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Speaker 6: to start with something funny. And one day this young
Speaker 6: man was talking to God and he said, God, what's
Speaker 6: a million years like to you? God said, a million
Speaker 6: years to me is like one second to you. He said, well, God,
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Speaker 5: Penny to you. He thought about it a moment. He said, God,
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Speaker 6: God said, sure, just a second, say it like you
Speaker 6: mean it.
Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be.
Speaker 6: Taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 6: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 6: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 6: to talk to you today about pit praisers. It's easy
Speaker 6: to give God praise when things are going good.
Speaker 5: That doesn't take much faith.
Speaker 6: But what about when business slows down, somebody does us wrong,
Speaker 6: the medical report says we're not going to get better.
Speaker 6: We all have times where we feel like.
Speaker 5: We're in the pits. Life has thrown us a curve.
Speaker 6: It's easy to get discouraged and go around negative. We think,
Speaker 6: when it turns around, then I'll have a good attitude.
Speaker 6: When my health improves, then I'll be grateful when I
Speaker 6: get out of this mess. Joel, when I break this addiction,
Speaker 6: then I'll get my joy back. But that's backwards. You
Speaker 6: have to give God praise first. Praise is what causes
Speaker 6: things to turn around. Praise is what breaks bondages.
Speaker 5: That are holding us back.
Speaker 6: Praise activates God's favor. Don't wait till you get out
Speaker 6: of the pit.
Speaker 5: Be a pit praiser.
Speaker 6: Praise him in spite of what hasn't worked out. Praise
Speaker 6: him in spite of what you lost. Any of us
Speaker 6: can give God praise when we're on the mountaintop. The
Speaker 6: real test is will you praise Him in the valley?
Speaker 6: Will you worship him in the wilderness? Will you shout
Speaker 6: when the walls aren't falling? Will you be a pit praiser?
Speaker 6: This is what Joseph had to do. When he was
Speaker 6: a young man. God gave him a dream that one
Speaker 6: day he would rule a nation that his brothers would
Speaker 6: bow down before him. He was excited. He knew God's
Speaker 6: favorite was on his life. He should have been more
Speaker 6: discreet and kept it to himself, but he went around
Speaker 6: telling people. His brothers didn't like the fact that they
Speaker 6: were going to bow down. They were already jealous because
Speaker 6: Joseph was the youngest son and.
Speaker 5: His father's favorite child.
Speaker 6: One day, Joseph's father asked him to go check on
Speaker 6: his brothers. They were in another city taking care of
Speaker 6: the sheep. When they saw Joseph coming, they thought, this
Speaker 6: is our chance to get rid of Joseph. We'll tell
Speaker 6: our father that he was eaten by a wild animal.
Speaker 6: They grabbed Joseph and threw him into a pit, a
Speaker 6: deep well.
Speaker 5: They were going to leave him there to die.
Speaker 6: But when God puts a promise in your heart, people
Speaker 6: can't stop you.
Speaker 5: Bad breaks can't stop you.
Speaker 6: Betrayal, rejection, people don't have the final say God.
Speaker 5: God does. But the dream God put in you is
Speaker 5: not going to come to pass without opposition. There will
Speaker 5: be times it's not fair, it doesn't make sense. Don't
Speaker 5: get bitter.
Speaker 6: It's all a part of God's plan. It looks like
Speaker 6: a setback. The truth is it's a setup to move
Speaker 6: you into your destiny.
Speaker 5: The key is what you do when you're in the pit.
Speaker 5: When life has taken an unexpected turn.
Speaker 6: A relationship didn't work out, you lost a loved one,
Speaker 6: a bad medical report. It's tempting to get sour, go
Speaker 6: around complaining talking about how it's not going to work out.
Speaker 5: All that's going to do is keep you in the pit.
Speaker 5: Joseph's brothers were up having lunch while he was in
Speaker 5: the pit.
Speaker 6: They saw this caravan of Ishmaelites headed their way. One
Speaker 6: of the brothers named Judah said, what does it profit
Speaker 6: us to kill Joseph.
Speaker 5: Let's sell him. Let's make some money.
Speaker 6: They brought Joseph out of the pit and sold him
Speaker 6: as a slave to the Ishmaelites. What's interesting is the
Speaker 6: name Judah, the brother that saved Joseph's life, means praise.
Speaker 5: God was showing us. Praise protects the dream.
Speaker 6: The other brothers were saying, let's kill him, let's leave
Speaker 6: him here to die. But praise rose up and said no,
Speaker 6: we're going to let him live. Praise change the opposition's mind.
Speaker 6: Praise push back the forces of darkness. When you're in
Speaker 6: the pit, don't complain, turn up your praise. You have
Speaker 6: to protect your dream. The way you do.
Speaker 5: It is by having Judah show up.
Speaker 6: Father, Thank you that you are fighting my battles. Yes,
Speaker 6: this is a big problem, but I know you're a
Speaker 6: big God. You flung stars into space. Nothing's too difficult
Speaker 6: for you. The scripture says, the spirit of faith is
Speaker 6: in our words. What kind of words are coming out
Speaker 6: of your mouth talking about how big your problem is?
Speaker 6: Are you talking about how big your God is? Are
Speaker 6: you complaining about the pit? Focused on what wasn't fair?
Speaker 6: On who did you wrong? You have to wake up Judah.
Speaker 6: Judah is in you. You're waiting for someone else to
Speaker 6: deliver you, someone to pray for you, someone to cheer
Speaker 6: you up. You can deliver yourself if you'll get Judah
Speaker 6: up and start thanking God that he's turning it around.
Speaker 6: Now complaining about the medical report, but thanking him that
Speaker 6: he's restoring health back into you. Not discouraged over finances,
Speaker 6: but thanking him that you will lend and not borrow.
Speaker 6: When God sees you praising him in the pit, praising
Speaker 6: him in the laws, praising him in the storm, that's
Speaker 6: what he calls the sacrifice of praise. He knows it's
Speaker 6: not easy, he knows it wasn't fair.
Speaker 5: He knows they did you wrong. He knows you felt
Speaker 5: like quitting.
Speaker 6: But when you raise Him in the pit, that moves
Speaker 6: God in a greater way. The sacrifice of praise carries
Speaker 6: more weight. It's one thing to be grateful when things
Speaker 6: are going our way.
Speaker 5: That's important. We should do that.
Speaker 6: But when you have a song in your heart, when
Speaker 6: every circumstance says you should be discouraged, when you can
Speaker 6: say God, I bless you in spite of what hasn't
Speaker 6: worked out. Get ready for God to show out in
Speaker 6: your life. David said, God lifted me out of the
Speaker 6: pit and set my feet up on the rock.
Speaker 5: You may be in the pit, but you're not going
Speaker 5: to stay there. You've heard that.
Speaker 6: Saying you can't keep a good man down. Let me
Speaker 6: tell you can't keep a praiser down. Anyone can complain,
Speaker 6: anyone can be discouraged.
Speaker 5: But God is looking.
Speaker 6: For some pit praisers, people that will praise him no
Speaker 6: matter what happens. Praise him in the good times, praise
Speaker 6: him in the tough times. Praise him when business is up,
Speaker 6: praise him when it's down.
Speaker 5: He said, I'll bless the Lord at all times.
Speaker 6: His praise will continually be in my mouth. This is
Speaker 6: what Paul and Silas did in the scripture. They were
Speaker 6: falsely accused and put in prison for sharing good news.
Speaker 6: They could have been bitter, complained God, why did you
Speaker 6: let this happen? We were doing the right thing. Instead,
Speaker 6: they were pit praisers. At midnight in the dungeon, they
Speaker 6: started singing praises and thanking God. Suddenly there was a
Speaker 6: great earthquake. The foundation of the prison was shaken, the
Speaker 6: doors flung open.
Speaker 5: They walked out as free men. When God heard.
Speaker 6: The praises coming from the jail, I can imagine he
Speaker 6: turned to Gabriel and said, Gabriel, if they're going to
Speaker 6: praise me in the pit, if they're going to sing
Speaker 6: in the midnight hour, if they're going to offer up
Speaker 6: the sacrifice of praise, I can't just sit back.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go down there and do something about it.
Speaker 6: The scripture says in Zephyniah, the Lord, your mighty Warrior
Speaker 6: is with you. He will take delight in you and
Speaker 6: rejoice over you with singing. When you give God praise
Speaker 6: in the difficult times, when you sing in the midnight hour,
Speaker 6: the Lord, your mighty Warrior, not a weak God, not
Speaker 6: a lacking God, not a limited God, but the all
Speaker 6: powerful creator of the universe, will not only take delight
Speaker 6: in you, but he will start singing over you.
Speaker 5: When God sings.
Speaker 6: Prison doors open, addictions are broken, depression can't stay.
Speaker 5: Poverty and lack have to go. God will get you
Speaker 5: to where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 6: But when we're in the pits, it's easy to have
Speaker 6: a pity party.
Speaker 5: Think why did this happen.
Speaker 6: I prayed, my loved one didn't make it, our relationship
Speaker 6: didn't work out, my house was damaged in the storm.
Speaker 6: You're right where Joseph was doing the right thing and
Speaker 6: the wrong thing happened. You're right where Paul and Silnce
Speaker 6: were honoring God and we're thrown into a pit. You
Speaker 6: could either get negative bitter or you can become a
Speaker 6: pit praiser. You can thank God not for the pit,
Speaker 6: but thank him that he's bringing you out. Don't thank
Speaker 6: him for the problem, thank him that he's turning it around.
Speaker 6: But we're not going to understand everything God is doing.
Speaker 6: There are times life with Joseph the pit has been.
Speaker 5: Ordained by God.
Speaker 6: We don't like it, but the pit is on the
Speaker 6: road to our destiny. God's plan for Joseph's life was
Speaker 6: to rule Egypt, not Israel.
Speaker 5: His brothers were ordained to betray him.
Speaker 6: He was ordained to be sold as a slave, ordained
Speaker 6: to work for Potiphar, a high ranking military officer. That
Speaker 6: was all a part of the plan to get him
Speaker 6: to Egypt. Sometimes life is not going to make sense.
Speaker 6: You're doing the right thing.
Speaker 5: But it's not working out.
Speaker 6: You have to trust that God is still in control,
Speaker 6: that he knows what he's doing, that he will not
Speaker 6: mismanage your life. God has already planned the end from
Speaker 6: the beginning. But he never promised that we would understand
Speaker 6: everything that happens along the way. In fact, he said,
Speaker 6: my ways are not your ways. He let us know
Speaker 6: right up front.
Speaker 5: It's not always going to make sense. This is what
Speaker 5: faith is all about.
Speaker 6: When God gave Joseph that dream, it showed him up
Speaker 6: and his brothers down. But when the brothers threw him
Speaker 6: into the pit, he was down and his brothers were up.
Speaker 6: It's just the opposite. He could have thought, God, I
Speaker 6: must have heard you wrong.
Speaker 5: This is backwards. He could have complained, been bitter.
Speaker 6: Instead, his attitude was, God, I trust you, You said,
Speaker 6: my steps are ordered by you, So wherever.
Speaker 5: You have me, I'm going to be the best that
Speaker 5: I can be.
Speaker 6: You never read where complained, where he was bitter, where
Speaker 6: he slacked all I can imagine in the pit, thoughts
Speaker 6: said to him, where is your God?
Speaker 5: Now? This dream is never going to come to pass.
Speaker 6: The pit was simply a test God was seeing, will
Speaker 6: you trust me when you don't understand?
Speaker 5: Will you praise me? In the pit when it doesn't
Speaker 5: make sense. And praise is not just words, it's our attitude.
Speaker 6: We're grateful, we have a smile, we're being good to people.
Speaker 6: We're passionate about our dreams. The scripture says our.
Speaker 5: Life is a praise to God.
Speaker 6: When you're a pit praiser, you can be in the
Speaker 6: pit and nobody arounds you.
Speaker 5: Knows it. You're not sour, you don't have a chip
Speaker 5: on your shoulder.
Speaker 6: You've learned this secret to bless the Lord at all times.
Speaker 6: Joseph said, in effect, this pit is not going to
Speaker 6: stop my praise.
Speaker 5: It's a part of the process.
Speaker 6: God wouldn't have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose,
Speaker 6: So it's not going to take my joy. I'm going
Speaker 6: to be a pit praiser. I can hear him when
Speaker 6: he was in the pit, his brother's up having lunch. Father,
Speaker 6: thank you that nothing can snatch me out of your hands.
Speaker 6: You being for me, I know, is greater than the
Speaker 6: whole world being against me. As he kept thanking God,
Speaker 6: his brother, named Judah, the one that means praise, suddenly
Speaker 6: had an idea, let's not harm Joseph. Let's sell them
Speaker 6: to these people that wasn't his idea.
Speaker 5: God gave him that idea.
Speaker 6: When you're giving God praise, he's fighting your battles, giving
Speaker 6: people ideas, putting thoughts in their minds, causing them to
Speaker 6: want to be good to you.
Speaker 5: But what if Joseph wasn't a pit praiser.
Speaker 6: What if he'd been negative, bitter, Maybe he'd stayed in
Speaker 6: the pit, Maybe.
Speaker 5: He would have missed his destiny.
Speaker 6: When you're in the pit, it's a test. Are you
Speaker 6: going to get discouraged bitter? Or are you going to
Speaker 6: protect your dream through praise? Are you going to wake
Speaker 6: up Judah? Because sometimes, like with Joseph, what God promised
Speaker 6: us looks just the opposite. God said he's restoring health
Speaker 6: back to you, but the medical report says.
Speaker 5: You're not going to get better.
Speaker 6: God says your whole family is going to serve him.
Speaker 6: Maybe you have children that are far off course. Don't
Speaker 6: get discouraged by what's not lining up.
Speaker 5: It's not over.
Speaker 6: God is still working behind the scenes. Things are happening
Speaker 6: that you cannot see. Keep thanking God that is on
Speaker 6: the way. In car racing, when a car is low
Speaker 6: on fuel or they need new tires, they'll come in
Speaker 6: for a pit stop.
Speaker 5: When they pull into the pit.
Speaker 6: The team goes to work to get it refueled and
Speaker 6: prepared for.
Speaker 5: The rest of the race.
Speaker 6: In the same way, the pit stops in our life
Speaker 6: are not the end. When we're in the pits a
Speaker 6: difficult time, we had a bad break. God uses that
Speaker 6: pit stop to refuel us and get us prepared.
Speaker 5: For the next season of our life. And the way
Speaker 5: to get refueled is through your praise.
Speaker 6: By finding something to be grateful for. Not dwelling on
Speaker 6: what's wrong, but thanking God for what's right, not focused
Speaker 6: on what you lost, but thanking God for what you
Speaker 6: have left.
Speaker 5: You may feel like you're in the pits, you have
Speaker 5: a good reason to be discouraged. Have a new perspective.
Speaker 6: You're in a time of refreshing, re energizing, refueling. Without
Speaker 6: a few pit stops, we wouldn't be prepared for the
Speaker 6: rest of our journey. The problem is some people make
Speaker 6: the pit stop their home.
Speaker 5: They lose their passion, get discouraged. Why did this happen
Speaker 5: to me? I was doing so well. It's just a
Speaker 5: pit stop.
Speaker 6: I don't know anyone that's fulfilled their destiny without a
Speaker 6: few pit stops. The heroes of faith, David, Moses, Abraham, Ruth, Esther, Sarah,
Speaker 6: they all had pit stops. My challenge is, don't get
Speaker 6: stuck in the pit. It's a pit stop, not a pit. End,
Speaker 6: not a pit finish, not a pit.
Speaker 5: It's over and done.
Speaker 6: Your life is not supposed to end in defeat, in
Speaker 6: a bad break, in disappointment. God has victory in front
Speaker 6: of you. Well, Joel, I'm in a big pit. Then
Speaker 6: you need to have big praise, big faith, big dreams.
Speaker 6: Don't believe that lie that where you are is permanent.
Speaker 6: God did not breathe life into you, crown you with favor,
Speaker 6: put royal blood in your veins.
Speaker 5: For you to live in the pitts.
Speaker 6: The pits are temporary, but you have to do your
Speaker 6: part and praise your way out of the pit. Attitude
Speaker 6: is Father, thank you that this pit is just to stop.
Speaker 6: It's not my final destination. Thank you that you're making
Speaker 6: a way where I don't see a way. That what
Speaker 6: was meant to stop me is going to promote me.
Speaker 6: If you'll stay full of praise, keep thanking God, keep
Speaker 6: encouraging yourself, you'll not only come out of the pit,
Speaker 6: you'll come out stronger into new levels, new relationships, new opportunities.
Speaker 6: After the pit is promotion, after the pit is fever,
Speaker 6: after the pit is the palace. Joseph went on to
Speaker 6: see his dream come to pass. There were a lot
Speaker 6: of twists and turns. It was a winding road, but
Speaker 6: he kept moving forward and fulfilled his destiny. But had
Speaker 6: he not been willing to praise in the pit, he
Speaker 6: would have never made it.
Speaker 5: To the palace.
Speaker 6: Could it be that a lack of praise is keeping
Speaker 6: you out of your palace?
Speaker 5: So to speak. You're waiting for them things to turn around.
Speaker 6: Then you'll have a good attitude, then you'll be grateful.
Speaker 5: You have to give God praise in the pit.
Speaker 6: That's what allows him to take you into the palace,
Speaker 6: into a new level of your destiny.
Speaker 5: In Matthew fifteen, Jesus had just.
Speaker 6: Left Galilee when a Canaanite woman came up to him.
Speaker 6: The Canaanites were idle worshipers, They were gentiles.
Speaker 5: They didn't believe in Jehovah.
Speaker 6: For a lady to approach him like that in that
Speaker 6: day was unusual because the women were taught to stay
Speaker 6: in the background. This lady traveled a great distance, said
Speaker 6: to Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 5: My little girl is so sick. Jesus ignored her.
Speaker 6: Didn't say a word, acted like she wasn't there, and
Speaker 6: this was unusual because Jesus was normally so compassionate. The
Speaker 6: lady kept begging and begging, please come here, my daughter,
Speaker 6: so much so that the disciples.
Speaker 5: Asked Jesus, can we send her away? Can we tell
Speaker 5: her to leave? She's bothering us with all of her begging.
Speaker 6: Jesus finally told her why he was ignoring her. He said, ma'am,
Speaker 6: I was sent to help the house of Israel, not
Speaker 6: the gentiles. He was saying, I'm sorry, but you're not
Speaker 6: a part of our family. I feel badly, but I
Speaker 6: can't take what belongs to the Israelites and give it
Speaker 6: to you.
Speaker 5: This lady had everything going against her.
Speaker 6: She was a gentile, she was an idle worshiper, she
Speaker 6: was a woman. But when she said, son of David,
Speaker 6: have mercy on me, she was saying, I know you're
Speaker 6: the messiah for the Israelites. I realize I'm outside the family.
Speaker 6: I don't have any right to this, but I'm asking
Speaker 6: you to make an exception. When Jesus told her no.
Speaker 6: That could have been the end of the story. But
Speaker 6: this lady did something interesting. Instead of continuing to beg
Speaker 6: she fell down at his feet and started worshiping. She
Speaker 6: started praising him, thanking him. I can imagine Jesus tried
Speaker 6: to walk away. He tried to move on, but when
Speaker 6: he heard the praise, he couldn't leave. Praise kept pulling
Speaker 6: him back. Praise kept drawing him toward her. The scripture
Speaker 6: says God inhabits our praises. That means praise brings God
Speaker 6: on the scene. Begging doesn't move God, complaining doesn't sway him,
Speaker 6: but praise causes the creator of the universe to show up.
Speaker 6: Jesus thought, I know she's outside the family. I know
Speaker 6: she comes from idle worshipers. I know this goes against
Speaker 6: quote protocol, but I can't turn a praiser down. He
Speaker 6: said to the woman, you have great faith. You can
Speaker 6: go back home. Your daughter has been healed. A few
Speaker 6: minutes earlier, he would ignoring her. What changed when she
Speaker 6: went from begging to worshiping.
Speaker 5: That's how powerful praise is.
Speaker 6: You may think you're kind of outside the family, you
Speaker 6: don't deserve God's goodness you've made mistakes, brought trouble on yourself.
Speaker 6: There may be a dozen reasons why God shouldn't do it.
Speaker 6: But if you'll do like this lady and go to God,
Speaker 6: not begging him but giving him praise, thanking him, bragging
Speaker 6: on his goodness, God will break protocols, so to speak,
Speaker 6: and do things that you don't deserve. What begging won't do,
Speaker 6: praise will do no more.
Speaker 5: God. I'm begging you to heal me.
Speaker 6: I'm begging you to turn my child around. Switch over
Speaker 6: into praise Father. Thank you that you're restoring health back
Speaker 6: to me. Thank You that has for me and my house.
Speaker 6: We will serve the Lord. God won't disappoint a praiser,
Speaker 6: Jeremiah said. When you offer up the sacrifice of praise,
Speaker 6: God will cause the captivity of the land to be
Speaker 6: reversed and.
Speaker 5: The fortunes to be restored. There may be some things
Speaker 5: you need reversed and restored.
Speaker 6: You don't see how it can happen, but you go
Speaker 6: through the day saying, Father, thank you that the answers
Speaker 6: on the way, thank you that you're working behind the scenes.
Speaker 6: Because you're offering up that sacrifice of praise. God is
Speaker 6: going to reverse finances that are down, reverse a negative
Speaker 6: medical report, reverse a legal situation. Not only that, he's
Speaker 6: going to restore what should have been yours, Restore years
Speaker 6: you lost because somebody did you wrong, Restore a relationship
Speaker 6: that's going down, Restore health back to your body.
Speaker 5: It's going to happen because of your praise.
Speaker 6: In the scripture, the Israelites had traveled through the desert
Speaker 6: forty years trying to make it to the proms land.
Speaker 6: The parents never did make it in because they complained
Speaker 6: and were negative. They eventually died. Now their children were
Speaker 6: at Jericho. This was the last city that.
Speaker 5: Stood between them and their promised land.
Speaker 6: You can imagine how excited they were if they could
Speaker 6: just get through Jericho, that they could see this dream
Speaker 6: come to pass. There will always be a Jericho that
Speaker 6: stands between you and your promised land, one last obstacle
Speaker 6: that looks insurmountable. You've come this far, you've done so well,
Speaker 6: but you don't see how you could get past it.
Speaker 6: This is how the Israelites felt they could taste the victory.
Speaker 6: After years, they were finally within reach. But Jericho had
Speaker 6: a huge wall around the city, so thick that the
Speaker 6: chariots could ride on top of the wall. It looked
Speaker 6: impossible to penetrate well. God told Joshua to have the
Speaker 6: people march around the wall six days. On the seventh day,
Speaker 6: on the seventh time around, they were to let out
Speaker 6: a great shout.
Speaker 5: I can imagine.
Speaker 6: The people told Joshua, we'll shout after the wall falls, after.
Speaker 5: We take the city, then we'll give God praise. There's
Speaker 5: no reason to do it before.
Speaker 6: That doesn't make sense, Joshua said, you're missing the point.
Speaker 5: The shout is what's going to cause the wall to fall.
Speaker 6: Like them, we want to shout after the victory. But
Speaker 6: God is saying, if you'll give me praise while the
Speaker 6: wall is still standing, then you'll see things begin to change.
Speaker 6: Do you trust him enough to praise him in front
Speaker 6: of a wall that's not moving, to worship him with
Speaker 6: a bad medical report, to thank him for freedom when
Speaker 6: you still have the addiction? The Israelites stood in front
Speaker 6: of that wall and let out a great shout of praise.
Speaker 6: It didn't make sense to their mind. Everything said, you're
Speaker 6: being foolish, you're.
Speaker 5: On the outside, nothing is happening. They just kept giving
Speaker 5: God praise.
Speaker 6: Suddenly, this huge wall not only came tumbling down, but
Speaker 6: researchers have found it fell in such a way that
Speaker 6: it created a perfect ramp so the Israelites could go
Speaker 6: in and take the city. When you give God praise,
Speaker 6: he doesn't just bring down walls, but he'll make a
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Speaker 6: He'll make your rough places smooth.
Speaker 5: Now, maybe you.
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Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say amen? Today?
Speaker 6: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
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