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Today, you know, my message is 
pretty pointed straight forward,

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but yet I've got this stirring 
up emotions happening on the 

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inside of me. 
I can't articulate exactly why 

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that is, but it just comes up 
with this message. 

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And maybe it's because I 
realized that in the body of 

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Christ, there's a level of 
friendship that is rarely 

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attained to because of the 
inability to understand 

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Covenant, but I prayed today we 
begin to get into a journey 

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where it opens us up in our 
spirit, renews our mind and we 

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find ourselves being connected, 
a little deeper than just I 

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attend anchor, Faith Church, You
know, I subtitle this message 

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Kingdom loyalty. 
And today we're not filming this

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because we didn't film Mother's 
Day, you know, and even though 

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they were going to do, it said 
know, if we're not going to put 

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Mother's Day Out, We're not 
gonna put Father's Day out if we

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want to do that, we'll do it 
next year. 

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So this is in-house teaching. 
What do I mean by? 

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That is sometimes, you know, 
just because you can say 

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something beyond your house, 
doesn't mean that you should and

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not, everybody can handle things
that go outside. 

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Sometimes Jesus said, even to 
his disciples, there's many more

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things I love to say to you, but
you're not. 

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At able to Bear, which means 
there were some things. 

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He said to his disciples, he 
didn't even say to the public. 

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In fact, he said to you, it's 
been granted to know the 

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mysteries of the kingdom of God 
to them. 

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It's not. 
And so sometimes there's just 

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some things that we need to say.
I happen to know what the men 

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have heard here. 
So I'm going to say this if 

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you're a man today and you're a 
father and you're a first-time 

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guest with us, I don't know what
your background is and teaching 

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I don't know what you've heard 
from other churches. 

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I don't know if you've even been
to a church but I do know what 

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the men of heard here. 
And so I'm speaking to them. 

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Now, you can include yourself 
and you can grow and and, and 

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draw from it. 
But I'll say some things that 

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they will literally know what 
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they've experienced some stuff. 
We've walked through some things

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and they have some things in 
their spirit that the Holy Ghost

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will say, remember these things,
remember those things. 

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Now, the Mighty Man, 318. 
They have this thing instead of 

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saying, amen. 
If there's something that's 

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really awesome, they do this 
one, two, three and say, Yes, 

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together in unison, it doesn't 
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a church, but when it does, it's
pretty significant, amen. 

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And so, I don't know how often 
will do it today, but I just 

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asked you to jump in with us. 
Amen. 

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So I would subtitle this Kingdom
loyalty. 

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I always subtitle my messages 
that way. 

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I know. 
Subject I've ministered on and 

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when you look up the word 
loyalty it just means the state 

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of being loyal. 
So you have to look up loyal and

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loyal means this. 
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Allegiance. 
Unswerving in Allegiance. 

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And there's this thing about 
loyalty that just isn't there. 

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A few subjects in the word of 
God, that we're just not getting

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and it's a Miss within the 
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Body honor is one, not a whole 
lot of Honor going around in our

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culture today lost a lot of 
Honor. 

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In fact, it is the first 
promise, you get the 10 

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commandments if you read them 
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dealing with God himself when he
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He begins to deal with family 
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He uses first is honor. 
We've lost honor in the homes 

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and we've lost honor in the 
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Think we lost honoring the 
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that, it trickled out into the 
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Honors a big deal, honors. 
God still looks to God uses 

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people who walk in on her, the 
loyalties huge to because 

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loyalty is uhn-uhn swerving in 
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something happening. 
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surrounding it are always 
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There's always something there, 
that helps things remind people 

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of Something I'm committed to 
and we're going to see this 

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today. 
When we discover, who are 

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Fortress, friend is in Proverbs 
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It says this a man who has 
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friendly, new King James 
version, but there is a friend 

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who sticks closer than a 
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Let me Define a couple of terms 
at the latter part of the 

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scripture and then we'll go back
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The word stick means this or 
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adhere. 
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Time today with people cleaving 
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committed. 
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In fact, most of us don't want 
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know, we don't, we would love to
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require full commitment so much.
So that whole businesses have 

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changed, you don't even have to 
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anymore, you know, you you're 
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So there's this whole or that, 
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to speak and, you know, we find 
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find this with work. 
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generations of people before us 
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same company and they would stay
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if other opportunities were 
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basically go wherever it Best 
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And that happens even in the 
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Well, there's plenty of churches
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one. 
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scripture, you're not the one 
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it. 
Bible is very clear if you read 

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it. 
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And God, places you in the body,
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Hallelujah. 
We'll go on, let's go on. 

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So, it's to cleave it here. 
You got to ask her, you got some

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stick to it. 
This, I mean, that's not a word,

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but I'm just using it, right? 
You gotta stick to something, no

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matter what you, you can't come 
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look at his brother. 
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I mean, obviously we say 
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relative immediately, a natural.
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particular bloodline family. 
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and you could say family. 
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means of the same people. 
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fact, in its literal sense, it 
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Now, let's not love her. 
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you hear the word lover, you 
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lovers, not always sexual and in
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sexual. 
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means I'm willing to lay down my
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I'm willing to lay everything 
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your cause and to do it with you
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There's a love that a friend can
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And I'll show you from the words
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this scripture can be a little 
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When you just read the new King 
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down in its original language, 
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bottom line. 
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friends, you got to be friendly.
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friends than they must be a 
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Why everybody wants somebody to 
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So while we have the teenagers 
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Why because they want to be in 
to have friends and then if they

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don't have for a long then get 
rid of them to and have to stuff

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their showing shows up show and 
leaves and don't want your 

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parents to know what's going. 
On in first place, the world is 

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creating an app so that your 
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Rebellion. 
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Then they got other apps so that
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other apps so that you don't 
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And you think you've got access,
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That's a whole. 
Another sermon will preach one 

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day on effective parenting. 
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because you give your child a 
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smart enough to use it in or 
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I'm just going to be honest with
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You know, now every teenagers 
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don't care why. 
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young, I could, if I was going 
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look at how to go to the store, 
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And you had to actually present,
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were old enough today, teenagers
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They don't have to go anywhere, 
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it to their friends and you gave
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want to stay connected. 
Then give them a flip phone. 

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They just about being connected 
just about they can call you 

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when they need you. 
I mean you did fall apart 

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because you couldn't call your 
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Immediately pairs give an 
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Seriously, they can't handle the
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World's pushing it. 
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They're watching their little 
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TV and when that episodes done 
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What is that? 
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Let's stay on subject. 
Somebody need to hear that this 

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morning. 
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here when it comes to a brother.
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sticks closer who stays 
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it's not about natural birth. 
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So, let's read this in a few 
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called. 
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King the new King James and the 
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just being friendly. 
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friendly as kind of misleading, 
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little more context. 
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friends come and go friends, 
come friends go. 

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But a true friend sticks by you 
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Now, all of a sudden the 
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know, the friends, he's showing 
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context, the new King James 
should would be at his that. 

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You can try to be friends to 
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going to be your friend. 
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your life for the sake of 
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In fact, the majority, all of us
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All of us have failed God In 
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compromised because of a friend.
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what our friend felt like let's 
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translation. 
It says it this way there are 

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friends who pretend to be 
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But there's still a friend who 
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So just because you have people 
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1,000, friends are more, doesn't
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In fact, my wife we had this 
little joke with each other. 

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If one of my high school you 
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They'll say oh your friend, like
I said, they're not my friend. 

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They are an acquaintance. 
There's somebody I knew when I 

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was in high school but they're 
not my friend because they never

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call me. 
They never check in on me. 

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They don't show up at church to 
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They don't ask me out for 
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They don't want anything. 
Thing to do in my life, they're 

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just following my pictures. 
What kind of friends that, you 

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know, so many people are 
empowered by this and how many 

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people are depressed by this. 
Then all the sudden, so and so 

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didn't like it. but I thought 
you were my Another translation 

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says that this way, one who has 
unreliable friends soon comes to

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ruin. 
Well what makes them unreliable 

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because there's pretend friends.
Do they got? 

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You back until they don't have 
you back until the situation 

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happens that no longer they're 
not your friend. 

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Hallelujah. 
Another translation says this 

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way, one with many friends may 
be harmed, okay? 

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I don't want to have a friend 
now because some of my friends 

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are harm me, we didn't say 
enemy. 

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In fact, the King David wrote 
the songs and he said, man, I am

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distressed in my heart, I'm 
paraphrasing obviously he said, 

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man, I'm I'm broken up on the 
inside, he said, now, if it had 

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been my enemy, I could have 
handled this. 

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But it was someone who went with
me in the house of the Lord. 

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Who betrayed me one that I 
thought was my friend. 

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I mean I've been betrayed by a 
friend. 

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Yeah. 
We all have right? 

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But the question is what kind of
friend were we to them? 

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And what kind of friend were 
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We got to find this friend who 
sticks closer than a brother. 

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Last translation, New Living 
Translation, says this way, 

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there are friends who destroy 
each other but a real fent 

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friend sticks closer than a 
brother. 

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I like, what the message says, 
it says, but a true friend 

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sticks to Sticks by you like 
family. 

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Ali, you know, you start talking
about, someone's family, you 

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start meddling, you know. 
I you know, I can talk about my 

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brother, I can't talk about my 
mom and I'm talking about my 

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daddy, but you ain't going to 
talk about them ever been around

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some of those people before. 
Oh yeah, that tell you straight 

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up, you know, they'll be dog and
their kin folk out then all of a

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sudden you're not yet are real 
stupid. 

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Don't you talk about my brother 
like that? 

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I mean I was just agreeing with 
what you said, only I can say 

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that. 
Now, why did they draw a line 

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there? 
Because blood to them goes 

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further than your the hit their 
relationship with you. 

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Yet the Bible tells us that you 
can have a relationship with 

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someone that is not blood 
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the family, but yet, they can be
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than natural ones. 
Are you with me? 

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Well, Jesus lets us know this 
takes place. 

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Turn over to John chapter 15. 
Listen, all of us have had 

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friends. 
JoJo has friends, if you read 

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the book of Job, he had some 
friends. 

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They showed up when all hell 
broke loose covers loosen his 

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life, he lost his all in all of 
his livestock, all of his 

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possessions, his kids died and 
they showed up and sat down with

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him and he was quiet and 
morning, ripped his clothes, you

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know, trying to figure things 
out and they're sitting around 

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after about 24 hours of quiet. 
They begin, he began to talk and

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say, man, I don't understand why
this happened. 

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I don't recognize while this 
took place. 

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I don't get why God did this to 
me and it all of his friends. 

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Say you've sinned bro, start 
accusing him of sin, all of a 

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sudden turned on him said you 
there's no way all this would 

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happen. 
If you don't have a sin in your 

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life, in the fact that you won't
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Pride and I mean those three 
friends railed him for chapters.

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They had a little buddy as well.
That showed up, he was young, he

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wouldn't say anything but in the
He's like I can't restrain it 

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anymore. 
I'm tired of joke talking so he 

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just laid into him. 
God eventually showed up said 

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all. 
Y'all are liars. 

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Shut up. 
Then talk to job about a few 

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things and then job prayed for 
his friends because they were 

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off is like, you go have to let 
Joe pray for you. 

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I mean, I don't want a friend 
like that it's just sitting 

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around waiting for me to blow it
so they can jump on me for 

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everything. 
I had done. 

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Come on. 
How many Believers are up in 

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here? 
You know, you got some people. 

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You've been talking to, you've 
been witnessing to, you've been 

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telling about Jesus and they're 
like, your friend and use called

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him your friend and they're, 
they're nice to you, but the 

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minute, you blow it. 
They're going to pounce on you 

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and begin to say si and I 
Christianity. 

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That Jesus stuff in it. 
Well, where was their 

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friendship? 
They just waiting for you to 

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fail. 
What kind of friend is that? 

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You know, the prodigal son, had 
friends, dad. 

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I wish you were already in the 
grave. 

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I want my inheritance now son. 
Here's your inheritance. 

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Turn it, you can go, I'm not 
gonna make you stay. 

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So he takes off and on and he 
says, hey, I got my inheritance 

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and all of his friends says, 
woo. 

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Let's go. 
And man, did they go? 

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They had a party and his friends
were there. 

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Well, guess what? 
He ran out of money. 

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And he had no friend to go to no
friends have man. 

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We've been partying with you for
the last 6 months man. 

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Well you've ran out, that's 
okay. 

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Come over and stay here with me.
No, they'd be like bro you on 

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your own next thing you know, 
this guy is in a pigpen wanting 

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to eat what the pigs eat. 
Where's his friends at all? 

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Sure. 
Why you have a job and you're 

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being promoted in? 
You're going around? 

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Yeah, everybody loves you but 
the minute you know that runs 

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out. 
See there's some friends man. 

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Some people are around you at 
work just because they're using 

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you to get to the next place or 
they want you to get promoted so

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you can bring them along because
it ain't about you, it's just 

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always about them. 
Now we got to find a friend that

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sticks closer than a brother 
What does this friend look like?

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John chapter 15 verse 12 through
17? 

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It says, this is my commandment 
that you love one. 

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Another just as I have loved 
you, man, so there's the 

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condition. 
This is how we love each other. 

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I said, this is how we love each
other. 

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I said, this is how we love each
other. 

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How did Jesus loved us? 
He said this while you were yet,

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sinners I die for you. 
I first loved you, you didn't 

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love me. 
Amen. 

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That means you don't love 
somebody on conditions. 

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You just love them. 
Now, what does that mean? 

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That's not acceptance, because 
love will. 

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Let somebody go down the road 
just like the father of the 

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prodigal son. 
He could have said, Son. 

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Don't do it man. 
Don't go. 

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No, I'm not. 
No, I'm not giving you seen here

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and she can't handle it. 
Son. 

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You're not doing it. 
You can't do it. 

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I'm not doing it. 
You're not doing it. 

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Yeah. 
No. 

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He said here go. 
You don't want to be here with 

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me. 
Then you can go. 

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You know, Dad didn't do, didn't 
go running down that didn't go 

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check in on him, they didn't go 
bail him out the pig, son 

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enough, Seattle, you should 
listen to me. 

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Come on. 
Let me tell you here, you need 

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some money, you need some more 
money, you need some more money,

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you need some more money. 
Love, didn't do that. 

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Love stayed home. 
Love said I'm here and you can 

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come back and I'll take care of 
you. because when he's in pixel 

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off, he says, My dad treats his 
servants better than I'm being 

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treated right now. 
Now, I've blown it. 

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I'm a disgrace man. 
I shouldn't even be called a son

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but I know my dad's a good man 
and I'll just go back and serve 

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him. 
I mean, I would much rather be 

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one of his servants. 
Then do what I'm doing now. 

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And said he came to his senses, 
he got up and started heading 

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out and dad was on the front 
porch, with expectation, man, 

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sooner or later, my son's got to
realize that it's better to be 

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home. 
Home. 

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And there he comes over the hill
and dad didn't wait for him to 

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come say I told you so no he ran
to him. 

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Embracing gave him a hug and his
son was like, Dad. 

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Listen, I'm not worthy to be 
called your son. 

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I just want to be a servant. 
He said, nonsense. 

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Obviously he repented he 
realized his lifestyle was 

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wrong. 
He realized his thinking was 

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wrong and then that repentance, 
he put a robe on him. 

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Gave him a ring, gave him 
Authority. 

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Kill the fatted cow and had a 
party and said, my son was lost 

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and now he's found. 
Hallelujah. 

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Amen. 
But that only came because he 

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let him get to the place of pig 
slop. 

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Seal of a, let people get to the
place of pig, slop for the sake 

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of repentance. 
So when I say love, I'm not 

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talking about acceptance, I'm 
talking about getting people to 

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the place of repentance so that 
they can genuinely be restored. 

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Love will do that. 
And soul of God said I loved 

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you. 
I've given myself for you. 

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You didn't love me. 
I did what I was supposed to do 

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to give you an opportunity. 
Now, it's on you. 

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I said it's on you and Jesus 
does done, everything is laid 

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on. 
You, you're the one who decides 

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whether to come to the Lord or 
not. 

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It's on you. 
There's no longer on Jesus, he's

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paid the price. 
All you got to do is come But if

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you don't come it's on you and 
lover, let you stay where you're

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at even though loves provide it 
for you, not to be there. 

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Come on. 
Are you with me? 

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So he's saying now you've got to
love this way. 

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Know how to love to bring 
provision and give opportunities

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for people to come and receive 
that love. 

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Then he goes on and says that 
this way greater love has no one

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than this then one who lay down 
his life for his friend. 

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What's that mean? 
We starting to move into what a 

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fortress friend is? 
That is somebody who's saying, 

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listen, I'm going to lay my life
down for you. 

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I'm gonna take up your cause I'm
gonna take care of what's 

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important to you. 
I'm going to help you out. 

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I'm not gonna pursue me. 
I'm gonna pursue you as if you 

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were me. 
This is what he means by that he

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goes on and says this way you 
are my friends. 

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If say yes come on turn to a 
neighbor say yes, now Jesus is 

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defining. 
What a friend is and this is 

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where we get in trouble. 
Believers try to Define God's 

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terms is God who has the right 
to Define them. 

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So don't tell me what a friend 
is, unless it lines up with the 

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word you can sing it. 
I Am A Friend Of God. 

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I'm a friend of God. 
I'm a friend of God. 

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I Am A Friend Of God. 
He calls me friend. 

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It's old song, right? 
They meant that her to have you 

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heard that before. 
Okay, good. 

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I want a great rendition but 
that's why I don't sing all the 

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worship team now, Pastor Marcus 
was here. 

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I'd sound way better. 
Seriously, you need to know, you

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get connected people to make you
sound better. 

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And I know when I sing with 
Pastor Marcus, I sound better 

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all the time. 
Seriously, you can go solo, you 

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want to, and they give you the 
x's and be like, you're gone, 

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man. 
You're horrible, get out of 

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here, but I mean, Pastor Marcus 
do a duet, it'd be like, dang, 

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they pretty good. 
Hallelujah, you need to get 

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around people to make you look 
better. 

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Make you sound better, that's 
what I'm saying. 

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So here, he Says, you are my 
friends condition. 

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If you do what I command you. 
So if you're not doing what 

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Jesus says, you're not his 
friend. 

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All right, I'll come over here a
little bit further. 

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We're not filming today so I can
get all. 

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I get off the platform today. 
Only get stay on it because the 

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lighting, listen, you are not a 
friend, if you're not doing what

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he says, I don't care if she's 
home. 

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Jesus, friends, you're not. 
You can't be his friend outside 

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his condition. 
He lays it out, you if he says 

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you are my friends, if you do 
what I command no longer do I 

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call you slaves for a slave, 
does not know what his master is

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doing. 
So what he says is I'm going to 

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reveal things to you said, go on
to the next verse, so you're no 

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longer slaves, you're going to 
move into friendship status. 

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Why? 
Because he's not withholding 

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information, he's communicating 
he said, but I have called you 

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friends for all things, which I 
have heard from my father. 

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I have made known to you. 
You he says, you didn't choose 

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me, but I chose you and 
appointed you that you would go 

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and bear fruit and that your 
fruit would remain. 

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So that whatever you ask of the 
father in my name, he will give 

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you this. 
I command you. 

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Now, this is not a suggestion. 
So if you're going to be Jesus 

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friend, then you got to do what 
he says that you love one 

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another, why did he know this? 
Because he knew this if you 

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gonna become a friend that 
sticks closer than a brother, 

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then you gonna get around some 
people that are family but not 

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family, their family spirit 
Sleep. 

448
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:05,600
But they're not family naturally
and spiritual families can blow 

449
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,600
it. 
It's amazing. 

450
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,000
We go have a big family reunions
with a bunch of people that we 

451
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,100
don't hardly have any 
relationship with. 

452
00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:16,700
We all wear the same t-shirts, 
we eat around the same table and

453
00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:18,700
man we will be to get each 
other's back. 

454
00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,000
But yet we know, they ain't no 
good, ain't living right day, 

455
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:29,200
doing nothing good. 
That's family. 

456
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,700
That's my family. 
And we like so full of pride in 

457
00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:34,100
it. 
And you know that and you're 

458
00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:36,000
like forgiving them. 
Well you know, that's just, you 

459
00:24:36,008 --> 00:24:39,100
know, how they are, you know how
they are. 

460
00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:41,900
You know how they are. 
But in you get around a brother 

461
00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:45,200
in Christ that makes a mistake 
and we're like, who are you and 

462
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,600
got him off. 
This is why Jesus and I command 

463
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,500
you love them because you're 
going to go around and start 

464
00:24:52,500 --> 00:25:00,200
talking natural family over 
spiritual family. so he defines 

465
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,600
friends, friends are those who 
keep my word then later on in 

466
00:25:04,608 --> 00:25:06,800
the same chapter, or not the 
same chapter, but in another 

467
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:14,700
chapter where we at what 
chapters is Matthew 12 verse 46,

468
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,600
then he defines family not only,
does he find friend, he defines 

469
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:27,100
family, Ready while he was still
speaking to the crowds to hold 

470
00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:30,400
his mother. 
And his brothers, were standing 

471
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,500
outside seeking to speak to him,
who's looking for him. 

472
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,400
His mother and his who. 
What are they? 

473
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,200
They're Brothers right there. 
Family, someone said to him, 

474
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,300
behold your mother and your 
brothers are standing outside 

475
00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:47,900
spit seeking to speak with you. 
But Jesus say, but Jesus say, 

476
00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:53,600
but Jesus, who's talking who's 
Talking, who's talking Jesus Is 

477
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,100
God, he's the second person of 
the godhead. 

478
00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,300
He is the Son of God, and God is
not a man that he should lie. 

479
00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:01,700
So, Jesus Christ doesn't lie. 
So what he's about to say is 

480
00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:07,600
truth, But Jesus answered the 
one who was telling him and 

481
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,500
said, so in essence, it's like 
Kenny over here saying hey 

482
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:14,500
Pastor Earle your wife, you 
know, are your mom's here and 

483
00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,200
your sisters here. 
They're looking to speak to you 

484
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:23,300
and I go Kenny. 
Who is my mother and my mom's 

485
00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:27,300
right outside the door. 
Now, my mom be like, what did he

486
00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:32,400
say? 
Because I know how your mom's 

487
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,500
think. 
I mean, what would you do if 

488
00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:36,500
your child won't him says, who's
my mom? 

489
00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,400
Who's your mama boy child 
please? 

490
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,100
I'll slap you right now. 
That's it. 

491
00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:44,300
I'm your mom. 
Do you feel that? 

492
00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:48,200
I'm your mom, right? 
I'm your mama. 

493
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,400
I brought you into this world. 
Yeah, see y'all? 

494
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,500
Got that down? 
Only had to finish it. 

495
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,200
Mama's, y'all use that all the 
time. 

496
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,300
I take you out. 
I take you out. 

497
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,600
You need a little Hit Cha please
up. 

498
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,700
Right? 
I Jesus did this. 

499
00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:07,500
I'm surprised. 
She didn't go grab him by the 

500
00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:08,800
ears. 
A bull you coming with me right 

501
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,900
now. 
She didn't do that though. 

502
00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:13,100
Did she know know? 
But look at Jesus answering 

503
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,200
said, who is my mother? 
And who are my brothers and 

504
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,700
stretching out his hands towards
his? 

505
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,700
Not converts. 
But those who are enlisted as 

506
00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,900
pupils. 
These are people who are studies

507
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:30,300
of the word. 
Who said, man, I'm giving my 

508
00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,800
life to you, I want to know your
ways, and I want to do it your 

509
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:41,000
way. 
He said, behold my mother and my

510
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,700
brothers for whoever. 
For whoever now he's, he's 

511
00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,400
defining why he can call you 
family. 

512
00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,700
For whoever does the will of my 
father, who is in heaven. 

513
00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:59,400
He is Do you see this for 
whoever that's not the pastor's?

514
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,900
That's not the prophets, that's 
not the apostles outside. 

515
00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:03,600
The Evangelist that's not the 
teachers. 

516
00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:08,000
It's not the five full minutes. 
That's whoever for whoever does 

517
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,700
the will of my father who is in 
heaven, he is my brother and 

518
00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:18,400
sister and mother. 
Wow, what a powerful statement 

519
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,000
so we see in Proverbs that 
there's a brother that sticks 

520
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,200
close. 
There's a friend that sticks 

521
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,400
closer than a brother someone 
who is in a covenant love 

522
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,600
relationship with someone even 
though naturally they're not 

523
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,400
related at all. 
And then Jesus lets us know. 

524
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,100
You can be my friend even though
Mama Mary didn't bring bring you

525
00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:41,400
into the world. 
Jesus had some brothers that 

526
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,600
came from Mama married, but 
there were plenty in the room. 

527
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,800
Did it go from? 
Mama Mary and he says them. 

528
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,400
No. 
Listen, you can be in my family,

529
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,400
too. 
All you got to do is do the will

530
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,400
of my dad and you'll show 
yourself a friend to me when you

531
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,300
do what I say. 
He defines these things. 

532
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,100
Now there's an example in the 
word of God of this Fortress 

533
00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:11,600
friendship, meaning someone that
is fully rely upon that's going 

534
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,600
to cleave and stick to them. 
No matter what say, no matter 

535
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:21,000
what, it's very important, very 
important because the church 

536
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,400
should have these types of 
relationships in them. 

537
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,200
Anchor. 
Faith Church has gone beyond 

538
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,200
just ministering. 
The truth message that if you 

539
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,900
accept Jesus as your savior that
he died on the cross and Rose 

540
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:43,200
from the grave for you, paid the
price for your sins. 

541
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,500
That when you acknowledge that 
you'll be born again. 

542
00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:47,300
And when you die, you'll be 
present with him. 

543
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,400
That is a true statement and 
most Believers limit their 

544
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,200
existence and relationship to 
God. 

545
00:29:54,200 --> 00:30:00,000
In In that sphere. 
We've gone to additional truths 

546
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:05,000
that our family, grew Beyond me,
just being right with a personal

547
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,400
savior that not only do I have 
this relationship, but I have 

548
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,100
this relationship and this 
relationship commanded me to 

549
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:21,600
have this one. 
Which means it isn't about him 

550
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,600
being in my address. 
It's about him being through me 

551
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,000
to effect. 
All kinds of addresses. 

552
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,700
My assignment. 
And your assignment is not just 

553
00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:39,200
to get one person to get them to
God, get him to God, get him to 

554
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,900
God, get her to God. 
All I do. 

555
00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:42,100
I'm just trying to get you 
there. 

556
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:45,000
Trying to get you there. 
No, I introduced you to him 

557
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,900
because we need to get 
connected. 

558
00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:56,500
God wanted his family to 
manifest in the Earth. 

559
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200
If it was just about you knowing
Jesus alone, then he went to 

560
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,900
command us to like each other. 
Kenny I don't like you at all, 

561
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:08,900
but I'm just glad you're going 
to heaven, right? 

562
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:13,700
I could say that. 
Right, I mean hey I'm we do this

563
00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:17,800
in our own natural. 
Dad did love you more mom, shh. 

564
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,300
But yeah we're family. 
We put up with each other even 

565
00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:28,700
though we don't like each other.
Okay, I'll go over here spawn 

566
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,300
but you're only upset at me 
right now because I'm talking 

567
00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:39,300
about your family. 
That's all I understand, but I 

568
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:41,100
am talking about your family, 
the one that you don't 

569
00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:44,800
acknowledge enough, it's called 
a spiritual family. 

570
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,500
No, I'm more concerned. 
I'm not just concerned about 

571
00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:53,400
Kenny knowing our dad, but I 
want to know my brother. 

572
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,100
I want to know him. 
Because Dad commanded me through

573
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,700
the son Jesus, that this is my 
brother and I'm the love him. 

574
00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:05,900
now, how do I know he's my 
brother because he's doing the 

575
00:32:05,908 --> 00:32:12,600
will of the father Hallelujah. 
So we see an example of this 

576
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,400
take place through the life of 
two gentlemen, in the word of 

577
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,100
God. 
One was named David and the 

578
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:22,400
other is Jonathan. 
And we come on the scene, I'm 

579
00:32:22,408 --> 00:32:24,500
going to read a few passages of 
scripture just to bring us into 

580
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:26,100
perspective here. 
I think I'm just going to for 

581
00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,100
the sake of time. 
I'm this service I want to read 

582
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:31,100
a few first and then explain 
them. 

583
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,700
Okay? 
So this relationship between 

584
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:40,100
Jonathan and David happens 
around the death of Goliath. 

585
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,000
So let's bring it into 
perspective here. 

586
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:47,900
So King saw is been made king of
Israel, only because the whole 

587
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,300
nation has rejected, God 
himself, as being King, First 

588
00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,900
Samuel, chapter 8 and so he's 
put an anointing on a man, that 

589
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:56,900
obviously is not done a very 
good job with that anointing. 

590
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:01,000
In fact, he's actually rebelled 
against God and God's pull the 

591
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,300
anointing off of him in return, 
evil spirits, coming tormenting.

592
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,900
So God now is like, I'm going to
get a different king. 

593
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,400
That's one after my own heart. 
I gave them the king, the people

594
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,100
want. 
Now I'm going to put it in place

595
00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,700
of king that's after my heart. 
He's not a person pleaser. 

596
00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,100
He's a god pleaser. 
And he went looking for one and 

597
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,600
found one out in the field. 
All he was was just watching a 

598
00:33:25,608 --> 00:33:30,800
bunch of sheep, but man, he had 
a heart after God, so Samuel 

599
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,200
goes looking for him bouncing of
God and goes into the man's 

600
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,000
house and they wait till he 
comes. 

601
00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:37,900
He's out of the field and 
anoints him is King. 

602
00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,700
The guy has the anointing of 
King on him, although he's a 

603
00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:44,100
lad. 
Well, King Saul's having issues 

604
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:48,500
in the, in the, you know, Castle
because he's having being 

605
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,900
tormented by this evil spirit. 
And so someone suggests that 

606
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:55,500
they bring somebody in who can 
play music and soothing, well, 

607
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:58,200
apparently, David have had a 
reputation of being a great 

608
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,700
musician. 
So they pulled him in off the 

609
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:04,600
field and he would play a harp. 
And when he would play and sing,

610
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,700
the spirit would leave, and 
Kingwood and King Saul would be 

611
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:10,199
at peace. 
Now you think King Saul know who

612
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,100
this guy is? 
But he doesn't he has no 

613
00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:17,600
recollection of the guy playing.
This guy shows up on the 

614
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,400
battlefield. 
Why? 

615
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,900
Because he'll only go to the 
king's Palace when the evil 

616
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,300
spirits, tormenting Saul. 
And when that was done, he 

617
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:25,500
brought peace. 
He'd go back home and take care 

618
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,300
of the flops with Dad. 
He happens to be taken care of 

619
00:34:27,308 --> 00:34:28,600
the flocks and death. 
Says listen. 

620
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,199
Some of your brothers are going 
to war and so I need you to go 

621
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,199
take them some provision and 
find out how everything is 

622
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:34,900
going. 
Well, he shows up and he's 

623
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:38,199
talking, he's looking for his 
brothers and gets about where 

624
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:42,500
they're at and he overhears the 
conversation because Glide shows

625
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,500
up and begins to talk the armies
of God Israel. 

626
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:49,000
And David when he hears this is 
like what in the world's going 

627
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000
on. 
Right? 

628
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:55,000
And he makes this statement who 
is this uncircumcised Philistine

629
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,100
that toss the armies of God? 
Then he comes to find out that 

630
00:34:58,100 --> 00:35:02,000
if you kill this guy that he'll 
get the marry one of the Kings 

631
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,700
Daughters that he'll have a 
place with the King and that his

632
00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:10,800
family, I mean, his whole leg 
lineage family, lineage will no 

633
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,700
longer have to pay tax to the 
king. 

634
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:18,100
And he's like, seriously, that's
why, is somebody not doing this?

635
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,500
Well, when his oldest brother, 
here's this the one who was 

636
00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:25,300
overlooked for King first, When 
the prophet Samuel came in and 

637
00:35:25,308 --> 00:35:28,500
says, that must be the king. 
And he says, Nope, son. 

638
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,900
That's not the king. 
Because I am not a man. 

639
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,200
I don't look at the outward 
appearance. 

640
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,400
I look at the heart, go to the 
next So, the oldest brother, the

641
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,000
natural brother says, I know 
your heart going back home. 

642
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:41,800
You little Shepherd. 
Boy. 

643
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,700
You have no part to play here. 
In fact was rude to him King. 

644
00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:47,700
David's, like David at the time,
but he is King, but he's not 

645
00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:49,600
acting King. 
As far as in a position, he's 

646
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,500
like, I said, you know what? 
If I said to you, I just asked 

647
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:53,900
him a question and I said shut 
up, don't talk to me. 

648
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Guess back to King Saul King, 
Saul shows up. 

649
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,400
And David begins to look at me 
says, don't let your heart be 

650
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,800
troubled. 
King, Saul, no problem. 

651
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,400
This giant be no different than 
the line in the bear. 

652
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,700
I've killed because against God,
he's nothing. 

653
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,100
King Saul was like bro. 
You just a little youth, man. 

654
00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:13,300
He's been a warrior since his 
youth. 

655
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:15,300
He'll eat you up and throw you. 
Spit you out and all that. 

656
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:16,900
He said man, I've killed The 
Lion and the bear, that's no 

657
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,200
problem. 
King Saul's like wow. 

658
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,000
Okay yeah here's my armor. 
Go do a man. 

659
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,500
Nobody else is going to do it. 
He's like I can't use all this 

660
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:24,300
stuff. 
I'm not tested. 

661
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:25,600
I'll just go out with what I 
have. 

662
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:28,600
Now what we don't know is 
someone's in the room. 

663
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,500
And it's the king son. 
His name's Jonathan here in all 

664
00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:36,500
this David Goes Down And he does
exactly what he said he'd do to 

665
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:38,400
the jot. 
He kills it cuts his head off, 

666
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,000
then goes and takes care of the 
army. 

667
00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:45,300
And then coming back, he has the
giant sword and his head and 

668
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:49,700
presents it before the king. 
And he's talking to the king and

669
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:54,100
in the room as his son, 
Jonathan, the heir to the throne

670
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,200
And when this takes place, it 
says here in first Samuel 

671
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,900
chapter 18 it says. 
Now it came about when he had 

672
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,800
finished speaking to solve that 
is sold that the soul of 

673
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,300
Jonathan was knit to the soul, 
soul of David, and Jonathan 

674
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,700
loved him as himself. 
Notice how did he loved him as 

675
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:18,100
himself, not sexually. 
He loved him as himself. 

676
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,600
Which means whatever I would 
want done for me. 

677
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:31,000
I'm going to do for this guy. 
Saul took him that day and then 

678
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,300
I let him return to his father's
house. 

679
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:35,700
Then Jonathan made a covenant 
made a what made a covenant with

680
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:37,700
David because he loved him as 
himself. 

681
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,400
Jonathan stripped himself of his
robe that was on him and gave to

682
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,300
David with his armor, including 
his sword and his bow and his 

683
00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:51,400
belt in essence. 
He said, I have the right to the

684
00:37:51,400 --> 00:38:03,400
throne I give it to you. 
Wow. in essence, if I was King, 

685
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,800
then I would be over your 
family. 

686
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,700
I want you to take my place and 
be over my family. 

687
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,900
Just take care of my family, 
like I would take care of yours.

688
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:23,200
They entered into Covenant. 
In essence, they had each 

689
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,300
other's back, we jump to the 
next chapter. 

690
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,500
So on Samuel first name, your 19
1 through 3. 

691
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,800
It says, and soil salt old, 
Jonathan, his son, and all his 

692
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,700
servants to put David to death 
King, Saul had a problem with 

693
00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:34,700
David. 
Why? 

694
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:37,900
Because he's winning wars. 
And he gets a more accurately 

695
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,600
than sawdust and he's like, man,
he's gonna take my kingdom from 

696
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,200
me. 
So he becomes possessed 

697
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,700
possessive and basically want to
kill the guy. 

698
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,400
He wants to kill the guy first 
because I don't want to lose my 

699
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,900
kingship. 
So Jonathan told David Saul. 

700
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,900
My father is seeking to put you 
to death now. 

701
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,100
Therefore, please be on your 
guard in the morning and saying 

702
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:57,500
the secret place and hide 
yourself. 

703
00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:01,400
I will go out and stand beside 
my father in the field where you

704
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,000
are. 
And I will speak to my father 

705
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
about you. 
If I find anything, then I would

706
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,600
tell you in essence. 
He's like, look. 

707
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,500
I know my dad's mad, but I'm 
gonna go to your defense. 

708
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:16,500
What a friend? 
He didn't say well Dad's upset 

709
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:26,000
Families, First? 
Father Knows Best better, killed

710
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,900
David. 
Forget all that Covenant stuff. 

711
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,300
I mean, I thought it was good, I
mean the guy was a champion but 

712
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:33,900
apparently he's like pulling the
kingdom to himself. 

713
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:37,000
I don't know about this guy. 
Now he didn't take the words of 

714
00:39:37,008 --> 00:39:44,200
his dad, he stayed a friend by 
the next chapter. 

715
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,100
We see because we understand 
that he does convince his dad to

716
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,900
not do this thing. 
That what value that David had 

717
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,200
and he kept him from killing him
that day. 

718
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,800
But King Saul gets it in his 
mind. 

719
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,500
Again, got to kill the god, this
time, he decides, I'm not going 

720
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,100
to tell my son. 
So then in the next chapter of 

721
00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:05,800
the first four verses David, he 
flees and says to came and said 

722
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,100
to Jonathan, what about Don, 
what is my iniquity? 

723
00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:09,700
What is my sin before your 
father? 

724
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:13,400
That he's seeking my life and 
then Jonathan says, listen, Far 

725
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,000
far from it, you shall not die. 
Behold my father does not does 

726
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,600
nothing either great or small 
without disclosing it to me. 

727
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,900
So why should why should my 
father hide? 

728
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:26,900
This thing for me it is not. 
So in essence, you talking bad 

729
00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:32,500
about my daddy? 
My daddy told me that you lying 

730
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:34,300
right now. 
Now you understand where he 

731
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,400
could go but where does Jonathan
go because he's a fortress 

732
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,600
friend. 
He says this yet. 

733
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,600
David bowed again saying your 
father knows, well that if I 

734
00:40:43,608 --> 00:40:46,500
have found favor in your sight 
he has said do not let Jonathan 

735
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:47,900
know this. 
Or he will be grieved. 

736
00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:51,500
But truly as the Lord lives and 
as my soul lives, this there is 

737
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:53,200
hardly a step between me and 
death. 

738
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,200
Then Jonathan said to David 
whatever you say this all do. 

739
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,400
Wow, here's a guy that didn't 
say, you did you talking about 

740
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,100
about my dad? 
Now listen, I went. 

741
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:07,300
Listen, you kill Goliath, okay. 
And I pledged myself to you, 

742
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:11,100
because I saw God's hand on your
life, I realize you were great 

743
00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,800
delivering. 
You could do great things. 

744
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:17,200
And then, you know, when my dad 
who obviously was having a bad 

745
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,100
day wanted to kill you, I stood 
in your defense now, but Dad has

746
00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:24,900
never told me that he's going to
kill you ever again. 

747
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,400
And now you tell him I mean my 
dad's doing it. 

748
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,900
Now you take it a little too 
far. 

749
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,700
I mean, you ain't even part of 
the family. 

750
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,800
Okay, great. 
I don't know why. 

751
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,100
So quiet, unless you just love 
your natural family so much, and

752
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:42,800
is struggling where we're going 
right now. 

753
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,200
Let's get this. 
I mean this guy could have 

754
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,200
totally gotten sideways. 
You called my dad a lot. 

755
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:56,700
We ain't friends no more. 
Know what did Jesus say? 

756
00:41:57,100 --> 00:42:02,700
If you're my friend You do what?
I say, Jonathan in a different, 

757
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:05,100
Covenant new. 
The ones that are right with God

758
00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:08,400
and do, what does What God Says?
And David's been doing what God 

759
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,800
says in my daddy's not. 
So I'd have to believe that Dave

760
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,100
has more right about my dad 
being a liar. 

761
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:22,000
Because David has been following
God, David has been pursuing 

762
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,500
righteousness and I've seen my 
daddy not do, right? 

763
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,300
So I'm not going to pick my 
natural daddy over this Covenant

764
00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:32,100
friendship. 
I have that is proven itself to 

765
00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:36,600
follow God. 
My natural family is not going 

766
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,900
to stick closer to me than this 
Covenant friend. 

767
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,400
That's not in my bloodline, but 
they've done more from me and 

768
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,800
have proven themselves more with
God than my dad has. 

769
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,000
So I'm just glad to conclude 
maybe David's right about this 

770
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,200
deal. 
I'll find out. 

771
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:55,700
What do you want to do? 
He said, man, do this for me, 

772
00:42:56,300 --> 00:43:01,000
tell him that I want to go to 
see my family and Bethlehem and 

773
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,700
if your dad gets mad that I'm 
not there at the table, then 

774
00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:06,700
you'll know he wants to kill me.
But if he does it, then I'm 

775
00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:10,700
wrong. 
So we go on down into the 27th 

776
00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:14,900
chapter and it says about the 
second day, Davis place was 

777
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:18,400
empty and Saul said to Jonathan.
Why has the son of Jesse not 

778
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,700
come to the mill either 
yesterday or today. 

779
00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:23,500
Jonathan answer said, David 
earnestly ask sleeve for me to 

780
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:26,100
go to Bethlehem and then he 
gives the conditions of why he 

781
00:43:26,108 --> 00:43:30,500
wanted to leave verse 30, then 
Saul's anger burned against 

782
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:33,000
Jonathan. 
And he said you son of a 

783
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,700
perverse rebellious woman. 
Do I not, did I not? 

784
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,000
No. 
Do I not know that you are 

785
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,100
choosing the son of Jesse to 
your own shame into the shame of

786
00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,300
your mother's nakedness for as 
long as the son of Jesse lives 

787
00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:49,900
on the earth? 
Neither you nor your kingdom 

788
00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:52,900
will be established. 
Therefore now sinned and bring 

789
00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:54,700
him to me. 
He must surely die. 

790
00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:57,800
In essence, he saying, son? 
I'm your dad. 

791
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,100
Now, listen, you have aligned 
yourself with the wrong guy. 

792
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:07,700
I'm family son and this guy is 
only out for our destruction. 

793
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,300
Ian, he's not what he says, he 
is, he's not what he thinks he 

794
00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,800
is, he's not doing, you know, 
you're buying a lost, son. 

795
00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:18,800
If you want your kingdom to be 
established, then we got to get 

796
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,200
rid of this died. 
Now you send for him and let's 

797
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,900
kill him once. 
And for all son, you're going to

798
00:44:23,908 --> 00:44:26,200
be powerful. 
You're going to be influential 

799
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:28,700
my gosh, man. 
I've got, God has given me this 

800
00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:32,800
Kingdom to hand it to you and 
you are siding with somebody 

801
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:38,500
ain't even blood. 
Oh, I'm preaching. 

802
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,900
Your family. 
Your family. 

803
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:47,600
We hear this all the time, are 
we? 

804
00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:52,200
We naturally in the bloodline 
but my family is with the Lord. 

805
00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:01,100
Listen to me, fathers. 
Listen to me, fathers. 

806
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,800
There's a family bigger than the
one that you came out of. 

807
00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:12,500
There's a responsibility God's 
trying to get you to. 

808
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,100
Through the life of Jonathan and
David and then to bring 

809
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,500
blessings to your life if you'll
begin to walk in it. 

810
00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:26,300
But Jonathan, third verse 32 
answer saw and said to him, why 

811
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:28,200
should he be put to death? 
What's he done in essence? 

812
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,400
Give me the reason you got to 
justify it. 

813
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,300
You've got to give what is his 
literal crime? 

814
00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:40,000
And then saw his dad hurled his 
Spirit him to strike him down. 

815
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,200
So Jonathan knew that his father
had decided to put David to 

816
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,100
death and Jonathan arose, from 
the table and fierce anger and 

817
00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:50,800
did not eat food on the second 
day of the, new moon for his 

818
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:56,300
greed over David because his 
father had dis honored him, he 

819
00:45:56,300 --> 00:46:00,300
was more upset of what his dad 
did to his friend. 

820
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,700
Then what his dad accused his 
friend of doing to him to his 

821
00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:10,600
own father. 
He recognized this guy loves 

822
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,200
God. 
He follows God. 

823
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,600
And I'm connected to a follower 
of God more than anybody. 

824
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:25,700
So he has to let him know that 
there's a problem. 

825
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,800
And we pick this up, the ladder 
verse chapter of the first time 

826
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,800
he was 20, he has this little 
arrow thing that he said he 

827
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,900
would do. 
Just to let him know because 

828
00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:36,700
David never went to Bethlehem. 
You understand? 

829
00:46:36,700 --> 00:46:40,200
He's been hiding the whole time.
They said when the latter gone, 

830
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:44,200
David arose from the south side 
and fell on his face to the 

831
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,000
ground and bow three times and 
they kissed each other and wept 

832
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,100
together, but David wept. 
The more Jonathan said to David 

833
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:54,200
going safety. 
In as much as we have sworn to 

834
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,400
each other, and the day of the 
Lord, in the name of the Lord 

835
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,100
saying the Lord will be between 
me and you and between my 

836
00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:01,500
descendants and your 
descendants. 

837
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:08,000
Forever. 
Then he arose and departed. 

838
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,000
While Jonathan went into the 
city from this point, David 

839
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,900
didn't stay in Israel. 
In fact, he went on over into 

840
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,600
the camp of the Philistines 
pledge his allegiance to another

841
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,800
king there. 
And then when they went out to 

842
00:47:20,808 --> 00:47:23,300
battle against Israel, David was
going to go with them but the 

843
00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:25,900
other kings of the Philistine 
said, man, we ain't taking this 

844
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:27,000
guy. 
He's killed too many of our 

845
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,500
people. 
He could turn on us and battle, 

846
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,800
so they wouldn't let him go. 
So as he went back home, his 

847
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,600
family and all the men that were
with him, their families were 

848
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,900
taken, and he ended up having to
go over and Conquer another 

849
00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:41,200
place. 
Very low moment David's life, 

850
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,800
not only has been rejected from 
his own Nation but his own men 

851
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,500
want to kill him, but he had 
does delivered his people and 

852
00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:52,300
get everybody back alive and 
they're recovered the battle. 

853
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:55,000
He was going to go in with them 
is the battle that King Saul and

854
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Jonathan both DA. 
They don't make it. 

855
00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:03,900
Jonathan kept his responsibility
to the kingdom. 

856
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,400
He still served with his father.
But he had a friend that sticks 

857
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:16,400
closer than a brother. 
David Jonathan new. 

858
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,700
If I do what I'm supposed to do,
someone will take care of my 

859
00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:27,400
family and second Samuel chapter
one, we pick up the the account 

860
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,600
of when David finds out that 
both saw and Jonathan have died 

861
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,500
in battle. 
He's very distraught about it 

862
00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:35,700
that when he hears it, he rips 
his clothes and he cries out for

863
00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:37,100
both men. 
Even his enemy. 

864
00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:42,600
He cries out for his enemy Saul 
and he laments over his brother,

865
00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:46,000
Jonathan and the 26 verse 8, he 
said I'm distressed for you my 

866
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:51,400
brother Jonathan. 
You have been very pleasant to 

867
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,900
me. 
Your love, for me, was more 

868
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:58,000
wonderful than the love of women
and there are people who take 

869
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,900
this out of context and they try
to prove. 

870
00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:03,200
This is why that Jonathan and 
David had, you know, a wrong 

871
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,500
type of sexual relationship. 
That's not a true statement what

872
00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:09,400
this literally means because if 
you understand the Covenant that

873
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,700
Jonathan told him, and I've 
already read it to you, he said 

874
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,400
go in peace. 
But remember the Covenant we 

875
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,200
made before the name of the 
Lord. 

876
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,000
That you would get my back and I
would get yours. 

877
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:27,000
But not only each other's our 
children and not only our 

878
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,600
children, but our children's 
children forever in essence. 

879
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:37,000
Jonathan says, I can do my part 
in the earth and when I go, if I

880
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,200
should go first, David will take
care of my family. 

881
00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:47,900
See in this day and age in the 
day and age of this riding women

882
00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:52,100
could not be responsible solely 
for their families. 

883
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,100
It was the man. 
And so David new doesn't matter 

884
00:49:57,100 --> 00:49:59,800
how many wives I had how much 
pleasure I've had with women. 

885
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,800
I need a man that if I went down
in battle with the Philistines, 

886
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,300
against the Philistines, or I 
went down and battle somewhere, 

887
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,500
I would know this Jonathan will 
take care of my wives and take 

888
00:50:09,500 --> 00:50:14,000
care of my kids. 
That I got a brother that sticks

889
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,200
closer, our friend that sticks 
closer than a brother because my

890
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,500
brother don't care for me. 
Already wrote me off. 

891
00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:22,300
When I went down to see Goliath,
ain't none of them care for me. 

892
00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:25,200
Like I care for them. 
I need somebody that won't look 

893
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,100
at me as just natural blood. 
I need somebody that a stick 

894
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:41,200
with me, no matter what. 
I need somebody that when I 

895
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,600
speak they will. 
Don't see me as the little guy 

896
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,900
that ran around the house with a
snotty nose and pooping his 

897
00:50:46,900 --> 00:50:48,900
pants. 
But somebody has risen up and 

898
00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:53,800
done something for God. 
Jesus himself had a problem in 

899
00:50:53,808 --> 00:50:55,400
his own. 
Family said, a prophet is not 

900
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,200
without honor, except in his 
hometown, they said in that. 

901
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,000
Jesus didn't we see his 
brothers? 

902
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,900
Did he grow up with us? 
Oh my gosh. 

903
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:05,400
And they disdained him, although
he had the voice of authority. 

904
00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:09,000
Yes, sometimes we gotta find 
somebody outside of our natural.

905
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:12,100
I've seen moms and dads, 
discredit, the voice of their 

906
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,400
Children. 
When they're speaking the words 

907
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:20,000
of God, because they only 
remember them as the ones they 

908
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,100
wiped. 
And they miss a Divine 

909
00:51:23,100 --> 00:51:24,700
appointment at a visitation 
parents. 

910
00:51:24,700 --> 00:51:28,300
I warn you if you're training up
your child, in the way they 

911
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:30,900
should go and they begin to 
speak to you from the word of 

912
00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:33,200
God, do not disdain it or push 
it aside. 

913
00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:39,000
Because they'll find somebody 
that they get Covenant with. 

914
00:51:40,300 --> 00:51:43,200
That they can believe that 
somebody would take care of my 

915
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:49,200
family with I'm gone. 
And second Samuel chapter 9. 

916
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:51,100
David Gets established on the 
throne. 

917
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:01,100
In all the tribes. 
And the thought came and David 

918
00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:05,700
said, is there yet anyone left 
in the house of Saul that I may 

919
00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:08,300
show kindness for Jonathan's 
sake. 

920
00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:14,100
I got to find his family. 
They're like mine. 

921
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,900
I may have kids that are out 
there that I got to take care 

922
00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:22,200
of. 
Go search, the land and find. 

923
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,300
Why did David do this? 
Because the minute, Israel said,

924
00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:27,700
we want to have a man king like 
other kings, which means they 

925
00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:31,900
watch the models of King, man, 
kingdoms and Main kingdoms. 

926
00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:34,400
Have this model. 
When a king rose up, and he had 

927
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,200
children had multiple boys. 
The first son was always the one

928
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,500
to the crown but we always have 
sibling rivalry as his old as 

929
00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:45,900
Cain and Abel and usually what 
would happen is one of the other

930
00:52:45,900 --> 00:52:48,500
Sons would rise up and kill the 
rest of the Sun so that they can

931
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:53,800
be the only rightful ruler. 
So on the day, the David takes 

932
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,700
the kingdom because Saul and 
Jonathan have died. 

933
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,700
The helpers of the house. 
Grab Johnathan's son. 

934
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:04,100
Mushy bleep theft and snatches 
him up and runs with him but 

935
00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:05,600
drops him. 
He becomes Lane. 

936
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,100
Why? 
Because there's trying to save 

937
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:11,000
his life, they're thinking the 
Dave is going to kill all of 

938
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:17,300
Saul's and ancestors are all of 
his descendants so that he can 

939
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,500
rightfully take the crown 
though. 

940
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:23,200
He had it by God himself. 
They didn't know that he had a 

941
00:53:23,208 --> 00:53:25,800
covenant with Jonathan and they 
didn't have to move the boy at 

942
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,000
all. 
When he comes back, he says, is 

943
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,700
there anybody? 
Can you imagine? 

944
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:38,500
Here's this guy been off for all
these years and David says, 

945
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,500
bring him here and all he's 
probably thinking coming in. 

946
00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:43,600
Now, I know what he's thinking 
because of how David address 

947
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,600
him. 
They said the king knows you're 

948
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,400
alive. 
The king knows, I'm alive. 

949
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:50,600
Yep. 
And he's asked for you. 

950
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,800
Until his mind, he thinks he's 
going to kill me. 

951
00:53:57,100 --> 00:53:59,300
Because I am an heir to the 
throne. 

952
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:05,400
I am the son of Jonathan. 
The son of Saul and so he shows 

953
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:06,800
up. 
But by then we see on the 7th, 

954
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,300
verse of the same chapter, what 
David says to him, because he's 

955
00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:13,200
a fortress friend. 
He David said unto him do not 

956
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,800
fear in essence, take no thought
of what you're thinking. 

957
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,000
For I will surely show kindness 
to you for the sake of your 

958
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,700
father. 
Jonathan in essence. 

959
00:54:23,700 --> 00:54:32,600
He said son, I loved your dad. 
He was closer to me than my own 

960
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:37,000
family. 
And we made covenants, son. 

961
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:40,300
You don't have to be afraid of 
me. 

962
00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:44,900
You're like my only child. 
I promise you that I take care 

963
00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:47,400
of you and so that's what I'm 
going to do. 

964
00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:52,600
He said, I'll restore to you all
the land of your grandfather 

965
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:57,100
saw. 
And you shall eat at my table 

966
00:54:57,100 --> 00:55:02,400
regularly. 
In closing. 

967
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,300
You can identify Fortress friend
in your life, you know how you 

968
00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:11,300
can identify Fortress friend in 
your life. 

969
00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:15,800
It's because a fortress friend 
is the one who treats all your 

970
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:21,600
family as their own. 
They're not just in it with you.

971
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,400
I have friends but they're in it
for me. 

972
00:55:27,500 --> 00:55:32,400
They like me. 
They identify with me. 

973
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:35,700
They don't have identified with 
my kids. 

974
00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:42,800
You can see it through every 
sector of society, every sector 

975
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,700
of society, anyone who's risen 
to any type of great influence, 

976
00:55:46,900 --> 00:55:54,300
the children are subject. 
Of scrutiny true knives required

977
00:55:54,300 --> 00:55:58,800
to have to live in the shadow 
and the shoes of their parents. 

978
00:56:00,100 --> 00:56:02,400
And many people rally around 
these. 

979
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,100
Great actors and actresses 
around these great businessmen 

980
00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:08,900
around these great politicians 
around these. 

981
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,600
Great sport, sport athletes 
around these great Educators 

982
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,300
around these great, doctors and 
medical science. 

983
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,600
And then they look back at their
kids with this thing. 

984
00:56:24,900 --> 00:56:29,900
Because it was never about the 
family was only about me and you

985
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:31,600
and when you're gone then it's 
all gone. 

986
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:43,000
I've seen it firsthand but not 
to the level of the example. 

987
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,500
I'll give you today of a man by 
the name of Kenneth E Hagin. 

988
00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:55,900
Who Faithfully serve God, and in
Texas, heard the Lord say, go 

989
00:56:55,900 --> 00:57:01,000
teach my people faith, and every
year, he would go after he left 

990
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,300
the pastor, at begin to travel 
around the United States began 

991
00:57:05,300 --> 00:57:07,500
to minister of the word and be 
away from his son and his 

992
00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:12,600
daughter, his wife, and pours, 
life into the call, and we'll 

993
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,100
drive over 12 sometimes, 20 
hours all night, just to go 

994
00:57:16,100 --> 00:57:17,700
through. 
See his family for breakfast, 

995
00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:19,500
only have to get The road and 
leave again. 

996
00:57:21,500 --> 00:57:24,200
Only to have his son, get an 
answer, the call to Ministry. 

997
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,100
We're with his wives, father, 
only to get assigned back to his

998
00:57:30,100 --> 00:57:36,200
father, that in 1973 is dead. 
Would be prophesying in a 

999
00:57:36,208 --> 00:57:38,500
particular meeting and saved 
from here. 

1000
00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:40,200
We're going to raise up a bible 
school. 

1001
00:57:41,500 --> 00:57:44,300
And the Holy Ghost tells the 
son, by the name of Kenneth W 

1002
00:57:44,300 --> 00:57:47,500
Hagin. 
That's why you're here. 

1003
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,400
So we get the teacher in the 
Apostle of the Prophet who went 

1004
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,100
around the nation. 
Preaching P teaching people 

1005
00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:57,000
faith. 
And hundreds of thousands of 

1006
00:57:57,008 --> 00:57:59,400
people flock to him. 
They wrote so many books that 

1007
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,300
came out of his ministry and 
people just flocked all over the

1008
00:58:02,300 --> 00:58:04,200
place. 
But then the sun had a different

1009
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,600
assignment, to be an apostle and
a starter of a school and set in

1010
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:12,800
a closet at best, a closet and 
wrote the curriculum for what 

1011
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:18,200
now is a school that's gone 
global He would have a son by 

1012
00:58:18,208 --> 00:58:20,300
the name of Craig, who would 
follow around with his 

1013
00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:22,400
grandfather and go to the 
different Crusades. 

1014
00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:26,100
But in 2003, September, Kenneth 
W. 

1015
00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:34,000
Hagin dies are re Hagen dies. 
And the vision he left two 

1016
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,500
thirds of those who followed him
left the ministry. 

1017
00:58:40,700 --> 00:58:43,300
Because they couldn't see the 
sun doing it. 

1018
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:51,800
They abandoned. 
Even those who hold credentials 

1019
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,300
for the organization. 
Since I've moved into a position

1020
00:58:55,300 --> 00:58:58,000
of influence, are asking the 
question. 

1021
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,200
What will happen after Pastor 
Hagen goes? 

1022
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,300
Can Craig and Denise. 
Take it. 

1023
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:09,500
That's not the question. 
The question is are you a 

1024
00:59:09,500 --> 00:59:14,700
fortress friend for this same 
man? 

1025
00:59:14,700 --> 00:59:17,100
Kenneth W. 
Hey will you Kenneth E Hagin? 

1026
00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:19,800
The grandfather? 
When he first started? 

1027
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,400
Ministry went to some country 
churches, in Texas, they gave 

1028
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,200
him an opportunity to come 
preach and Through the Years God

1029
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,800
prospered him and through the 
years, that Country Church State

1030
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:33,400
a country church, then one day 
the pastor died and left his 

1031
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,600
wife alone with no retirement. 
No. 

1032
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,000
McKenna fee, Hagen, remember 
those Force years? 

1033
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,700
And because he was a fortress 
friend to those Ministries and 

1034
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:48,800
state connected with them. 
Because year after year, they 

1035
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:52,800
would bring him in year. 
After year, the salary they used

1036
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:56,100
to have on staff. 
When the wife left the church, 

1037
00:59:56,300 --> 01:00:00,400
he paid that lady salary still, 
I know a five families, he did 

1038
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,900
that for because he said, I'm 
not here just with you. 

1039
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,500
If you go, I'll take care of of 
your family. 

1040
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,300
How do I know if you're closer 
than a brother to me? 

1041
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:23,100
How do you look at my children? 
I have never put on airs that 

1042
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,700
Sean glistened, Chase glisten or
Briana. 

1043
01:00:25,700 --> 01:00:27,600
Fouchet would take this 
ministry. 

1044
01:00:28,500 --> 01:00:31,800
I've never put that pressure on 
them because I'm not God, I'm 

1045
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,300
Not Jesus Christ, the head of 
the church, I can't make that 

1046
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:40,700
it's not their Ministry to take.
Pastor Mike, and Angie could 

1047
01:00:40,700 --> 01:00:43,400
take this as easy as anyone else
Pastor Mark, and Ashleigh could 

1048
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,100
come back from Valdosta. 
Take this, as any as easy as 

1049
01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:47,400
anyone else? 
Sure. 

1050
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,400
If the Lord needed me to go 
somewhere, But if my wife and I,

1051
01:00:53,408 --> 01:00:55,500
and it won't happen, but I'm 
using that as an example. 

1052
01:00:55,500 --> 01:00:58,000
But if my wife and I were 
heading over to another country 

1053
01:00:58,100 --> 01:01:03,600
and we went down, what would be 
my kids? 

1054
01:01:05,300 --> 01:01:08,300
Well, baby, discarding, the 
throne, He piled because they 

1055
01:01:08,300 --> 01:01:12,100
warned me or would I have a 
friend that sticks closer than a

1056
01:01:12,100 --> 01:01:16,300
brother someone to say? 
Don't you worry? 

1057
01:01:16,500 --> 01:01:19,200
If you were ever to leave the 
planet before, I don't worry 

1058
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:24,700
about Sean, Chase, breathe. 
Anna, Todd, Alyssa Brittany. 

1059
01:01:24,700 --> 01:01:29,700
Gavin a sure. 
Logan, Isley, London, Luna and 

1060
01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:35,600
Scotland to come. 
Don't worry because faster you 

1061
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:41,400
pour it into my life. 
And you've proven a friend. 

1062
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,700
It's amazing how quick people 
get offended when my kids 

1063
01:01:46,700 --> 01:01:49,900
sometimes could you handle it? 
If Chase got up here, started 

1064
01:01:49,900 --> 01:01:54,300
preaching today. 
If you can't, you're not my 

1065
01:01:54,300 --> 01:02:00,900
friend because as I Champion 
your kids to do the will of God,

1066
01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:06,200
I would hope you Champion mind 
as I pour my life into your kids

1067
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:07,700
to see them become something 
great. 

1068
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,500
I would pray to you and give 
children the same example 

1069
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,000
because this thing up of a 
friend that sticks closer than a

1070
01:02:15,008 --> 01:02:24,300
brother Say it. 
When I held you saw him arms 

1071
01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:25,800
man. 
I was there with you. 

1072
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:32,100
Stay with you and that guy I 
didn't hurt you to solder left. 

1073
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:37,700
I never left your family, my 
family, we together, we 

1074
01:02:37,700 --> 01:02:42,600
connected. 
I'm going to church, Rises to 

1075
01:02:42,608 --> 01:02:46,200
the community. 
That the ones who do the will of

1076
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:52,300
God is first family. 
I'm tell you right now, our 

1077
01:02:52,300 --> 01:02:55,000
extended family have the 
greatest opportunity to repent. 

1078
01:02:55,000 --> 01:03:10,200
Get right with God kingdom, 
family, first, love my kids, 

1079
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:14,000
enough to say, I love you. 
Maybe that's not the right 

1080
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,600
direction, but I'm Champion. 
You love my grandkids enough to 

1081
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:20,800
say, hey, I'm believing in you, 
your son. 

1082
01:03:20,900 --> 01:03:27,100
An awesome. 
Because if you love me, then you

1083
01:03:27,108 --> 01:03:30,600
gotta go beyond me. 
And if I love you, Kenny, I'll 

1084
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,700
go beyond you, I'll go to your 
kids. 

1085
01:03:33,700 --> 01:03:37,200
Now, the ones that are coming, 
the ones that are coming from 

1086
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:42,300
them later on as long as we're 
together because that's what 

1087
01:03:42,300 --> 01:03:46,600
family does and I'll bring you 
to the word and you kids to the 

1088
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:50,100
word, to give them an 
opportunity to be all that God 

1089
01:03:50,100 --> 01:03:56,300
has called them to be. 
Be some of you in this house, 

1090
01:03:56,300 --> 01:04:01,100
you know, your children have 
done wrong, they have failed and

1091
01:04:01,100 --> 01:04:04,900
I help restore them. 
Did cast them to decide to kick 

1092
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:09,300
them, to the curb, gave them the
word, love them. 

1093
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:13,400
And in most cases, restored them
to positions. 

1094
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:24,300
Because their family. 
You may not have glisten on your

1095
01:04:24,300 --> 01:04:28,800
license, but we all have 
children of God.