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Understanding the Purpose of Covenants Part 3 | Remember The Covenant | Bishop Rosie S. O’neal · Koinonia Christian Center

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  we're going to Jeremiah
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  today and uh the subject is either
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  remember the Covenant or he hadn't
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  changed his mind so you pick the one you
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  like and let's keep moving Jeremiah 29
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  and I'm going to read Verses 4 through
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  13 kind of
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  swiftly in the NIV come on this is what
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  the Lord Almighty the god of Israel says
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  to all those I carried into Exile from
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  Jerusalem to Babylon this is what God
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  had to say come on build houses and
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  settle down y plant Gardens and eat what
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  they produce right marry and have sons
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  and daughters okay find wives for your
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  sons and give your daughters in marriage
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  so that they too may have sons and
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  daughters uh-huh increase in numbers
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  there do not decrease come on also seek
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  the peace and prosperity of the city to
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  which I have carried you into Exile wow
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  pray to the Lord for it y because if it
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  PR ERS you too will prosper come on yes
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  this is what the Lord Almighty the god
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  of Israel says do not let the prophets
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  and divers among you deceive you do not
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  let the dreams you you encourage them to
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  have wait wait wait wait don't listen to
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  the dreams that you done encourage them
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  to have this weird kind of push and pull
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  thing where you
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  done PR preachers prophets learn what
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  gets people excited so that's what they
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  give them
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  okay go on to the next verse they are
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  prophesying lies to you in my name I
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  have not sent them declares the Lord I
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  didn't say God say I ain't say none of
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  that go ahead this is what the Lord says
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  this what I'm telling you when 70 years
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  are completed for Babylon I will come to
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  you and fulfill my good promise to bring
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  you back to this place come on for I
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  know the plans I have for you declares
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  the Lord plans to prosper you and not to
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  harm you plans to give you hope and a
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  future
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  amen we better learn to remember the
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  Covenant Now understand having a
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  covenant does not mean our lives will be
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  troubless okay see a lot of times we
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  confuse when we need faith
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  fath I don't necessarily need
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  necessarily need faith I'm always going
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  to walk in faith cuz that was my
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  commitment but we don't need faith for
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  the stuff right here in front of
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  us you know you need you and I need
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  faith when there are delays in what
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  we've been believing
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  for if everything I prayed for popped up
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  in my lap that day then I don't need to
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  really develop faith
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  I don't need I don't need anything you
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  know I if it just going to pop in my lap
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  every time I mention I ain't mad don't
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  be bound God I'm good
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  ground but I need faith and I need to
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  remember that I'm in a covenant when
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  interruptions take
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  place long
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  interruptions irritations and
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  hindrances and
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  unfortunately we sometimes view walking
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  by Faith or the life of faith of
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  following Jesus and living for God we
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  view that almost as a type of
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  magic but it's
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  not life has trouble built into it say
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  that that's right you need to go ahead
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  and nail that down in your spirit and
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  get an understanding of it that life has
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  trouble built into it and though though
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  there can be some uh you know there are
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  blessing
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  abounding
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  sometimes life will flip on
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  you okay and when it
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  does you got to remember your
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  Covenant
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  okay see because God
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  uses life to develop
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  us okay to to to form us to Fashion us
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  to make make us better to move us toward
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  christlikeness if if if if everything
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  you asked for you got that
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  moment then you wouldn't know how to
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  wait you'd be like them children in the
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  restaurant who you can tell run the
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  house y'all don't act like you don't
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  know what I'm talking about that mother
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  say no that child go to kicking and
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  turning that thing out and you say to
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  your Z now you know if they doing all
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  that out
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  here they run them at home
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  home okay because they don't know how to
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  wait they don't
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  understand we were having an evening
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  last night and Taurus you know again was
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  cheating around the card table pray for
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  him I'm asking God to do a
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  work and TJ and tayia were over and a
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  little my little grandpup Zena was there
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  and she's just the most beautiful dog
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  you ever wanted to see outside just
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  playing getting ready to tear up them
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  screens on the
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  house and she would just run to the door
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  periodically and look like what's wrong
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  with
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  y'all let me in the house well I'm
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  allergic to dogs even though I want one
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  so bad but I I can't so TJ says she out
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  there confused because she's always in
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  the house with
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  us so she's out there having a fit cuz
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  she doesn't know what's
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  wrong running like a little circles and
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  every now and then she'll just take off
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  running wide open then she'll run back
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  and look like did y'all miss me you
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  going to let me
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  in that's how we
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  do you ain't you ain't going how you not
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  letting me in the promise right now I'm
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  F to run off for a minute cuz
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  somebody I'm come back you
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  you I'm a tith this week so let me know
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  if
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  you boy I ain't got no help in here
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  today do
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  [Applause]
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  I but a covenant given to us by God is
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  not to make
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  us
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  entitled it's going to be hard to work
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  through this Jesus help me now help
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  me unfortunately and I guess for let me
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  let me y'all catch that phone um tell
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  them they supposed to be
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  here God gives us a covenant he does
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  want us to have
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  confidence but you and I have to be
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  careful that we are not out of balance
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  in our approach to
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  scripture as a pastor I have to tell you
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  things that may not make you
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  happy I have to explain Concepts because
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  I don't want you and I to think that the
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  Bible I know the Bible is kind of like
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  about us but it ain't About Us
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  I have to approach the scriptures in a
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  personal way and devotionally to say
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  it's talking to me but let me share
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  something when promises are made and
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  Covenant cut it was cut for the people
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  of
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  God oh I know I know I know it's
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  cut for the people of God of which you
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  are a
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  part so
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  it is entirely possible that God is
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  keeping the Covenant cuz he ain't going
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  to never let a word fail but you may not
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  see everything you thought in your
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  lifetime I know you're ready to leave
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  ain't
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  you
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  okay oh
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  Lord you'd be see again we think
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  Covenant means ain't going to have no
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  trouble you'd be surprised to know that
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  that when God cut Covenant with Abraham
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  he told him right off the bat now for
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  400 years y'all going down into
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  slavery well that don't sound like no D
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  Covenant to
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  me anybody real in the house that don't
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  sound fun what is
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  that but I have to be
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  careful that I don't start discounting
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  God because I don't see everything I
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  thought was was promised in my lifetime
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  at the time I
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  wanted I remember I was telling
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  Arlene I learned I'll tell you two
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  little quick stories I was telling
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  Arlene I remember being in toys arrest
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  with TJ years ago how many years ago
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  many years ago years ago and I used to
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  carry a big roll now all my money that
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  folk be spending the money the thing
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  done shrunk down like that right there
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  so and I had a lot of money in my pocket
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  this one particular time and this was
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  before I had my concealed
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  Carrie and what I'm just telling the
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  story and so I was in there and TJ asked
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  for
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  something and I knew that I had just you
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  know this is B see how flat the pocket
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  is now but back then it was it was
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  bigger and uh I saw this man and this
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  lady looking at me funny and you know
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  when people are looking at your jewelry
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  this size of you up now they would have
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  been wrong to roll up on me even before
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  concealed Cary
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  days
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  amen but I could tell they weren't
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  looking at me like I know you they were
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  looking at me like that's a nice
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  bracelet and TJ was asking for something
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  and I I had to act like I wasn't
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  listening to him and ignore him because
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  it was not the best time to pull my
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  money
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  out I needed him to stay in the dark for
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  a minute cuz I was keeping them in the
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  dark and if he did not know better he
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  would have thought Mom you said if I
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  asked you for something you would give
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  it to me but now you're not answering me
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  but you don't understand baby there's
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  more going on than you can see
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  [Applause]
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  one of the other ways that we do is kind
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  of like we'll judge God on
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  stuff you know we sweet though God knows
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  we we doing the best we can ain't we we
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  we sweet with a level of something so
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  it's kind of like if we had now our boys
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  are healthy we praise the Lord for but
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  imagine if one of them had poor vision
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  and one of them did not hear well but
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  other than that they were
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  healthy and
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  I bought one a
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  car the one that you know doesn't hear
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  that well but they see
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  fine but then the one that can't hardly
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  see want to know you ain't no respect of
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  persons where's my
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  car I can't get you a car you can't
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  see I'mma get them the car and you the
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  driver I can't take the one that can't
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  hardly here to the
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  concert you know I'm say but I I I I I
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  probably won't take the one that's blind
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  to the Grand
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  Canyon I may not be able to do the exact
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  same because I know their frailties and
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  what would make the bigger impact I
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  don't have nobody to talk
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  to if I don't understand that
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  God is doing more than just what he does
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  with
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  me it is personal some somebody shout it
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  is personal it is personal but it's also
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  about the
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  body that's good let me show you another
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  example of what I
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  mean I was standing in the kitchen at
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  the old house and um Darlene was there
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  and I couldn't remember if Arlene was
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  there I couldn't remember even if you
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  weren't you know y'all twins it doesn't
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  you know kind of was there anyway and we
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  were having a
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  discussion and this is Darlene
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  said Mama Prayed for
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  us and before she died she asked revend
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  Randolph to always check on
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  us and she began to talk about she
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  through her prayers made sure that we
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  had somebody looking out for us when she
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  couldn't be
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  there and
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  now you're here
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  and I
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  realized God was answering her mother's
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  prayer her mother already in heaven but
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  the prayer is still producing y'all
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  don't hear what I'm saying you missing
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  it you missing it's the prayer God
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  answered Mama didn't see
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  it but it didn't mean God didn't answer
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  yes because the world is bigger than
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  your 80 years
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  [Music]
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  and if we don't tell the truth about
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  this I kind of got in argument with one
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  of my preacher friends I just need to
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  stay off the phone cuz seem like anytime
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  I really share my thoughts somebody gets
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  mad at me because what I said was when
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  we began to talk about it they were like
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  yeah but people just need to believe and
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  we going to see it we going to see it
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  and I said well o okay just don't say
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  nothing Ro I I could hear you in my head
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  just let it go don't say nothing just
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  let them say what they thinking but what
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  did I
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  do I said but what you sound like you're
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  doing is stringing the people on from
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  week to
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  week I want you to come
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  back wait minute something's clicking
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  what is that okay I'm sorry I want you
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  to come back y'all pray for me I told
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  you need a counselor why you staring at
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  me Linda put me on the calendar baby put
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  me down
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  it's like I want you to come
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  back but I don't want you to come back
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  like it's a drug just to give you enough
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  to get through next
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  week I need to let you know God will
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  come through for you I need to let you
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  know God will heal God is able to heal
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  and he's already healed but I also have
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  to tell you that there will be times
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  where people will leave here that you
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  didn't want to go and it does not mean
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  that God is not true to his word because
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  you're looking at a snapshot but
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  eternity is a video and When the Smoke
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  settles and the dust excuse me when the
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  dust settles and the Smoke Clears he
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  will have fulfilled every promise he
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  ever spoke
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  see that's the only way we got this you
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  know inauguration and
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  everything I don't know what the next
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  four years going to be like I don't know
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  I mean it may it may be I I don't know
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  but this is what I do know I I'm not
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  real happy about the prospect of us
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  using military force to take other
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  territory I'm now I'm not happy about
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  that now you know I I I you know Canada
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  y'all heard what Canada said didn't
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  you I can't can't say it in church but
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  it was
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  funny but I put suffice it to say
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  something would have to freeze over
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  before they would let it happen that's
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  what the man
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  said but how many there were excuse me
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  don't ask that many people prayed for
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  things to go a different
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  way but I have a
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  covenant that says whatever God say it
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  he's going to do it I don't know what
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  may happen in the interim period but
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  when again D settle Smoke Clears his
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  word will be fulfilled now I don't know
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  if I have to go now prayerfully we will
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  have a wonderful four years I don't know
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  but if I have to go through Hellen high
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  water over the next couple years I can
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  make it because God is still going to be
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  God
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  see knowing I have a covenant and
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  understanding that God is not a man that
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  he should lie but also understanding
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  that there is more there's more
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  complexity to this than just what I want
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  in
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  him there other nations their other
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  issues their their developmental issues
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  at play I can trust him when I can't
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  trace
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  him okay this is how I can live my life
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  and still keep looking for
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  better this is how watch this single
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  this is how you can find a way to be at
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  peace and happy and still be grinning
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  and blinking and looking for somebody
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  y'all ain't having church with me you
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  didn't want to clap on that you didn't
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  thank you one two rest of y'all phony
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  joking this is how I can fight and know
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  I'm in a fight and declare myself a
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  winner in
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  advance now in our text today cuz that's
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  what the text is about I've shared this
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  little statement I have listened to
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  preaching for 40 years I have never
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  heard anybody give the context of
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  Jeremiah 29
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  never because we become so me centered
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  in the way we approach scripture that it
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  would irritate people to preach it so
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  and and look I've been guilty I'm not
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  trying to throw everybody under the bus
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  cuz I would just holl honey you know
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  what Jeremiah 29:11 say
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  I know the thoughts
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  hallelujah how the hell you
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  Joe but I think we need to look at the
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  context in chapter
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  28 there were false prophets that had
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  Arisen that were telling folk in two
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  years God getting ready to bring this
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  thing around next month come on let me
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  just work with it next month that car is
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  going to show up h
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  they were prophesying that everything
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  was going to get better and that right
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  early and I understand the Temptation
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  because you want people to feel like
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  they can make it I understand the
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  Temptation because you want to keep
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  people
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  encouraged but
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  Jeremiah God came to him and said go
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  tell haniah that was his name haniah
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  ain't nobody told you that
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  read your Bible and told say and and
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  Jeremiah said and this is a word from
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  God you going to die this
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  year Jesus since you like
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  times no come on let's talk about it and
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  then Jeremiah gets the word from God and
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  I want us to look at what it was man
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  this is
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  oh oh thank you Lord thank you Holy
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  Spirit the reason this thing issue with
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  false prophets and just trying to tell
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  you oh it's getting great honey just
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  right around the I can oh I can see it
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  oo oo and again I'm not despising
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  prophesying because it is important and
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  there are real prophets they're few and
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  far in between though you don't know
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  five let me just throw that out it's few
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  and far in
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  between but hear me when I say they are
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  there but this is what Holy Spirit told
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  me we have to be careful because what
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  they are doing unfortunately is feeding
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  people
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  this false excitement and anticipation
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  which can cause
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  paralyzation it's the same thing need to
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  tell him it's the same thing that
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  happened when he was writing the uh Paul
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  wrote the church at thessalonica he said
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  the the the Lord is going to come but
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  you can't sit in a church building and
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  wait like it's going to be next week
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  everybody trying to tell Hy I honey the
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  sign the weather you honey you can't
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  tell this this weather is letting you
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  know Jesus right there on Farm
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  Boulevard it's almost 60 today honey
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  it's going to be 17
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  Tuesday did you hear that I thought I
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  heard a
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  trumpet this ain't coming out like I
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  want I'm going have to preach I'm going
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  have to preach live at 12 again okay but
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  here's the thing he is coming but we
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  don't know when and if I'm not careful
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  if I if I if I come at you and keep
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  infusing it a certain kind of way then
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  you'll be like well if he's coming I
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  don't need to get married if he's coming
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  I don't need to get a new job if he's
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  coming I don't have to worry about
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  paying this bill that's what happened at
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  Y2K they had convinced everybody that
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  all their debt was going to be gone so
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  they went out buying all this stuff and
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  they still paying for
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  [Music]
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  it you
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  know I want to I want us to look for the
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  coming of the
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  Lord but you got to look why while
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  you're
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  living we'll see it in the text Jeremiah
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  comes back and said God gave us a
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  covenant and he tells them some things
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  he says can can I share what the text
• 22:44
  taught me can I give you a few things
• 22:46
  that it taught me you write them down
• 22:48
  and then I do have some points later but
• 22:50
  just make a note of this the text the
• 22:52
  way this text starts out Jeremiah said
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  this is the real word from the Lord and
• 22:57
  you going to have to speak in the next
• 22:58
  70 years over here in Babylon as an
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  exile you got to you got to get through
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  these four years 70 years I'm
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  sorry for all my for all my trump
• 23:15
  supporters please forgive me our former
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  you know but I just let me say it let me
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  get past it I'm generally very very
• 23:21
  sweet first thing this thing teaches me
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  God's plan is bigger than just
• 23:25
  me because what he said to them is he
• 23:28
  said I'm going to leave you here because
• 23:31
  I'm dealing with
• 23:33
  Babylon the same way I had to keep TJ in
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  the dark that I was going to give him
• 23:38
  that money because somebody else needed
• 23:42
  to be kept in the dark there are
• 23:44
  something God when you going to get me
• 23:46
  out this job I've been praying God
• 23:47
  because I know you got more for me than
• 23:48
  this so God I just believe you and God
• 23:50
  ain't let you go you've been there
• 23:52
  another four years mad as you can be you
• 23:55
  sitting in the car cut the car off can't
• 23:57
  even make yourself get out to go in they
• 23:59
  better not say nothing talking about I'm
• 24:00
  late either I mean your whole face is
• 24:02
  twisted and torn
• 24:05
  up but see what you don't know God may
• 24:07
  let you be sit there for the next 10
• 24:09
  years but he's making a record Children
• 24:13
  of the things that they are doing and he
• 24:15
  is going to reward you for your pain and
• 24:18
  he is going to deal with them for their
• 24:21
  foolishness often in scripture you hear
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  him say the iniquity of them was not
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  full
• 24:30
  okay see y'all sweet I love God I love
• 24:32
  God y'all so oh Lord you saved you'll
• 24:35
  understand this
• 24:37
  here now this is not any of us what' I
• 24:40
  just say it's not any of us but you let
• 24:44
  somebody be getting ready to get
• 24:46
  divorced how they keep them text
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  messages and uh record them phone calls
• 24:57
  where you curing at each
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  other no you ain't left yet you ain't no
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  you ain't gone nowhere yet uhhuh said
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  cuz I don't have just I need to wait
• 25:08
  just a little longer not not none of us
• 25:11
  this something I saw on
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  TV in the same way that you didn't rush
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  out because you needed a certain amount
• 25:22
  of Proof come
• 25:25
  on God said there are times when I will
• 25:28
  leave my people in a situation that is
• 25:31
  not ideal because I want to make sure
• 25:33
  that when I come through and judge those
• 25:35
  folk that I have everything I need to
• 25:38
  judge y'all ain't having church with
• 25:40
  me so the first thing I learned Regina
• 25:44
  God's plan is bigger than just me second
• 25:47
  thing is he uses this
• 25:51
  situation to affect others because
• 25:53
  timing is
• 25:56
  involved timing is in
• 26:00
  involved y'all seen those families where
• 26:02
  they have a big big change in the ages
• 26:05
  of the kids one be like 30 the other be
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  like
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  four congratulations to both that man
• 26:16
  and that
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  woman right
• 26:22
  who oh that's right Jo go stand you
• 26:26
  ought to be proud do go go be yeah yes
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  yes
• 26:30
  yes so here's the
• 26:33
  thing I could buy for both of them
• 26:36
  timing right he could buy a car for his
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  sweet
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  baby or for one of them grown
• 26:44
  boys now if you did it at the same time
• 26:46
  cuz how come everybody else I'm tired of
• 26:48
  seeing other people get married I'm
• 26:50
  tired I'm tired of see I B if I hear one
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  if I get one more invitation I'mma cut
• 26:54
  somebody out I'm telling you that right
• 26:55
  now cuz I'm tired of everybody else
• 27:00
  but y'all didn't know the Saints talk
• 27:02
  like
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  this but if you gave one of the boys a
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  car and I call it Rose cuz you know I
• 27:12
  know she had that name after me and L
• 27:14
  Rose one by the time she can drive it
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  it'll be rusted out no
• 27:18
  good so someone else judging your Equity
• 27:22
  would be
• 27:23
  improper because you and you alone are
• 27:26
  probably aware of who is
• 27:31
  ready timing is
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  involved how many want to just take a
• 27:37
  minute and pray say Lord well just show
• 27:38
  me whatever I need to do to get ready
• 27:39
  cuz I'm sick of waiting okay they I just
• 27:42
  wanted to give you that moment of prayer
• 27:44
  right third thing I learned just from
• 27:47
  study no matter what interruptions
• 27:50
  come God has not changed his
• 27:54
  mind now let's look at this text a
• 27:57
  little more closely
• 27:59
  Jeremiah 29 y'all
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  there all right let's look he says to
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  them so Jeremiah says the this thing
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  about it's going to work out in two
• 28:09
  years is not
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  God after 70 years y'all there verse
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  four say this is what the Lord really
• 28:17
  Almighty said to everybody I carried in
• 28:20
  the Exile from Jerusalem to Babylon he
• 28:23
  says you need to go ahead and build
• 28:24
  houses and settle down
• 28:28
  I know they trying to tell you you don't
• 28:29
  need to do nothing keep the keep the
• 28:31
  stuff in boxes cuz you're getting ready
• 28:33
  to be gone he said but I'm telling you
• 28:36
  unpack build your house and settle down
• 28:39
  plant Gardens and eat what they produce
• 28:41
  marry have kids on and on and on and on
• 28:43
  and on look down now at verse eight yes
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  this is what the Lord God Almighty says
• 28:50
  the god of Israel do not let the
• 28:52
  prophets and divers deceive
• 28:54
  you don't listen to these dreams that
• 28:57
  y'all and push them have they're
• 28:59
  lying verse 10 when 70 years are
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  completed now there are some promises
• 29:09
  God gives you and before you can blink
• 29:10
  that thing done manifested in your life
• 29:13
  and then you owe him a pra don't you owe
• 29:15
  him a
• 29:15
  praise there's some stuff you may have
• 29:18
  to wait for but he ain't lied about
• 29:23
  it he says when 70 years
• 29:28
  Lord is this supposed to be
• 29:30
  encouraging cuz the reality is in 70
• 29:34
  years some of us not going to be
• 29:39
  here so that would mean I
• 29:42
  died and didn't get
• 29:48
  it maybe that's why the scripture says
• 29:52
  in Hebrews some died having not received
• 29:55
  the promise
• 29:56
  yes but but see if my only approach to
• 29:59
  scripture is me me me now now now see
• 30:04
  many of us we don't mean to but we
• 30:06
  relate to God not as God but as
• 30:09
  Genie I done rub this lamp what's
• 30:12
  up L Aladdin whoever come get this
• 30:18
  fixed anybody ever done that you rubbed
• 30:21
  it a little bit oh y'all just oh my God
• 30:24
  let me
• 30:26
  walk I had to walk boy cuz some people
• 30:28
  go to line I just need to look at them
• 30:30
  you understand what I'm
• 30:32
  saying anybody ever prayed and praised
• 30:35
  and put money on the Altar and
• 30:37
  everything then looked up and God said
• 30:38
  what are you doing up
• 30:40
  there no shade God but straight up come
• 30:43
  through what's what's up you can't tell
• 30:46
  time in heaven I know it's eternity I
• 30:49
  can send you a watch what are we
• 30:52
  doing my God because we feel like we've
• 30:55
  done what we supposed to
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  we got to be
• 31:02
  careful he's God he ain't no toy he's
• 31:07
  God he ain't a genie this ain't magic
• 31:11
  it's faith I'm submitted to him I can
• 31:15
  trust
• 31:17
  him okay God
• 31:20
  says going to be about 70 years
• 31:23
  doc he said but I will come to you
• 31:28
  and I'll fulfill my good promise to
• 31:31
  bring you back to this place and this is
• 31:34
  what he says he said cuz I ain't changed
• 31:36
  my
• 31:39
  mind the reason he cut Covenant with us
• 31:42
  Hebrews 6:16 the reason he cut Covenant
• 31:45
  is to settle our doubts when we have
• 31:48
  delays oh God I don't have a church this
• 31:51
  morning just at least let me know if
• 31:53
  you're getting anything are you kind of
• 31:54
  catching on to what I'm saying the the
• 31:56
  reason he cut Covenant
• 31:59
  somebody I knew was looking at a house
• 32:02
  and they said oh we really like it I
• 32:04
  said well stop taking pictures and put a
• 32:06
  contract on
• 32:07
  it cuz if it's what you really want you
• 32:10
  need a contract oh I wish I had a church
• 32:14
  they knew our them this year Covenant
• 32:16
  conscious see that's if you don't want
• 32:18
  if you don't want if you don't Lord
• 32:21
  mother Lucifer them little sexy legs and
• 32:23
  boots and things re Randy look you can't
• 32:25
  just tell her she pretty right
• 32:28
  you had to put a ring up there
• 32:32
  doc she don't mind she love you she was
• 32:34
  so sweet but now she ain't waiting her
• 32:36
  whole life and you ain't made the
• 32:39
  [Applause]
• 32:43
  commitment now sign the contract put the
• 32:45
  ring she'll stand by you how long
• 32:47
  you'all been
• 32:48
  married 32 years look at him grinning
• 32:51
  sitting all up
• 32:53
  bouncing I tell you what some of the
• 32:57
  changes that people people have to go
• 32:58
  through M Cathy how long you been
• 33:00
  married they got to ask each other that
• 33:02
  show you some time children there's some
• 33:04
  time in there how
• 33:06
  many 55
• 33:09
  years now I'm pretty
• 33:12
  sure in 55 years they both could have
• 33:17
  taken other
• 33:19
  paths so while we're grinning and
• 33:21
  blinking and smiling let's go ahead and
• 33:24
  seal this contract so we don't have to
• 33:26
  think about it anymore
• 33:28
  because
• 33:29
  if if it hadn't been solidified one of
• 33:33
  them real real bad
• 33:41
  days but we solidified it with an oath
• 33:45
  with a binding contract with a
• 33:50
  covenant and so he says to them it may
• 33:53
  be 70 years but I ain't changed my mind
• 33:57
  he said I gave you the Covenant because
• 34:00
  I understood that where during delays
• 34:03
  doubt Creeps
• 34:06
  in and he said and I understand that
• 34:09
  when you're in that waiting period and
• 34:10
  especially if somebody dies and doesn't
• 34:13
  seem like they got a chance to get it
• 34:15
  you'll be tempted to think that I'm not
• 34:17
  going to keep my word but God said I'm
• 34:19
  going to keep it whether you see it or
• 34:21
  the Next Generation but my word won't
• 34:24
  ever return to me void
• 34:26
  [Music]
• 34:31
  can I tell yours she don't even know
• 34:33
  what I'm going to say she's Faith full
• 34:35
  of Faith she told me her mama made sure
• 34:39
  they ate well off food
• 34:44
  stamps she make more money than her mom
• 34:46
  could have
• 34:48
  imagined so all the
• 34:51
  praying and doing whatever Mama had to
• 34:53
  do to put food on the
• 34:55
  table all that pray some that's why you
• 34:59
  don't let anybody walk up to you and say
• 35:01
  well it look like to me how come you
• 35:03
  don't have so and so yet or how come you
• 35:05
  don't have so and so you need to let
• 35:07
  them know you ain't got to worry about
• 35:08
  my business what you need to do is tend
• 35:11
  to your own business because God takes
• 35:13
  into account who I am what time it is
• 35:17
  what my future holds and if I don't see
• 35:20
  it in my lifetime look for it in my
• 35:23
  family
• 35:24
  [Applause]
• 35:25
  [Music]
• 35:37
  God ain't going to let one thing he
• 35:39
  promised go
• 35:43
  down not
• 35:45
  one my grandfather set me in a room on
• 35:48
  March 1st I think it was maybe
• 35:50
  80
• 35:52
  88 and I had told him that God had
• 35:54
  called me to start a church and he told
• 35:57
  me all all this stuff he told me he knew
• 35:59
  the Lord had called me to start a church
• 36:02
  and we were Baptist missionary at that
• 36:05
  so we didn't believe in all that and as
• 36:07
  he began to talk yeah because you're
• 36:10
  going to have to do Series this is this
• 36:12
  was way back then and he said and and
• 36:15
  you not be able to stay in church till
• 36:16
  3: and 4:00 so your generation not going
• 36:19
  to do
• 36:22
  that now here's a man that never saw a
• 36:26
  $100,000 budget for the whole year at
• 36:29
  the
• 36:30
  church and we raised a million in a
• 36:34
  day but I got to ask whose Faith do you
• 36:37
  think that is that didn't come from my
• 36:40
  prayers that just got started he was
• 36:43
  praying that years y'all ain't having
• 36:45
  church with me and so in heaven God said
• 36:48
  I told I can hear God now Max I told you
• 36:51
  I was going to do it okay y'all don't
• 36:53
  want to hear me David and
• 36:56
  Solomon David build me a
• 36:59
  temple David couldn't build a temple he
• 37:01
  shed too much blood he said that's okay
• 37:04
  it's still going to come through you
• 37:05
  though how's it going to come through me
• 37:06
  I'm going Bring It On Through
• 37:08
  Solomon I'll fulfill what I told you in
• 37:11
  Solomon y'all not hearing me see when I
• 37:15
  think about the fact that there were
• 37:17
  slaves 1600 and I mean for on but I just
• 37:21
  let me deal with around here 1700s 1800s
• 37:25
  19 they lived and died in that that
• 37:28
  Darkness weeping may endure for a night
• 37:31
  but
• 37:33
  joy that morning didn't seem to
• 37:37
  come for generations and generations and
• 37:40
  generations but that's why he gave us a
• 37:43
  covenant because you got to say I don't
• 37:45
  know I may be on my way out and it may
• 37:47
  not look like it's going to work out but
• 37:49
  I still believe God going to do what he
• 37:50
  said he put a ring on
• 37:53
  it he gave me the sign of Covenant and I
• 37:56
  don't know when is going to happen I
• 37:58
  don't know who it's going to happen
• 38:00
  through but I know that God cannot lie
• 38:03
  and it will come to
• 38:06
  pass so look what it says let me just
• 38:09
  let me just I don't know if I'm getting
• 38:11
  this out well look what it tells him to
• 38:14
  do he told him in verse starting in
• 38:16
  verse four he said first thing I want
• 38:18
  you to do when it looks like it ain't
• 38:20
  going to
• 38:22
  happen first thing you do is settle into
• 38:24
  the best strategy to live fruitfully
• 38:28
  verse four and five read it this is what
• 38:30
  the Lord Almighty the god of Israel says
• 38:33
  to all those that are carried in Exile
• 38:35
  from Jerusalem to Bon build houses
• 38:38
  settle down figure out how to build
• 38:40
  houses and settle down plant Gardens and
• 38:43
  eat what they produce are y'all hearing
• 38:45
  me come on marry and have sons and
• 38:47
  daughters go on and live find wives for
• 38:50
  your sons and give your daughters in
• 38:51
  marriage all right stop right there he
• 38:54
  says go ahead and figure out a strategy
• 38:58
  so that you can live and live a happy
• 39:00
  and a holy life and keep looking to the
• 39:04
  sky you got to find the strategy now
• 39:07
  honey one of these days honey we're
• 39:08
  going to be caught up to meet him and we
• 39:09
  on our way I tell God is com and he is
• 39:12
  don't sleep on the message cuz he will
• 39:15
  come and grab the church away I don't
• 39:17
  know when it'll be but the instructions
• 39:20
  to me is figure out a strategy so you
• 39:23
  could live successfully till I come get
• 39:25
  you I'll get in the Rapture right or
• 39:29
  I'll get you with with rest when you die
• 39:31
  but I'm coming to get you you figure out
• 39:34
  a strategy some of y'all are single stop
• 39:37
  sitting at home all the time get out and
• 39:40
  do something let him find you or let her
• 39:42
  find you while you're living you don't
• 39:45
  wa sit around and wait for No 10 15
• 39:47
  years now you done got old and mean and
• 39:49
  cranky and all that stuff the Devil is a
• 39:51
  liive
• 39:54
  preacher yeah no you don't do no
• 39:55
  foolishness like that
• 40:00
  I'm be like what that girl went up in uh
• 40:02
  I still got a group back I'm be in the
• 40:05
  Bahamas or somewhere you hear me in
• 40:10
  Jamaica I'm saying if I you know
• 40:16
  just second thing I need you to see
• 40:18
  really careful I want you to spend some
• 40:20
  time on this this week I'm still looking
• 40:22
  for the promise but until it shows up he
• 40:27
  told so them settle into a strategy
• 40:30
  where you can find a quality of life
• 40:32
  second thing this thing tore me up
• 40:34
  determin to not to decrease during the
• 40:37
  weight oh read your Bible read your
• 40:41
  Bible yeah I want to hurry up and have
• 40:43
  this I want to hurry up and have that
• 40:45
  but if it doesn't come I got to figure
• 40:46
  out a way that I don't lose in this
• 40:48
  process read it DOC increase in numbers
• 40:52
  do not decrease don't do y' did y'all
• 40:55
  read that additional SC do you see that
• 40:57
  God says you are to increase I don't
• 41:00
  care who in the White House you got to
• 41:02
  set your mind set your faith to increase
• 41:05
  and whatever you do do not decrease push
• 41:09
  your neighbor and say don't decrease
• 41:11
  don't
• 41:12
  decrease I don't care what's going on
• 41:14
  I'm not going to decrease God going to
• 41:16
  give me a strategy I'm not going to
• 41:18
  decrease I'm going to increase cuz God
• 41:20
  told me to do it while I wait on my
• 41:24
  miracle
• 41:25
  [Applause]
• 41:29
  I'mma put the work in and not
• 41:32
  decrease come on let's read it then he
• 41:35
  says number three seek Peace during the
• 41:40
  interim number three seek peace what
• 41:43
  during the interim you got to seek peace
• 41:46
  even in these four years you seek peace
• 41:48
  somebody walk around I a going to call
• 41:50
  him my president he we might as
• 41:53
  well president Trump you might as well
• 41:56
  but see SE
• 41:58
  peace because watch this now if you seek
• 42:02
  peace and prosperity of the land then
• 42:04
  you going to prosper as it prospers read
• 42:06
  the Bible read it DOC it's right there
• 42:09
  also seek the peace and prosperity in
• 42:11
  the city to which I have carried you
• 42:13
  into Exile wherever you find yourself I
• 42:15
  know you're in Exile right now pray to
• 42:17
  the Lord for it hold on I know you're
• 42:18
  not in your ideal spot I know this
• 42:21
  you're in the apartment this ain't the
• 42:22
  house you envisioned he said but go
• 42:25
  ahead and seek peace and be a good
• 42:26
  neighbor in the
• 42:28
  apartment oh God I wish I had me
• 42:30
  somebody fix the thing up put a put a
• 42:33
  bow on the door do something but don't
• 42:35
  sit around my well this ain't my house I
• 42:37
  don't care don't act like that seek the
• 42:40
  peace and prosperity of wherever you
• 42:43
  [Applause]
• 42:44
  are I'm just reading the Bible to
• 42:48
  you that's what it said is't it it's
• 42:52
  clear God go home and clean that place
• 42:55
  up and fix it up this ain't mine it is
• 42:58
  just where you
• 43:00
  [Music]
• 43:02
  stay and clean that car
• 43:07
  out I'm believing for Ashton
• 43:10
  Martin you got a ashon Honda you better
• 43:13
  get your mess
• 43:14
  together come on now I'm just saying you
• 43:18
  cannot
• 43:19
  wait to do what you should when you get
• 43:22
  what you're hoping for you need to
• 43:25
  practice holding your head up right
• 43:27
  right now you need to practice fixing up
• 43:30
  your apartment like you going to do your
• 43:33
  [Applause]
• 43:34
  [Music]
• 43:42
  house first thing settle into the best
• 43:44
  strategy number two determine not to
• 43:46
  decrease during the wait number three
• 43:48
  seek peace and prosperity during the
• 43:50
  interim number four accept that God's
• 43:53
  will in his time is going to bring to
• 43:56
  change you
• 43:58
  seek you know what God I trust you to
• 44:01
  know what's best for me oh come here
• 44:04
  prodical son and testify for me I ran up
• 44:07
  on the prodical sunset I ran up on my
• 44:09
  daddy and said I want my stuff
• 44:11
  now he didn't understand that timing was
• 44:14
  important so he got his stuff too soon
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  while he was still too
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  silly oh God see some stuff God will
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  hold back from you because he know you
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  ain't ready to handle it yet oh I'm in
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  the Bible he wouldn't even let it rain
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  cuz he didn't have a man to teal the
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  ground he didn't have anybody
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  responsible to take care of it there are
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  some things God doesn't want to release
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  to you now you can go all around uh
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  ishmail excuse me Sarah and Abram you
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  can go on around God's plan to get it
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  early if you want but it's going to
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  cause a mess in your
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  life the prodical son got his stuff
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  early and soon as the parted was over
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  when freak Nick was
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  done read your Bible
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  y'all don't say
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  that that's the O'Neal
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  version I thought I saw it it wasn't in
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  there that wasn't that was in there okay
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  I don't have my glasses on there got
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  going get the words
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  confused he had lost
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  everything because it wasn't ready
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  anybody able to be honest say I had some
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  stuff too soon in my life I had it too
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  soon I shouldn't have had it when I had
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  it cuz that's why it's gone now tore it
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  up except that God's will in his time
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  and then finally remember the
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  Covenant that's why God said it that's
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  why that's what Jeremiah 29:11 means he
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  said even though it looked like it ain't
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  going to change cuz you got another 70
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  years to deal with it even though some
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  of the folk that said God showed them
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  have already died and now the enem is
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  putting in your head it ain't going to
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  never change he said I want you to know
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  I ain't changed my mind he said I know
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  the
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  thoughts I wish I had a church I know
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  the thoughts that I think towards you I
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  know you've had to wait but I ain't
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  changed my mind I know it might be 60
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  more years 15 more years but I haven't
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  changed my mind I know the thoughts that
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  I think towards you God said I'm going
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  to give you a hope and a future future
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  I'm going to bring you to your expected
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  end if it
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  terries wait for it but he
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  will oh y'all don't feel like having
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  church I said he will bring it to pass
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  say it say
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  it that's what that's what the verse
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  means even though you got to wait
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  settle in and make the best of right now
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  trust my timing and if you even die in
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  the weight go out accepting his timing
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  still trying to access the promise let
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  your eyes close in faith but let them
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  close in confidence that God is not a
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  man that he should lie or the son of man
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  that he should repent if he said it he's
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  going to do it if he spoke it he'll
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  bring it to pass it may not happen in my
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  lifetime but
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  surely TJ will walk in it
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  surely John will walk in it
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  [Music]
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  [Applause]
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  surely I'm done
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  [Applause]
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  but I think Dr King understood what
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  Jeremiah 29:11 was
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  about I believe he understood it and
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  this how he closed it put that up there
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  and I'm through put it up there well I
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  don't know what will happen now yes sir
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  we've got some difficult days
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  ahead but it really doesn't matter with
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  me now because I've been to the mountain
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  to I don't
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  [Music]
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  mind like anybody I would like to
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  live a long life
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  longevity has its
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  place but I'm not concerned about that
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  now I just want to do God's
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  Will and he's allowed me to go up to the
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  mountain and I've looked over
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  and I've
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  seen the promised
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  land I may not get there with you but I
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  want you to know
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  tonight that we as a people will get to
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  the promised
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  [Applause]
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  [Music]
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  land so I'm happy tonight I'm not
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  worried about anything I'm not fearing
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  any man my eyes have seen the glory
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  glory of the coming of the
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  Lord hey walk off
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  [Music]
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  doc so he simply
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  reiterates he saw some things and I
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  believe the next day he was
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  killed but it was you see he was
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  cool cuz he knew that God hadn't changed
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  his mind he may not see it oh but we
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  still will get there whatever he
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  promised
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  you whatever came up out of the words
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  and hit
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  you you can walk in
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  [Music]
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  confidence that God not going to let one
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  word drop
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  let's pray today