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Speaker 6: that died and went to heaven. Saint Peter escorted him

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Speaker 6: down this long hallway filled with many clocks.

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Speaker 5: The hands on the clocks were all ticking at different speeds.

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Speaker 6: Peter explained that every person has a clock. When they send,

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Speaker 6: Billy Graham's clock. Another clock was creeping along Mother Teresa's clock.

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Speaker 5: The men said, curiously, can I see my clock?

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Speaker 6: Peter said, yeah, we keep yours in the office and

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Speaker 6: use it as a fan. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 6: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 6: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 6: to talk to you today about the God who crosses

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Speaker 6: his arms. God has things in store for you that

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Speaker 6: you don't see coming. It may seem like you've reached

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Speaker 5: To open doors you never thought would open. You didn't

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Speaker 6: You weren't next in line, but somehow you were chosen

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Speaker 5: God has unexpected favor.

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Speaker 6: He's going to do things that we didn't deserve, and

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Speaker 6: that's what happened. In Genesis forty eight, Jacob was an

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Speaker 6: Joseph was Jacob's youngest son and his favorite. He'd given

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Speaker 6: Egyptians worshiped idols. They didn't believe in Jehovah. She didn't

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Speaker 6: But God doesn't disqualify you because of how you were raised.

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Speaker 6: for generations to come. It was extremely significant that these

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Speaker 6: Normally, it would have come from their father, Joseph. He

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Speaker 6: There are things that we don't deserve. We were, off course,

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Speaker 6: Paul said in Ephesians, God has adopted us into his

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Speaker 6: didn't deserve, houses that you didn't build. The scripture says

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Speaker 6: to limit you. How you were raised is not going

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Speaker 6: There may have been people that didn't honor God, didn't

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Speaker 6: He's saying, I'm adopting you anyway, not as my grandchild,

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Speaker 5: But because of what Jacob did, they were us forty

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Speaker 6: And there are things that should take you years to accomplish,

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Speaker 5: But God is going to do for you what he

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Speaker 6: He's going to catapult you ahead. You're going to see

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Speaker 6: work because you're honoring him, because you say, as for

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Speaker 5: God is feeding things up.

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Speaker 6: What should have taken you your whole life is going

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Speaker 6: Can I tell you favor is not fair. It's just

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Speaker 6: You don't have to convince people to like you. Some

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Speaker 5: You didn't need them.

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Speaker 6: Don't waste your valuable time with people that won't celebrate

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Speaker 6: the blessing that God put on your life. Don't apologize

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Speaker 6: taking you to a new level where your blessings well,

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Speaker 6: it's the favor of God on your life. After Jacob

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Speaker 6: the blessing from the Father was very significant and very revered.

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Speaker 6: What the father spoke over the sons in his final

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Speaker 6: rest of their lives. The oldest son would receive a

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Speaker 5: That was the tradition.

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Speaker 6: The blessing the father gave with his right hand was

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Speaker 6: this double portion blessing. So Joseph brought his oldest son,

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Speaker 6: his firstborn, Manassa, and placed him at his father's right

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Speaker 5: Ephrium stood on his left.

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Speaker 6: Joseph knelt down put his face toward the ground. But Jacob,

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Speaker 6: When Joseph eventually looked up and saw it, he was upset.

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Speaker 6: He got up in a hurry and said, Dad, what

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Speaker 6: He took Jacob's right hand and was going to place

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Speaker 6: He had already accepted that it wasn't meant to be.

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Speaker 6: The prophet Samuel showed up at his house to annoint

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