Bishop Noel Jones - After All This It Has To Happen

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At www. Do City Refute ladot org. Bishop Noel Jones presents this
provocative, challenging and life changing messageto encourage, inspire and motivate you to

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keep marching toward your destiny. Nowreceive this pressure from Bishop Noel Jones as
it flows from the violence of heaven, to saturate your soul. In the
Book of Romans, Romans Chapter five, beginning at verse one, continuing through
and including verse five, and incase you haven't noticed, we have been

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on a saga called hope, andtoday I solicit your attention to this particular
passage. Therefore, being justified byfaith, we have peace with God through

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our Lord Jesus Christ, by whomalso we have access by faith into this
grace, wherein we stand and rejoicein the hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but weglory in tribulation, also knowing that
tribulation worketh patience and patience, experienceand experience, hope and hope. Make

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it not a shame, because thelove of God is shed abroad in our
hearts by the Holy Goost, whichis given unto us. Now I know
this, he sangwiches tribulations and patienceand experience between hope, the hope of

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the glory of God, and hopemaketh not a shame. But he opens
by declaring the marvelous working of Godby justification through faith and the peace we
have with God. And of coursethey argued whether or not it was the

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peace of God or peace with God. And we can rectify that very quickly,
because peace with God is the workof Christ. On Calndary, peace
of God is the operation of theHoly Spirit through sanctification. You have peace

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with God before you can ever achievethe peace of God. Because peace with
God all of us have because it'srelational. But the peace of God,
all of us don't have it yetbecause it is the work of the Holy
Spirit leading us into sanctification. SoI get peace with God because of Calvary.

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Once I believe on Jesus Christ andthe Gospel, I have peace with
God instantly. I don't work forit. Jesus worked for it. And
the peace of God is process becauseI can still be in the church and
have peace with God and still don'thave the peace of God. And then

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they argued whether or not it isan exhortation or it is doctrine, and
that argument is based on an oh, just one letter in the word that
relates to peace in the verb,and if it's an omicron, then it's

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we have peace with God. Ifit isn't omega, then we have an
exhortation to peace. But within theconcept of Paul's writings, we have to
conclude that it has to be anomicron, because when Paul writes, he
gives doctrine before he gives exhortation.You're with me, I lost you.

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You're looking at me like nevertheless,I want you to look at somebody and
just touch them and say, afterall this, it has to happen,
after all this, oh, glory, glory now never more clearly does all

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prove that the hopelessness of man wasforever reversed with the resurrection of Jesus from
the dead. The hopelessness of man'scircumstances and the hopelessness that's triggered by the

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decaying and decadent environment could only havebeen reversed by an action that man couldn't
have taken. And what Paul isproving to us, presenting to us for
our consideration, is that the hopelessnessthat we would have experienced throughout our lives

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continually and perpetually has been reversed bythe resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
The breakthrough that is given through theraising of the crucified one now is our
basis for hope, and of coursethat hope has to expand inter faith,

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because without this resurrection, my lifewould drift into despair. And it's only
because I have a platform now thatI never had before am I able to
take hope and expand it into faith. Now many things that you should have

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given up on become possible again becauseof this extraordinary act supernatural might I say,
act of raising Jesus from the dead. So it sends a signal to
me psychologically that many things that Ishould have given up on I don't have

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to give up on because of theextraordinary work of God in Jesus Christ.
Had I not had a standard ora reference point, had I not seen
the supernatural operation of the Holy Spiritraising Jesus from the dead, there are

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some things in my life that Iwould have given up on because I would
have had no standard. I don'tknow if you grasp that many of us
need to see something happen on agrand scale to stimulate us to hold on
to the dreams and the visions wehave because the despair of the decadence and

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decay of our environment, the negativeinput that we have to overcome, many
times cripples us from going forward withthe things that God has placed in us,
because we just need to see somethingspectacular in order to pick up what

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we thought we would give up.It is here where the cross and the
resurrection of Jesus Christ now becomes thebasis by which I feel I order pick
up some things I order that Ishould have walked away from. But because
God gave me a stan, gaveme a reference point, showed me something

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that came from nothing in another circumstance, then it now motivates me to pick
up what I would have walked awayfrom. I never believed, and I'm
telling you this has been quite revealingto me, and it's been quite astounding
in my own personal life as Isearched through this whole issue of hope.

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I never would believe that so muchof my attitude towards life and my ability
to achieve holistically would be predicated onthe resurrection of Jesus Christ. I never
ever thought that the prevailing influence ofCalvary and the prevailing influence of the Gospel

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was so great and so influential inmy thinking that understanding that God raised Jesus
from the dead is now becoming thestandard by which I judge whether or not
I can succeed not only in goingto Heaven, but in realizing the visions

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that I have right here on earthbring you in. The question becomes,
what does the resurrection have to dowith me buying a house, or or
getting into business, or graduating fromcollege, being healed following my vision,

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or even walking in my purpose?I mean, really, the question is,
how does something so mystical and sospiritual have anything to do with the
practical display and expression of my life. I know that believing the resurrection will
get me saved, but what doesit have to do with the rest of

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it? And the answer is thatthe resurrection becomes the single greatest motivator of
hope and faith in a world ora life of decadence and decay. I
mean, the resurrection for the childof God has now become that Jehovah Nissi

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has now become that banner by whichthe individual who believes in Christ can say,
if God has raised Jesus from thedead, then surely this little mess
I'm in help me. Sound man, I need all the help I can
get everywhere. Surely, whatever I'mgoing through cannot ever be measured on the

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level of what Jesus had to gothrough to be raised from the dead.
After all, all of our sinswere upon him, and everything that we
ever did rested upon him. Andif God could raise him from the dead
with all of our depressions and messon top of him, then surely God

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can see about my little vision comingout of the negative family members that I
have a part of. Oh,God blessed, resurrection is proclaimed to us,
and meantime we are surrounded by andif God brought him from the dead,
then he's telling me your situation isnothing for me. And when you

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ever have any doubt or you feeldespair or a lack of hope, then
all you've got to do is lookback and see what I did to begin
your salvation. Uh, Kirky Guard, said Kirky Guard. He said there,
and I quote there. In theresurrection, it's hope becomes a passion

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for the possible, because it canbe a passion for what has been made
possible unquote. I think it's significantto understand that there is a difference between
the passion for what is possible andpassion for what is made possible, particularly

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when you deal with the element ofhome. You see, you can have
a passion for something that simply comesfrom your own mystical desire, based on
a subjective interpretation of what it isthat you want, and it can be
a wish. I wish I hada man, I wish I had a

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woman. I wish I had ahouse, I wish I had a car.
And many times you can wish forsomething I wish I were a billionaire,
and you run the whole imagery inyour mind and you let your imagination
play with what you would do ifyou were but you never got up to
do anything about it. You justwished it, and the wish is suspended

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in this mystical, impractical manner whereit just flows out of you and it
becomes entertainment. Really, you justwish I could see myself. I did
it many times growing up, whenI stood at the gate and everybody was
gone, and I just wish myselfdoing a whole lot of stuff, And
I never acted upon it because Ihad no ground for the wish to stand

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on. The possibility was there,of course, but it was a possibility
that was not grounded in anything significant. You see, It's one thing for
something to be possible and to havea passion for what is possible. But
it's another thing to be standing atthe wishing well and somebody walks up to

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you and asks you a penny foryour thoughts, and you say to them,
well, I am hoping to bea millionaire, I am hoping to
be a Christian. I am hopingto start a business. And the individual
pulls out to you and shows youthe record of what they have done and

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says to you, Okay, nowthat you're hoping to be this, I
can show you how to become it. Now. What has happened now is
you have moved from the passion forwhat is possible to the past for what
is made possible. And what Godis saying to you is without me,

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you have a passion for what ispossible. But I will give you a
passion for what is made possible.Whenever you look at Jesus Christ and you
realize that I raised him from thedead, I have now founded your passion
on something that is concrete. Andwhat I'm saying to you is because he

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died and he was risen from thedead, then don't you allow any of
your dreams to die, but holdthem up before God and declare, if
you did it for Jesus Ah,I expect you to do it for me.
You are here because he was there. That's the reason. That's one

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sentence closes. You are here becausehe was there. He set the precedent
for victory in home, and that'swhat he did. He's a precedent setter.
That's what he does. When hecomes into your life, things that
had never been become precedent. Thisis unusual for you, but it's usual

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for him. It is it issupernatural to you, but it's normal for
him because he sets precedents in yourlife. I can I talk to you
like a you know. You knowsometimes when you look at what God has
done in your life, and onemeasure that it is God is when someone
says to you, did you everthink this would ever happen in your life?

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And your answer is no. Ithought somethings, but I never thought
to that extent. Because when Godis working in your life, he doesn't
just give you from not enough toenough, but he takes you from not
enough to more than enough. OhI knew God would take me to certain

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levers. I always believed he wouldmove, but I never knew he would
move like that. And the reasonis God likes to set precedent so that
other people who will see your lifewill see that God has set precedent for
his children, and anybody who cankeep hope alive will move from the decadent

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decay of despair into the opulent powerof God's great abundance. But hope,
then is predicated by the love ofGod. So hope that is precedent is
by the resurrection. When I seeJesus rising from the dead, I can
send out announcement and save the daybecause I'm getting ready to come up from

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where I am. I expect it, I believe it. I will praise
him for it because it's got tohappen. I feel like having church here.
I'm sure the devil wished he hadnever killed Jesus because that resurrection man,
that resurrection did something to him.Moment says faith recognizes the encounter rather

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the dawning of this future of opennessand freedom in the christ event unquote,
because of Calvary, because of theResurrection. I don't have to limit my
thoughts. They have now become openand they have become free. I don't
have to go through my visions anddecide what's possible and what's not possible.

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I don't have to deal with whatis not as bogged down as what is
bogged down. I don't have todistinguish between what would be most troublesome and
what would be less troublesome. Thefreedom to believe holistically that everything God promised
me and I expect it, Ican still expect it in light of the

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contradiction of my environment. Don't letwhat looks like it's not going to happen
stop you from believing it will.And certainly don't listen to the voice that
says God don't operate like that.He might not operate like that for you,
but if I expect it, you'lloperate like that for me. Because

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what God is saying is I didthat. Oh, yes, I did
that, and I will do this. And the question now becomes is there
anything too hard for God? Ithink it's if anything too hard for the
Lord, And of course that Jehovahin that instance is different from God,

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certainly because now he's dealing within thecovenant with man, and whenever the covenant
is being dealt with as it relatesto God, he uses Jehovah the Lord.
And what he's saying is in youraffairs, can you find anything too
hard for me? And in caseyou have got some bad press about me,

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just going back to Calvary and seewho raised Jesus from the dead.
And when you do that, youwill understand there is nothing too hard for
me to do. All you gotto do is come in here expecting it.
I wish I could talk to youhere. I expect you to bless

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me. I expect you to deliverme. I expect you to bring me
out. I expect you to putmy enemies under my feet, because there's
nothing too hard for you to do. When you look at that word too
hard from the Hebrew, it's pallaand it means simply to be beyond one's

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capacity or capabilities to be. Anotherword is unsolvable or inaccessible. And what
he's saying to us is is thereanything that goes beyond my capabilities? Is
there anything any problem you have thatis unsolvable by me? Is there any

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problem you have that my omniscience can'twork through the difficulties and bring a solution.
Do you have a solution that Godcannot figure out? That's what he's
saying. He's saying. Is thereanything that I don't have access to?
Is there any place that I can'tgo? Is there any place that I

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can't take you? Is there anyheight that I can't deposit you on?
I mean, come on and me, will you tell me puny human being?
Because you're going through something. You'requestioning my capacity, my ability to
solve problems, and my accessibility toanything. God, everything is mine and

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I just need somebody to will expectme to bless them no matter what the
devil's doing in their lives. Ijust need you to expect it. Oh,
I feel God here. It refershere to the things that are beyond
human capabilities because the etymological root fromp L expresses the fact that it goes

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beyond the human capacity. It's atthe point now where it's the unusual,
the stuff that astonishes man. Yes, it wakens that astonishment in man,
that amazing It comes like never aman speak like this man. They were
astonished at what he was saying,and the word astonished here suggests being blown

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in the mind is a mind boggler. It's a mind blowing thing. And
God told me, I'm getting readyto blow your mind. It's what if
I can just get two or threepeople to expect it. I'm getting ready
to blow your mind. If Icould just get two people to understand it

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that I do unusual things. Ido things beyond your imagination. I believe
do things beyond what you can thinkabout. Some things you have dropped because
you don't think you can handle it. You need to expect me to pick
it up. Expect me to turnthe corner. Expect me to cause the

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devil to get off your back.Expect me to make the difference in your
life. If I could get somebodyto waken up and realize I'm a God
who has people, then I mightget some expectation out of the house of
God. Your Saddam, we gotto go to work. I crab,

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he says, and I quote hesays. The real importance of the miraculous
for faith is not in its materialfactuality, but in its evidential character.
It is not, generally speaking,the especially abnormal character of the event,
which makes it a miracle. Butwhat strikes man forcibly is a clear impression

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of God's care or retribution within it. Unquote. It is the evidence that
God is here. And this iswhere my hope is based. It is
not based on the figment of myimagination or a mystical desire to be something
that suspended in outer space. Butmy hope is concretely placed in God.

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So when I start talking big,I'm talking big about God because God is
big. And when I start expectingbig things, I expect big things from
God. What I'm expecting from God. A man can't do what I'm expecting
from God. You can't do.So pardon me if I'm lowering at your

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feet because what I need to happen, I only need God to step in
here because of what is about tohappen proves to me that God is a
part of what's going on. Itis lear than where hope brings and spans
the horizons and opens over a closedexistence. It is hope that now spans

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wide and is not narrowed by otherpeople's dictates. It is not grounded on
what my relatives think. It's groundedon the promises of a God who keeps
his word. And that's why.Now faith then binds us to the power
of God, which is seen morein resurrection than in anything else. Because

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once I get on that resurrection badenwagon, I realize that everything I'm going
through can be resurrected. Every trialthat I face can be resurrection. Every
time I die, I can beresurrected, which means if I lost some
things yesterday, I can get themall back tomorrow. If I've been despised

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last week, I can be praisedtomorrow. So I don't let my children
go and that like they can't berestored. Because if Jesus can be restored
from death, God can restore abusiness, God can restore a job.
God can restore your mind. Godcan restore your addict bound child. Because

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the resurrection becomes the root by whichI stand and I don't have to worry
and the mettle is over, Ican praise God on hope. And so
it's faith that brings us to Christ. But hope is therefore the inseparable companion

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of faith. When this hope istaken away, however eloquently or elegantly,
we have discourses concerning faith we areconvicted of not having any because a person
with expectation and hope is a personwho moves around realizing that no is not

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what I take for an answer.I believe in Yes it can be done,
Yes it will be done, Andafter all the hell I've been through,
it's got to happen. Have Itold you to touch your nighbor?
Yet? All? Right? Aftera while. Faith believes God to be

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true, but hope awaits the timewhen the truth is manifested. Faith believes
that he is our father, buthope anticipates that he will ever show himself
to be a father towards us.That's why the prayer our father. In

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other words, Lord, I wantyou to be a father to me.
Show me your protection, show meyour guidance, show me your provision,
because I have an attitude that willdefy my circumstance. Faith believes that eternal
life has been given to us,but hope will anticipate that it will be

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revealed. So then faith is afoundation upon which hope rest. But understand
this, hope nourishes and sustains faith. When you walk in expectation, you
sustain your faith. One writer says, for as no one accept him,
who already believes his promises, canlook for anything from God. So again,

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the weakness of faith must be sustainedand nourished by patient hope and expectation,
less it fail and grow faint byunremitting and renewing and restoring. That's
what hope does to invigorate faith.So when I come by, the question

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is are you still expecting God tobless you with that job? Are you
still expecting God to lift you tothe next level? Are you still expecting
for somebody to call you for thatnew role? Are you still expecting for
that contract to be written? Yes, I'm expecting it in the middle of

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decadent times. Or why make youexpect it? Remember, God rose Jesus
from the day and if that canhappen, this will happen. I feel
something pushing me right about now,and so faith has the priority, but
Pope, it's primary. I wasover with Kathy Hughes yesterday and doing a

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fundraiser for Ford, who is runningdown somewhere for Senate, And while I
was there, she called me overto meet the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland,
and I said, you know,the Lord knows how to help your sermon
when you're out and about on aSaturday night. And while I was there
with her, she said to me, she said, look at this man,

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and not only is he lieutenant governorof Maryland, but he is a
lawyer. He said, I wantyou to know, this bishop that in
this place right where we are,all we've got here are incredible stories.
This man is a lieutenant governor.But his mother was not a lawyer.
His father was not a lawyer.He was raised by his mama or by

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herself. And all she did throughouther life was wash dishes. She had
three children. One is a doctor, the other is a lawyer, and
the other is somebody in business.And all she did was wash dishes.
But she washed dishes with an expectationthat the God who raised Jesus from the

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dead is going to take my kidsto another level. I might not see
it for myself, but to GodI serve is not a god who is
taken aback by bad circumstance, buthe can raise you up out of your

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circumstance. And when you look whathe did for Jesus, you ought to
look yourself in the face in themirror and said, that's same God is
gonna take me high then I've neverbeen before. Oh God, I wish
I could stop there. But shepointed over to Quincy Jones. She pointed

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to other people in the room,and then she said, let me tell
you something about myself. She said, Bishop, when they talked to me
early in my life, they said, well, you want to buy TV
and radio stations. Do you havea business plan? She looked at me
and said, I didn't even knowshe said what a business plan was.

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So when they say do you havea business plan, she said yeah.
I told him I planned to succeed. Now the rest is history. Can
I preach it like a Fillet takeyour neighbor by the hand and say,
I plan to succeed. I mightnot know how to put a business plan
together, but I prayed to dothe will of God. I plan to

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do what God would have me todo, and my enemies on under my
feet. I planned that no weaponformed against me shall prosper. I planned
to put my enemies under my feet. I needed to say that twice.

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I need to say it three times. I need to say it four times.
Under my feet I plan to bevictorious and an overcomer. Give somebody
five so that's my plan with thehell I've been through its God to come

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to place. I feel like shoutinghere. So in chapter number five,
what Paul does, the apostle doeslike Peter, he enlarges on the felicity
of the justified, and especially oftheir assurance of God's love and future blessings.

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And he opens with her therefore,and he reaches back to the contents
of chapter four and he says,therefore, being justified not by works,
it ain't a work thing, norby ordinances, not by law obedience,
but by faith, that we havethis piece, and this peace comes to

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my soul because it is a pieceof faith that no matter how rough things
are around me, I can havepeace on the inside because the God I
serve is a raiser of the day. And so a justified sinner is in
a peace position with God. Andthis is not an oxact exhortation. It

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is a doctrine that once I believein the Lord, peace flows through my
being because I have peace with God. And this peace with God now begins
to move me to the place ofaccess. Because he talks about this access
now and it comes from the wordof act of bringing to or moving to

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So now I have access with God. So because I got peace with God,
he opens the door and gives meaccess. I wish I could preach
to you. When I look atthe concept of access, it's like I've
got this thing around my neck andI'm going to the concert looking for receipt.

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But because I've got the thing thatsays access to all sections, I
don't have to wait for an usherto put me in the back seat.
But I can walk backstage and somebodysay to me, where are you going?

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And I tell them look at mybadge, and they got to back
up. Because I got access.When I got peace with God, he
began to open the door and theybegan to let me know. I've got
access. Access to the throne room, access to the victory room. I've

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got access to where the players are. I've got access to where the money
is. Don't you know what thisis? Unlimited access? Give somebody.
I five and said, neighbor,God gave me unlimited access. That's why

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it's not just about going to heaven. It's about having something down here.
Can I preach like I feel it? When I heard him say the wealth
of the wicked is start up forthe righteous. What he just said to
you is, no matter what theygot on the street, and no matter

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how rich they are, I justgave you access. Access to the millionaire's
money, access to the millionaire's job, access to the blood's place. You
got access. Shake somebody's hand andsaid, that's what I've been looking for,
an access badge. That ain't myseat, bitty, that's too far

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in the back. I got accessto wherever our water go. That's the
pot gord, I feel the Holygosdo I have a few more minutes in
here? Because of access, Ican now look at my tribulation and glory
in the hope, because I knowmy blessing is on the way. Why

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would it give me access and thenkeep me from getting in the door.
If I got access, the doorshall open, the way will be found,
the path will be taken and deliverand shall come. And after all
that I've been through, it's stock. I'm getting ready to close. But

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between the hope of glory is nowmy trial and tribulation. But tribulation work
at the patients. I'm stress,I'm pulled, I'm in a bad situation.
But on the inside, I rememberthat I have access. So the

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trial, work at patience, andpatience work at the experience, because even
though I'm under in patience is hoopomony, which is I'm under the gun.
But I still have my badge,and I still have my hope, and
I know that weeping may and doorfor a night, but joy is coming

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in the morning. Give somebody highfive and says, stay right where you
are, praise right where you are, Lift him up right where you are,
Call on him right where you are. Don't wait till the battle's open.
Give him the praise right where youare, for your hope is in

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the Lord. Then tribulation work athooper moony and hoopo mooney, work at
docor Maso, and doctor Maso isa proof sigh. So you've been approved,
it's your time. Now they checkyou out, they check your bede

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out, They've run a check onyour background, and now they know that
you have been a prude for thenext level. I feel like shouting here.
I've been through too much. God'sdone too much for me to feel

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like it won't happen. Tell yourneighbor, it's got to happen. I
cried for it, I prayed forit. I'm fasted for it. I
believe God for it. My strugglein it, and it's got to happen,
and in my life got made awayand I rose to say I'm going

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to the next level I expected.I believe it. I feel it.
He's in for it. Lay shoutcoming and shout coming in the shake somebody's

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hand, that's the neighbor. It'sgot to happen. It's got to happen.
Bro's not a condition. Bro isunacceptable. We is unacceptable, unhappy.

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Yeah, yeah, man, Ibelieve home. Put somebody real quicker,
and I say, with all Thot'sdone for me and with all now
have I been through its too?Yeah, somebody knows it. Somebody knows

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it to somebody's asked God to happen. I feel that. I can tell
you it's in the heaven. Lastu U