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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 5: about this reporter. He was visiting churches across the nation.

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Speaker 5: The pastor explained that it was a direct line to Heaven.

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Speaker 5: talk directly to God. He continued visiting different churches, seeing

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Speaker 3: It starts with you, well.

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Speaker 5: Joel, I have all these faults, these weaknesses. Once I overcome,

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Speaker 5: from glory to glory. Learn to enjoy the glory that

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Speaker 3: I'm made in the image of Almighty God.

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Speaker 5: Life is too short to go through it against your self.

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Speaker 3: But the real question is can you see yourself without fault?

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Speaker 5: As long as you're beating yourself up, living condemned.

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Speaker 3: The problem is you are your enemy.

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Speaker 5: God has already said you're blameless, You're without fault.

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Speaker 3: Get in agreement with him. Nothing you've done has stopped

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Speaker 3: your destiny.

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Speaker 5: Jesus knew that Peter would deny him, yet he still

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Speaker 5: chose him as his disciple.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't he just pick someone else.

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Speaker 5: He knew he was going to fail, he knew he

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Speaker 5: was hot tempered, he knew he used bad language. But

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Speaker 5: God doesn't disqualify you because you have weaknesses.

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Speaker 3: If he did, none of us would have a chance.

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Speaker 5: When Jesus rose from the dead, he told Mary at

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Speaker 5: the tomb, go tell the disciples that he was alive,

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Speaker 5: and he specifically said, tell Peter.

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Speaker 3: Peter could have lived, defeated, condemned. What was with me?

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Speaker 3: But he made this choice that we all have to make.

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Speaker 5: He forgave himself. He had mercy on himself. He didn't live.

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Speaker 5: Looking in the rear view mirror thinking about how he

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Speaker 5: had blown it. Peter went on to give the inaugural address.

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Speaker 3: When the church was birthed, three thousand people came to

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Speaker 3: know the Lord.

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Speaker 5: All through the scripture, God used people that made mistakes.

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Speaker 5: Abraham had a baby out of wedlock. David took a

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Speaker 5: man's wife and had the man killed. Jonah ran from

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Speaker 5: God wouldn't go to the city of Nineveh.

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Speaker 3: What did God do.

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Speaker 5: Rescue him and send him to the city of Nineveh.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't disqualify us. The mistake we make is we

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Speaker 5: disqualify ourselves. When Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the

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Speaker 5: Ten Commandments, he left his brother erin in charge of

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Speaker 5: the Israelites. He was gone so long the people said,

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Speaker 5: we need a god to worship well.

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Speaker 3: Erin knew that they worshiped Jehovah.

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Speaker 5: He spoke for Moses when he told Pharaoh to let

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Speaker 5: the people go. He had seen God delivered them from

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Speaker 5: slavery part the Red Sea. But he told the people

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Speaker 5: to bring their gold. He melted it down and they

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Speaker 5: made a golden calf. The people started partying all kinds

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Speaker 5: of revelry. When Moses came down the mountain, he saw

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Speaker 5: Erin and all the people dancing.

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Speaker 3: Naked, worshiping that idol.

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Speaker 5: Here he's up there, having this holy moment, and in

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Speaker 5: a few days the people have already fallen away.

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Speaker 3: You would think God would be done with Erin.

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Speaker 5: If you can't lead my people for a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 5: if you're going to compromise that easily given to temptation,

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Speaker 5: then good riddance.

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Speaker 3: But God doesn't write us off. He chose Erin to

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Speaker 3: be the first high priest.

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Speaker 5: I can hear God saying to an angel, you see

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Speaker 5: that guy down there that's dancing naked, the one that

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Speaker 5: made the golden calf, He's going to be the one

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Speaker 5: I choose to go into the Holy of Holies, the

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Speaker 5: most sacred place of the Temple. Don't judge your life

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Speaker 5: based off of one mistake, off of one season where

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Speaker 5: you gave into temptation, one season where you compromise that

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Speaker 5: didn't stop your destiny. The only way it will hold

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Speaker 5: you back is if you.

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Speaker 3: Live guilty, condemned, feeling washed up.

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Speaker 5: God has forgiven you, but you have to forgive yourself.

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Speaker 5: He's given you his mercy, but you have to have

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Speaker 5: mercy on yourself.

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Speaker 3: Well, Joel, you don't know what I did.

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Speaker 5: You probably weren't dancing naked in public last week. You

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Speaker 5: probably weren't worshiping a golden calf. Why are you writing

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Speaker 5: yourself off? You don't know where God is taking you.

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Speaker 5: Who would have thought Aaron would become the High Priest

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Speaker 5: in a position of.

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Speaker 3: Honor and influence.

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Speaker 5: God has something still awesome in your future.

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Speaker 3: Here's the question? Are you for you?

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Speaker 5: Are you kind to yourself? Are you merciful to yourself?

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Speaker 5: I know you love God, but do you love yourself?

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Speaker 5: I know you'll forgive others, will you forgive yourself? I

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Speaker 5: know you'll compliment your friends, but will you compliment yourself?

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Speaker 3: How much further will you go?

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Speaker 5: If you'll stay positive towards yourself? Quit beating yourself up

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Speaker 5: for past mistakes. Quit dwelling on your falls, over analyzing

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Speaker 5: your weaknesses.

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Speaker 3: You are not a finished product. God is still working

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Speaker 3: on you.

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare today is a breakthrough day. Strongholds

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Speaker 5: are coming down, Guilt is leaving poor self. Images are

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Speaker 5: going You are holy, you are blameless, You are without faults.

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Speaker 3: Now get ready, You're about to rise higher.

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Speaker 5: Overcome obstacles, accomplish dreams, and become everything God created you

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Speaker 5: to be.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say amen? Today?

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Speaker 5: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus.

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Speaker 3: The Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say it, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 5: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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