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Understanding the Purpose of Covenants Part 5 | I Owe God A Good Life | Bishop Rosie S. O’neal · Koinonia Christian Center

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come on where your Bibles old school and
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new school throw them up together we're
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one family we're just different a little
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bit come on say this is my Bible this is
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my Bible it is God's word it is God's
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word it reveals to me it reveals to me
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God's will God's will therefore it is
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the final
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authority to which I submit I to settle
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all the issues all the issu of my life
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it is the standard stand of my conduct
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of my conduct and the basis hold on here
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it's the B basis the basis of All my
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expectations all my shout it out I am I
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am what it says I am what it says I am I
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possess I possess what it says I possess
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it says I Poss and I can do I can do
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absolutely everything absolutely it says
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I can do I turn and tell your neighbor I
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know that's right I know that's right
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yes yes so let's get into this go find
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my page one for me and let's go to John
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10:10 Valerie Michelle or TJ go find my
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page one in my notes good thing I study
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thank you Jesus all right John 10:10 and
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1 Corinthians 159 and 7 read quickly for
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me the thief cometh not but to steal and
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to kill and to destroy I am come that
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they might have life and that they might
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have it more abundantly Jesus
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said that he came that we might have
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what y'all
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and that we might have it how to the
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full that is a quality of
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life and you got to believe it come on 1
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Corinthians
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159 and 10 for I am the least of the
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Apostles that am not Meek to be called
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an apostle yeah he said really I
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shouldn't even be called one go ahead
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because I persecuted the Church of God
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I've just done so much foolishness but
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by the grace of God I am what I am talk
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to us Paul and his grace which was
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bestowed upon me was not in vain on but
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I labored more abundantly than they all
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yep yet not I but the grace of God which
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was with me yes indeed that's it right
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there I want to talk today this really I
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don't know is is not to be considered a
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sermon as much as it
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is I want to encourage
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you and exhort you from this subject we
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owe God a good
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life and I know you don't like talking
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to your neighbor CU I don't like talking
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to mine in church but I just feel like
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doing this anniversary look at somebody
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say you owe God you owe God a good life
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that's right that's what we're going to
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talk
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about let's pray father in the name of
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Jesus that high and holy
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name the name that's above all other
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names the the name that should make our
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mind begin to just explode with
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gratitude that should warm our heart and
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put fire in our
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spirit in the name of
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Jesus the savior of the
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world the King of
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Kings Lord in the name of
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Jesus we come to you right
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now cuz we need a word from
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you woo w we need for you to speak to us
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Shake us a little bit shake some of the
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dust off of us in the name of
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Jesus Ain't No Name worthy but
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yours the focus belongs on you and you
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alone so speak to us holy spirit about
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this great
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Savior and the life that we owe in Jesus
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name
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amen we are talking from the subject in
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our general eneral theme of the Year
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Covenant
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conscious and we understand that a
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covenant is an oath or a contract it's
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binding is lifelong and it's cut between
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at least two parties cut through
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sacrifice through
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what usually blood but always
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precious but it is cut watch this now
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and it has Privileges and
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Promises rights and responsibilities is
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in
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it and it is given to create a sense of
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confidence Clarity and carefulness of
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life now I need for us to get a hold of
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this fact that God cut Covenant for
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us now you're going to have to be a good
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quick class because he cut the Covenant
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for
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us Jesus is our representative this is
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why I encourage you shake yourself when
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you can listen to songs that are sung
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about him and you won't sing
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them I need somebody to talk to me shake
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yourself when you have become overly
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comfortable when it is time to lift your
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hand and yours won't go up shake
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yourself because you got to understand
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who we're talking about we're not
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talking about
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me we're not talking about me and what
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we have sacrifice oh that's that's got
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its place but that's no no no we're
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talking about
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Jesus we're talking about the one that
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humbled himself that did not need to
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Humble himself that came down we say
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through 42 Generations but really left
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eternity to come into time so that he
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could be our representative he watch
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this now he lived and you know what I'm
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going to say what the life we were
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supposed to live and died the death we
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what deserve to die
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he humbled himself and became as a man
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and being found in fashion as a man he
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humbled himself and became obedient unto
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the cross even unto death even the death
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of the Cross
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Jesus
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sinless strong enough that he could have
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spoken a word and wiped out everybody
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that ever even said the word
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cross but humble enough to let him lay
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him down and put him on
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one God enough to speak the tree into
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existence and loving and man enough to
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die on the same tree he
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spoke I'm talking about Jesus here I'm
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talking about the sacrificial lamb the
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blood that was put over your life that
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makes the Death Angel have to pass
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over the Mighty God Everlasting father
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Prince of Peace I'm talking about Jesus
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now we're not talking about a preacher
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now we're talking about our savior our
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Lord our King our friend my mother my
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father my elder brother I'm talking
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about Jesus now I'm talking about the
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one that hears my prayer can answer my
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prayer can fix me when I pray
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Jesus Jesus
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my company keeper my heart fixer my mind
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regulator
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bridge over trouble water
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Jesus I just don't think we can afford
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to become overly comfortable or LAX or
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passive At The Mention Of that name
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Angels bow before him at the mention of
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his name Heaven and Earth adore him good
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God the soldiers fell
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prostrate at the
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name and he cut Covenant for you and
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me we have not I've not done it this
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year but we'll get to it in in Genesis
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15 when Abraham said God how can I be
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confid ident and know for sure that
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you're going to bless
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me God said get the animals together
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let's cut Covenant come on here
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run get the animals and lay them out
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we're going to cut cover oh okay now I
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know you're going to do it and then
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Abraham after he had cut the animals
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open and and and developed it laid it so
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it was supposed to be the way it was
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supposed to be and blood begin to fill
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the middle Abraham's thinking I got to
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keep the fouls off of them because you
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know and and and and and R what kind of
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birds are those buzzards yes
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Lord stop that Rose that's wrong that's
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wrong e chch don't don't don't be
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talking about your folks in there watch
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this he said who going to cut the
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Covenant cuz he was up there trying to
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move the Buzzard away and God said
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Abraham go to sleep baby you lay down
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cuz even though this is for you you
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ain't going to be actively involved in
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the making of
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it you going to go to sleep oh where my
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Bible readers and then the smoking
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furnace Genesis 15 and the burning lamp
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the father is the smoking Furnace from
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which all Fire and Life comes out of I
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wish I had a church Jesus is the burning
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lamp the light of the world come on
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y'all and the Bible says that the
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smoking furnace and the burning lamp cut
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Covenant while Abram was
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sleep that's what Jesus did for me
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that's what he did for you watch this
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knowing all your
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frailties oh they better ask they not
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they're not serious about it knowing our
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weaknesses he said I will go down and
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represent them because they're not going
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to be able to do what they need to do
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they're not even in the position to be
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able to cut the Covenant with you so I
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will go and be not only a representation
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of what they can be but I will be their
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representative so that the Covenant can
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be cut and be sure that's why the
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promise over your life is sure oh God I
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need somebody to help me I said that's
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why the promise over your life ain't
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that what the CH said it is
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[Music]
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so you said it to Abraham seed is
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talking about
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Christ so that the promise might be sure
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to all the
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seed and here's the concern that I
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have we cannot afford E Church to be
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shortsighted or self-centered about
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Covenant because as he cut this Covenant
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for
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us there are promises in it there
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privileges in it you got more power than
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you
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know oh y'all don't feel if you knew how
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many demons tried to stop you just from
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getting in the house today
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if you knew how many how many minions of
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the enemy you stepped over see we we
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we've gotten so we're not even spiritual
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anymore it's like we don't even know
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that there's another world out there but
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there is in the invisible realm darkness
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that tries to hinder the child of God
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but you just don't understand how much
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power you have you don't understand the
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power of the blood over you the devil
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had a what you call the people offensive
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line defensive line the devil has a
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defensive line against you every time
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you get ready to do anything spiritual
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you just don't happen to understand that
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because you walking with so much
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strength you're just walking right over
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[Laughter]
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him do you not know if he could kill you
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he would
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have especially in your
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appraiser oh I wish I had me a few folk
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that didn't care where you were but but
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holler out I'm a praise A Hallelujah
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I thank you
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Jesus I say thank you
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Jesus I laid in bed this morning
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thanking how many airplane rides have I
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had how many train and and car rides how
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many times have I walked across the
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street how many times could my car have
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been knocked off the road how many times
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but he kept
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me you know I'm starting to
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get thank you Lord nobody but
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Jesus
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nobody nobody but
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Jesus
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W I dare you to take about 5 seconds and
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just let him know that you thank him for
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everything he's done for you give him
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glory right in your house while you're
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driving your car
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huh let me calm down he had brought me a
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mighty long way
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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I'm not saying everything has been
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perfect but y'all we live a good
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[Applause]
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life food on my table leave me alone tra
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clothes on my back in my right mind
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thank you
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Jesus so now watch
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this I don't want us to be shortsighted
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it's a it's a pastoral exhortation on
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anniversary I don't want us to be
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shortsighted and and I will deal mostly
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with that on Wednesday because what
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happens is I'm not through with Jeremiah
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29 cuz I y'all didn't catch it like you
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needed to catch it that's okay I'll be
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right back on it I'm faithful
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to but we either fall into the rescue me
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mode or hurry up and Rapture me mode
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tell them M Mar that's a we is a rescue
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a rapture and what that can do is
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paralyze you from
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living but that ain't I can't I can't do
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both angles
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today that's Wednesday
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night but I'm concerned about the
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self-centered approach to
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Covenant because though there are quite
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a few promises incredible
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privileges there are rights in the C
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I'm a Child of
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God you honey you got a right to hold
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you he didn't want to be he didn't want
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to Mar
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whatever I'm a Child of God baby my
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value is far above rubies don't play me
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you don't even understand
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I my sense of selfworth doesn't come
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from
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eyelashes it doesn't come from what I
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drive doesn't come from where I live I
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was a child of the king in strapford
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arms when we had when we would hear the
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little rat traps pop in the middle of
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the night y'all don't want to have
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church with oh you're so bougie why are
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you here you're so bougie y'all don't
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know nothing about that it would a
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little pop in the middle of the night I
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said babe go get it cuz I wasn't F to
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take it off you understand what I'm
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saying as you put a little peanut butter
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up
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there y'all thought cheese honey that's
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rich rich people you you didn't you
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didn't waste no good cheese on no R
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y'all don't know
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nothing Miss Stella they better ask
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somebody he
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fol it's a child of the king
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then that's why we've confused people in
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these 36 years when we would talk about
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the buildings already paid we went old
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one they got on the radio they they
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probably got people uh sponsoring them
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and and you know they said the billing
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already paid we had even started
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building it we were speaking by faith
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but we had so much anointing on what we
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were saying we believed it so much so
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till everybody in the community thought
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it was already done they were right it
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was already done in the spirit but we
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kept on speaking until we brought it
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from the spirit into
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the I start laughing they talking about
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now everybody in Greenville in our
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community know I've been I've drove the
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same truck for 10 years to happy big
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blue right but I was thinking about it
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when they was said the the what is that
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ladies the little Network they were
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supposed to been mothers of school kids
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supposed to been talking about the
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children but they were online and they
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were talking about me I ain't done
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nothing to them and they said she only
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rides in
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rolls-royces I said well I know y'all
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must have seen me it's not like I'm hard
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to see in this big blue truck for the
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last decade
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I saidwell let me stop fussing about
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that just in case that's what the Lord
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want for my next V oh y'all ain't ready
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to have church are you stop letting what
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people say bother you they might just be
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prophesying don't let them bother you
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come about you think you so much you act
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like you're
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[Music]
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rich thank you thank you
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[Applause]
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let me get on back to my lesson message
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with
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y'all but for all of the
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blessings I
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believe that there is a josh check this
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I believe that there's a rarely
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considered part of the
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Covenant I think we're self-centered
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sometimes in that you what can I get
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what am I going to get what I get again
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okay got it
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but I came to tell you you have a
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responsibility to go
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after everything Jesus died to give
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you he ain't done it since but I'll pick
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at him he owes me money so I can I can
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say it today I bring it up sometimes
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because it was so devastating to me when
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we went to I had to preach for Uncle
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Wills I didn't know I was going to
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preach for him I thought I was just
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going to his church so TJ and I had gone
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and uh but he he wanted me to preach
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well long story Store Short they a home
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bunch of
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money he told me when they asked me he
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said Rosie I can't pay you he said but
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I have him take up you know he wore that
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ponytail so and uh I think they gave me
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$9,000 amen I mean they're not even my
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members they just walked around
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just I need to go back no I'm just
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saying and uh so anyway we went so I
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figured hey I had no idea I was going to
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have that cuz I was going to hear him
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preach so I was like oh wow this is so
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great you know of course me and Bo we
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like counting we just oh we just in a
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zone so we went to play this golf course
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we pull up all these major cars that he
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knew them all I didn't know them but
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they I could tell they cost a lot of
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money so we just pulling up and it's
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like wow it and we got a C didn't we
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have a caddy too it's $1,100 for us to
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golf baby
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you not a chance in this word he would
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well you know TJ and I we didn't care we
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like hey let's do it but it was the
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hardest heal infested it was so much
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going on well he wasn't playing well and
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he said I'm
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quitting I don't know if I had stopped
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cussing the way I should have at that
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point but people I was somewhere between
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cuss
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and choke him where you put your fingers
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to the back of his
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throat right I was so
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mad you going to play this course you I
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don't care if you lose every ball you
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going to hit till you and then when
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ain't no ball you going to hit
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rocks we not quitting off night and
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spend
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$1,100 and this has been at
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least 15
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years now as hard as that
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is how much did he pay for your peace
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for you to let folk disrupt
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it oh I don't hear the same amount of
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holler they were hollering laughing at
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you you don't you don't hear that now do
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you how much did he
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pay for you to believe for the best
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salary okay
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how much did he pay for you to know that
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you never have to feel lonely because he
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will be with you and give you what you
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need uhuh look at you okay how much did
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he pay for your healing how much did he
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pay for your
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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sanctification and what I'm trying to
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get you to understand today you owe it
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to God to get everything he paid for
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okay okay that's okay no
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worries we owe God to fulfill our
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calling and pursue our
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covenant you know we don't talk about
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callings
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much I remember being called to
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preach I was in high school i' given my
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life to the
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Lord and
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uh start started trying to change and
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and you you know do what he told me to
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do you know like I said the cussing
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thing was very hard because I was so
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used to it so you know and then playing
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basketball took me took me some months
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to kind of get that thing curtailed you
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don't roll up on people week
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two after salvation everything ain't
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quite you know ain't quite got a handle
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on everything yet right and but I was
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making the
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changes because I thank God for saving
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me you understand
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so I got into I think it maybe the 11th
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or 12th grade and I 12th grade and all
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of a sudden I could just feel like God
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wanted more out of me Courtney I I just
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and I mean I was living nothing wrong
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with living for the Lord there nothing
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wrong with that because you know he
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could have been calling me into any kind
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of service he could have been calling me
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to you know my my occupation as a as a
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Ministry but I felt him
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calling I felt like I was supposed to be
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telling something
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I was supposed to be preaching and then
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I went through the thing where every
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verse seemed to have something to do
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with preaching I like wait a minute and
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then I was like but I'm Missionary
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Baptist we don't even believe in women
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preachers and the only reference I had
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really for a woman preacher was a woman
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named Reverend Annie Lou Davis the only
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thing they did was ask her to stand
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during the yearly
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Revival that's all I ever heard I never
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heard a woman preaching T not none of
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that and then I remember uh my
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grandfather's the church almost Mount
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Olive Miss Ary
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Baptist uh almost having a fight over a
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$200 vehicle
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allowance I and I stood I didn't know I
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was supposed to I stood up and as can I
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say something this seems stupid to me
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you want him to go visit all these
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people you ain't going to give him the
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what he supposed to do walk
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skateboard well I didn't know you Wen
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supposed you were a child you weren
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supposed so I already knew right there
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this say this something this might not
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be for me
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but he called me and can I share
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something with you you may be sitting in
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those pews but don't think yourself a
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cheerleader for my call God has a call
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on your
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life oh somebody said well Pastor what's
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the difference between a call and
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purpose I believe there's overall
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purpose for our lives of course to
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worship to work and to witness I got
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that that's that's nailed down if you
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have no other clue what you supposed to
25:24
be doing your hands supposed to be in
25:26
the air go and put them up right right
25:28
now put them up right now no you that's
25:30
all the good he been to you you could
25:31
barely get them up off your now if your
25:33
shoulder was hurt I bet you'd want to
25:34
lift them up wouldn't you okay your
25:37
worship that's an example you and I are
25:40
all called To
25:41
Worship we're all called to serve or
25:45
work huh and we're all called to
25:48
witness so that's a general purpose but
25:50
I believe calling is the carved out
25:52
expression out of the overall purpose of
25:55
God what God wants to be how he wants to
25:58
express through
26:00
you some of you are called to
26:03
write some of you are called to Children
26:06
you're called to seniors you're called
26:09
to this that or the other and boy that's
26:12
where your fulfillment takes
26:15
place you got to be faithful to it see
26:18
there are some things that God can do in
26:19
your life there are certain things that
26:21
can H I wish I could just sit and talk
26:23
with you I dressed up for you but I see
26:25
these shoes are almost on their way out
26:29
I've done all I
26:32
can I did I did good too there 25
26:35
minutes in
26:36
them my God I here's the thing I wish I
26:41
could just sit and talk with you because
26:43
through experiences and
26:46
epiphanies it can shift
26:49
you I've had a few y'all remember Sister
26:52
Annie
26:54
Floyd when yeah you're you when her
26:57
husband died
26:58
di in the room I had an epiphany about
27:05
love Reverend Williams who built the
27:08
first
27:10
Philippi he was at our church as he was
27:13
older before he passed he attended
27:16
cornerer and I remember going to his
27:19
house over there Shar not far from where
27:21
we used to
27:23
live and I saw the state that he was
27:25
living in I had an epiphany
27:28
that's why I get paid right
27:32
now cuz I determined I wasn't going to
27:35
work my whole life and then have to eat
27:38
something that you supposed to give to
27:39
an animal oh no I'm not doing that
27:42
phenomenal man everybody got is well
27:45
what if there was a problem don't who
27:46
doesn't have a problem in
27:49
here who who who's that who's that
27:51
Sanctified let me see who I can
27:53
find I had an epiphany just like with
27:57
David there are certain
27:59
experiences that God has allowed you to
28:01
have that was supposed to change
28:04
you that person clowning on you like
28:07
that to hurt you so bad that was
28:08
supposed to make a mark on
28:13
you PA said want he said I bear in my
28:16
body the marks there are certain things
28:17
God let happen to you because there was
28:19
no other way to teach you and so that
28:21
scar is there to remind you don't ever
28:24
go down that street again
28:29
after David killed
28:31
Goliath chapter 17 he turned it out cut
28:34
the cut that Giant's head off and took
28:37
it over to his mama's
28:40
house here you go that a little cold
28:43
there but he was a warrior he said don't
28:45
let the heart fool you oh God that was
28:48
funny y'all missed
28:49
it but the Bible says in chapter 18
28:52
David couldn't go home
28:54
anymore some stuff ought to have you to
28:56
the point where you can't go back no
28:59
more some oh Lord that's why I try to
29:03
get you to give God the worship and give
29:05
God praise and open your mouth because
29:07
you can get to a certain place in the
29:09
presence of God that it will seal you in
29:11
a way nothing else will oh y'all don't
29:14
feel like having Church okay okay okay
29:16
okay you can have an experience with God
29:19
see you first come oh that church was
29:21
great I enjoyed he's fun he was funny I
29:23
learned a lot it was amazing it's great
29:25
music and and you go on you said I'mma
29:27
go back but if life hits you
29:30
wrong but you mess around and get in
29:32
here and let the Holy Ghost get a hold
29:34
of you you mess around and go beyond the
29:37
Casual Observer and become a participant
29:40
in the presence of God God can touch you
29:42
one time baby you think crack is
29:44
addictive you don't know nothing about
29:46
addictive I got to be here on Sunday I
29:49
got to be here when the door open
29:51
because he touched me in a way I'll
29:53
never be the
29:55
same I only got a few Folk
29:59
it's too late for
30:00
me it's too late for me it's too late
30:03
for me I can't just walk off like he
30:05
ain't been good to I can't do
30:08
it there have been times I wanted to but
30:11
I wouldn't be able to do
30:13
it I
30:15
tried pray for me I said I I even go on
30:19
vacation lie about who I am and
30:20
everything did y'all know that no I
30:23
can't go because people so messy they'll
30:25
they'll they'll the last time I went on
30:27
thatas Cru it was a river
30:29
cruise and there was no other no other
30:31
people of color up there
30:36
none not one or two
30:40
none so we're sitting there and so no I
30:43
ain't mad at nobody I understand they
30:44
were trying to figure out cuz they cost
30:46
so much money to go on those River
30:48
Cruises I just wanted to go so they want
30:51
to know who is
30:53
this and how she get here you know them
30:56
jokers Googled me
31:01
they were so taken this is why you
31:03
always have to look good and carry
31:04
yourself
31:08
well they were so taken I don't know if
31:10
they had never seen anybody really close
31:13
of color or from Africa I don't know
31:14
what it was but we went on that last
31:16
night uhuh I heard
31:18
that don't don't come for me like that
31:21
LE the lightskinn people alone I see
31:23
what y'all
31:25
doing we walked in there in that
31:27
particular night darling were her
31:28
African
31:38
attire and you
31:42
know I mean head
31:45
wrapped and had the whole and and and
31:48
and you know she was
31:51
herself and she we walk around the
31:54
corner and I don't like a lot of
31:55
attention either and I know she's even
31:56
worse than me we walked around the cor
31:58
they wouldn't they wouldn't clapping for
31:59
me cuz I just had on the same pants
32:01
dress pants I do just like I do y'all I
32:03
look de she walked around that corner
32:06
God my they started
32:08
clapping they were
32:15
like I said walk
32:18
girl but the point was how' you get here
32:22
so now when I go I I just I just I don't
32:24
want that so I've tried to go incognito
32:28
but you know what it's always that one
32:30
person I see looking
32:32
pitiful and the call of
32:35
God it bubbles up on me I said I know I
32:38
just want to be here in these shorts
32:40
with my legs hanging out but I
32:42
just hey you
32:45
good before I know it I'm like preacher
32:47
Russell and Lady Tracy head back come on
32:51
Jesus you because there's a call on me
32:55
let me tell you something for some of
32:56
you all that the devil's has been trying
32:58
to woo you back into the world you
32:59
already ruined you can't go back you'll
33:02
get back you'll stand out like a pope
33:04
honey you listen you can go back where
33:06
they smoking reefer you'll be standing
33:07
there
33:09
yeah the Lord showing me something about
33:12
you you okay listen you already messed
33:14
up now he's inside you too much greater
33:17
is he that is in me than he that's in
33:20
the world touch your neighbor say you've
33:22
been marked by
33:25
God all right stop
33:28
all
33:29
[Music]
33:32
right we owe God to fulfill that calling
33:35
trce you know
33:38
that but we also owe God to pursue this
33:44
Covenant the Bible says in John 10:10
33:46
the thief cometh not but for to steal
33:50
kill and
33:53
destroy Jesus said this but I have come
33:59
not to take nothing from
34:01
you I come that you might have
34:05
life and that you might have it
34:07
abundantly he said I came to get you out
34:09
of depression and give you some joy that
34:12
last I came to get you out of debt not
34:16
just spiritual debt but came to get you
34:19
out of any change any shackles any
34:22
feathers y'all ain't having church with
34:25
me so my question is if he came for that
34:30
why aren't you fighting to keep
34:33
[Music]
34:37
it anything or
34:39
anybody trying to pull me away from my
34:43
Covenant
34:46
blessings I got to deal with you like
34:54
cancer we owe God a whole holy
34:58
life I didn't get as much harder thank I
35:01
got three people seven yeah we owe God a
35:04
holy
35:05
life so Pastor but I've been struggling
35:07
well keep on
35:08
struggling struggle until you stop
35:12
it whatever it is cuz the devil is using
35:16
it to try to keep you in
35:21
snared we owe him a holy life a Jesus
35:25
centered life
35:28
we owe him to be connected to the
35:32
body you going to let Jesus establish a
35:35
church and you don't feel like you need
35:36
to be in it no come on and we owe him to
35:40
fulfill our calling but
35:43
today I want you to look at three things
35:46
God help
35:47
me good
35:51
gracious number
35:53
one see the pursuit of the God blessed
35:56
life as a part of fulfilling the
36:00
Covenant your part of fulfilling it
36:03
pursuing this life what' I
36:08
say you got to pursue it
36:11
y'all you got to pursue
36:13
it pursuing this life the Covenant
36:18
benefits that's a part that's my part
36:20
thank you of fulfilling the
36:24
Covenant so if I have a dream
36:28
to leave that dream where I don't go
36:31
after it after he freed me and gave me a
36:35
a clean heart so I can trust that
36:40
desire what would it look like for God
36:43
to provide all of that and then you walk
36:46
off from
36:49
it people say I hate my job okay I love
36:54
you right now I understand in two weeks
36:58
if that's the same testimony and you
37:00
ain't done nothing between last the two
37:02
weeks and now I'm getting ready to say
37:04
well that's about to be your fault ain't
37:06
it because you could start while you're
37:09
working the job you don't like go to
37:11
night school to learn to do what you
37:13
want to do and get so good at it you can
37:15
make more money doing what you
37:18
love who told you Satan that you
37:22
couldn't have what God put in your heart
37:26
who told you you couldn't change careers
37:28
Midstream who told you you couldn't find
37:31
somebody that loves you now you ain't
37:33
going to find them stuck in the house
37:34
24/7 but who told
37:37
you who told you you had to wait the
37:42
travel y'all not going to talk to me who
37:46
told me you could who told you you
37:47
couldn't have a meeting with the person
37:51
you want to you want to meet so and so
37:52
meet them somebody knows them you ain't
37:55
but three or four five maybe five people
37:57
away from any person almost in the
38:01
world especially
38:06
here who doesn't Bishop Jake
38:11
know we've had access to come on
38:14
think you got to see the pursuit of the
38:16
God blessed life as a part of fulfilling
38:19
your side of the Covenant I'm trying to
38:22
get you to a point where you decide you
38:23
are not going to be boxed
38:26
in Jesus did didn't die for you to be
38:28
boxed in he didn't die for you to settle
38:31
for less he didn't die so you could sing
38:33
could have should have W would have he
38:36
that the sun set free is free indeed I
38:39
ain't got nobody to talk to Leela they
38:40
looking at me like I'm
38:42
[Music]
38:43
crazy I cannot allow what he died to
38:47
give me to be
38:51
wasted it's not for me the Bible said
38:55
the Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence
38:57
and the Violet take it by forth you need
39:01
to decide you know what I'm tired of us
39:02
fussing and fighting here you go no we
39:05
ain't waiting till uh Valentine's
39:06
weekend to the marriage Retreat we can
39:08
ready sit down today cuz I'm not going
39:11
we're not doing that not doing it no not
39:13
not not doing it we're not going to be
39:15
dressing alike and sick of each other
39:17
the Devil is a Lie we going to sit here
39:18
and figure out how we going to get along
39:20
we going to make the commitment to be
39:22
Companions and then we'll figure the
39:24
rest out later y'all ain't having church
39:26
with me
39:28
where is this they told me I was
39:29
studying something they said that um uh
39:31
almost 91% or 92% of children when
39:35
they're very very young like four or
39:36
five they test up in the genius
39:40
range then by the time they're 12 it has
39:43
dropped so much by the time they're 18
39:47
it's down up in like 5% and by the time
39:50
they're 20 something is down to 2% now
39:53
unless there's some kind of juice we
39:55
drinking that makes you dumb
40:00
that is the result of people in their
40:02
ear telling them what they can't do you
40:04
shouldn't do it that way I don't think
40:06
you ought to approach it this way when
40:08
are you going to get people out your ear
40:10
and put the word of God in your ear the
40:13
Bible said I can do
40:14
all y'all don't feel like having
40:17
Church all
40:20
things and I have a responsibility
40:23
Germaine to believe for better I've
40:25
shared with you before years and years
40:26
ago to only want to survive when it's
40:29
not wartime is
40:32
self-centered all I need hone just get
40:34
me I just all I need just enough to make
40:36
it you're just is self-centered why you
40:39
don't you don't want to have extra so
40:40
you can help
40:41
somebody you you you you you don't want
40:44
to be able to help somebody down the
40:46
along the road you don't you mean to
40:48
tell me it's not in you I don't believe
40:49
you cuz he gave you a new heart if I see
40:52
somebody at the grocery store and look
40:53
like they can't pay for their food it'll
40:55
make me put my banana bread back back
40:57
cuz something in me said I want to be a
40:59
blessing to him I know what it is to
41:02
struggle who told you you couldn't be
41:04
that
41:07
person and don't tell me nothing about
41:10
experience well I ain't ain't nobody
41:12
ever done nothing for me ain't nobody
41:14
ever done nothing for
41:16
me I already showed you experience can
41:19
change you but you have to judge
41:22
experiences I do that example all the
41:24
time where I say who's never had it I'm
41:26
not doing it today cuz I didn't ain't
41:28
got no pocket see that you don't want me
41:29
to dress up do you see if I had on my
41:32
jeans I could have pulled some money out
41:33
of my pocket so now you just got to
41:35
imagine
41:37
example right I always say who I ask for
41:40
somebody who's never had anybody really
41:42
give them any money so from them their
41:44
experience says no that doesn't happen
41:48
then I give it to them so now everything
41:50
they built their expectation on has been
41:53
found to be
41:55
wrong okay
42:00
oh no straight up it's a it's
42:01
anniversary y'all
42:02
[Applause]
42:04
nothing
42:06
woo do you hear
42:11
me yes sir yes sir yeah I don't need
42:15
Pockets to
42:18
receive hey y'all come on we got to do
42:21
better than this we
42:23
[Applause]
42:27
oh that's a shame yeah I still remember
42:29
don't don't think I
42:30
don't yes yes yes oh PT I love you all
42:35
right you have to develop a
42:38
mindset to go after your
42:43
dream I say you got to develop a
42:46
mindset because it's a part of what he
42:48
died for how in the world you going to
42:51
let him leave you all this stuff in the
42:54
wheel and then somebody say something
42:56
about you and you you don't go after
43:04
it there are
43:07
PE there are people that God wanted to
43:10
teach how to thrive in their lives but
43:13
they let somebody talk them out of being
43:16
here so you stay I love them with that
43:20
dead
43:22
dry not life applicable whatever and
43:26
miss
43:28
no second thing and I I probably won't
43:31
get to three geez I got to get to it's
43:33
the text hurry okay second thing select
43:36
season appropriate
43:38
stances let tell you what I mean select
43:41
put it in the chat where you you take
43:43
your notes season appropriate stances
43:47
now I need y'all to hear me this is
43:48
Pastor today listen to me
43:52
carefully in early time there are
43:54
certain mindsets you can have when
43:57
you're
43:58
healthy
44:00
young you just ain't nothing I ain't got
44:03
to get up and stretch throw me the ball
44:05
I'll do a 360 for
44:07
you throw the ball
44:14
today because you may have the luxury of
44:17
that mindset at
44:20
20 but you don't have the luxury of that
44:23
mindset at
44:25
70 you you you have people that say
44:28
stuff like honey I just speak my mind
44:30
this just who I am I'm just I have to be
44:31
true I have to be real this just me can
44:33
I just be
44:34
real that may work for you and everybody
44:37
may think it's really cool when you're
44:38
18 and you know 20 and 23 but when you
44:41
get up about 37 you got a couple bills
44:44
and a mortgage and you back in let me
44:46
just I'm just going to say this when
44:47
they live let your butt
44:51
go because you may have the competence
44:53
but your character does not fit it's not
44:56
congruent with the rest of the team and
44:58
then you stand around there fussing and
45:00
cussing as you are being escorted out
45:02
the door with a
45:06
box we even have people honey I'm just I
45:09
just I like I'm very private I just keep
45:11
stuff to myself I just don't like any
45:14
you can be private when you're 20 and
45:17
30 okay well you won't understand see
45:19
y'all done got sensitive cuz a lot of
45:20
y'all like that I know I'm coming for
45:22
you don't run up
45:25
here okay okay I'm I'm very shy like I
45:28
was one of those I played basketball I
45:31
always changed in the
45:33
stall I just not that person
45:36
to well all women okay well then I don't
45:39
need to see yours to know what I have
45:40
I'm not taking my clothes off in front
45:42
of you I mean I just I was that one per
45:46
right okay but when I was in
45:54
labor folk coming in and out
45:59
he holding my hand towards somewhere a
46:02
few other folk in could care
46:04
less because that in that moment that
46:08
stance does not
46:10
work and you run around here I'm proud I
46:13
keep people out my bed I want people in
46:14
my I hear y'all if I've heard this
46:16
once thousand times I just like people
46:19
you're getting old and you can't have
46:24
that I just you know what I don't like a
46:26
bunch of drama I just stay to myself I
46:28
well then when you get stuck in that
46:29
apartment and you never leave and you
46:31
don't have anybody checking on you and
46:32
loneliness is eating your butt up you
46:35
have taken on a mindset and a stance
46:38
that is not appropriate for the season
46:40
you are in and that is causing you to
46:42
leave all the benefits on the table
46:44
Pastor Trev taught us we were not made
46:46
to do life alone so if you decide well
46:48
that may be y'all that ain't me okay
46:50
well then when you get
46:53
alone and life hits you going to make
46:56
God look like like he
47:00
lied folk don't want to tithe and then
47:03
they all never have nothing and they
47:05
always need
47:06
something God don't look like he told
47:08
the
47:14
truth number three and
47:18
finally set your sacrificial sacrificial
47:24
stance of laboring for it
47:28
I got to think in my head I got to in
47:31
other words I got to go ahead and fix my
47:33
mind I'm I'm fitting to go after this
47:35
here and I'm going to have to sacrifice
47:37
and work for it because for a lot of us
47:39
like being private that's a hard thing
47:41
to change to say I need help now it's
47:45
not hard for me you not like me if you
47:46
like that I'm not like
47:48
that I'm
47:50
not because if Jesus had to tell three
47:53
people I need y'all to go with me this
47:54
getting ready to be rough I need some
47:56
support
47:57
then I can't be more important than him
48:00
my business cannot be deeper than
48:03
his so if he didn't have a problem I
48:06
don't have a problem with it and it is
48:08
hard it it's it's a little uncomfortable
48:10
to feel
48:11
vulnerable but you got to be okay with
48:14
that so what I'm having a hard
48:18
time I need some money how much you
48:21
got you got an extra don't you owe me oh
48:24
you don't you paid that darn well you
48:27
got any
48:28
extra you can't do that I would never
48:31
honey I would never live with some let
48:33
me me that I if I rather be in the
48:35
street okay it's a good
48:37
thing because you're trying to hold on
48:39
to a mindset that is inappropriate for
48:42
the season you're
48:45
in I know it's I know it just go go to
48:48
your office
48:51
Rosie this is what Paul said in 1
48:54
Corinthians Paul said I'm the least of
48:57
the
48:58
Apostles and truth be known probably not
49:00
worthy to be considered an apostle
49:03
because of all the mess I've done do I
49:04
have anybody to consider that sometime
49:06
it feels like that Paul said
49:10
but see Lord have mercy what oo but I
49:16
am what I am I am by the grace of God he
49:21
said I've done so much dumb stuff that
49:24
from the outside it looks like I should
49:27
be
49:28
disqualified but I have a
49:31
Covenant of
49:33
Grace and because of my
49:35
Covenant I
49:37
am what it says I am even though I've
49:41
messed up and you know my dirt I still
49:46
am what it says I am Paul said the grace
49:52
which was bestowed upon me was not in
49:55
vain he said but I
49:58
labored Lord have mercy he said I
50:02
labored more abundantly than them all in
50:06
other words he said when I think about
50:08
what I used to be and when I think about
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the mess I've caused when I think about
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the times I failed when I think about
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all the silly times when I got mad at
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God act like I didn't believe God and he
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still kept on blessing me when I think
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think about how many times he picked me
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up out of the wrong place how he washed
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me off after I swore I'd never do it
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again I made up my mind that I'm going
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to labor I'm going after everything God
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promised me and I just need about 500
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folk that say I want
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everything that God promised me he
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promised me peace and all going it I'm
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going to have it he promised me blessing
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touch your neighbors I bet you I'mma
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have it if you want to go you can go
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with me but if you don't want to be
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bothered give me their portion because I
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owe God a good life I owe you to smile
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at the Sunrise I owe you to cry at the
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sunset I owe you to giggle with babies
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play with puppies spend money like I
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want to say it say
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it I owe him
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that you know how many F we done we were
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sitting in the
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video they
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died they
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gone and you going to
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wait to
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live you mean to tell me you
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can't doc you can't grab Joyce and put
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Luther on and dance that's your wife
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bump these
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folk y'all ain't having church with
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me that's why I told you you know folk
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ain't thinking clearly
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you mean to tell me we can't come
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together thinking about how free we
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are and and and hear Best of My Love and
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jump up and dance and have a ball that
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what are you serious are you telling me
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that as free as he has made
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us and Trac it ain't all just about
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entertainment it's about going after my
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Ministry
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watch this tra and some of it might I
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might need that infusion of joy to be
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able to do the rest of
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stuff we owe him
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that you owe God to frolic which if you
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say if you're single then do everything
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you can do listen if you want to travel
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don't you wait on whoever or her to come
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you do your thing find them maybe you
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going to get them in another country try
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something new I'm next to try something
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new don't be
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[Music]
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scared
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enjoy I told my I'm getting ready to
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take it too far but it's my last
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pastor's an well it's the last Church
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anniversary with me as Pastor so I say
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what I want to
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say I told him I said ain't no sense of
53:47
Martha being around like that doc you
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ought to walk and just lay your hand
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just L don't not always up here don't
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always there a there's a greater glory
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on the other
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side y'all don't feel like having Church
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y'all a't y'all y'all pretending with me
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this
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morning it's a greater glory that's what
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he told me I ain't trying to put your
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business in the
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[Music]
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street bro phoh you got that pretty wife
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what in the
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world Morgan come on to live and to
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experience
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you said well what if I triy and it
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failed so what do something else that
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was fun oh
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well but you owe him to try it you owe
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God to give him your
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best how you how do you know that you're
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trying it may not introduce you to the
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person God wants you to minister
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to come out the
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box you owe God a good life