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Speaker 5: with something funny and heard about this little girl.

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Speaker 4: She asked her mother how the human race got started.

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Speaker 5: The mother explained how God made Adam and Eve and

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Speaker 5: they had children and on and on, here we are today.

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Speaker 5: A few days later, she asked her father the same question.

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Speaker 5: He explained, how many years ago there were monkeys. Little

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Speaker 5: by little they became more like people, and now here

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Speaker 5: we are confused. She went back to her mom, said, Mom,

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Speaker 5: you said God created people. Dad said we came from monkeys.

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Speaker 4: How can that be? She said, oh, honey, that's easy.

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Speaker 4: I told you about my side of the family.

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Speaker 5: Dad told you about his Hold up your bible, say

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Speaker 5: it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about how God will bring

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Speaker 5: justice into your life. We all go through situations that

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Speaker 5: Life has thrown you a curve. It's not what you

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Speaker 5: is not always fair, God is fair. And if you

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Speaker 5: but just keep moving forward. God has promised he will

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Speaker 4: For every unfair thing that's happened.

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Speaker 5: Now, don't let one bad break ruin the rest of

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Speaker 5: God has the final say, and God said, I will

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Speaker 4: God said, I will give you beauty for those ashes.

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Speaker 4: He's going to pay you back for every injustice.

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Speaker 5: And God said in Exodus, I have seen the affliction

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Speaker 5: That was a great miracle that was worth celebrating in itself.

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Speaker 5: But they didn't leave there empty handed. God is a

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Speaker 4: He is keeping the records. He knows exactly what you're owed.

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Speaker 5: He'll make sure you not only get what you deserve,

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Speaker 5: Now I know some of you, like these people, you've

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Speaker 4: You need to get ready. It's payback time. Everything the

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Speaker 5: God is going to restore the joy, the peace, the hell,

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Speaker 4: God is going to pay.

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Speaker 5: You back for the childhood you didn't have. God is

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Speaker 4: Oh Joel, this.

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Speaker 5: Sounds great today, but you don't know my story. You

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 5: It's payback time, it's restoration time, it's vindication time, it's

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Speaker 5: When it came time to apply for college, her friends

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Speaker 4: It was much more than double.

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Speaker 5: What am I saying, when you let God settle your case,

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Speaker 5: it will be better than you could have ever done.

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Speaker 4: It yourself.

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Speaker 5: Now, don't be sour because of something that you lost

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Speaker 5: or something that was taken from you. A coworker cheated

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Speaker 5: you out of that contract that should have been yours.

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Speaker 5: A friend, a family member didn't keep their word.

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Speaker 4: They didn't pay you back. Instead of being better and

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Speaker 4: trying to get even stay on the high road. God

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Speaker 4: sees the injustice.

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Speaker 5: He knows what they took, and if you'll let God

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Speaker 5: settle your case, he'll not only give you what you deserve,

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Speaker 5: but God will pay you back with even more. One

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Speaker 5: time in the scripture, Jacob had an agreement with an

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Speaker 5: older relative named Laban that he would work for Laban

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Speaker 5: for seven years and in return, Laban would give him

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Speaker 5: his daughter, Rachel as his wife. Rachel was very beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Jacob loved her so much that he agreed. So for

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Speaker 5: seven years, Jacob worked faithfully. He increased Laban's flocks many

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Speaker 5: times over, went to great links to fight off the

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Speaker 5: wild animals that would try to kill.

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Speaker 4: The sheep and the goats.

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Speaker 5: After seven years, he had fulfilled his part of the

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Speaker 5: contract made Laban a much wealthier man.

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Speaker 4: But Laban changed his mind.

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Speaker 5: He said, Jacob, I'll let you marry one of my daughters,

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Speaker 5: but not Rachel. You can marry my oldest daughter named Leah. Well,

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Speaker 5: no offense to Leah, but that's not what they agreed to.

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Speaker 5: Jacob wanted to marry Rachel. Laban said, if you want

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Speaker 5: to marry Rachel, you'll have to work for me another

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Speaker 5: seven years. And Jacob was either so dumb or so

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Speaker 5: in love he agreed to do it.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you're so in love it makes you dumb.

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Speaker 5: Fourteen years later, he said, Laban, I want to leave

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Speaker 5: now with Rachel and go back to be with my family.

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Speaker 4: Laban was feeling so guilty.

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Speaker 5: He said, Jacob, I got to pay you something for

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Speaker 5: working all these years.

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Speaker 4: You've made me very wealthy.

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Speaker 5: What would you like? Jacob said, I don't want any money.

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Speaker 5: I'll make a deal with you. I'll work for you

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Speaker 5: a little longer. Just let me have all the streaked

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Speaker 5: and spotted sheep and goats, all the solid colored animals

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Speaker 5: will be yours. When I leave, you'll know that I'm

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Speaker 5: not taking anything that belongs to you. Laban loved this

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Speaker 5: idea because there were very few streaked and spotted animals.

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Speaker 5: But Laban was so cheap and so dishonest. He went

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Speaker 5: out at night and removed all the streaked and spotted

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Speaker 5: sheep and goats and put them in a special pen

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Speaker 5: so they couldn't mate with the solid colored animals. That way,

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Speaker 5: Jacob wouldn't have as much. What Laban didn't realize is

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Speaker 5: that God, God is a god of justice. He will

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Speaker 5: not allow his children to be continually taken advantage of it.

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Speaker 5: When those solid colored animals made it, do you know

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Speaker 5: what color? Their offspring was streaked and spotted? Friends, God

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Speaker 5: has the final say. God knows how to pay you back.

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Speaker 4: He's not limited by the laws of nature. He's not

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Speaker 4: limited by.

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Speaker 5: What people say or what a boss says. And Laban

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Speaker 5: was over there scratching his head.

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Speaker 4: He thought, man, that is not right. How did that happen?

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Speaker 5: He got so frustrated he went back to Jacob and said,

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Speaker 5: I want to change the agreement. From now on, you

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Speaker 5: get all the solid colored new animals that were born.

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Speaker 4: Jacob said, no problem, that's fine. You know what color?

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Speaker 5: All the new animals born were solid colored. The blessing

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Speaker 5: followed Jacob. God supernaturally increased him. He left there with

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Speaker 5: more flocks than his relative Laban. What was God doing

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Speaker 5: paying Jacob back when you go to work each week.

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Speaker 5: Remember you're not working under people, You're working under.

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Speaker 4: God, and he is a god of justice.

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Speaker 5: If somebody is being dishonest, not keeping their word, or

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Speaker 5: maybe they're playing politics and not giving you the credit

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Speaker 5: you deserve, don't get upset, don't try to pay them back.

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Speaker 4: God is keeping the records.

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Speaker 5: He will make sure you not only get what you deserve,

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Speaker 5: but like Jacob, God.

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Speaker 4: Will pay you back with even more.

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Speaker 5: I know some of you today you feel like that

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Speaker 5: you've gotten a double dose of trouble. Things have come

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Speaker 5: against you, but this is a new day. It is

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Speaker 5: payback time. Get ready for a double dose of God's goodness,

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Speaker 5: a double dose of God's favor. God is going to

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Speaker 5: make the enemy pay for bringing the trouble into your life.

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Speaker 5: Instead of complaining about it, get up in the morning

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Speaker 5: every day difficulty, every unfair situation that has qualified you

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Speaker 4: The God of Justice is.

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Speaker 5: Going to show himself strong in your life. You're not

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Speaker 5: going to just come out. You're going to come out

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