July 13, 2025 • 75 mins
God created us to look like a reflection of His love, but many of us still wrestle with a history that contaminates that image. When we cope with facades, we miss out on the freedom God has for us. Bishop T.D. Jakes teaches us how to have the courage it takes for real transformation.
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Scripture References:
Romans 12, verses 1-2
Luke 15, verses 16-20
Philippians 4, verses 12-13
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
it builds your faith.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hope it gives your.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Raise the Lord, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's so good to see you. Holly come up for
a moment. Holly wants to tell you how much she
miss you. I missed you all so much.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It is so good to be in the House of
the Lord worshiping with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Sound amazing, you look good. Thank you. The real reason
I had you come up is suck could catch my
breath from the jumping. Are you out of shape?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You're not out of shape.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You've been exercise.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have more of an anaerobic strength, more like bench preston.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You've been exercising and drinking your powders and stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But no cardio. Everybody, give the Lord a praise today.
If you're glad that he woke you up. I'll tell
you what. Let us never take for granted the privilege
that it is to meet together like this. Just want
to remind you that there's somebody that would love to
be standing where you're standing today. And if you have
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to strength to stand there, and if you have to
strengthen the breath to praise God, you ought to do it.
Give him a great shout right now. I want to
welcome our entire EPHAM around the world. I want to
welcome every location. This is going to be an amazing,
amazing second half of the summer. We've got Love Week
coming up the last week of July.
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We're going to serve our communities.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We've got youth X still hanging over in the room.
I feel it, man, But wasn't it amazing? Turn me
up in the monitors little bit. Wasn't it amazing? Wasn't
it incredible? Didn't God move kids getting saved, set free, delivered, healed,
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called up higher. Thank you for your ministry to the
next generation. Thank you for our ministry that's going forth
with our pop ups all summer long. Chad, We've got
another pop up coming to Charleston, South Carolina. I think
next week it's going to be two weeks. It's going
to be a very busy summer. I planned to preach
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my first sermon this week because we've had amazing guest preachers,
haven't We had some amazing guests and some of our
in house preachers. And I thought, well, I'll preach to
the youth Wednesday night, which I did, and then I'll
come back and preach. But something happened. I kind of wanted, well,
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what I thought would be cool is can I just
come to church and here a guest preacher? But I
didn't have one lined up. And I was thinking about
that and praying about that. And Saturday, as I was
thinking and praying about that, last Saturday, that is, I
got a text and the text was from Bishop td Jakes.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Now, so this guy said.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To me the other day, he said, are you back
in the pulpit preaching this week? I said'm back in
the pulpit, but I'm not preaching. He looked disappointed. That
made me feel good. You always want people to be
a little disappointed when you say you're not coming back.
But then I said, but would you be interested if
I told you that Bishop td Jakes is going to
preach for me instead?
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So here's what happened. Yeah, we all would.
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I think you all know that he is not only
my preaching hero, but he has been one of the
closest friends that I could ask for. How many times
have I frantically sent him a text message on Saturday
night to ask him if my theology was incorrect on
a sermon I was about to preach to you, or
did he have a better title for it or could
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he just come preach it for me? Well, last Saturday
he said, I'm gonna be in Charlotte if you want
to have dinner Sunday night. And I said, Sunday night,
So what are you doing Sunday morning? I started doing
the math. I figured he might be open, and I said,
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would you be willing to come.
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And preach to our people?
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I would love for them to hear from you as
we celebrate this twentieth year of ministry. There's no voice
we'd rather hear than yours. And here's what's cool, before
he comes, Before he comes and just absolutely blesses us
like only he can. Yeah, don't skip Sunday's at Elevation Church.
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You never know what God will do for you. That's
the moral of the story. You better log on, you know.
Just last Sunday, Bishop Jakes, after over thirty years of
pastoring the Potter's House in Dallas, transitioned the church to
the leadership of his daughter and his son in law,
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Pastor Teray and Sarah Roberts. So I told him this
is his first Sunday as a free agent, and I
wanted to take the moment right now on video to
officially extend the offer that Bishop Jakes, we know you're
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still going to be very busy changing the world and
completely redeveloping economies and feeding entire villages and changing the
trajectory of our nation's political structure, and preaching and teaching
and doing all the things that you do. We know
that you've got so much more to do. But Bishop Jakes,
I know you're back there listening to me. If you're
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looking for a vacation church, a place where you can
come and preach anytime and the people will just absolutely
love to have you, a church where you don't have
to manage the staff or pay the bills, but you
can just come preach.
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We want you to know Elevation.
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Church considers ourself the official vacation church of the greatest
preacher of our time, the one, the only, the incomparable,
Bishop feed Job.
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These are my friends. They're not just my brother and
my sister you don't get to pick your brother and sister.
They're also my friends. And I love you right back.
Aren't you glad you're in here today? Aren't you happy
to be here? How many people are happy to be
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Make some noise? If you're happy to be here, I
want you to do something now that we have praised
the Lord and given him glory and clapped. You know,
I always have to change my clap because you will
clap on the beat, and we clap in between the beat,
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and so if I don't change my beat, we sound
like popcorn. But we have a great time sounding like
fork popcorn because God said, make a joy for noise
unto the Lord, and it can be syncopated, it can
be together, it doesn't matter. He just loves for us
to make noise. Come on, let's just make some noise.
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Yeah yeah, like that? Yeah like that, until the angel
looks get jealous, until the demons start to tremble, until
the person begins to flee. Let everything that have breadth
age me the Lord.
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Yeah, that's what.
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I'm talking about.
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Now that you craped your hands and you praise the
Lord and you sound like popcin. Your hair's all over
your head, You got a little bit of sweat and
breaking out on you. Turn around and hug somebody. Yeah, yeah,
get that anointed sweat on her. Yeah. Let the presence
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of God over shaper them. You may be seeing Pessor
Steven Holly, I love you. I'm grateful to God for
this great church and the wonderful I love you.
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Go back.
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Isn't it wonderful?
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The being here just to sing and be with other
believers and people who love the Lord like you do.
And there's an excitement that's contagious. You know, it's contagious,
like grief or anything. It's contagious. You see somebody crying,
you start crying, even though you don't know the person
that they're crying about. You just start crying because they're crying.
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And then you're crying. Then you say, why am I crying?
You don't know why you're crying, but you're crying because
it's contagious. And when we laugh, we start laughing together.
Sometimes we didn't even see what happened. But if everybody
starts laughing in the room, we start laughing. And so
the joy of the Lord is contagious. The Bible said,
rejoice with them that do rejoice and so it's contagious.
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You can come in here and not even be one
of us, not even be a Christian. But if you're
come in here, it's contagious. You'll find yourself, you know,
you know, So it's good. The problem is we can't
stay here, we can't live here. Like the priests who
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went into the holies of Holies and found the sanctuary
of God, the presence of God of Glory falling in
the middle of the desert, they could only go in
there a day. They had to spend the rest of
the days in the outer court, because that's where.
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The work is done.
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And so what I want to talk to you today
about is where the work is done, not where the
joy is felt or the dance goes forth or the
people do some of y'all was doing the watusi or something.
Y'all make up a dance. I love y'all. Y'all don't
have no dan, just you know, and God loves it.
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God just spends around on the throne because you're just
giving him to go. All of that is good, But
I want to get beyond all of that and beneath
all of that, and I want to peel that back
like it's an onion, and I want to get down
to the part of you that the Holy Spirit wants
to do something in. So tonight today I used to
preaching at night. I said, today, I want to talk
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to you about the power to change your mind. The
power to change your mind. At a time they're trying
to put chips in our heads, and at a time
they're trying to put things into our hands so that
we can go to the grocery store and buy stuff
we don't need. So the hand can be so fat
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it can't read the chip. You'll get it later, don't
worry better. At a time that everybody's getting all in
our refrigerator and Wi Fi controls it stuff that it
doesn't need to. I mean, my iron really doesn't need
Wi Fi. But some kind of way, my iron has
Wi Fi, so that when I'm earning my shirt, somebody
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knows it and it's stored in the cloud. All the
wrinkles are stored in the cloud. At a time like that,
I've got to do the work of understanding what God
wants from me. Go with me quickly to the Book
of Roman, chapter twelve, verse one through twelve. Is very easy.
It's very simple. But I want to share with you today.
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And I wrote it down because I'm old and I
can't remember stuff like I used to. Yeah, I'm a
free man. You know. I loved it. But I'm glad
for my daughter and my son in law who has
grabbed the reins and allowed me to get out and
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see y'all on a Sunday morning.
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Isn't that cool?
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I feel like a giraffe let out of cage or something.
You know. Roman's twelve first one through twelve, and stand
for me for the reading of the world, would you
just for a minute. And I read King James. Not
that it's holy or anything, but I read it because
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it's old like me, okay, And I like old stuff sometimes.
So I like the Eliza Beetham Elizabeefing type language that
makes the scripture sounds so prose and poetic and powerful.
And you can almost hear God's speaking to you by
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the way it talks by him. Therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice of praise the power of it. It just
sounds nice. And nowhere is it anymore blatant than it is.
And this text Romans twelve and one, when the apostle Paul,
who is revered by all the thinkers of his age,
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who speaks in a multiplicity of languages, who is accepted
in the courts of the wisest men of his era,
who has traveled by sea and by land to reach
and to touch various parts of the world with the
influence that he has, who has at one time been
a Christian killer and terror is been a terrorist against
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the Kingdom of God, has had a Damascus Road experienced,
which he has to be willing to forsake some of
the admiration, to be into the will of God. That Paul,
who is of the tribe of Benjamin, that Paul who
is a Pharisee of Pharisees, that Paul who is responsible
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for most of the New Testament. That without the Apostle Paul,
we wouldn't We wouldn't have the fivefold Ministry. We wouldn't
have the nine fruits of the Spirit. We wouldn't have
the nine gifts of the Spirit. We wouldn't have so
many the mystery of Godliness. We wouldn't know that. Behold,
I show you a mystery. We shall all sleep, and
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we shall all be changed. This dude is bad, Okay,
this dude's bag If you take Paul out of the
New Testament, it becomes a comic book. That's how small
it's left. All the other books. I don't know whether
they got tired of writing, or their fingers hurt, or
they didn't afford any ink, but they didn't write nearly
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as much except for He, they didn't write nearly as
much as Apostle. Paul gives us most of our understanding
of what we are supposed to be in this age
and this era, and we get to hear what he
is saying, as he has had an encounter with God
like us, not like Luke or Mark or Matthew, where
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they actually got to walk with Jesus. He has had
an experience with God that has made him no God,
because he has had an experience, and invisible experience, invisible,
invisible that left him blind, and he learned to walk
by faith and not by sight. And he wasn't there
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with any woman with his sher blood touching him of
his garment got here. He didn't get to see Lazar
come out the grave. He didn't get to see all
the good stuff he misses. All he had was a
great light hitting and the light was so strong that
it mesmerized and gave him the ability to change his
life and to be willing to forsake how people think
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about him. It takes courage to be willing to change
the way people think about you and not be bothered
by it, not to seek their approval or their validation,
in order to be able to stand. That's who's talking
to us. And he has come from his lofty clouds
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of intellectualism down to the low places of saying, I
beseech you there for brethren, which means I beg you,
the great Man begs I beg you there, for brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
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reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world. But
be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Be you
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Be Ye transformed.
Don't just take on a form, but be ye transform
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by the renewing of your mind. Don't fake the fun.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Don't
just jump because I'm jumping. Be Ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Have the kind of faith that
lasts past Sunday morning, be ye transformer, by the renewing
of your mind. You mean I can have a new mind.
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You mean I can literally be responsible for changing my mind,
the place that holds my past and my doubts and
my fears and my trauma and my insecurity and my
rejection and my adversity and my self loathing and my
uncertainty about I can change that. You mean it's possible
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that I can lose the imposture syndrome and be as
happy on Monday as I act.
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Like I am on Sunday. You mean it's possible.
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You mean it's possible I can walk through my house
and be singing out of tune, and me and God
can be having a good time, and I can really
be happy and not just be happy for you and
happy around you and happy because you're looking at me.
You mean it's actually possible that I can lay down
and rest at night and feel like the angels have
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ropped me to sleep. You mean it's possible that I
can live without fear and terror and the feeling that
something bad is about to happen at any moment in
my life. You mean it's possible for me not to
hate my nose, or dislike my lips, or hate the
way my eyes are made. You mean it's possible that
I can be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
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Now you're talking about some amazing he says, be Ye,
transform by the renewal of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God. Because you can never prove the value of
Christianity as long as you give me a facade of
jubilants and go home to be a person. Because when
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I see your facade, I cannot connect with you, because
I cannot relate to you. I can only relate to
you when I see you go through hard stuff and
painful stuff, and you get mad and stuff gets on
your nerves and you're afraid of heights and a spider
comes out and you jump on top of the couch.
I can only relate to you when you do Clark
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Kent kind of stuff. I can't relate to your superman
Come on, somebody, your superman self. I want to meet you.
I want to meet you where you're at. I want
to go where you are. Be Ye transformed by the
re your mind. Swee Holy Spirit, come come into this place.
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And do what you want to do. Throw your weight
around and show the devil who's boss. I thank you
because of God, all by yourself, and you.
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Can do anything but fail.
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Take over this building and take over this place, and
rip away all the ugly facades that we put on
the projector and image of you, a form of gunment
that's denying the power thereof and strip us down to
who we really are. For when you called Adam, you
call Adam, where art thou. I don't want your impostor.
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I don't want you who you pretend to be. I
want who you are. Come out here where I can
see you. Stop hiding in between the leaves and the
trees of religion, and come out where we can have
a conversation.
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You mean, oh God, do it for us in the
name of Jesus.
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We pray somebody who's got a loud mouth, and you
let your children shout a man at the probably way. Yeah, yeah,
I knew I locked you. I knew I locked you
because what they ain't get on your nerves every now
and then you tell us sit down, and you don't
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quote those scriptures that you don't sing no song, You
tell them just sit down.
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He seated.
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Let's go to what everywhere I go, there's travels everywhere
I go. The place where we struggle is not so
much conversion, it's transformation. We have the conversion down, pat
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We know how to lead you to Jesus. We know
how to skip, and we know how to dance, and
we know how to my daughter right. We know how
to do this real good. We know how to have conversion.
But we go home to wrestle with the inability to
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have transformation. And it takes so much energy to have
conversion with out transformation. Now he begs us, by the
mercies of God, that we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
And when our Western when our Western mind, here is
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this Eastern phrase. We don't know what a sacrifice is.
But a sacrifice is not a pretty sight. It's where
an animal stretched east and west and north and south
and tied to the altar and slaved with a knife
to catch some blood in a trough and set on fire.
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He says, I want you to do that to you.
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No wonder he's begging, because I don't know anybody in
here who's running up here trying to take the knife.
I don't know about anybody in here that wants to
be burned. Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, or
black or white, or gray or green, or in between,
or you don't care, it doesn't make any difference. None
of us want to be burned. I don't see anybody saying,
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you know, send me to Hell. Yeah, I go. I
need a son tan anyway, he has asked me to
present my body, which is never done in the Old Testament.
You never see a lamb kill himself. You never see
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a goat commit suicide. All the sacrifices that have been
offered up to God in the past did not come
up their own accord. That were drug to the slough.
They were grabbed and tied by the hands. They were
nailed down, and they were squirming, and they died blading
and bleeding.
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And it's an ugly.
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Business, because freedom is always an ugly business. The truth
of the matter is Christianity is not pretty. Anything that
represents itself through the icon of a cross a place
of execution. It was execution to the Romans, non crucifixion.
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To be nailed to a bloody cross, striped neked in
front of everybody. You've been teaching for three years is
a little troubling. I'm glad my pants are held up.
I pulled my belt real tight before I came out
here because of all the things I have to worry
about in my life, I do not want to have
to worry about my pants falling down. And what thank
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you of me in that condition? I love these pants.
They cover my shit, they cover my body, and this
shirt it paints body and you really don't get to
see me, but you see what I'm wearing. But the
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problem is God doesn't like fig leaves, and he doesn't
like to be covered. He wants to be brought open.
And we have this thing about us. Now we get saved,
our instantly born again, born of the spirit. When we
accept Christ as our savior, we're instantly born again changed.
Right then we have an amazing experience with God that
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changes a lot of habits and stuff about us that
needs to be changed, and maybe stopped us from committing
suicide and hurting ourselves. It's great stuff. But then we
have to go home and live it out. We have
to in our living room with bills and stuff and
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laid off a job and broken in our heart and
living with somebody who gets.
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On our nurves.
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And try to act like they don't get on our nerves,
but they're getting on our neirs. And we have to
have personality, and it's hard to have personality when you
have idiosyncrasies. I wish we came with warning labels. I
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would love for God to put warning labels on our forehead. Hello,
my name is Mary. I'm crazy as a drunk bed bug.
Don't buy the fact that I'm cute and that I
got nice eyes, because my eyes roll up in my
head and I turn into the cooking monster. I am
scared of people, and I don't like to be in crowds.
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I don't like to talk to when and accept when
I want to talk, and I'll tell you when I
want to talk. And then when I talk, I want
to talk about stuff that doesn't make any difference. And
I want you to listen and think it's important and
respond the way I like to have you respond, because
if you don't respond the way I like you to respond,
it's going to be hell up in this house. It's
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gonna be absolute war up in this house. It's going
to be trouble up in this house. Because it's not Sunday.
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday, and you make me sick. That's
where Christ wants to go into our personality and figuring
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out how to get down past all the other stuff.
He says, present your body a living sacrifice. And how
do I tie myself?
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How do.
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How do I tie myself down? A little sacrifice? And
the truth of the matter is there are hundreds of
people in this room in one way or other who
is trying desperately to tie up themselves. But how can
I tie this hand and then have another hand loose
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to tie this hand? And don't get me started talking
about these feet I got. This is not gonna be easy.
I beseech you there for brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your body a living sacrifice, holy unacceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed.
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Don't you be conformed to the world and go the
way that they're going to stop scrolling them in it.
Don't be conformed to the world and the way it's
if you stop here, stop all year. AYI don't be
conformed to world and the way the world is going
and bragging about how many gigabytes and how much power
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and how much this and how their algorithms were. Don't
be conformed to the news and the media and the
people and the personalities and the politics. Don't be conformed.
Don't be conformed to this world. Don't mean we do
the very thing he said not to do. We are
conformed to this world. To this world. Have you ever
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I turned off the news sometimes just because I'm tired
of hearing bad stuff against me. Nightmares makes me scared
to sleep at night. I hear about all that stuff.
I pray about it, but I got to learn how
to release it, because I am not designed to carry
that much pain on the inside. We popular Contrary to
popular belief, we were not created with apple phones in
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our pocket. God did not mean for millions of people
to walk around in your pocket about what's wrong with
their life and what they don't like about you, and
how you should fix your hair and you would look
better if you were blonde. God did not design us
to be inundated with other people's opinion to the point
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we care to hear what's going on because so much
noise is coming from the outside that we cannot find
the peaceful place to work on who we really are
to become what he created us to be no wonder.
He's looking for us, no wonder. The eyes of the
Lord go to and fro throughout the earth to show
himself strong, trying to find somebody that he can use.
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No wonder.
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God is searching in the cool of the morning, looking
for Adam in the garden, and he can't find him
because when he created him, he created him to look
like God. He created him to be his mirror. He
created him to be his reflection. He created it so
he could see what he looked like. He created himself
so there would be unity between heaven and earth, between
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holy and holy, between divine and divine, between spotless and spotless.
He created him without a sin. He created him without
a lustful thought or a hateful idea, or a person
he wanted to choke till late turn blue. He did
not create him like that. He created him to be
a reflection of his love and his compassion and his grace,
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and for him to literally reflect the personality of God
in the earth.
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And that's what he wants.
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For you.
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To really reflect the personality of God in earth. And
that's why Hell hates you.
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That's why Hell attacks you early in your life to
make sure that your personality is not the personality of God.
He knows what God wants to do in your life,
and he has to.
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Start the the plot early.
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See, it hasn't hit you yet that you're a world changer,
that you're a giant killer, that you're a mountain mover,
that you were meant to walk on water, that you
are ahead and not the tail above and not.
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Beneath an overcomer.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It hasn't hit you yet that you can command oceans
and mountains and seas and waves. It hadn't hit you
yet that you can stop the sun in the middle
of there and say be still while I fight. It
hadn't hit you yet that the power of life and
death is in your tongue, and that whatsoever you say,
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you can have it. He wants to catch you early
where you are fragile and frail and not sure of
yourself and not stabilized in your formative years, when your
brain is still pliable and falling and able to be
shaped like clay in the hand of whoever touched him.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Who touched me.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Wasn't always God who touched me. Wasn't always God who
made me the mad, angry woman I am was not God,
who made me the distant aloof cold man. I am
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was not God. God is not the problem. God is cool.
I'm down for God. I'm down for Jesus. It's all
the people who touched me before he did. It is
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not my destiny that I'm worried about. It is the
contamination of my history. And to be transformed. To be
transformed is to take away the effects of my history.
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So I come to church to hear about my destiny.
And my destiny sounds so wonderful, and he's good, and
he's wonderful, and he's good all the time, and everything's wonderful,
and bless the name of the Lord, and come into
his house with thanksgiving. It's wonderful. And they tell me
about my destiny. I'm a mountain mover, I'm an overcomer.
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I've got the power of God in me. To tell
me about my destiny. They tell me that my mouth
can speak and things can change. They tell me about
my destiny. But when I leave the parking lot and
drives smack dab into my history right, and my history contaminates.
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My history contaminates me. My destiny that kool aid changes
water like wine changes when fermented it my destiny. My
whole stuff comes creeping up into my new stuff, and
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I wrestle with my whole stuff and my new stuff,
and they are posed one to the other. And when
I would do good evil as present that which I
would do, I do not old wretched man that I am,
who should deliver me from the body of the dead.
I'm a great digon that, I'm a wretched man. I'm
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a great believer. But you'd have to marry me to
find out. I'm a broken man. See when you dated him,
he was perfect, and you dated her. She told you
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if you needed anything, she'd take care of you at
three o'clock in the morning, and everything was wonderful. And
you married their representative, and you said you walked up
there like a dummy and said, I do to somebody
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you haven't met yet. And before you know you've done it.
You've done it. You do what you've done until you've
done what you do, and you did it, and you've
done what you did. When you do what you're done,
when somebody you don't even know. For the first three years,
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little by little you peel the onion down and get
past the superficial and find out their quirkiness, their craziness,
their procrastination, they're indifference, they're missing dad syndrome, their critical
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mother syndrome. And quote all the scriptures you will. You
cannot get that out of their person now. Their personality.
Personality is not spiritual reality. I didn't marry your spirit.
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Your spirit is holy and perfect and complete before God.
I didn't marry your spirit. I married you your personality.
And now I am trying to be trying to figure
out what's going on? You know?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Can I take them innute?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
D I took my son to Spain cause he came
at a time that I had to go overseas anyway,
and I took my son's strain, and I was so
glad to take him places that my father only read
about him books and g had never been in themselves.
I took him to Spain. It was amazing. We had
a great time in Spain. I had never taken him
to Spain before. And then they told me we were
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close to the Rock of Gibraltar. Now, I will be honest,
I didn't exactly know what the Rock of Gibraltar was.
I had heard of it, I read about it in school.
I passed the test but I didn't go to bed
every night thinking about the Rock of Gibraltar. It was
not my life's dream to see the Rock of Gibraltar.
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I was born in West Virginia, in the mountains. I
have seen enough rocks and mountains and hills, had violence
and shoveled enough snow that I didn't go all the
way to Spain to see a rock. If I'm going
to Spain, let me go to the museums, and let
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me go to Barcelona, and let me go to Madrid,
and let me go down on the cobblestone streets of
a city that is thousands of years old. And now
they're telling me to go to the Rock of Gibraltar.
And there I am going to the Rock of Gibraltar,
fourteen hundred feet in the air. And it's not a
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straight path. It's around winding roads and grinding here and
there and everywhere. And I went there to the Rock
of Gibraltar with my son, and because I'm his dad,
like I know what I'm doing. Neither one of us
know where we're going or what we're doing, or how
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to get there, or whether it matters. And our hole
I know is that the air gets thinned when you
get high in the air and fourteen hundred feet in
the air and you fat, you skinny. People don't laugh
if you don't understand what I'm talking about. You have
to weigh over two hundred pounds to understand what fourteen
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hundred feet in the air does to your nostrils. It
shrinks him down into baby nostrils, and you get you
the baby nostrils down on the ENDSI and I'm trying
to breathe and act like I'm okay. And I'm starting
to see colors in front of my hair. I'm seeing
colors and more colors that are in a rainbow. I'm
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seeing them everywhere. But I'm taking my son to the
Rock of Gibraltar. Do you know how much history was
at the Rock of Gibraltar?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I didn't. Did you know?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
I didn't. I didn't know at all. I didn't know.
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. You
know how we are in America. The world ends and
begins between New York and la We don't know about
no place else, And not our Congress, not our legislator,
not our people passing law. Most of them don't even
have a passport. We made decisions about countries we have
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never been to, and we feel sorry and we send
our thoughts and prayers when they die, but we don't
really think they're real people like us. They are their
caricatures on our TV screens and in our pockets and
in our apps. And then we get on our app
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and let's see, we scroll through them, and we look
at them. We pray for them sometimes, sometimes we pray
for them. Sometimes we just keep scrolling because it's happening
so much. It's happening everywhere. Everybody's drowning or burning or
dying or being bombed or being newt and going through
all kinds of trouble. And while they're going through all
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that trouble is not like you not having your own trouble.
You're having your own trouble. Your daughter just cuts you
out and slamming the door and says she didn't want
to ever see you again in life. And you were
the worst mother in the world. And you got to
deal with that. You can't be put not fires and
waters and planes and stop planes from crashing and deal
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with all You weren't made to deal with all of that,
because by then you have developed your own brand of crazy,
not craft mannaise, no, nothing like that. It hadn't been
branded by anybody else. You have your own brand of crazy,
your own devil. To fight the stuff you're afraid of,
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the stuff you have to deal with, the stuff you
have to suppress, is enough to keep you up all night.
It takes all of my energy to get Thomas not
to say what he wants to say, because he has
got a mouth on him that Grandma's soap will not
wash off. And it takes all I can do. If
you catch me in traffic and you haunt me the
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wrong way, it takes everything I got to say. God
loves you, Yes he does, he loves you, Yes, yes, Yes,
I'll meet you on the other side in heaven, and
I won't cut you when we get there. It's all
I can do to get him to shut his mouth
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because he reacts, and because he has built up a
system of hiding himself and handling himself and dealing with hisself.
And it may not be the right system, and it
may not work, and it may not have anything to
do with Church. But I have developed a pathology that
enables me to live with me, and I can't figure
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out why you can't develop a pathology to live with
me because I've worked on this for thirty years and
I figured out how.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
To like me.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
And now that I have finally figured out how to
like me, you act like you don't understand me, like
I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I'm not crazy. I have feeling. I have feeling about
going through it up.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
I'm going through everything off by myself, and I don't know.
And I carried my son to the Rock of Gibraltar
and found out that's where all the fighting was since
the early fifteen hundreds, Nation after nations had fought in
that place. The Moores have fought in that place and
on that place and hallowed out the inside of the mountain.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
It's hollow.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
You can go in there, and you can go up
the ramp, and there are all kinds of cannons there,
and you can shoot out of the Rock of Gibraltar.
You can shoot at people and they can't hit you
back easy. And so nation the nation fought to have
control of that space. And since I was in Spain,
I thought I would go to the Rock of Gibraltar.
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And I got to the Rock of Gibraltar and I
brought my franks there so that I could buy something
while I was there, because I'm gonna buy something there
and buy something. Part of my ministry is to buy something.
I am called to buy something. I am annoying to
buy something. I don't care what it is. I'm going
to buy something. I was born in West Virginia, a
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little black boy with ashenees in West Virginia, with basoline
for lotion on his kneecaps. And if I go all
the way to Spain, I'm going to buy something. I'm
going to buy something. And I drive in there to
buy something, and I'm getting ready to go into the
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air where the Rock of Gibraltar was, And you know what,
I had to show my passport to get in and
pay a fee to get where they wanted me to
go and do all of that. And they told me
that they didn't take Franks. And I'm in Spain, and
what do you mean that what was valuable over here
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is not valuable over there? That this one patch of
ground that you call the Rock of Gibraltar is controlled
by the Euros being kingdom. And they used and I
didn't bring no bounds. They didn't tell me that you
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could have one little patch of ground out of all
over country that belonged to somebody else. They didn't tell
me that they fought for it, and died for it,
and bled for it to control it. Because it is
a sight where you can see nations. You can stand
on one nation and see the other nation. You can
see the northern tip of Africa, you can see Morocco.
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You can see all kinds of stuff from that point.
It's a high place.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Why.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
That's why in the Bible and the Old Testament you
always hear that God wants to move your hot places
because of high places. And the high places are the
places of strategic advantage. It is hard to kiss your
enemy if your enemy is over you. That's why they
never put your brain in your foot. Because I can
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drag my foot, even as old as as I am.
I can get my foot up close enough that I
can work on it if I have to. Don't tell
my wife because like I'm crippled, so should take care
of it from me. But I can actually, if I
need to, I can do that. But God did not
put my brain in my foot. He put it in
my head. Because I got a deal with the high places.
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That's where I shoot from. That's where my cannons go
off from That's where my cannons go off, whether they're
pointed out or in. Can I deep? Can I go
deeper that my cannons go off? That's what That's what
you get out till.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
You marry me.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
You married your girlfriend, you went home with your wife,
You married your boyfriend, and you go home with your husband.
You married the person who showered and got ready and
got dressed and put on cologne, extra cologne. In fact,
I couldn't breathe, and you put up from us clock
and you came out and you were ready for me.
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And it was occasionally. I didn't know I was gonna
have to wake up to you every day with bad
breadth and hair all over your head and find out
that you leave your drawers in the middle of the floor,
and that you don't keep it up to yourself, and
you use the bathroom and don't wash your hands. And
now I got to deal with all of that. And
I didn't know that was possible.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Okay? Did I go too far? Okay?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I'm right on the edge. I'm right on here, and
I'm stay on the edge. I'm stay on their edge.
I'm gonna stay on the edge, because the Bible just
told me that I have to deal with things from
the rock at Gibraltar. I need a post that I
can shoot out. I need an area that protects me,
and the area that I build to protect me also
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incarceraates me. And now I am protected, but I am
also isolated, and you can't hurt me. Say whatever you
want to say, row your eyes, texting about me right now,
tweet if me, if you want to take a picture
and put it on Facebook right now. Because I have
developed a system, you will not getting me. I ain't
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thinking about you. I don't even know you. You can be
sleeping up under the bridge somewhere. I don't care whether
you like my hair or not. I'm not gonna give
you that much power over me. I have developed a
system to handle all of that, even if it's cutting off.
Do you know my wife has two phones and don't
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answer neither one of them. Honest to God, I'm telling
the truth. I do not understand why she needs two phones.
She got two different phone numbers, two different phones all together,
and she never can find either one of them. Sometimes
she's looking at it while it's ringing, and it does
not bother her. That the phone is ringing. She walks
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past the phone ringing and keeps on singing what she's singing,
And she's refusing to let that mas many people get
in her life and get in her head, and get
in her mind and get into her spirit. She has
to be transformed by the renewing of her mind. And
sometimes we build up ways to be transformed by the
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renewing of our mind. I've been studying this for a week.
Our brain is designed to deliver enzymes and hormones that
secrete fluids in us that helps with us steal with
what's on our mind. And we got a lot on
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our mind. And I've been reading a book, an old
book written by an old author or doctors, who said,
the body keeps score. You read it, the body keeps score.
So everything I didn't say, and everything I held in,
and everything I suppressed, and everything I wouldn't get out,
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the body kept score. The body kept scoring. And so
I survived. Heroes, I survived, heroes, I survived. I survived.
But just because I survived doesn't mean I succeeded. Can
I teach this? And now the Bible has said to
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me that I can be transformed by the renewing of
my mind. Oh no, wait, wait a minute, i'mosad to
the rock and Gibraltar. I got a finish say that
I was at the rocky Gibraltar. And I went all
the way through the rocky Gibraltars and went on the
house side of Rock of Gibraltar, and my son is
with me, and I got to the top of the
rock and there's all of these monkeys. Yeah, I gotta
tell you about the monkeys. And all these monkeys are there.
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There were monkeys up. There were monkeys on my car.
There were monkeys on the window. There were monkeys on
the back window. And they were talking about how cute
the monkeys were. And the monkeys was leaving little white
spots on everything. And they weren't quite execute as I
thought they were. They were all everything, but it was
so so nice, It was so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
You felt so likely you were in another country.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Always monkeys, and I had the monkeys everywhere, and the
monkeys were everywhere, and the monkeys were everywhere, and I
started noticing they were something weird about these monkeys.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
And see, I.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
Watched too much TV. I watched these movies where the
monkeys start talking to each other. You ever watched the monkeys?
Where do the monkeys start driving cars? And the monkeys
started mediating with each other, and they start calling one another,
and they come through the trees and everything. And I
know that there was a whole lot of gathering around
my car, a whole lot of them around my car.
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I had fought one of two of them, but it
was a whole lot of them around my car. And
they were all around my car. And it was all
of these monkeys. And you know what was weird about them.
They didn't have no tails. They didn't have no tails.
And my gud told me when the monkeys first came
to the Rock and Gibraltar, they were born with tails.
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Monkey tales, you know monkey tales. They have monkey tales.
But the tail is so small, just a little bit
of gristle and meat. The tail is so small. And
the winter changes in Gibraltar, and it gets cold in Gibraltar,
and in the winter, you know what happened, don't stop me.
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You know what happened. They froze their tail off. They
actually froze their tail off. And you know what else.
The next time, the next generation, when they had babies,
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they had tails too, and they froze their tail off.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
You're gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Out here and tell everybody I appreciate about monkey tales,
aren't you? Don't you tell her about I said that
about freezing their tails off? Don't you do that that?
That doesn't sound real preachery, So don't do that. They
might take it out of context and put it on Instagram.
Lord at Mercy, I forgot. It's gonna probably be on
Instagram now, and that's gonna be one more thing I'm
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gonna have to scroll past and ignore them because they're
all in on that that that they froze their tails off.
And you know what, by the third generation, they were
born without tails. Wow, they stop being born with tails
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so they wouldn't freeze them off. And suddenly I understood
something I never understood why Jesus said, if your hand offends, you.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Cut it off.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
Because I'm a literalist. When you tell me something, I
take you seriously. So if you tell me to jump
on him, I'm gonna jump on him. We figure out
what happen later. I'm jumping. I'm gonna jump right now.
I'm gonna jump That first time I went to Africa,
the big crowd of people, and they were so excited
and they were praying, and they all wanted delivering. I
just dived, you know, like they're doing it. I just
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dived out in the crowd. They almost killed me. They
almost killed me. They took my ring, they was pulling
on my clothes. They take prayers so seriously, they take prayers,
soul seriously, they take prayer so seriously. My son and
I on the top of the rockets Gibraltar, and the
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monkeys have stopped growing what they didn't need. What are
you growing? Yeah, that you don't need. What are you
growing from? Where you used to live? And you don't
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live there anymore, But you still got your tail as
if you were someplace else. And now God has called
you to the mountains and you're in a better place
and you're a better person, and you're higher than you've
ever been, and you got the opportunity of a lifetime,
and you still got your tail. And that's what I
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learned in did rocors bro To and somedenly I understood
what Christ meant, cut your hand off. If your hand
to fens, you cut it off. He mean, if there's
anything you know about you that's messing you up. Fix it,
Just change your mind, right it?
Speaker 2 (56:41):
Just fix it. Just fix it.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
Don't just dance and skip and jump and hoop and
hollar and make all kind of noise and go home
and make excuses for yourself and give yourself a license
to be dysfunctional. Just fix it. If it's you don't
know how to apologize and you don't know how to
say I'm sorry, or you don't know how to work
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with somebody who didn't say I'm sorry to you, or
if it's that you doubt your own masculinity and you
don't trust your own femininity, and now you don't even
know what either one of them is because I'm so confused.
I don't know a duck from a pigeon, I don't
know anything, and you're trying to figure out all of that,
whatever it is that you are dealing with. Just fix it.
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Easier said than done, real hard work. Let's just praise
so lord. Let's just dance and leave the inside unfixed.
Let's not take on the big fight of change. Do
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you know when the prodigal Sun was in the mud.
He was in the mud. Yeah, I got even, okay,
I got it. He was in the mud and everything
in cover with mud and everything. And he didn't have
anything to eat except for what the swine did eat.
And he was sitting in the hall pen and he
came to himself. That's a weird scripture. He came to himself.
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He came to himself. Came means a journey, means a distance,
means that travel. It means it took me some time
to come to myself. He came to himself. That is
the baddest scripture.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
I dare you.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
I can preach on that all night. He came to himself.
Speaker 4 (58:39):
Not he came to Georgia, he came to Memphis, he
came to California. No, he came to himself. It takes
you a long time to come to yourself. And you
can lose a lot of people while you come to yourself.
And you can damage a lot of people while you
come to yourself, and you can lose opportunity after opportunity
that God has for you. Because you won't come to yourself.
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You will not confront yourself, You will not be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. You will not let
somebody borrow your body. A new personality come inside of
your body and walk around in your clothes, in in
your shoes. The nicer you, the better you, the stronger you,
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the more intense you, the more loving you, the more
communicative you, the more kind you wants to take over
your body until a new personality lives in your body
and you have joy on more than Sunday, more than Sunday.
You can have joy on more than Sunday, more than Sunday.
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You can have joy. You can have Joey unspeakable, full
of truth and glory. You can have joy when you
go home. You have joy in your car. You can
have joy in your house and in your life and
in your spirit. You can have joy in a trailer.
You can have joy in a park. You can have
Joe anywhere. You can have joy in your spirit right now,
right now, right now. You can decide in your mind
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right now, I am through being who I was. I'm
tired of that. I don't like her. I don't like him.
He's messing me up. He's canceling out my chances. He's
killing my future, he's destroying my career. He's tearing up
my marriage, he's turning up my relationship. And I am
going to get rid of him. I'm going to be
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transformed by the renewing of my mind.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
My mind, my.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Mind is my rock of Gibraltar. My mind is my
rock of Gibraltar. That's where I shoot from. That's where
I preach from. That's where I fight from. That's where
I teach from. Out of my head. Out of my head.
I gotta get it right in my head. That's where
the war is between the devil and God.
Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Is in my head.
Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
It's in my mind, it's in my thoughts, it's in
my thinking, it's in my ways. And I I don't
care if I win the battle at work, and win
the battle with the car and fix the pipes in
the freeze and do all of that, and cut the
crass and trim the hedges to their stree, if I
don't fix the hell that's in my head, I will
never be free and I will never behold man. I
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will never be what God wants me to be. And
I want to be free. I want to be free.
I want to be free in my mind. I want
to be free in my spirit. I want to be free.
I want to be free. I want to be free.
I don't want to die and haven't been free. I
want to be free. I want to be free so
much that I sing in the shower. I want to
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be so free that I can sing on the back porch.
I want to be so free that I get on
my neighbour's nerves because I sing out of tune. I
want to be so free that I have peace and
power on the inside. And I can't understand why I
can't let go of my tail. If I let go
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on my tail, if I am willing to off that
hand because it offends me, if I am willing to
cut out that tongue because it offends me, offends me,
only means that's the only thing standing in between you
and what God wants to give you. If you cut
that one thing off, that one thing, do you hear
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me this morning? That one thing, If you cut that
one thing off, if you stop being so insistent that
you gotta be who you you used to be. If
you cut that one thing off, you shall eat of
the fat of the land. God will put you in
goodly houses. He will open doors for you. He will
make ways for you. He will strengthen you, he will
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bless you. He will overshadow you, he will overcome you.
He will make you smarter. He'll make you brighter. He'll
make you a better mother, a better father, a better friend,
a better person. If you'll cut off that one thing,
If you'll cut off that one thing, why are you
loyal to something you don't need anymore? It's freezing you.
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You're freezing your tail off. You're freezing your career, You're
freezing your marriage, You're freezing your home life. You're freezing
your ministry. You're freezing the best part of your ministry.
The best part of your ministry is in your tears
and in your brokenness and in your fears, and you
just keeping it real and just being to who you are.
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The best part of you as a wife is that broken,
crazy you secrecies that you have. If that's what's cute
about you, If you just freeze it all, if you
just freeze off the thing that's stopping you from being
all you can be, you could change your life and
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. So
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the prodigal son is in the hat pin and he
has no money, and he has nothing to eat, and
he's spent all his father's stuff in riots he's living,
and all the prostitutes have left him, and all the
friends have left him, and he's in the hall pen,
and you can tell you're in the hat pin with
something that don't even to appeal to you, suddenly starts
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to appeal to you. And all of a sudden he
wants to eat what the swine did eat. He's a
jew boy. He doesn't even eat eat swine, much less
what the swine did he eat. And with flies all
around his hair, and that's in his face and slump
on his clothes, something happened to him right there, not
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in the sanctuary, not in the church, not in the choir,
not in the praise him, not in the balcony, not
sitting in the bank, not sitting up front, not leaving
up down in there, he was in the hog pen.
And he came to himself. And when he came to himself,
he said, I'm gonna cut my tail off. Being stubborn.
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He's killing me, is killing my opportunity. I will arise
and go to my father's house. I'll swallow my pride
and go to my father's house and say I am
no more worthy to be thy son. Make me as
one of your heart servants. And he practiced, this is
what he was going to say. All the way home.
He hadn't even gotten to his father yet. He was
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just practicing what he was going to say. And while
he was practicing it and getting in his head what
he was going to say, while he was yet a
great ways off, his father looked down the road and
saw him coming. And the Bible says, the old man
ran out to meet him. I'm sixty eight years old.
Let me tell you something. It takes something to make
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me run. Now, at twenty eight, I would run over anything.
But if you see me running at sixty eight, you
better run too, because some chasing me. The father ran.
The father ran to meet him. He ran to meet him,
and he was wrong, because he was practicing for a
father he had in his mind who would accuse him.
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He wasn't practicing for the father that would run out
to meet him and cover him up and put him
in a good place and set a party together and
killed the fatid calf and open up the door.
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He didn't even know that he.
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Had that kind of father, because all those years he
had kept his tail, and his tail had stopped him
from seeing who his father really was. But while he
was still funky and smelly and NAT's all around. The
Father wrapped a robe around him and sent the servants
out to get ready for him, and put a ring
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on his finger, and brought him in all of a sudden.
The only thing he changed. He didn't change his hair,
he didn't change his clothes. He didn't change his car.
He didn't change his goat, he didn't change his lamb.
He didn't change his speech, he didn't change how he looked.
He didn't change anything else. The only thing he.
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Changed was he changed his mind.
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And when he changed his mind, he experienced the Father
in a way that he never experienced the Father before.
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I want you to stand up on.
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Your feet, and y'all want you to make up in
your mind. I got some changing to do. I'm going
to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. I'm
going to be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
I got one more thing to say to you, and
how to be finished. I have heard the scripture all
my life. I can do all things through Christ, which
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strengthens me, and people always use it when they come
up against a task or an obstacle. I can do
all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Greater is in
me that he is in the world. I can do
all things through Christ, which strengthens me. And it sounds
so good, and it sounds so wonderful, and we use
it all the time, except we use it out of context.
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When God said, when Paul said, I can do all
things through Christ, and Philippians, who strengthens me, he said
it after saying this, I have learned how to be abased,
and I have learned how to be abound. I have
learned both how to be and warn. And I have
learned how to have plenty. That means you don't come
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here knowing how to fix your mind. You have to
learn how to do this. To learn how to do this,
I don't know. There's a hundred people I'm speaking to
in here. If I'm talking to you, make some noise
in this play. Come on, make some noise in this play.
This is what I'm gonna learn this Sunday morning. This
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is what I'm gonna learn this Sunday morning. I'm gonna
learn to change my mind. I'm gonna learn not to
say everything. I'm gonna learn till I get a new habit.
I'm going to freeze my tail off I'm gonna enter
into a new dimension and become a new person. I'm
gonna shock my kids or not, I'm gonna even know
who I am. Because I refuse to live and die
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and never lose my tail, and never lose my hand,
and never lose my temper and never lose my mouth
and cry because I drove people off. I refuse not
to change. The only thing that needs to change is
not your shoes. It's not your jeans, it's not your shirt,
it's your I need one hundred people in this room
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that would change their mind. Come on, that would change
their mind. Come on, that would change their mind, that
would change their mind. There's something on the other side
of that change that only God can give you.
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It will if you.
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Change your mind, God will open up the windows of
heaven and pull you out of blessing that you don't
have room enough to receive. For the next sixty seconds,
I want you to praise God till you feel a
change coming, till you feel a change in your spirit,
till you feel a change in your attitude, till you
stop be littling yourself, till you stop talking down to yourself,
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till you forgive your father until you let go of
your mother, until you let go of your pain. I
want you to that thing off that's been stopping you
from being who you could be. I can't hear you.
I can't hear you. I want you to cut it off.
I want you to cut it off. I want you
to get rid of it. I want you to shut
it down. I want you to stop it. I want
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you to wear it out. I want you to move
it out of your way.
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I want you to. You gotta hear it.
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You gotta hear it, because this is your Sunday. This
is your Sunday. This is your Sunday for change. This
is what you've been praying about, this is what you've
been asking for, this is what you've been talking to
God about. He sent me here to answer your question.
You can have a better life. You can have peace,
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you can to have joy. It's up for you. No
devil can take it, no deepon can take it, no
witch can take it, no warlock can take it. It's
yours if you want it. It's yours if you want it.
And you think you've been praising God, if you praise
God with a new mind, the spirit of God, and
come in the balcony. It'll come in the front row.
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It'll meet you in the aisle. It'll be waiting on
you in the car. It'll heal your body. It'll change
your blood pressure, it'll change your temperature.
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Open your mouth. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
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I can't hear The devil is the thread. The devil
is the thread. The devil is a fread. The devil
is a fread. If you would really do it, if
you let go on your church self and get down
to your real self and let God do it, amazing
things but happen, if you would just do it, If
you would just do it, and now wait on nobody
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to forgive you, and now wait on anybody to come back,
and I wait on anybody to say I'm sorry. If
you would just let it go, you could stop medicating yourself,
stop treating yourself, stop making excuses for yourself. If you
let it go, God will do something amazing. He'll do
amazing things. He'll do a miracle in the middle of
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that hour. The Holy Ghost will do a miracle. He'll
do a miracle for you. Right now, with your hands
up in the air. The spirit of the Living God
will I'm gonna shudder you right now, right where you
are standing, right there. The annointing will do a change
in your life. I will break him and curse over
your house, over your children, over your financer, over your body.
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Great fare.
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If you'll open your mouth to God, gona fix that
thing once set for you. All your deadic can't stop it,
your granddaddy can't stop it. Your great granddaddy can't stop it.
You've got the power right now in your mind. Nobody
can stop you. If you change your mind, demons will
run from you. They'll run from you, they'll run off
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of your few, they'll get off of your room. If
you change your mind, God will do amazing things in
your life. And for come on, I got to go.
I got to go. But somebody in this room is
gonna change their mind. They're gonna they're gonna cut off
some stuff. Let me hear you open your mouth and
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give glory to God. Let me hear you get glory
to God. Let me hear you dear glory to God.
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Let me hear you get.
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Flurry of God. Give glory to God, Give glory to Him.
Give glory all the way in the balcony, all the
way on the top.
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Roll.
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Let give that's right, give it glory. God's get ready
to fix something in you. Your body's getting to heal,
your mind's getting to heal, your spirits getting to heal.
Your circumstances are getting to heal. Then the change coming,
A new you is coming. God's gonna throw you a party.
He's gonna throw you a bath. He's gonna kill your
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fatic cab if you praise.
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It, he will kill your betty can.
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I wish y'all had some real praisers. I need a
hunting craiser. I need a hunting praiser, just a hunt
the praiser.
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I could make it with done and nine.
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If I get ninety nine praises in this room, God's
gonna do something in your billy. Out of your billy,
shall call the lirids of living water. Rivers are coming
out of you, Rivers are coming out of your spirit.
Rivers are coming out of your life. Open your mouth
and praise your God at break that curse.
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Break that curse. Break that curse right now.
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Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of
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bless you.
Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
it builds your faith.
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Hope it gives your.
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Perspective to see God is moving in your life.
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Enjoy the message.
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Raise the Lord, everybody.
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It's so good to see you. Holly come up for
a moment. Holly wants to tell you how much she
miss you. I missed you all so much.
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It is so good to be in the House of
the Lord worshiping with you this morning.
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Sound amazing, you look good. Thank you. The real reason
I had you come up is suck could catch my
breath from the jumping. Are you out of shape?
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You're not out of shape.
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You've been exercise.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have more of an anaerobic strength, more like bench preston.
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You've been exercising and drinking your powders and stuff.
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But no cardio. Everybody, give the Lord a praise today.
If you're glad that he woke you up. I'll tell
you what. Let us never take for granted the privilege
that it is to meet together like this. Just want
to remind you that there's somebody that would love to
be standing where you're standing today. And if you have
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to strength to stand there, and if you have to
strengthen the breath to praise God, you ought to do it.
Give him a great shout right now. I want to
welcome our entire EPHAM around the world. I want to
welcome every location. This is going to be an amazing,
amazing second half of the summer. We've got Love Week
coming up the last week of July.
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We're going to serve our communities.
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We've got youth X still hanging over in the room.
I feel it, man, But wasn't it amazing? Turn me
up in the monitors little bit. Wasn't it amazing? Wasn't
it incredible? Didn't God move kids getting saved, set free, delivered, healed,
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called up higher. Thank you for your ministry to the
next generation. Thank you for our ministry that's going forth
with our pop ups all summer long. Chad, We've got
another pop up coming to Charleston, South Carolina. I think
next week it's going to be two weeks. It's going
to be a very busy summer. I planned to preach
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my first sermon this week because we've had amazing guest preachers,
haven't We had some amazing guests and some of our
in house preachers. And I thought, well, I'll preach to
the youth Wednesday night, which I did, and then I'll
come back and preach. But something happened. I kind of wanted, well,
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what I thought would be cool is can I just
come to church and here a guest preacher? But I
didn't have one lined up. And I was thinking about
that and praying about that. And Saturday, as I was
thinking and praying about that, last Saturday, that is, I
got a text and the text was from Bishop td Jakes.
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Now, so this guy said.
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To me the other day, he said, are you back
in the pulpit preaching this week? I said'm back in
the pulpit, but I'm not preaching. He looked disappointed. That
made me feel good. You always want people to be
a little disappointed when you say you're not coming back.
But then I said, but would you be interested if
I told you that Bishop td Jakes is going to
preach for me instead?
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So here's what happened. Yeah, we all would.
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I think you all know that he is not only
my preaching hero, but he has been one of the
closest friends that I could ask for. How many times
have I frantically sent him a text message on Saturday
night to ask him if my theology was incorrect on
a sermon I was about to preach to you, or
did he have a better title for it or could
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he just come preach it for me? Well, last Saturday
he said, I'm gonna be in Charlotte if you want
to have dinner Sunday night. And I said, Sunday night,
So what are you doing Sunday morning? I started doing
the math. I figured he might be open, and I said,
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would you be willing to come.
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And preach to our people?
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I would love for them to hear from you as
we celebrate this twentieth year of ministry. There's no voice
we'd rather hear than yours. And here's what's cool, before
he comes, Before he comes and just absolutely blesses us
like only he can. Yeah, don't skip Sunday's at Elevation Church.
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You never know what God will do for you. That's
the moral of the story. You better log on, you know.
Just last Sunday, Bishop Jakes, after over thirty years of
pastoring the Potter's House in Dallas, transitioned the church to
the leadership of his daughter and his son in law,
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Pastor Teray and Sarah Roberts. So I told him this
is his first Sunday as a free agent, and I
wanted to take the moment right now on video to
officially extend the offer that Bishop Jakes, we know you're
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still going to be very busy changing the world and
completely redeveloping economies and feeding entire villages and changing the
trajectory of our nation's political structure, and preaching and teaching
and doing all the things that you do. We know
that you've got so much more to do. But Bishop Jakes,
I know you're back there listening to me. If you're
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looking for a vacation church, a place where you can
come and preach anytime and the people will just absolutely
love to have you, a church where you don't have
to manage the staff or pay the bills, but you
can just come preach.
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We want you to know Elevation.
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Church considers ourself the official vacation church of the greatest
preacher of our time, the one, the only, the incomparable,
Bishop feed Job.
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These are my friends. They're not just my brother and
my sister you don't get to pick your brother and sister.
They're also my friends. And I love you right back.
Aren't you glad you're in here today? Aren't you happy
to be here? How many people are happy to be
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Make some noise? If you're happy to be here, I
want you to do something now that we have praised
the Lord and given him glory and clapped. You know,
I always have to change my clap because you will
clap on the beat, and we clap in between the beat,
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and so if I don't change my beat, we sound
like popcorn. But we have a great time sounding like
fork popcorn because God said, make a joy for noise
unto the Lord, and it can be syncopated, it can
be together, it doesn't matter. He just loves for us
to make noise. Come on, let's just make some noise.
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Yeah yeah, like that? Yeah like that, until the angel
looks get jealous, until the demons start to tremble, until
the person begins to flee. Let everything that have breadth
age me the Lord.
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Yeah, that's what.
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I'm talking about.
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Now that you craped your hands and you praise the
Lord and you sound like popcin. Your hair's all over
your head, You got a little bit of sweat and
breaking out on you. Turn around and hug somebody. Yeah, yeah,
get that anointed sweat on her. Yeah. Let the presence
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of God over shaper them. You may be seeing Pessor
Steven Holly, I love you. I'm grateful to God for
this great church and the wonderful I love you.
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Go back.
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Isn't it wonderful?
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The being here just to sing and be with other
believers and people who love the Lord like you do.
And there's an excitement that's contagious. You know, it's contagious,
like grief or anything. It's contagious. You see somebody crying,
you start crying, even though you don't know the person
that they're crying about. You just start crying because they're crying.
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And then you're crying. Then you say, why am I crying?
You don't know why you're crying, but you're crying because
it's contagious. And when we laugh, we start laughing together.
Sometimes we didn't even see what happened. But if everybody
starts laughing in the room, we start laughing. And so
the joy of the Lord is contagious. The Bible said,
rejoice with them that do rejoice and so it's contagious.
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You can come in here and not even be one
of us, not even be a Christian. But if you're
come in here, it's contagious. You'll find yourself, you know,
you know, So it's good. The problem is we can't
stay here, we can't live here. Like the priests who
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went into the holies of Holies and found the sanctuary
of God, the presence of God of Glory falling in
the middle of the desert, they could only go in
there a day. They had to spend the rest of
the days in the outer court, because that's where.
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The work is done.
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And so what I want to talk to you today
about is where the work is done, not where the
joy is felt or the dance goes forth or the
people do some of y'all was doing the watusi or something.
Y'all make up a dance. I love y'all. Y'all don't
have no dan, just you know, and God loves it.
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God just spends around on the throne because you're just
giving him to go. All of that is good, But
I want to get beyond all of that and beneath
all of that, and I want to peel that back
like it's an onion, and I want to get down
to the part of you that the Holy Spirit wants
to do something in. So tonight today I used to
preaching at night. I said, today, I want to talk
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to you about the power to change your mind. The
power to change your mind. At a time they're trying
to put chips in our heads, and at a time
they're trying to put things into our hands so that
we can go to the grocery store and buy stuff
we don't need. So the hand can be so fat
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it can't read the chip. You'll get it later, don't
worry better. At a time that everybody's getting all in
our refrigerator and Wi Fi controls it stuff that it
doesn't need to. I mean, my iron really doesn't need
Wi Fi. But some kind of way, my iron has
Wi Fi, so that when I'm earning my shirt, somebody
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knows it and it's stored in the cloud. All the
wrinkles are stored in the cloud. At a time like that,
I've got to do the work of understanding what God
wants from me. Go with me quickly to the Book
of Roman, chapter twelve, verse one through twelve. Is very easy.
It's very simple. But I want to share with you today.
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And I wrote it down because I'm old and I
can't remember stuff like I used to. Yeah, I'm a
free man. You know. I loved it. But I'm glad
for my daughter and my son in law who has
grabbed the reins and allowed me to get out and
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see y'all on a Sunday morning.
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Isn't that cool?
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I feel like a giraffe let out of cage or something.
You know. Roman's twelve first one through twelve, and stand
for me for the reading of the world, would you
just for a minute. And I read King James. Not
that it's holy or anything, but I read it because
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it's old like me, okay, And I like old stuff sometimes.
So I like the Eliza Beetham Elizabeefing type language that
makes the scripture sounds so prose and poetic and powerful.
And you can almost hear God's speaking to you by
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the way it talks by him. Therefore, let us offer
the sacrifice of praise the power of it. It just
sounds nice. And nowhere is it anymore blatant than it is.
And this text Romans twelve and one, when the apostle Paul,
who is revered by all the thinkers of his age,
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who speaks in a multiplicity of languages, who is accepted
in the courts of the wisest men of his era,
who has traveled by sea and by land to reach
and to touch various parts of the world with the
influence that he has, who has at one time been
a Christian killer and terror is been a terrorist against
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the Kingdom of God, has had a Damascus Road experienced,
which he has to be willing to forsake some of
the admiration, to be into the will of God. That Paul,
who is of the tribe of Benjamin, that Paul who
is a Pharisee of Pharisees, that Paul who is responsible
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for most of the New Testament. That without the Apostle Paul,
we wouldn't We wouldn't have the fivefold Ministry. We wouldn't
have the nine fruits of the Spirit. We wouldn't have
the nine gifts of the Spirit. We wouldn't have so
many the mystery of Godliness. We wouldn't know that. Behold,
I show you a mystery. We shall all sleep, and
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we shall all be changed. This dude is bad, Okay,
this dude's bag If you take Paul out of the
New Testament, it becomes a comic book. That's how small
it's left. All the other books. I don't know whether
they got tired of writing, or their fingers hurt, or
they didn't afford any ink, but they didn't write nearly
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as much except for He, they didn't write nearly as
much as Apostle. Paul gives us most of our understanding
of what we are supposed to be in this age
and this era, and we get to hear what he
is saying, as he has had an encounter with God
like us, not like Luke or Mark or Matthew, where
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they actually got to walk with Jesus. He has had
an experience with God that has made him no God,
because he has had an experience, and invisible experience, invisible,
invisible that left him blind, and he learned to walk
by faith and not by sight. And he wasn't there
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with any woman with his sher blood touching him of
his garment got here. He didn't get to see Lazar
come out the grave. He didn't get to see all
the good stuff he misses. All he had was a
great light hitting and the light was so strong that
it mesmerized and gave him the ability to change his
life and to be willing to forsake how people think
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about him. It takes courage to be willing to change
the way people think about you and not be bothered
by it, not to seek their approval or their validation,
in order to be able to stand. That's who's talking
to us. And he has come from his lofty clouds
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of intellectualism down to the low places of saying, I
beseech you there for brethren, which means I beg you,
the great Man begs I beg you there, for brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
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reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world. But
be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Be you
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Be Ye transformed.
Don't just take on a form, but be ye transform
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by the renewing of your mind. Don't fake the fun.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Don't
just jump because I'm jumping. Be Ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Have the kind of faith that
lasts past Sunday morning, be ye transformer, by the renewing
of your mind. You mean I can have a new mind.
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You mean I can literally be responsible for changing my mind,
the place that holds my past and my doubts and
my fears and my trauma and my insecurity and my
rejection and my adversity and my self loathing and my
uncertainty about I can change that. You mean it's possible
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that I can lose the imposture syndrome and be as
happy on Monday as I act.
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Like I am on Sunday. You mean it's possible.
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You mean it's possible I can walk through my house
and be singing out of tune, and me and God
can be having a good time, and I can really
be happy and not just be happy for you and
happy around you and happy because you're looking at me.
You mean it's actually possible that I can lay down
and rest at night and feel like the angels have
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ropped me to sleep. You mean it's possible that I
can live without fear and terror and the feeling that
something bad is about to happen at any moment in
my life. You mean it's possible for me not to
hate my nose, or dislike my lips, or hate the
way my eyes are made. You mean it's possible that
I can be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
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Now you're talking about some amazing he says, be Ye,
transform by the renewal of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God. Because you can never prove the value of
Christianity as long as you give me a facade of
jubilants and go home to be a person. Because when
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I see your facade, I cannot connect with you, because
I cannot relate to you. I can only relate to
you when I see you go through hard stuff and
painful stuff, and you get mad and stuff gets on
your nerves and you're afraid of heights and a spider
comes out and you jump on top of the couch.
I can only relate to you when you do Clark
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Kent kind of stuff. I can't relate to your superman
Come on, somebody, your superman self. I want to meet you.
I want to meet you where you're at. I want
to go where you are. Be Ye transformed by the
re your mind. Swee Holy Spirit, come come into this place.
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And do what you want to do. Throw your weight
around and show the devil who's boss. I thank you
because of God, all by yourself, and you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Can do anything but fail.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Take over this building and take over this place, and
rip away all the ugly facades that we put on
the projector and image of you, a form of gunment
that's denying the power thereof and strip us down to
who we really are. For when you called Adam, you
call Adam, where art thou. I don't want your impostor.
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I don't want you who you pretend to be. I
want who you are. Come out here where I can
see you. Stop hiding in between the leaves and the
trees of religion, and come out where we can have
a conversation.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You mean, oh God, do it for us in the
name of Jesus.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
We pray somebody who's got a loud mouth, and you
let your children shout a man at the probably way. Yeah, yeah,
I knew I locked you. I knew I locked you
because what they ain't get on your nerves every now
and then you tell us sit down, and you don't
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quote those scriptures that you don't sing no song, You
tell them just sit down.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
He seated.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Let's go to what everywhere I go, there's travels everywhere
I go. The place where we struggle is not so
much conversion, it's transformation. We have the conversion down, pat
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We know how to lead you to Jesus. We know
how to skip, and we know how to dance, and
we know how to my daughter right. We know how
to do this real good. We know how to have conversion.
But we go home to wrestle with the inability to
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have transformation. And it takes so much energy to have
conversion with out transformation. Now he begs us, by the
mercies of God, that we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
And when our Western when our Western mind, here is
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this Eastern phrase. We don't know what a sacrifice is.
But a sacrifice is not a pretty sight. It's where
an animal stretched east and west and north and south
and tied to the altar and slaved with a knife
to catch some blood in a trough and set on fire.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
He says, I want you to do that to you.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
No wonder he's begging, because I don't know anybody in
here who's running up here trying to take the knife.
I don't know about anybody in here that wants to
be burned. Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, or
black or white, or gray or green, or in between,
or you don't care, it doesn't make any difference. None
of us want to be burned. I don't see anybody saying,
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you know, send me to Hell. Yeah, I go. I
need a son tan anyway, he has asked me to
present my body, which is never done in the Old Testament.
You never see a lamb kill himself. You never see
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a goat commit suicide. All the sacrifices that have been
offered up to God in the past did not come
up their own accord. That were drug to the slough.
They were grabbed and tied by the hands. They were
nailed down, and they were squirming, and they died blading
and bleeding.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And it's an ugly.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Business, because freedom is always an ugly business. The truth
of the matter is Christianity is not pretty. Anything that
represents itself through the icon of a cross a place
of execution. It was execution to the Romans, non crucifixion.
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To be nailed to a bloody cross, striped neked in
front of everybody. You've been teaching for three years is
a little troubling. I'm glad my pants are held up.
I pulled my belt real tight before I came out
here because of all the things I have to worry
about in my life, I do not want to have
to worry about my pants falling down. And what thank
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you of me in that condition? I love these pants.
They cover my shit, they cover my body, and this
shirt it paints body and you really don't get to
see me, but you see what I'm wearing. But the
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problem is God doesn't like fig leaves, and he doesn't
like to be covered. He wants to be brought open.
And we have this thing about us. Now we get saved,
our instantly born again, born of the spirit. When we
accept Christ as our savior, we're instantly born again changed.
Right then we have an amazing experience with God that
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changes a lot of habits and stuff about us that
needs to be changed, and maybe stopped us from committing
suicide and hurting ourselves. It's great stuff. But then we
have to go home and live it out. We have
to in our living room with bills and stuff and
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laid off a job and broken in our heart and
living with somebody who gets.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
On our nurves.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
And try to act like they don't get on our nerves,
but they're getting on our neirs. And we have to
have personality, and it's hard to have personality when you
have idiosyncrasies. I wish we came with warning labels. I
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would love for God to put warning labels on our forehead. Hello,
my name is Mary. I'm crazy as a drunk bed bug.
Don't buy the fact that I'm cute and that I
got nice eyes, because my eyes roll up in my
head and I turn into the cooking monster. I am
scared of people, and I don't like to be in crowds.
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I don't like to talk to when and accept when
I want to talk, and I'll tell you when I
want to talk. And then when I talk, I want
to talk about stuff that doesn't make any difference. And
I want you to listen and think it's important and
respond the way I like to have you respond, because
if you don't respond the way I like you to respond,
it's going to be hell up in this house. It's
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gonna be absolute war up in this house. It's going
to be trouble up in this house. Because it's not Sunday.
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday, and you make me sick. That's
where Christ wants to go into our personality and figuring
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out how to get down past all the other stuff.
He says, present your body a living sacrifice. And how
do I tie myself?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
How do.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
How do I tie myself down? A little sacrifice? And
the truth of the matter is there are hundreds of
people in this room in one way or other who
is trying desperately to tie up themselves. But how can
I tie this hand and then have another hand loose
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to tie this hand? And don't get me started talking
about these feet I got. This is not gonna be easy.
I beseech you there for brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your body a living sacrifice, holy unacceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed.
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Don't you be conformed to the world and go the
way that they're going to stop scrolling them in it.
Don't be conformed to the world and the way it's
if you stop here, stop all year. AYI don't be
conformed to world and the way the world is going
and bragging about how many gigabytes and how much power
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and how much this and how their algorithms were. Don't
be conformed to the news and the media and the
people and the personalities and the politics. Don't be conformed.
Don't be conformed to this world. Don't mean we do
the very thing he said not to do. We are
conformed to this world. To this world. Have you ever
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I turned off the news sometimes just because I'm tired
of hearing bad stuff against me. Nightmares makes me scared
to sleep at night. I hear about all that stuff.
I pray about it, but I got to learn how
to release it, because I am not designed to carry
that much pain on the inside. We popular Contrary to
popular belief, we were not created with apple phones in
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our pocket. God did not mean for millions of people
to walk around in your pocket about what's wrong with
their life and what they don't like about you, and
how you should fix your hair and you would look
better if you were blonde. God did not design us
to be inundated with other people's opinion to the point
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we care to hear what's going on because so much
noise is coming from the outside that we cannot find
the peaceful place to work on who we really are
to become what he created us to be no wonder.
He's looking for us, no wonder. The eyes of the
Lord go to and fro throughout the earth to show
himself strong, trying to find somebody that he can use.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No wonder.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
God is searching in the cool of the morning, looking
for Adam in the garden, and he can't find him
because when he created him, he created him to look
like God. He created him to be his mirror. He
created him to be his reflection. He created it so
he could see what he looked like. He created himself
so there would be unity between heaven and earth, between
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holy and holy, between divine and divine, between spotless and spotless.
He created him without a sin. He created him without
a lustful thought or a hateful idea, or a person
he wanted to choke till late turn blue. He did
not create him like that. He created him to be
a reflection of his love and his compassion and his grace,
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and for him to literally reflect the personality of God
in the earth.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And that's what he wants.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
For you.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
To really reflect the personality of God in earth. And
that's why Hell hates you.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
That's why Hell attacks you early in your life to
make sure that your personality is not the personality of God.
He knows what God wants to do in your life,
and he has to.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Start the the plot early.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
See, it hasn't hit you yet that you're a world changer,
that you're a giant killer, that you're a mountain mover,
that you were meant to walk on water, that you
are ahead and not the tail above and not.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Beneath an overcomer.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It hasn't hit you yet that you can command oceans
and mountains and seas and waves. It hadn't hit you
yet that you can stop the sun in the middle
of there and say be still while I fight. It
hadn't hit you yet that the power of life and
death is in your tongue, and that whatsoever you say,
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you can have it. He wants to catch you early
where you are fragile and frail and not sure of
yourself and not stabilized in your formative years, when your
brain is still pliable and falling and able to be
shaped like clay in the hand of whoever touched him.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Who touched me.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Wasn't always God who touched me. Wasn't always God who
made me the mad, angry woman I am was not God,
who made me the distant aloof cold man. I am
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was not God. God is not the problem. God is cool.
I'm down for God. I'm down for Jesus. It's all
the people who touched me before he did. It is
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not my destiny that I'm worried about. It is the
contamination of my history. And to be transformed. To be
transformed is to take away the effects of my history.
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So I come to church to hear about my destiny.
And my destiny sounds so wonderful, and he's good, and
he's wonderful, and he's good all the time, and everything's wonderful,
and bless the name of the Lord, and come into
his house with thanksgiving. It's wonderful. And they tell me
about my destiny. I'm a mountain mover, I'm an overcomer.
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I've got the power of God in me. To tell
me about my destiny. They tell me that my mouth
can speak and things can change. They tell me about
my destiny. But when I leave the parking lot and
drives smack dab into my history right, and my history contaminates.
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My history contaminates me. My destiny that kool aid changes
water like wine changes when fermented it my destiny. My
whole stuff comes creeping up into my new stuff, and
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I wrestle with my whole stuff and my new stuff,
and they are posed one to the other. And when
I would do good evil as present that which I
would do, I do not old wretched man that I am,
who should deliver me from the body of the dead.
I'm a great digon that, I'm a wretched man. I'm
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a great believer. But you'd have to marry me to
find out. I'm a broken man. See when you dated him,
he was perfect, and you dated her. She told you
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if you needed anything, she'd take care of you at
three o'clock in the morning, and everything was wonderful. And
you married their representative, and you said you walked up
there like a dummy and said, I do to somebody
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you haven't met yet. And before you know you've done it.
You've done it. You do what you've done until you've
done what you do, and you did it, and you've
done what you did. When you do what you're done,
when somebody you don't even know. For the first three years,
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little by little you peel the onion down and get
past the superficial and find out their quirkiness, their craziness,
their procrastination, they're indifference, they're missing dad syndrome, their critical
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mother syndrome. And quote all the scriptures you will. You
cannot get that out of their person now. Their personality.
Personality is not spiritual reality. I didn't marry your spirit.
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Your spirit is holy and perfect and complete before God.
I didn't marry your spirit. I married you your personality.
And now I am trying to be trying to figure
out what's going on? You know?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Can I take them innute?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
D I took my son to Spain cause he came
at a time that I had to go overseas anyway,
and I took my son's strain, and I was so
glad to take him places that my father only read
about him books and g had never been in themselves.
I took him to Spain. It was amazing. We had
a great time in Spain. I had never taken him
to Spain before. And then they told me we were
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close to the Rock of Gibraltar. Now, I will be honest,
I didn't exactly know what the Rock of Gibraltar was.
I had heard of it, I read about it in school.
I passed the test but I didn't go to bed
every night thinking about the Rock of Gibraltar. It was
not my life's dream to see the Rock of Gibraltar.
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I was born in West Virginia, in the mountains. I
have seen enough rocks and mountains and hills, had violence
and shoveled enough snow that I didn't go all the
way to Spain to see a rock. If I'm going
to Spain, let me go to the museums, and let
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me go to Barcelona, and let me go to Madrid,
and let me go down on the cobblestone streets of
a city that is thousands of years old. And now
they're telling me to go to the Rock of Gibraltar.
And there I am going to the Rock of Gibraltar,
fourteen hundred feet in the air. And it's not a
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straight path. It's around winding roads and grinding here and
there and everywhere. And I went there to the Rock
of Gibraltar with my son, and because I'm his dad,
like I know what I'm doing. Neither one of us
know where we're going or what we're doing, or how
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to get there, or whether it matters. And our hole
I know is that the air gets thinned when you
get high in the air and fourteen hundred feet in
the air and you fat, you skinny. People don't laugh
if you don't understand what I'm talking about. You have
to weigh over two hundred pounds to understand what fourteen
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hundred feet in the air does to your nostrils. It
shrinks him down into baby nostrils, and you get you
the baby nostrils down on the ENDSI and I'm trying
to breathe and act like I'm okay. And I'm starting
to see colors in front of my hair. I'm seeing
colors and more colors that are in a rainbow. I'm
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seeing them everywhere. But I'm taking my son to the
Rock of Gibraltar. Do you know how much history was
at the Rock of Gibraltar?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I didn't. Did you know?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
I didn't. I didn't know at all. I didn't know.
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. You
know how we are in America. The world ends and
begins between New York and la We don't know about
no place else, And not our Congress, not our legislator,
not our people passing law. Most of them don't even
have a passport. We made decisions about countries we have
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never been to, and we feel sorry and we send
our thoughts and prayers when they die, but we don't
really think they're real people like us. They are their
caricatures on our TV screens and in our pockets and
in our apps. And then we get on our app
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and let's see, we scroll through them, and we look
at them. We pray for them sometimes, sometimes we pray
for them. Sometimes we just keep scrolling because it's happening
so much. It's happening everywhere. Everybody's drowning or burning or
dying or being bombed or being newt and going through
all kinds of trouble. And while they're going through all
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that trouble is not like you not having your own trouble.
You're having your own trouble. Your daughter just cuts you
out and slamming the door and says she didn't want
to ever see you again in life. And you were
the worst mother in the world. And you got to
deal with that. You can't be put not fires and
waters and planes and stop planes from crashing and deal
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with all You weren't made to deal with all of that,
because by then you have developed your own brand of crazy,
not craft mannaise, no, nothing like that. It hadn't been
branded by anybody else. You have your own brand of crazy,
your own devil. To fight the stuff you're afraid of,
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the stuff you have to deal with, the stuff you
have to suppress, is enough to keep you up all night.
It takes all of my energy to get Thomas not
to say what he wants to say, because he has
got a mouth on him that Grandma's soap will not
wash off. And it takes all I can do. If
you catch me in traffic and you haunt me the
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wrong way, it takes everything I got to say. God
loves you, Yes he does, he loves you, Yes, yes, Yes,
I'll meet you on the other side in heaven, and
I won't cut you when we get there. It's all
I can do to get him to shut his mouth
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because he reacts, and because he has built up a
system of hiding himself and handling himself and dealing with hisself.
And it may not be the right system, and it
may not work, and it may not have anything to
do with Church. But I have developed a pathology that
enables me to live with me, and I can't figure
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out why you can't develop a pathology to live with
me because I've worked on this for thirty years and
I figured out how.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
To like me.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
And now that I have finally figured out how to
like me, you act like you don't understand me, like
I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I'm not crazy. I have feeling. I have feeling about
going through it up.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
I'm going through everything off by myself, and I don't know.
And I carried my son to the Rock of Gibraltar
and found out that's where all the fighting was since
the early fifteen hundreds, Nation after nations had fought in
that place. The Moores have fought in that place and
on that place and hallowed out the inside of the mountain.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
It's hollow.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
You can go in there, and you can go up
the ramp, and there are all kinds of cannons there,
and you can shoot out of the Rock of Gibraltar.
You can shoot at people and they can't hit you
back easy. And so nation the nation fought to have
control of that space. And since I was in Spain,
I thought I would go to the Rock of Gibraltar.
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And I got to the Rock of Gibraltar and I
brought my franks there so that I could buy something
while I was there, because I'm gonna buy something there
and buy something. Part of my ministry is to buy something.
I am called to buy something. I am annoying to
buy something. I don't care what it is. I'm going
to buy something. I was born in West Virginia, a
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little black boy with ashenees in West Virginia, with basoline
for lotion on his kneecaps. And if I go all
the way to Spain, I'm going to buy something. I'm
going to buy something. And I drive in there to
buy something, and I'm getting ready to go into the
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air where the Rock of Gibraltar was, And you know what,
I had to show my passport to get in and
pay a fee to get where they wanted me to
go and do all of that. And they told me
that they didn't take Franks. And I'm in Spain, and
what do you mean that what was valuable over here
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is not valuable over there? That this one patch of
ground that you call the Rock of Gibraltar is controlled
by the Euros being kingdom. And they used and I
didn't bring no bounds. They didn't tell me that you
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could have one little patch of ground out of all
over country that belonged to somebody else. They didn't tell
me that they fought for it, and died for it,
and bled for it to control it. Because it is
a sight where you can see nations. You can stand
on one nation and see the other nation. You can
see the northern tip of Africa, you can see Morocco.
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You can see all kinds of stuff from that point.
It's a high place.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Why.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
That's why in the Bible and the Old Testament you
always hear that God wants to move your hot places
because of high places. And the high places are the
places of strategic advantage. It is hard to kiss your
enemy if your enemy is over you. That's why they
never put your brain in your foot. Because I can
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drag my foot, even as old as as I am.
I can get my foot up close enough that I
can work on it if I have to. Don't tell
my wife because like I'm crippled, so should take care
of it from me. But I can actually, if I
need to, I can do that. But God did not
put my brain in my foot. He put it in
my head. Because I got a deal with the high places.
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That's where I shoot from. That's where my cannons go
off from That's where my cannons go off, whether they're
pointed out or in. Can I deep? Can I go
deeper that my cannons go off? That's what That's what
you get out till.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
You marry me.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
You married your girlfriend, you went home with your wife,
You married your boyfriend, and you go home with your husband.
You married the person who showered and got ready and
got dressed and put on cologne, extra cologne. In fact,
I couldn't breathe, and you put up from us clock
and you came out and you were ready for me.
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And it was occasionally. I didn't know I was gonna
have to wake up to you every day with bad
breadth and hair all over your head and find out
that you leave your drawers in the middle of the floor,
and that you don't keep it up to yourself, and
you use the bathroom and don't wash your hands. And
now I got to deal with all of that. And
I didn't know that was possible.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Okay? Did I go too far? Okay?
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I'm right on the edge. I'm right on here, and
I'm stay on the edge. I'm stay on their edge.
I'm gonna stay on the edge, because the Bible just
told me that I have to deal with things from
the rock at Gibraltar. I need a post that I
can shoot out. I need an area that protects me,
and the area that I build to protect me also
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incarceraates me. And now I am protected, but I am
also isolated, and you can't hurt me. Say whatever you
want to say, row your eyes, texting about me right now,
tweet if me, if you want to take a picture
and put it on Facebook right now. Because I have
developed a system, you will not getting me. I ain't
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thinking about you. I don't even know you. You can be
sleeping up under the bridge somewhere. I don't care whether
you like my hair or not. I'm not gonna give
you that much power over me. I have developed a
system to handle all of that, even if it's cutting off.
Do you know my wife has two phones and don't
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answer neither one of them. Honest to God, I'm telling
the truth. I do not understand why she needs two phones.
She got two different phone numbers, two different phones all together,
and she never can find either one of them. Sometimes
she's looking at it while it's ringing, and it does
not bother her. That the phone is ringing. She walks
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past the phone ringing and keeps on singing what she's singing,
And she's refusing to let that mas many people get
in her life and get in her head, and get
in her mind and get into her spirit. She has
to be transformed by the renewing of her mind. And
sometimes we build up ways to be transformed by the
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renewing of our mind. I've been studying this for a week.
Our brain is designed to deliver enzymes and hormones that
secrete fluids in us that helps with us steal with
what's on our mind. And we got a lot on
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our mind. And I've been reading a book, an old
book written by an old author or doctors, who said,
the body keeps score. You read it, the body keeps score.
So everything I didn't say, and everything I held in,
and everything I suppressed, and everything I wouldn't get out,
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the body kept score. The body kept scoring. And so
I survived. Heroes, I survived, heroes, I survived. I survived.
But just because I survived doesn't mean I succeeded. Can
I teach this? And now the Bible has said to
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me that I can be transformed by the renewing of
my mind. Oh no, wait, wait a minute, i'mosad to
the rock and Gibraltar. I got a finish say that
I was at the rocky Gibraltar. And I went all
the way through the rocky Gibraltars and went on the
house side of Rock of Gibraltar, and my son is
with me, and I got to the top of the
rock and there's all of these monkeys. Yeah, I gotta
tell you about the monkeys. And all these monkeys are there.
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There were monkeys up. There were monkeys on my car.
There were monkeys on the window. There were monkeys on
the back window. And they were talking about how cute
the monkeys were. And the monkeys was leaving little white
spots on everything. And they weren't quite execute as I
thought they were. They were all everything, but it was
so so nice, It was so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
You felt so likely you were in another country.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Always monkeys, and I had the monkeys everywhere, and the
monkeys were everywhere, and the monkeys were everywhere, and I
started noticing they were something weird about these monkeys.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
And see, I.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
Watched too much TV. I watched these movies where the
monkeys start talking to each other. You ever watched the monkeys?
Where do the monkeys start driving cars? And the monkeys
started mediating with each other, and they start calling one another,
and they come through the trees and everything. And I
know that there was a whole lot of gathering around
my car, a whole lot of them around my car.
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I had fought one of two of them, but it
was a whole lot of them around my car. And
they were all around my car. And it was all
of these monkeys. And you know what was weird about them.
They didn't have no tails. They didn't have no tails.
And my gud told me when the monkeys first came
to the Rock and Gibraltar, they were born with tails.
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Monkey tales, you know monkey tales. They have monkey tales.
But the tail is so small, just a little bit
of gristle and meat. The tail is so small. And
the winter changes in Gibraltar, and it gets cold in Gibraltar,
and in the winter, you know what happened, don't stop me.
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You know what happened. They froze their tail off. They
actually froze their tail off. And you know what else.
The next time, the next generation, when they had babies,
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they had tails too, and they froze their tail off.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
You're gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Out here and tell everybody I appreciate about monkey tales,
aren't you? Don't you tell her about I said that
about freezing their tails off? Don't you do that that?
That doesn't sound real preachery, So don't do that. They
might take it out of context and put it on Instagram.
Lord at Mercy, I forgot. It's gonna probably be on
Instagram now, and that's gonna be one more thing I'm
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gonna have to scroll past and ignore them because they're
all in on that that that they froze their tails off.
And you know what, by the third generation, they were
born without tails. Wow, they stop being born with tails
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so they wouldn't freeze them off. And suddenly I understood
something I never understood why Jesus said, if your hand offends, you.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Cut it off.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
Because I'm a literalist. When you tell me something, I
take you seriously. So if you tell me to jump
on him, I'm gonna jump on him. We figure out
what happen later. I'm jumping. I'm gonna jump right now.
I'm gonna jump That first time I went to Africa,
the big crowd of people, and they were so excited
and they were praying, and they all wanted delivering. I
just dived, you know, like they're doing it. I just
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dived out in the crowd. They almost killed me. They
almost killed me. They took my ring, they was pulling
on my clothes. They take prayers so seriously, they take prayers,
soul seriously, they take prayer so seriously. My son and
I on the top of the rockets Gibraltar, and the
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monkeys have stopped growing what they didn't need. What are
you growing? Yeah, that you don't need. What are you
growing from? Where you used to live? And you don't
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live there anymore, But you still got your tail as
if you were someplace else. And now God has called
you to the mountains and you're in a better place
and you're a better person, and you're higher than you've
ever been, and you got the opportunity of a lifetime,
and you still got your tail. And that's what I
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learned in did rocors bro To and somedenly I understood
what Christ meant, cut your hand off. If your hand
to fens, you cut it off. He mean, if there's
anything you know about you that's messing you up. Fix it,
Just change your mind, right it?
Speaker 2 (56:41):
Just fix it. Just fix it.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
Don't just dance and skip and jump and hoop and
hollar and make all kind of noise and go home
and make excuses for yourself and give yourself a license
to be dysfunctional. Just fix it. If it's you don't
know how to apologize and you don't know how to
say I'm sorry, or you don't know how to work
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with somebody who didn't say I'm sorry to you, or
if it's that you doubt your own masculinity and you
don't trust your own femininity, and now you don't even
know what either one of them is because I'm so confused.
I don't know a duck from a pigeon, I don't
know anything, and you're trying to figure out all of that,
whatever it is that you are dealing with. Just fix it.
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Easier said than done, real hard work. Let's just praise
so lord. Let's just dance and leave the inside unfixed.
Let's not take on the big fight of change. Do
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you know when the prodigal Sun was in the mud.
He was in the mud. Yeah, I got even, okay,
I got it. He was in the mud and everything
in cover with mud and everything. And he didn't have
anything to eat except for what the swine did eat.
And he was sitting in the hall pen and he
came to himself. That's a weird scripture. He came to himself.
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He came to himself. Came means a journey, means a distance,
means that travel. It means it took me some time
to come to myself. He came to himself. That is
the baddest scripture.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
I dare you.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
I can preach on that all night. He came to himself.
Speaker 4 (58:39):
Not he came to Georgia, he came to Memphis, he
came to California. No, he came to himself. It takes
you a long time to come to yourself. And you
can lose a lot of people while you come to yourself.
And you can damage a lot of people while you
come to yourself, and you can lose opportunity after opportunity
that God has for you. Because you won't come to yourself.
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You will not confront yourself, You will not be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. You will not let
somebody borrow your body. A new personality come inside of
your body and walk around in your clothes, in in
your shoes. The nicer you, the better you, the stronger you,
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the more intense you, the more loving you, the more
communicative you, the more kind you wants to take over
your body until a new personality lives in your body
and you have joy on more than Sunday, more than Sunday.
You can have joy on more than Sunday, more than Sunday.
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You can have joy. You can have Joey unspeakable, full
of truth and glory. You can have joy when you
go home. You have joy in your car. You can
have joy in your house and in your life and
in your spirit. You can have joy in a trailer.
You can have joy in a park. You can have
Joe anywhere. You can have joy in your spirit right now,
right now, right now. You can decide in your mind
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right now, I am through being who I was. I'm
tired of that. I don't like her. I don't like him.
He's messing me up. He's canceling out my chances. He's
killing my future, he's destroying my career. He's tearing up
my marriage, he's turning up my relationship. And I am
going to get rid of him. I'm going to be
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transformed by the renewing of my mind.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
My mind, my.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Mind is my rock of Gibraltar. My mind is my
rock of Gibraltar. That's where I shoot from. That's where
I preach from. That's where I fight from. That's where
I teach from. Out of my head. Out of my head.
I gotta get it right in my head. That's where
the war is between the devil and God.
Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Is in my head.
Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
It's in my mind, it's in my thoughts, it's in
my thinking, it's in my ways. And I I don't
care if I win the battle at work, and win
the battle with the car and fix the pipes in
the freeze and do all of that, and cut the
crass and trim the hedges to their stree, if I
don't fix the hell that's in my head, I will
never be free and I will never behold man. I
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will never be what God wants me to be. And
I want to be free. I want to be free.
I want to be free in my mind. I want
to be free in my spirit. I want to be free.
I want to be free. I want to be free.
I don't want to die and haven't been free. I
want to be free. I want to be free so
much that I sing in the shower. I want to
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be so free that I can sing on the back porch.
I want to be so free that I get on
my neighbour's nerves because I sing out of tune. I
want to be so free that I have peace and
power on the inside. And I can't understand why I
can't let go of my tail. If I let go
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on my tail, if I am willing to off that
hand because it offends me, if I am willing to
cut out that tongue because it offends me, offends me,
only means that's the only thing standing in between you
and what God wants to give you. If you cut
that one thing off, that one thing, do you hear
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me this morning? That one thing, If you cut that
one thing off, if you stop being so insistent that
you gotta be who you you used to be. If
you cut that one thing off, you shall eat of
the fat of the land. God will put you in
goodly houses. He will open doors for you. He will
make ways for you. He will strengthen you, he will
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bless you. He will overshadow you, he will overcome you.
He will make you smarter. He'll make you brighter. He'll
make you a better mother, a better father, a better friend,
a better person. If you'll cut off that one thing,
If you'll cut off that one thing, why are you
loyal to something you don't need anymore? It's freezing you.
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You're freezing your tail off. You're freezing your career, You're
freezing your marriage, You're freezing your home life. You're freezing
your ministry. You're freezing the best part of your ministry.
The best part of your ministry is in your tears
and in your brokenness and in your fears, and you
just keeping it real and just being to who you are.
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The best part of you as a wife is that broken,
crazy you secrecies that you have. If that's what's cute
about you, If you just freeze it all, if you
just freeze off the thing that's stopping you from being
all you can be, you could change your life and
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. So
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the prodigal son is in the hat pin and he
has no money, and he has nothing to eat, and
he's spent all his father's stuff in riots he's living,
and all the prostitutes have left him, and all the
friends have left him, and he's in the hall pen,
and you can tell you're in the hat pin with
something that don't even to appeal to you, suddenly starts
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to appeal to you. And all of a sudden he
wants to eat what the swine did eat. He's a
jew boy. He doesn't even eat eat swine, much less
what the swine did he eat. And with flies all
around his hair, and that's in his face and slump
on his clothes, something happened to him right there, not
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in the sanctuary, not in the church, not in the choir,
not in the praise him, not in the balcony, not
sitting in the bank, not sitting up front, not leaving
up down in there, he was in the hog pen.
And he came to himself. And when he came to himself,
he said, I'm gonna cut my tail off. Being stubborn.
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He's killing me, is killing my opportunity. I will arise
and go to my father's house. I'll swallow my pride
and go to my father's house and say I am
no more worthy to be thy son. Make me as
one of your heart servants. And he practiced, this is
what he was going to say. All the way home.
He hadn't even gotten to his father yet. He was
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just practicing what he was going to say. And while
he was practicing it and getting in his head what
he was going to say, while he was yet a
great ways off, his father looked down the road and
saw him coming. And the Bible says, the old man
ran out to meet him. I'm sixty eight years old.
Let me tell you something. It takes something to make
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me run. Now, at twenty eight, I would run over anything.
But if you see me running at sixty eight, you
better run too, because some chasing me. The father ran.
The father ran to meet him. He ran to meet him,
and he was wrong, because he was practicing for a
father he had in his mind who would accuse him.
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He wasn't practicing for the father that would run out
to meet him and cover him up and put him
in a good place and set a party together and
killed the fatid calf and open up the door.
Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
He didn't even know that he.
Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
Had that kind of father, because all those years he
had kept his tail, and his tail had stopped him
from seeing who his father really was. But while he
was still funky and smelly and NAT's all around. The
Father wrapped a robe around him and sent the servants
out to get ready for him, and put a ring
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on his finger, and brought him in all of a sudden.
The only thing he changed. He didn't change his hair,
he didn't change his clothes. He didn't change his car.
He didn't change his goat, he didn't change his lamb.
He didn't change his speech, he didn't change how he looked.
He didn't change anything else. The only thing he.
Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Changed was he changed his mind.
Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
And when he changed his mind, he experienced the Father
in a way that he never experienced the Father before.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
I want you to stand up on.
Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Your feet, and y'all want you to make up in
your mind. I got some changing to do. I'm going
to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. I'm
going to be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
I got one more thing to say to you, and
how to be finished. I have heard the scripture all
my life. I can do all things through Christ, which
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strengthens me, and people always use it when they come
up against a task or an obstacle. I can do
all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Greater is in
me that he is in the world. I can do
all things through Christ, which strengthens me. And it sounds
so good, and it sounds so wonderful, and we use
it all the time, except we use it out of context.
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When God said, when Paul said, I can do all
things through Christ, and Philippians, who strengthens me, he said
it after saying this, I have learned how to be abased,
and I have learned how to be abound. I have
learned both how to be and warn. And I have
learned how to have plenty. That means you don't come
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here knowing how to fix your mind. You have to
learn how to do this. To learn how to do this,
I don't know. There's a hundred people I'm speaking to
in here. If I'm talking to you, make some noise
in this play. Come on, make some noise in this play.
This is what I'm gonna learn this Sunday morning. This
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is what I'm gonna learn this Sunday morning. I'm gonna
learn to change my mind. I'm gonna learn not to
say everything. I'm gonna learn till I get a new habit.
I'm going to freeze my tail off I'm gonna enter
into a new dimension and become a new person. I'm
gonna shock my kids or not, I'm gonna even know
who I am. Because I refuse to live and die
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and never lose my tail, and never lose my hand,
and never lose my temper and never lose my mouth
and cry because I drove people off. I refuse not
to change. The only thing that needs to change is
not your shoes. It's not your jeans, it's not your shirt,
it's your I need one hundred people in this room
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that would change their mind. Come on, that would change
their mind. Come on, that would change their mind, that
would change their mind. There's something on the other side
of that change that only God can give you.
Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
It will if you.
Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Change your mind, God will open up the windows of
heaven and pull you out of blessing that you don't
have room enough to receive. For the next sixty seconds,
I want you to praise God till you feel a
change coming, till you feel a change in your spirit,
till you feel a change in your attitude, till you
stop be littling yourself, till you stop talking down to yourself,
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till you forgive your father until you let go of
your mother, until you let go of your pain. I
want you to that thing off that's been stopping you
from being who you could be. I can't hear you.
I can't hear you. I want you to cut it off.
I want you to cut it off. I want you
to get rid of it. I want you to shut
it down. I want you to stop it. I want
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you to wear it out. I want you to move
it out of your way.
Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
I want you to. You gotta hear it.
Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
You gotta hear it, because this is your Sunday. This
is your Sunday. This is your Sunday for change. This
is what you've been praying about, this is what you've
been asking for, this is what you've been talking to
God about. He sent me here to answer your question.
You can have a better life. You can have peace,
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you can to have joy. It's up for you. No
devil can take it, no deepon can take it, no
witch can take it, no warlock can take it. It's
yours if you want it. It's yours if you want it.
And you think you've been praising God, if you praise
God with a new mind, the spirit of God, and
come in the balcony. It'll come in the front row.
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It'll meet you in the aisle. It'll be waiting on
you in the car. It'll heal your body. It'll change
your blood pressure, it'll change your temperature.
Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Open your mouth. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
I can't hear The devil is the thread. The devil
is the thread. The devil is a fread. The devil
is a fread. If you would really do it, if
you let go on your church self and get down
to your real self and let God do it, amazing
things but happen, if you would just do it, If
you would just do it, and now wait on nobody
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to forgive you, and now wait on anybody to come back,
and I wait on anybody to say I'm sorry. If
you would just let it go, you could stop medicating yourself,
stop treating yourself, stop making excuses for yourself. If you
let it go, God will do something amazing. He'll do
amazing things. He'll do a miracle in the middle of
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that hour. The Holy Ghost will do a miracle. He'll
do a miracle for you. Right now, with your hands
up in the air. The spirit of the Living God
will I'm gonna shudder you right now, right where you
are standing, right there. The annointing will do a change
in your life. I will break him and curse over
your house, over your children, over your financer, over your body.
Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Great fare.
Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
If you'll open your mouth to God, gona fix that
thing once set for you. All your deadic can't stop it,
your granddaddy can't stop it. Your great granddaddy can't stop it.
You've got the power right now in your mind. Nobody
can stop you. If you change your mind, demons will
run from you. They'll run from you, they'll run off
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of your few, they'll get off of your room. If
you change your mind, God will do amazing things in
your life. And for come on, I got to go.
I got to go. But somebody in this room is
gonna change their mind. They're gonna they're gonna cut off
some stuff. Let me hear you open your mouth and
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give glory to God. Let me hear you get glory
to God. Let me hear you dear glory to God.
Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
Let me hear you get.
Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Flurry of God. Give glory to God, Give glory to Him.
Give glory all the way in the balcony, all the
way on the top.
Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Roll.
Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Let give that's right, give it glory. God's get ready
to fix something in you. Your body's getting to heal,
your mind's getting to heal, your spirits getting to heal.
Your circumstances are getting to heal. Then the change coming,
A new you is coming. God's gonna throw you a party.
He's gonna throw you a bath. He's gonna kill your
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fatic cab if you praise.
Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
It, he will kill your betty can.
Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
I wish y'all had some real praisers. I need a
hunting craiser. I need a hunting praiser, just a hunt
the praiser.
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
I could make it with done and nine.
Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
If I get ninety nine praises in this room, God's
gonna do something in your billy. Out of your billy,
shall call the lirids of living water. Rivers are coming
out of you, Rivers are coming out of your spirit.
Rivers are coming out of your life. Open your mouth
and praise your God at break that curse.
Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Break that curse. Break that curse right now.
Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
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