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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 1: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this message. How many of you

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Speaker 1: know that God is placed in our spirit a longing

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Speaker 1: to achieve. You know, God told Abraham, he said, Abraham,

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Speaker 1: I want you to increase. I want you to multiply,

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Speaker 1: and I want you to take dominion over your land over.

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Speaker 2: What I've given you.

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Speaker 1: You see, God doesn't find anything wrong with us achieving.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't mind if we rise to a noble position

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Speaker 1: or a good position from our hard work. But see,

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Speaker 1: God doesn't want us to think that that's what's going

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Speaker 1: to cause us to be great in life, that that's

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Speaker 1: what's going to bring us fulfillment and happiness. Believe God

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Speaker 1: wants his people in strategic places, but he wants them

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Speaker 1: to do it with the right heart. You see, sometimes

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Speaker 1: we get caught up in the wrong things. Jesus was

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Speaker 1: walking with his disciples one day and a mother came

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Speaker 1: up to him of two of the disciples that were

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Speaker 1: with him, and.

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Speaker 2: She said, Jesus, I have a favor to ask you.

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Speaker 2: She said, Jesus, this is so important to me.

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Speaker 1: I have two sons, and she said, I want to

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Speaker 1: know if you will allow one of my sons to

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Speaker 1: sit at the right hand, your right hand, and the

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Speaker 1: other son to sit at your left hand when you

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Speaker 1: come into your kingdom. Now, any good mother would try

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Speaker 1: to work a deal like that, right, you.

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Speaker 2: Can't blame her, huh. I mean, if you could pull

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Speaker 2: that off, go for it.

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Speaker 1: Well, when the other disciples heard that, they got angry

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Speaker 1: with the two disciples because they were feeling like that.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were trying to thwart their authority, trying

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Speaker 1: to put themselves over the other disciples. So they became

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Speaker 1: angry and they became frustrated. I can imagine them thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: you haven't done anything better than me. I've done just

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Speaker 1: as much as you have. You see, Jesus understood these emotions.

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Speaker 1: He understood stood the struggle, and he told her, he said, look,

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Speaker 1: you know what, if they can do what I can do,

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Speaker 1: which they can't, he said, but it's not my position.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just doing what my father wants me

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, he's the one who makes the decisions.

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Speaker 1: So as they were walking, you know, I know Jesus

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Speaker 1: was probably thinking about this, and he was probably thinking

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Speaker 1: you know, this is a good time to talk to

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Speaker 1: them about this positioning title and authority. And so he

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Speaker 1: began to explain to them that the Gentiles, which were

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Speaker 1: not governed by the Jewish laws, that those leaders would

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Speaker 1: use their authority to press the people down, would use

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Speaker 1: to know that that wasn't the way they were to

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Speaker 1: use their authority. In fact, he said to them, not

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Speaker 1: so for you. He said, let me tell you what

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Speaker 1: makes a great life. Let me tell you how to

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Speaker 1: make yourself happy and successful.

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Speaker 2: He said, if.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be great in the Kingdom of God,

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Speaker 2: So he told his disciples the key to obtaining this

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Speaker 1: Now, I want to tell you he was not mad

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Speaker 1: at her for wanting them to be in a high position.

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Speaker 1: He just wanted her and his disciples to understand that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the authority.

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Speaker 2: But it was the misuse of authority.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can have authority, but when you use it

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Speaker 1: to serve others, He was saying, that's it's going to

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Speaker 1: give you a great life. And you know it's hard

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Speaker 1: our culture tries to teach us. In fact, the two

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Speaker 1: disciples could have looked at their mother and said, that's

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Speaker 1: how we get authority, that's how we get positioned. You know,

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen people manipulate situations, do things to

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Speaker 1: try to get more authority, And it's aggravating, isn't it. Well,

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Speaker 1: they were aggravated at them anyway. But we learn from people.

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Speaker 1: We learn how to do things from society and we

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Speaker 1: don't obtain in God's kingdom.

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Speaker 2: You don't obtain.

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Speaker 1: These things by stepping over other people, by using your

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Speaker 1: in the kingdom of God. Jesus' concept of greatness and

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Speaker 1: his ideas of greatness he was trying to explain to

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Speaker 2: See, a good leader is a good servant.

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Speaker 1: And he was saying to them, until you can serve,

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Speaker 1: you'll never be a great leader. Until you can learn

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Speaker 1: is difficult sometimes, And what I love about Jesus is

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Speaker 1: he was always giving examples with his own life about

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Speaker 1: what he was trying to teach his disciples. You know,

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Speaker 1: he never rebuked and pointed his finger and got mad

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Speaker 1: at his disciple and says, you're out of here. But

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Speaker 1: he was always letting his life be an example.

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Speaker 2: The disciples.

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Speaker 1: At the Last Supper with Jesus, Jesus overheard some of

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Speaker 1: them disputing among themselves.

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Speaker 2: Who was the greatest.

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Speaker 1: Quite got that lesson. Yet, so Jesus did something very profound.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that theological impact of this is very great,

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Speaker 1: and there's many things that you can see in this example.

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Speaker 1: But today I want to show you what Jesus was

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Speaker 1: trying to show once again his disciples about greatness.

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Speaker 2: So as they were.

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Speaker 1: Sitting at the table, Jesus arose from the table and

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Speaker 2: To wash his disciples feet.

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Speaker 1: See it was a way for him to show them

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Speaker 1: that their position and authority was not below serving. You see,

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Speaker 1: he rose up and got down. See he was the

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Speaker 1: highest position, He was the highest of authority. But yet

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Speaker 1: he knew that service was the greatest thing in the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, and that was the mesa he wanted

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Speaker 1: wanted them to know a great leader is a great servant.

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Speaker 1: Serving one another was not below their position and authority,

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Speaker 1: but it was part of their position and authority. It's

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Speaker 1: what made them great.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: God loves when you use your power to serve other people.

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Speaker 1: So I'm eighteen thirty five. David said, this of God,

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Speaker 1: you have stooped down to make me great.

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Speaker 2: See that illustration.

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Speaker 1: David was speaking out because God came down from heaven.

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Speaker 2: He stooped down and became a man.

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Speaker 1: So that he could make us great, so that he

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Speaker 1: could save us, and that he could help us.

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Speaker 2: He came from the highest place and.

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Speaker 1: Stoop down to the lowest place to basically wash our feet.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is saying a good leader, a great leader is

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Speaker 1: a good servant. See, we should never place our position

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Speaker 1: where God has placed you, the authority has given you.

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Speaker 1: We should never place that position over the privilege.

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Speaker 2: Of serving others.

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Speaker 1: God has said it's a privilege to serve mankind. I've

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Speaker 1: seen people who use their authority the wrong way.

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Speaker 2: They don't serve people with it.

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Speaker 1: But God, He's stooped down to serve us. I think

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Speaker 1: we should look at our busy and important lives and

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Speaker 1: develop this attitude of stooping down, of helping those around us,

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Speaker 1: of taking up their hand. See, we're not only to

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Speaker 1: serve our family, but we're to have an eye to

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Speaker 1: observe who else we can help.

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Speaker 2: Who else can we wash their feet? Who can we encourage?

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Speaker 1: It may not be convenient, you may have to stop

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Speaker 1: and get off of what you're doing to stoop down

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Speaker 1: to serve someone. But can I tell you, that's what

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Speaker 1: makes you great in the Kingdom of God. It's not

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Speaker 1: your success here on earth, but it's the greatness that

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Speaker 1: God wants to show you.

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Speaker 2: See, I believe that's why many people aren't happy.

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Speaker 1: That's why many people aren't fulfilled, because they're thinking about themselves.

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Speaker 1: They're thinking about their own dreams, their own desires, their

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Speaker 2: They don't have time to think about anyone else.

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Speaker 1: But can I tell you, when you start living on

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Speaker 1: the outside and not always on the inside what's going

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Speaker 1: on with you, your life will change. You'll dramatically see yourself

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Speaker 1: going places that you never thought before. You'll see fulfillment,

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Speaker 1: you'll see joy, You'll see a new dimension.

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Speaker 2: In your life. See, we've got to develop this attitude

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Speaker 2: of service. Is greatness.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to a very wealthy man the other day.

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Speaker 1: He was seventy five years old, celebrating his birthday. Immensely wealthy,

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Speaker 1: not just a little. This guy was very wealthy. And

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Speaker 1: he began to tell me. He looked right at me

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Speaker 1: and he said, Victoria, can I tell you some of

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Speaker 1: the greatest things in my life? Well? I really wanted

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Speaker 1: was just going to tune my hair to what he

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Speaker 1: my life as I look back, the things that have

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Speaker 2: I leaned in.

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Speaker 1: He said was that I was able to use my position,

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Speaker 1: But as I sat there and listened to him, I

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Speaker 1: only sow seeds to people's life, but through those seeds,

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Speaker 1: their children were being blessed.

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Speaker 2: I got so excited just listening to him. You see, that's.

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Speaker 1: What we want to see when we reflect back on

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Speaker 2: See. God does not mind that you have success and position.

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Speaker 1: He wants you in those strategic places because He wants

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Speaker 1: you to make a difference in this world. He has

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Speaker 1: to know that it's through service, it's through giving, it's

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Speaker 1: through stooping down when it's not convenient and washing other

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Speaker 2: That that's what makes you great.

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Speaker 1: See anything done here on this earth, I want to

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Speaker 1: tell you God will make sure you receive it back.

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Speaker 1: Be a person of good works, stoop down, let your

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Speaker 1: life shine and amen.

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