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Understanding the Purpose of Covenants | Bishop Rosie S. O’neal · Koinonia Christian Center

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all right come on get your Bible in your
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hand who got the old school Bibles lift
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them up in the fellowship hall too
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everywhere old school okay new school
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phones in the light what wait a minute
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some of y'all know wait a minute where
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the phone new school people look at the
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Bible on your phone where the folks say
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I need it on the screen Pastor i a okay
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that's all right we're going to put it
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up there I ain't mad at you all right
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we're going to be beginning today now
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today's lesson is kind of like a hybrid
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so I just struggled and battled so we
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going do the best we can to keep it
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moving right because you can't you can't
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teach on something this Broad in one or
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two weeks amen so it's going to take all
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year amen so all we going to start with
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today is just understanding the purpose
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and power of Covenant part one amen so
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you know and I'm so thankful I I've got
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to stop worrying about and I love my
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note takers but I think I got freed up
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in one of my shouts on watch
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night because I would be so stressed in
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my S it slow enough so they can write it
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down and I need to and I've just been
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wearing folk out with that because they
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can go back and watch it so just go on
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through and sit down right You' been
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trying to tell me ain't
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you you need to listen to your husband
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okay so I'm doing better okay well we're
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going to get it together today come on
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lift them all up whatever you have say
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this is my Bible this is my Bible it is
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God's word it is God's word it reveals
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to me it reveals to me God's will God's
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will therefore therefore it is the final
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Authority the final author to which I
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submit to which I subm to settle all the
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issues settle all the issu of my life of
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my it is the standard the stand of my
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conduct of my conduct and the basis the
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basis of All my expectations all my
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shout it out I am I am what it says I am
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what it says I am I possess I possess
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what it says I possess it says I and I
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can do and I can do absolutely
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everything absolutely everything it says
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I can do it says I can turn and tell one
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of your neighbors I know that's right I
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know right now just cuz I said I was
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going to speed up don't mean put 20
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minutes on the clock y'all messy back
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there in that sound booth now they got
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six hours up somebody playing a
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joke all right so in Hebrews chapter 6
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in the NIV verse 17 and 18 says because
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God wanted to make the unchanging nature
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of his purpose very clear to The Heirs
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of what was promised he confirmed it
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with an oath or with a
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covenant huh yeah yeah he said I don't
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want you worrying about it here it is
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here's a covenant it's almost like a
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guy's grinning at your ladies and
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blinking and you're excited that's sweet
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a date you're excited that's sweet going
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out you're excited that's sweet you even
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get a ring you're a little bit more
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settled but you still that wedding
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day y'all just dropped off like that
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once you have that wedding day and you
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got that other ring come on that thing
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is different now now ladies don't settle
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and then start looking bad you
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understand you nails and looking amazing
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the whole dayon period Then he wake
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up don't do him like that don't settle
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like
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that but there is a level of security
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once the contract has been
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signed huh oh yeah so we want to
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understand that's what God was saying he
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said I want you to be sure of it same
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thing you see a house oh man that's nice
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I'd like I'd like to get that house and
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know like when we were buying land
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course I'll never forget we were trying
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to buy land we would thought we were
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going to buy over now where Wells Chapel
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Church of God in Christ is so remember
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we had the Exodus banquet planned we're
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all excited they had sent the contract
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I'd signed the contract and I was young
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I didn't know a whole bunch of stuff I
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didn't notice they hadn't signed it
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I figured if they sent it it would have
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I didn't even think about it so I signed
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it we done playing the banquet we had uh
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Dr Bernard Grant you remember we were
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all dressed up they cute sequins my
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split was a little high but I was
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working I'm growing I mean it was way up
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here children it was way way moving on
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so so we're getting ready to go in get
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you know I'm getting ready to start the
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banquet and I get a phone call they
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changed their mind
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so you can best believe when we got
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ready to buy this
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land no I want y'all to sign it first
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then when we sign it then I can settle
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and relax that's what a contract an oath
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or a covenant is for cuz it settles you
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so it says because God wanted to make
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the unchanging nature of his purpose
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very clear to The Heirs of what he had
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promised he confirmed it with an oath or
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Covenant God did this so that by two
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unchangeable things in which it's
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impossible for him to lie we who have
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fled could take hold of Hope the one
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offered to us excuse me offered to us
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may be greatly encouraged this we have
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this hope as an anchor to our soul so a
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covenant let's talk about it let's talk
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about it what's the purpose what's the
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power of a covenant what is it first
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here's a long definition a covenant is a
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binding oath contract agreement between
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two parties watch now cut by
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sacrifice anybody about well maybe you
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can't tell if you're about to get
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married cuz you know folk talk so all
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right well just listen if you're about
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to get married I always said don't spend
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a zillion dollars on your
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wedding you understand cuz what are them
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D them people don't care you going to
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wish you ain't paid for them doves when
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them first when the tax bill on your
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vehicle come
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in that's that bill you always forget
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about a't it but you know what I realize
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but it shouldn't be as easy as walking
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down the street
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either no it needs to have some
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sacrifice in it cuz it'll make you think
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about that thing first oh look at you
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got quiet
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now it shouldn't be haphazard to enter
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into a covenant requires
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sacrifice usually blood but always
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something
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precious because the Covenant has
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privileges promises rights and
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responsibil yes indeed the Covenant is
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intended to produce confidence Clarity
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and carefulness good God Almighty one
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more time for the folk in S3 a covenant
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is a binding oath contract agreement
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between two parties cut by sacrifice
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usually blood but always something
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precious it has privileges promises
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rights and responsibilities and that
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Covenant is intended to produce
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confidence Clarity and carefulness see
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we got to learn today our
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society is weak in a lot of ways cuz we
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don't hold to
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nothing folk lie like they
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breathe they lie like they change draws
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y'all not having church with me today
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it's the first Sunday I'd not have to
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work this hard
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we just we we we don't have a concept of
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keeping our
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word we're a mess because of it used to
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be our word was our bond amen you know
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my my grandmother I've been blessed my
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grandparents all uh my grandfather's my
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grandfathers died earlier both of my
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grandmothers Liv quite a while and of
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course my daddy's mother lived to be 104
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but I remember asking her I think she
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was about 98 and I was saying
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BMA you about to be 100 pretty soon what
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what what are the secrets she said R
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say be kind and tender your own business
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and let other folk
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alone that was one of the things so I'm
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that that'll help you right there thank
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you for attending may the Lord bless you
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just do that here but the other thing
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she said Courtney I thought was huge
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trust God's word and make good on
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yours trust God's word and make good on
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yours we've got to embrace again the
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power of what we say we're going to do
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covenants are given so that people can
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be at ease it can be something you're
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settled on so if I don't have any faith
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in what you say
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Amen
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okay one of the things that I loved
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about the the the story of the Hebrew
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men is when they were getting ready to
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be thrown in the fiery furnace the king
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kept trying to give them chances cuz he
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didn't want to do it he said well I told
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y'all you're supposed to bow down to
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this thing and if you hear the music he
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said well didn't y'all hear the
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music he said yeah we heard it he said
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well maybe you wasn't ready was it that
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you weren't
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ready and they finally said King we are
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not careful to answer you in this matter
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in other words we don't need to rethink
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it we already decided how we going to
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live and if the way we've decided we're
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going to live means we die then we
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decided how we going to live and die but
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we're not changing our
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mind we have to develop into a people
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again who do what we say my daddy said I
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mean what I say and I say what I mean
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because that's the premise of
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Covenant we got to get to the point
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where we really do it y'all there are a
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couple things that Covenant ought to
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produce in us the first thing is
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confidence ought to produce what
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confidence when go we oh God we will be
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studying during the fast the Covenant
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with Abram the Covenant with Noah all
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this other kind of stuff we will be
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focusing beginning probably February on
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the Everlasting Covenant that he set
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with you I don't mean to throw stuff out
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early tra I try not to do it lady Trac
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but if you
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understood that there is God cut his
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Covenant the Everlasting Covenant he cut
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it you could say with you but it won't
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with you it was with himself for you if
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you understand that then your failures
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don't change his
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Covenant he decided independent of Your
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Action that he was going to love you all
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the way through this thing what the
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church we going to have my God and if
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you really mess around and get a hold of
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it if you really it's because people say
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well do you believe in Eternal salvation
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or eternal security this is what I
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believe about it I don't
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believe I believe we have the will to
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walk away from anything we choose to
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right so there is a point where I can
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say in my will I don't want to be
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bothered God and God will honor that but
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I don't believe I can slip up if I am a
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sincere believer in Jesus I don't
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believe I can slip up fail or sin and
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and look up and I'm in hell I don't
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believe that because that's not the
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nature of Covenant come on oh I'm oh we
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going to go through it see and you again
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remember I taught you years
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ago when a person when the floods are
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going on and people are being swept away
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what's the first thing that the fire
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people do The Rescuers they don't jump
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necessarily in there they secure
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themselves they go ahead and make sure
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they're secured so when they reach you
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they're not depending on you it's not
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both of y'all for yourselves they
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already know as long as you hold on to
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them they're secure God does not send us
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out into the world to tell them about
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Jesus if we got to be scared that
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everything we do is going to send us to
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hell I'll just wait until a real clap
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comes
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it's a confidence he says it here in
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Hebrews
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6 he said I didn't want you sitting up
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wondering every day if you going to make
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it
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in I didn't want you afraid to
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die once you had accepted his plan now I
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ain't talking about playing with
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God yeah okay I say and you walk off you
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ain't studying God you ain't thought
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nothing you're not trying to do no I
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ain't talking I'm not talking to you I'm
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done my people who really felt an
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understanding I need God Jesus you got
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to come and you got to save me cuz I
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need saving I can't fix
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this and you open up and you learn the
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plan of God that God gave His only
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begotten son that whosoever would
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believe in him wouldn't have to perish
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but could have everlasting life you give
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your all to him as jacked up as it is as
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messed up as it is I got more hands up
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and Overflow what y'all doing you
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understand you give him your everything
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he takes that in and he secures you and
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as long as you be a Christ follower I
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don't care how many times you stumble
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you stay on the
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path oh you you don't hear me y'all
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don't hear me if I stay on the path my
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Pew even I fall on the path when they
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come by checking the path to get us all
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I'll be right there I may be on my knees
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but I'll be right there may be bruised
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but I'll be right there the trick is
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don't let the de excuse me the issue is
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don't let the devil trick you to get off
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the
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path he said I'm coming back for a
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church if I get out the path the
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family but the Covenant he cut he said
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look let me tell y'all something he said
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I wanted you to know this so so much it
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could be an anchor to your soul he said
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I want you to be so confident in the
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Covenant that I cut that I'm going to
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love you that I have engaged myself and
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connected myself to you that I got a
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contract with you that you don't see it
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but you got a ring on your finger if you
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said yes to
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Jesus oh y'all not here you you don't
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see it but it's up
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there oh it's kind of like when the
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folks that's when they they not playing
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no games they get married they say well
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let's go on and make this thing real cuz
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you can lose a ring they go to tattoo
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the ring on the F on the finger and they
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all do that I said y'all know they not
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playing I said shuck man them tattoos
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hurt all the people that tell you they
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don't hurt they lying I got one it
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hurt he said but I want you to be
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secure I don't want you scared every
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night you may know you have a un have a
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a thought of doubt you think now he
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don't love
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you come
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on anything you know about love is a
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scratch off on to what God has for you
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for real man I the way I love my kids
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the way I I love my family the way I
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love as as much as it can be consuming
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it ain't nothing compared to the way God
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loves
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us okay let hit you in a minute let me
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show it to you in your Bible 2 Samuel
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real fast real fast 23 this thing blew
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me away right here second Samuel this is
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hilarious especially when you realize
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who we talking to
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David just David talking
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rather David who stayed home from the
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battle let his other folk get killed so
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he could tag one of his uh soldiers
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wives got her pregnant then sent the guy
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so he could get killed so people
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wouldn't understand how many months
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it's that
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David uh-huh I know sweet psalmist of
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Israel he had so many folks he was
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tagging it was
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scary now that doesn't give us a license
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we'll find find it out we'll study it
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amen but I want you to listen to his his
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posture near the end of his
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life and the reason he has it is because
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of his level of confidence in the
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Covenant I had to go back and study the
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chapter cuz I said this can't be David
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talking listen to this pick it up in
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verse uh two no verse one
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hurry Oh chapter 23 I love a church to
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the holl out what chapter we in
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2 Samuel 23 these are the last words of
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David the Oracle of David Son of Jesse
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the Oracle of the man exalted by the
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most high this is in the NIV he said the
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man anointed by the god of Jacob listen
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to him talk about himself Israel singer
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of songs Talk do the spirit of the Lord
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spoke through me his word was on my
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tongue yeah the god of Israel spoke the
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rock of Israel said to me when one rules
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over me in righteousness when he rules
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in the fear of God he's like the light
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of the morning at sunrise on a cloudless
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morning like the brightness after the
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rain that brings forth the grass from
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the earth this is what blew me away and
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he said is not my house right with God
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ha has he not made with me an
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Everlasting Covenant arranged and
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secured in every part oh my God will he
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not bring to fruition my Sal salvation
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and Grant me my every
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desire who in the heck is saying
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this I know this can't be
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David not David who had clowned so bad
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so many
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times David said yeah i' I've had some
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bad experiences Bishop I I ain't do
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everything I should have done he said
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that's he said he said but but he made a
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covenant with
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me okay okay I know it's hard for you to
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hear because again this is not for us to
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be messy at all when you get grateful
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enough for your security it'll make you
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want to live
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right but but we have to acknowledge
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that for for many of us we were taught
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the gospel in a way to make us feel like
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we could never achieve it so we would
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spend all of our time scared we were
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going to hell and we could never achieve
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the Destinies that God had for us God
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God gave d a cut a covenant with David
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and David with all of his mess said let
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me tell y'all something I'm about to die
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but I know this is all right here for me
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God still going to bless me as I'm on my
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way out he going to make sure every
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desire is Tak on my way out even though
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I've messed up a zillion
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times why because of a
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covenant now y'all that's let that sit
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for a second let me show you another
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place go to Second Corinthians I just
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want to show you what what happens we'll
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we'll be talking about Covenant
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conscious later but this is the power of
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a covenant to bring
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confidence that ain't nothing but
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confidence that you hear out of
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David So something there there must be
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some element that we have
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missed we don't know the strength of
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this thing watch this in second Cor I
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love this text this text tickles Me 2
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Corinthians chapter 7 watch this in
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verse two this is Paul writing the
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church at Corinth receive us we have
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wronged no man we have corrupted no man
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my God we have defrauded no man God
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y'all that is
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comedy that's comedy or
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Covenant okay here's the issue how Paul
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going to say receive us we have wronged
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no man right you are writing to a church
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where half the members are in jail cuz
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of
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you it was Paul who held the coat while
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some of the folk was stoned stepen was
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stoned to death and Paul said do let me
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hold that my back hurt a little bit I'll
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hold your coat for you going to get
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it and you going to write the same
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folk okay you you you not are you did
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you understand me are you understand
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what I'm
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saying you kill my
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family and then you going to write me a
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year and a half later talking about
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receive me I ain't never wrong
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nobody brother Larry somebody lying some
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something is
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confusing no what Paul is saying he said
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I'm so aware
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that he made me brand new he said I'm
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not trying to be flippant about what
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I've done he said but the point is I'm
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so
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identified with the Covenant that he cut
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for me the one that says your sins and
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your iniquities well I remember no
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more y'all okay it's going to catch your
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lad next week he said he said you have
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to understand there's a confidence that
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Paul walked in how did he get it cuz God
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cut Covenant with
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him he understood that the Covenant was
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a bigger
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issue than even the things he had done
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in his
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life this is why the enemy doesn't want
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you taught on
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Covenant this is why because when you
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start understanding that the love of God
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has been fixed to who you are which your
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not always everything you ought to be
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self but he somehow found a way to
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commit himself in a covenant to you
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regardless of your behavior not that we
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should be messy he said but I I just
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love you so much I even put Grace in
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there for when you did
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Sin if you choose me God said I chose
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you but if you mess around and choose me
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back I will cut Covenant with you your
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Cho oh Abraham believed God and it was
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accounted to him for righteousness God
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said I've so securely placed you in
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me that you don't have to sit and wonder
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is it going to be
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okay you say I already know it's going
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to be all right I don't know how but
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it's going to be all right oh no I serve
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a covenant keeping God there's a
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confident and see that's what God told
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me he say as we study throughout the
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course of this year he said there's a
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confidence that you going to see in the
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people of God you going to start going
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for things that you used to back away
23:27
from you talk anybody ever talked
23:29
yourself out of stuff cuz you said no
23:31
not me cuz I done oh honey listen how
23:35
many how many done that go to put the
23:37
other hand up cuz God going to deliver
23:38
you this year hey yes he is yes he is
23:43
because we going to see it over and over
23:46
and over and over and over in the
23:50
Bible there's confidence there when I
23:54
have Covenant Paul said you can receive
23:56
me I not right wrong no man I ain't
23:58
defrauding
24:00
nobody and my parents still in jail tell
24:02
them I said hello I'll be by to visit
24:05
hey in fact my Minister probably have me
24:08
there too don't
24:09
even so identified again and I'm not
24:12
talking about being
24:13
flippant but I'm talking about
24:16
understanding the power of the blood of
24:19
Jesus something is paid for is paid for
24:23
I said if something is paid for it's
24:24
paid for I said if something is paid for
24:29
for is paid for hallu he paid for all my
24:34
sin good
24:36
God I stand before him this is the thing
24:38
that's so significant I stand before him
24:42
guilty but
24:45
blameless oh y'all don't feel like going
24:47
to the movies come here Double
24:52
Jeopardy I'm guilty remember that scene
24:55
y'all know that scene that lady uh
24:58
what's Ashley Jud was in prison and that
25:01
other lady she said I'm going to give
25:02
you the best advice of your life do your
25:05
time keep your mouth shut she said then
25:08
when you get out of prison don't do this
25:10
don't go and do this this is an example
25:14
you got to tell the Saints
25:16
today this is what an
25:23
example when I tell you you got you got
25:25
to do she said when you get out you go
25:27
kill him you can stay in the middle of
25:28
MRA and can you believe how crazy folk
25:31
are with that stuff in New
25:35
Orleans people need a covenant they need
25:38
new minds but what she told her was once
25:41
you have paid the debt of something you
25:44
can't be charged for it again so watch
25:47
this when Jesus paid for all your sin
25:51
you still wondering whether God took
25:53
your ability to do this or killed this
25:56
person or you thinking that God did that
25:58
to punish you you're not understanding
26:01
Covenant God punished Jesus on the cross
26:04
for our you okay you still do I need to
26:08
walk God took it cuz well Pastor you
26:11
don't understand I did some stuff before
26:14
I got saved and you know I I made a girl
26:17
go get an abortion because you know I
26:19
didn't want to so now I'm struggling and
26:22
and you think it's
26:26
God act like that ain't how we
26:29
thing no that's not
26:32
God it said he laid Upon Jesus the
26:36
iniquity of us all and then it pleased
26:39
the Lord to bruise
26:47
him now if you walk up and slap
26:50
me then when I shoot
26:53
you that's not God
26:56
what that's not God God punishing you
26:59
that's a set of events you set off in
27:02
the
27:05
earth
27:07
preacher no let me use a better example
27:10
thank you lady Tracy
27:16
I'm let me use a better
27:20
example I do that to see if y'all
27:23
listening mostly
27:26
so okay if you go spend all your money
27:29
on the
27:31
lottery and then can't pay your
27:35
bill that's not God judge punishing
27:38
you you spent your
27:42
money that won't God taking your car
27:45
back that was a lack of
27:49
payment I'm just trying to be
27:53
clear but when I understand that he laid
27:56
upon him the iniquity then I'm not
27:59
sitting around wondering is my hardship
28:01
right now punishment from
28:04
God God already punished it and God
28:07
don't mess with double jeopardy he
28:09
already laid it on him oh it's going to
28:12
get you this year but a covenant also
28:15
produces
28:17
Clarity produces what Clarity see this
28:20
is this is the thing that I love when
28:22
you are in
28:24
Covenant and when you understand that
28:26
it's an oath it's a
28:29
contract it settles a lot of issues you
28:33
don't even have to think about
28:35
it
28:37
okay you promised them people okay here
28:40
it is the shoes you've been waiting on
28:44
okay I ain't got to go that
28:45
far a certain watch you
28:48
saw that thing is pretty some watches
28:52
you just what time is you just tell them
28:54
the time other watches they ask you what
28:57
time is it you tell them and say thank
28:58
you for
29:00
asking cuz it caused me to
29:03
look right okay so you see this watch
29:07
you really like but you already promised
29:09
to pay something you are in Covenant you
29:13
told them people when you got that
29:18
card that you were going to pay them on
29:21
the 18th of the
29:23
month that was the promise when you got
29:26
the
29:26
card so you understand the power of
29:30
Covenant and the purpose of it is to
29:33
help bring Clarity so when you seem to
29:35
have options if you have a covenant you
29:37
really don't have an
29:40
option so it don't make no difference if
29:42
they dro the
29:44
price cuz I promised I'm in a covenant
29:49
to pay this
29:50
bill so I don't have to sit and rethink
29:53
everything that's right Dr shandelle got
29:56
on the wedding R Chris got hers on
29:59
so he don't have to ask no questions he
30:03
shouldn't somebody walking up the to
30:05
Pastor christe grink blinking and and
30:08
and you know doing their muscles all
30:11
that she she doesn't have to go
30:16
into now if if they just start
30:22
dating boy this church is
30:26
funny that's why I try to tell y'all
30:28
stop acting married you've been going
30:30
out for two
30:34
weeks no I'm not washing nothing yet no
30:39
no don't take your shoes off here we are
30:42
not that
30:43
close I don't want to see them coins
30:46
until until I at least got one
30:51
ring but if you're just dating you still
30:53
have
30:54
options you may have to think he's an
30:59
intellectual he's like a
31:02
jock that's fine
31:05
dating but you got that big diamond ring
31:09
on Sean don't he expect you to be able
31:13
to think about what you going to cook
31:15
because that decision should already
31:17
have been made look at the
31:22
clarity y'all some sweet people though I
31:24
love
31:28
there is a text in Joshua chapter 9 and
31:31
I'm going to have to tell you the story
31:32
it's too juicy I'm going to preach on it
31:34
later but I love the story for those
31:36
that like to go back and I hope that's
31:39
mostly everybody Joshua 9: 15-20 tells
31:42
the story about a tribe and can I
31:45
because I don't remember the people's
31:46
names and I'm not going to turn to it so
31:48
can I make it like belore and and
31:50
Greenville so there was a tribe that
31:52
live how far is
31:54
belore oh no no okay 30 minutes away
31:59
Snow
32:00
Hill tarb Burl I feel a tar Burl in my
32:04
spirits any tar burans hey hey hey okay
32:09
well these folk lived in tarbor and in
32:11
Joshua chapter n so they about 20 25
32:15
minutes away give or take 30 uhhuh so
32:19
they lived in tarbor and the people of
32:21
God were Israel was in greeville so they
32:24
were like turn folk in taror said the
32:27
hand of the Lord is on the people of God
32:29
they going to kill us we need to go and
32:32
pretend we from a long way
32:35
off so you know what they did they went
32:38
and got old clothes it's in the Bible
32:39
it's hilarious story they got old
32:42
clothes beat up shoes they got bread
32:45
found stuff with mold on it and then
32:48
they said look Dusty look bad then they
32:51
went over to green and said to the
32:52
people of God said look we come from a
32:54
long
32:56
way this bread with this mold was fresh
32:59
when we
33:01
left and now we're way out here we don't
33:04
even know where we are just lying they
33:06
say so make a league or a covenant with
33:09
us that you won't kill us so the people
33:13
of Israel that this is where we'll learn
33:15
they the Bible said they didn't pray
33:17
first but I want you to say something so
33:20
they made the Covenant with them what'
33:22
they do but they didn't what uh-huh but
33:25
they did make the
33:28
so about two weeks later somebody
33:30
say they ain't from fall off I got a
33:33
cousin live down the
33:35
street said nuh they from a long way off
33:37
I'm telling you right now there go Ricky
33:39
Right There Ricky stayed down he stay in
33:42
tarbo I was born not
33:44
F watch this and they found out that
33:48
they had been tricked into the Covenant
33:51
and when war broke out
33:54
though they had to fight and protect
33:59
tarbor even though they had been
34:03
tricked the people said we shouldn't do
34:05
that they tricked us the princes or
34:08
leaders said but we cut Covenant so we
34:12
don't need to think about it we don't
34:13
even have to try to meditate we ain't
34:14
having no meetings we don't need to open
34:16
no conversation on it that's right we
34:19
said we were protect them and that's
34:21
what we're going to
34:23
do oh y'all okay let's bring it up
34:28
did you see the movie Con
34:30
Air okay Nicholas in Nicholas Cage yes
34:34
all right so he's this he's this really
34:37
good-natured ex-military man that loves
34:40
his wife somebody was trying to come for
34:43
her they got in a f a fight he
34:45
accidentally killed the guy he goes to
34:48
jail he gets the opportunity to get out
34:51
it's his time he been in there seven
34:52
years whatever time for him to get out
34:55
they put him on a plane to go somewhere
34:57
to release
34:58
him some other convicts take over the
35:02
plane they have't he has the opportunity
35:05
to get off the plane to go to his wife
35:09
sound like the the modern day Uriah
35:12
doesn't it the opportunity to go to his
35:15
wife and be with his little girl and put
35:17
all of that behind him but one of his
35:19
military Brothers is on the plane a
35:23
black guy and he can't get off and he
35:26
knows nck cage if he leaves him he's
35:30
dead and there's a scene in it where he
35:34
says if you talk to my wife he was
35:37
teared up he said tell her she was my
35:42
hummingbird but I can't leave a man
35:47
behind so for him it was clear it's not
35:51
that he didn't love his wife but he also
35:54
had made a covenant you can't I can't
35:57
leave him behind I can't trade his and
36:00
that other the guard's Life For Mine I
36:02
can't if I got to die then I got to
36:05
die we need to be people of
36:10
Integrity
36:14
okay we got to close up y'all see we
36:17
just this is the introdu turn to tell
36:18
your neighbor this is the introduction
36:20
intruction this weekend next
36:21
introduction
36:24
introduction Covenant this binding oath
36:26
contract agreement between two parties
36:28
cut by sacrifice usually blood but
36:30
always something precious has Privileges
36:33
and Promises rights and responsibilities
36:36
and it produces confidence Clarity and
36:38
carefulness let's look at carefulness
36:40
and we'll be done when you are in a
36:44
covenant it means that you have
36:47
accepted that there is a part that you
36:51
play y'all here yeah Covenant ought to
36:54
mean something to you you got church
36:57
Church Covenant
36:59
amen okay you join the military where
37:01
are my military
37:03
folks all right amen come on thank God
37:06
for our military
37:08
folks that's a covenant to put their
37:11
life on the
37:13
line all right you have Covenant of
37:16
friendship marriage I mean all kinds of
37:19
covenants that we will look at over the
37:20
course of the year but when you are in
37:23
one you take it seriously you know so it
37:26
was funny something happened last last
37:27
year as you go to 2 Timothy 2 something
37:30
happened not not last year last week so
37:32
last week we have watch night right oh
37:35
my God we're just going in shouting
37:37
whole nine yards was it on yeah it was
37:40
it was no it was when Pastor Bailey
37:42
preached still a shouting good time my
37:46
God I go to the
37:48
office and I look down and my engagement
37:53
ring cuz you know Bae got me uh
37:55
beautiful Marquee and then he got my
37:57
little band around
37:58
it the diamond was gone out of
38:02
it I said now I I said I don't see that
38:06
well wait a minute let me get some sit
38:07
there surely when I look at this I took
38:10
a picture and blew it I said I know my
38:12
diamond is in there I just maybe it was
38:15
gone oh my God Mom I was like what is
38:19
happening and I just I almost felt dread
38:22
you know how you you know you
38:23
something's done done something and your
38:25
stomach instantly gets upset I was
38:27
texting Taurus said
38:30
Bae the diamond out of my ring is
38:35
gone now y'all see how many people in
38:38
here it was like this then we had had
38:40
Services
38:42
two when I tell you the odds of finding
38:46
that diamond I mean cuz I don't even
38:48
know when it
38:49
happened cuz I don't take my rings on
38:52
and off like that like you know the same
38:54
J I don't take it off it better be real
38:57
cuz cuz it's going to in the shower with
38:58
me and outside with me it's going to be
39:00
for t-shirts dress clothes don't
39:04
matter I said oh my God it's gone so I'm
39:07
thinking he's got to go buy a diamond
39:08
he's going to be so agitated I cannot
39:10
believe it he going to be like you so
39:11
wild with stuff and rough you just beat
39:13
on stuff so I'm going through all of
39:14
these changes in my mind cuz I didn't
39:16
want to text him with that let me tell
39:19
you what he
39:21
did I couldn't believe it I have laughed
39:24
really I can't tell you how hard I've
39:25
laughed Taurus got
39:28
up came in this whole
39:31
building and found that
39:36
diamond I mean how is that even
39:40
possible I mean what are we talking
39:44
about he walked in back in there and
39:47
said I think this is it I
39:51
said and I said well give it here and I
39:54
put in tape and everything and send it
39:55
to the jewelry store there's a
39:59
carefulness you you take it
40:02
seriously in 2 Timothy Chapter 2 verse4
40:05
in the Amplified listen what it says I
40:08
may not have told her in the Amplified
40:10
did I go ahead what does it say back no
40:12
Soldier when in service gets entangled
40:14
in the Enterprises of Civilian look all
40:16
the husbands leaning over looking at
40:17
where your ring
40:20
at you better not lose that one Ain that
40:24
right you better you better take yours
40:27
off cuz if you go ahead read it again we
40:30
got to go y'all stop holding up
40:32
service read baby second Timothy 2
40:35
verse4 no Soldier when in service gets
40:38
entangled in the Enterprise when you
40:40
have a covenant this is about being a
40:42
soldier in the army of the Lord but it's
40:43
about Covenant if I know I'm on a team
40:46
I'm on that
40:47
team y'all not talking to me if I'm a
40:49
member of the church I'm a member of
40:51
that church right if I'm in a
40:53
relationship I'm in a relationship come
40:55
on and if I am then I am careful about
41:00
it so I'm not going to entangle myself
41:03
with a whole bunch of
41:05
mess I ain't even going to put myself in
41:07
a
41:09
position to mess up the Covenant I have
41:13
in Dumber days but thank God I got a
41:16
better mind now look at this listen to
41:19
this in Deuteronomy 30:2 he said and I
41:21
do not believe that oh I meant to say
41:23
this Deuteronomy 30:2 let me tell you
41:25
this statement I typed it I don't
41:26
believe that there's something wrong
41:27
with this generation everybody trying to
41:29
act like this generation doesn't know
41:31
how to make a
41:34
commitment I'm sorry I just don't going
41:36
for that people been people been people
41:39
people were trifling way back and they
41:41
still can be trifling you had good folk
41:44
way back and you still got what we have
41:47
now is folk ain't been
41:51
taught let me telling me I got my kids
41:54
bad they ain't bad they half raised
41:58
now every now and then you stumble up on
42:00
something that's bigger than normal
42:01
methods can assist but that ain't what's
42:03
wrong with most of the
42:06
children Deuteronomy 30:2 watch this and
42:11
shalt return huh that's the only verse
42:15
you the only word you
42:18
got huh let me okay let me let me let me
42:20
that's okay she said wait minute that
42:22
don't sound right shalt return that's
42:24
the end of the verse verse two and shalt
42:26
return to the Lord thy God and shall
42:28
obey his voice according to all that I
42:30
command thee this day thou and thy
42:32
children you see it with all your heart
42:36
he said because what I want is you to
42:38
return to what I've asked of you what
42:40
most people don't get what most people
42:43
we it's not that we don't have it in us
42:45
we've not been taught we got to teach
42:47
them that you follow after what God said
42:51
uh uh uh come here come here come here
42:52
bring me your mind right quick we have
42:54
to teach them our kids we got to be
42:56
taught yeah to be careful if you say you
42:59
going to do it you're going to do it
43:01
that little boy promised his sister at 4
43:04
years
43:06
old that she would do that in his
43:12
honor he was careful to do
43:15
it Psalm 15 says it this way and I'm
43:18
done basically Psalm 15 says and I like
43:21
it in in in this NIV I spent some time
43:24
boy looking at these verses it ain't but
43:26
five verses in in it and said God who
43:28
going to abide in your Tabernacle the
43:30
the folks that walk upright but I like
43:32
this last thing verse four it says it
43:34
says the kind of people that are going
43:35
to be what I want them to be in these
43:38
days are people who in whose eyes a vile
43:41
person is condemned they just say I
43:43
can't I'm not going to play games with a
43:45
person that's just trifling and
43:47
nasty but he that honor them that fear
43:50
the lord he it is right here though King
43:52
James says he that sweareth to his own
43:54
hurt and changeth not y'all see that
43:58
y'all sleep already in other words the
44:00
person who keeps NIV said keeps his oath
44:03
even when it hurts I got to be careful
44:06
to do it no matter what I don't play
44:08
with it because if I said it I want to
44:10
be I want to be like God not I don't
44:12
want to be God I want to be like him if
44:15
he said it he going to do it if he spoke
44:17
it he going to do everything and bring
44:18
it to pass I want to be that same kind
44:20
of person because that's the weight and
44:23
power of Covenant it's to give us a
44:25
sense of security but also so to give us
44:27
Clarity and to make us careful when
44:31
Jesus was getting ready let me close it
44:32
up hand stuff off when Jesus was getting
44:35
ready to be tempted the devil say hey I
44:39
can give you I can give you everything
44:40
you want and you ain't even got to
44:42
suffer like that Jesus said let me go on
44:44
and deal with you real fast cuz I'm not
44:46
going to let you get that mess in my
44:48
head he said We Worship the Lord Our God
44:51
and him only shall we serve Jesus said I
44:53
made a covenant lo I come Hebrews 10 in
44:56
the volume of the book to do your will
44:58
father I'm not playing no games sat said
45:00
but I give it to you without hurting he
45:01
said no no no no no no I've already set
45:04
my mind on how this thing going to go
45:06
and no matter what it cost me I'm going
45:07
to do what I said let me tell you
45:10
something we're going to be much happier
45:11
people when we make the decision to
45:14
allow Covenant to work things in our
45:17
lives it's going to work a
45:19
confidence it gives us Clarity and it
45:23
ought to work of carefulness Jesus said
45:24
I'm not playing with that cuz I got to
45:26
be the lamb that's spotless yeah see
45:29
some of you if you understand what you
45:30
got going on in your future you'll
45:32
change some of the stuff you're doing
45:34
right
45:35
now let me tell y'all something how real
45:38
should I go with this real real real if
45:41
I had known that I was going to be this
45:42
large of a public figure i' have stayed
45:45
out of them little places where you got
45:46
them uh pornographic
45:50
videos
45:53
what I mean I who knew I was going to be
45:55
on TV like this
45:58
come on now I I wish I had never gone
46:00
that route anyway because pornography is
46:02
a very dark
46:04
world but the point was I got swept up
46:06
so a no sense you know I'm free now
46:11
wait hey hallelujah it's been years too
46:15
and I thank him but the point is had I
46:18
but known cuz everybody oh Apostle Peter
46:22
said I love her so de she said you need
46:23
to run for governor
46:30
cuz just as sure as I do it ain't like
46:33
I'm easy not to be seen right there
46:36
somebody going to pull up a video of me
46:38
coming
46:42
out now it'll be old it won't be nothing
46:44
in the last couple decades but it's
46:46
still
46:48
me if you knew what was in your future
46:52
you would start getting rid of the mess
46:53
out your life right now God got some let
46:56
me tell him God it ain't that God is
46:58
upset with you but our Behavior can lock
47:01
us out of certain
47:06
rooms we have three covenants and I'm
47:08
done three little things I'll just read
47:10
them we're asking every person
47:12
Fellowship S3 rooms everywhere you
47:16
are the three things we're asking the
47:19
members this year is to accept make a
47:22
covenant with God to accept
47:24
responsibility for making sure the
47:26
people in your circle are aware of the
47:29
love of Jesus and the life he
47:31
provides and you see what I'm saying in
47:33
my circle if I see somebody one time in
47:36
the grocery store I'm not stopping them
47:38
knocking the stuff out their hand to try
47:40
to get you know but if I see them every
47:43
week I ain't going to have none of the
47:45
folk I know you understand that know
47:47
know me and they don't know about the
47:49
love of Jesus and the life he provides
47:51
no I accept we got to accept
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responsibility for our circles is that
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all right amen all right second thing is
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the Covenant to serve and sit oh y'all
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see it up there I'm in the
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way the Covenant to serve and sit what
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does that mean okay you know that a part
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of your faith is serving right but
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here's the
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thing we have to make a covenant to not
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just serve but also to sit it don't seem
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like a long way between up here and
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right there but it's awful long way
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and if you only
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serve you you you could slip in a
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deception because you feel like hey I'm
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serve and so and so and so and you don't
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even notice that the you're not in the
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worship and that you're not hearing the
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sermon as a
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person if you only sit say well that's
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why I Pastor that's why I had to be in
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there for the word I had to be in there
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okay well you going to get spiritually
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fat and think you know more than
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everybody and what happens is you begin
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to critique the sermons and critique the
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service we have to make the Covenant to
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both serve and so on now I understand if
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you're serving two Sundays and then the
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next Sunday you were scheduled to go on
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a cruise go on the cruise doc buy me a
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sweatshirt I'm on my way to extra large
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so just you know kind of weigh me out on
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that thing right now I'm a 2X but just
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kind of weigh it out but here's the
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thing don't let your next time off well
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I'm just going to be home
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home not serving doesn't mean you don't
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come you need to be I told my musicians
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I said every night and then rotate one
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y'all play all the instruments Anyway
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come sit down here cuz you won't know
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how sluggish you get until you have to
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worship and you ain't used to doing it
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you Al used
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to amen so we have to have a covenant to
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serve and now that means I also need
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your Faith to believe for enough people
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that we have teams that's
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right we need to have a team of hornets
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that when we got Carolina or Charlotte
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Hornets and what and then well Panther's
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struggling but
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anyway normally huh no we ain't ain't no
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Ravens in North
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Carolina two
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teams so instead of Team a it'd be like
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team p
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Team B would be like Team Hornets here's
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the thing so on the Sundays when the
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Hornets are working then all of what's
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the other thing Panthers are in here
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worshiping amen Here's the final thing
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we want a covenant to be faithful to God
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in our
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tithing watch this no that's important
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y'all that's important I don't want I
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don't want us to be broke
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people I want us to walk cuz it's a
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covenant that's right of tithing and
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to se sacrificially and in faith so that
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we can raise our whole missions budget
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at Resurrection seed yeah so what that
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is we generally missions and Outreach
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cost a little over $600,000 every year
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we want to raise that on our
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Resurrection seed Sunday amen can we get
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in faith together to do that that's just
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three things set responsibility for
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those in your circle to know the love
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and and the the life that Jesus provides
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second thing make the commitment to
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serve and sit releasing your face so
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that we can at least have two teams and
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then number three Covenant to tithe and
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to se sacrificially so we meet our
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budget can we do that amen