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Called to Praise | Bishop Rosie S. O’neal · Koinonia Christian Center

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Go and tell somebody we can ready to get
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in this word tonight.
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>> Yeah. Then we going to fall out. Just
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study and fall out again. Amen.
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>> Get your Bibles. This will be easy for
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everybody to understand.
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>> But we're called to praise.
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>> I said we're called to praise.
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>> My God.
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I couldn't even get the Holy Spirit
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wouldn't even let me start dealing with
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some of the stuff in his ministry until
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we did some reintroduction.
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>> How many been with us in the mornings?
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>> Amen.
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>> And uh so you got to understand you are
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saved through your faith in the finished
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work of Jesus Christ and that alone.
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That's why nobody deserves the praise
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but him.
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>> I thought I'd hear more on that.
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>> I said nobody deserves the praise but
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him.
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[applause]
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>> And so when I understand that and I nail
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that down and I start really letting the
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implications
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of being saved sink in,
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>> that means I'll never be alone.
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Okay, one hand.
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>> Okay, you you miss it. Say, let me let
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me say it again cuz in case it didn't
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come out clear, you'll never be alone.
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[cheering]
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>> You are never without help.
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>> You are never without hope. I wish I had
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me a few folk in here. You have God on
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the inside of you strengthening you to
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go through anything that comes your way.
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AND IN ALL THESE THINGS, WE ARE MORE
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THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED
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US.
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>> When you really let the truth of
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salvation sink in,
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>> he made me fit
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>> to overcome.
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>> But see, your peace and your praise will
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tell you where your faith is.
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>> Oh, I need somebody. Yeah. Yeah. You can
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tell where you are in your reliance upon
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God and in your faith walk, you can tell
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by your peace and your praise.
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[cheering]
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>> Oh
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yeah. Because when there is no peace,
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it's an indication that there is some
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area you have not trusted God in. If you
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don't have peace, you have allowed stuff
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to take your eyes off. Come here, Peter.
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You've allowed yourself to start
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focusing on the storm and not on the
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savior.
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>> [screaming]
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>> Because as long as you know who you are
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with,
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>> y'all ain't having church with me.
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Listen, IF YOU'RE WITH SOMEBODY THAT'S
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GOT everything you need, you carry
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yourself differently. If you Oh, Lord
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have mercy. I don't, you know, I don't
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have mass. Y'all feel free to give me
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masses of money. I take bags of it. I'll
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be glad to.
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>> No, it's okay. Anyway, but I'm saying I
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got a couple nickels.
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So chances are if we go out to eat and
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you realize you left your wallet, you
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ain't going to be upset.
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>> You just going to say, "Bitch, you
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bitch." You know,
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>> you know, you'll be like that,
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You know, you now it's not going to be a
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problem.
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>> So then where where is this anxiousness
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coming from?
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>> Uh-uh. See, where is this anxiousness
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coming from when we are with the one who
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made heaven and earth? [cheering]
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>> Yeah. Uh-uh. Emmanuel
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>> with us be God. God manifest in the
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flesh. So when you really let the
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implications of salvation really become
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come real to you and come you become
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aware of them it changes you. There's a
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peace that settles in.
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>> You say I don't know what tomorrow's
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going to hold
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>> but I know who hold tomorrow
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>> and that's the one that's with me and
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for me that loves me. It's I know it's
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hard to believe sometime, but loves me
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so much he he tattooed me on his hand.
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Read your Bible. Y'all up here tattooing
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folks name on you and in three years you
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ain't even going to know them. You ain't
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going to see them no more.
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You done put their name and tattooed
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everything and then they quit you and go
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with somebody you knew. Come on y'all
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ain't [cheering] I don't hear nobody.
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That's why try to tell folk don't start
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that tattooing too early
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cuz some of these people you think you
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can't live without. You won't even
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remember. Were you in my class or my
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sister's class? You won't even remember
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them. You see a McFamp classroom, you be
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like, I know I've seen you somewhere.
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>> Come on. In Acts chapter 16,
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>> but your peace and your praise will tell
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you where you are in your reliance upon
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God.
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And so what we have to do is we have to
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understand that God has called us to
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praise.
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>> In Acts chapter 16, it was read uh we
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are dealing with Paul and how he has
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been preaching. He and Silas have been
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preaching and taking the gospel and
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they're going through persecution. And
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let me just share with you, you want to
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live out loud until it irritates the
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devil.
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Oh, you want to be so strong with this
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thing until it just makes the devil
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nervous. You ought to have him You ought
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to have him mad when you wake up.
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>> When you step in your job, you just let
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it be known.
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>> Now, devil, I know you're listening.
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>> And I want you to know I'm taking
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authority over this workplace
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environment.
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>> You don't run this. Somebody righteous
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is here. Oh, God. [cheering]
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Paul has been preaching and so they're
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very upset. You know the story that
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takes them and the Bible says in verse
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23 of Acts 16 when they had laid many
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stripes on them. Well, let me do 22. And
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the multitude rose up together against
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them and the magistrates ran off their
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clothes and commanded told beat them.
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That's okay. That's okay. Yeah, you you
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can beat this body but you won't be able
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to touch the next one.
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>> Oh Lord have mercy.
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Okay. Okay. When they had laid many
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stripes on them, they cast them into
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prison, charging the jailer to keep them
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safely, who having received such a
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charge, thrust them into the inner
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prison and made their feet fast, cuz
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they told him, "You better take you
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better keep them." He says, "No problem.
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I got it." Verse 25, "But at midnight,
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>> Paul and Silas prayed and
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>> sang praises unto God." Watch this. This
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won't no silent thing.
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>> This wasn't in their head. nudges. And
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you know, I told you I don't like
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touching people too much in church. You
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know, people every three sentences is
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touch your neighbor. That ain't going to
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never be my testimony cuz after a while,
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I don't want nobody touching me. Now,
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stop. Okay. But just elbow somebody and
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tell them somebody ought to hear your
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praise.
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>> Now, that's important because it's very
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easy for us. And can we just can we just
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talk real plain? Particularly in a
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ministry that is more teachingbased, you
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have to be that much more careful and
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proactive that you don't stay in your
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head all the time.
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>> I'mma wait till we get all the claps in.
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That's right. Because it's very easy for
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us because admittedly we tend to be of
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teaching ministry.
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>> Okay. But you and I have to be willing
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to open our mouths and make declarations
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about the greatness of our God. And you
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got to be able to do it and be bold and
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do it. And plus, it's going to help you.
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YOU NEED TO start getting bold about who
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God is to you anyway.
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>> I got three hands, five hands. No, he's
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my keeper.
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>> He's my friend.
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>> He's the one that's holding me up.
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>> He's keeping my mind. Now, y'all don't
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REMEMBER THIS STUFF, BUT HE'S A HEART
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fixer
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>> and he's a mind regulator.
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>> Oh, Y'ALL Y'ALL ARE HERE. HE'S A DOCTOR
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IN THE SICK room [cheering]
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>> and a lawyer in the courtroom. HE'S A
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HE'S A HE'S A THERAPIST WHEN MY MIND IS
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FLIPPING OUT. [cheering]
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>> And you GOT TO BECOME VERBAL ABOUT THAT
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BECAUSE FAITH comes by.
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>> So God's been dealing with me. Y'all
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ain't started that clock. Y'all are
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brave.
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God has been dealing with me about us
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being called to praise.
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>> Called to praise.
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>> You have to understand that there are,
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as I said, certain things that you and I
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cannot get
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>> just from
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sitting back in our comfort zone. You
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can be attentive mentally,
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but there is a degree of intimacy you
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want to have with God.
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Oh,
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>> or you won't bear fruit.
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>> You can, okay, y'all don't remember this
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from when you were little kids. You see
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somebody, they were cute and they looked
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at you twice
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>> and blinked one time. Next thing you
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know, you were writing y'all's names
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down
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>> and y'all don't remember the little the
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little box, do you?
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>> Where you write rich, poor, millionaire,
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the three cities you want to live at.
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Y'all ain't having a church with how
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many kids and then you go around and
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count the time we wasted. Lord Jesus,
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>> but as long as you have all of those
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emotions and thoughts in your head, how
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many know you ain't going to get
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pregnant from thinking about it?
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>> Y'all not here.
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>> In order for that to occur,
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>> there has to be some action. There has.
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Huh?
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>> Ain't no more immaculate conceptions
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taking place.
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>> Oh, you didn't catch that. You You
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missed that.
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>> Did you catch it? There are no more
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immaculate conceptions.
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>> So, if you going to get pregnant with
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something from God, that means you going
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to have to have some interaction with
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God. [cheering]
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>> That means you're not going to be able
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to sit in your chair and keep it cool
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like this. And cuz see, praise is
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designed for there. There's a stripping
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that takes place
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>> because now it's no longer about you and
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what you got on.
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>> NOW IT'S NO LONGER ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL
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and what you look and whether people are
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STARING AT YOU. IT SHOULD NOT MATTER.
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YOU CAN'T. LET ME TELL YOU, YOU CAN'T
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GET SO IMPORTANT.
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>> Oh Lord, I I want every dollar the Lord
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wants me to have, but not one more
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>> than I have grace to have. Y'all not
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talking to me? Cuz I don't need a two. I
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don't need an extra dollar. And then I
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start thinking I'm too important to hit
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the floor and give God the glory. Let I
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done told y'all I don't mean to be
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commenting ON THIS THING, BUT I DON'T
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WANT A PAIR OF SHOES THAT COST SO MUCH I
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CAN'T dance in them.
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>> And I know I'M NOT JUST TALKING TO
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WOMEN. NOW YOU GOT TO TALK TO MEN about
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that because I found out MEN DON'T LIKE
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TO BEND up their shoes.
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>> How crazy is that?
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>> You The Lord done blessed YOU WITH SOME
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$200 SHOES
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>> and you don't want to bend them up and
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get wrinkles in them. Let me tell YOU
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SOMETHING. THERE WAS A TIME WHERE $200
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WOULD NEAR ABOUT PAY ALL YOUR BILLS. AND
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YOU GOT ENOUGH MONEY NOW THAT YOU CAN
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PUT $200 ON YOUR FEET. YOU BETTER BEND
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THEM UP AND WRINKLE THEM UP AND SCUFF
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THEM UP IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
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[applause]
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[cheering]
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>> You better check yourself.
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>> It's not that serious, honey. Shoes are
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not that ser [laughter]
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We are called to praise. Praise is this
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outward expression
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>> that I know God
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is greater than I am.
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>> I I've given so many
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definitions. Praise is the celebration
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of certainty. when I know God is who he
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said he is and I know God is gonna do
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what he said he was gonna do and I know
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God gonna open the door like he said he
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would SO I CAN PRAISE HIM IN ADVANCE I'm
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certain he's going to do it
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>> but it is this outward thing it is can
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you imagine not talking to somebody and
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you have the ability to speak
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>> that you love
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>> that you would never reach out to hug or
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or even pound or or what somebody that
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you care about. We cannot allow
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ourselves
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to come into the house of God and then
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become stoic
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>> and overly reserved.
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>> Now I understand the Bible when you come
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to the house keep your foot people being
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there acting white. I understand all
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that
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>> but this is not a church without order.
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>> [applause]
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>> Folks, we need to open ourselves up and
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say, "You know what, God? I don't want
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my relationship with you to be dry.
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>> I want to be that person that responds
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to your presence by offering you glory
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both with my mouth, with my hands, with
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my lifestyle choices. I want to praise
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you in everything I say and everything I
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do.
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>> I got any people really want to praise
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God? See, I don't have a problem coming
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up standing with any hands lifted. I I'm
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going to put myself Do I always feel
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like it? Of course not.
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>> But he his worth has not changed.
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>> Just because you had a yucky day doesn't
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mean God's worth has changed. HE IS
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STILL WORTHY. Oh Lord have mercy. He's
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worthy of our praise. And I'm going tell
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you, even though we ought to bring it to
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him, it still does more for us
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>> than it does for him. I want to share a
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few things with you about praise. And
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I'm going to let you go home. First of
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all, praise
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is our acknowledgment of the greatness
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of God.
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It's our acknowledgement. See, and I
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think that's important for us to to nail
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down because if you think praise is
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feminine, then guys, you'll be sitting
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there, man, I ain't f to do all that.
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>> Praise is not feminine
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>> and it's not masculine either.
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>> It's human.
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>> When you Okay. Okay. Okay. Somebody you
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esteem great. Now it's getting harder
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and harder to think of somebody.
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You used to be able to use public
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official. You can't. You can't. Yeah.
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Yeah. And almost now you almost better
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go to sports and spit it. [laughter]
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But if somebody has done something great
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in our society and they come in, we
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stand.
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>> It doesn't matter how you feel about it.
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That's your way of offering respect and
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recognizing that somebody that has
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distinguished themselves has entered
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into the room.
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>> Then how is it possible
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>> that we could come in God's house?
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>> I need somebody here.
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>> Come in God's house
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>> and then want to BE RESERVED. OH, NO,
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NO, NO, NO. I'm coming in on the
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strength you gave me.
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>> I'm coming in BREATHING THE AIR YOU PUT
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IN my lungs. I'M COMING IN IN MY RIGHT
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MIND, WHICH I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LOST
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IF YOU HAD NOT WALKED WITH ME.
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[cheering]
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IN FACT, I LOST HALF OF IT AND YOU HAD
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TO GIVE IT BACK TO ME.
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>> BUMP WHO I'M SITTING BESIDE.
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>> FORGET WHO ON MY ROW.
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>> YOU BETTER GIVE ME SOME SPACE.
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>> HALLELUJAH.
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>> It's an acknowledgement. Go with me to
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Psalm 100. Go with me to Psalm 100.
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Let's just Y'all ready to study a little
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bit? Just look through the scripture
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some.
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>> Everybody say, "Yes."
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>> Okay. Psalm 100. Look at it. Lord, I I
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need my Lord. And we keeping uh Re
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Marsha in prayer. She's um been on a a
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divine assignment with her family.
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>> Amen. Cuz you know, other than that, you
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know, she'd have been here on the floor
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>> just to shout. Watch this. Make a joyful
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noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
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>> Serve the Lord with what?
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>> Yeah. Come be Look here. Come before his
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presence.
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>> Me and a brother of mine, we sit on the
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phone sometimes and uh you know, I tend
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to be late, you know, uh a night hour,
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so I will go to bed early, you know, you
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know, go to bed and then I get back up
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because I'm still awake. And uh so
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sometimes we'll text back and forth and
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uh we were talking about it a few months
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ago. You know, we thank God for the
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praise team,
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>> but you didn't used to have praise
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teams.
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>> You used to have the folk on the floor,
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the deacon. I know some of the folk
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church got you had a deacon on the
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deacon down here and then they started
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start off a song.
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Yes. [applause]
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>> And everybody had to sing the song cuz
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we nobody have a mic.
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>> And I thank God still for the praise
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team. But what it has done is opened a
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door for us to at the time when we're
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supposed to be offering our praise to
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God, we're watching and listening other
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folks sing.
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>> You got to catch yourself. MAKE YOURSELF
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LOOK UP there on them on those po what
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do you call them thing screens. Read
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them words. Think about them and sing
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them out your mouth.
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>> Because if it's my birthday, I don't
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care how many other people say happy
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birthday to me. If don't part his lips,
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y'all ain't talking to me.
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>> Just cuz he's at the at the house while
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everybody's celebrating. Uh-uh.
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I'm looking first. And blessedly, I
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don't have to worry about it cuz he
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going to make sure 4:00 in the morning
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when he get up.
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[laughter]
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He lay out my little stuff. Thank you.
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When I get up around 7:30,
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5. Yeah. Right. Watch this. Come before
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the Lord. Come before his presence with
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what?
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>> Folks, this is telling me what I need to
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do.
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>> So, it's not about whether I like THE
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SONG. IT'S NOT ABOUT WHETHER I'M ON KEY.
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IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT. I'm coming before
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the Lord's presence. He told me to come
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singing.
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>> No. See, this is why it's about
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acknowledgment.
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>> Don't you know that he is God?
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>> It is he that has made us.
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>> I wish I had me somebody. And not we
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ourselves. We are his people and the
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sheep OF HIS PASTURE. HE SAID, "IF YOU
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GOING TO ENTER INTO MY GATES AND YOU
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GOING TO FIND YOUR WAY INTO MY COURTS,
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YOU GOING TO HAVE TO COME IN WITH
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PRAISE, BE THANKFUL, AND BLESS my name."
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Y'all ain't talking to me.
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So God is saying, "I have CALLED YOU TO
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APPROACH ME A CERTAIN WAY WHEN YOU
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ACKNOWLEDGE that I'm God." Yeah.
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>> And see, we got to be careful because
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though he is father and though he's a
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friend that sticks closer than a
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brother, IT DON'T FORGET THAT HE'S GOD.
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>> Every now and then you raise, you know,
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I had teenagers at one point, that point
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long since gone. I think you know what I
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think my my coming up on retirement has
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taught everybody about time
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>> because I told y'all 20 years of 21
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years ago I'm retiring December 14th
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2025 everybody like [laughter]
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and about about 15 years later y'all
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December 14th 2025 y child that's what
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that child went over there it's next
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week [laughter]
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excuse me.
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>> Are you understand? See how quick stuff
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goes.
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>> He says, "I WANT YOU TO ACKNOWLEDGE
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>> THAT HE'S GOD." Watch this. I had teens
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and every now and then I tried to, you
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know, I tried to be somewhat modern, but
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not really. You know, I wasn't, you
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know, it's being a parent ain't easy.
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>> Where my parents at? Come on, tell the
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truth. It ain't easy, is it? You know,
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you're trying to be cuz you want them to
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be able to talk to you. Then they roll
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up off their mouth wrong
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>> and you were trying, you know, trying to
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be hip with them. So, you know, hey
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babe, I'm here for you. I'm in your
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corner, dog. [laughter]
21:16
And then I said, clean your room. He
21:18
said, "Mom, why you crazy?"
21:23
>> And you got to be careful that you don't
21:25
just think of God. Oh, you're such a
21:27
great mother. You're so sweet. Yeah,
21:30
>> he is God.
21:32
>> No, y'all. UH-UH. UH-UH. HE'S GOD.
21:34
[cheering]
21:35
>> NO. HERE IT IS AGAIN. HE'S GOD.
21:38
>> He made this world. He is God. And if he
21:42
NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR US, WE MUST
21:44
ACKNOWLEDGE WHO HE IS AND BOW BEFORE
21:47
HIM. DON'T LET NOBODY FOOL YOU. I DON'T
21:49
CARE WHO ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE. ACT LIKE
21:51
THEY SO BIG AND BAD. IT IS HE THAT HAS
21:53
MADE US AND NOT WE OURSELVES. AND EVERY
21:56
KNEE IS GOING TO BOW. AMEN.
21:59
>> And every tongue is going to confess.
22:02
[cheering]
22:03
>> He says, "You acknowledge me."
22:05
>> He says, "Enter into his gates with
22:07
thanksgiving, into his courts with
22:08
praise." Be thankful unto him
22:11
>> and bless his name. I told you many
22:13
times if y'all security, you have to
22:15
double up in your personal life.
22:18
>> What did I say?
22:19
>> Double up.
22:20
>> They got to double up because they are
22:22
trained when they are in here to stay
22:26
somewhat out of it.
22:28
So they because they can't and then
22:31
somebody come in here and clown.
22:34
>> So they have to train themselves to hear
22:37
the worship, hear the music, but stay
22:39
focused.
22:41
>> But that same assignment.
22:44
>> If they don't double down privately,
22:48
>> they'll be in position to backslide.
22:52
>> So they have to double down. So in the
22:54
morning, you got to get UP AND SAY,
22:55
"GOD, I WANT TO THANK YOU.
22:57
I can't I don't get a chance to holler
22:59
at church. In church, I GOT TO WATCH CUZ
23:01
SOME OF THESE FOLK are
23:06
>> Let me show you something else. Sneak
23:08
over to Psalm 95. Come on. Just a few
23:10
pages back. Psalm 95. Just let's run a
23:14
little bit. Oh, come let us worship and
23:16
bow down.
23:18
>> I said he's God. We got to bow down.
23:20
Come on. Let us kneel before the Lord
23:23
our maker. For he is God and we are the
23:26
people of his pasture and the sheep of
23:28
his hand.
23:30
>> That's our job.
23:31
>> That's our job, y'all.
23:33
>> Let me show you what happens. Go to
23:34
Romans. When we don't want to do it,
23:36
>> go to Romans chapter one.
23:40
>> See it. When you won't praise, it's an
23:43
indication you have an issue with him
23:46
being God.
23:50
>> Come on, let's think through it now.
23:52
Yeah.
23:53
When you won't open your mouth, he says,
23:56
"Come before me.
23:58
>> You come before me with singing,
24:01
>> you you you be thankful and bless my
24:04
name.
24:05
>> Lord, your name is great. God, I thank
24:07
you. God, I honor you. Thank you for
24:09
another day. God, I give you glory.
24:11
Hallelujah. Jesus, don't make no
24:12
difference how I'm feeling about it. I
24:14
Here's what I know. You're God and
24:16
you're worthy of this. You're holy. You
24:18
everything that you are, you are through
24:20
and through. You don't change. You ain't
24:22
sometime. I worship you. That's blessing
24:25
his name.
24:26
>> Thank you, Lord.
24:27
>> All right, y'all. In Romans 1,
24:28
>> watch this. Start reading the verse 20.
24:31
>> Give me verse uh 20 and 21. Y'all read.
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>> Uh-uh. I asked you, were you there?
24:38
>> Romans 1 20 and 21. Come on.
24:42
>> Everybody
24:45
>> Uhhuh.
24:47
>> are clearly seen,
24:49
>> being understood. Come on.
24:53
>> Even his eternal power and godhead so
24:57
that they are without.
24:58
>> Now, just as a tidbit, what he's saying
25:00
is you can look around in nature, even
25:02
without a Bible, and tell this world
25:05
didn't just pop up the way it is. You
25:07
can tell just from looking at the beauty
25:09
of the trees and the depth of colors
25:11
that there is a God that created all of
25:14
this. And if you can do that, then you
25:16
ought to acknowledge him.
25:18
>> Watch this. In verse 21,
25:20
>> read it.
25:23
>> When they knew God, what?
25:26
>> Oh, you Oh. Oh, wait. Wait. Oh, oh. You
25:30
know there's God, but you ain't going to
25:31
say nothing.
25:34
>> YOU KNOW GOD, YOU KNOW YOU DIDN'T MAKE
25:36
YOU. And you know you AIN'T KEPT YOU.
25:39
MANY TIMES YOU AND I HAVE DONE dumb
25:41
stuff. We should have been cut off.
25:44
>> Oh, I got a few people. We should have
25:46
been taken out of here. We could have
25:48
easily driven the car while we were lit.
25:52
>> I know y'all sanctified. You don't
25:53
remember those days, do you? Lying
25:55
wonder. Do you understand what I'm
25:57
saying?
25:58
>> But he kept us.
26:00
>> So you mean to tell me you knew God, but
26:03
you were too too proud, too clean, too
26:06
intelligent to glorify him?
26:09
>> He said they knew him, but they wouldn't
26:11
glorify him, and they wasn't thankful.
26:15
God said, "I let you become vain in your
26:17
imagination. Your foolish heart is going
26:19
to be darkened."
26:21
>> You need to understand that worship,
26:23
praising God is an acknowledgment that
26:25
he's God.
26:28
>> To not open your mouth, to not be
26:30
willing to lift your hand.
26:31
>> Jesus,
26:33
>> let's I mean, come on.
26:36
You got a problem with authority
26:39
>> because he said, "Come before me this
26:43
way."
26:46
>> Let me just read this in Psalm 29:1 and
26:49
give unto the Lord, oh ye mighty. Give
26:51
unto the Lord glory and strength. Give
26:54
unto the Lord the glory that's due his
26:57
name.
26:58
>> Worship the Lord in the beauty of
26:59
holiness.
27:01
>> Watch this. Praise is an assignment.
27:03
Write it down. Praises are what?
27:06
>> Now, I need you to understand something.
27:08
I I really want you to get a hold of
27:09
this. Go to first Peter. I don't know if
27:12
you know it, but you and I don't have
27:14
the privilege of choosing our divine
27:17
assignment.
27:19
>> Amen.
27:21
>> There are general assignments. It's like
27:23
being in a family. Everybody got to make
27:24
their bed.
27:26
>> Now, some people will wash dishes,
27:27
others will vacuum. La. Everybody going
27:30
to make that bed.
27:32
>> Amen.
27:32
>> That's good.
27:34
Okay. But here's the thing. In the
27:37
kingdom of God, our first
27:42
>> assignment
27:44
is to replace the void that the fall of
27:48
Lucifer left
27:53
>> as the covering cherub. What we call
27:56
Satan. Satan, the opposer.
27:59
Y'all already know your Bible. at one
28:01
point was a was an angel.
28:03
>> Amen.
28:04
>> He ain't want to worship.
28:06
>> Look who you were acting like
28:09
>> when you won't open your mouth.
28:11
>> Jesus.
28:12
>> Now, I don't want to get musty when I
28:14
come to church either. But it's God that
28:17
gave me strength.
28:19
>> If something about this right here
28:20
blesses him,
28:22
>> then that's what I'mma do.
28:24
>> I can't let myself think I'm here on a
28:26
date somewhere.
28:28
>> I'mma just, you know,
28:29
>> y'all go ahead. That note ain't my
28:31
thing. [laughter]
28:33
What is that?
28:38
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. How you say
28:42
no?
28:43
>> Watch this. First Peter chapter 2. You
28:46
and I are responsible. When when Lucifer
28:49
decided he didn't want to he didn't want
28:51
to worship, he wasn't going to do that.
28:52
And Ezekiel, he said, "Oh, no, no. I'mma
28:54
be like the most high." God said, "No,
28:55
no, not up here you ain't." And the
28:58
Bible said we saw him fall like
29:00
lightning.
29:02
>> So the co the worshshiping covering
29:04
cherub
29:06
was now gone and took a third of the
29:08
angels with him
29:09
>> became demons.
29:11
>> I just don't believe God ought to be
29:13
lacking nothing
29:14
>> as good as he been to us.
29:18
[applause and cheering]
29:18
>> I don't feel like God ought to be
29:20
lacking a hallelujah.
29:22
>> Oh, I wish I had me somebody. I don't
29:24
think God ought to lack hearing he's
29:26
great and greatly to be praised. I don't
29:28
think he OUGHT TO LACK KNOWING THAT HE
29:30
IS LOVED AND HONORED AND ADORED. NOT
29:33
WHEN HE SAVED ME. NOT WHEN HE PICKED me
29:36
up, turn me around, PLACE MY FEET ON
29:41
SOLID GROUND. HE OUGHT NOT MISS
29:43
ANYTHING.
29:46
LONG AS I GOT BREATH IN MY BODY.
29:52
IT'S A DECISION THAT I MAKE
29:56
TO GLORIFY THE GOD that see you. Oh
29:59
Lord, I'm not even just I'm talking
30:01
about my salvation. Now don't get me
30:03
wrong, that's where I'm focusing. But
30:05
y'all don't know what it is to not have
30:07
enough money to pay bills.
30:10
>> No, you don't. I know y'all don't. No,
30:12
you don't. I don't even believe you. Mm-
30:14
mm- They don't know. They don't know.
30:17
>> No, you don't. Cuz if you did,
30:19
>> and you paid the ones you had last
30:21
month,
30:22
>> she got it. She got it. IF YOU'VE EVER
30:25
BEEN TO A PLACE WHERE THERE WAS NO MONEY
30:27
TO BE FOUND, IT WON'T LIKE YOU, WELL,
30:30
I'M GOING HAVE TO WAIT. I DON'T KNOW
30:31
WHEN I'MMA GET IT. AND GOD STILL BROUGHT
30:33
YOU THROUGH. AND NOW YOU CAN PAY YOUR
30:36
BILLS WHEN I COME INTO THE HOUSE. I
30:39
SAID, GOD, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
30:41
EVERYTHING YOU DONE, for everything
30:44
you've
30:46
Hey, [screaming]
30:58
>> hallelujah.
30:58
>> Hallelujah.
31:08
>> And we only we only had to talk about
31:10
stuff.
31:11
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT PEACE. [cheering] LET'S
31:14
TALK ABOUT BEING SO MESSED UP IN YOUR
31:16
HEAD THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN SLEEP AT NIGHT
31:19
THAT OVER AND OVER ALL THIS MESS IS IN
31:21
YOUR MIND. THEN WHEN GOD BRINGS YOU
31:24
THROUGH IT AND YOU SAY, "GOD, I WANT TO
31:28
>> WHAT?"
31:31
HALLELUJAH.
31:35
>> The Bible says, sit down y'all. I'm
31:36
sorry.
31:37
>> The Bible says that he has made us to be
31:41
priests.
31:47
EVERYBODY MAY NOT BE A PREACHER, BUT
31:48
EVERYBODY IN HERE IS A PRIEST.
31:51
>> OH, you you missed that. May not be A
31:53
PREACHER, BUT YOU ARE A priest if you're
31:56
born again.
31:57
>> Are y'all in 1 Peter 2:9?
32:00
>> Where my reader, Pastor Chris? I thought
32:01
you were reading tonight.
32:04
>> Lord have mercy.
32:06
>> All right. 1 Peter 2:9. Hurry, y'all.
32:09
>> First Peter 2:9.
32:10
>> Yeah. Yeah. But ye are a chosen
32:12
generation.
32:13
>> Somebody thank him that he chose you.
32:16
>> Yeah, honey. Let me tell you something.
32:17
That that right there. See again. Oh,
32:19
we're doing too much. We're doing too.
32:21
Oh my god. I've been chosen.
32:23
>> Don't make any difference down here. If
32:25
folk act like they don't see my value.
32:27
You know what? Whatever. Oh lord. See, I
32:29
done got ugly now. I mean it though.
32:31
Whatever. You know what? Whatever.
32:33
Because he chose me.
32:36
>> Oh God. AFTER YOU ARE LONG GONE, he
32:38
chose me.
32:40
You you GO IN AND OUT OF FOLK LIKE YOU
32:42
DO DRAWS. BUT JESUS chose
32:47
>> every now and then you got to remind
32:49
yourself I've been chosen. [cheering]
32:53
>> A chosen generation.
32:56
>> Watch this. What's this next thing?
32:57
>> A royal priesthood.
33:00
>> A holy nation.
33:02
>> A peculiar people.
33:03
>> What you say?
33:04
>> That you should show forth the praises
33:06
of God. chose us
33:09
>> so we could shoe forth.
33:14
>> Okay.
33:16
>> It's the difference when you have a a
33:20
baby sometime they can throw up and it
33:23
just comes out
33:26
>> that you they that's when it shows up
33:28
that they don't feel good. But when it
33:31
shoots forth it
33:33
>> it's projectile. It is. Y'all y'all not
33:36
talking. Y'all not talking with me. I'm
33:38
not talking about I'm not talking about
33:40
praising on the down low. I'm not
33:42
talking about I'm talking about He said,
33:44
"I chose you so you could get loud for
33:46
me. I CHOSE YOU SO YOU COULD SHOW FOR
33:50
OH, LORD have mercy. [cheering] IS THERE
33:52
ANYBODY IN HERE THAT DOESN'T MIND SAYING
33:55
I DON'T CARE WHO'S LOOKING, but my
33:58
praise [screaming]
34:00
belongs to God.
34:06
Boy,
34:06
>> he picked me up.
34:08
[cheering]
34:13
>> I was a chronic underachiever.
34:17
>> And God,
34:19
>> see, oh, y'all said, see, let me tell
34:21
you something.
34:24
>> Y'all know my uncle, he didn't mean no
34:25
harm by it because I was I was a I was a
34:28
troubled, it looked like I was getting
34:30
ready to carry my mom and them through.
34:32
Ooh, it was one of them things where
34:34
they adopt you and then somebody say,
34:35
"You sure? You might want to check to
34:37
see how long is there return policy."
34:42
And I was thinking about it, you know,
34:43
the other Sunday, you know, y'all did so
34:44
much for me, had me tried to cry and
34:46
whatnot, and they presented the key to
34:48
the city, and I said, "Wonder what the
34:50
key goes to." So, I'm just making a joke
34:52
about it, you know, I'm just cutting up.
34:55
And I realized my mom and them was so
34:57
proud.
34:58
It was even be it, you know, it didn't
35:00
hit me the same,
35:02
>> but they had watched when it just looked
35:05
like I wasn't gonna ever round the
35:07
corner.
35:12
>> God said, "I chose you."
35:15
>> Watch this. And while you were acting a
35:17
clown, I kept my hand on you.
35:20
>> While it LOOKED LIKE YOU WASN'T GOING TO
35:22
EVER COME THROUGH IT, I NEVER LEFT YOU.
35:26
YOU WALKED OFF FROM ME, GOD SAID, BUT I
35:28
STAYED CLOSE TO YOU BECAUSE IT WAS
35:30
EVENTUALLY GOING TO BE MY PLAN FOR YOU
35:33
TO SHOW FORTH. [screaming]
35:35
Y'ALL DON'T FEEL LIKE TALKING.
35:38
>> God chose us.
35:43
>> To project out, to show forth
35:46
>> his praise.
35:48
>> We're called to this. This is what
35:50
priests do.
35:51
>> They offer sacrifices. They teach the
35:54
scripture. They guarded the sanctuary.
35:56
They blessed the people. But 1
35:57
Chronicles 23.
36:00
>> Hurry. Y'all getting anything?
36:03
>> I just I want us to just take this in.
36:05
It's not not trying to be deep. I just
36:07
want to want us to get hold of it.
36:11
>> It's what we've been called to do.
36:13
>> That's what Don't let people praise by
36:15
themsel.
36:16
>> They up here shouting. Shout with them.
36:18
You ain't You don't need nothing to hit
36:19
you.
36:20
>> You in your right mind. You got clothes
36:22
and you ate this week.
36:28
What
36:30
>> do you know how many folk are snapping
36:32
mentally?
36:34
>> Living in fantasy world just is crazy.
36:38
>> No shade on people with mental illness.
36:39
Just understand what I'm saying. Do you
36:41
realize how many people are just not
36:43
well at all
36:45
>> and you run around here in your right
36:47
mind?
36:49
Thank you.
36:50
>> Sometime you got to thank God when you
36:52
can tell you ain't thinking right.
36:55
>> You ever had some thoughts say, "I know
36:57
this ain't right. I shouldn't even be
36:58
thinking." THAT RIGHT THERE IS A
37:00
BLESSING. THAT YOU EVEN KNOW THAT THAT'S
37:02
JACKED UP IS A BLESSING.
37:07
>> Y'all in 1 Chronicles, come on here.
37:09
Y'all not f to hold us all night. 1
37:12
Chronicles 23. I guess I've been holding
37:13
y'all all morning, so y'all tried to get
37:15
me bad. Watch this. This is what he
37:17
called them to do. You can read it at
37:19
your leisure in 1 Chronicles 23. It
37:21
begins at verse 26. He's telling you
37:23
what the priest are going to do and they
37:25
don't have to carry all the furniture of
37:26
the tabernacle. La. And then he talks to
37:29
them from 20 years old and above and
37:32
offices to do this and that. But I want
37:33
you to look this thing in verse 30. This
37:35
is a part of their responsibility. Check
37:37
this. And this is us cuz we're the royal
37:39
priesthood. Who are we?
37:41
>> The royal priesthood.
37:42
>> Look at your neighbor and say, "Hey
37:43
priest."
37:44
>> Hey priest.
37:45
>> Yeah. That's right. So then what the
37:48
priest supposed to do according to verse
37:49
30
37:50
>> and to stand every morning
37:51
>> what?
37:52
>> To thank and praise the Lord.
37:54
>> What you say?
37:54
>> And likewise at evening.
37:56
>> There go your job description. There it
37:57
is right there. In the morning
38:01
>> EVERY MORNING.
38:03
>> GET UP AND PUT YOUR FEET ON THE FLOOR
38:06
AND SAY, "GOD, YOUR PRIEST IS READY TO
38:08
SERVE YOU. I want to thank YOU FOR YOUR
38:12
MERCY AND YOUR GRACE. I WANT TO THANK
38:15
YOU FOR BEING MY GOD. THANK YOU FOR
38:20
BEING MY SAVIOR. I praise YOU THAT I'M
38:24
IN MY RIGHT MIND. I PRAISE YOU FOR FOOD
38:28
ON MY TABLE. Y'ALL DON'T MAKE ME GO
38:30
BACK. I PRAISE YOU FOR CLOTHES ON MY
38:33
BACK, shoes on my feet.
38:40
>> I'M JUST TRYING TO THAT'S WHAT IT SAID.
38:42
AND THEN AT NIGHT TIME,
38:44
>> y'all saw it.
38:46
>> You see that?
38:47
>> This what he called me to do.
38:49
>> Yes, sir.
38:50
>> It seems simple, don't it?
38:52
>> My God.
38:53
>> I told you the Christian life is not
38:54
intended to weigh you out like that. Are
38:56
there troubles? Oh, of course, cuz your
38:58
flesh going to fight you.
39:00
>> The enemy will attack.
39:02
>> But still, it's relatively simple. Stay
39:04
true to Jesus.
39:07
>> But it's right here.
39:08
>> We're called to praise. We got to hurry.
39:10
Okay. So, how many see it's an
39:12
assignment
39:13
>> every morning when you get up.
39:16
>> Don't you reach for that phone. I hope
39:17
your fingers start.
39:22
>> Don't you touch that. I'mma show up at
39:25
your house and just slap it off your
39:27
[laughter]
39:28
nightstand.
39:31
>> Put that thing down.
39:32
>> Amen.
39:33
>> Ain't nobody you can call on that better
39:35
than who you can call when you open your
39:36
mouth and tell him thank you.
39:39
Hallelujah. Don't worry about who liked
39:41
your post. [cheering]
39:43
[applause]
39:46
>> I I have to confess to y'all. That's why
39:48
I don't hardly be up there. I I know I I
39:50
know I should do better,
39:51
>> but I can't I can't I can't keep up with
39:55
every all y'all and him.
39:59
>> Now, maybe you can. You got more
40:00
bandwidth than I do. I don't have that
40:02
much.
40:05
>> No. Y'all first wake up,
40:07
>> my feet hit the floor. This every
40:08
>> day.
40:10
every morning.
40:11
>> Said, "Thank you, Jesus.
40:13
>> God, I thank I thank you for who you are
40:15
to me.
40:16
>> I'm sorry y'all. I feel old. I thank you
40:18
for being my all and all. I thank you,
40:21
Lord, for being in my right mind that
40:23
you I MEAN, I JUST START THANKING HIM
40:25
FOR THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE. LET ME TELL YOU
40:26
SOMETHING. GET UP IN THE MORNING AND
40:28
SAY, "GOD, THANK YOU THAT YOU LET ME
40:29
LIVE ANOTHER DAY. THANK YOU, GOD, THAT I
40:32
GOT IN MY MIND AND WANT TO DO RIGHT. I
40:34
MAY HAVE MESSED UP YESTERDAY, BUT THANK
40:36
YOU THAT YOUR MERCY IS NEW EVERY
40:39
MORNING. Great
40:41
is your faithfulness.
40:44
>> Yes, sir.
40:49
>> Then we need an awareness. Come on.
40:51
Here. I'm got two more. I got to hurry
40:52
up and go. I just got We got to do. So,
40:54
first of all, we're called to praise
40:56
because it's an acknowledgement that
40:57
he's God.
40:59
>> You cannot sherk back on that.
41:01
Nobody's approval and opinion is as
41:04
important as the Lord
41:06
>> cuz he's our savior
41:11
>> and then it's our divine assignment.
41:14
You may you may be called to serve
41:16
children's room. You may be called to do
41:17
sound. You may be called security. You
41:19
may be a musical Levite. You may serve
41:21
in all variety of capacity. You may be
41:23
in the background working on the digital
41:25
stuff and all the tech stuff and
41:27
whatever. But your first assignment sir,
41:30
>> is to be a priest before God
41:33
>> and offer the sacrifice of praise.
41:36
>> Not that it ought to be hard for you to
41:38
do it. Now, sometimes it is. If you have
41:40
enoughness going on, you got to press
41:42
through yourself.
41:46
[cheering and applause]
41:47
>> But normally, it doesn't mean sacrifice
41:49
like it's so hard. It means it's
41:51
replacing all the bulocks and the goats.
41:55
>> I ain't have to I ain't have to drag no
41:56
goat in here.
41:58
I drug my hallelujah in here.
42:03
>> Okay, come on. Come on. The third thing,
42:05
and there's only four, is the awareness.
42:08
We're called to praise because of an
42:10
awareness of his goodness.
42:12
>> What's the first thing you start working
42:14
on the little child with? When you give
42:16
them something,
42:17
>> you say thank you.
42:19
>> And if they act like they don't, now I'm
42:21
talking about I'm talking about the
42:22
older parents now. I'm not talking about
42:23
this new the new breed. I don't know.
42:25
Some of these new breeds starting to get
42:27
old again.
42:29
>> Have you noticed that? I saw some Well,
42:32
let me let me talk about it. But suffice
42:34
it to say, old school exists in all kind
42:37
of cultures.
42:39
>> But here's my thing. The first thing you
42:40
tell them, you learn to say thank you.
42:43
>> The Bible teaches us. Look at Psalm 34.
42:46
God, hurry here. Y'all know it. Oh my
42:49
gosh. We got to go. I may not get to the
42:51
last one. Watch this. Psalm 34.
42:55
But this is what we're called to do. And
42:57
I just wanted you to have a biblical
42:59
perspective of it.
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>> I just wanted to remind us because there
43:02
are things that God wants to do. Oh, I'm
43:05
getting ahead. There are things that God
43:07
wants to do in you and for you that you
43:10
will not access until you press far
43:13
enough in.
43:15
>> Amen.
43:16
>> In the Oh, how do I say it? In the same
43:19
way that um
43:22
oh I don't know how to say it because
43:23
back in the day it was bumping and
43:25
grinding. I don't know what they call it
43:26
now. It's probably something different.
43:32
Psalm 34.
43:35
You just had to drop that right there.
43:39
But if you come to church and and you
43:41
won't and you don't ever strip, as it
43:42
were,
43:44
>> and you stay closed,
43:46
>> you you you will not leave with anything
43:49
divine in you.
43:51
>> And no matter how they preach, no matter
43:52
how they sing, no matter what's going
43:54
on, you will miss it. Because there are
43:55
people that come into services and their
43:58
whole mental health is shifted. There
44:01
are people that come in and physical
44:03
bodies are healed. There are people that
44:05
come in and started out, I get
44:06
testimonies all the time. When I came, I
44:09
didn't have two nickels to rub together.
44:10
And now look at what God has done. We're
44:12
living debtree and we're this that and
44:14
and they sat on the same pew with
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somebody who's in the same situation.
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Never changed.
44:24
>> Psalm 34. Now you know it's time they
44:25
cutting the lights out on me. That's
44:28
that's old right there. They just shut
44:29
the lights down. Next thing would be the
44:31
mic. I will bless the Lord at all times.
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His praise shall continually be in my
44:38
mouth.
44:38
>> How often should it be in there?
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>> Continually.
44:41
>> I don't care who I'm with. See, that'll
44:42
help you too. Especially if you used to
44:44
cuss real bad.
44:46
>> Start praising
44:48
>> cuz you you you could you will mess
44:50
around. Listen to me now. Cuz things I
44:52
used to cuss very badly, like a lot, and
44:55
was good at doing it.
44:57
>> So, it was it was a challenge to step it
45:00
over to get rid of it.
45:02
>> But I knew the Bible didn't want me to
45:03
do it.
45:04
But what I found is the more I praised,
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>> the less I was willing to let that junk
45:10
come out my mouth.
45:11
>> So when somebody would do something, I
45:13
said, you know, [laughter] you
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glory.
45:17
Hallelujah.
45:19
>> Do it enough times and see.
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>> Do it enough times, see what happened.
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>> You'll get victory over it.
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>> Amen.
45:26
>> My soul shall make her boast in the
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Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and
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be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me
45:31
and let us exalt his name together. Why?
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I sought the Lord and he heard me and
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deliver me from my fears. That's why
45:38
I'mma bless him at all times. Look on
45:40
down verse six. This poor man cried. The
45:43
Lord heard him and saved me out of my
45:44
trouble. That's why I'm going to bless
45:46
him over and over. Oh, taste and see
45:48
that the Lord is good. Over and over, HE
45:50
SAYS, "THE MORE AWARE YOU are of what
45:53
I've done, the more consistent you ought
45:55
to be in your praise."
45:58
And you have to make up your mind to
46:00
start looking at the way God has blessed
46:02
you and not the challenges in front of
46:04
you.
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>> Amen.
46:08
>> At the same point that Peter was
46:09
standing there realizing, dog, I'm in a
46:12
storm, when he first noticed it, he was
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literally standing on top of water.
46:18
>> And he had company with Jesus.
46:21
>> What are you looking at? You can There's
46:23
always a reason to praise.
46:26
>> Watch this. and generally always a
46:28
reason to complain.
46:33
>> I'm not saying that you don't go through
46:34
tough things. Of course you do. Of
46:37
course I do. But I'm saying we have an
46:40
opportunity to choose what we going to
46:42
focus on.
46:44
>> And I'mma focus on the goodness of God.
46:47
>> Said, man, they said, uh, somebody sent
46:49
me this picture, that poor Christmas
46:50
tree. I'm tell you, that tree had been
46:51
through something. They said, this is
46:53
the kind of Christmas that's going to
46:54
be. That tree was like this right here.
46:57
And I said, "Well, at least you'll have
47:00
the day off.
47:03
I mean, if you I mean, if you can't put
47:05
nothing under, thank God, sit there. At
47:06
least you ain't work. Sit there and look
47:08
at it.
47:10
Go back to the old school. You can't
47:11
don't you can't honey. These ornaments
47:13
so expensive. Shut up complaining and
47:15
string some popcorn if you really want
47:16
to." Oh, I done gone old now. Then who
47:19
Anybody remember that?
47:21
>> Y'all bougie jokers.
47:24
Watch this. Psalm 145. Hurry, hurry,
47:27
y'all.
47:28
You have to be aware of the blessings of
47:31
God. I guarantee you, there are 30
47:33
things that you could praise God for
47:35
right now.
47:38
>> I got shoes on my feet.
47:39
>> Come on.
47:40
>> I can feel my feet.
47:42
>> Got some socks.
47:44
>> I got some circulation in my legs. Thank
47:47
God I had some pants I could wear. You
47:49
know, you gain a little weight. You
47:50
just, oh God, am I? That's okay. I had
47:53
them that size, got them in this. Hey to
47:55
God, who in the world I must be truly
47:57
rich. I got pants in multiple sizes.
48:00
[laughter]
48:02
I mean, it just depends on what YOU WANT
48:03
TO LOOK AT. SEE, WHAT THE ENEMY IS
48:05
HOPING IS THAT YOU WILL FOCUS ON THE
48:07
NEGATIVE AND DRY YOUR PRAISE UP. NOW,
48:10
NOW ALL WE GOT IS PORK AND BEANS. DO YOU
48:12
NOT KNOW SOMEBODY WOULD GET THOSE PORK
48:14
AND BEANS AND GO INTO A PRAISE LIKE YOU
48:16
AIN'T NEVER SEEN?
48:22
>> Psalm 145. Hurry.
48:24
Just write it down for your for your
48:26
your your personal use. All of it's
48:28
good. I'll extol thee, my God, O king,
48:31
and I'll bless your name forever and
48:32
ever. Every day will I bless you, and
48:35
I'll praise your name forever and ever.
48:37
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be
48:39
praised. His greatness and is
48:41
unsearchable. And he said, "One
48:43
generation ought to praise your works to
48:45
another." That's why I tell you, don't
48:47
let folks shout alone.
48:49
>> And watch this. Watch this, older
48:50
saints. Don't let the children just
48:52
stand up there. You go grab them.
48:54
>> You said, "Well, honey, they so young.
48:56
They don't know what they doing." Well,
48:57
then show them then.
48:59
>> Oh, y'all ain't talking to me. If you've
49:01
been through so much, show them. Show
49:02
them how to praise him.
49:03
>> Come on. That don't even look holy.
49:05
Well, show them a holy one.
49:08
>> Well, shut up. Let them find their way.
49:10
>> Come on. Have church with me now. Have
49:12
church with me.
49:14
>> Same thing. Y'all see mother them young
49:16
people? Y'all see mother them in the
49:17
corner? Go over there beside mother and
49:19
praise him.
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>> Amen. Amen.
49:23
>> Watch this. Let me get on through here.
49:24
Verse six. Men shall speak of the mighty
49:27
uh of thy terrible of thy might, excuse
49:30
me. All and men shall speak of the might
49:32
of thy terrible acts, and I will declare
49:34
your greatness. This is the verse I
49:35
love. They shall abundantly utter the
49:38
memory of thy great goodness
49:41
>> and sing of your right. Every night, you
49:43
ought to just go back in your mind and
49:45
think and bring it up and praise over it
49:47
again.
49:48
>> Ain't that what that Philippians said?
49:49
Rejoice in the Lord always and again I
49:52
say rejoice. That mean rejoice over it.
49:56
>> So I already shouted over that. Well
49:57
shout over it again.
49:59
>> The fact that you can remember it. Shout
50:01
over that.
50:03
>> Oh my God. Last thing I want to share in
50:05
this access.
50:08
>> You're called to praise because praise
50:09
brings access. Listen to me carefully as
50:12
I have ex, you know, gone beyond. Here's
50:14
our thing.
50:16
There there are miraculous things that
50:21
God has in his presence that he has
50:25
scheduled for every encounter.
50:31
>> In other words, the scripture says where
50:33
two or three are gathered,
50:35
>> I'm in the midst.
50:36
>> God does nothing and is nowhere without
50:39
a purpose. My God.
50:41
>> So, whatever there is a gathering,
50:44
>> he's not only going to receive the
50:46
praise and worship we offer, but God has
50:49
an intention.
50:51
>> Yes.
50:51
>> For that encounter.
50:53
>> And what he showed me was it flows like
50:55
a current
50:57
>> Jesus.
50:58
>> God has a current that will flow through
51:00
every service. Doesn't mean every one of
51:02
them ends up with us running.
51:04
>> Sometimes we'll be on our knees crying.
51:07
whatever his intention, maybe it's to
51:09
see his holiness, maybe it's to see our
51:11
sinfulness and and and cry out for
51:14
mercy.
51:15
>> But there is an intention in every
51:18
encounter.
51:19
And without your getting into praise,
51:24
you'll miss it.
51:27
>> There are people that die of thirst
51:29
beside rivers
51:32
>> every Sunday. Yeah,
51:34
>> they die of thirst right there beside it
51:39
>> because they won't they won't open their
51:41
mouth.
51:42
>> They won't ask for anything. When you
51:44
come to church, you say, "Hey, make hug
51:46
everybody. Come in. Excuse me. Come in."
51:48
Grinning and blink. Hey man, you
51:49
[laughter]
51:50
let me have the music start.
51:54
I'm in a zone.
51:56
>> I'm in a zone. You have to let her I'm
51:57
in a zone. Talk to me later. I'm in a
51:59
zone. Don't come in here and ask me
52:00
nothing. Y'all know Right?
52:02
>> Why? Because there's something God want
52:04
to do in this service.
52:06
>> Let me I can't tell you when I got freed
52:09
from the feeling of shame over
52:12
molesting,
52:14
but it was in a worship service.
52:18
>> I can't tell you the exact moment I
52:21
stopped cursing,
52:22
>> but I know that I got free in his
52:25
presence.
52:27
I'm trying to get you to understand that
52:29
there's a miraculous power, a
52:31
supernatural release that brings
52:34
deliverance that you access through your
52:36
praise. I can stand here and watch the
52:39
praise team praise and I will have a
52:41
great church service, but it won't do
52:43
nothing for me.
52:45
>> I mean, it'll encourage me a little bit.
52:46
You understand? You know, it was good. I
52:48
enjoyed the songs. That ain't enough.
52:50
>> How many know that's not enough for the
52:51
world you got to live in? the stuff you
52:53
got to f I can't come in here and just
52:55
be clapping for y'all.
52:58
>> There too much going on in this world.
53:02
>> The Bible says he inhabits the praise
53:05
>> of his people. Psalm 22 and3. And in our
53:09
text tonight, and I just want you to
53:10
make note of 2 Chronicles 5, it says
53:13
that they came in and they began to
53:16
worship and praise God until smoke
53:19
>> filled.
53:21
And I started to say, "Bring the smoke."
53:24
>> Yes, sir.
53:25
>> Can I tell you something? You say,
53:26
"Well, I don't feel like it today."
53:28
Well, can I just throw this out to you?
53:30
Your lack of participation is hindering
53:34
the amount of glory that God releases.
53:36
And somebody on your row needs a miracle
53:38
and you may be holding stuff up.
53:41
[applause]
53:42
>> That's why I'mma shout with anybody to
53:45
shout. I don't know what they're going
53:47
through. I ain't got to know. I don't
53:49
even feel like it sometime.
53:50
>> It don't matter. Put my little hand up.
53:53
>> I ain't going to let you do by yourself.
53:54
Why? Whatever my praise adds to the
53:59
environment
54:01
>> because I know that when they begin to
54:03
praise and worship. You saw it in
54:04
Jericho when they praised and worshiped
54:06
God and shouted. All of them shouted
54:08
with a great shout, the walls fell flat.
54:11
Somebody needs some limits to fall off
54:13
your life right now. That takes us all
54:15
shouting. [cheering]
54:18
>> [applause]
54:19
>> Man, we got to be willing to COME IN AND
54:21
GIVE GOD THE GLORY UNTIL SMOKE fills
54:24
>> because somebody needs more than maybe
54:27
you do today.
54:28
>> You may just think, "I'm good.
54:30
Everything all right?" Okay. Well, maybe
54:31
three three folk down
54:34
>> got a cancer diagnosis.
54:36
>> And if you could just stop
54:38
>> being so comfortable,
54:41
>> you even sit like you comfortable,
54:43
right? You know, we in church, we trying
54:45
to get into it like, you know, you want
54:47
people to be like, y'all be
54:57
>> Oh, but we're not going to do that. In
54:59
Acts chapter 16, let me just close the
55:01
Bible because that's what's happening.
55:03
Paul and Silas had every reason.
55:06
>> Yes.
55:06
>> Get this. They doing what's right and
55:09
then they get beat
55:12
and they get put in jail
55:14
>> and they get put in the inner in the
55:16
inner part of the prison
55:18
>> and they're hurting back is beaten
55:21
kicked stoned whole nine terrible stuff
55:24
bleeding
55:26
and at midnight
55:30
>> my god
55:32
>> cuz priests do it every day and in the
55:35
evening. though they at at midnight
55:39
>> they began to pray
55:41
>> and sing praises
55:43
>> and the other prisoners
55:45
>> heard them. They said, "Uh-uh, we are
55:47
hurting. We've been through a lot. We've
55:49
been mistreated. Our backs hurt. We got
55:51
headaches. All kind of stuff going
55:53
wrong." BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT DOESN'T
55:54
change that God is still God. And that
55:57
doesn't change that God is still in the
55:59
midst. God is in the midst OF OUR PRISON
56:02
JUST LIKE HE WAS IN THE SANCTUARY. SEE,
56:04
THAT'S WHY YOU LORD HAVE MERCY. YOU'D
56:07
COME OUT A WHOLE LOT FASTER IF YOU
56:09
PRAISE GOD IN THE PRISON. THEN GOD COULD
56:12
GET YOU OUT OF THE PRISON. BUT AS LONG
56:14
AS YOU HOLDING ON TO YOUR PRAISE UNTIL
56:17
THINGS GET BETTER, YOU ARE DRAGGING THE
56:19
TIME OUT.
56:23
The Bible said they begin to pray and
56:25
sing praises
56:26
>> and THEY SUNG AND PRAISE SO LOUD I COULD
56:30
just hear, "Father, I stretch." Is that
56:32
what you said? my hands to thee. NO
56:35
OTHER HELP I KNOW. IF THOU WITHDRAW,
56:38
Y'ALL DON'T KNOW THE HYMN. THYSELF FROM
56:40
ME, WHEITHER SHALL I GO? THEY START
56:44
SINGING AND PRAYING AND THE PRAISES
56:46
START FILLING THE TEMPLE. SHOOT THE
56:48
PRISON. THEY TURNED IT into
56:52
>> I dare YOU TO TURN YOUR PRISON INTO A
56:54
TEMPLE. I DARE YOU TO TURN IT INTO A
56:57
SANCTUARY. THEY START SINGING and
57:00
praying. AND THE BIBLE SAID GOD ALLOWED
57:03
AN EARTHQUAKE. SEE, THERE'S SOMETHING
57:06
SUPERNATURAL
57:07
THAT'S RUMBLING RIGHT NOW. ALL YOU GOT
57:11
TO DO IS OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SAY, "GOD,
57:15
[screaming] I THANK you even at
57:18
midnight. I THANK YOU EVEN AFTER I'VE
57:22
BEEN BEATEN. I THANK YOU EVEN THOUGH IT
57:26
DIDN'T GO MY WAY."
57:29
AND THE Bible said it shook
57:33
>> until watch this. I'm done. She heard
57:35
it. Ding Florence. All of them got
57:38
loosed.
57:40
>> Okay, you you you Okay, y'all missed it.
57:43
>> Here go the power of the praise that's
57:45
in your mouth.
57:49
>> They sang and praised, BUT EVERYBODY GOT
57:52
LOOSE. YOU [screaming] GOT DELIVERANCE
57:55
IN YOUR MOUTH. YOU GOT SUPERNATURAL
57:58
POWER IN your mouth. Church, [screaming]
58:01
say it.
58:09
>> Digina, our praise
58:12
>> could set the front row free.
58:15
>> Hallelujah.
58:17
Y'all's praise COULD SET THAT SECTION
58:20
FREE. YOUR PRAISE
58:24
CAN SET YOUR FAMILY FREE.
58:26
YOUR PRAISE CAN CHANGE YOUR COMMUNITY.
58:31
SAY IT.
58:33
Say it.
58:40
>> So hear me. I want us to make a
58:43
commitment
58:46
>> to realizing what's in our mouth.
58:49
>> My thank you.
58:52
Not only does it bless him,
58:54
>> but it opens prison doors.
58:57
My hallelujah
58:59
>> blesses him, but can bring healing to
59:02
somebody.
59:06
>> God told me, "I'm done."
59:08
>> He said, "The way you come in to worship
59:12
>> is like setting the thermostat."
59:18
>> They use the flip side of it when you at
59:20
the doctor.
59:21
You go in there for surgery,
59:23
>> it is butt cold.
59:26
>> So, what is going on?
59:28
>> Y'all know I'm fit to be naked. What is
59:31
wrong?
59:33
But they need the temperature at a
59:35
certain place. They don't need it hot
59:38
and sticky.
59:42
>> We'll flip it.
59:45
We need it so hot
59:49
>> that demons don't want to stay.
59:52
>> WE NEED IT SO HOT IN HERE THAT THE
59:55
PASTOR CAN PREACH WHEN HE GETS UP. WE
59:58
NEED IT SO HOT IN HERE THAT SOMEBODY CAN
1:00:01
GO HOME WITH JOY.
1:00:07
>> SO, let's just make a commitment to
1:00:10
considering that we are called to
1:00:12
praise.
1:00:14
Right? And so now we're going to have a
1:00:16
little bit more engagement and
1:00:18
enthusiasm
1:00:20
>> in offering that to God
1:00:22
>> because you going to access your next
1:00:25
level of victory.
1:00:28
>> That thing coming through your praise.
1:00:30
[cheering and applause]
1:00:32
I shouted my way out of debt. Let's be
1:00:36
clear about that, folks. I dance my way
1:00:38
out of debt. Oh Lord have mercy.
1:00:44
I cried my way through
1:00:46
>> and got out of some junk
1:00:48
>> cuz praise
1:00:50
>> gives you access to the oil.
1:00:56
>> Lord, we thank you tonight
1:00:59
>> for your word. Just
1:01:01
>> Lord, help us to be mindful.
1:01:03
>> We come to praise you
1:01:05
>> and we should live every day to praise
1:01:07
you. It's our assignment. But Lord, help
1:01:09
us to remember the power
1:01:12
>> that's in our praise.
1:01:14
>> Praise is our weapon, too.
1:01:16
>> And it's what we do.
1:01:18
>> So Lord, receive our praise
1:01:23
>> and set captives free.
1:01:26
>> Let your heart be warmed [music]
1:01:29
>> and our hearts be healed
1:01:31
>> as we walk in our divine calling
1:01:34
>> as praisers
1:01:36
>> in Jesus name.
1:01:37
Amen.
1:01:39
>> Amen.
1:01:40
>> Amen. [applause]