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Jesus. 
Name Amen. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you 
again. 

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It is esteem honor today to have
brother and sister Amen 

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Frederick with us. 
Amen. 

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This morning, Brother Frederick,
I want you to know that I got up

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early this morning to be with 
you and I had to convince my 

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wife to to really come and, and,
and, and join me in that 

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endeavor. 
So I don't know what that says, 

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but nonetheless, we are happy to
have them. 

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Amen. 
They have been a friend to our 

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family for years, and they are a
friend to this church. 

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And we appreciate their voice 
and their friendship. 

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Amen. 
We have laughs and we know 

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sometimes it looks like all we 
do is like give each other a 

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hard time and laugh and cut up 
and all that stuff. 

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But there are times we sit 
across tables and we have 

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serious conversations too, and 
able to bear, you know, one 

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individual's soul. 
And so we're grateful today, 

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Amen, For them and for each one 
of you. 

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Look at everybody that's here 
today. 

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Someone must have heard there 
was food or something. 

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I don't know what's going on, 
but nonetheless, we're glad to 

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have you. 
We want to share food with you. 

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Amen. 
Here today. 

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Will you make welcome, Amen. 
Brother Frederick, this morning 

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as he comes to minister the word
of the Lord. 

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We're so honored to have him 
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Any good today to be in the 
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Oh, come on. 
Any good today to be in the 

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House of the Lord? 
I'm I'm glad I'm here. 

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I'm glad the Lord is here 
because I know that in his 

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presence there is fullness of 
joy. 

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I'm honored today. 
You, you, you may be standing a 

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little premature because I got 
some business, not business 

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business to take care of eating 
dinner last night with a family 

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in this church. 
And I, I mean, I know I'm not 

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important, but I do know when I 
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desire that the special speaker 
or the evangelist had, I made 

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sure that it was taken care of. 
It didn't matter what it cost, 

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within reason. 
And I made it explicitly clear 

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that this morning in this 
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be sung. 
And it wasn't sung. 

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Yeah. 
Now, is she in here? 

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OK. 
Can she hear me OK? 

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And I was looked in the eye and 
said and heard these words. 

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We already have our set made and
Egypt is not in that set. 

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And I said yeah, but I want it. 
And she's looking at me altar 

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call. 
I'll be busy at altar call. 

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So I just want you to know, 
pastors, that my desires was not

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met. 
Just just so you know, and I'm 

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going to, I have confidence that
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Writing it down now. 
I share something with this 

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church that. 
I don't share with just 

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anywhere. 
I feel like this morning that 

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I'm among friends and I was not 
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when I was verbally assaulted. 
All right, let me get my glasses

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on. 
Make sure he's looking. 

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Oh, yeah, he's looking. 
He's looking. 

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I was halfway inside the door. 
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I just almost if it had, if it 
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have just went home. 
I just, I'd have just went home.

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But. 
I love this church and I'm 

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telling you with every assurance
I check y'all out every week. 

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I not necessarily when you're 
live, but I watch a portion if 

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not all of your services every 
week. 

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Man, y'all got a preacher here. 
Did y'all know that? 

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Did y'all OK? 
And he I can listen to him like 

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at 2:00 in the morning. 
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Because I've done it before. 
I am so glad to have my wife 

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with me. 
She is not always able to travel

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with me when I'm on the go. 
Folks, she's already turned her 

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papers in August the 1st. 
It's over. 

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Now y'all clapped. 
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story. 
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she's gave me that she's going 
to retire. 

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She feels like she's a nurse, 
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retires on August the first, by 
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have imploded and be nothing 
more than a pile of burnt ashes.

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But. 
Here's the reason why I hope. 

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Here's the reason why she's 
retiring. 

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I went to her and I told her, 
baby, if you don't retire August

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the 1st, I'm leaving you with or
without you. 

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I'm going to the Badlands now. 
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about an hour and a half further
north than that, there's Mount 

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Rushmore. 
Tony Ray is going to the 

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Badlands either with you sitting
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And she put her papers in. 
So I'm glad to have her here 

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today. 
She's had a rough couple of 

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weeks with some skin cancer 
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And all that came back fine. 
All that came back well. 

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But I'm glad she's here. 
She's going to greet you here 

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this morning. 
Amen. 

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Well, I give honor to this 
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I've known this guy since he was
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Our relationship started quite 
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He had one of those hot fudge 
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over Yonder and I sat down and 
made myself at home. 

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Now what you don't understand is
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didn't know he who he was. 
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Appreciate this church, your 
pastor and his wife. 

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I don't know that I can hold 
anyone in any higher esteem than

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what I do. 
Then I remember when he was, and

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now he's got a son that I'm 
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That, folks, is ridiculous. 
Bishop and Sister McGee back 

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there, we have stories that we 
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half. 
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Sometime before I leave today, 
we'll tell those stories to each

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other. 
I know we will because that's 

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just part of our history. 
I got other friends here today 

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that I could tell some ugly 
stories on. 

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I'm not going to tell them from 
the pulpit, but we've got a 

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picnic today. 
I'll be glad to share every one 

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of them with you. 
I'd like to have you stand this 

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morning for the reading of the 
Word. 

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And I'm well aware, I'm a firm 
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scripture text is, the more of a
chance there is that I'll lose 

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you in that reading. 
Not only that, I'm reading 

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scriptures this morning that 
everyone of you have heard 1000 

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times. 
I love to preach. 45 years 

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celebrated 45 years hoping to 
make it to 50. 

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I I love to preach, but I can 
share with you this morning that

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I am as nervous today as I ever 
have been. 

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I don't know if I should say 
this or not in in in a public 

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setting, but sometimes we as 
preachers, we have a favorite 

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sermon, we have a favorite 
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And if if. 
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give you a, a direction you pull
from that favorite. 

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That's not what I'm going to do 
this morning because when pastor

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called me and asked me to come, 
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rolling, you know, and I've got 
three or 45 or 610 or 15, I 

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don't know. 
I've got favorite subjects and I

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began to ponder, but the Lord 
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And that's scary to me now I'm, 
I'm setting y'all up to the 

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point that everybody's quiet and
somber. 

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You're going to have to help me 
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not. 
I don't normally do this, but 

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I'm going to stick really close 
to my notes this morning because

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I feel like everything that I 
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it's for everybody, but I do 
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And even if it's not for. 
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It's still really good advice. 
So in Genesis the third chapter,

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starting to read in the first 
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Now the serpent was more subtle,
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beast of the field which the 
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And he said unto the woman, 
Yeah, hath God said, ye shall 

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not eat of every tree of the 
garden? 

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And the woman said unto the 
serpent, We may eat of the fruit

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of the trees of the garden, but 
of the fruit of the tree which 

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is in the midst of the garden, 
God has said, Ye shall not eat 

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of it, neither shall you touch 
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Anybody heard this before? 
Serpent said unto the woman, You

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shall not surely die, for God 
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eat thereof, then your eyes 
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be as gods, knowing good and 
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Just real quick right there. 
Have you noticed that Eve gave 

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up all the promises that God had
made her for a serpent who had 

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no credentials, had done 
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Are you ready? 
The serpent said what Eve wanted

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to hear. 
When the woman saw that the tree

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was good for food, and that it 
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tree to be desired to make one 
wise, she took of the fruit 

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thereof, and did eat, and gave 
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and he did eat. 
Now the Lord will help me. 

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I realize I'm I'm the only thing
standing between church picnic. 

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I didn't eat any breakfast this 
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I'm already hungry, but I think 
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And if you'll just give me a 
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few minutes, I'm going to rush 
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but then at a certain point, I'm
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I'd like to preach to you on 
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The thunderous roar of silence. 
The thunderous roar of silence 

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Pastor, would you pray ask the 
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a man shake hands with your 
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Sure are looking good this 
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That's going to be hard for some
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in faith today. 
You can be seated today. 

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God bless you. 
What about my jacket? 

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I want us to. 
I want to. 

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Take you back to the beginning, 
back in those moments of the 

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origin of man and our world. 
In the beginning, the Bible says

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that God created the earth. 
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it was void. 
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water covered everything and 
darkness covered the water. 

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It was chaos, total and deep 
darkness. 

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There's been a couple of times 
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That I knew where I was and I 
knew of my surroundings, but 

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when certain things would 
happen, all the lights would go 

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out and you literally could not 
see. 

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I could not see my hand in front
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Anybody that has ever been to 
Mammoth Cave, If you go to 

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Mammoth Cave, you're going 
alone. 

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I'm not going with you. 
Been there once, got the T-shirt

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and I'm not going back again. 
They turned. 

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They said you might want to 
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on the person beside you. 
We're going to click the lights 

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out and show you what darkness 
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I did not know, I did not have a
clue who that young lady was 

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standing beside me. 
But when they click the lights 

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out, she and I met real quick. 
As a matter of fact, we held 

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hands for a minute or two. 
Gross darkness. 

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I knew where I was. 
I knew I was safe. 

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But there was something that hit
my mind. 

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We're down here in this cave. 
What if the lights doesn't come 

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back on? 
Darkness. 

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I also know this from my days of
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We pastored in a building that 
was literally falling in. 

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It was, and we we spent so much 
money on getting that building 

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back into a a a reasonable, 
acceptable sanctuary. 

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And if you. 
Turn one light on you turn them 

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all on. 
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So in a couple of places we put 
a just a night light and in that

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great. 
It was a big sanctuary. 

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In that big sanctuary, it was 
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That little 4 Watt bulb would 
light up that entire building or

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that entire sanctuary to the 
point. 

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That you could easily walk 
through there a little bit of 

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light. 
Can get rid of a whole lot of 

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darkness. 
God spoke to that darkness, and 

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He spoke into that chaos in 
order to create. 

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He brought beauty and life out 
of all of that confusion. 

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Darkness, according to Strong's 
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confusion. 
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different kinds of darkness, and
most of them were figurative 

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rather than literal. 
And Christians, I'm glad today 

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have been called out of darkness
into his marvelous light. 

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Aren't you glad for that today? 
Darkness in the beginning was 

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different. 
It was, it was a a frenzy. 

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It was random chaos, but God 
confronted the darkness that was

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covering unformed waters. 
There was no design, there was 

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no order, there was no beauty, 
there was no life. 

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Just darkness and chaos. 
The Spirit of God hovers over 

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the darkness. 
For the first time. 

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God speaks with power. 
He spoke with power that was 

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stronger than any darkness. 
He spoke with power that was 

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greater than any chaos. 
And God moves into the bedlam 

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and creates with his spoken. 
Word. 

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How many is glad for the spoken 
word today? 

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God spoke to the darkness. 
God spoke to the chaos, God 

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spoke to the disorder. 
God spoke to the confusion. 

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Chaos and darkness had to 
concede to the thunderous voice 

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of God. 
And and and you need to 

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understand today and and I don't
know. 

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Who? 
You know what? 

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I'm talking to all of us. 
That, that, that that's a 

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foolish statement. 
I'm talking to all of us. 

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We all have experienced 
darkness. 

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And if some of us would be 
honest today, and honesty is 

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hard to come by sometimes, but 
if we were all, if we would all 

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be honest, we've got a little 
bit of darkness in our life 

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right now. 
Because see, here's what I'm 

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doing this morning. 
I'm up here this morning and I'm

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smiling and I'm going to be 
positive and I'm going to do my 

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best to be anointed. 
I'm going to do my best to say 

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something that's going to be 
inspiring to you. 

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But on the backside of the 
sermon, there is darkness that 

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is constantly and ever presently
lurking. 

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I've got to be honest with you 
today, and I don't want to, I 

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don't want to end up looking bad
in your presence. 

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I, I don't want it to be that, 
that you, you, you, you take me 

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as someone that doesn't know 
what he's talking about. 

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But here's what I'm going to 
tell you. 

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There are days in Tony Ray's 
life. 

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There's days in my wife's life, 
that life that the darkness is 

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stronger than our ability to 
speak to that chaos and 

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overcome. 
There are days. 

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That I have my you know what 
boy, my knee is feeling pretty 

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good right now. 
I just had I just had open knee 

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replacement. 
Y'all almost died. 

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Well, I didn't almost die, but I
thought it felt like I was 

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almost going to die and my wife 
was hoping that I would die. 

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Feeling pretty good right now. 
There are days that I've got my 

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darkness, I've got my hand 
around its throat, and there's 

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days that I'm slinging that 
darkness around, and there's 

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days that I've got my hands in 
the air and I'm speaking in that

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heavenly language and all is 
well. 

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Those are the days that I like. 
But could I be honest with you 

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for a second? 
There are also days that my 

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darkness has got me by the 
throat and my darkness has got 

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his hands over my eyes and I'm 
worried. 

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Am I ever going to see the light
of day again? 

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I'm not proud of that, but I'm 
just being honest with you. 

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There are days that I want to 
sing that song. 

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Nobody knows the trouble I've 
seen until I realize I'm not the

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only one. 
I'm just the only one that's 

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standing up here admitting to it
today. 

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Yeah. 
I, I, I, I see you. 

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Looking at me, Well, that 
doesn't ever happen to me. 

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I'm always on top of the 
mountain. 

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This is not Austria, you hear 
me? 

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Julie Andrews is not whirling 
around singing. 

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The hills are alive with the 
Sound of Music. 

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If you're not careful, your 
darkness will grab you by the 

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throat and will suffocate you. 
Amen. 

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You've got to understand that 
the very same God that spoke to 

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chaos, and the very same God 
that spoke to the darkness of 

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this world, that's the God that 
I'm serving here this morning. 

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And if he did it in the earth, 
He'll still do it for me. 

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Why? 
Because it is the Word of God 

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and the promises of God. 
I've got promises today of 

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divine an intervention in my 
darkness when I can't make it on

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my own. 
I'm telling you, there's a God 

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that's saying this. 
This is deep. 

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Y'all, you're not from Kentucky,
you're not going to understand 

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this, but I've got a God that's 
looking at me saying this. 

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You know what that means? 
Get a little. 

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Closer to me. 
Now I also know what it means to

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have a mom and daddy saying. 
If you want this whooping, 

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you're going to have to earn it.
You're going to have to chase me

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down. 
And then I got two whoopings. 

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I got a whooping for whatever I 
did that. 

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They said this and then I got a 
whooping for running. 

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Y'all don't even know what a 
whooping is. 

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Y'all know what a whipping is, 
but you don't know what a 

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whooping. 
Is I've got a God this morning 

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that will gladly speak to my 
chaos and to my disorder and to 

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my difficulties if I'll just 
come here. 

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So God began to create. 
He began the six day process of 

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creation. 
Grass, trees, sun, moon, 

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planets, fish, animals. 
Finally, on the 6th day, he 

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created man. 
Man was different because God 

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created man in his own image. 
And what's this? 

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Maybe this is not. 
Going to mean anything to 

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anybody, but it lit my tree the.
First responsibility that God 

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gave Adam was to name the 
animals. 

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Remember. 
In other words, Adam, use your 

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voice to name each animal and 
from that moment on, that's what

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it's going to be. 
God gave his power of speech to 

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mankind to name, to speak the 
name of the animals man. 

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Adam was called to speak to the 
confusion, to the chaos. 

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Well, what is that? 
I don't know, some kind of big 

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animal, let's call it an 
elephant. 

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Wonder where those words came 
from? 

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God gave Adam the ability to 
speak the Word, and that's the 

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way it was. 
It was settled. 

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Adam moved into the mystery of 
speaking life into the adversity

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that he was facing. 
So let's look at what happened. 

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God gave Adam paradise and 
charged him to eat of any and 

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everything that was in the tree.
But he also gave Eve to Adam as 

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a help meet. 
Now, possibly today you will 

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fall into the tradition of 
thought of casting blame on Eve 

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for partaking of the fruit. 
Well, OK, but did you know that 

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casting blame on Eve isn't? 
Really where the blame ought to 

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be. 
I'm stinking women. 

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They caused all this grief, hey.
Try living without them. 

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I don't want to. 
I, I, I, I have no desire. 

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Most people assume that while 
the serpent is talking to Eve 

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that Adam is way over Yonder. 
Maybe he's over there busy 

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naming the animals. 
But most, if not all theologians

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will disagree with that. 
Most theologians will say that 

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while the serpent was talking to
Eve that Adam was right there. 

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Does it not say that she took 
her the fruit, ate and then gave

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to her? 
Husband, I can't do this without

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these on. 
Here's the problem. 

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First of all, they were in a 
place that they never should 

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have been. 
You've got all of this, but yet 

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you are in the area of that 
only. 

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Don't. 
Don't do it. 

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So I remember all those years 
ago. 

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I had AI, had a dirt bike and we
had a place in behind our house.

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I rode a I've been riding a dirt
bike ever since I was, I don't 

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know, 8 years old, had a 
motorcycle of some kind all my 

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life. 
I asked my wife. 

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I said, Hey, why don't we get 
married, you and I? 

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She said, I'll marry you on one 
condition. 

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What's that? 
You got to get rid of that 

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motorcycle. 
So I'll let her know real quick 

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that I'd get rid of that 
motorcycle. 

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I had a motorcycle. 
And out, I don't know, about a 

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mile and a half from our house, 
we had a old train track that 

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maybe maybe once a month there 
was a train that would come down

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that would deliver stuff to a 
business, to a company. 

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And my dad told me, he said, 
look, I don't ever want to have 

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to worry that you're riding on 
that train track because you may

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be riding and not paying 
attention and a train come. 

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Yeah. 
But Dad, there's only no, here's

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the rule. 
You can ride everywhere in these

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fields, but you stay away from 
that train track. 

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And if I catch you riding on 
that train track? 

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The motorcycle is gone, so I've 
got. 

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All of this probably 100 acres 
that I can ride. 

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Where do you think I wanted to 
ride? 

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I'd make sure I'd make real sure
that my dad was gone and what 

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I'm saying gone. 
I'm talking about out of town or

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at work and then. 
You know, while I knew he was 

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gone, I got on that motorcycle 
and I got on that train track. 

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I'd ride up and down it. 
Listen. 

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If you go fast enough on a dirt 
bike, every time you hit those 

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cross ties it makes a really 
neat sound, and if you'll hit it

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just right, you can bring that 
front tire up off the ground. 

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OK, So what I forgot was that 
there was a trestle. 

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Everybody know what a trestle is
about 15 feet off the ground 

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because there was a Creek. 
One day I lost control of the 

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motorcycle and the motor. 
I had to leave the motorcycle or

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go down and the motorcycle went 
and I didn't. 

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Now how am I going to explain to
a dad how my motorcycle is in 

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the Creek? 
I'm going to stop with that 

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story right there because I 
don't want you has has, does 

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anybody has. 
You have to be older. 

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You, you have to be older. 
If you're not older, you've 

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never heard this. 
I knew what was coming. 

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I knew that I wasn't going to be
able to sit down for a week. 

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You know what I'm talking about.
There, OK. 

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My dad let that motorcycle lay 
in that Creek. 

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You know what he did with that 
motorcycle? 

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It was gone. 
And and and it. 

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Seems like you would think that 
out of 100 acres that I could 

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ride that the last thing that I 
would want to do is get on that 

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railroad track. 
But there's something about not 

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if there's something out being 
around something that you're not

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supposed to be around something 
about being on that fence 

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because you know right here is 
safety. 

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All you got to do is just lean 
back, fall off the fence and you

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know safety is there. 
But you just got to you just 

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seems like you have to look at 
what's on the other side and let

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me tell you what's on the other 
side. 

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A motorcycle that's in that's 
covered up in the Creek losing a

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motors. 
You know what? 

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It is you and I have got to 
understand that God provided 

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that all of this for us. 
Why is it that we've got to be 

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enticed by the world? 
Why is it we've got to be 

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enticed by the darkness? 
What is it that we've got to be 

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enticed by? 
The chaos. 

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Can I take my coat off so I'm 
not even close to my? 

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Sermon yet, y'all. 
So all of you that's watching 

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the clock, you might ought to 
check your e-mail and your text 

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and see what's on Facebook. 
Because I'm I'm still real 

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close. 
I'm still not even close. 

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Adam was made in God's image, 
and Adam had the power of God's 

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spoken word placed in him by 
God, yet when he was tempted by 

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his wife. 
And here's the crust of my 

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sermon. 
When he was tempted by his wife,

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when Eve started hearing the 
subtle suggestions of the 

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serpent, what Adam should have 
done was grabbed his wife by the

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arm, by the hair of the head. 
I'm not being, I'm I'm just. 

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Whatever Adam had to do, he 
should have grabbed her and 

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said, hey, we got to get out of.
Here. 

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We can't listen to this because 
it's going to have a negative 

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effect on us. 
But instead of doing that. 

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He stood there in silence. 
Let me tell you something, my 

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dad is 91 years old and if my 
dad. 

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Told me to bend over and grab my
ankles. 

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I'm 66 years old. 
If he told me to bend over and 

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grab my ankles, you know what 
I'd do? 

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I'd bend over and grab my 
ankles. 

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He's 91. 
I can. 

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I started to say I can outrun 
him, maybe I can't. 

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I don't know. 
I can outmaneuver him, I know. 

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But I remember what it was for 
my dad to. 

450
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:50,520
Come and tell me, boy, don't you
ever do that again. 

451
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:58,400
I, I, I want you to get to this 
understanding that all of this 

452
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,520
chaos could have been stopped if
it hadn't been for Adam's 

453
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,840
silence. 
He, she partakes of the tree, 

454
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,120
she partakes of the fruit, she 
eats of it. 

455
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,920
It's good. 
Everything is great. 

456
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,640
The serpent has said you're 
going to become as a God 

457
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,080
yourself. 
And he looks at he looks, she 

458
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,040
looks at Adam and says, here, 
take and eat. 

459
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,160
You know what he did in his 
silence? 

460
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,920
He took that fruit and he ate. 
I'm going to, I'm just going to 

461
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,560
let you know that God spoke into
the chaos. 

462
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,520
God spoken to the darkness and 
the disorder, and it became calm

463
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,600
and orderly and beautiful. 
But when Adam remained silent, 

464
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,160
what had been calm, what had 
been beautiful, returned to a 

465
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:55,080
world of chaos, a World of 
Darkness, a world of disorder 

466
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,360
all over. 
Again. 

467
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,200
The condition of this world, of 
our world, the condition of all 

468
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:08,320
of our culture, of our families.
It's not just the result of 

469
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:13,600
Eve's partaking of the forbidden
fruit, but it's more largely due

470
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,040
to Adam's silence of ending all 
this nonsense. 

471
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,280
All he had to say is wife, come 
on, we're leaving the serpent. 

472
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,560
All he had to say, even if the 
wife did partake, all he had to 

473
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,800
say is, look, God said not to. 
Now you've you've already done 

474
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,920
it. 
But me, Oh, no, no, no, I'm not 

475
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,840
going to. 
I'm going to tell you right now.

476
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,640
And I believe this with all my 
heart. 

477
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,440
If I backslide in the next 15 
minutes, my wife is going to 

478
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,800
tell me, I love you, but I'm not
going with you. 

479
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,320
I'm going to tell you this. 
And she's sitting here today I 

480
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:56,640
probably. 
Yeah, I would tell her, look, 

481
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,960
we've come too far now. 
You've turned your back on 

482
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,480
everything. 
Listen, if my wife doesn't go to

483
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,360
heaven, I'm not even going to be
judged. 

484
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,720
They're going to come and Get Me
Out of line and say no, you're 

485
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,000
going straight. 
To the pit. 

486
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,520
My grandkids, they'll they'll 
come running in the house. 

487
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,120
Hey, tell them I'm asleep. 
I ain't telling them you're 

488
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,280
asleep. 
You're not asleep. 

489
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,760
I'm not going to lie for you. 
I'm not. 

490
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,720
I'm not going to tell them 
you're going to lay there and 

491
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,880
act like you're asleep all you 
want to, but I'm not going to 

492
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:33,640
tell them you're asleep. 
Well. 

493
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,440
What's the problem? 
What's the big deal? 

494
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,200
I'll tell you what the big deal 
is. 

495
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,240
I tell those grandkids that 
you're asleep and then the Lord 

496
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:47,760
comes and I've done told a lie 
and all liars will have their, 

497
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,800
she said. 
I'll tell you what it is. 

498
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,240
I tell them grandkids that 
you're asleep and three seconds 

499
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:54,960
later I have a heart attack and 
die. 

500
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,080
I'm not going to hell over some 
little old foolish lie that you 

501
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,000
want me to tell. 
Now you've got to. 

502
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,440
Admit y'all are nodding your 
head. 

503
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,520
Y'all are supporting her. 
Stop it. 

504
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,480
Y'all are acting like well. 
I'd do the same thing. 

505
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,600
Well, I don't. 
I cause my grandkids all the 

506
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:22,280
grief I can and I cause my kids 
listen. 

507
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,400
Right before they go home I load
them down with sugar. 

508
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:31,720
I'm going to create as much 
grief in my kids life as my mom 

509
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:38,880
and dad created in my life. 
Take that, dad, because he said 

510
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:50,640
he was going to watch. 
All Adam had to do was speak. 

511
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,640
Come on woman. 
No, I will not partake. 

512
00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:05,120
But instead now Adam has changed
the course of mankind and he has

513
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,760
changed. 
Don't think that you don't have 

514
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,240
the power. 
Man has changed the intent of 

515
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:17,880
God's will. 
It didn't stop with Adam. 

516
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:24,400
We find that two millenniums 
later, there's Abraham and Sarah

517
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,200
that's been promised a child 
through the spoken word of God. 

518
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:36,920
And when it didn't happen, Sarah
had a plan of her own silence. 

519
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,640
Abraham should have said, woman,
what is wrong with you? 

520
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:47,200
God himself told me that my 
offspring was going to be as the

521
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,960
stars in heaven. 
God said that my offspring was 

522
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,560
going to be as the sand of the 
earth. 

523
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,480
We don't need to get our hands 
involved. 

524
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,960
If God said it, it's going to 
take place. 

525
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,920
Am I tired of waiting? 
Yes. 

526
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,160
You ever been tired of waiting 
on God's promise? 

527
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,720
I'm a little tired right now. 
Because I want God to do it. 

528
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,040
So look what happened. 
The Arabian nations are born and

529
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:26,360
there is not an Arabian nation. 
There's not a Nation of Islam 

530
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,360
that doesn't despise. 
Israel and want them forever 

531
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,920
destroyed. 
All Abraham had to do was say 

532
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,800
we're going to do it God's way. 
Not your way, not Hagar's way, 

533
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,200
but because he stood there in 
silence. 

534
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:53,040
OK, I have. 
I have 7 pages of notes and I'm 

535
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,200
on Page Six. 
So you know what that means? 

536
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,960
Nothing. 
That's what it means. 

537
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:04,200
It means nothing, but I have 
finally got to where I've been 

538
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,800
trying to go. 
We may be damaged. 

539
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,600
If if if I would take the time I
could show you. 

540
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:21,000
Scars all over my hands for. 
I, I I. 

541
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:27,240
Have a carpentry skill, you 
can't mess with saws and at some

542
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:33,280
point in time not get cut. 
I shot AI had a nail gun. 

543
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,760
I had a 16 pin nail gun and I 
don't know how I did it but but 

544
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:42,440
I shot a nail through my hand 
and and and my boss said pull it

545
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,400
out. 
Are you kidding? 

546
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:51,680
Pull it out, look it look in my 
hand, pull it out. 

547
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,760
I couldn't do it. 
And my boss said, OK, Fruit 

548
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,040
Loop, just stand there and look 
at it. 

549
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,360
And here in a minute, the 
feelings going to come back in 

550
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,200
that hand. 
And when the feeling comes back 

551
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,400
in that hand, if that nail isn't
out of that hand, you're going 

552
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,800
to scream and holler you. 
So you know what I did hardest 

553
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,440
thing I ever did? 
I reached up there, grabbed it, 

554
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:22,960
pulled it out. 
I didn't feel a thing. 

555
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,920
I, I felt nothing. 
My hand got all swollen up and 

556
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,040
ended up having to put some ice 
on it and all that kind of 

557
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,880
stuff. 
I've got this, I've got these 

558
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,160
scars. 
I mean, I'm looking at them. 

559
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,400
I've got these, I've got these 
scars on my hands, but I want 

560
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,480
you to know something today. 
And again, I don't want, I don't

561
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,200
want you to be upset with me. 
I really don't because I'm 

562
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,840
saying something that I 
shouldn't say. 

563
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,760
But I'm going to tell you this. 
I've got some scars on my soul. 

564
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,000
I've got some scars on my 
spirit. 

565
00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:58,920
There's been people that I think
didn't treat me right. 

566
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,560
There's been some things happen.
I've even got a few scars on my 

567
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:04,640
spirit. 
Because. 

568
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:08,680
I felt like God didn't answer 
when he ought to us, and I know 

569
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,000
that I've got some scars because
God didn't answer the way I 

570
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,640
wanted him to. 
We've all got some darkness and 

571
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,880
we've all got some damage. 
It meant maybe you've got 

572
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,800
secrets that no one else in this
room knows about, but it's time 

573
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,000
for you and I to speak to our 
chaos. 

574
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,960
It meant God wants you to get 
back to His image. 

575
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:40,120
I'm still not there, but I'm 
getting really, really close. 

576
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,320
What kind of God is he? 
He's a warrior, he's mighty, 

577
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,840
he's a rock. 
The. 

578
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,280
Superlatives could go on and on 
and on and on, but it's time for

579
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:57,480
you and I to break the silence. 
Not because of who we are, but 

580
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,280
because of who he is. 
I meant when I was a child 

581
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,800
growing up, if we were sitting 
around the dinner table and I 

582
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,120
made some kind of statement of 
I'm going to go do this after I 

583
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,680
get done eating or, or, or I'm 
going to go participate in this.

584
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:17,680
If my dad remained silent, that 
was kind of sort of an agreement

585
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:22,800
that it's OK. 
But if I told my dad, as soon as

586
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,600
I get done eating, I'm going to 
get a ladder and I'm going to 

587
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,320
climb up on top of the house and
I'm going to jump off. 

588
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,560
That's going to produce a 
response from my dad that is 

589
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,240
going to let me know, hey, I'm 
not even going to go out in the 

590
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:41,240
garage and get the ladder, much 
less jump off the house. 

591
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,760
Now here's here's this is my 
whole sermon right here, my 

592
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,000
entire sermon. 
I apologize for it taking me so 

593
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,880
long to get here, but I want to 
ask you a question. 

594
00:44:54,680 --> 00:45:01,360
Is it possible that when we come
to the House of God and the only

595
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,520
thing that would have made this 
this, this service better is if 

596
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:10,520
they'd have sung Egypt and I I, 
I, I, I hope that that one 

597
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,440
person that said we're not going
to sing it. 

598
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,840
I hope her toe hurts all day 
long. 

599
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,960
I don't know which one, just one
of them. 

600
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:28,080
We today this morning were and 
we still are in the presence of 

601
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:34,960
God. 
I like to I love being here. 

602
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,560
It it's it's just a good thing 
that I don't live 10 or 15 miles

603
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,720
or 30 miles from here. 
I'd be here every service 

604
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:50,920
causing grief. 
But is it possible that with our

605
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:58,080
darkness and with our chaos and 
with our disorder, when we come 

606
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:07,320
into the presence of God and we 
fail to worship, we fail to 

607
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:13,720
magnify God? 
Is it possible that our silence 

608
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:22,120
is agreeing that everything's OK
now? 

609
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,880
I don't know who you are. 
I haven't been here enough to 

610
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,360
pick you out, but I do know this
every church in the. 

611
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:37,600
World. 
Has more than one that one 

612
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:43,240
person that has never worshipped
that one person listen. 

613
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,440
What when? 
When we pastored in Arkansas, I 

614
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,360
got up here every morning at 
4:00. 

615
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,000
I drove 60 miles one way to go 
to work. 

616
00:46:54,160 --> 00:47:01,000
I worked 10 hours every day and 
lots of days, 12 hours and then 

617
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,320
drove 60 miles home. 
There was a few times that I 

618
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,360
went to church and I thought to 
myself. 

619
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,760
Hey, you ought to just pat me on
the back for just being here 

620
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,800
times you get up 830. 
What'd you do? 

621
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,080
Eat breakfast? 
I've. 

622
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,280
Been at it since four O clock. 
I got I'm in church. 

623
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:31,520
I haven't even had dinner yet. 
You ought to be hugging my neck 

624
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,000
and kissing my cheek just for me
being here. 

625
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,600
Forget about worship, forget 
about all of that. 

626
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,320
You ought to just be happy that 
I didn't stay home, eat dinner 

627
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,880
and go to bed because I got to 
do it all over again in the 

628
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:49,360
morning. 
I have felt that way. 

629
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:52,840
I have, I have dealt with those 
feelings. 

630
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,920
Amen. 
But I have also come to church 

631
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,520
at times and, and, and, and this
wasn't so long ago. 

632
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:04,440
I, I'm ashamed to say it wasn't 
so long ago that I was bent over

633
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,800
a, a altar and the only thing 
that I could get out of my mouth

634
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:14,280
was Lord, just a little bit of 
help, just God, just I couldn't 

635
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,560
ask for anything else. 
Lord, just a little bit of help,

636
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,200
just a little bit of help. 
God, I don't know what to do. 

637
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,400
Listen, there are things in your
life that are out of your 

638
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:29,600
control, but sometimes they're 
out of your control because of 

639
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,800
your silence. 
You made the choice to get 

640
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,560
involved. 
You made the choice to be where 

641
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,120
you wasn't supposed to be. 
You kept your silence and said, 

642
00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:42,560
Oh no, not me. 
I'm not going to. 

643
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:44,640
I'm not. 
I'm not going to say no. 

644
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:49,160
You got to understand that 
sometimes you deserve everything

645
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:55,000
you're getting. 
I'm not ever going to get 

646
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,880
invited to preach here again. 
I'm not preaching to y'all. 

647
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,240
I'm preaching to me because I've
been there. 

648
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,480
I've been in that position when 
I would say in my mind, oh God, 

649
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,560
why did I do that? 
Why did I get involved in that? 

650
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,680
Why didn't I run from it? 
Why didn't? 

651
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,000
What in the world was I 
thinking? 

652
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,200
I deserved everything that was 
coming my way. 

653
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,840
But I want you to know that if 
you will not be silent, I've got

654
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:26,320
a God in heaven that will split 
the skies wide open and will 

655
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:33,360
send you help. 
Send you help. 

656
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:43,640
Now listen, some of these things
you can't change and you're 

657
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,440
going to have to deal with them.
You don't have a choice. 

658
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:52,880
Maybe it's because if your your 
decision, maybe that person over

659
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,520
there brought it down on you and
you, you can't do anything about

660
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,880
it. 
I've been there. 

661
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,920
But let me tell you this, even 
though you have to deal with the

662
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:10,840
chaos in the midst of the storm,
God can give you Peace of Mind. 

663
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:21,560
But when we come to the House of
God and we refuse to worship my 

664
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:28,480
91 year old dad, I'm going to 
say 3 weeks ago now, look, my 

665
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:36,600
dad walks with a cane. 
He stumbles, he gets on my last 

666
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,720
nerve because he won't let me do
it for him. 

667
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:45,400
Dad, it's going to take you an 
hour and a half and I can have 

668
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,680
it done in 15 minutes. 
Yeah, well if you go home you 

669
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,880
won't know how long it takes me 
to do it, will you? 

670
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:05,990
Hey Dad. 
The other night in service, we, 

671
00:51:06,350 --> 00:51:10,710
we recently, I don't know, 
January or February, we went 

672
00:51:10,710 --> 00:51:16,990
back to our home church in 
Henderson Haven and my 91 year 

673
00:51:16,990 --> 00:51:28,640
old dad looked at me and he said
I feel like marching OK. 

674
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:35,720
And I just kept on singing. 
Boy, did you hear me? 

675
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,440
I feel like marching well, pop 
because that's what I call him. 

676
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,560
I don't, I don't know what I'm 
doing calling him dad. 

677
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:50,800
He'll think I'm mad at him if 
he's watching pop. 

678
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:57,000
If you feel like marching, have 
at it, he said. 

679
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,640
Well, nobody else is marching. 
I said that doesn't matter in a 

680
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,600
Apostolic Church. 
It doesn't matter in Pentecostal

681
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,400
church. 
So he got out in the aisle. 

682
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:15,400
He started it shuffle. 
Pop, where's your cane? 

683
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,360
I'm marching for God. 
I ain't going to use the cane. 

684
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:30,160
So I come in behind him and I 
stuck my fingers up inside his 

685
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:35,800
belt and I grabbed a hold to him
or grabbed a hold of his belt, 

686
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,840
not him. 
He'd have hit me in the mouth 

687
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,440
right in church if I'd have done
that. 

688
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:46,200
He's 91. 
But anyway, he, he started 

689
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,840
marching around that church. 
Well, you know what? 

690
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:53,720
He shuffles, he shuffles. 
It took him an hour and a half. 

691
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,000
Well, took him a while to get 
around the church. 

692
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,640
So I know what that means. 
One lap. 

693
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,200
Let's, let's, let's go back to 
her seat. 

694
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:07,240
He said. 
Boy, I'm not done yet. 

695
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,800
I said, So what does that mean? 
He said. 

696
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:16,560
I'm I'm going for another one. 
My dad took, I don't know, three

697
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,480
or. 4. 
Laps around that church and I'm 

698
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,120
right there with him. 
I got him. 

699
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,000
I mean, I'm not saying that he's
not going to fall, but if he 

700
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,760
does, he's going to fall real 
easy. 

701
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,560
I'm going to, I'm, I'm taking 
care of him. 

702
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:34,560
It's you know what, it made him 
feel good, but you wouldn't 

703
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:41,920
believe the effect that 91 year 
old man had on the church. 

704
00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:51,400
There was folks that hadn't 
moved in years that said if that

705
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,840
91 year old man isn't going to 
be silent, what kind of excuse 

706
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,160
do I have? 
And when I tell you that that 

707
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:05,800
service erupted and blew up, I'm
telling you all because one 

708
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,960
person said I'm not going to be 
silent. 

709
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,680
I'm not going to let my physical
issues hinder me. 

710
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,360
I'm going to worship him. 
I'm going to magnify him. 

711
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:25,800
We've got to stop being silent. 
Is it possible that our silence 

712
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:31,480
is a, is a admonition to God 
that I'm happy where I'm at? 

713
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,800
I'm not happy where I'm at. 
Well, wait a minute. 

714
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,320
You're the preacher. 
I know I'm not happy where I'm 

715
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,520
at at all. 
I don't know that I'm ever going

716
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,960
to be happy. 
And right now, you know, right 

717
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,400
now, I got this little deal with
my knee. 

718
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:49,160
But let me tell you this, I'm 
100 times better now than I was 

719
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,360
2 1/2 months ago. 
I might not always be able to 

720
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:57,200
jump in and holler and carry on,
but I tell you what I can do. 

721
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,120
Holy, holy is the Lord God 
Almighty. 

722
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,040
I can give him worship whether 
my knee is good or whether my 

723
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,560
knee is bad. 
We've got to stop being silent 

724
00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:17,400
in the presence of God. 
Your your silence because you 

725
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:20,400
see you, you sit down. 
I'm almost done. 

726
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:22,440
But I'm not quite, but I'm 
almost done. 

727
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,160
Listen to me. 
I was raised in a denominal 

728
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,520
church. 
When we got fired up in the 

729
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,600
church I was raised in, we broke
into blessed assurance. 

730
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:39,000
Jesus is mine. 
Man, if we ever broke into oh 

731
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,400
what a foretaste of glory, 
divine man we were, we were 

732
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,760
huckabuckin. 
Y'all don't know what that is? 

733
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:46,440
Y'all don't know what that word 
is. 

734
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,880
We were tearing up. 
If there was somebody, it never 

735
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,960
happened. 
But if there was somebody in the

736
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:57,480
church that would have said 
Amen, pastor, that's what we had

737
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,760
ushers for. 
Ushers would have come and 

738
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:05,920
physically grabbed them and 
pulled them out of service and 

739
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,440
there's a chance that they would
have been told, hey, if you're 

740
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,040
going to act like that, don't 
come here. 

741
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,240
I was raised for 19 years in 
that kind of a setting. 

742
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:24,440
For 19 years, I was raised in a 
denominal church. 

743
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,640
I walked into Haven Pentecostal 
Church. 

744
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,800
I had the tightest. 
Shirt on. 

745
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,240
If those buttons would have 
popped, it would have killed 

746
00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:40,800
somebody I wanted. 
It was different then. 

747
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:47,640
I wanted everything to show 
because I was, I was going to 

748
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,840
court, all right. 
That's what I was there for. 

749
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,920
I don't have any. 
I could care less about God 

750
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,360
because all I had to do was go 
to church on a Sunday and say 

751
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,480
I'm sorry. 
And I was well, everything was 

752
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:03,160
good. 
But I, we, we, we don't sing 

753
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:04,800
this song anymore. 
We sung it. 

754
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:06,920
We sung some words of it this 
morning. 

755
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,160
But I walked into that church. 
I got there late. 

756
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,640
I got there late because I 
wonder if I see me walk in. 

757
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,320
I walked in. 
She was on the organ doing the 

758
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,520
organ thing. 
She ignored me. 

759
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:28,240
I walked in. 
And here's a song they were 

760
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,920
singing. 
We don't sing it anymore. 

761
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,440
For some reason we don't sing it
anymore. 

762
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:38,000
But it was a song of I don't 
know what you come to do, but I 

763
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,320
come to praise the Lord. 
And then they went nuts. 

764
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,880
It was like I come to sing and 
shout. 

765
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,200
I come to dance about. 
I come to lift my hands. 

766
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,120
I mean, just over and over and 
over and over and over. 

767
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,200
And when when you was born in 
the first Church of the 

768
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,400
refrigerator and you walk into 
an Apostolic Church that's 

769
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:03,480
getting with it. 
I didn't do this. 

770
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:11,560
I laughed out loud. 
They had, they had a track meet 

771
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:12,480
going. 
I don't know. 

772
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,200
It was like they were trying out
for the Olympics. 

773
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,520
They didn't have they, they had 
hurdles because they was 

774
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:25,320
jumping. 
You laugh if you want to, but 

775
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:29,440
you stop and think of what I was
raised in and what I walked 

776
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:35,360
into. 
Sister Juanita Gray, I hope you 

777
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:40,400
know her sister Juanita Gray was
on the bar side of the church 

778
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:46,080
and she comes spinning out of 
that Pew and she ran, she ran 

779
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,440
across the front and she started
running towards the back. 

780
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,640
And where do you think that? 
Woman stopped. 

781
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,640
If my knee wasn't messed up, I 
could do better. 

782
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:08,880
And this thing on the back of 
her head, it came down. 

783
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:19,500
And it was 16 feet long and she 
got to do. 

784
00:59:19,740 --> 00:59:22,820
And the next thing you knew 
that. 

785
00:59:22,980 --> 00:59:32,500
Hair turned into a boogie whip. 
That thing's going to kill 

786
00:59:32,500 --> 00:59:38,540
somebody. 
And then she started talking in 

787
00:59:38,540 --> 00:59:42,940
German, French, Italian, 
whatever, and she was looking at

788
00:59:42,940 --> 00:59:51,880
me. 
Ma'am, I'm, I'm sorry, I don't 

789
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:57,040
know what you're saying. 
She finally calmed down, and 

790
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,400
finally. 
Order was restored to that 

791
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,440
service and the preacher I have 
no. 

792
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,960
Idea Brother Clement have no 
idea what he preached. 

793
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,920
I don't remember, but I do know 
this. 

794
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:16,920
The very first Apostolic service
that I was ever in in my life. 

795
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:23,000
I went to the altar. 
And I remember my prayer. 

796
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:28,040
I remember it well. 
God, I don't have a clue what 

797
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:34,960
I've walked into. 
This is the weirdest church I've

798
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:39,880
ever been in in my life. 
But God, they've got something I

799
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,400
don't have. 
They've got a joy that I don't 

800
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:47,520
have. 
I don't know how to say this. 

801
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:52,800
I don't know how to talk to you 
about this, but what they've got

802
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,440
I want, even though I don't 
understand it all. 

803
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:03,720
I want what they've got in in in
over a little three months. 

804
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:08,160
I remember, I remember, I 
remember I went to a guy in the 

805
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:12,440
church and I said, hey, how do 
y'all do that? 

806
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:19,280
Teach me, teach me. 
I want to, I want to, I want to.

807
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:21,920
He said well it's not something 
that can be taught. 

808
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,680
Well, how am I going to learn? 
He said, oh, I've got the 

809
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,400
answer, but I but I can't teach 
you. 

810
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:34,600
I said, OK, what's the answer? 
He said you pick your left foot 

811
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:39,440
up and you put it down. 
You pick your right foot up and 

812
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:42,520
you put it down. 
You pick your left foot up and 

813
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,640
you put it down. 
You pick your right foot up and 

814
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,200
you put it down and it'll come 
to you. 

815
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,680
You know what? 
I didn't know how to do it, but 

816
01:01:53,680 --> 01:02:00,720
I got pretty good at it. 
Now for the last, we've been 

817
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,480
married 46 years. 
We dated for a year. 

818
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:11,120
So there's 47 years that she has
tolerated a difficult life. 

819
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:16,120
And you can giggle if you want 
to, but I'm telling the truth. 

820
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:24,360
I'm difficult to live with. 47 
years I have lived with. 

821
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,520
I don't know what you come to 
do. 

822
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,440
I come to sing and shout. 
I come to dance about. 

823
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:37,120
I come to lift my hands. 
I come to, I don't know. 

824
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,520
It seemed like there was 140 of 
those verses. 

825
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,480
I think sometimes they made them
up while they were singing. 

826
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,040
I really do. 
I think they just made them up. 

827
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,320
I don't think it was a song. 
If you could have went to the 

828
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,240
Internet and find that song on 
the Internet, I don't think all 

829
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,000
that stuff is in is going to be 
there. 

830
01:02:56,240 --> 01:03:04,480
But but I found that that joy 
wasn't always there that pick my

831
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,360
left foot up and put it down, 
pick my right foot up and put it

832
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,680
down. 
I didn't always feel like doing 

833
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:14,720
that. 
There was times that I didn't. 

834
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,640
I shouldn't say it. 
There's times that I didn't even

835
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:24,840
feel like being there and I was 
there physically, but mentally, 

836
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,000
here's what I have. 
Found with God. 

837
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:36,720
It's so neat. 
Is that you may not be at your 

838
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:42,920
best, but God will accept your 
best at that moment. 

839
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:48,520
And at that moment it may just 
be that's the best you've got. 

840
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:53,200
That may be the best there is. 
But I'm here to tell you that 

841
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,160
God will accept that just like 
He'll take the other. 

842
01:03:56,400 --> 01:04:01,320
We've got to stop allowing our 
chaos to bring silence in our 

843
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:06,200
walk with God. 
I don't always feel like 

844
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,000
shouting, but I always feel like
worshipping. 

845
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:13,240
I may not always feel like I'm 
on top of the world, but I want 

846
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:17,280
God to know that I'm going to 
give Him my very best at that 

847
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,360
moment. 
Silence will never. 

848
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,400
Rule my life, stand with me 
please. 

849
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,480
Refusing to grant the Lord the 
one thing He longs for the most 

850
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:44,400
is your praise. 
I am well aware that some 

851
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:49,040
churches can get it mixed up. 
Some churches all they are is 

852
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:53,760
worship and praise and no word 
and some there's no praise and 

853
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,720
it's all word. 
But you know what? 

854
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:59,680
When it all blends together it 
that's what will get you. 

855
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:08,240
But you can never, ever obtain 
victory through silence. 

856
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,600
I've seen people walk in the 
church that literally was 

857
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:19,640
holding on to the pews just 
trying to get to the just trying

858
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:23,200
to get to the next Pew. 
They didn't set sit down, they 

859
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,840
flopped. 
Down they started singing the 

860
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,040
songs of Zion. 
And they was just sitting there.

861
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,360
You could tell they were 
hurting, whether it was mentally

862
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,560
or physically. 
But then they'd break into that 

863
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:40,600
one song that they really liked.
And before you know it, that 

864
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,760
person would start patting their
foot, patting their hand. 

865
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,760
They'd grab the back of that Pew
and pull themselves up. 

866
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:54,800
And they came in one condition, 
but they left in a much better 

867
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:58,960
condition. 
I'm not here to lambast anyone. 

868
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,760
I'm not here today to stripe 
anybody's hide. 

869
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,600
It's not my job. 
But I am here to let you know 

870
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:11,320
that sometimes your silence 
keeps you in the place that 

871
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:16,440
you're at. 
I know this. 

872
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:21,080
I know enough about your pastor.
I know enough about your pastor 

873
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:25,360
to know that in the middle of 
any type of service, if you need

874
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:30,640
prayer, it's always appropriate.
If you're in and don't, don't 

875
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,840
give me that look like of like, 
well, we never have those here. 

876
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,760
If you're in the middle of a 
twice dead and plucked up by the

877
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:46,040
root service, it might be you 
that explodes that service into 

878
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:54,520
something spectacular. 
Don't allow your feelings. 

879
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:58,800
To stop you from doing what you 
know is right for your soul. 

880
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,920
Don't let your silence rule the 
day. 

881
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:10,120
You know what you need to do. 
I'm going to make a noise. 

882
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:16,080
I'm going to worship God. 
I'm going to magnify him because

883
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:20,920
I don't want God to think that 
my silence is my acceptance of 

884
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:27,560
my chaos, of my darkness. 
Oh hey, God, I may not run as 

885
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:31,360
fast as I used to, and I may not
be able to kick as high as I 

886
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,360
used to, but God, I want you to 
know that I love you. 

887
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:37,000
You're the King of kings and the
Lord of Lords. 

888
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:42,040
Speak peace into my heart. 
Speak peace into my chaos come 

889
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,760
this morning. 
If you will choose. 

890
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:48,320
Come this morning, come this 
morning, come this morning, and 

891
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:51,320
let's give the Lord. 
Some worship and some. 

892
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:55,800
Praise I love you today, Lord 
Jesus. 

893
01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:03,400
I love you today, Lord Jesus. 
Oh God, hear my voice today. 

894
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:07,920
Hear my voice today, God speak 
to my chaos. 

895
01:08:23,080 --> 01:09:09,479
The. 
Thank you, Lord, if you want 

896
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:13,000
real victory today, break your 
silence. 

897
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:15,920
Break your silence. 
Praise Him. 

898
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:33,040
Magnify Him 
the. 

899
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:17,480
Find me in the valley, standing 
with my hands held by the valley

900
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:28,360
Will never change my eyes. 
Or find me in the desert holding

901
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:36,920
onto you for life. 
The desert will never turn my 

902
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:43,000
soul. 
Oh no, the desert will never 

903
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:52,400
turn my soul. 
We praise. 

904
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:57,520
You I need, I need to say 
something. 

905
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:04,160
I need to say something. 
I've got a. 

906
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:10,720
Master's degree in counseling. 
My specialty is PTSD, not 

907
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:14,720
military. 
My specialty is PTSD. 

908
01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:17,960
I'm a crisis and trauma 
therapist. 

909
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:24,920
I deal in incision or crisis 
incident stress management. 

910
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,360
People come in, sit on this side
of the desk. 

911
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:34,640
I sit on this side and they pour
their little hearts out to me 

912
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:40,640
about their trauma, their 
crisis, their PTSD. 

913
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:49,520
As a as as a counselor, all I 
can do is make suggestions. 

914
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:57,040
And then they go home. 
And the next two weeks, they try

915
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:02,000
to institute what we have 
discussed. 

916
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:07,880
Sometimes I've got the answer 
and sometimes I don't. 

917
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,160
But let me tell you, what can I 
use? 

918
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:14,400
Can I use the word hack? 
Yeah. 

919
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,040
Let me tell you what hacks me 
off. 

920
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,880
Let me tell you what makes me 
mad. 

921
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:20,960
It's for two stinking weeks to 
pass. 

922
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:26,040
And that thug or thug head comes
in and sits down in that very 

923
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:29,160
same desk. 
And I said. 

924
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,960
Hey, how did this go? 
I don't know. 

925
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,960
Well, how come you don't know? 
Well, I didn't do it. 

926
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:39,240
Why? 
Too hard? 

927
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:44,080
Well, what about this? 
I didn't try that either. 

928
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:49,080
Now see, here's here's here's 
the benefit for working for 

929
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:54,040
myself. 
OK, then get up out of that seat

930
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:59,320
and go home because if you're 
not going to listen to me and 

931
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:04,080
help me find out what works and 
what doesn't work, you're 

932
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,400
wasting your time and I'm 
wasting mine. 

933
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:11,680
So until you decide to try what 
I'm doing, don't come back or 

934
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:14,120
what I told you to do, don't, 
don't, don't come back. 

935
01:13:15,480 --> 01:13:19,040
Well, that's a little blunt. 
It's no more blunt than. 

936
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,800
US setting out a course of 
action and you telling me that 

937
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:27,680
it's too hard you see, in 
counseling you don't always know

938
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:32,520
what works what works for him 
might not work for this one and 

939
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:33,720
what. 
Works for her. 

940
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:35,240
Might not work. 
For her. 

941
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:41,040
But this morning, forgive me, I 
got the answers. 

942
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:46,800
And it's not very often that I 
get to say I'm right. 

943
01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:56,240
I'm here to let you know that 
your darkness, your chaos, your 

944
01:13:56,240 --> 01:14:04,080
disorder, all of that is but 
nothing to God. 

945
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,920
I don't know how God does it. 
I don't know if he waves his 

946
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:10,200
hand. 
I don't know if he snaps his 

947
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:11,840
finger. 
I don't know if he says 

948
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:12,880
something. 
I don't know. 

949
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:15,960
I don't. 
Know how God does it, but God is

950
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:23,080
able today to take care. 
Of all your darkness, if you 

951
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:29,560
just won't remain silent. 
Silence can be a sign of 

952
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:36,560
acceptance. 
Not me. 

953
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:41,320
So all I'm saying. 
Today, in fear of making pastor 

954
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,360
mad, all I'm saying today is 
try. 

955
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:52,440
I don't feel like it. 
You can't possibly tell me that 

956
01:14:52,440 --> 01:14:54,640
you feel like going to the 
dentist. 

957
01:14:55,720 --> 01:15:00,480
If you do, I can't use that 
word. 

958
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,200
No, I will. 
If you love the dentist, you're 

959
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:11,280
a dipstick, but you still go. 
You can't tell me that there's 

960
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:15,080
not mornings that you get up out
of bed and you do not want to go

961
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:21,800
to work, but you still go. 
Did you ever stop and think that

962
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:26,160
maybe if you just won't be 
silent, it might not be all of 

963
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:30,240
that, but if you just won't be 
silent, that God may come in on 

964
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,360
the scene and say. 
Watch what I can do for you.