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Amen. 
Someone say thank you, Jesus. 

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Amen. 
Appreciate the spirit of the 

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Lord. 
You say, well, I don't have 

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anything to do with that. 
That's just him. 

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No, there's something about 
entertaining him. 

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He just enjoys attention. 
He enjoys attention. 

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Amen. 
We're so glad to be in the 

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house. 
Lord, this one, one service on 

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this Sunday. 
And so we're going to try to 

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make the most of it, right? 
I'm going to try to make the 

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most of it. 
Years ago, we used to do a 

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Sunday school picnic on the 
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And then when we realized the 
people that went, that they were

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also the ones that cooked and 
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cleaned up, it was quite 
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And when they still needed to 
pack and all that, they entered 

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camp tired. 
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that. 
You want to try to be a little 

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refresh because you'll be tired 
when you come home. 

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Amen. 
And so we just stayed with one 

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service prior to camp. 
Just try to be mindful those 

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that do go. 
Amen. 

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We're going to be turning to 
Joshua chapter #9 this morning. 

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Joshua chapter #9 Haven't even 
told my wife this. 

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This is my prison story. 
We were staying at a hotel about

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45 minutes from prison and we 
were wearing prison T-shirts, if

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I could say it like that. 
Shirts that were like, you know,

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Princess Within shirts. 
The one that I wore the first 

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day said Princess within on the 
front, on the back had all the 

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states that we have been to 
almost like a concert type 

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shirt. 
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Air Force Base there where we 
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And so there was a lot of Air 
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were utilizing the hotel. 
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was done before my wife. 
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nonetheless I was going down to 
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because I knew he's going to be 
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And so I hit the button to to go
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elevator open and there were two
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up in uniform and and their 
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I walk in with smack dab on the 
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within. 
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these ladies eyes go from my 
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and I looked at them. 
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Princess. 
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continued to explain what it was
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And so we were all OK. 
So that's my, that's my big 

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prison story. 
Amen. 

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Joshua chapter #9 Joshua chapter
#9 I'm going to start reading 

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with verse #14 if we can today. 
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I've been kind of touch and go 
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March of this year was the first
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And I want to read then in verse
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says and the men took up their 
vittles. 

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I want you to know I always 
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And then I heard I was listening
to it be read to me this morning

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it was vittles. 
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pronounced as vittles. 
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today. 
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counsel at the mouth of the 
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And Joshua made peace with them,
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let them live, and the Princess 
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them. 
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of three days after they had 
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they heard that they were their 
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among them. 
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journeyed and came unto their 
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Now their cities were Gibeon and
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Jiram. 
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them not because the Princess of
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them by the Lord God of Israel. 
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murmured against the Princess, 
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all the congregation, We have 
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of Israel. 
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them. 
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middle of the story that I'll 
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we get into this today. 
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message is not as intimidating 
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I want to minister this this 
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Learning to live with our 
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Learning to live with our 
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Amen. 
Let's go to the Lord in prayer 

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right now. 
Father, I come to you, Lord, we 

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need you, Lord of this house 
today. 

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We're appreciative, Lord, of 
your Spirit that we have already

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felt this far. 
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continue Lord, through the 
ministry of your word, You're 

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able, Lord Jesus, to help us to 
open our hearts and our minds 

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through what the Spirit may say 
today, God, and we will give you

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the praise for what you 
accomplished through your word 

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in the lovely name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ that I prayed this 

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morning in Jesus name, Amen. 
God bless you today and you may 

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be seated in Jesus name. 
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mentioning the word mistakes. 
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emotions can go through a gamut 
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mistakes, nobody wants to make 
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Nobody wants to make them, but 
the fact of the matter is we all

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have made mistakes. 
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is the guilt, the shame that 
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the domino effect of 
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a mistake. 
The feelings that come with a 

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mistake sometime can be very, 
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times prevent us from moving 
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life because we made a mistake 
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Mistakes create a a nagging echo
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once, I'll fail again. 
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chest as we entertain the 
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mistake. 
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life, perhaps where we failed 
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pain of failing there. 
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space, avoid, avoid where we 
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it may be, or the people that we
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because that's where we failed. 
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associated that and things can 
trigger in our minds and trigger

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in our spirits that could cause 
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is now maybe years removed from 
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our mind. 
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judgement and there's the 
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think that we've cleared the 
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something comes up. 
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criticizing us. 
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someone says that that we've 
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something and that's so far in 
the past, but it's still so real

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to us today. 
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mistake, we feel stigmatized by 
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There's a mark on us, there's 
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whole difficulty of overcoming 
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damaged. 
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credibility, it all seems very 
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mistake. 
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the aftermath of a mistake. 
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find pathways of recovery after 
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when when you lack a supportive 

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network, perhaps of friends or 
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order to do that. 
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he knew the difficulty of making
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was like to live with that 
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The Bible tells us here in 
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had come unto Joshua and the 
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Israel is slowly moving into the
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They've already overcome Jericho
and AI and they are making their

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way through the land. 
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They are, they are pulling down 
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Pagan gods and, and they are 
going through the land and they 

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are apprehending and they are 
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And, and so the Gibeon Knights 
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land of Canaan and, and they 
want to rather become friends 

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with, if you will, we could say 
it like that with Joshua rather 

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than an enemy. 
They don't want to be on the tip

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of Joshua's sword, so to speak. 
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of deception and they come 
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They come with, with clothes 
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tattered and they come with old 
sacks that are upon their, their

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beast of burden. 
Their, the wine skin are cracked

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and broken that that they have 
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They, they got bread on their 
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But it's moaty, it's hard. 
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And they've traveled and want to
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they've traveled from a far away
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And so they come and visit 
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Gilgal. 
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branch of, of requesting a peace
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a distant land. 
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the fame of their God and 
they've heard about the exploits

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that they have done. 
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some of the people that are 
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little suspicious of these 
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suspicious. 
But the Gibeonites have 

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everything in order, right? 
They, they, they, they thought 

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this through. 
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presentation just right when 
they asked about them and about 

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their real intent. 
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You know, it's like look at our 
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When when we started this 
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and this was all put together. 
But this has been such a long 

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trip that over the whole of it, 
all our clothes have become 

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tattered and worn Outlook. 
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We took this bread straight out 
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left. 
This was hot bread, but now it's

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cold and hard as a stone and 
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So you know, all this is going 
on and take see these wine 

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skins. 
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They were new wine skins, but 
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traveled over, it's cracked 
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And, and so they, they put all 
these provisions before them as 

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though they had been on a long 
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And then the mistake was made. 
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Joshua, he made a treaty with 
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The Bible says without seeking 
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makes a treaty with them. 
And it would just be 3 short 

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days later in about 25 miles 
that the Israelites would travel

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and learn that these Gibeonites 
are actually their neighbors and

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living within the land of pain. 
And they soon realize these 

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Gibeonites are people that they 
really should have taken out, 

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that they really should have 
dismissed from the land of 

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Canaan. 
But now they've made a treaty 

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with them. 
And upon discovering this 

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deception, there's a lot of 
emotions that are reeling in the

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minds of Israel and the Princess
of Israel and the leaders of 

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Israel. 
There are people that are 

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murmuring back and forth. 
There's some animosity that's 

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among the people because the 
people are disbelieving that 

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something like this could happen
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I mean, we conquered, we 
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came out of Egypt and we we 
conquered, you know, some of the

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other kings on the other side of
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We've been very successful. 
How in the world could this 

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happen to us? 
And yet it did someone say, man,

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I want to pause just here before
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and under score why Israel was 
targeted with this. 

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They're targeted with this 
mistake, if you will, because in

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Joshua too, we understand that 
the people that were in the land

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of Canaan, they were overtaken 
with fear upon hearing the 

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success of the Israelites. 
They're overtaken with fear, 

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understanding they had slain the
kings of Sihan and all the 

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Amorite kings. 
They were taken with fear when 

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they understood that God had 
provided a miraculous way for 

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this, this great nation to 
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And and that fear continues in 
Joshua 5, when they yet come 

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over another body of water, the 
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the land of Canaan, a time when 
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banks. 
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Joshua 9, there's already been 
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them marching daily around the 
walls of Jericho and a simple 

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shout bringing very, very thick 
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They've had two attempts against
AI, and they came forth from 

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that Amen victorious. 
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smouldering pile of ruins. 
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This is why the children of 
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particular, is targeted, Amen, 
with the Gibeonites coming to 

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them by deception. 
You can read in your Bibles that

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there's two different responses 
from the inhabitants of Canaan 

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and the kings of Canaan, and 
they are the same responses we 

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even get today. 
Our enemy likes to respond to 

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our successes and victories two 
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Either he's going to face you 
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going to try to deceive you head
on or deception. 

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They'll have to strike a treaty 
with them, is what the 

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Gibeonites was thinking. 
We got to strike a treaty with 

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them without them realizing we 
are the enemy, without them 

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realizing that we are the 
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And so then the greatest vice 
for the children of Israel and 

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for Joshua is that they were 
going to have to live now with 

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their mistake. 
Someone say Amen. 

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Joshua 9 and verse 24. 
The Bible states these words, 

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and they answered Joshua and 
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Knights replied, Because it was 
certainly told thy servants how 

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that the Lord thy God commanded 
his servant Moses to give you 

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all the land and to destroy all 
the inhabitants of the land from

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before you. 
Therefore we were so afraid of 

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our lives because of you, and 
I've done this thing. 

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What are you saying for them? 
They heard about what God had 

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planned for the nation. 
They heard about what God had 

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planned for the soldiers. 
They heard about their destiny. 

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And they were sore, afraid and 
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Someone came in, please listen 
to me today. 

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The if you feel like you are 
being targeted by the 

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opposition, if you feel like you
are being targeted by the 

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opposition, it could be somehow 
you say, well, he the devil 

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can't read minds and all this 
stuff. 

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I get that. 
But he is very observant and he 

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sees the direction that your 
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What are you saying? 
Today? 

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They had opposition because 
someone heard about their 

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destiny. 
They heard about where they were

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going. 
They heard about where they were

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headed. 
Can I tell somebody today? 

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Satan will always put the 
crosshairs on somebody when 

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their destiny is divinely 
ordered. 

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He'll always put crosshairs on 
somebody that has steps in a 

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direction that's going in a 
favorable way. 

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And if he can observe that and 
somehow just see a little of the

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potential that's there, he'll 
put the crosshairs on your life 

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because there's only two ways he
can react is fight you face to 

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face or deceive you. 
Someone say Amen. 

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When they learned of this, when 
they learned of this, he was 

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threatened. 
Their opposition was threatened.

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What might that nation do if 
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Some of y'all feel inadequate. 
Some of y'all feel like parsley 

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on the plate. 
Plate, so to speak. 

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But your adversary has picked up
on some of Europe's potential 

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and he's a little bit shaken in 
his boots right now because he's

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thinking if Erica Goldsmith ever
reaches her God-given destiny, 

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if RE Singer ever tramples all 
the ground that God has for him,

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you know what he's saying. 
I can't even chance the 

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possibility. 
So I got to do something about 

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it right now. 
Honey, you're not even there 

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yet. 
But Satan is already fearful and

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threatened about your 
trajectory, about where your 

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feet are put. 
Well yes, I'm I'm convinced 

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today that we've succumbed to 
mistakes sometimes that hell 

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hopes we will have to live with.
I'm convinced that our adversary

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desires that there will be some 
nagging moment that will 

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materialize into a mentality 
that we won't be over be able to

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overcome soon. 
Look at the word due to Israel's

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oath that they made with the 
Gibeonites, which was under the 

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umbrella of deception. 
I thought it was a far country, 

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didn't know it was the ones that
was the opposition. 

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Here they are. 
They're allowed now. 

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They made this treaty. 
By their treaty, the Gibeonites 

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then are allowed to live. 
It's because they are allowed to

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live that that raises the ante. 
Now. 

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It's not as though they're there
and now they're just going to be

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annihilated and killed. 
An oath. 

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There's been an oath made, and 
so they're going to be allowed 

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to live. 
And because they were Ian 

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Canaan, Israel would have to 
learn to live with what? 

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No doubt Joshua looks back on 
and says that was a mistake. 

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But now they're going to have to
learn to live with their 

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mistake. 
The Gibeonites should have been 

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destroyed. 
Imagine if you will living with 

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something that should have never
existed during your years of 

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living in your promise. 
This is what God said this, this

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Canaan land is your promise. 
But now you're telling me I got 

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to live with a mistake in my 
promise. 

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Listen to me. 
Some of you are still yet 

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battling today. 
You've been blood bought, you've

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been baptized as his name, 
you've repented you received the

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Holy Ghost. 
But some of y'all still living 

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with your mistakes. 
You're living in your promise 

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and you're still living with the
nagging memory of what once was 

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or what you once did. 
It's there intimidating. 

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It's there like a, like a. 
Somebody in a jury that's 

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constantly accusing, you've made
it and yet the voice of your 

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mistake will raise it's voice 
and contest this. 

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Look, look here. 
I can imagine this is where I 

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wanted to get to. 
It's a land of hills and 

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valleys. 
It's a land that flows with milk

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and honey. 
But it's also Israel now where 

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you must manage to live with 
your mistakes. 

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Someone say Amen here. 
Rest a constant reminder now, 

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Israel, every time you see the 
Gibeonite, the constant 

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reminder, We made a mistake, we 
messed up. 

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It's a living mistake, if you 
will. 

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It has a voice, it has a 
noticeable presence. 

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It's not going anywhere. 
All those previous suspicions 

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that they had when they first 
questioned the, the the the 

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Gibeonites, I'm sure they wish 
they investigated a little bit 

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more when they said pre 
adventure, ye dwell among us. 

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I'm sure that's coming back to 
haunt them right now. 

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That was the question. 
Yeah, I know you come like that,

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but you might be living right 
among us. 

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But they didn't seek the counsel
of God. 

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They went on and made, made, 
made the covenant, made the 

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deal, made the peace treaty. 
And now they got to live with 

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their mistake. 
Do you understand this? 

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This is nearly unavoidable. 
They both live in the same land.

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The Israelites have to travel 
along the terrain of their 

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lands. 
And they can't do it without 

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seeing their mistake. 
They can't do it without 

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noticing the gibbonites. 
They're there. 

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They might go to the same well 
of water. 

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They might go. 
They might pasture. 

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Amen. 
Some of their sheep next to 

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their sheep. 
They're going to see them. 

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They're neighbors. 
The Bible says they do well 

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among them. 
They are there when they go to 

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bed and they are there when they
get up. 

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They're half to learn how to 
live with their mistakes. 

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It seems to be inescapable. 
Amen, that the reality of their 

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mistake is always going to be 
there. 

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Someone say Amen. 
Do you understand that whenever 

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they're going to the feast, 
somewhere in the background is a

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gibeonite that's lurking in the 
background. 

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Their mistake? 
Every great celebration now they

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have in Israel, that's great. 
It's a time to celebrate, but 

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it's always flattened. 
Any chance of feeling good is 

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flattened. 
Anything that's currently we're 

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celebrating in life is flattened
because they're living with 

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their mistake. 
When even Israel would feel some

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type of resolve towards some 
type of accomplishment, their 

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passes by a gibeonite evoking 
all of that guilt and that shame

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of a past event. 
They're trying to learn to live 

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with their mistake. 
Am I doing OK? 

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I believe sometimes some of us 
would be further along on our 

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journeys if it weren't for the 
mistakes that we must live with.

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And it's not the fact. 
Please listen to me. 

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Well, it's not that we haven't 
repented over them, God 

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forgiveness from them. 
But there's always that dangling

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memory that maybe God doesn't 
bring up, Maybe no one else 

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brings up, but it comes up. 
Past mistakes, sometimes in 

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service, hinder my worship. 
Past mistakes sometimes 

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challenge my growth. 
Past mistakes sometimes 

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intimidate my attempts to do 
other things for God. 

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Sometimes my mistakes make me 
question God's acceptance of me.

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Listen to me here. 
I hope everybody's doing all 

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right. 
I don't know if we will ever 

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outlive our mistakes, but we 
can't adapt to living with them.

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Someone said I don't know where 
you're at, Brother McGee. 

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Well, you will before I'm done. 
The Gibeonites are there in 

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Israel, and Israel cannot touch 
them. 

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Their past mistake is there, but
they cannot touch them. 

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And what has happened has 
happened, and you can do nothing

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about that again now. 
It's a part of life's framework.

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So whereas you cannot do 
anything additional about what 

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has happened according to the 
Word, they could do something 

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with it, He said. 
You can't touch them, but you 

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can do something with them. 
Look at Joshua 9 and verse 19. 

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It's humid up here this morning.
The Bible says, but all the 

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Princess said into the 
congregation, We have sworn into

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them by the Lord God of Israel. 
Now, therefore here it is. 

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We may not touch them. 
Verse 20. 

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This we will do to them can't 
touch them, but this we will do 

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to them. 
We will even let them live. 

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Let's wrath be upon us because 
of the oath which we swear unto 

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them because of the mistake. 
And the Princess said unto them,

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Let them live, but let them be. 
Note here hewers of wood and 

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drawers of water, and to all the
congregation as the Princess has

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promised them. 
If you go and look at verse 23, 

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Joshua even says he says they 
will not be freed from being 

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bond men, hearers of wood, 
drawers of water. 

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He states not just for the 
congregation but for the House 

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of my God. 
The reality of the situation 

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this morning is this. 
Our past mistakes are not going 

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anywhere. 
Our past mistakes, they happen. 

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It's they are there. 
Yes, again, we can repent 

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forgiveness, but they are there.
They are ingrained in the 

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history of our lives. 
They have become a part of the 

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warp and the roof of what you 
are as an individual. 

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They continue to live, but not 
as masters. 

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They continue to live, but not 
as masters, he says. 

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They will not be freed from 
being bond men. 

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That which did master you now 
becomes the slave. 

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They were masters for a moment, 
but they're meant to be then a 

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slave for the rest of your life.
I'm not done yet because Joshua 

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goes a little further in verse 
27 and he restates this thing 

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again about hewers of wood and 
drawers of water. 

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And he gets even more detailed. 
He said for the congregation, 

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then he said for the House of 
God. 

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And then he gets more specific. 
He says for the altar of the 

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Lord. 
Someone say Amen. 

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Leviticus said that the fire on 
his altar shall never go out. 

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Part of the reason of the fire 
on the altar is the wood that's 

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on the altar. 
The fire never will go out. 

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Sacrifices can be placed upon 
the altar, offerings placed 

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there because there was a fire 
and because there is fire, that 

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fire is linked to the wood, he 
says. 

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I want you to take your mistake 
and connect it to the altar. 

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They're going to be hewers of 
wood. 

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The thing that worked against 
you, now it's going to be 

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employed to work for you. 
The thing that looked like it 

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was your demise, I'm going to 
take now and utilize it for your

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success. 
What are you saying? 

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I'm saying everyday fires going 
up. 

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You know what's happening. 
The mistake is over there 

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chopping wood. 
The mistake over there is 

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splitting wood. 
The mistake over there is 

454
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,400
dividing up and it comes to 
those. 

455
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,360
They're employed at the altar 
and said, here's wood for the 

456
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:24,000
fire today. 
Here's wood for the sacrifice 

457
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,760
today. 
Here's wood for he. 

458
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,200
God said I can take your mistake
and you'll learn to live with it

459
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:34,480
by using it and keeping it 
connected to the altar and allow

460
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,840
someone say, man, if I'm going 
to have to live with it, it's 

461
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,400
going to be the slave. 
If I'm going to have to live 

462
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,280
with it, he'll be the bondsman. 
If I'm going to have to live 

463
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,400
with that, he'll be the stepping
stone to my success. 

464
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:14,520
Yes, someone say man. 
So who's responsible in a sense 

465
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,640
for keeping the fire on the 
altar? 

466
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:25,920
Your mistake. 
They must supply the wood. 

467
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,840
That wood would be used for 
burning offerings. 

468
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,240
Burnt offerings. 5 different 
offerings in scripture. 

469
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,480
Sin offerings, trespass 
offerings. 

470
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:44,000
Is it not ironic that the sin 
that tripped you up, the mistake

471
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,040
would have to furnish the wood 
for the fire, for somebody 

472
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,680
else's sacrifice, for atonement 
for their sin? 

473
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,480
That's how you live with your 
mistake. 

474
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,280
You employ it. 
You keep it associated and 

475
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:07,240
attached to the altar that that 
they're going to be hearers of 

476
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,920
wood, but they're going to be 
drawlers of water. 

477
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,480
Again, water concerning the 
altar was used to cleanse 

478
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,840
sacrificial animals. 
You read it off times that the 

479
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,720
liver or the intros of the 
animal off times was taken out 

480
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,720
and washed several times in 
scripture, different pieces of 

481
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,360
animals that were sacrificed had
to be washed in some episodes. 

482
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,080
There are things called drink 
offerings in scripture. 

483
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,520
They weren't always just just 
wine or things of that nature, 

484
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,160
but it was water even mixed with
wine, and sometimes it was water

485
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,840
by itself for that drink 
offering. 

486
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,480
And so again, the attachment to 
the altar of being a drawer of 

487
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,640
water is that you got to bring 
water, aiming for the purpose of

488
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,680
the purification and the 
sanctification of what's going 

489
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,400
to be offered on that. 
Your mistake. 

490
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,240
Your mistake is now involved in 
the purification process. 

491
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,040
Your mistake is now involved in 
the sanctification. 

492
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,760
Someone say, man, you know what 
that means? 

493
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,640
It's like Gibeonites, we live 
together. 

494
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,720
Gibeonites. 
My mistakes 10 is not too far 

495
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,720
from mine. 
And I know every day that I see 

496
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,240
it reminds me about who I was 
and what I once was. 

497
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,160
But you're employed to the 
altar. 

498
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,560
Your obligation is to the altar.
You supply wood, you stoke the 

499
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,360
fire for sacrifice. 
You atone for others mistakes 

500
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,200
through your wood. 
They also provide that water. 

501
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,960
It's for purity. 
It's for sanctification of the 

502
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,560
offerings there. 
Because here's what Joshua knew 

503
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,640
and here's what would go on 
knowing if I must live with my 

504
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,000
mistake, I'm going to be keep it
connected to the altar. 

505
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,760
And can I say we can only 
successfully Amen, live with our

506
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,080
mistakes by making them serve 
and work for you and your 

507
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:13,720
relationship to God. 
Supposed to be cooler next week.

508
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:19,840
I don't know. 
Sister McGee alluded to this 

509
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,800
individual Gideon, in Scripture.
He understood exactly what I am 

510
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,080
speaking to you about today. 
He understood this tactic of 

511
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,840
living with his mistake. 
He lived during the era of 

512
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,640
repetitive mistakes in Israel. 
It's the book of Judges, right? 

513
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:47,760
The cyclical cycle, sin, things 
get real bad, oppression. 

514
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,440
God sends a deliverer delivering
to everybody's like, yay, and 

515
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,720
then back to sin. 
And we got this vicious cycle 

516
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,440
that goes over and over. 
Gideon lived during those days. 

517
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,280
He knew what it was like for 
this to happen. 

518
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,240
It was a time so compromised 
that even whenever the Angel, 

519
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,760
the Lord, come to see Gideon and
speak with Gideon, it was a time

520
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,920
so compromised that Gideon even 
couldn't discern that he was 

521
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,360
having an angelic visitation, 
though he was being visited by 

522
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,200
an Angel. 
We're talking about some hard 

523
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,760
times and it seemed he lived 
with his mistakes and only that,

524
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,120
even seemed that he lived even 
maybe with some mistakes of 

525
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,440
those of his predecessors, those
that went on before him. 

526
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,880
So his mistakes and his father's
mistakes, how heavy can it get? 

527
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,720
Wait for a moment. 
Just listen. 

528
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,360
I know who sits among me. 
Some of y'all not dealing just 

529
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,960
with your mistakes. 
You think you're dealing with 

530
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,400
the mistakes of your mom and 
your dad. 

531
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,480
I got to live with it. 
You're kind of like Israel was 

532
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,760
at that moment. 
Why did this happen to me? 

533
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:54,960
But you got to learn how to 
live. 

534
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,640
Gideon. 
He's dealing with his own 

535
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,240
mistakes. 
He's dealing with the mistakes 

536
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,000
of his forefathers. 
The Bible says that Gideon 

537
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,240
encounters God through this 
angelic visitation, and the 

538
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,199
Angel of the Lord gives very 
specific instructions. 

539
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,080
His father had built an altar 
unto Bail. 

540
00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:17,920
His father had built this. 
This Grove, which was a Poe was 

541
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,719
called Asherah Poe. 
Asherah was a false God had 

542
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,080
built that and to Asherah. 
And so whenever God had a 

543
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,520
conversation with Gideon, he 
says, Gideon, here's what I need

544
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,040
you to do. 
I need you to tear down your 

545
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,760
Father's altar, and I need you 
to build an altar to me in that 

546
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,960
place. 
I need you to tear down that 

547
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Asherapo. 
And here's what he said in 

548
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,840
Judges 6 and verse 26. 
The Bible states these words. 

549
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,159
And build. 
This is the word of the Lord and

550
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,920
the Gideon. 
And build an altar unto the Lord

551
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,880
thy God upon the top of this 
rock, and in the ordered place, 

552
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:58,160
and take the second Bullock, and
offer a burnt sacrifice with the

553
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,920
wood of the Grove which thou cut
down. 

554
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,960
Listen, an altar to a false God,
that's a mistake. 

555
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,560
A asherah PO, a Grove built to a
false God, that's a mistake. 

556
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,280
But hear what God is telling 
him. 

557
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:23,400
Cut down the PO. 
Cut down the mistake. 

558
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:31,400
But then use the word from the 
PO and cause it to be the fire 

559
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,040
at my altar. 
Come on, what are you? 

560
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,120
What are you saying God? 
Here's what I'm telling you 

561
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,360
Gideon, take the mistakes of 
your daddy. 

562
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,760
Take your own mistakes and allow
them to be the fuel for your now

563
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,320
present day commitment. 
Because now you're saying, God, 

564
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,480
if you want me to go on paddle, 
I'll go on the paddle. 

565
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:54,120
If you not do you don't want me 
to fresh wheat by the wine 

566
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,760
press, I'll come out and work 
for you. 

567
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,560
He says allow your own mistakes 
to become the fuel for your 

568
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,040
present day commitment. 
I'm telling somebody that's how 

569
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,040
you, you live with your 
mistakes. 

570
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:15,640
You caused them to work for you.
You can go to the verse I read 

571
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,600
in Judges above there he and he 
even said in the scripture I 

572
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,720
just read, he said take that 
second Bullock. 

573
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,600
If you read in scripture that 
Bullock was a 7 year old 

574
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:32,240
Bullock, he said take that 7 
year old Bullock and offer it 

575
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:38,480
appears a sacrifice into God. 
Do you know how many years that 

576
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,040
Israel during this time was 
under the Midianite oppression? 

577
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:48,200
7 years. 
What that means is all the years

578
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:53,800
they were being oppressed, there
was a Bullock that was growing 

579
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,480
all those days. 
Gideon's threshing wheat in the 

580
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,600
wine press. 
There's a Bullock over here in 

581
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,200
the stall that's gaining age, 
gaining weight. 

582
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,400
It's not coincidence that God 
said take the seven-year 

583
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,520
Bullock. 
I think God was illustrating to 

584
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:23,720
Gideon, don't come out what you 
went through empty handed. 

585
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:31,320
Come on, yes, don't come out of 
those years of what you suffered

586
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,880
and the load that you carried 
empty handed, but take that 

587
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,720
which was growing over. 
The recess is over here and you 

588
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:45,320
bring that as a sacrifice, that 
7 year old bullet, you bring 

589
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,440
that as a sacrifice and lay it 
on the altar until you're gone. 

590
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,680
Can I tell you folks, you don't 
need to go through any trial, 

591
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,840
any trouble without coming out 
with something in your hand. 

592
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,120
That's one of the reasons why 
whatever God told Israel, 

593
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,280
whenever you leave Egypt, you 
tell them, hey, we're leaving. 

594
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,280
And the Bible says they spoiled 
Egypt. 

595
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,240
They went out with gold, they 
went out with substance. 

596
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,400
Why they weren't going to have 
spent 400 years in bondage and 

597
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:19,960
not come out with something. 
I'm telling somebody today, Your

598
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,240
mistake's not your demise. 
Your mistake is not your 

599
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,200
undoing. 
Your mistake is the fuel for 

600
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,440
your present day commitment. 
Somebody needs to worship the 

601
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,720
Lord. 
That's how we live with our 

602
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:48,810
mistake. 
You'll make me work today. 

603
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,520
Gideon made it work for him. 
Joshua made it work for them. 

604
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,760
You going to stay with me today?
I'll be conscious. 

605
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:27,280
Here we all stumble and fall. 
Our mistakes, no matter how 

606
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:33,800
paralyzing they seem, again do 
not have to define us. 

607
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,720
And I understand. 
Listen, I'm not an ostrich with 

608
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,080
my head in the sand. 
I understand. 

609
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:46,000
As humanity, we put our mistakes
on a graduated scale. 

610
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,560
Bad. 
Not so bad. 

611
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,520
Worse. 
Really bad. 

612
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:04,400
Impossibly bad, Right? 
I see, I don't see, I don't see 

613
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:13,680
these levels in Scripture. 
I don't see these levels 

614
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,360
somebody needs to take. 
They're lying and say go chop 

615
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:26,080
wood. 
Someone needs to tell their 

616
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:34,320
addiction to go draw some water.
Someone needs to take their 

617
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,840
sexual abuse from their mother 
and father and say go get 

618
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,320
something and connect it to the 
altar. 

619
00:40:49,650 --> 00:40:52,600
And it's so fresh in my mind 
just spending last week and 

620
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,280
where we were, I was there with 
people that spoke, that were 

621
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:06,920
arsonists, that were drug 
dealers, that we've had people 

622
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,440
in there before, females that 
were overtaken with pornography,

623
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,040
armed robbers. 
One lady was left for dead with 

624
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,880
so many stab wounds. 
And she always puts her mug shot

625
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,480
right on the front of the 
podium. 

626
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,320
She will feel the power of the 
Holy Ghost. 

627
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,320
Now. 
The ironic thing about her is 

628
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,920
her and her husband own this 
business of opening up some of 

629
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,560
the most delicate safes across 
the world. 

630
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,160
She used to be a robber. 
They speak, they give their 

631
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:39,560
testimonies. 
We go through the Little Aces 

632
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,800
test about adverse childhood 
experiences. 

633
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,280
You go through them, There's 
like 10 of them. 

634
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,080
Usually everybody at least has 
one. 

635
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,040
But according to where you are 
on that, it sets up the stage 

636
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,440
for other things that you may 
face in life. 

637
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:57,320
The possibility is greater. 
So the person that just spoke 

638
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,960
before me had 10. 
That's as many as you could get.

639
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,040
I didn't have any. 
But you know what? 

640
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:11,880
The same blood it took, The same
blood it took for me with 0. 

641
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,040
It was sufficient for the one 
with 10. 

642
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:21,360
So, Christy, just tell that past
mistake. 

643
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,280
Go go chop on it. 
Go draw water. 

644
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,600
Why, Brother McGee? 
Because that's how you learn to 

645
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,960
live with it. 
You make it the servant and 

646
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,920
you're the master. 
Now see the moment in time, you 

647
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:37,880
were the servant and it was the 
master. 

648
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,680
But now there's been a flip. 
It's the servant and you're the 

649
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,640
master, and it's got to stay 
connected to the altar. 

650
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:56,000
We bow our heads across this 
place today, learning to live. 

651
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,800
I mean, I know this isn't the, 
you know, this isn't like any of

652
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,920
the programs out there. 
And bring a little black thing 

653
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,280
in front of your eyes. 
They look into that light and 

654
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,400
hit it like you forgot about it.
It's all over. 

655
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,080
Forgiveness happens, but 
forgetting it's there, God 

656
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,480
chooses not to remember it. 
Boy, we are brutal against 

657
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,720
ourselves. 
We might even ask yourself 

658
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:23,840
sometimes, how in the world am 
I? 

659
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,200
How am I supposed to go forward?
How am I supposed to live with 

660
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,560
this being part of the fabric of
my past? 

661
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,480
Make whatever it was work for 
you now. 

662
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:43,000
Make whatever it was work for 
you now I got a sweet sister 

663
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,320
named Stephanie Hughes. 
I I tell her she's my fifth 

664
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,440
sister. 
I don't think she's a old as you

665
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:49,280
Polish. 
She might be. 

666
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:55,520
I don't know, son. 
She committed arson. 

667
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,640
She was in jail with a sentence,
a felony. 

668
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,760
She said God spoke to her that 
she was going to do like thing 

669
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:11,480
is that her 2352 plan C Destiny 
510 plan she was going to become

670
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:17,720
a nurse, going to become a nurse
practitioner going to then her 

671
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:20,200
10 year spot was to have a 
facility where she administered 

672
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,720
people with emotional recovery 
center. 

673
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,240
Felons don't get the opportunity
to disperse prescriptions. 

674
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,800
She was an addict and then had 
the felony. 

675
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:42,600
Long story short, Dodd, she got 
not only a pardon from heaven, 

676
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,800
she got a pardon from the 
governor of her state. 

677
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,320
And she serves right now as a 
mental, I don't know her direct 

678
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,000
thing, but a mental health, 
mental brain, neuro 

679
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,240
practitioner. 
She's worked in a hospital where

680
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they come in and they're 
everywhere. 

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And she prescribes medicine and 
she used to take all of this 

682
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garbage, heroin, you name it. 
What's going on? 

683
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She's using a mistake. 
She says it's going to work for 

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me now. 
The prison that she was in was 

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Peewee Valley in Kentucky. 
We did a prison conference in 

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Peewee Valley. 
Ever since then, you know who 

687
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,360
goes in there consistently and 
hold services? 

688
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,120
Stephanie Hughes. 
That's where she was 

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incarcerated. 
Why would why would this? 

690
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,880
I don't know. 
Deception happened. 

691
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,680
The thing now is you got to 
learn to live with it, so you 

692
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might as well make it work for 
you. 

693
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,240
Drug addiction. 
Go cut wood. 

694
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,560
We're going to the prison today 
to minister the word of God and 

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share with somebody that's 
hungry. 

696
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Felony. 

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Go drunk. 
Greet someone in the facility 

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today. 
These altars are open this 

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morning. 
There doesn't have to be any 

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divulging of what your mistake 
may have been, Amen. 

701
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Or how you graduated, or how you
degree. 

702
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,720
It doesn't matter this morning. 
But this altar is open today. 

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00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,960
You need to ask God. 
God, teach me, teach me, Lord, I

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want to learn how to live with 
this. 

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00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,440
Teach me how to employ it. 
Teach me how to keep it 

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connected to the wound to the 
altar. 

707
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,160
Teach me Lord, how to make it a 
water draw and a Heuer of wood. 

708
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,160
Teach me, O Lord, teach me how 
to make this work for me. 

709
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,360
I don't want it to be always 
intimidating to me and 

710
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,360
overcoming to me. 
Help me God, teach me how to 

711
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:53,040
make it work for me. 
Learning to live with my 

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mistakes.