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Speaker 1: just for the stuck ones. So if you've been freely

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Speaker 1: roaming about with no obstructions, there's nothing in your life

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Speaker 1: that's holding you down, chaining you to something that has

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Speaker 1: been in your life for the last eight years, you

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Speaker 1: can probably more valuably use this time than to listen

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Speaker 1: with you. In John chapter five, there is a story

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Speaker 1: to stand on your feet for just a moment. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to our evam all over the world. Please let me

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Speaker 1: know before before I read my scripture, where are you

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Speaker 1: joining from? And if you why don't if you're in

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Speaker 1: the person next to you what brought you here today?

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Speaker 1: Why did you come today? What's the what was the

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Speaker 1: reason for your being here? Mom made you. Tiffany gets

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Speaker 1: paid to be here. She doesn't want to get fired.

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Speaker 1: But look all over the world, y'all, I just want

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Speaker 1: to point out to you this ministry is reaching way,

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Speaker 1: way beyond what we can see. I mean all the

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Speaker 1: way from Fayetteville, North Carolina, right next to India, just

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Speaker 1: side by side on my comments California, Mississippi, Kenya, Tampa, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Happy anniversary, Orlando as well to your anniversary for Orlando today.

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Speaker 1: Make some noise, lake Worth, Florida. Chunks you know that,

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Speaker 1: Central Florida, Czech Republic, South Africa, Cosamel, Indonesia, Lebanon, Philippines, London, Brazil, Mexico.

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Speaker 1: What I miss, Sheller laughing? What oh, you came from Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you. We hope, we hope, we hope,

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Speaker 1: we hope. We're praying that we can be in Jersey

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Speaker 1: for our Elevation Night's tour coming up that we're going

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Speaker 1: to announce in the next So you didn't even have

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Speaker 1: to come. We were coming for you, but you couldn't wait,

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Speaker 1: All right? Are you visiting somebody or you just came

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Speaker 1: for this, Then it doesn't count. We're just like a

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Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to acclimate John chapter five. Sometime later,

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Speaker 1: Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.

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Speaker 1: Now there is in Jerusalem, near the Sheepgate, a pool

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Speaker 1: disabled people used to lie. Now used to lie? Is

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Speaker 1: disabled people used to lie. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

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Speaker 1: he asked him, do you want to get well? Hey? Man?

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Speaker 1: The invalid replied, I have no one to help me

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Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your mat,

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Speaker 1: The law forbids you to carry your mat. But he replied,

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Speaker 1: And that's stuff I can't even teach. So what you

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Speaker 1: because you've got it. You got it, You got it,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a list that the writer starts where he

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Speaker 1: end so that Jesus can confront unbelief. In fact that

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you hurry to the temple to the pulpit

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Speaker 1: Holly preach so good last week. I got to brag

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing, like, man, stand up and give

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Speaker 1: us what God gave you. The Lord told Jeremiah don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid of their faces. I did not know what

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Speaker 1: that meant until I started preaching. I know what that

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Speaker 1: means now, because there's a part when you're preaching people

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Speaker 1: look at you and be like, back up, back up, no, no, no, baby,

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Speaker 1: go forward. That's the word they need. That's the word

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Speaker 1: they need. That's the word you need, the one that

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Speaker 1: challenges what you knew? Question, was this man lying not physically? Yes,

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Speaker 1: he was lying on the mat. Come on, Stephen, give

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Speaker 1: us a hard one. Let me ask him more clearly.

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Speaker 1: Was he telling the truth? Let's read it. I love

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Speaker 1: your word, Lord, thank you for your word, because he

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Speaker 1: showed me something. He showed me something. He showed me something.

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Speaker 1: And this is what I want to teach you how

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Speaker 1: to do today, because this is really powerful in your life.

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Speaker 1: It's not just a history lesson about a man. John

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Speaker 1: chapter five is not just about physical infirmity. It's certainly

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Speaker 1: not about a pool called bethesta, which means house of mercy.

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Speaker 1: Is certainly not about a physical porch. It's about our

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Speaker 1: emotional condition, which keeps us from obeing God and receiving

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Speaker 1: his word by faith instead of walking in doubts. So

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Speaker 1: when he said when he said, when he said, sir,

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Speaker 1: verse seven, I have no one to help me into

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Speaker 1: the pool when the water is stirred. Now, what does

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Speaker 1: water have to do with walking? There was conventional wisdom

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Speaker 1: around this porch truth. There was a truth that when

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Speaker 1: the angel troubled the waters from time to time, whoever

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Speaker 1: got to the water first could be healed of whatever

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Speaker 1: had happened to them, whatever was hurting them. Everybody else

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Speaker 1: got left out. So he's giving his truth, which is

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Speaker 1: not really true anymore. I have no one to help

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Speaker 1: me into the pool when the water is stirred. While

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get in, someone else goes ahead of me.

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Speaker 1: Like I say, we need to take this slow. I

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Speaker 1: need somebody, a volunteer who has a Bible, paper, bible,

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Speaker 1: a pen, a notebook. You got all three, and you

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Speaker 1: don't mind coming on stage with me for a minute

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Speaker 1: and final criteria. I'm looking for somebody. This is the

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Speaker 1: X factor I'm looking for, all right, I'm choosing a volunteer, Bible, pen,

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Speaker 1: a little notepad, and you don't mind me marking in

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Speaker 1: your Bible? Who wants to Okay? All right, Oh it's

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Speaker 1: a big Bible too. I like big Bibles. Let's go,

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Speaker 1: big Bible, big traps, big biceps, big Bible, big smile.

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Speaker 1: What's your name? Yeah, I'm kind of big too, right,

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Speaker 1: but what's your name? I was hoping it would be Matt.

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Speaker 1: I know what version of the Bible I got, King James,

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Speaker 1: King James, you said, Darrell Tyrell Tyrell, King James. Old,

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Speaker 1: this is perfect. This is perfect, and I need to

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Speaker 1: show them. You don't mind if I write in it?

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Speaker 1: Are you sure? Okay? This is so perfect. You don't

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Speaker 1: know how perfect this is. I'm not playing around. We

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Speaker 1: didn't work this out. This is not planned. This is

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Speaker 1: just so perfect. I see I gave you this pen originally.

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Speaker 1: So look look at this. Let's read it together. You

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Speaker 1: love the Bible, right, Nobody brings a Bible this size

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Speaker 1: to urch of. They don't like impotent folk, blind haul withered,

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Speaker 1: waiting for the moving of the water. And you see

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Speaker 1: how in your King James Bible, this massive, jumbo size

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Speaker 1: King James Bible. Verse four, for an angel went down

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Speaker 1: at a certain season into the pool in trouble the water.

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Speaker 1: Whoever then first after the troubling of the water, stepped

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Speaker 1: in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had in

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Speaker 1: the This is the Bible that I preached out to.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting the old time. I can't see it. It's

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Speaker 1: good anymore. I need this one. Can I keep this one?

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Speaker 1: This one? Oh man? How old are you? By the way,

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Speaker 1: what if he was thirty eight? Like the man thirty

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Speaker 1: eight years now? But I wanted to show you, and

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Speaker 1: I've talked this before, and I've shown it different ways

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Speaker 1: because I think it's so powerful. It's so powerful in

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Speaker 1: the version that I have, the new International version, it's

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Speaker 1: a great translation. It goes from three to five. And

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Speaker 1: see how number verse four is mentioned down here at

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Speaker 1: the footnotes where it explains how the waters would move

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Speaker 1: and people would get healed. That verse four. They took

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Speaker 1: it out the ESV and n IV and a lot

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Speaker 1: of the more modern translations because it wasn't in the

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Speaker 1: Earth manuscripts. So the manuscripts that we see that are

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Speaker 1: the earliest, the closest to the original, the most accurate,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't in there, so it's not in these translations.

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Speaker 1: In King James, there's a verse four in the n

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Speaker 1: I V and most of the translations that you'll see

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at it on your phone. You're like, wait,

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Speaker 1: there is no verse four? Did Steve Jobs come back

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Speaker 1: from the dead and delete my verse four? Is Apple

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Speaker 1: listening to me right now? Are you spying or the

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Speaker 1: Russians here? But it's not any of that. There's there's

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Speaker 1: no there's there's no conspiracy. There's no conspiracy. There's there's

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Speaker 1: there's no conspiracy. It's just a verse that was never there,

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Speaker 1: that was added later by scribes to explain the situation.

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Speaker 1: Why why are you taking time to show me this?

519
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Speaker 1: Because we add things that God didn't really say to

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Speaker 1: expel situations that we can't understand. That's a y. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe you had the King James Bible because if

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Speaker 1: you had had any other translation, I wouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: able to share this part. And I was just like,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go in the moment and call somebody.

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Speaker 1: And I almost picked her because she has an E

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Speaker 1: Kids shirt. No, I don't even know if you're volunteer.

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Speaker 1: Are you volunteer? Am? Okay? Good security, security, good fit.

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Speaker 1: You got it, man, it's that X factor. You got it,

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Speaker 1: You got it. I'm serious, man, God is on your life.

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Speaker 1: I feel it, but I don't want you to put

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Speaker 1: in versus about what you believe about God, to explain situations,

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Speaker 1: or to here's another ex excuse disabilit This man is

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Speaker 1: taking notes while he's helping me preach. You see him

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Speaker 1: reached for the notebook. So what I want to do?

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Speaker 1: You told me I could write in your Bible. You

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Speaker 1: told me bring me the camera, come here, follow me,

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Speaker 1: tell me when it's in focus. You hold it. Put

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Speaker 1: that one down, Let's use yours. Hold it. Told me

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Speaker 1: I could write zoom in on the verse shaw, so

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Speaker 1: we could do this. We gotta do this that one.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I can clap for this. I thought

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Speaker 1: you were gonna highlight this Bible with a nice slime

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Speaker 1: green elevation orange. The ex factor means that you and I,

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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters need to go through and make sure

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Speaker 1: that what we believe about God is really revealed in

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Speaker 1: the person of Jesus, not just the traditions of men. Now,

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Speaker 1: in case they put this on one of those YouTube

548
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Speaker 1: channels that talks about what I'm preaching and what shoes

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing or something like that, I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure you're not going through crossing out the parts of

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Speaker 1: the Bible that you don't like because they're hard. Like

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Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself. I'm not sure about the neighbor.

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Speaker 1: I like that love yourself part. Oh yeah, I love myself.

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Speaker 1: I like that part. No no no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no no. It wasn't there. It got added later.

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Speaker 1: It's not what God said. It got added later. I

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Speaker 1: want you to know some of the things you believe

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Speaker 1: God didn't speak, It got added later. Somebody told you

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Speaker 1: something that made you feel small, and you settled into

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Speaker 1: the small that they made you feel, not realizing greater

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Speaker 1: is He that is in me. So I can't be

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Speaker 1: that small. I can't be that insignificant. In fact, y'all

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Speaker 1: still with me? Or you already shopping for another church

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Speaker 1: on Google. Well, I'm preaching. Click off, click off, click off,

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Speaker 1: click off. This guy's crossing out the Bible. No no, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm crossing out what's not the Bible. I'm crossing out

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Speaker 1: what God didn't speak over me. So if he corrects me,

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Speaker 1: I want to hear it. If he challenges me, I

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Speaker 1: want to hear it. If he thinks I'm wrong, I

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00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: want to know it. But we don't stay right there,

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Speaker 1: We don't bridge this anymore. We used to have a

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00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: thing check yourself before you, but now I see it everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Treat yourself. First of all, it's just annoying. That's an

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Speaker 1: annoying thing to say anyway. But secondly, yes, I'm all

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Speaker 1: for self care. What about self confrontation. I'm gonna come

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Speaker 1: behind my security over here. One of the hardest things, though,

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Speaker 1: is what he said when he explained experience. Every time

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Speaker 1: I try, I get stopped. Every time I try, I

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Speaker 1: get blocked. Every time I try, I smile, they don't

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Speaker 1: smile back. I asked her out. She said, no, well,

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Speaker 1: how you explain that to yourself. We used to ride around.

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Speaker 1: My best friend from all through high school is right

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Speaker 1: there on that second row. And when a girl would

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Speaker 1: it be interested in us, we would like be the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit interpretation for each other. So he'd be like,

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Speaker 1: he'd be like, she's just not on your level. I

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Speaker 1: needed that right around hyphen each other all day. You know,

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Speaker 1: Deep calls to deep man, She's just not deep enough,

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Speaker 1: that's all. It is, cold Bible versus handle rejection. And

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Speaker 1: then the man's the man's explanation. This is this is

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Speaker 1: where I see you today. You caught between an experience

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Speaker 1: and an explanation, and his explanation is keeping him stuck,

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00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: and some of us have fallen in love with our stuckness.

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Speaker 1: We love stuck because we learned we can get our

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Speaker 1: way if we get angry. So do we really want

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Speaker 1: to be made well from our anger? We've learned that

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Speaker 1: we can get our way by doing the silent treatment,

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Speaker 1: So do we really want to get better at communicating?

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Speaker 1: We've learned that we can get our way and seek

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Speaker 1: attention by misbehaving. Some of us subconsciously create failure in

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Speaker 1: our life so that it will call people to our rescue,

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00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: so we will feel wanted. Now, I see why the

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Speaker 1: genius of Jesus when that make a cool series. The

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Speaker 1: genius of Jesus made him a wonderful counselor, even though

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Speaker 1: it seems like he has a terrible bedside manner, He's

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Speaker 1: like the X factor here is not the externals, externals,

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Speaker 1: the economy and your mom's mom's mom's mom's mom's goldfish

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Speaker 1: that made you like you are, or who won't do

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Speaker 1: what for you? Because that's not true anymore? Now is

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Speaker 1: the man lying? Sir? I have no man When the

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Speaker 1: water is troubled to put me into the pool. I

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Speaker 1: have no man, I have no help. It's not true anymore.

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00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 1: It's not true anymore. It was true five minutes before

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Speaker 1: Jesus got there. It was true. Let's use my Bible

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Speaker 1: for this part. I don't want to cross anything else

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Speaker 1: out of yours. What he said pulled it for me.

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Speaker 1: Where it said, sir, I have no one to help me.

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Speaker 1: I have Can you see it closer? I have no one.

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Speaker 1: That used to be true, but Jesus is here now.

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Speaker 1: That was true. No, no, it wasn't an excuse. It

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Speaker 1: was true until the truth showed up. That's the X

622
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: vector that I wanted to preach to you about today

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Speaker 1: is that you are still operating in your life as

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Speaker 1: if Jesus were not risen. But he is risen, and

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00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: you are carrying watch this the shame, as if your

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Speaker 1: sin were not forgiven. But it is forgiven. But I'm

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Speaker 1: a sinner. You were a sinner, and you still sin.

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Speaker 1: But now you have help that you didn't have when

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Speaker 1: you were trying to fulfill the law in your own flesh.

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Speaker 1: For what the law was powerless to do in that

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Speaker 1: it was weakean. I feel my help now in that

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Speaker 1: it was weakean that's what I was. It's not what

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Speaker 1: I am. I am now he used to be true.

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Speaker 1: But Jesus is on your fORCH. Jesus is on your

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Speaker 1: porch where that's the X factor. Not your might, not

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Speaker 1: your power, but by his spirit, he's here, he's here.

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Speaker 1: Make the announcement, Make the announcement, Make the announcement, make

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Speaker 1: the announcement. So five people tell him he's here on

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Speaker 1: your porch. He's here, on your fORCH. He's here, he's here,

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Speaker 1: he's here. He it's so good, it's so good. God

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Speaker 1: wants to change your explanation to where you start explaining

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Speaker 1: things different. Let your faith explain. Maybe we could do

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Speaker 1: that for a part two message, if you'll like it.

644
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Speaker 1: How to let faith explain, because fear will start explaining.

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Speaker 1: See the reason that happened to you because you suck,

646
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Speaker 1: and you always sucked. And let's put it in King James,

647
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Speaker 1: thou shouts suck forever more. The devil speak King James

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Speaker 1: language to get you to believe a lie. And here's

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Speaker 1: what we said. We said, we said few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: we said few weeks ago, we said he's the father

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Speaker 1: of lies. That's his native language. He speaks lie like

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Speaker 1: like you speak tennis. Robert's a tennis coach. He'll come

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Speaker 1: up to me, he'll be like, man that was like

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Speaker 1: a servant, a volley or something like that. Today on

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Speaker 1: the sermon, I'm like, Robert, what does that mean? That

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Speaker 1: doesn't apply. That's his language. The devil's language is lie.

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Speaker 1: You think this man on the on the porch, You

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Speaker 1: think the man on the porch was trying to lie

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Speaker 1: to Jesus. But he was speaking something that used to

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Speaker 1: be true. There were three things I said you needed.

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Speaker 1: One was a Bible and you had to. One was

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Speaker 1: a pen and you had to. I said a notebook,

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Speaker 1: and he had that too, and he had a pin.

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Speaker 1: Then I gave him and then that just like the

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Speaker 1: grace of God, he gives us what he asked for. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: okay 's that is I'm having fun today. I'm having

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Speaker 1: fun today because I feel the spirit of unstuckness as

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Speaker 1: God begins to show you how to change the way

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Speaker 1: you explained. The way that you explain the experience either

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Speaker 1: keeps you stuck or sets you free. So she could

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Speaker 1: sit here and say, well, I'm just a little girl.

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Speaker 1: Nobody can I tell him what that lady said to

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Speaker 1: you the other day. People say the weirdest stuff to

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Speaker 1: you in it. They don't know you, but they think

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Speaker 1: they do. Some lady came up to her say, girl,

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Speaker 1: we go to church. You're so you've gotten so good.

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Speaker 1: It's already a backhanded compliment because you've gotten so good,

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Speaker 1: implies what. But then she didn't just imply it, she

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Speaker 1: said it. I mean you were rough when you started security,

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Speaker 1: all right, So I can't do this for you, but

681
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Speaker 1: maybe I could teach you the X factor. It's when

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Speaker 1: you take something that you used to be and that

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Speaker 1: you still feel like this. What was I saying? Yeah,

684
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Speaker 1: you were? You weren't worth the blood of Jesus Christ,

685
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Speaker 1: the precious, eternal Lamb of God. Weren't that good. You

686
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Speaker 1: weren't worth that much, God's only son, the sinless, spotless

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Speaker 1: Lamb of God. But he decided you were. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I am. That's what I am. All I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: All I'm doing is Colossians Too fourteen, where it said

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Speaker 1: that Jesus having canceled, you want to talk about cancel culture.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is the cancel culture king. He look what he canceled.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to show you this. He canceled the

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Speaker 1: charge of our legal indebtedness. The Greek word is the

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Speaker 1: handwritten indebtedness. They would make you write your debt by

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Speaker 1: your own hand, as to say that this is my

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Speaker 1: debt and you have to write it in your own hand.

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Speaker 1: So Jesus took his hand y'all to love the gospel.

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Speaker 1: This is about as good as it gets. Klatchin's two

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Speaker 1: fourteen is about as good as it gets. I know

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Speaker 1: Frestam's taking together running over some menborn. I'm excited about

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Speaker 1: everything God wants to add to my life. I am

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Speaker 1: more excited about what he took away when he died

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Speaker 1: for me on the cross. That's a real sounding thing

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Speaker 1: for me. He took our indebtedness and he paid the

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Speaker 1: price for it, which stood against us and condemned us.

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Speaker 1: He has taken it away and he nailed it to

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Speaker 1: his cross. That is why I can take up my

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Speaker 1: mat and walk cauzuh that you ready. That's the ex

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Speaker 1: factor for me. For me, grace makes the difference for me.

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Speaker 1: I know you were a good person, and that's why

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Speaker 1: you deserve to be blessed, not me, not me. I

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Speaker 1: know you always get it right, and that's why you're

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Speaker 1: so successful, not me. I know you are always full

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Speaker 1: of joy, and that is why the Lord is lucky

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Speaker 1: to have you on his squad, not me. Not me.

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Speaker 1: I know what I was without him, and that's why

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited that I've got him. And that's why

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Speaker 1: I don't mind praising God. That's what I expect the supernatural.

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Speaker 1: I want you to take every page of this thing

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Speaker 1: and write stuff that used to be true before Christ

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Speaker 1: came along. I want you to practice this week. I

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Speaker 1: wish some of you parents would be a leader for

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Speaker 1: your family and take this message and say, before we

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Speaker 1: sit down today, everybody's gonna x something before I even

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Speaker 1: feed you all lunch. You don't want paying, don't take

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Speaker 1: a bite until we x something that the enemy has

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Speaker 1: set over your life. That used to be true. That's

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Speaker 1: the key. It used to be true. It used to

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Speaker 1: be true. It used to be that. The only way

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Speaker 1: to be right with God is for you to be perfect,

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Speaker 1: for you to keep the law, including the Sabbath. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Passover was all about. That's what the festival

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Speaker 1: that John five mentions was. They put a X on

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Speaker 1: the door in blood of all of God's people, so

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Speaker 1: that the angel of Death would pass over on the

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Speaker 1: top of the doorframe, on the sides of the doorframe

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Speaker 1: in Exodus twelve. And God said, not this house, not

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Speaker 1: this house. So this is a passover day for us

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Speaker 1: in Jesus that he's walking up to the person on

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Speaker 1: the porch who can't move, can't function, can't get over it,

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Speaker 1: can't recover, can't get it together. And the truth stands

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Speaker 1: in front of the experience, and he doesn't tell him

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Speaker 1: something to understand. He tells him something to do. I

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Speaker 1: want you to take what was holding you and hold it.

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Speaker 1: I have no one to help, but you do now.

746
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Speaker 1: But you do now. Don't let the explanation become an excuse.

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Speaker 1: You've got it now, You've got the word of God,

748
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Speaker 1: You've got the spirit of God. Please don't just come

749
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Speaker 1: in here every week expecting for somebody to lug you

750
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Speaker 1: to the pool, because you're always gonna get blocked. You're

751
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Speaker 1: always gonna get blocked. This is the X factor. The

752
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Speaker 1: man said, I don't know who healed me, Well go

753
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Speaker 1: find out. It was Jesus. Say it again, it was Jesus.

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Speaker 1: You said it at the beginning of the sermon, But

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Speaker 1: now I want you to hear it. He's the X factor.

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Speaker 1: He changed everything, Grace changes everything. You're here today. You're

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Speaker 1: saying I can't be saved, I can't be a Christian,

758
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Speaker 1: I can't get on the right path. God knew that.

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Speaker 1: That's why he didn't make you get to the water.

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Speaker 1: He brought the water to you. It's not how smart

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Speaker 1: you are. That's not the X factor. That's not what's

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Speaker 1: going to attract the power of God to your life.

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Speaker 1: It's not how manipulative you can be, how you can

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Speaker 1: work everything out according to your plan. It said it

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Speaker 1: was Jesus that made me walk, it was Jesus that

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Speaker 1: made me whole. And it starts with this question, do

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Speaker 1: you want to get well? Because you've been like this

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Speaker 1: a long time? Stand up. I'm gonna pray for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend, thank you. It'sod Bible back. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pray for you. Yeah. I want you to fill

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Speaker 1: every blank page in that notebook with that all that

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Speaker 1: junk the enemy's been telling you, keeping you stuck too. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want to see is all through that notebook. Father.

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Speaker 1: We want to take a moment and reflect on the

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Speaker 1: X factor. Really awesome to see Jesus in Jerusalem, to

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Speaker 1: know he would head back there and die just a

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Speaker 1: little while later, and that what was initiated in the

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Speaker 1: man's life through healing would be completed for us on

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Speaker 1: the cross so that we could be set free. I

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Speaker 1: believe in my spirit God, that there are thousands who

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Speaker 1: are hearing this message right now, who this is their

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Speaker 1: moment to be saved, to receive the grace of God,

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Speaker 1: not by works, but by grace through faith. Right now,

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Speaker 1: if you're like that man spiritually, not physically, but spiritually,

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Speaker 1: you say, you know what, I'm dead in my sin

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Speaker 1: and I want to receive Jesus Christ as my savior

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Speaker 1: so that the written requirement in my handwriting, the things

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Speaker 1: I've done that separated me in my heart from God

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Speaker 1: can be nailed to his cross and so that I

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Speaker 1: can move forward into a new future. I'm gonna pray

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Speaker 1: with you right now. You know the Bible says that

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Speaker 1: it is by grace you are saved. That man would

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Speaker 1: have never gotten into the water if he would have

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Speaker 1: kept trying to get there on his own. He had

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Speaker 1: to let the water come to him, and you are

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Speaker 1: at that moment right now. God brought you here online

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Speaker 1: in the physical building. God brought you here, and Jesus

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Speaker 1: is standing in front of you. I'm going to pray

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Speaker 1: a prayer right now. We're going to pray it out

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Speaker 1: loud as a church family for the benefit of those

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Speaker 1: who are coming to Jesus to be saved, repenting of

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Speaker 1: their sin, receiving his new life for the first time,

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Speaker 1: or coming back to God. And as I pray, if

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Speaker 1: you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is able

805
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Speaker 1: to save you, you confess with your mouth that Jesus's Lord.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says you will be saved. Every head bow,

807
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Speaker 1: every eye closed, repeat after me this prayer, Lord Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

809
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Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

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Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 1: This is my new beginning. Raise your hand on account

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Speaker 1: of three. If you prayed that one, two, three and

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Speaker 1: all in the chat, raise hands. Can't go on up everywhere? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. No shame in it, No shame in it.

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Speaker 1: Take up your madden walk. Take up the Man who

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Speaker 1: saved you told you to do it. Jesus said you

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Speaker 1: can do it. Raise your hand up high. Let's clap

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Speaker 1: our hands for everybody who got that living water today.

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Speaker 1: Take up your maden walk. Thank you Jesus. We're bringing

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Speaker 1: you a Bible right now where the Word of God is,

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Speaker 1: where it can instruct you how to walk. Hey, thank

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Speaker 1: you for not leaving. I appreciate your attention to the

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Speaker 1: word of God. This is a very important moment for somebody.

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Speaker 1: I want us to seal it. I want us to

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Speaker 1: seal this moment of what God just did by giving

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Speaker 1: God the most amazing thirty seconds of praise. Can we

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Speaker 1: do that right now? Thank you? Lord, Come, I'm on.

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Speaker 1: Open your mouth. It was Jesus. And what's the lord? Hey,

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Speaker 1: man away, it was him. It was Jesus. It was Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Hey saved you. Hey, riise you head, what's Jesus? He's Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Come on, give them money, celebrad Well. If you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love

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Speaker 1: for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and

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