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Now enjoy this message. 
We're going to talk about faith 

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today, right? 
And remember, do not dip. 

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Disengage this morning, just go 
over talk about something you've

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heard. 
Maybe 100,000 That's because you

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need to be strengthened by it. 
You need to grow in it and there

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may be some capacities, you've 
never heard before, okay? 

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But this was our text last week 
and I want to go back to it 

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today and Galatians Chapter 2 
verses 20 and I'm going to read 

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out the Amplified classic only 
today it says I have been 

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crucified with Christ in him. 
I have shared his crucifixion. 

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It is no longer I who live. 
But Christ, the Messiah lives in

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me and the life. 
I now live in the body, I live 

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by faith in by here. 
It's too. 

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And we Reliance on and complete 
trust in the Son of God who 

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loved me and gave himself up for
me. 

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So, In this passage of 
scripture, we see a few things 

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that are really important. 
Number one you need to 

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understand who is the, I that 
doesn't live anymore, it's no 

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longer. 
I who live? 

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What does that mean? 
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because it says The life. 
I live 9 now live in the body. 

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So the body is not. 
You, you are not this outward 

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suit. 
You are somewhere deeper within 

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you are a spirit, you have a 
soul and you live in a body and 

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so the body's not you. 
But since you're in it, I said 

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since you're in it then you got 
to determine how you live and he

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says, the life, I live this 
world life means to exercise. 

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The funk to live means to 
exercise the functions of life, 

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the life. 
I now, Live in the body, I hear 

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it is live that we're live, is 
the to exercise for the 

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functions of Life. 
How do you exercise the 

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functions of life? 
That's a great question because 

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many do not do it by faith. 
They do it on their own 

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thoughts. 
The Bible's very clear. 

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There's a way that seems right 
to a man but in the end lies 

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death, so he makes his own path.
He directs his own steps but in 

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the end separation, separation 
separation. 

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He never lives up to the 
fullness of God, even if he gets

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the fullness of the world. 
For the Bible says, what good? 

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Is it a man? 
If he gains the whole world, but

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what does he do? 
Forfeit his soul. 

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Meaning, I never in my soul 
round where by emotions lie, my 

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feelings, my emotions. 
To lack my will and that area I 

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never transform it so that it 
conforms to God's word. 

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I only do my and no matter how 
much we seem to gain in the 

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natural, we are bankrupt and 
broke and every soul knows it. 

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They know it. 
So we have to understand, it's 

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no longer I who live, meaning 
it's not that you're not alive, 

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it means that you are choosing 
to say. 

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What does Christ say? 
Because if I'm gonna live this 

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life now in my body by faith, 
then what I'm saying is is I'm 

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saying? 
What would the king say? 

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How would the king respond? 
What is his Direction? 

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All right, and the reality is 
we've lived on our own thoughts 

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for so long. 
Some of us is very difficult to 

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let go of them but it's those 
very same thoughts as got us in 

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so many trouble, so much trouble
and we should be quick and it's 

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amazing I don't care how long 
you been in the church. 

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You cannot live by faith. 
Coming to church does not 

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guarantee you'll live by faith. 
In fact you can come to church. 

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Quit living by faith and learn 
to start living by your own 

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actions, by using the word and 
you'll be coined by Jesus, a 

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hypocrite because who Jesus 
called a hypocrite. 

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We're not people who didn't hear
his word. 

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But who would not apply is word.
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that word, be what they govern 
their lives by and live by. 

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They like their idea of God, 
better than God's idea of God. 

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And I don't care how long you 
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from God's idea of God to your 
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And the day you shipped, you're 
a hypocrite, you're a hypocrite,

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amen. 
So Hebrews 11:1 then what is 

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Faith? 
It tells us here. 

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The Amplified says now, Faith is
the Assurance as the title, deed

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to confirmation of things hoped 
for divinely, guaranteed and the

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evidence of Things Not Seen the 
conviction of their reality 

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Faith comprehends as facts. 
What cannot be experienced by 

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the physical senses. 
So faith, Is this firm 

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persuasion that What God Says, 
is the reality more than my 

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reality? 
Now, that's easier said than 

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done and it's easier to amen. 
But faith is not about just 

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acquiring something, although it
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reduced Faith to believing for 
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I wish we would believe to keep 
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I wish we would believe for the 
fruits of the spirit in a moment

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when it's required instead of 
just responding emotionally 

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because there's so many 
Believers that will not respond 

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in patients. 
Will not respond in self-control

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will not respond. 
A long-suffering will not 

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respond in kindness, will not 
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Will not respond enjoy. 
They'll absolutely cry whine and

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complain about the situation and
then talk about believing God. 

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You know, when Gods like, will 
believe me for the fruit that 

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you have joy in the midst of the
problem, because I actually told

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you to consider all joy. 
So why are you complaining all 

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the time? 
Why are you walking around on 

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both faced? 
Why you walking around and and 

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mad at you wife or your husband 
and beat them up with yours 

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because of the problems you're 
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Let's operate in faith in that 
life. 

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But man will believe God for a 
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Believe God for promotion. 
Believe God, for a bigger house.

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Oh, Hallelujah. 
Amen, thank you. 

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Jesus Romans chapter 4, verse 20
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This firm persuasion. 
That faith is what is faith is a

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firm persuasion. 
He says he staggered, not at the

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promise of God through unbelief 
but was what strong in faith, 

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giving glory to God and being 
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It is. 
Fully persuaded that what he 

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said, that's God, what he had 
promised he was a also able to 

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perform. 
So Abraham was like, God said, 

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this thing, I'm not going to 
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It, I believe him at his word. 
In fact, I'm saying what he said

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because I call myself Abraham 
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I'm a father of many nations, 
although, my wife is Barren. 

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She can't have no kids but we 
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can. 
And I'm believing she will 

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because he called me a follower 
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She's gonna have to have that 
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I said she's going to have to 
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Are you hearing me? 
So he knew the child was coming.

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Fully persuaded means to fill 
one with any thought conviction.

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It's an inclination is to know 
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We talked about what does a firm
persuasion feel like in us, you 

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know? 
And even though we Go by our 

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feelings, but it lets us know 
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That we are so confident. 
I talked to you about two plus 

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three equals. 
And I said, how many of you if 

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somebody walked in with a gun 
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says, you have to answer this 
mathematical equation or you 

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will literally die what is two 
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How many you be like? 
Bring it on. 

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I am not afraid one bit, right. 
And you were confident. 

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So I said this week, I was going
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Well, when I was in precalculus 
class this week, Because our 

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11th graders are in precalc. 
I was like, well, they ready for

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Dad, will get that little bit 
later on, in the end, the series

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will come back, bring that 
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Are you hearing me? 
So, with that being said, again,

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2 plus x equals 5 solve for x. 
How many of us will be confident

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that equation? 
Now some of you for the minute 

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you heard at your life, huh? 
But if you some think about it, 

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long enough, you already really 
know the answer, but there is a 

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way to solve for that, not just 
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There are steps and this is the 
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I know Faith. 
But when Iris know that I know, 

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there may be some steps involved
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and I got to go through the 
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And then I'll check my work to 
keep my confidence. 

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See, this is the difference 
between some people teaching 

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about faith and others is that 
people that don't understand 

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Faith, or what faith really is 
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They'll say all now, brother, 
you can't just sit there and say

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it's going to be like that, you 
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humble. 
Like, we can't know what God 

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knows that's like. 
You know what? 

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Well, if the Lord's will, I'll 
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Well, I already know what the 
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Right? 
So if I'm like, I know the 

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answer all brother be humble 
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Well, if the king told me how to
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the king told me my situation, 
it would be arrogance for me to 

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be like, well, I think I know 
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don't act like I know more than 
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I don't want anyone else to feel
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It mean when you're taking a 
test, are you really concerned 

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that you're going to look better
than anyone else in the 

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classroom? 
Have you like I got the best 

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great bam. 
Right. 

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Eli. 
What did you get? 

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I got 100. 
Now you know when you get your 

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hundred you're like I got 100. 
I mean like hey plus actually do

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you gotta hate? 
That's cute. 

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I got a plus a plus. 
Oh you're so arrogant? 

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No, that's called confidence. 
There's a thing about confidence

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in God's word. 
No, I know I have it because the

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King has said it. 
Amen. 

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So we're fully persuaded. 
So then we saw this and we're 

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getting close to where we're 
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Romans chapter 10, verse 16 and 
17 New King James says, but they

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have not all obeyed, the gospel 
for Isaiah says, Lord, who will 

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believe our report. 
I need to say this verse 16 

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because 16 qualifies 17 and 
Years. 

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I think the common thought 
concerning faith is that Faith 

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only comes from God. 
But by pure definition, faith is

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a firm persuasion. 
Verse 16 actually is qualifying.

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That faith comes. 
And there can be a faith, not of

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God and a faith in God. 
I must say that again, there can

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be a faith not of God. 
And if atha, you know, there are

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some people that are firmly 
persuaded that when you die, you

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don't go to hell. 
You just cease to exist. 

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They're firmly persuaded. 
And they live their life like, 

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that won't happen. 
There are people who are firmly 

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persuaded. 
That love is abusive. 

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Okay. 
That's why they keep going to 

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from one abusive relationship to
another abusive relationship 

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because that's how they were 
introduced to love or what they 

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thought was love or what was 
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And so they keep looking for it.
Amen. 

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There are some that I never get 
out of certain living conditions

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because they're convinced they 
could never go past that. 

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Because they've been told 
they'll never amount to nothing,

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you'll never make it. 
They've been verbally abused. 

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When I say verbally abused, I 
mean they've been told who the 

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world says and the devil says 
they are in order to keep them 

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from their potential and they 
believe it, they're firmly 

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persuaded so 16 is a qualifier 
because what it's saying is 

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listen some some things have 
been spoken and Isaiah was 

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saying Got a word from the Lord 
that I'm talking, but they don't

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believe my report. 
They actually believe a 

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different word. 
So that's why it says, so then 

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faith comes by hearing. 
So faith comes by hearing 

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period. 
But 1710 qualifies. 

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I how our faith should be heard 
or what word we should be 

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hearing and hearing by the word 
of God. 

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So faith comes by hearing guys, 
but you're hearing should be 

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from the word of God. 
You should put your firm 

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persuasion and what God has 
said, not in just any report. 

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I said not just any report which
means than every one of us in 

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the room have to now stop, how 
we think we're thinking. 

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And question, literally should I
believe that? 

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Does that line up with what God 
says. 

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Okay, and we learned last week, 
I don't have time to go through 

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it, but this was a very powerful
Truth for me that I began to see

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more clearly. 
Jesus only did what the father 

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said. 
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who lived by faith because he 
said I only do what the father 

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says, which means I'm only 
saying doing Moving in power 

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because it's required of dad for
my life. 

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In fact, I would submit to you, 
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stagnant or of no effect if he 
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and where most people Believers,
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are missing it is because they 
are trying to believe God 

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outside their purpose. 
They're trying to live their 

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life and want God to bless it 
with his word. 

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Jesus says, I'm only doing what 
I was sent to do. 

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I wasn't sent to build a 
mansion. 

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I wasn't sent to build a 
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I was see he stayed in his 
purpose. 

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See, if you look at all the 
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great exploits by faith, is 
because they were doing the 

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assignment. 
They were called to do. 

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I said they were doing the 
assignment. 

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The reason why Daniel and Joseph
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they were in the position. 
God ordained for their lives, 

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not trying to do their own thing
and we've got a gospel in the 

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United States that we tied to 
the scripture. 

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That most Believers are actually
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like it's God's best. 
When it's really just the 

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American gospel or we call it, 
the American dream, have a good 

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job. 
With good benefits, making 

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plenty of money and helping your
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That's not the Bible. 
The Bible is not like that's 

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that's all that matters. 
And we won't follow, God will 

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move places for a job but not 
for church. 

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Church is just something that we
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Which is a very big problem 
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head of the church, which means 
of me. 

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We're actually the body of 
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And his church is what you do. 
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of the church. 
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with the church. 
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life from it. 
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things. 
He said concerning his kingdom 

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seek Not listen, I know you're 
working a lot. 

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I know you working. 
I mean, I know you're working. 

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And I know you put a lot of 
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seriously, you should have the 
weekend. 

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I mean, who am I to ask you to 
come and sit around life? 

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I mean God forbid, write that 
Jesus. 

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The head of the church will 
require you to show up where he 

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can feel you. 
And give you the answers to all 

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life's problems and how to 
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Surely. 
Because again, this is how you 

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want God to be. 
Surely God understands that I 

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worked hard this week. 
Well, first of all, Jesus, never

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told you to work hard. 
Okay? 

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He said this, he said, if you 
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gonna love me with all your 
heart. 

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When our Lord, I gave you my 
heart. 

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I love you. 
I asked you to come my heart. 

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Say me, I love you. 
You know, I love you. 

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I didn't stop there. 
All your heart, all your soul. 

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I want your feelings mind. 
I want them all. 

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I want him to be director. 
I want you intellect. 

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I want you to sijin make it then
he goes on and goes beyond that 

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all your your heart soul mind. 
Then he says this and strength. 

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He never asked you to go work, 
40 to 60 hours, laboring. 

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So you'd so tired that you think
church now has an option and he 

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understands No, you're weak. 
Should be an outflow of your 

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assembly? 
Because if your week is an 

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outflow of your assembly, then 
you're not calling telling me 

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how tired you are. 
But will believe God for more 

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jobs, more contracts where we 
can tell God. 

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Oh man, I'm meddling I guess 
what we can tell God. 

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You know how hard I've worked 
this week? 

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The Lord's light. 
Well, I mean, why are you giving

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it to the Man? 
Lord, I'm doing this so that I 

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can give to you. 
Well, you need to give to me 

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because it's you given to me 
lies me to give to you, but I'll

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never give to you. 
That takes you away from me 

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because you understand what I 
told my nation. 

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When you get into the land where
you in houses you didn't build 

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and being as you didn't plant. 
Don't forget me. 

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But you done forgot me. 
Why? 

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Cuz you tired, you need your 
your own self Tom. 

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Myself died with Christ. 
I don't live. 

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I don't have a self life. 
I have a in him life. 

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Am I in lie in him? 
Life is like empowering. 

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It's like purposeful. 
It's like oh I breathe while I 

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sleep while I drink. 
It's where my fruit comes from. 

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Its where minor nourishment. 
I mean, he is the bread of life.

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And he empowers me. and Jesus 
said, you know, if anybody could

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have been talking in the garden,
Dad, you know how many people 

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have healed, because you've 
asked me do this, you're not me 

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Demons of cast out. 
And how many times we fed 

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people? 
And now I got to go get beat up.

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I'll get Stripes. 
Put on my back. 

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I need a day. 
Now, Jesus had days, you know 

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where his days were? 
He said he would often get up 

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early long before anybody else. 
You won't self-help. 

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Get up early before everybody 
else, get in the word, pray in 

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the Holy Ghost and you'll 
finally get some help. 

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Sometimes he pray all night. 
Why? 

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Because impact, he would say to 
his body, shut up, shut up. 

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You're not going to stop me from
doing my purpose. 

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He tell his mind. 
Shut up. 

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He tell his emotions, shut up. 
When Peters like me, it never 

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be, I will kill. 
Whoever tried to kill you, 

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Jesus, he was like, shut up the 
emotions. 

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You're not getting emotionally 
attached here. 

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You just go ahead and speak it. 
Like it is get thee behind me 

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Satan for you. 
Set your interest on answer some

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man. 
Not only interest of God. 

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You trying to play with my 
emotions right now. 

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You're trying to act like this 
relationship so important that I

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can't do the will of God. 
No no I'm a man of faith. 

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Let me just say this way. 
When we all get to heaven. 

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Many are going to be utterly 
shocked at what that actually 

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looks like. 
Close, it will not be vacation. 

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Where's my house? 
Lord, I'm just go and put my 

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stuff in. 
Whatever you give me. 

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Right? 
You know, I'm just happy with 

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the shack up there. 
You know, you don't have to give

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me any big strap again stuff. 
Now, we gonna lay up in our 

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mansion. 
The Lord's running the universe 

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Hall. 
I made it. 

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Man, you need to read the back 
of the book. 

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So faith comes by what hearing 
hearing from the word of God. 

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Look what it says in the 
Amplified says. 

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So, faith comes by hearing, what
is told and what is heard comes 

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by the preaching of the message 
that came from the lips. 

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Of the Christ, the Messiah 
himself. 

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This is where our faith should 
come from. 

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But faith comes from what's 
being told, you know, there's a 

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lot of things being told out 
there told how you're supposed 

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to respond to a pandemic told 
how you're supposed to raise 

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your children told how you're 
supposed to educate your kids 

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told how you're supposed to do. 
Practice is with your kids at 

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such a young age, that it keeps 
them out of church because they 

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won't make it. 
Told lot of opinions out there 

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that people are basing, their 
belief system, on their firmly 

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persuaded, they governs their 
life. 

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I said it governs our life. 
Do you understand? 

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We can have a natural faith and 
don't need God involved with it 

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in one sense. 
You can develop enough of a firm

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persuasion, I remember one time 
I was firmly persuaded in a 

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competition firmly persuaded. 
I was lifting my senior year in 

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the 132-pound class 
weightlifting. 

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We did bench and clean and jerk.
You have three lifts and Ben's 

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three lifts and clean and jerk 
you started at a particular 

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weight. 
We jump up to the second lift, 

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it had to be at least 10 pounds.
If it was a 5-pound jump is your

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last lift period. 
You can only do a 5-pound jump 

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between at your last lift per 
se. 

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So you always had to go higher. 
You could go 20, 30 50 pounds, 

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it didn't matter, you know but 
if if you're going to do 5 that 

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next lift your last lift so you 
know, we had this a 

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weightlifting competition and us
at Santa Fe High School in 

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Alaska, Florida. 
It was a countywide competition 

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so you had six eight schools, 
like beautiful. 

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Holds, you know, big school and 
then you have this little 

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schools, you know, that were in 
the county. 

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Probably PK young would have 
probably the smallest one at the

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time. 
I think we were to a Newberry 

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was too at the time. 
And so I left it in the 132 

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until County because when County
come, I drop. 

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Now I've never weighed 130 
pounds of high school. 

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It never happened. 
I never made the Pinnacle. 

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I didn't get there. 
I was about 126 so I had a shave

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off three. 
Pounds to get into the 123 pound

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class during the regular meats 
and showed up and all of a 

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sudden, here's a guy that all 
the 123s don't know about 

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because they've not followed on 
the paper. 

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They don't know I exist. 
But I exist So we got down and 

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we finished our bench. 
And at the end of the bench, I 

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was in third place. 
The guy from Santa Fe or the guy

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from Eastside. 
I believe was actually in first 

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place and then a guy from Santa,
Fe was in second place and I was

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in third. 
Well, you know, it's kind of, 

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you know, competition there's a 
little banter that begins to 

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happen, you know, you side to 
side yourself up, you know, you 

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begin to ask questions, you 
know, like what are you going in

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and what do you, what's your 
starting weight? 

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What are you going to put on the
bar that you're going to start 

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your competition with and you 
know, and strategy is don't tell

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them. 
So you know, I'm the guy from 

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Eastside. 
Obviously he's in first place 

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but he don't know nothing about 
me. 

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He can't look at my records, he 
don't know what I've done in the

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past and typically, you know, in
high school most of the time the

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bench is the strongest of all 
the athletes the clean and jerk 

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typically is way less than what 
they bench. 

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Okay? 
We're not just talking dead 

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lifts here. 
We're talking clean and jerk, 

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you got to bring it up and he 
get over your head at the same 

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time or we're not same time but 
over your head ultimately. 

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Okay. 
And so I want Telly. 

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Well if your weight that you're 
coming in passes you can't go 

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back. 
Once it hits 135 and then if 

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someone goes to 140 will you 
don't get it goes to 0. 

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Sorry. 
I want to do 135 too bad, you're

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doing 140 now, that's how that 
is. 

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So you got to go sign in with 
the judges, your start. 

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Wait, I didn't sign in. 
So the boy from east side is 

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like 135 each then I think maybe
145 145, he's in well, then he 

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did the traditional jump of Ten,
155, I'm not even signed up, 

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which means I can't go back. 
So he knows I'm going in a 

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weight that you're already 
doing. 

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I'm not even started. 
I think he end up doing us. 

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The 5-pound jump from there, 
maybe he did attend at 160 165, 

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he's finished and I haven't even
showed up yet. 

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Are you hearing me now? 
Why is this? 

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Because what he doesn't know is 
that I have confidence. 

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See I have faith in my ability 
to perform because I put in the 

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work and I know what I've 
already done what I've already 

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done. 
I've already won. 

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I'm not want to meet because I 
was in a higher weight class. 

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And those boys were pushing 
weigh more than me, but I'd be 

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like fourth place, you know, you
don't even make papers on Fourth

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Place. and so, The guy from 
Eastside went in at 165. 

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He jumped up. 
I think the 175 and that's where

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I jumped in at at 175. 
I hit the 175 good lift dropped 

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it. 
The next guy jumped five pounds,

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did 180, and my coach came over 
and says Earl. 

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If you do 195, you win the whole
thing. 

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That's a 20-pound jump. 195 win 
the whole thing. 

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Now, here's the thing. 
I've done 200. 

450
00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,100
So how confident you think I am 
right now? 

451
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:28,200
How firmly persuaded. 
Do you think I am? 

452
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,000
Do you think I was sweating? 
Do you think like, Lord? 

453
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,700
I don't know, man. 
I don't know if I can do it 

454
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:33,900
today. 
I just don't know. 

455
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,800
I was like, 120-pound 195, 
second lift. 

456
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,300
I was confident I had Faith. 
This had nothing to do with God 

457
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:45,700
in once that. 
You understand, I'm saying 

458
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,000
because there's a lot of people 
who are firmly persuaded about 

459
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,400
their abilities and what they're
doing and God is not even in the

460
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,500
equation and they were winning. 
I mean, I show you a lot of 

461
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,900
athletes that Jesus Christ is 
not their lord and they have 

462
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,000
championships. 
They cuss like crazy. 

463
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,700
They drink like crazy, they 
woman. 

464
00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,200
I their whole lifestyle is not 
of the Kingdom culture. 

465
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,300
And I say, praise God. 
All they wanted her mama but 

466
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:11,300
they live in, right? 
There's no faith in God there. 

467
00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:18,000
So I got up underneath the 
weight coach bass was on one 

468
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,400
side. 
My friend childhood friend. 

469
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,100
Chad was on this side. 
There's a spotters. 

470
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,900
I got down and there's three 
lights, right? 

471
00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:27,400
Because the judges do lights, 
they hit the lights and got to 

472
00:30:27,408 --> 00:30:30,000
get two out of three to be a 
good lift. 

473
00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:31,600
You got to bring it up to here, 
right? 

474
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,300
You can't roll it up, you can't 
Can't do that, it's got a hit 

475
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:38,100
here and then you drive it off. 
You can't press it. 

476
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,800
You have to drive out from 
underneath it. 

477
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,700
My suits, a little tight. 
So I'm not going to perform I 

478
00:30:42,708 --> 00:30:45,900
think today. 
Amen. 

479
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:51,800
So I got down to get my second 
lift. 

480
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,300
This wins the whole County 
competition. 

481
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,600
I go to, you know, put my butt 
down and get my back straight. 

482
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,100
Look at all of a sudden Behind 
the Lights. 

483
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:05,300
Was that the the Santa Fe God? 
Stand in like this. 

484
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:17,000
Staring me down. 
So, I got it. 

485
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:20,700
Hold it right here. 
But why was Jack? 

486
00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:23,100
I mean, the testosterone, the 
adrenaline. 

487
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:27,500
It's all like kicking right now.
You know, cuz I got this bro. 

488
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,400
So I'm here, right? 
And I boom through it. 

489
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,300
I threw it up so hard and so 
fast dropped out of it, that it 

490
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:38,500
actually got behind me. 
And I knew that's the problem. 

491
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:46,600
This is problem. 
So in Ms, I decided I'm coming 

492
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,300
out. 
I'm not going to try to win it, 

493
00:31:48,308 --> 00:31:51,200
on this lift. 
I just let go and walked out. 

494
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,700
Now, Chad didn't spot, right? 
We about snatched coach bass all

495
00:31:56,700 --> 00:32:00,500
the way across the mat because 
he caught his and Chaz, hit the 

496
00:32:00,508 --> 00:32:04,300
ground, you know. 
And so, you know, second lift, 

497
00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,700
no good. 
Now, it's down to my last lift. 

498
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,400
Coach bass came over there and 
you can't do this now in school 

499
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,400
because people get, you know, 
all tied about it. 

500
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:14,900
But he want, he said, come on 
man. 

501
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:18,700
You know, you got this new pop 
me on the, but you got this now,

502
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,200
so I got back up underneath now,
here's the thing. 

503
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:26,900
I didn't let And experience. 
Hinder my belief. 

504
00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:34,200
Cause I got it. 
I've done more and I push this 

505
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,900
thing so hard already is. 
So like to me it got behind me, 

506
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,000
I just got to have a little more
control so I got back down and 

507
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,900
you know who's staring? 
So it's not pulled it here and 

508
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:48,800
this this is it, you win or 
lose. 

509
00:32:49,300 --> 00:33:05,000
So I winked 
and I won the lift, why? 

510
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:12,100
Because I was firmly persuaded I
got it. 

511
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:19,600
Which means adversity the 
taunting of a the enemy so to 

512
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,200
speak. 
Didn't hinder me, didn't mess me

513
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,600
up mental, that's all he was 
doing. 

514
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,400
He was only are trying to get in
my what, trying to get my head. 

515
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,800
He's trying to intimidate me. 
You trying to say, you really 

516
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,500
can't do it. 
Then he actually had something 

517
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:33,900
to say was like bro. 
You blew the last when he didn't

518
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:35,500
say that. 
But you know his body language 

519
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:38,300
like right? 
I got this one. 

520
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,200
I'm thinking of, if you think I 
got it. 

521
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,900
Won't you sit down? 
Cuz you know, I got this, bro. 

522
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,500
Amen. 
We gotta be like this with the 

523
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:54,700
Enemy, we have to be like this 
when it comes to God's word that

524
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:58,200
were so firmly persuaded. 
Then we're not going to let you 

525
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,900
know, we're believe in and maybe
we didn't do everything right in

526
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,900
our faith, right then? 
But I'm going to gain my 

527
00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:07,300
composure because I know I got 
it and I don't care how many 

528
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:10,199
times the enemy staring at me, 
trying to intimidate me and I 

529
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:15,699
like I can't get this, I got the
word and this lips happening is 

530
00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:19,100
happening period. 
Now, with that being said, look 

531
00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:22,500
at Matthew, are the message side
of this? 

532
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,600
Scripture says the point is 
before you trust, you have to 

533
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,500
listen. 
But unless Christ word is 

534
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,600
preached, there's nothing to 
listen to. 

535
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,400
Nothing to listen to. 
I can guarantee in this room. 

536
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,300
There are some still today that 
there's some that have already 

537
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:48,900
overcome that. 
Your biggest problem is you keep

538
00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,000
listening to a parent talk to 
you. 

539
00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:59,700
You had a parent that said 
things to you that you still 

540
00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:06,100
have plan in your mind. 
You have a classmate, you have a

541
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:10,800
experience. 
Something is telling you. some 

542
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:16,600
have a people group talking, 
Reminding you of your past, 

543
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,500
where you came from, make sure 
you don't ever forget all your 

544
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,800
problems. 
And what you didn't have. 

545
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,100
And once you have been afforded,
not recognizing that really, I'm

546
00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:29,400
dead to all that I've been 
crucified with Christ. 

547
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,600
I'm in a whole new kingdom. 
My kingdoms. 

548
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,400
Never lost a battle. 
I'm part of a species of being 

549
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,700
that have never been enslaved. 
Anymore. 

550
00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:42,400
Never been defeated. 
Never been overcome. 

551
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:46,200
Will always conquer will always 
Triumph. 

552
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,500
So, I put on the new man because
the old man's dead. 

553
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,600
And when I put him on I don't 
let no other voice dominate my 

554
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,200
thinking in any situation in 
life, listen, what it says here 

555
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,600
in Matthew 16 verse 13 to 17 
Jesus. 

556
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,600
Again, trying to get to the 
mines of the disciples says, 

557
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,300
now, when Jesus came into the 
District of caesarea Philippi, 

558
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:15,500
he was asking his disciples. 
Who do people say the son of man

559
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:18,900
is, why does he want this? 
What is your faith in me? 

560
00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:23,300
Because faith comes by hearing 
and faith comes by hearing. 

561
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:25,600
Period. 
So you either gotta get your 

562
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,200
hearing in God's word because 
somebody's talking I said 

563
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,600
somebody's talking so he says 
who do people say that? 

564
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,400
I am they say some say, John the
Baptist. 

565
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,200
He was a great guy. 
Others say Elijah. 

566
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,700
He was pretty powerful. 
Some say, Jeremiah he was an 

567
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:42,600
awesome profit to he said or one
of the prophets and then he said

568
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,000
what he said, but who do you say
that? 

569
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,600
I am then Peter says, you are 
the Christ, the son of the 

570
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,400
Living. 
God, Jesus said to him, look 

571
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,300
what he says. 
Now, he said blessed, are you 

572
00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:53,200
Simon bar-jonah? 
Because flesh. 

573
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:58,700
And Blood did not tell you that.
When he says revealed me you 

574
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:01,900
didn't you're not hearing what 
flesh-and-blood saying. 

575
00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:05,600
You're not believing in what 
they say about me. 

576
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:11,100
But my father who is in heaven 
has said something to you and 

577
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,500
you are believing that So you 
got to ask yourself the 

578
00:37:14,508 --> 00:37:17,100
question, what is your father 
saying to you? 

579
00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:19,500
What is your father saying to 
you? 

580
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,000
Now, let me just go ahead and 
say this, if you're not in his 

581
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,600
word, dad's not talking. 
Because God talks through his 

582
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,000
word. 
Now, he can't speak to you by 

583
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,500
his Spirit things. 
That's true, but you'll always 

584
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:38,000
be limited to his voice. 
If you're not in the word, and I

585
00:37:38,008 --> 00:37:39,700
tell you, there's a lot even in 
this room light. 

586
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,200
I, you know, I really want to 
read a baba. 

587
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,100
Me. 
God talks to me. 

588
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,300
I'm telling you a lot talks to 
you and you're too proud to 

589
00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:50,100
admit it because you do more 
testing of faith in. 

590
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:53,700
You do actually living by faith.
What you do is you start on a 

591
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:55,400
path and you go and it falls 
apart. 

592
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,600
And eventually when Comes you 
give God credit for stuff. 

593
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,200
That some things. 
God's not even doing some of you

594
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,900
are getting jobs that God never 
ordained but the devil did he 

595
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:07,400
just keep setting you up. 
Because you can't distinguish 

596
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,700
between the voice, why? 
Cause you're not in the word, 

597
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:15,500
you cannot know what he's 
saying, without being in the 

598
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,000
word. 
Well, I'm not great reader. 

599
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,700
Well then go to God and ask him 
to continue to teach you, or go 

600
00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,600
ahead and get a tutor to help 
you, learn how to read better. 

601
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,200
Because at the end of the day, 
God is not well, that we do not 

602
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:33,200
become proficient at reading and
studying his word. 

603
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:41,000
We must become people that get 
in the word, read the word. 

604
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,600
I'm talking cover to cover now. 
So we get context of our 

605
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,900
heavenly father that way when he
does speak to us by the spirit, 

606
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:50,100
we can go back to his rig 
documents. 

607
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:52,800
Say that is exactly how he would
say that. 

608
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,600
That is exactly how he is. 
Just like Pastor Marcus one 

609
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,400
time. 
When we were over at another 

610
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,500
location, a guy showed up and 
said to me, hey, Pastor Earle. 

611
00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:04,800
I'm here, you know, I told you I
would come back. 

612
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,900
I'm like, well, praise God, good
to see you. 

613
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:08,500
You know, I mean, first of all, 
I don't remember. 

614
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:11,400
You telling me you were coming 
back to the other time but 

615
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,500
whatever. 
I'm glad you're here because I 

616
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:16,900
know what I'm fixing to say. 
Well that individually 

617
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:21,500
immediately went over to Pastor 
Marcus and said, I'll be doing 

618
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:25,700
worship with you today. 
I just The pastor I told him I 

619
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:27,600
would come back. 
You know, when the Lord told me 

620
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,100
to come and I'm here and so he 
knows. 

621
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:32,400
And I'm going to go get my 
guitar out of the car, and I'm 

622
00:39:32,408 --> 00:39:36,600
gonna do worship with you today.
Now, I'm glad that Pastor Marcus

623
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,600
was around me. 
He's been in my Leadership 

624
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,700
Lessons. 
He's been in my staff meetings. 

625
00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:48,000
He's been in all the meetings 
that Define my voice. 

626
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:55,400
That he didn't go well okay, 
praise the Lord. 

627
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:02,600
Come on up brother. 
He knew immediately that sorrow 

628
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,400
don't sound like that. 
He does not sound like that. 

629
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,900
He said, no, no, you're not 
doing worship today. 

630
00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:14,100
Know what happens is you're 
going to have to come to the 

631
00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:15,800
church. 
You'll partner with the vision. 

632
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,000
And then you'll go through our 
support of ministry class. 

633
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,100
Then if you want to get on the 
worship team, then we'll do an 

634
00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:26,400
audition. 
And man, we would love for that 

635
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,300
to happen to be awesome. 
He was encouraging but just like

636
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,700
no, bro, you ain't up on here 
because that's not the voice of 

637
00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,500
the pastor. 
Now, you know, how many people 

638
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,700
would be like, well, who's a 
pastor think he is? 

639
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:41,100
If God really told him? 
First of all, God did not tell 

640
00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:46,300
him because if God did tell that
he would have told me and I 

641
00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:51,800
would have allowed e. 
But he didn't he let me stay 

642
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,000
with protocol because God did 
tell me you let him be a vision 

643
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,100
partner. 
You cast The Vision because if 

644
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:00,100
they don't know the vision they 
perish. 

645
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,000
That's biblical then. 
You're going to teach him how to

646
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,200
do ministry because they're not 
doing it for you. 

647
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,300
They're doing it for me. 
Then you will allow them to be 

648
00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:14,600
able to be in an area and if it 
happens to be music, we're gonna

649
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:19,200
have to find out their quality. 
Because we're not going to train

650
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,500
you on the platform. 
Meaning, I don't even know where

651
00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:25,000
gcd is. 
You're not playing. 

652
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,200
Right, we got to determine. 
Where's the skill? 

653
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,300
Set at where we at? 
Then we've got some other things

654
00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:33,900
to say to you. 
Like God's not impressed with 

655
00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:35,800
your talent. 
God doesn't care that you can 

656
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,600
play good God, don't care. 
If you can sing and peel paint 

657
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,400
off the wall. 
Because if you don't have an 

658
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,300
anointing in a heart for God, 
you are a clanging cymbal. 

659
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:48,600
Because we know the heart of our
father. 

660
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,400
Never seen that person again, 
well, because that person can't 

661
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,300
function in his church. 
Now, he can function in other 

662
00:41:56,300 --> 00:42:01,700
places that do God, their idea. 
I mean, I know people who are in

663
00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:05,800
Ministries right now that have 
failed miserably but the minute 

664
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,000
they arrive at those churches 
because I know they failed 

665
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,400
miserably. 
And they have not repented. 

666
00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:16,500
I know this. 
The minute, they go to those 

667
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:18,500
churches. 
They're already on platforms. 

668
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:23,500
I'm Blown Away by that. 
Oh wow. 

669
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,600
What's wrong with these pastors?
I guess it's their church and 

670
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,200
not his All right, to say him in
any way. 

671
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:36,900
Mark chapter 4 verse 23 to 24 
says this. 

672
00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:40,100
If anyone has ears to hear, Let 
Him hear then he said to them, 

673
00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:44,000
take heed what you hear with the
same measure you use it will be 

674
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,100
measured to you and you will 
hear. 

675
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,500
And to you, who hear more will 
be given look how it says in the

676
00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:53,500
passion. 
If you understand what I'm 

677
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:57,900
saying, you need to respond. 
Then he said to them, be 

678
00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:00,600
diligent to understand the 
meaning behind everything you 

679
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,900
hear. 
For, as you do, more 

680
00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:06,500
understanding, would be given to
you. 

681
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,400
And according to the depth of 
your longing to understand much 

682
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,200
more will be added to you. 
Now, this is obviously in 

683
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,600
context of the parable of the 
sower and this is where the word

684
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,300
are. 
The seat word of the kingdom are

685
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:20,400
the word itself is being sewn 
and based upon how a person 

686
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,400
hears will determine how it 
produces. 

687
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,600
Right now in this Sanctuary with
all the people that are here, 

688
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:35,000
everyone is hearing the message 
different every one of you 

689
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,500
because you're hearing it 
through your paradigm. 

690
00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,600
You're hearing it through your 
Paradigm. 

691
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:45,500
Some of you are hearing it 
through your issue. 

692
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,500
Some of you are hearing it 
through your past, some of you 

693
00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:52,300
are hearing it. 
While something else is speaking

694
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,700
to you. 
About what you're hearing right 

695
00:43:55,700 --> 00:44:02,400
now. 
So how you hear? 

696
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,200
Well to be will determine what 
the word can do? 

697
00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:09,000
Well, I wish they preach better.
I wish you hear better. 

698
00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:16,300
Because Jesus was the best 
preacher. 

699
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,700
And they crucified him. 
So, how would they hearing? 

700
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,300
You know they heard they heard 
this guy is going to give 

701
00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:33,300
everybody the opportunity to be 
in their own power yet, then 

702
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:35,800
walk in love and unity with one 
another where nobody is going to

703
00:44:35,808 --> 00:44:39,100
be higher than anyone else. 
I don't think I like that. 

704
00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,000
Because I want people to depend 
on me. 

705
00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:47,500
And they can't Champion with 
somebody else's being used or 

706
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:53,900
whatever and can't step aside. 
So, how you here? 

707
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:56,200
But here's the thing. 
What about your natural hearing 

708
00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:01,900
Why is it that the doctor can 
say something about you and you 

709
00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:07,900
believe it? 
Because this words we have but 

710
00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:10,500
they took a blood test they said
this was it, I don't care that 

711
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,200
cancers in your body, doesn't 
matter. 

712
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,300
Got a testimony before service 
today if someone who went 

713
00:45:15,300 --> 00:45:18,800
because there was a lump in 
their breast, but the word of 

714
00:45:18,808 --> 00:45:23,400
the Lord came through, such a 
saint in the church that called 

715
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:30,400
out tumors gross in a service. 
They had a growth, they knew it 

716
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:37,100
because they felt it but they 
have not got it tested. so, when

717
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:40,900
they called them up, They had to
make a decision. 

718
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,900
Do I go? 
They of their own emission said 

719
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:50,300
didn't want to come but yielded 
anyway, And then the one, which 

720
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:51,600
was the st. 
Not me. 

721
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:53,600
Not a pastor, not a fight for 
Minister. 

722
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:58,300
Not a gas Minister but the one 
who delivered the word of 

723
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:01,500
knowledge by the spirit laid 
hands on them. 

724
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:07,600
And they went did a biopsy and 
his banana Hallelujah. 

725
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,100
When are you know, the naysayers
say, well it's probably benign 

726
00:46:11,100 --> 00:46:15,100
all this all the while. 
Well who says that, see how 

727
00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:21,200
quick we want to believe to not 
believe God, we would much 

728
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,100
rather write it off as if they 
never had it. 

729
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,900
Instead of God knew ahead, what 
they had got to healing power on

730
00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:30,100
them before they ever got a 
different report. 

731
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,600
But what if they had gone and 
got the report? 

732
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:39,400
They could have been said no 
it's dying and has to die 

733
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,200
because Lord you called it out. 
I commanded it and it must be 

734
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:53,800
gone, who's report? 
Whose report will we believe 

735
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:58,700
faith comes by hearing so we 
have to pay attention to what 

736
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:03,500
we're hearing. 
We have to question, I'm not 

737
00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,700
talking being critical, I'm 
talking about okay what are they

738
00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:08,900
saying? 
Because Laura, what are you 

739
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:12,600
saying? 
And let me tell you these last 

740
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,600
days, you're gonna have to 
become very proficient at. 

741
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:20,500
Hearing the Holy Spirit, speak 
to you more so than the experts.

742
00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:25,600
Let me just ask this question. 
Who declared them experts 

743
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:31,700
anyway? 
Who's given who has the say that

744
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:38,400
they're experts? 
there's Financial experts 

745
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:43,800
Health, experts education, 
experts, Who gave them the 

746
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,100
title? 
What body of work have you 

747
00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:50,300
research to find out? 
They're actually an expert. 

748
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:55,700
That's what we going to be 
careful. 

749
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:01,500
What we hear are, how we here. 
Because today's social media, 

750
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,000
we're here, and all kind of 
stuff. 

751
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,500
Who says they are the legal 
expert of something that just 

752
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:14,300
occurred. 
I mean there are body language 

753
00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:22,300
experts They will watch a 
person's demeanor and then get 

754
00:48:22,300 --> 00:48:27,400
on TV shows and breakdown, who 
they are, just by how they 

755
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,300
respond through their body 
language. 

756
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,900
You know, how many people 
believe that those people are 

757
00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:36,900
like that? 
Just because someone said, 

758
00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:46,200
because faith comes by They are 
76 million people in our nation.

759
00:48:47,900 --> 00:48:53,200
That have heard and believed 
that President Trump is still 

760
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,500
president. 
There are 76 million other 

761
00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:02,000
people that have heard that Joe 
Biden, is the president and is 

762
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,100
doing a phenomenal job. 
Don't laugh. 

763
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,800
Because I don't care about your 
opinion of either. 

764
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:14,500
My point is is you're firmly 
persuaded about either one only 

765
00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:17,700
based on what you're hearing and
the source of what you're 

766
00:49:17,700 --> 00:49:26,700
hearing, Because I can find 
fault with all of it. because my

767
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:32,000
faith is not in a man, but in 
Christ Oh, I would love to get 

768
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,000
around both of them and let them
know I have no opinion on the 

769
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,100
matter, but my king says, and it
do you well to govern, according

770
00:49:42,100 --> 00:49:47,400
to my king. 
Cuz you're not my savior. 

771
00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:50,200
You think your economic 
policies? 

772
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:55,000
Help me, I'm in the Kingdom 
economic system because your 

773
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:02,000
system rust and thieves, come. 
But in mine Moss. 

774
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,400
Can't touch it. 
Russ can't get it and fees can't

775
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:12,100
still. 
Are you hearing me but how many 

776
00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:14,500
of us have gotten uptight about 
what we hear? 

777
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,000
I've actually been accused 
during election cycles that I 

778
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,100
was supporting Trump. 
I'm like what's wrong with these

779
00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:28,500
people? 
I support Jesus Christ. 

780
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,700
I support policies that are 
favorable for the church and I 

781
00:50:32,708 --> 00:50:35,500
don't care what their name is as
long as they're doing that. 

782
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:41,300
Because at the end of the day, 
somebody's going to get in 

783
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:45,600
there. 
So who in the world, can we 

784
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,500
hope? 
Would yield to God some. 

785
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,300
And they don't have to be a 
believer. 

786
00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:55,700
I don't care whether they're 
believe or not, I just need to 

787
00:50:55,700 --> 00:50:58,600
know, will they yield? 
To the world. 

788
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,200
The Lord. 
Hallelujah. 

789
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,100
But we've become so sensitive. 
And our little groups. 

790
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,600
Right. 
Leo. 

791
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:10,700
Stand up, Leo. 
Leo. 

792
00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:16,800
Come down here, actually. 
Raphael, come down here. 

793
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:22,900
I usually do this, you know, few
times during my cycle of Bank of

794
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:26,700
a church and I lose people every
time I do it but that's okay. 

795
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,000
It's true. 
I do. 

796
00:51:31,900 --> 00:51:33,500
It's just because they're so 
shallow. 

797
00:51:33,900 --> 00:51:35,100
I'm just gonna call it for what 
it is. 

798
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:45,600
Do we look alike? 
But are we the same if you know 

799
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,900
your word? 
You know, we are, I wasn't 

800
00:51:48,900 --> 00:51:52,100
raised like Leo, I have no idea 
what's been bombarded in his 

801
00:51:52,100 --> 00:51:54,900
mind. 
I don't know about it, don't 

802
00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:57,500
know his childhood, don't know 
his upbringing. 

803
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,700
Right? 
So I have no concept of that. 

804
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,200
I don't know about his either. 
Don't know about it. 

805
00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:07,300
Now he's not authentic. 
Puerto Rican. 

806
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,900
It's a joke between him and his 
wife, his wife was actually born

807
00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:19,200
in Puerto Rico, so she's 
authentic, he was born in 

808
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:24,800
Boston, Boston, these are 
actually Connecticut, 

809
00:52:24,900 --> 00:52:27,400
Connecticut. 
So he's a con Rican. 

810
00:52:29,900 --> 00:52:33,800
All right man, when people see 
this they're going to get so 

811
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,200
mad. 
I don't rely. 

812
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,000
Oh my gosh, they just called us.
Ecause, you identify? 

813
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,700
What's wrong Nation? 
That's your problem. 

814
00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:43,700
And I'm not going to apologize 
that you're all uptight about 

815
00:52:43,700 --> 00:52:46,400
your little bitty Island 
somewhere or your little plot of

816
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:47,900
land somewhere. 
We got a kingdom. 

817
00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:50,400
My dad actually owns the planet.
He may rename it when it's all 

818
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,800
said and done. 
At the end of the day but all I 

819
00:52:54,808 --> 00:52:59,200
know is Leo. 
He's born again. 

820
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:05,200
Oh my gosh. 
And Raphael is born again. 

821
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:09,400
Which means. 
Now we in the same family. 

822
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,000
And he's required us no matter 
where we came out of 

823
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:22,700
geographically. 
Economically socially, right? 

824
00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:28,400
That we got to change this to 
reflect our for where's your 

825
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,100
daddy live at No, I'm talking 
about your spirit. 

826
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,600
Yeah, where's he at in heaven? 
Where's your daddy live at? 

827
00:53:36,700 --> 00:53:41,600
my dad lives in heaven too cuz 
he said our father Right. 

828
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:46,900
Our father. 
So his dad, he talks to just 

829
00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:49,700
like I'm talking to the same 
dad, not talking to a different 

830
00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:51,700
Daddy. 
I'm not talking to a different 

831
00:53:51,700 --> 00:53:53,800
daddy. 
So don't put me in a corner and 

832
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:58,900
say I can't identify with I 
totally identified now. 

833
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:01,300
I can't identify with someone 
who only identifies what he 

834
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:03,600
outside. 
I can't identify because I'm not

835
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,700
supposed to dignify. 
I'm not supposed to regard Any 

836
00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:07,400
Man In the Flesh. 
I'm only supposed to regard 

837
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,700
because God said, I don't look 
at man on the outside, I look at

838
00:54:09,708 --> 00:54:16,900
his heart. 
I'll just be quite honest which 

839
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:25,200
I'm totally offended when you 
call me white anyway cuz I tan I

840
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:31,500
mean, I'm definitely mocha. 
Easy, I can bring you up some 

841
00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:40,000
white people. 
We have a few, they're white may

842
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,400
they never let their legs CD 
daylight ever. 

843
00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:52,200
It's like ooh right so this true
there are some but very few Our 

844
00:54:52,200 --> 00:55:03,900
faith is not predicated on our 
site. so, at the end of the day,

845
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:08,900
Anything against the kingdom, 
regardless of who it affects. 

846
00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:14,800
I have a problem. 
Because I'm not identifying with

847
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,600
the people. 
I'm identifying with my dad. 

848
00:55:19,300 --> 00:55:22,600
And I'll do anything to bring 
Liberation, then I should bring 

849
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,300
a female up right now because 
Jesus was the greatest female 

850
00:55:25,300 --> 00:55:31,300
Liberator on the face of Planet.
My gosh, was he a liberator of 

851
00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:34,700
women? 
And why woman went love Jesus? 

852
00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:38,500
I have no idea because he is the
Liberator of women. 

853
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,500
Because in some places women are
still considered property in 

854
00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:47,700
today's world. 
Geez, that's hard to even 

855
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:50,200
fathom, but it's true. 
Are you hearing me? 

856
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:52,100
Thank you, young. 
Be seated. 

857
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:00,200
Let me close with this passage. 
I'll pick up next week in this 

858
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:05,300
concept of hearing. 
James said, and 122, he said but

859
00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:13,900
prove You sure? 
Would you come just come on down

860
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:16,500
now? 
You should have come down now 

861
00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:18,900
Usher's down we get some things 
moving real quick. 

862
00:56:18,900 --> 00:56:23,100
Come on Joe get don't get on the
line, he'll come down and I 

863
00:56:23,100 --> 00:56:27,300
don't mulch a team to come down 
to Okay, I just want you to get 

864
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:32,600
ready to distribute any, offer 
not offering but communion here,

865
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:39,300
okay? 
But prove yourselves doers of 

866
00:56:39,300 --> 00:56:42,100
the word. 
Who was that person? 

867
00:56:42,100 --> 00:56:47,400
They actively and continually 
obey God's precepts and not 

868
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:51,500
merely listening listeners who 
hear the word, but fell to 

869
00:56:51,500 --> 00:56:56,300
internalize its meaning. 
We can say this way internalized

870
00:56:56,300 --> 00:56:59,100
it to the point that we say Lord
we're doing your will because I 

871
00:56:59,108 --> 00:57:02,400
don't live anymore, I'm letting 
you live through me and my will 

872
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,600
is your will. 
So I'm doing it, they delude 

873
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,500
themselves. 
They by unsound reasoning. 

874
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:12,300
Contrary to the truth, meaning, 
but the doctor says, I have 

875
00:57:12,300 --> 00:57:22,500
cancer. but the doctor says, but
my account says, but Lord, don't

876
00:57:22,500 --> 00:57:25,700
you know what she said to me? 
How can I stay in this marriage?

877
00:57:28,500 --> 00:57:33,900
but Lord, you know what that 
manager did And yet, he's saying

878
00:57:34,100 --> 00:57:37,700
do this in this circumstance, 
prove yourself a doer of the 

879
00:57:37,700 --> 00:57:43,500
word by acting on what I say 
ain't quit reasoning out of 

880
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,100
another hearing. 
That's contrary to what I'm 

881
00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:52,800
saying. 
Quit doing it quit. 

882
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:59,200
Keeping your thought. 
Just go ahead and make yourself.

883
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:05,100
I'm just really not that smart. 
But God is and he loves me so 

884
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:06,500
much. 
He has a word for me. 

885
00:58:06,500 --> 00:58:08,500
That is the final say about this
situation. 

886
00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:11,100
If I act on it, it will be this 
way. 

887
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,500
Period. 
Prove it. 

888
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,400
Believe is a day or so 
sensitive. 

889
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:21,700
Well, prove me that you believe 
that. 

890
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:24,400
Let me see you to watch Ali, 
Walk In Love, prove it. 

891
00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:28,000
Because if you were, you 
wouldn't be talking behind 

892
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,700
somebody's back. 
You wouldn't be gossiping. 

893
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:37,500
He wouldn't be making it an 
excuse for your actions as if 

894
00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:40,500
it's okay based upon all that 
you're going through. 

895
00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:48,000
I mean, I know we all go through
stuff and I'm not saying you 

896
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,600
can't converse with someone in 
the realm of being tied about 

897
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,000
it. 
But the problem is most of us 

898
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,700
are trying to get counsel. 
Most of us are just complaining.

899
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Because we feel this way, you 
know, they did to me. 

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And half the stuff that's been 
done to you. 

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00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:10,100
Honey. 
Been done to you. 

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00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:14,400
You just perceive it is It's not
even reality. 

903
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,400
It sure, unsound reasoning 
contrary to truth. 

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That's fortifying your thinking 
that's keeping you in this 

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stronghold. 
Just like Joseph, if anybody 

906
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:38,300
could have said Lord, you know 
what they've done to me and now 

907
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I'm going to tell this guy how 
to get his Nation. 

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Had a famine. 
Rod, I got this truth the other 

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00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:55,200
day about Joseph's not my book 
callous grows in constellation 

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00:59:57,500 --> 01:00:03,100
Joseph gave the king to answer 
the answer to all of his 

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01:00:04,300 --> 01:00:09,500
Foreseen economic problem. 
That would have devastated his 

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01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:13,000
Nation. 
Yet his Nation never changed 

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01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:20,600
from hit their Prejudice of him.
Any still serving? 

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01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,400
Because when his brothers came 
into the house to eat, the 

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01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:30,700
Egyptians would not eat with 
Joseph, although he was the 

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01:00:30,700 --> 01:00:35,300
second, most powerful man in the
nation because they loathe 

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01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:39,300
Hebrews and the Pharaoh never 
did a policy to eradicate that 

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01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:42,800
racism. 
But Joseph didn't let that 

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01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,200
bother him. 
He didn't let it Define him. 

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01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,500
Because he was in a kingdom not 
of this world. 

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01:00:54,500 --> 01:00:56,500
Wow. 
Talk about a man of faith. 

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01:00:57,300 --> 01:01:02,600
I said what a man of faith. 
We got to be doers of the word. 

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01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,200
Because what you're hearing? 
Is how your? 

924
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,600
How you living? 
Are you living under fear of 

925
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,200
another pandemic? 
Are you living under fear of 

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01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,000
man? 
It collapsed economy or living 

927
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,400
under fear of our government 
going under? 

928
01:01:23,500 --> 01:01:28,500
Are you living under fear? 
That was going to be such, you 

929
01:01:28,508 --> 01:01:31,700
know, racial Injustice. 
Are you living on a fear of 

930
01:01:31,700 --> 01:01:35,500
that? 
Because these all could be out 

931
01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:37,400
there. 
But are you living under fear? 

932
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:41,300
Because you hear it so much that
you don't know that in Christ, 

933
01:01:41,300 --> 01:01:47,000
you've already conquered? 
And that you already been found 

934
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,300
with favor. 
And that he's always already 

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01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:54,800
called you to Triumph. 
And that he already has a way of

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01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,900
Escape for you and they had 
gives you the capacity to love 

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01:01:58,900 --> 01:02:07,200
those who don't love you. 
Because of the way you look, He 

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01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,400
has it. 
Will you live by faith? 

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01:02:12,100 --> 01:02:15,600
You got to choose. 
You got to choose. 

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01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,500
Because how you here? 
Will dictate what you believe. 

941
01:02:24,500 --> 01:02:26,700
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01:02:26,700 --> 01:02:30,100
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