he's reading this stuff.
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Go ahead.
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A dude with a limp that wasn't a pimp was chilling on the flow.
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You have no idea what flow is, do you?
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We're standing on the flow right now.
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So okay.
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I'm gonna change this just a little bit.
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A dude with a limp that wasn't a wimp was chilling on the flow, looking to make some cheddar.
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Yeah, yeah, exact cheddar.
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Cheese, money, cash.
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Come on, man, you got the other version.
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I'm just trying to read the Bible, man.
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I'm just what I thought I was supposed to be doing.
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Yeah, I'm sorry that I made uh alterations to your expectations right now, but if you could just read the that'd be awesome.
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Go ahead.
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When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money.
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Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, Look at us.
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Hmm.
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Alright, go do the other version.
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So they started mad dogging him.
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Mad dogging.
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You know what a mad dog is.
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Let's do it.
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I'll show you what a mad dog is right now.
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Look at me.
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I'll just I don't know what mad dogging is.
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I'm mad dogging you right now.
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If you stop talking for a second, all right, go ahead, go ahead.
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It's okay.
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You got nervous.
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I could tell you were scared that I was gonna do something.
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Go ahead.
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I'm trying to get in the floor, and you on the floor, dude.
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Okay, carry on.
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So they started mad dog, and then we're like, what's up with you, dog?
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What is wrong with your leg right now?
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There is a hood anointing falling down right now.
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Cool, cool.
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Alright, so listen, why did we do this?
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Why why did I have him come up here and read his other version?
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Listen, because when he came up here, and you know he's a pastor, bona fide, great man of God, everyone had some expectations.
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But then I made an alteration to your expectations, and then we all laughed, which was a revelation.
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It's evidence of a revelation.
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So now he's gonna read it for real.
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Just read the regular verse.
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You can Peter and John went, oh, hang on, let me give you your Bible back.
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Okay.
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Peter and John went to the temple one afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service.
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As they approached the temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in.
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Each day he was put beside the temple gate, the one called the beautiful gate, so he could beg from the people going into the temple.
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Expectation, expectation, expectation.
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Go ahead.
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When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money.
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And Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, Look at us.
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Expectation, expectation, expectation.
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The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money.
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He just said it in the sentence.
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So go ahead.
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But Peter said, I don't have any silver or gold for you, but I'll give you what I have.
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That is two butts.
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Whenever you see one but, there's about to be an alteration.
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The next butt is huge, so it's gotta be an alteration.
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There's a lot of comedy jumping off right now.
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I'm gonna leave that alone there.
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There's an alteration.
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He said, but.
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In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk.
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This is still an alteration.
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It's not a revelation until he actually does it.
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Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up.
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And as he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened.
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Revelation.
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Now he knows it.
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He sees it.
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He realizes that he has the ability to do this.
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He had an expectation, then there was an alteration and a revelation.
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Here's the thing that's what comedy will do for you.
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That's what life will do.
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That's what learning will do.
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But God does something even more when you allow him to.
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Transformation.
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God offers not just a first three, but more than anyone else could ever possibly offer you, which is transformation.
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Thanks a lot.
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He's now standing on his feet.
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And he's walking.
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He was laying on the ground expecting to be on the ground all day.
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But then there was an alteration.
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Then a revelation, and now transformation.
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Because he decided to stand up and walk.
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Only Jesus can offer this transformation that we're talking about.
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That's it.
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So the question becomes because everyone here, everyone watching, you came here today with some expectations.
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Now I'm giving you a message which means there's an alteration to your expectations.
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And we've laughed and had a great time, which means you've had a revelation.
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The question is now who wants transformation?
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So when I talk about transformation, what I mean is a relationship with Jesus Christ, because that's the only way you're going to get this transformation we're talking about.
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So to explain what a relationship with Jesus Christ is like, I'm gonna tell you the story.
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Now this came about when I was up at in the morning and I was writing a joke.
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I was literally up at like five o'clock in the morning writing a joke.
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I always get up early because I got five kids.
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You got it.
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Anyway.
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So I'm writing this joke about the good room.
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You guys know what the good room is.
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The good room is that room in your grandmother's house, your aunt's house.
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It can't nobody go in.
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That room is all clean and buttered up, the plastic you sit on, you're gonna get stuck.
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Can't nobody go in there.
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It's the good room.
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So I'm writing a joke about the good room, and in the middle of writing this joke, God stops me and says, I want you to tell this story to my people.
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So that's what I'm gonna do.
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And I'm talking to everybody, every campus, North Runs Hills, Frisco, Grand Perry, obviously.
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Every single campus.
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Listen to me.
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Imagine that you're a house.
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And outside of the house is Jesus Christ.
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And he wants to come in.
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But he'll never force his way in.
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He wants you to invite him in.
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And the reason some people won't invite Jesus into the house is because you're cool with the way things are right now.
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If you need something, you just walk over to the door, crack it open, say what you need, close the door, and go back in.
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But that's not a relationship at all.
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There's no room for transformation at all.
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And the reason you won't invite Jesus into the house, there's a lot of people too.
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Listen to me, watch me right now.
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The reason you won't invite Jesus into the house is because your house is a mess.
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You think you need to clean it up first.
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How's that working out?
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You've probably invited other people into the house.
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You've invited other things into the house, pornography, drugs, or you've bought a lot of stuff in hopes that it could distract you from the mess.
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When you invite other people into the house, sometimes we're hoping that that person can help us clean it up.
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But they can't.
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The only person who can clean it is standing outside the door wearing an apron with a bucket in his hand, waiting on you to open the door.
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And then there's other people listening right now, watching right now.
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Where you used to have Jesus in the entire house.
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But for some reason or another, you've tried to evict him.
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You've moved him to one room in the house.
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The good room.
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Have you ever noticed how the good room is normally the room right up front with the big window?
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So when people walk by, they look into the house and they're like, wow, that house is clean.
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But the rest of the house is a mess.
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Wow, that person really has Jesus in their life.
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They go to church almost every Sunday.
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They got a Bible in their car.
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But Jesus doesn't have you.
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He just got that one road.
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But what you really need is transformation.
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And the way to get that transformation is to open up the door and let them in.
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This is what we're gonna do.
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I want everyone at every single campus and overflow everywhere.
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I want you to listen to my voice.
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I want you to close your eyes and bow your head.
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If you know that I'm talking to you, and you've been trying to tuck Jesus away into one room, or maybe you've never had him in the house before ever.
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I'm gonna want you on the count of three to raise your hand in the air.
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I don't even want you to think about it.
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You already know.
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I don't want you to listen to any other voices right now that's telling you not to do this because the chances are there are some telling you not to, but I'm telling you to do it.
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On the count of three, everyone, every campus that needs to receive Jesus and invite him into your house, on the count of three, I want you to lift your hand in the air.
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One, two, three.
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Nice and high, nice and high, nice and high.
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Praise God.
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There's a lot of hands.
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Nice and high, so I can see them.
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Nice and high, nice and high.
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Frisco.
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Nice and high.
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North Fort Worth, nice and high.
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Lift your hands up.
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Grand Prairie, lift your hands up.
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North Richard Hills, lift your hands up.
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Okay, put your hands down.
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There's something else I'm gonna ask you to do, and this is very, very, very, very important.
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You've just decided to reach for the doorknob.
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Now we're gonna twist the doorknob.
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Push it open.
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Jesus says this.
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He says, if you will take a stand for me before man, I will stand for you before my father in heaven.
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How do you take a stand for Jesus before man?
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I'm going to give you the opportunity right now.
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So everyone who raised their hand or wish they would have raised their hand or know that they should have raised their hand.
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On account of three, I'm going to want you to stand to your feet and I want you to walk to the stage.
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I'm proud of you.
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I want to shake your hand.
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We're going to pray.
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Now listen, this is important.
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It's very important that you do this because if you can't do it in here where we're proud of you, you won't be able to do it out there.
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And I know there's some people in some uncomfortable situations, but you need to stand up.
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You need to walk to the stage.
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I know there's people in overflow.
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I know there's people, I know some of the seats are tight.
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That's okay because when you get here, sometimes you have to go through a little bit in order to get to where you need to be.
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And we're going to be right here.
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We're going to wait.
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And everyone else is going to clap as hard as they can possibly clap, but it will not compare to the applause that the angels in heaven will be doing when you stand to your feet and walk to the stage.
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So again, everyone who raised their hand or should have raised their hand or wish they would have raised their hand at every single campus on the count of three, stand to your feet, walk to the stage, and everyone else will applaud.
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One, two, three.
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Let's go.
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Don't even think about it.
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Praise God, praise God, praise God.
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Come on down, praise God, praise God, praise God, bro.
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Stay here, stay here, stay here.
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Come on down, come on down, come on down, come on down, praise God, praise God, praise God, come on down, Northword, let's go, Northworthy, come on down, praise God, praise God, here we come, here we come, here we come, praise God, praise God, praise God, yeah, yeah, stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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It's your transformation.
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Stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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Thank you for walking.
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Stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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Praise God.
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We're gonna wait, we're gonna wait.
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Praise God, yeah.
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Stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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Stand up and walk.
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In the name of Jesus.
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Stand up and walk.
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This is awesome.
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Keep clapping, keep clapping, y'all ain't doing numbers down in there.
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They still coming, don't be clapping.
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This is awesome.
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Listen, if you're in the overflow, there's somebody there who's gonna lead you here.
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I don't want to do it.
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This is so awesome.
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Thank you for here.
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Let's go! Let's make that down there.
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You want to buy my gun here?
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I don't know why you're gonna get it.
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Well thought it's gonna be gone here earlier, too.
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I ain't gonna be crying this tough, mate.
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Okay.
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Um okay, um So listen, uh I'm not crying some dust or something.
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So here's the thing.
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We're laughing in the midst of a life-changing decision that you guys have made.
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God is different than you think.
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People say you shouldn't laugh in church.
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What good father doesn't want to hear his kids laugh in his house?
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Okay, I'm gonna go on the back and cry.
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I'm not gonna cry now.
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Alright, so listen, we're gonna pray.
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And after we pray, you're not gonna grow some wings and be an angel all of a sudden.
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It's not gonna happen.
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There's some people right here, right now, you're going to stop having sex with that person you're having sex with.
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You will lose the taste for that.
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And just trust God.
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Just you know who you are.
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I'm not gonna make eye contact because I don't know who you is, but I'm just saying.
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So we're gonna pray, and then what's gonna happen?
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My man, Pastor David, is gonna come up.
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He's not gonna take you to a Yankees game, but he ain't gonna take, he's gonna have you guys go to this room, and it's not gonna be creepy, but it's very important that you go because now you're going to get equipped.
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Okay, I'm gonna pray.
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You guys repeat after me, and then please go to the room.
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It's not gonna be creepy because some churches is creepy, they got snakes and stuff, it's weird.
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Um not really here.
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So let's pray.
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Repeat after me.
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Dear God, thank you for sending your son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die for me.
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I believe it and I receive it.
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Come into my house, Lord.
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Come into my heart.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Don't move.
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This is Pastor David.
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He's gonna give y'all some instructions.
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I love you, I love you, I love you.
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Thank you for having me.