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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man.
I had a good morning.
I sitting back here.
We, we, I barely made it outhere, Todd and will.
And I, we were talking and Istarted sharing some things.
We're all crying and they'relike, can we just pray?
And we're back there and youguys are out here crying and I'm
like, what is going on?
so shoot.
I feel mushy.
I, uh, was sitting on the couchwhen they came in and I was

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like, I I'm just so loved rightnow.
I'm just in good.
And Todd, he had peace.
I said, man, you got peace onyour face.
He said, oh dude, it was justfun.
But I was wired last night.
I, I don't know how to say this.
Jesus blessed me.
You guys blessed me.
Cause when hearts are open andreceiving, and ears are hearing
and people are hungry, it's thebest thing.
You know, I, I tell people,people say, man, that was

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awesome.
Or that message was so simple orclear, but profound.
I say, man, it's one thing.
If I'm preaching clear to me, Iit's one thing.
If you think a preacher, there'sanother thing from my shoes.
If you're hungry for it, youwant it and let it become truth
in your life.
See, that's a payday for a guylike me.
That's like, yay.
And uh, cuz that's why we dowhat we do.
Right?

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Cuz we believe what we believe.
So what you hear in the secretyou shout at, from the rooftop.
So I got back to my room lastnight.
I was so wired.
I was just, I was wired and Idon't sleep that much, man.
I'm like, I just don't people,people say to you drink coffee.
I say, could you picture that?
If I drink coffee I said,I don't think I ever drank a cup
of coffee in my life.
Honestly it just never in myhome and the, the generation I

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grew up in, it was kind of R itwas kind of presented as an
older person drink.
Like kids don't touch it.
And now teenagers are likedrinking coffee at a very young
age.
And I, I never, I don't think Idrank a cup of coffee in my
life.
Uh, but, and it's not that I'magainst it or anything like
that.
It just never was in my life.
But last night I was so wired.

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I think I went to sleep aboutone 30 and I didn't even know if
I was gonna go to sleep.
And I had to go to sleep byfaith.
You know, you just like, I justturned off the light.
Finally, I had a little dimlight.
I had some worship going.
I was talking to Jesus, talkedto my wife for a little while.
And then I just, I told her Iwas gonna go to bed.
And then I was like, and I said,Lord, this ain't working.

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Is it?
It's just us anyway.
So, so it didn't matter if I gotmushy and went through
Kleenexes, cuz I didn't have topreach.
So at one 30 I finally justturned out the light and I was
like, oh Lord, I'm going.
And I went out and then at 4 47,I'm like I said, good morning.

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That's it.
It's over.
It's like, it's see, I messed upright now.
It's just over.
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Good

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Morning.
See, when I first got saved, Iwould close my bedroom door on
purpose, contact point of faith.
I did it for me.
Theologically.
He's always in me theologically.
He'll never leave me.
Forsake me agree.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
But I want to go meet with him in the secret.
So I would close my bedroom doorand purpose, never close my
bedroom door.
It's always open, but I wouldclose it on purpose when I got
saved so that I had to open itto go in.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
I would

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Slip in, close it and say, Hey, it's me exactly what I
do.
About four days into that.
My heart caught an awareness.
And in knowing of him beingthere waiting for me, it wasn't
that it was a vibrating, whoakind of time.
It was a, it was a knowingthing.

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It was a, and then it, it evenbecame very tangible to me.
Don't talk about that much, cuzeverybody's looking for the
tangible to believe.
I believe through his word.
He said, if I'm there, he'll bethere.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
So

Speaker 2 (03:56):
He's there.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well,

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Don't feel real.
Not talking about feelings.
Well don't seem like he's therenot talking about what it seems.
If he said he's there he isthere.
When are you gonna teachyourself?
And when am I gonna teach myselfto just believe the word when I
live apart from what it seems, alot of people say, well, I do
that.
It just feels like I'm goingthrough the motions.

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There you go.
Again.
It just feels stay there longenough and teach your heart of
knowing, teach your heart ofknowing.
If, if, if you don't hang outwith each other, you'd never get
to know each other people aren'tmarried.
Cuz they just walk up to eachother and say, Hey man, I dig
you.
I mean, I guess it happens inVegas, but it probably falls
apart in a day or two.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
But

Speaker 2 (04:44):
If you're sitting here married, you have a history
with your spouse, you hung out,you went out together.
You spent time, you grew to knoweach other at some level you
communicated and got.
I wasn't real good at that withmy wife.
I, I didn't even, she didn'teven know.
I didn't want children.
When we got married, we just gotmarried.
But we hung out for nine monthstalked and, and we got to the

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point where we got married.
What I'm saying is if you don'tbe with him and spend time with
him, how will you ever get totruly know him?
Listening to a sermon, teachesyou about him.
Getting along with him isknowing him.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
If

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You just learn about him and get a whole bunch of
knowledge of him without gettingintimate with him, the knowledge
will turn on you in time andyou'll buy into condemnation cuz
you'll judge your life based onwhat you know and your life
won't look like what it shouldbased on what you know,

Speaker 4 (05:38):
But

Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's not knowing about him.
That transforms you.
It's knowing him.
He said, if you love, we said ityesterday.
If you love it's because you'vebeen born of God and you know
God, if you don't love it's cuzyou don't know God, that means
watch.
That means you can't know him

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Without

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Being so influenced by him that you're transformed
and changed to be more like him.
What he's saying is if you don'tlove it's cuz you don't know
God, that means you can't knowhim without becoming love.
He's so amazing.
The goal, I set it all weekweekend and or whatever you

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wanna call it.
Yeah.
It's kind of midweek weekend andlate week.
I, I, I said it the whole time.
You can't, you can't miss this.
You, you can't just receive thelove of God.
The goal is becoming the love ofGod.
That's the goal.
The gospel.
Why?
Because when Adam was created,he was created for God's image

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and likeness in God is love.
The day he ate the tree is wheneverything died and was lost.
So watch this.
So Adam was one with God walkingin the cool the day like father,
like son he's fulfilled.
He doesn't have need, he doesn'thave lack.
The only thing he's missing isan avenue to manifest and

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multiply the love.
That's why God made man, cuz Godis who he is.
He makes man gives him a body toflesh out who he made him to be.
Let's stop.
Just believing our flesh has toalways be evil.
Let's live in conversion.
Our flesh was evil.
Cause our hearts were evil.
We got new hearts.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah.
You know how I've prayed foryears.
I thank you father.
I live in a spirit.
I have a soul in a body.
My spirit rules, my soul agrees.
And my flesh says, yes, sir.
I prayed that way.
A thousand times when youweren't looking rather than
well, you know the flesh is weakbrother.
Jesus makes one comment outsideof prayer, watch and pray cuz

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your Spirit's willing.
Your flesh is weak.
He's talking about outside ofprayer.
And then we say flesh is weakbrother.
And it's our justification forliving week.
Well you're not to live in theflesh.
You live by the spirit.
And if you live by the spirit,Galatians five, you won't
fulfill the loss of the flesh.
Yay.

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Come on.
It's so scriptural.
So Adam is love.
He, he made man in his image.
So he made man to love, not toneed love.
He made man to love because he'sfulfilled in love.
He's one with God.
He's the source of love.

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He's he's one with God, right?
Vine branch,

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah.
When that branch got cut offfrom the vine through sin, he
got cut off from the source oflove and became in need of love
because he lost his identity inGod.
Every one of us sitting here wasborn into that dilemma.
We were all born into Adamneeding love.

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And the truth is we were allcreated to be love, not need
love, cuz to know the love ofChrist, which passes knowledge
is to be filled with all thefullness of God.
Colossians two, you are completein him.
Who's the fullness of theGodhead bodily.
You are complete in him.

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Be real with me.
We've tried to find ourselvesthrough one another and have
been sorely disappointed.
Why we're looking for love inall the wrong places because
we're so driven by the need oflove.
That's why the words I love youwork.
No matter what the circumstancesthey usually work.

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Cuz we all wanna believe thatwe're loved and we all need to
be loved and we all need tobelieve we're lovable.
And it's a blight and a dilemmathat came through separation
from God.
It wasn't from the beginning.
The biggest lie in Christianityis to assess ourselves by
ourselves and think this is whowe are when he said that's

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everything that's supposed todie.
It's never who you were from thebeginning.
Like, God didn't make us thisway.
Guys.
We became this way through Adamand sin, we were born into Adam
and we must get born.
And we turned that into abeneficial prayer.
That takes me to heaven when Idie instead of a truth that

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restores me back to thebeginning and what God intended
in the first place where it'sfull of grace.
Are you with me born again?
The motive of born again is nota prayer to go to heaven someday
.
It's getting restored back tothe reason we're here in the
first place and all thingsrenewed.
Yeah.
To where I'm not in need oflove.

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Cause I've been loved and nowbecome love.
Are you with me?
Our whole lives were driven bythe need of love.
That's why most of us got hurtat a very young age.
That's why people do so manyterrible things to each other
because it's every man forhimself at the cost of whoever
love lays down its life foranother.
We grew up living at the expenseof one another and people living

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at our expense.
Total perversion, 180 degreetwist.
Yeah.
Love lays down.
Its life takes no account, noaccount doesn't consider the
wrong that's been done to it.
Why do we all have a story ofhow wrong we've been and how

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they did this?
And I can't believe it and neveragain.
I nobody's ever gonna do thatagain.
And whoop, whoop, whoop.
Now you got walls all around youand you become a product of
men's sin instead of hisrighteousness.
And you think you're winning cuzyou cut him off and they're
actually deciding your person inthe moment That you wouldn't

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even be this person.
If it wasn't for them, you cut aperson off and don't talk to'em
for two years and think you'rewinning.
Cuz you cut'em outta your life.
No they're dictating your heartevery day.
They're sculpting you they'reetching.
You.
You're actually a living productof what you can't forgive you.
You're the direct result of thething you think you're cutting
off.

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See unforgiveness is wretchedcuz it keeps offense alive.
But forgiveness is amazing cuzit makes it as if it never
happened.
That's what's so beautiful aboutthe gospel.
It's the design of heaven thatthe goodness of God would lead
men to change that.
Even in your life in times yousay, well, I'm not gonna, I'm

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not gonna enable people.
They ain't gonna turn me into nodoormat.
Was Jesus a door mat or was hethe living epistle of love?
Is he an enabler?
Is he a pacifist or is heamazing?
Yeah.
I hung out with him thismorning.
He was pretty amazing.

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I was nervous coming outhere.
I thought I was gonna be a mess.
I I feel alright.
you say you don't lookall right.
I'm this is the best I can giveyou right now.
I just, I'm trying tostay a little.
Okay.
He's real.
He's amazing.
And he has purpose, right?
Let's make sure it's not justthe beneficial purpose for our

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sake.
He made me for a reason on theearth.
When I come into agreement withthat reason, I'm gonna walk in a
full measure of grace.
He's not gonna fill your tank todrive down roads.
He didn't create you for that's.
Why life feels dry for people.
That's why they believe life isso hard, but it's the view.

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They're living from everybody onthe earth.
Peter said, don't you bedeceived.
Everybody in the world is goingthrough the same trials and
challenges you are.
But we tend to make it all aboutus.
My go through need prayer, needcounsel, need ministry, help

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God.
And all our prayers are drivenby what we believe we need.
Instead of motivated by whatwe're pursuing to become.
Now I'm gonna make some strongstatements right now, cuz
they're in my heart.
Now one of you have to treat meright for me to be okay.
If I woke up to need you, I'm atyour mercy.

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If I woke up to love you we'reokay.

Speaker 5 (14:42):

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You get it.
Come on.
Now.
You be honest.
How many times did we wake upwith unspoken expectations?
Subconscious expectations.
Just because of the level ofrelationship there's
expectations and it'sautomatically I do for you.
You do for me.
Well you shouldn't have did thatwithout really hurt.
When you said that.
Well, why weren't you there?

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Well, I thought you could be ontime.
How come?
You're always late when it'simportant.
I just don't feel like you valueme.
Well I just, well yo no, butit's, you know what?
That's a sign of not being smartor facetious or cynical.
That's a sign that we don't knowhim.
Like we sing because when welive that way towards him, he
doesn't get that way.

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If God ever assumed the attitudewe've put on each other, we'd
have no hope.
If God said, well, that reallyhurt.
Well, I know you knew better.
Why did you do it now?
Your heart's in question and Idon't even know if I can trust
you anymore.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Wonder

Speaker 2 (15:47):
If you came to the order and God met you here and
spoke like that to you, you'd bepretty overwhelmed and hopeless
and freaked out.
Well, he made us for his imageand if I put that in the mouth
of God and it sounds foolish,cuz we know him through his
word, it ought to sound foolishin our mouth cuz we're made for
his image.
And as he is, so are we in thisworld?
And as the father send him, sohe sent us.

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So if I can't find it in him, Idon't want it in me.
So here's the whole point ofthis morning and the whole goal
to walk in this power and lovething and never get trapped in
works and let it become youridentity.
You have to have intimacy withGod.
You get alone with him.
You be with him.
He unveils your face through theblood.

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If you have one reason why youcan't be with him, it's
deception.
You see, but you don't know whatI just did.
Uh, I, I get what you're tryingto say.
So why are you running from himand playing Adam in the garden?
Why aren't you running to him?
New covenant, new Testament.
Why aren't you running two himin your conviction, separating

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your heart from the action.
Separating your identity fromthe action, calling the action.
What it is stepping out of it,into him, thanking him for
making you wiser and sharper andkeeping you righteous and clean
through the blood.
And I'll promise you if you'lldo that, that action.
You'll be way more aware of it.
And it won't sneak up on you andyou won't stumble into it.

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Why?
Cuz you're separating yourselffrom it through faith and prayer
and you become that thing.
You're believing cuz you'resaved by grace through.
So when you release faith in thetruth, grace comes to make
truth, your reality and youdidn't even bite your lip to
change.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
So

Speaker 2 (17:31):
He gets all the glory and then you love him more and
you might get like me.
No, I don't wanna scare you withthat.
Don't anybody run away becauseyou think you'll get like me.
That's that?
You just be like, you peoplehave said what's wrong with you.

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I'm in love.
Amen.
I'm in love.
You know how crazy people getwhen they're in love, they're
eating off each other's platesand licking off each other's
spoons.
I'm in love.
I'm sorry I could get in troublehere soon.

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I've been up since 4 47 in love.

Speaker 6 (18:19):

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Right now I'm so pregnant.
It's I've been with the Lord.

Speaker 6 (18:29):

Speaker 2 (18:33):
You've been up to something brother.
You sticking out.
I am man.
About to bear down and push that thing that comes.
Out's gonna look just like it'sfather.
I promise I'm pregnant.
You ought be pregnant.

Speaker 6 (18:51):

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Listen.
I've learned this.
I've learned this two peoplestart getting intimate together.
Somebody's getting pregnant orelse they're trying real hard.
Not to make sure you're nottrying real hard.
Not to make sure you don't justwant touched by the Lord.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Say that

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Spiritual contraceptives

Speaker 5 (19:16):

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I wanna be touched by the Lord.
I just don't wanna sell out.
I wanna be ministered to by theLord.
I just don't wanna give him allthat's spiritual contraceptive,
probably all.
What are we doing right now?

Speaker 5 (19:38):

Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're not looking for an experience in him.
We wanna bear fruit onto hisname and in this, the father's
well pleased that you bear andyou know them by there.
And if you bear much fruit,he'll prune you.
So you bear wow.

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Be fruitful.
And we hear Ooh, Adam and Evegonna get it on and have some
kids.
The whole con the whole concept.
And the whole motive ofscripture is his image.
What he's saying is be in me, bein me each seed after its own

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kind, come together in me to onereproducing me and everything
that comes forth is in my image,cover the earth with my glory.
Be fruitful, multiply.
He's talking about his image.
Cover the earth with his glory.
He's not talking about just gohave a whole pile of kids.

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Multiply who I created you to betill the whole earth is filled
with my glory.
They're in a garden placethey're tending and keeping it
be fruitful.
Multiply.
If you can't live in a one roomapartment that long, you can't
start having children, what'sgonna happen in the garden.
It's gonna spread out.
They're gonna tend it and workit.
And it's gonna spread out.

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It's God's garden of delight andparalyze paradise.
Who's man, God's crowningcreation and glory.
The expression of who he is, themanifestation of God.
That's who man is on the earth.
Let's just get over that.
That's not heresy.
The manifestation of God in thenew covenant reborn man filled
with God's spirit is themanifestation of God.

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The Christ in you is the hope ofglory.
Glory means any made, known,realized.
Manifestation of the attributeof God is the glory of God
revealed Christ in you.
The hope of glory Christ in you.
The hope of God being seen andknown, Be fruitful and multiply,
cover the earth with his glory.

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So what happens?
They start having children andthey spread out in the garden.
The Selma says, what is man?
What is man?
That thou art mindful of him.
Look, I don't get it.
What is up with man?
Why do you dig him?
Why do you keep your eyes onhim?
Why is your gaze upon him?
Why do you show him favor?
Why do you give him extrachances?
Like what's up with man thatyou're mindful of him.

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That you'd visit him.
That you would give him dominionover the works of his hands.
The Psalm is just saying, whatis man angels look and wonder.
I imagine the devil's thinking,what is it about this man?
He's jealous.
We got redemption.
He's lost forever.
We can walk in God's image.
He threw it all away.

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That's what Todd was talkingabout yesterday.
His whole goal is to deceive.
The people made in the S of Godand make them look just like
him.
That's right.
That's his whole goal.
The whole war is eat seed afterhis own kind.
That's why you know him by theirfruits.
That's why you know a man and,and what's on the inside.

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By what he's bearing witness ofon the outside.
Even his words give away hisheart Outta the abundance of
the, the mouth speaks.
You said it for the third timeand you say, oh, I was just
playing.
No you weren't.
It's in your heart.

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And we learn to live on thesurface.
We learn to live shallow.
I know we do because one of the,one of the biggest comments I
get, which is not flattery tome, it breaks my heart.
Actually they say what I likeabout you.
You're so real.
And I'm like, what are we?
What's everybody else?
What are you?
Half and half hypocrite,somewhat in putting on a jacket.

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Come on.
The biggest testimony shouldn'tbe.
Cause man, I like you cuz you'rereal.
You be real too.
And if other preachers aren'treal, don't let that make you
not real.
Don't you let where their heartis and decide where your heart

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is.
Let your heart be found in him.
See, that thing happened to me along time ago, I got invited to
a pastor's meeting and I wasonly safe for two years, but I
already was a full-time pastor,but I'm green to them.
I'm young in the Lord.
I already moved in all the giftsof the spirit.
I had seen miracles.
A lot of the pastors didn't evenbelieve in healing.

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Didn't believe in a baptism.
Holy spirit.
I woke up the day.
I got saved, praying in tongues.
So you got a hard time talkingto me about it.
I'm innocent.
I'm naive.
I go to the pastor's meeting.
I think it's gonna be the mostspiritual experience in my life.
I'm like, man, I get to go inhere with 80 pastors.
Newspapers were there writingarticles, unity meetings, county

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pastors coming together forunity.
It was the biggest farce and thebiggest tragedy I ever
experienced since and before itwas all about who's who it was
about the paper publicity.
It was so cliquey.
You couldn't get close to peopleand everybody had each other's
stereotyped for their well, theycame from, I went week after

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week, my heart grieved and I wasin trouble.
I was letting my heart getoffended.
I was letting my heart get hurtby men.
I was getting justified becauseI was right when you're right,
that makes people wrong.
You're outside the kingdom.
That's not righteousness.
Righteousness makes wrongthings.
Right?
Righteousness looks at those menwith hope and a future in a

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destiny and praise from theirpotential.
Not their blight.
Jesus didn't come right.
If he came right, we're wrong?

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
He doesn't rule his kingdom with a CEP of right.
It's righteousness.
It makes wrong right

Speaker 5 (25:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
But I started realizing holy spirit.
Wasn't in the prayer meetings.
I started realizing it's who,who I, I took a little personal,
cause I cry out my heart.
I'm in a place of intercession.
Anyway, I'm leading intercessionevery day.
I'm interceding for hours for mycity and for the body of Christ
hours.
I'm in intercession.
And I go to a prayer meeting.

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My heart is raging in prayer.
Do you understand?
And then I, I, I whisper infather.
I thank you.
And before long I'm crying and Igot things in my heart and
vision and now I'm praying andeverybody's freaked out and all
the leaders are, are saying, youneed to put your pastor on a
leash.
He's an emotional list.
He's trying to get everybodyemotional.

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And, and I'm like, what are youtalking

Speaker 5 (26:41):
About?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Like the world's dying and people don't
understand and Jesus' Lord.
And he shed his blood and ah,and I'm like, right.
I'm like, I'm probably like, ah,and they were overwhelmed.
And I decided, okay, so I justwon't pray.
I'll go.
I just won't pray.
So then I said, I'm not evengoing.
And my pastor said, no, you needto go.

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Just keep going, have faith,keep going.
I don't have faith.
I said, I don't have faith.
I'm wasting my time.
I'm I don't want to go.
And I kept going anyway, cuz hesaid, please go.
So I went and, and this guystarts praying and I lifted my
head and I thought, Jesus you'rehere.
No I'm not being mean.

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I, I, I was like, oh mygoodness, you're inspiring.
That that's amazing Lord.
And there was a glimmer of like,oh my goodness, you're in the
prayer meeting.
And then I didn't even know theguy and he's praying.
And you could just tell the Lordwas in it.
And the leader, the one there'sfour leaders, the leader said
right in the middle of hisprayer.

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Okay.
Okay, cut it off.
Cut it off.
It's eight o'clock if we don'tstop now, Larry will never get
through the front nine.
And I went just what I heard youdo, but it was a dangerous place
for me.
I went, Ugh.
And I'm expressive and I'm not acloset closed door.

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Kind of guy just rode off mychair and cried on the floor.
Not saying I should have, but Idid.
And 80 guys walked by me likeI'm a kook

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Three

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Or four men rubbed my shoulder and patted me while I
was balling.
I get in my pastor's car in theback seat.
He has a visiting pastor withhim and I'm in the back seat.
The whole way to church.
Wha that wasn't the Lord.
It wasn't holy spirit grieved.
He is bigger than that.

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See, I've had to pass theirinters cause I've led
intercession for years.
And intercessions can get funnywith this thing that they, they
leave the service and cry allafternoon.
Your Sunday service.
They cry, inters sisters.
They cry all afternoon.
And then on Tuesday you see'emand they're still almost crying.
And you say, what's going on?
Oh, holy spirit is just still sogrieved.
Cuz pastor cut the worship off alittle too soon.

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And I'm like, holy spirit.
Hasn't even cried at all aboutthat.

Speaker 5 (29:12):

Speaker 2 (29:13):
You cried about that.
Cuz you've been praying aboutour worship and you have
interest and desire and it's allemotional.
You're you're grieving for threedays and you're you're izing.
Holy Spirit's way.
Bigger than pastor cutting theworship off five minutes early.
He's not crying for 48 hours.
That's you stop it.

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I've just been around it a lot.
I was caught up in it.
I'm in the back of the Jeep.
Pastor's driving with hislittle, with his guest pastor,
his little friend.

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And I'm

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We pull up to the church.
I get out.
He says, are you all

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Right?

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I'm not exaggerate.
And I was heading to a room.
There's a place I would alwaysgo when it was intense.
I'd go to the nursery.
It was prophetic for me just togo be like a baby, a child.
I'd take the most seriousmarriage counselings to the
nursery and I'd put'em on thelittle rockers

Speaker 5 (30:22):

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I would, if the marriage counseling was intense
and I'd sit down in my officeand say, guys, let's just go to
another room.
I'd take'em right in thenursery.
They're like, why are we comingin here?

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Because

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In a minute you're gonna be like little kids are,
we ain't even gonna have anappointment.
You know how talk in counseling?
When the door's closed andpeople won't repent, I'll say,
well, if you won't repent andyou won't look at each other and
cooperate, then we might as wellstop.
Cuz I can't even help you.
You're both bound in yourselvesand selfish.
And I'm gonna ask you if you'reeven born again.
That's how I counsel.

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Where do you say you'vesurrendered to Jesus and you
hold such a right to have aright against your own spouse,
to where I can't even counselyou.
Cuz you're so busy in rightnessand wrongness that I can't even
reach you.
But yet you called theappointment.
Are you born again?
Pastor?
We've been coming to your churchfor three years.
Coming to our church for years.
Doesn't make you born again.
Christ likeness is born again.
I don't see him at all.

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That's how I pastor.
So you might not want to call anappointment with me.

Speaker 5 (31:25):

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I'm gentle.
I'll smile.
Sometimes

Speaker 5 (31:32):

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I've had occasions where I've asked the lady to
please kindly step out of theoffice and close the door behind
her and the guy's sitting theregoing.
And then I tell him, I don't,I'm not here to control you.
You owe me nothing, but Ichallenge you to man up and be a
man of God and listen to me forabout five minutes.
But if you wanna leave, I'dsuggest you leave now.

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No, I'm good.
I'm good.
Countless young man sat thereand cry their eyes out.
I honestly don't have one memoryof anybody cursing me yelling
and slamming the door andwalking outta my office.
Why I don't have a need tocorrect anybody.
I love people.

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And I hate to see him deceivethemselves when they can live so
much more.
So I'm bold enough to tell youthe truth for your sake.
And heaven will go with mebecause he knows my motive.
I have no need to be right inyour life.
I just wanna see you do well.
And when I know you're crashing,you better believe I'm

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desperately crying out.
You know what?
Most of us do clam up and stopcommunicating cuz we're
intimidated and we don't want,and they're already offended and
we don't know they're deceivedand they're spiraling and
somebody needs to intervene andsay, Hey, So I'm a pastor.

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I have that authority, usuallythat position and it's almost
expected.
So I really get away with it.
But here's why I get away withit

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Because

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Of love you.
You say it for them.
Are you with me?
You say it for their sake.
I went in the nursery.
I'm back to my pastor's storyand that awesome.
Holy spirit.
I'll take it right back whereyou were.

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You can't do that on your own.
Amen.
I've been talking too long and Itold two other stories.
So you just, what?
We're back at the nursery.
I lay on the floor and I, for 30to 40 minutes, I'm sobbing on
the floor.
I'm being spiritual and I'mbuilding a case against the

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pastors in my mind.
And as I'm crying, I'mremembering all the things I've
experienced week after week inthe meeting and I have a serious
indictment and I'm a prosecutingattorney in prayer.
I sit up on my knees and put onmy intercession voice

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Father.
I

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Lift these men before you

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Are throne.

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That's what I did,

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Father.
I

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Lift these men before you're throne and he goes

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Sh

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And I went and cried and fell back down on the floor.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Woo.

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Cause I really got shushed by the Lord

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And

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I cried hard for a few minutes.
Not long, few minutes.
And in my heart, I said, why didyou do that to me?
He said, Dan, you were onlygonna pray for them men because
you've located.
What's wrong with them?
Well, first thing he said isDan, what you're seeing in them,
men has nothing to do with you.

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You

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Keep your eyes of me and go after what I've called
you too.
And I cried hard at that causethat was stern correction.
And then this is what he said tome as a father, Dan, you've been
looking at the men and you'velocated, what's wrong with them.
And you were only gonna prayfrom the place of what you see
wrong with those men.
If I let you pray from thatplace, it won't be very long.

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Something's very wrong with you.
And I lost it and I cried and Isaid, what would I be?
If you didn't father me, I wouldbe sure was right.
And I'd be so right.
I was wrong.

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Might even take the time tobuild a ministry on being right
and attract everybody else.
That's

Speaker 5 (35:49):
Right.

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And we'll just have a rightness party.
What would we do if he didn'tfather us guys, if you're not in
communion with him, if I'm notin communion with him, how can
we expect him to intervene?
How would we ever hear that kindof correction?
How would I ever be at my bedcrying not to go to the mission

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field and holy spirit revealthat it's my frustration towards
the church.
I'm pastoring.
That's birthing the motive to goto the mission field.
It's not the Lord.
It's discouragement havingchildren.
If you're not communing with himand talking to him on a daily

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basis like that and being onewith him and thanking him that
he loves you.
Not hoping that he loves you.
He already proved he didthanking him.
He loves you.
Thanks for being a father untome.
Holy spirit.
I receive you in my life and I'mopen for your wisdom.

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Thank you.
You only speak what you hear andyou don't even speak on your own
authority.
You are the will of God reviewedin my life and you'll reveal
Jesus and you'll manifest Jesusand you'll bring glory to his
name through my life.
Holy spirit I you to you.

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Yeah,

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It would be amazing.
You know, it would be amazing.
Wake up in the morning and situp on your bed.
And instead of just yawning andburping or passing gas or
whatever we do, you, youactually look at your clock and
go, wow, six o'clock that camefast.
But you know what?
Lord, your grace is amazing inmy life.

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And you've taught me how not tocomplain.
And I'm done dreading my workand I'm done thinking it's a
grindstone.
When I see now it's a privilegein a mission field and there's
people all around me.
I'm gonna walk in the lighttoday as you're in the light,
cuz you're empowering me.
You've got my eyes fixed on you,father.
I used to not appreciate my job.
I thank you, God that I have aplace to work.

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I thank you for my boss.
If he knew who he was, hewouldn't be living and act in
the way he is.
I'm done being mad at him.
I have compassion for him,father, he's lost and doesn't
know you, but you're in me.
And I'm asking somehow you giveme influence in his life and
shine father.
I thank you for Billy who I workbeside hand in hand.

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I haven't been the greatestrepresentative for a long time,
but things are changing cuzyou're doing the work in me.
You are teaching me the truth ofwhy you're in me and man, I'm
gonna have a great day withBilly.
Thank you for your redemption.
I am pumped.
It don't even feel like sixo'clock now.

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Yeah.
Young people, school agedpeople, college aged people.
Could you imagine waking up inthe morning and sitting on your
bed instead of going, oh man,Wednesday, two more days.
Don't even came in the weekendman.
And oh, and I got science today.
Come on.

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Wouldn't there be a whole lotbetter to sit up on your bed and
say father, I just thank you formy school.
I thank you for the kids in myschool, my peers, my age group,
those teachers, God would youbless the teachers today with
wisdom?
Would you guard their heartsfrom frustration?
I know a lot of my peers don'trespect and honor and appreciate
God.
I think we're missing what theprivilege we have.

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And I'm just asking that there'dbe a supernatural favor on our
school today.
God and Lord, I thank you forempowering me and I thank you
for giving me insights andanything necessary to reveal
your glory.
God, I thank you for who you arein me and I thank you for
another day at school.
All of a sudden you get the faceof Jenny and you go Lord, what

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about Jenny?
And all of a sudden you seedomestic violence in two adults,
just freaking out and you see alittle girl in a corner crying.
Now you go to your locker.
You look down from here to thatrope and there's Jenny at her
locker and you hustle down thereand you say, Hey Jenny, how are
you?
I'm okay.
Listen.

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I feel like there's some seriousdomestic stuff going on with
your parents.
You're afraid they're gonnasplit.
I feel like you're reallyworried.
You've been crying a lot.
How do you know?
How do you listen, honey?
I've been with the Lord.
I've been praying.
He showed me your family.
He showed me you curled upcrying.
I was sitting in a

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Corner.
Can

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You know?
It's okay, honey, it's Jesus.
He loves you so much.
He's gonna walk you throughthis.
We're gonna pray for yourparents.
And most of all, he's gonnateach you how to be strong and
live in a healthy perspectiveand not be overcome by this
trial.

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Ah,

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Who knows that is way more than possible.
And many of us can sharetestimony after testimony, after
testimony of those kind ofthings.

Speaker 5 (40:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
I worked in a warehouse.
Those guys are mean, most ofthem are mean the 11 that came
out of the closet and declaredthey were Christians.
I had to get ahold of myself toeven believe they went to church

Speaker 5 (41:07):

Speaker 2 (41:08):
And just understand that they were humble enough to
confess.
They were Christians cuz my lifeso affected'em they came outta
the closet and said, Hey, we'vebeen going to church the whole
time.
And I'm like, I almost reactedlike what?
Now I'm going to get a forklift.
And I'm like, Hey Mike, what doyou need?
Everybody needs something,everybody.

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Well Mike, listen, man, I justneed a move.
You know, it's the job, but I'mnot pushing.
You I'll get around to it.
But if you can just sit thisskid in the aisle, I need a
whole skid.
It will help me a lot, man.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll get to it when I can.
That's just a warehouse.
It's his job.
It's what he's supposed to do.
And he gives everybody that askshim something a hard time.
So you could learn to resenthim, dread him, hate him or

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fight back.
So guess what?
I'm just done with that.
Cuz Jesus is in me now.
Yay.
So now I have a different answerand a different view.
So I'm like, Hey Mike, it'll beokay, man.
We're gonna have a great day.
Okay.
Just thanks for the skid.
I go like this and I say, Heyman, you know what?
I just saw.
What do you mean?
What?
You just saw?
Bam.
Bam, bam grown man mean threeseconds ago.

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Woo.

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On his forklift, bawling in the aisle.
Unheard of warehouse.
You don't cry.
Men eat your lunch when you cry.
I wrapped my arm around him.
I said it's okay.
I just saw that.
It's the Lord.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
It's

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Time to look to him, man.
You've been so frustrated, butit has nothing to do with your
job.
It has to do with home and itcan work out stuff.
Fueling a fire that you've beenhoping goes out.
You've been putting logs on thatthing, man.
Dramatic.
Come here man.
It's okay.
I can't believe you're not.
Jesus is real dude.

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What do you think?
I just have theology.
He lives inside of me.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I tell so many stories from a workplace cuz
they're fun.
Cause if you're not careful, ifyou're not careful, you let
things get on your nerves.
Instead of living with newnerves,

Speaker 5 (43:13):
Come on,

Speaker 2 (43:14):
You slowly let things bother you cuz you justify the
scenario in rightness and thenyou miss living in
righteousness.
And all of a sudden you build acase against somebody that it's
living in deficit.
Instead of having mercy on them,you're bothered by them cuz
you're taking their lifepersonal.
Instead of his life personnelintimacy with God changes all

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that.
You can't commune with him inthe bedroom and, and be in love
with him unless you're in atotal delusionary place.
It just doesn't work this way.
See cuz this is the truth.
Nobody on the planet truly hasthis and doesn't have this.

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The evidence of this is this andthe evidence of this is this.

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Nobody

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On the planet has loving one another without this.
Cause the whole reason for thisis this.
Come

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On, you get it.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
I remember a young guy would come to work.
He had purple spiked tear and itwas in a Mohawk and he had the
sides completely shaved.
So you know, preachers say that,boy's just looking for
attention.
He's just this and that.
And they're so busy trying todiagnose him that they fail to
even value him.
If we're not careful, he runsfor me.

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Like I have leprosy.
He hears me talk about Jesus.
He's gone.
I wear a Christian t-shirt hedon't even look at me.
Like I can't even get to him.
He's on another team.
He runs from me like I have aplague.
I remember my orientation.
They said go around the room andshare a little about yourself,
where you're from.

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And, and, and the guys that wasunbelievable.
They'd be like, they'd stand up.
They'd lay the, uh, um, they'dmumble and barely talk and sit
down.
They got to me.
I'm like, Hey guys, my name isDan.
And uh, actually I I've beenpastoring for the last two
years.
And I just felt like gettingback in the workplace, working
with my hands.
Nothing's wrong with pastoringactually, you know, I had good

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income there.
I just gave it up.
I felt like I wanted to comehere and work.
So I'm excited to get to knowyou guys meet you guys.
Uh, I love the outdoors, but asfar as he said my hobbies, I
just love Jesus.
He has transformed my life andthey're like,

Speaker 5 (45:37):
,

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I'm not exaggerating.
When we got up to leave theorientation, there's two doors
in the cafeteria.
They all saw which door I washeading to.
And like cattle, they're allgoing out this other door.
Like it was that extreme.
When they called out the namesto pick the teams, every time a
team got filled and I wasn't onit, they were like, yes.
Ah, and when I got called on theteam, everybody was going, you

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got the cuckoo On the day I leftthe head guy called a floor
meeting, honored me and said, ifwe had a warehouse full of this,
man, it would be a supervisor'sdream come true.
We know he is been an asset anda blessing to every one of you.
And this is his last day in caseyou didn't know it.
So you could give your regards.

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But we tried to offer him apart-time position, never in the
history of this company.
Have we done part-time to justto keep him here.
We offered it to him, but hefeels like he has to move on.
We're sad that he's going, butwe sure enjoyed that.
He was here.
Please give him regards beforethe end of the day.
And they treated me like I hadleprosy when I got there, my

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team said, we feel like we'relosing our dad.
What are we gonna do withoutyou?
I said, you're gonna live forJesus and you're gonna run well
and you're gonna stop all thenonsense.
You're gonna manage your moneyright too.
Right.
Cause I was always on him aboutmoney.
And they were like, yeah, dad.
Why.
Cause it's just not your job.

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It's your life in Christ.
And, and I remember he was sick.
The guy with the Mohawk was sickand he had the flu symptoms and
he was gonna leave and somebodywas moaning on his team, up at
the desk and they said, well,he's cutting out cuz he's sick.
We're gonna be a man short man.
We ain't going to get paidnothing there.
We're gonna lose big if he goeshome and I'm like, man, I, I

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wish I could talk to him.
I just wanna pray with him andencourage him.
So what happens?
I pick an order.
I take off, I'm pulling myorder.
He's got an order.
He's getting three here, twohere, three here.
I'm getting one here, one there,two there.
So I'm like, and I'm comingaround and he's up the aisle and
I'm coming and he's like, he'scoming.

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So he's just, he's just workingand I'm coming there.
Ain't no stopping me now.
So I didn't need nothing rightthere.
But I pulled in front of him andI jumped off and I said, Hey
man, listen, I know we're on theclock and I can't talk long, but
listen, I know you just, youavoid me.
You stay away from me and stuff.
Look, I heard you were sick.

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And uh, I know you just, I don'tknow.
It's my Christian t-shirts freakout and stuff.
It's your impression of God andno man, listen man.
I said, no, no.
And right then It was so random.
It, it sounded ridiculous.
I said, oh my goodness, I knowwhy you got your hair like that
and why it's purple.
He got mad.
He said, what?

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What about my hair?
He thought I was gonna bereligious and hit him with a
diagnosis.
I said, oh my goodness, you didthat because it breaks the heart
of your mother.
He said, what?
You know, you're breaking yourmother's heart, wearing your
hair like that because she beatyou and bashed you with the

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Bible, your whole childhood.
And she said, the devil saw thatGod saw that.
Well, you just broke.
God's heart.
Well, the devil's pleased now.
And she hit you with languagelike that, your whole life.
And you resent her and youresent God because of it.

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He

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Was non-functional

Speaker 5 (49:15):

Speaker 2 (49:21):
That?
Sure.
Beats getting mad at him.
Sure.
Beats judging him for hisappearance.
Sure.
Beats paying him back andavoiding him.
Well you don't.
Yeah.
I'll just stay away from youtoo.
I don't need you either pal.

Speaker 5 (49:34):

Speaker 2 (49:38):
I said, listen, man, I need to pray with you.
I don't think you need to leavetoday.
Jesus is gonna touch you.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Laid hands, right?
Like this on him.
I wanted to get him up high.
I got him a fire.
God freezes him in the aisle.
Forklifts are blowing by.
We need to get moving.
People are coming.
They're gonna be blowing theirhorns.
It's a high pace.
Crazy place company was smart.
They paid you incentive.
They paid you for what you gotdone and put you on a team of
eight.

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So everybody kept each othermoving or they kill you in the
parking lot.
They were smart.
He's standing there like this.
I'll never forget it.
As long as I live, he's just inthe aisle.
And I'm like, Hey, I shook him.
Hey.

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He's like, and

Speaker 2 (50:23):
He looks at me and he goes, it was the funniest thing.
He's got this purple Mohawk.
It's straight up and it's brightpurple.
And he has no hair beside it.
And he goes neat.

Speaker 5 (50:34):

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Neat.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Neat.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
And he must have said neat, like five times and I'm
chuckling.
And I'm like, yeah, God is soneat, man.
Listen, you gotta get on yourequipment.
We gotta get outta here.
I'll see you at lunch.
Like we can talk neat man.
Yeah.
Neat.
He never went home.
We got to fellowship talk andhis heart shifted.
How cool is that?

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Let just workplace guys, butwatch this to just want God to
use you that way.
Isn't the answer to become onewith his heart is the answer
because then you'll always seethe boy clear.
Sometimes we pray these knock'emoff their high horse prayers.

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Cause our hearts are a littleoffended.
One of the reasons we have ahard time in marriage situations
believing in seeing change.
If somebody's coming to yourhome group and it's sweet little
Sally, she's the preciousnesslady.
She's the most precious lady inour whole church.
And we're just tickled.
She comes to our home group, butshe's got marriage issues
because it just seems like thesesweetest ladies have these Ogar

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husbands sometimes.
And then what happens is we getoffended at that.
And we think, how could thatsweet little lady, how could he
not see?
And then the guys are resresentful thinking, man, if she
was my wife, I'd take care ofher and love her.
That's what guys do.
And they get envious and covetand jealous and they think he
doesn't even know what he has.
She's a gift.
And he's just abusing her.
And I don't even can't believeshe stays with him.

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So then she comes to your littlehome group and she's sitting
there and right before you leavehome group, you're like Sally.
I mean, Sally is, you know whatI mean?
She's just the sweetest lady.
She shines with the countless ofJesus.
She's tender like flowers aren'teven in their season, she walks
by and they just

Speaker 5 (52:24):

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Sally.
She's just Sally.
She's amazing.
And because she's so precious,you analyze that.
And then you stop and you say atthe end, you say Sally honey,
before we leave house things athome and Sally goes well, and
that's exactly what we do though, in a bad way, we go, oh and

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you start praying for Lord.
Would you just come and comforther Lord?
Would you just bring her peace?
It sounds so spiritual.
And it feels like compassion,but nobody's realizing she's
letting where her husband isn'tdecide where she is.
And now she's just broken.
And all you're saying is, ohman, we know why you're broken.
Cuz if I had to live with that,man, I'd be broken too.

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Or I'd have done shot him bynow.

Speaker 5 (53:18):

Speaker 2 (53:20):
And now you can't even pray for Sally, cuz you're
caught up in the sentiment ofSally, but it sounds spiritual,
but nothing changes.
Cuz when you pray for thehusband it's cuz you're ticked
off and you pray all these Davidprayers chop up his arm, break
his ankle, gouge out his eyesAnd rarely does anybody in the

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home.
Just slip to their knees andpray for Johnny.
Who's so lost and take Sally bythe cheeks and say, honey, look
at me.
I am so sorry that he doesn'tunderstand no, no.
Look at me, Sally honey, listen,I understand it's been a
challenge.
He's not hitting you.
Right?
He says knocking you around.
You don't feel endangered.
Physic.

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No, it's just emotional.
Okay?
Listen, you can't any longerallow where he's not to allow
you to be where you are, wherehe's not is not who you are, who
Jesus is.
You're amazing.
Sally, this is trying to Rob youof everything.
You're called to productivity.
Watch you're no less anointed,no less a daughter, no less a

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woman of God, no matter whereJohnny's choosing to live.
And all of a sudden she, I seeI've seen this a thousand times
cuz it's the way I pass her.
And I separate'em from theirright to be broken and pull'em
in to why they can be okay.
And actually have compassion onJohnny to where they're not
living personal and takingJohnny personal and letting one

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man decide their life.
When his name's not Jesus it'sJohnny.
I never read where Johnny was.
Lord

Speaker 5 (54:57):
.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
So why does Johnny have the right to govern her
life?
Cause she he's husband.
Well, who is Jesus?
Is he greater?
Do we seek ye first?
The do we love less?
Our mother, father, spouse,children houses, land and yes,
our own life.
Well then this is dead on.

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You gotta turn a person'sperspective in the midst of pain
cuz what's causing pain isperspective.
I remember walking in at night,middle of the night to an
adultery situation cuz I'm apastor and I got called and they
were friends and my wife said,you can go.
And I said, she's the only onethere honey.
And her kids are in bed.

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You okay?
She said, honey, I am totallyokay.
My wife is the best.
She knows me.
You ought.
See the notes.
She writes me.
My wife knows me.
She's not a YouTube fan.
She doesn't just see me preach.
She's my wife.
I keep this right here.
This is just one.

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She writes them all the time.
Hope you have the best weekendever.
You're a true man of God.
I doubt God can find many men.
If any, on the surf with yourintegrity character in heart,
You want that from your wife?
Cuz she lives with me.
She gets loved by me in Jesus.

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And I'm not talking sexual, I'mtalking conversations.
I'm talking person, I'm talkingpersonality.
I'm talking disposition.
I don't know how to raise myvoice at her.
I don't know how to put herdown.
It's not inside of me.
I know how to be patient.
I know how to be loving.
I know how to be kind.
And when she went through eightyears of identity crisis, I

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wasn't weak and I didn't fallapart.
And when she wouldn't come tochurch and I was a full-time
pastor, it doesn't change truth.
See, you might not know all thestories.
You might just see me smile andfigure boy, he's got a special
gift.
Maybe I got a perspective thathe gave me through his word.

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So maybe I'm not a hurtinghusband.
Maybe I'm Christ in me.
I learned this a long time ago.
Truth doesn't know.
Time.
Eight years a day is a thousand.
A thousand is a day.
So what's eight years.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Hello?
You

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Say eight years.
Truth doesn't know time.
Why do you let time dictatetruth?
Because self centeredness isattached to your perspective and
you don't know how long you cantake it and how long you can
bear.
And if they don't change by now,I'm about ready to fall apart.
We need a breakthrough.
Keep praying.
I don't know how long I can dothis.

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That's called just bearingalong.
That's not loving.
That's not seeing clear.
That's just raw enduring.
Here's the cool thing.
In those eight years, both mykids were running wild too.
And it looked like you blew abomb up in my family.
I'm not insecure.
It's not cuz I'm a bad daddy.
It's because everybody needstheir own revelation and has to

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have their own intimacy and walkout Jesus.
So if you see me pumping gas onthat day and you say, Hey Dan,
how you doing?
I'm not saying, man, you gottakeep me in prayer.
My wife won't even come tochurch.
My kids are running wild and Ifeel like I'm all alone, dude.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
If you don't pray, God don'tmove.
I don't even, I get thoserequests a lot, but I don't even

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know how to think that way.
I'm okay.
Why?
Cause he's Lord.
And I have a reason for being,you're not gonna live that way
without intimacy.
You're not gonna live that waycuz of willpower.
You're gonna live that way.
Cuz of perspective through truthIn that season at eight year

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season, I got more phone callsthan you could number from
people that were married, cryingover their marriage and their
spouse going through a tinyfraction of what I was in the
middle of.
And they were wiped out, fallingapart and ready to give up a
fraction and I'd give them ananswer and they'd say, well, I
can't expect you to understand.
You're not in my shoes.

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And I wouldn't exploit myfamily, but I'd just minister
truth.
But they couldn't receive it cuzthey believed I have it so good.
That's why I'm full of joy.
Joy comes from my salvation, notmy wife, Jesus talked about

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marriage and it wasn't this wayfrom the beginning.
And they said, why did Mosesthen give a certificate, George?
He said, it's cuz the hardnessof your heart, just get real.
It wasn't this way.
From the beginning, We don'ttalk about this much.
It gets a little funny in theroom.
I actually feel it alreadybecause so many of us have been
through so much and we've madeso many decisions.

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Some of us have been divorcedtwice, divorced, whatever I'm
just saying, listen, you can putall that away and under the
blood, but let's keep gettingunderstanding and let's be
different people and let's notrepeat same things and live from
same places.
If it doesn't produce life, I'mnot so interested about where
you've been.
I'm interested about where youare and where you're going.
It's the president in the futurethat I'm speaking into.

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Amen.
You say, well I feel nervousright now.
because I, I filed for divorceand I got divorced.
No, no.
What I'm saying is you look atyour motive.
You look at your life and youlook at what would happen.
If you'd apply this to yourlife, would you live the same?
And if you say no, then go afterthe truth and become different
or you're gonna hold onto yourstory, hold onto your decisions,

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protect yourself through youranalogies.
And you're gonna be inself-defense and not even
realize it your whole life,because you feel marked by this
and the way people see you andhow they, and you're always in
this uncomfortable place.
Are you with me?
Yes.
I hope you're okay.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Intimacy with God.
Get along with him.
Let's look at something.
I wanted to turn your Colossianschapter one.
I'm gonna just stop all that Iwas doing right there.
I want to go to some scripture.
I'll just look at, I don't havea ton of time.
God, you're good.
I dropped those little thingsabout my family on you.
Just so you can relate.

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So sometimes you have to tellpeople where you've been just
enough so they understand you'renot just popping off and sharing
theology.
Like have you seen passion in methis week?
Little bit.
I, I can't help it because it'snot my theology.
It's a revelation.
It's my life.
There's nothing I preached youthat I haven't walked through

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and don't walk in daily.
It's my life.
It's not my doctrine.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
That's

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Why I preach it with all my heart.
That's why I'm so excited andpassionate.
That's why I get silly.
That's why I go yay.
All the stuff I must do.
People come up to me and they go, uh, and I say, what do I do
that a lot?
They say you do that a lot.
I'm like, okay.
Cause I'm not thinking about it.
It's not a gimmick.
It's not a preaching style.
That would be weird.
Uh

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
I always, I feel like I have to rooster Crow when I
get excited.
I, I I've I've rooster crowedwhen I'm preaching already past
a friend of mine just sent me alittle emoji rooster thing on my
phone.
He said, he said, uh, I knowpower loves going.
Well, you were probably feelinglike this or something sent me a
little rooster Crow thing.
Cause I was in his church and I,and I did a little banty strut

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and I was strutting around

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Banns are bad dudes, man.
They're just this big, butthey'll take on the world.
She'd be banty Christians,Colossians chapter one, verse
21.
I want you to see this guys.
I, I I'm talking soft in generalright now, but I can't be
passionate enough about howimportant it is that you and I

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see this truth, stay in thistruth and don't let anything
take us from this truth becauseit's the doorway to intimacy.
If you don't see yourself theway God sees you, you will not
have the confidence to be withhim intimately.

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Here's another thought that justhit me hard.
If you don't see God simply forwho he is through his son and
you don't have a clear view ofGod, you won't be inspired to be
with him.
Either.
The two things that keep peoplefrom being with God, a wrong
view of him or a wrong view ofthemselves.

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It's the, it's the two things, awrong view of him, a wrong view
of themselves.
It's hard to tell this storyabout my granddaughter because
people hear it for where they'renot.
And we are just geared in ear tohear and oh boy, well that's not
me.
And grandpa will say, well thatwith me or our grandchild will
say, well that ain't mygranddad.
And, and, and, and we compareourselves among ourselves

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instead of say, wow, there's abar.
I'm going for it.
That's possible.
Let's put this under the bloodand let's go after this.
I have an amazing relationshipwith my granddaughter and I
hadn't understood it for a longtime.
I didn't understand it.
I, I said, Lord, I've never metanybody like this child because
I'd hear stories of her at home.
And it didn't even sound likeher.

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And then my daughter would say,she's not always the girl you
think and stuff and say it infront of her.
And she'd kind of do like this,but around me, my
granddaughter's 12.
This is not an overstatement.
I'm not embellishing.
This she's 12.
She has never put me in theposition from little up as long
as I can remember, it's this isgonna sound unreachable.

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It, it wipes me out.
But the revelation is whatwrecks me.
She has never put me in theposition to be stern with her.
If grandpa says, no, honey, Idon't think that's wise right
now.
Or the time she says, okay, I'venever one time had my
granddaughter go.
No, but no, but grandpa I wouldexpect her to, But she's never

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done it.
And never even came close.
People used to say, but well youprobably got her so spoiled.
I don't even know what you mean.
I, I just love her, but here'swhat she's never gotten from me.
She's never got stern from me.
She's never got one expressionof disappointment.
She's never got one negativetone out of her grandpa from the
time she was born, not one.

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So guess what the Lord showedme.
See, cuz she was nine.
This is when I learned this.
She was nine.
And I said, Lord, what is itabout this girl?
Cause I remember when mydaughter was in labor, I went
into prayer and it was probablyin the top three spiritual
experiences I've had in my life,praying for my granddaughter and
uh, and everything.
I remember prophetically comingoutta my mouth by the Lord I see

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in her life is prettyfascinating.
She's nine years old.
We drive eight and a half hours.
One way in a car, spend twonights in a hotel and drive
eight and a half hours back in acar.
So she's 17 hours in a car andtwo in a hotel nights, not one

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remote complaint out of a nineyear old.
Well I've never seen anythinglike it even close to my whole
life.
I would expect her to say, arewe ever gonna get there?
are we soon there?
She's sitting Indian style withher belt on looking at me,
talking, laughing.

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We're being silly about things.
We were doing a thing about thecows and cuz we're driving
through Virginia on 81 and it'sjust pastures and cows for five
hours.
And I'm like, oh my goodness.
Look at all the cows.
And, and then she'd be like, ohwow, cows, grandpa.
And then we'd be sitting andshe'd say grandpa look green

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pastures everywhere.
We were just cuz they wereeverywhere.
We were acting, acting like itwas the first one we saw.
She's sitting Indian style,giggling talking and we're
talking the whole time.
She looks at the clock and shegoes, grandpa, we're already
driving four and a half hours.
It doesn't even seem like anhour.
We're over halfway theregrandpa.

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And I mean, she's just thatprecious, not a remote
complaint.
17 hours and two nights in ahotel.
I get home and I said, Lord, I'mlaying on my bed.
And I was actually weepingbecause of my experience with
her.
And I'm like, what is it abouther?
Like how do you do that?

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Is it special gift grace?
What?
He said, no, Dan.
He said, it's the way she seesyou, Values you and respects
you.
She's got not one negativeimpression from you to her.
She values who she sees you tobe so highly.

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It brings the best out in herbecause she honors you.
It's the importance of menseeing me

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
For

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Who I am.
And it's why my name has been soprofane.
How many people?
Well God, well if God, well Godshouldn't uh, well I'm just
first.
Well how do I know?
It's even in the Bible.
Well God just seems, I don'tknow.
He killed a lot of people in theold Testament.
I don't know.

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I just feel like, well God, God,God,

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
God,

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I'm not over exaggerating.
Even though I'm dramatic.
He said, it's the way she seesyou.
I'm not saying her.
Mommy's a bad mommy.
But I am saying there's timeswhere there's raised voice and
would you knock it off?

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You need, well, you wouldn'teven do that.
If you were around your grandpa,you only do that to me.
And something gets etched awayevery time because the motive
has nothing to do with love andinnocence gets chipped away and
all of a sudden you're justgetting corrected cuz you're
wrong.
Not cuz you're more than that.
All of a sudden, you believe youhave the ability to get on

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people's nerves.
All of a sudden you actuallystart introvert in, in
inadvertently believing peopleonly like you when you're doing
right.
And all these little messagesget sent as we're growing up and
it's through our parenting andit's through our lives together.

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You might find this hard tobelieve you, you know where I
got the revelation to never dothat to my granddaughter.
You say Jesus.
Nope.
My grandpa, I did his funeralwhen I was 48 years old granddad
was four months shy of a hundredyears old.
My 93 year old grandmother wassitting there at the funeral.
And I started boasted ongranddad.

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I used to say that I had astorybook grandparents.
They were nursery rhymes,storybook grandparents.
My grandpa was a Christian man,but he wasn't like us.
Todd.
He wasn't, he didn't have therevelation.
He wasn't super expressive.
But man was he a Christian man?
He never spent a day waking upwithout him by his bed.

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He never wanted to touch hisgrandkids in the flesh.
He wanted to touch him in love.
I have six cousins.
I'm the seven there's sevencousins.
He had seven grandchildren.
When I shared at his funeralthat I have not one memory Of

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discussed frustration, raisedvoice or tension from granddad
to me in 48 years, my sixcousins lose it and cry
uncontrollably cuz it was alltheir testimony.
And none of them really thoughtabout it deeply.
We just kind of took it forgranted.
That grandpa was a special, niceman.
But all of a sudden it hit usthat even in our moments of

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giving him opportunity, myoldest cousin came to me.
She was always called the blacksheep.
She was in girls homes by age13, pregnant by 15, 16 drugs,
mass.
She was always the black sheep.
She came running up to me andcried and she said, I have the

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same testimony from grandpa andeverybody called me the black
sheep.
And he's only ever been gentleto me and loved me and kind he's
never treated me for what I didever.
And she's balling.
And she said, now I realize whyI wouldn't smoke around him cuz

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I didn't want to hurt his heart.
Cuz I knew he loved me.
I realize why I wouldn't sweararound him.
Cuz I knew it would hurt hisheart to see me that way.
And I just respected him so muchthat it brought the best out in
me when I was around him.
That was my cousin crying at thefuneral.

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So I said in my heart, if I hadthat with my grandpa than it is
possible, I'm gonna have thatwith my grandkids and I'm gonna
let that legacy get passed on.
So it's well and alive thatlegacy right now at age 12.

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Now I'm stirring.
I'm stirring my daughter formore kids.
It's just not working.
Well, my son got married a yearago and I'm gonna start asking
my daughter-in-law every timethey come in until she's just so
fed up with me that she getspregnant.
I'm just gonna be like, are youpregnant?
Hey, take her chin.
You're glowing.
Are you pregnant?
I just got every time until shejust gets pregnant, they got
twins, strong running theirfamily.

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I'm like good.
Give us two or three.
My wife and I each havesomething to hold.
It'll be awesome.
my daughter.
She's like, I'm like, shedoesn't want no more babies.
And I'm like, what are youtalking about?
Read your Bible.
you're supposed to be anolive plan at the table.
And around the chairs is allyour little olives.
You got one chair filled girl.
I, I see at least six chairsaround your table.

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Like what are you doing?
Read your Bible.
I took her out to eating her andmy son-in-law and, and she said,
dad, did you just bring us outto eat, to talk me into having
children?
I said no.
To command you to have children.
I am your dad.
I said, I realize you're30 years old and you'd never
listened to much that I've said,but if you would listen to this,
you'll do well.
I'll just mess it with her.

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She's she was so like done withit.
She's like dad just drop it.
Just stop.
I said, Nope, I'm not stopping.
I said to my son-in-law listen,buddy, do you want children?
She said, dad.
I said, no, no he's yourhusband.
Let him talk.

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
You want children?
He said, actually I do wantmore.
I said, oh, I said, man, where'syour voice, your authority and
your wisdom in this marriage.
Boy I said, she's sittingthere like, so I go like this.
I go.
So how many do you really want?
Be honest.
He said, he said, I would loveto have two more.
I said, dude, where's yourwisdom.
She's sitting right there.
I'm just playing with him.
I said, tell her you want fourmeet in the middle

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
She said, dad, just stop.
Just stop.
I got an amen outta myson-in-law.
I said, and, and guys I'm gonnadrop it.
Now.
She said good.
I said, I don't see a betternight than tonight.
to get this thingrolling.
And he said, amen brother.
And she went, so I needgrandchildren to love.

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So, so what I do is I just loveon everybody else's kids and
yeah, I gotta stop here.
Let's look at verse 21, man.
I do.
I want grandkids back

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
I

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Three weeks ago, my wife said, my wife said, she
said, I don't think the kids aregonna have any babies.
She means my son and his newwife of a year.
And I said, what do you mean?
They said they're gonna havekids.
I think they're too in love.
They're too enjoying each other.
They're just so buddies andthey're, she's 30, he's 28.
And I just, I think another twoyears is gonna buy.
They're just having so much funtogether and is beautiful to

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watch.
I just, I'm not gonna have myheart set on him having kids.
I just honestly don't see'emhaving kids I was gonna
say get the behind me Kimbut I did.
I didn't I'm like I said,really?
I said, uh, you don't thinkthey're gonna have I said, I
think though, she said, no, Idon't think so.
I said, well then you know whatshe said, what?
I'm gonna call start calling youSarah.

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She said, oh, stop.
I said, come on Sarah.
so you know, a coupletimes in a row, I called her
Sarah.
So I'm trying to change herconfession that my kids will
have kids.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
I think it would be easier to believe that than
Sarah man.
I'm just having fun with y'all.
I figured I could have fun andwe can laugh a little since I've
been like slicing your heartsand pieces for two days.
Isn't it good to get cut by theLord though?

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Isn't it it's like Todd said,you're like, huh?
You, I call it holy ghostanesthesia.
See the reason you're laughingright now.
You should be nervous cuz theknife's coming like when he gets
us this silly it's cuz what he'sabout to say is so sharp.
He doesn't want you to bleed andhurt.

Speaker 5 (01:17:03):
No,

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Just I'm kidding.
Actually.
I'm not kidding, but

Speaker 6 (01:17:10):
It's like

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
you look over and you say, are you pleading?

Speaker 6 (01:17:16):

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Look at verse 21 of Colossians one and we'll close
with this.
I'm done with this.
And uh, and, and uh, yeah, thisis my last session with you guys
too.
Uh, no it is, but uh, thank youfor your hungry and humble
hearts and letting me talk soplain.
I would anyway, I would becauseit's all I know.

(01:17:45):
Right?
But thank you for receiving it.
I sat through session aftersession.
I sat through Todd's sessions.
Honestly.
I'll be honest with you guys.
Can I be real Frank and honest?
I could tell when I first gotup, some of you were a little
taken back by the message.
Just a little bit like whoa,what?
And, and the, and the secondsession, I thought it was
deliverance meeting.
I had 20 different expressionsat one time out there.

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I could see him.
And I was like, just looking up,but I, I, I saw it sinking in.
I saw it making sense and I sawit becoming simple and it just,
we just see, these are likeidentity, crash courses.
Like we want you to get a wordof knowledge and see the sick
heel.
But man, we want you to wake upand have an unveiled face and be
in fellowship with golf.

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Because if you wake up and havean unveiled face fellowship with
God, you're going to see thingsin your life.
Yeah.
So that's our goal.
So we kind of trick you in powerand love, but it's actually love
and power.
Just power and love sounds likea better flow, but love and

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power.
It's like doing to be, or beingto do you be to do.
You don't do to be just don'tever get it backwards.
You live outta your being andall you're doing flows outta who
you've become.
You don't do to qualify.
You're qualified through him.
You become through him.
You be forgiven.

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You be loved.
You be accepted.
You be free.
You be fulfilled to beempowered, to do what those
things do.
Here's how it works right here.
This thing right here, I'll wrapup with this.
And if you do this in faith, youhold onto this truth.
You'll you'll do well.
Are you with me?

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Yes.
And you he's talking to you.
Not me.
You no.
And you he's talking to all ofus, isn't he?
And you, you can't get aroundthis and you who once were
alienated, separated estrangedin another world alienated, you
were on another page.
So was I, you were alienated andnot only alienated, you were

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enemies to everything.
God stands for.
Why?
Because he's love.
And we were selfish.
You get, it says, if you lovethe world and the things in the
world in first, John, the loveof the father is not in you.
And the, and the things in theworld are the lust of the eyes,
the lust of the flesh and thepride of life.

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You love the world and thethings in the world, the love of
the father is not in you.
That's the word?
Lust of the eyes, lust of theflesh and the pride of life.
What he's saying is if youinvite me in and get intimate
with me, who I am, will sotransform you you'll see
different.
And those things won't be yourreality.
He's saying he himself willchange us.

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If we yield to him now, one dayin 23 years, did I wake up?
Okay, gotta be a Christian,gotta be a Christian, man.
I gotta do good today.
I don't even know what thatmeans.
Stop

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
All that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
Okay.
I can't sin today.
I can't sin.
I don't even think about sin.
I think about righteousness inJesus and him loving me.
Think about holy spirit livinginside of me.
I think about how life is agift.
I'm not waiting to fail.
I'm manifesting to be a son

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
I'm becoming yeah,

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Come on.
Good hearted people wake up andtry not to sin.
Stay sin conscious.
They always take their own testsand grade their own scores.
And they always end up failing.
If you realize Jesus took thetest, gave you a passing grade,
you've got a diploma flip, thelittle thing and move on in
Jesus.
Grace will begin to empower yourlife to live everything.

(01:21:41):
Your heart desires Starts righthere.
And you and me having once beenalienated in enemies by our
minds and the way they wereworking.
See, we were alienated enemiesin your mind by wicked work.
So if God can renew my mind andchange my mind and change my
perspective, he can narrow myeye and bring forth life.

(01:22:02):
So our motivation and the wayour minds work, the motive of
our heart, the why behind ourlife alienated us, put us on
another page than God, the leftfield and made us enemies to
everything he stands for.
So wouldn't you say thatChristianity is a whole lot more
than praying a prayer to go toheaven, but it's given your life
and getting your mind renewedand being renewed in the spirit

(01:22:24):
of your mind.
Yeah.
Not formed to the world, buttransformed by renewing your
mind.
It means thinking like you neverthought before, so you can prove
the good acceptable when perfectwill of God.
What's it mean?
So you get on page with God andstart seeing what he sees.
Ain't that awesome.
This thing is a far cry fromjust bless me.

(01:22:45):
Lord provide for me and protectme.
That's called discourageChristianity.
When life's not going well,confused quandary.
I thought he loved me.
Well, I prayed.
What did I do wrong?
See, when you're doing that, theenemy says, wow, they don't have
an identity.
They don't even know why he's inthem.
They're an easy target.
Boom, bam pop.

(01:23:07):
Yeah.
And you resist the enemy.
Standing steadfast in the faith.
The perspective we all live by.
It's what makes us one people,you come from a different
background.
You like it fast.
I like it.
Slow, loud, soft, whatever.
There's so much diversity inthis room.
You couldn't even lay it allout.

(01:23:28):
Some of you are called thethings that other people don't
even have in their heart.
They're called to other thingsthat doesn't make us different.
That's just a diversity.
But through diversity, weactually find true unity.
Why?
Cause whether I drive home to PAand you drive to wherever, when
we wake up tomorrow, we bothwake up for the same reason that
makes us one.

(01:23:51):
We wake up to love.
We wake up to pursue his image.
That's the unity of faith.
It's not yet, but I go to thischurch.
Yeah, but I was raised in thiscircle, but I, we would all
agree in the beauty and power oflove and we're creative for his
image.
And he said, follow me.
I think we can all agree thatthere's a grace that can change
our lives, empower our lives tolive in a different place than

(01:24:14):
we've ever lived.
That's what makes us one.
We can all wake up for hisimage.
We can all wake up to love.
Tomorrow is Sunday churches allover the nation are gonna have
services.
You could fill every single seatin every church across the land.
And it won't change the world.
But if you become love, it hasto.

(01:24:40):
So going to church is inChristianity.
Christ likeness is so why do weassemble ourselves together to
stay focused, sharp and stirredup in love and good works.
Hebrews 10.
I'm trying to close here and I'mnot doing good.
I keep little pointers.
It's my last time with you.
See now I'm getting sentimental.
I'm trying to drag it.
No, I'm just kidding.

(01:25:01):
So we were all alienated.
We were all enemies by the,where mines worked yet.
Now he has reconciled us.
Doesn't say we changed our mind,says he's.
He reconciled us.
That means he saw us for morethan we were thinking and
producing.
Do you realize on your darkestday, he didn't lose sight of
your creative value and whoyou're created to be on your

(01:25:24):
most willful adventure.
He didn't change his mind aboutyou.
He said, I know you from thebeginning and I know why you're
here.
You just don't know, forgive him, father.
They don't know what they'redoing.
Now, watch this yet.
Now he's reconciled.
Watch in the body of his fleshthrough death.
So how'd he reconcile us throughthe cross, through the death of
Jesus Christ.

(01:25:44):
He put all that.
We were on him.
Why'd he do that?
Here it is.
After the comma to present youuhoh present.
You pull off the tarp.
TA da unveiled, present youlook, look what he did.
holy, ah, blameless man,an above reproach in his sight.

(01:26:09):
So truly according to the word,guess what?
The blood accomplished took sinaway.
Lamb of God, take away the sinof the world.
Well, if he takes away the sinof the world, then what?
I guess we ought to be sons.
If he cleanses therighteousness, I guess we ought
to be righteous.
I guess we ought to start wherehe finished.
And if he took all this away topresent us, holy blameless and

(01:26:32):
above reproach, that's ourstarting point.
That's how you go to bed.
That's how you wake up.
That's where you camp in faith.
And that's where grace meets youand produces these things in
your life.
Without you trying to do thosethings, you become those things
because of the blood cuz theblood is speaking better things

(01:26:53):
than the blood of able are youwith me now?
Watch now.
Here's where you come in.
Verse 23.
So did you just see through theword that through his body
you're presented holy blamingover throats on God's side.
That's how he sees you period.
Now watch here's where you comeinto play.
Just living by faith verse 23.
If indeed, if indeed youcontinue in the faith, grounded

(01:27:20):
and steadfast watch and are notmoved away from the hope of this
gospel in which you heard, whichwas preached to every creature
under heaven of which I, Paulbecame a minister.
Here's what he's saying guys,through the body of his flesh,
through death, he washed thatthing away and made you holy

(01:27:41):
blameless and above reproach.
If you continue believing it anddon't let anything change your
mind.
That's where you come in.
That's the faith establish.
So condemnation, guilt,condemnation, shame, never the
Lord.
I did not come to con so why dowe go there?

(01:28:01):
Why do we receive it?
Why do we say well, I'm just socondemned when his goal's not
condemnation, condemnation,guilt, condemnation and shame.
Anti finished works.
They're never in the tool beltof God.
He doesn't use'em ever guilt.
Guilt is you saying I'm notforgiven condemnation?

(01:28:23):
Is you saying I'm worthy to bejudged?
Shame is you saying what I'mashamed of is still who I am.
That's why I'm ashamed.
I just read holy blameless.
Above reproach.
You start there, you stay there.
Don't get moved away.
Don't even let a slip pull youaway.

(01:28:48):
You run right back and say,father, I thank you.
That is not who you created meto be in God.
Those things aren't in my heart.
And I realize I just in God, I'mjust separating right now.
And I thank you.
And he goes, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you for the blood.
Thank you that I'm clean.
Thank you God.
Holy and blameless.
You say you'd respond that way.
If you slipped, how would yourespond?

(01:29:08):
Lose your identity for threeweeks.
Three days, three months, threeweeks.
Call four friends cry, go overit 10 times.
No, no, no.
You run to him.
The days of naked and ashamedare over.
You've been fully closed.
Amen.
Okay.
I'm done.

(01:29:30):
Uh, I'm not.
I'm just stopping cuz of time.
I'm never done.
I just stop, but I'm done.
Let me, yeah, no, it's all good.
It's just Jesus.
Let me pray over you guys.
Stop.
Stand up.

(01:29:51):
Everybody.
We're gonna pray.
Yeah.
It's the word?
It's good.
The word's good.
It brings life.
You guys bless me last night,man.
We talked about it back there.
How I was preaching a coupledifferent times and everybody
just went, ah, it just jumpedup.
Ah, and I was like, oh man.

(01:30:12):
And you know what it is?
It's our heart's embracingtruth.
It's our it's click.
It's like, yeah, this is doable,man.
This is, this is reachable.
This is simple.
This is this.
Ain't deep.
This isn't complex.
But man, it's profound.
It'll change me.
Yeah.
I can live this.
I can believe this.
That's what I felt happeninglast night.
I felt like God, just sessionafter session was just so and
into the ground of our heart andall of a sudden we're like,

(01:30:34):
yeah, I see it.
So I'm gonna pray a simpleprayer.
I'm gonna press simple prayer,but, but sincere father, let us
continue to see what we see.
You came to open the eyes of theblind to give a sight.
Satan blinds, the eyes of thosewho don't believe you found
believers.

(01:30:55):
And I thank you.
Their eyes are open and theywill always see this truth.
And if in any way they liveoutside this truth, you
yourself, holy spirit bring'emright on course.
And let this conviction remainall the days of their life and
let'em run well because of whoyou are in their lives and let
'em stay right where youfinished.
I bless them.

(01:31:15):
And I thank you in Jesus name.
Amen.
Amen.
Love you.

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