Bishop Noel Jones - More Than Conquerors

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Episode Transcript

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This is at hand is Romans chaptereight. Romans chapter eight and helped me.
Sound man, I've been cross countryfive times in six days. It's
a little crazy and out of thecountry. It jumped off the boat and
all of that stuff. And Iwant you to notice the closing of Romans

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eight, beginning at verse twenty eight. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that loveGod, to them who are the call
according to His purpose, for whomhe did four. No, he also

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did predestinate to be conformed to theimage of his son, that he might
be the firstborn among many brethren.Moreover, whom he did predestinate than he
also called, and whom he calledthem he also justified, And whom he
justified them he also glorified. Whatshall we then say to these things?

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If God before us, who canbe against us, He that spared not
his own son, but delivered himup for us all, how shall he
not with him also freely give usall things. Who shall lay anything to
the charge of God's elect It isGod that justifier. Who is he that
condemned. It is Christ that diedgave rather that is risen again, who

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is even at the right hand ofGod, who also maketh innercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the loveof Christ, shall tribulation or distress,
or persecution, or famine, ornakedness or peril or sort as it
is written, for thy sake,we are killed all the day long way,
accounted as sheep for the slaughter.Nay, in all these things,

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we are more than conquerors through Himthat loved us. For I am persuaded
that neither death, nor life,nor angels, nor principles, nor powers,
nor anything present or things to come, nor height nor depth, nor
any other creature shall be able toseparate us from the Love of God,
which is in Christ. Jesus,our Lord, I want you to look

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at your neighbor and said, neighbor, you've got life by design, walk
in your destiny who The Book ofRomans is quite interesting. In many circles.

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That is known as Paul's Treatise ofthe Gospel, and of course one
argues, how can it be denotedin any sense as as gospel when he
does not tell us anything of thehistorical geographical relationship of Jesus Christ to the

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world and to the earth. Hedoesn't deal with the uniqueness of his birth
from an historical point of view,He doesn't deal with the uniqueness of his
calling is messianic awakening. He doesn'tdeal with so much of what he did
from historical point of view, butit is still the gospel because what Paul

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does is he goes behind the scenesof the Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John account and gives us suchdoctrines as the doctrine of souteriology, which
includes redemption, reconciliation, adoption,sanctification, and all of the things that

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are not mentioned in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He opens
in the first chapter with the withpointing one barrel of the shotgun against mankind
in general. When he found thatman didn't want to retain God in his

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knowledge, so God gave him upto a reprobate mind, a mind that
could not distinguish right from wrong,a mind that was so confused it couldn't
even distinguish the use of a womanseparate from the use of a man.
What God was saying was, sinceyou decided you want to figure me out

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and put me on trial to seewhether or not you want to follow me,
I will give you a mind that'strial less. Reprobate, and in
the second chapter he turns the otherbarrel of the shotgun against the Jewish people,
and he said to them, youhave had the Pentateuk, You've had

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the Torah, the law. Youhave had the pillar of cloud by day
and the pillar of fire by night. You've had the tabernacle, the temple,
and you still wouldn't serve God.So by chapter three he concludes that
all have sinned and come short ofthe glory of God. He had to

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deal with the doctrine of condemnation inorder to bring us to the doctrine of
justification. And in chapter four,five and six he outlines justification diaconas,
and he's saying that you could nomore justify yourself than Abraham can have a

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baby at one hundred with a wifethat's seventy five, just as impossible as
it was for them to produce Isaac. So impossible is it for you to
justify yourself. He moves from justificationin chapter seven, because having been given
all the graces of God, onemight think that, well, we should

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have it made. I mean,come on, and then he raises the
issue now of the old man fightingto dispel the appointing and the anointing of
the new Man. And he arguesvehemently that when he would do good,
evil always shows up. But thenhe thanks God that he will have victory

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through Jesus Christ. He now comesthen to chapter eight, and chapter eight
becomes the conclusion of his presentation ofthe Gospel, and where I began reading
becomes the conclusion of the conclusion,because now before we leave class, He's

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going to ask us three questions.What shall we then say to these things?
It is interesting, however, thatnow we understand the real reason why
God has brought us into this world, and that is for those who are
the called according to His purpose.His simple reason complicated, simple, it's

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simple, but is that we arepredestinated to be conformed to the image of
His Son. Now, I wantyou to see this very carefully. He
is not predestinating you to anything elsebut being conformed to the image of his

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Son. I dare say now thathas to be the single most difficult job
for God to do, and thatis to make me you might be closer
than I am, to make melike Jesus Seala. Can you imagine the

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enormity of the job to take mewho is so far out and make me
like Jesus. But he has predestinatedme to be conformed to the image of

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his son. Now, obviously manyquestions have to bombard us as it relates
to our lives, because the thingswe have found ourselves in, oftentimes without
having orchestrated them ourselves, have forcedus to deal with things in life that

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we didn't even bring on ourselves.I don't know if your life is like
mine, but I just woke upone day and found that I was a
member of a family that I didnot choose. I didn't choose my mother,

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my father. I ended up beingborn in a particular side of town
that I did not choose. Iwas born at a time in a nation,
and I did not choose the timeI was born. I am very
grateful that I was not born inother eras in other epochs and other times.

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I was very grateful to God.But nevertheless I didn't choose it.
How often is it that we havelooked for someone to deliver us from what
it was that just naturally became ourdestiny. Because if I did not choose

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the family I was in, thenit was destined that I was born in
this particular family, and many timesbecause we will not deal with the fact
that we have come into an unfriendlyand foreboding world that's mixed with all kinds

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of nefarious and evil people that wehave no power over. Neither did we
try in any way or could inany way shape the way they even felt
about us. And yet still wehave had to deal with those things that

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we did not bring on ourselves.I can almost hear rat it's gonna get
rough for a minute. We wereborn, in many instances, to families
in our helplessness, and we hadto deal with abusive fathers, and many
of us had to deal with abusiverelatives and had to endure some abuse that

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we should never have endured, butwe didn't have the power in any way
to make it any different. Idon't care how naked my five year old
or six year old daughter gets.I'm still her father, and she can
never be blamed for my behavior becauseshe is innocent and doesn't have the capacity

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to change me or cause me tobe anything other than what I should be.
But so many of us have beenraised in families that we were abused,
sexually mistreated, physically debilitated, psychologically, and yet still we had no

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power to change it. And itwas our destiny called uncaring mothers who spent
more time on drugs than she didfixing a bottle for her children. And
yet still the child has to comethrough and live through that kind of environment

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that they didn't choose to have anddidn't orchestrate or didn't put together, and
it leaves many times an indelible printon the lib the immaterial personality of that
individual, and for years to come, that individual has to overcome the stigma

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and the pain of things that theydid not bring on themselves. And if
that is so, then that istheir destiny. You've got prejudicial teachers mean
people in general, and who andto mix that with poverty and failure to

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be educated at the right time becauseyou ended up in a situation without any
guidance, a destiny we had nochoice in. I mean, it was
simply handed to us. And forso long we seek to cover our backgrounds,
We seek to hide our backgrounds,and if we don't try to hide

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them, we seek to compensate forit. And sometimes we try consciously to
deny that it even existed, andwe do anything to face directly dealing with
certain aspects of our childhood. I'mtalking to somebody. This, for the

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most part, then turns and bringsus into intense resentment, and we end
up now hating certain people and despisingcertain people. And it's not with a
clean, clear heart that we goto a family reunion. Sometimes we go
with chips on our shoulders and wego looking for folk. Many times we

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haven't even discussed with mother some ofthe things that we have experienced, and
oftentimes we can end up hating herbecause we believe that she was there and
knew it was going on, butdidn't raise a hand to do anything about
it. Must I stop here?Can I keep going? It is?

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And we're bound to it because thereare things that have gone on in our
lives no matter how we scrub withso we cannot scrub away from our intellect
those things that were so painful inour upbringing. And then we decide that

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we're going to bring somebody into ourlives to massage and take away all of
these scars of yesterday's pain, andwe become doubly sensitive, doublely sensitive to
their behavior because something on the insideof us make us particularly cautious when we

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look at them because we have areservoir of negative things that have happened to
us. So I sit across thetable looking at you with suspicion, and
you have never done a thing tome. But I'm looking at you with
suspicion because ain't nobody gonna treat me. I see everybody's something wrong with that.

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And so you're looking at me withsuspicion. And then you have lowered
your level of expectation because you havebeen raised in some difficult and such hard
times, and you will not embraceit as your destiny. You would rather
deny it and push it away.But if you had no control over it,

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then somebody else must be orchestrating andmanipulating and moving the pieces in your
life. And so you look overwith suspicion, and I look back with
suspicion because I feel suspicion coming overthe table. And since you lowered your

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expectation, I'm holding back. Soyou end up getting exactly what you expected
because you didn't go by your strength, but you chose out of your weakness.
It's a good thing to know thatI have come through a part of

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my life that has been awful butthat was my destiny. Now that I
have met Jesus, then something aboutdestiny has got to change. I feel
it is I want to take sometime here. Why does this person who

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should give me security that I havechosen and recompense for the past, continually
cut my heart into And the reasonis I have chosen out of the bundles
of out the bundles of issues.I have not chosen out of the free
spirit of a renewed creature. ButI'm choosing like an old creature, you

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see. But as far as destiny, we've got to we've got to confront
it as a given. There aresome things that you have gone through that
are unchangeable. And so when Ideal with my destiny, I look at
not just the good part, butall of it, because I just read

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somewhere where all things work together forgood. So even though it's painful and
it's unchangeable, I need to acknowledgeit and I need to accept it.
And this is where we begin toexperience the relief of one who was once
a slave but who is now free. What used to be an embarrassment has

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now become a testimony, and whatused to be a weapon against me has
now become a weapon in my arsenal. You thought you would destroy me.
But I can look back over mylife and declare, if anybody should not

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have conquered, it should have beenme. And that's why I'm not just
defined as a conqueror. I'm definedas a more than I want to talk
to somebody here. Ronald me thegreat twentieth century psychologist, said this,

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and I quote he said, thefreedom of each of us is in proportion
to the degree with which we confrontand live in relation to our destiny.
It happened to me. I havesome ugly stories, but it happened.
I don't have any resentment because ithappened. It happened at the right time,

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because I met Jesus and I recovered. I don't have to be ashamed
of it. I can praise comfor it, because it's life by design.
I feel something happening here. Oftentimeswe let movies and our entertainment define

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words for us. The term destinymany times has been reduced solely to the
unescapable catastrophe, some sort of secretdoom and irrevocable ruin. You know that
kind of stuff. It includes that, of course, but it's much more
than that. Because destiny is definedas to ordain, it is to devote,

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it is to dedicate in advance toconsecrate. And when you place that
within the context that you were chosenin Him before the foundation of the world,
the question now becomes, why doyou tell me that, because you're

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saying to me you have ordained,I am devoted. You dedicated me in
advance, and you consecrated me.But you allowed me to come into a
family and into an environment that wasso detrimental to me. It was contradistinctive

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to what I would believe you woulddo if you chose me. It would
seem if you chose me before thefoundation of the world, that from the
moment I got here, things wouldbe wonderful and sweet. But if things
were wonderful and sweet the moment Igot here, I wouldn't be qualified in

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my destiny to serve and bless othersthrough ministry in a sense, can't help
me. You cannot bless me ifyou haven't been to hell and back.
You cannot bring me out if youhaven't suffered some things yourself. So God

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designed my life to go through hellso that I might get the knowledge of
what hell is like, so thatwhen I deal with folk who are in
hell, they know I know whatI'm talking about. Feel the Holy Spirit.
It is an interesting thing here becauseit is design, it is devote

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it's dedicated, And the only reasonyou came through it and you're still seen
when others have lost their minds isbecause he dedicated, He devoted, he
consecrated, and he had his handon you all through it. Feel the

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Holy girls, You're going somewhere.So destiny, then, is a cognate
of the word destination, which impliesmoving toward a goal. God didn't intend
for me to stay in the abuse. He intended for me to move through

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it because he had consecrated me,he had devoted me, he had dedicated
me in advance, and so hewas ordering my steps even when I didn't
have the wheel to determine my steps. He was ordering my steps so that

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the abuse didn't chill me. Theabuse didn't ruin me, the abuse didn't
rent me and devil you thought youwere going to kill me, But I'm
going to waste show. I feelthe Holy fear, God releasing somebody this

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desern. Now we see the twotrends in the different meanings here, because
one has an element of direction andthe other has the sense of plan or
design, And of course these areaspects of the human condition. You were
going somewhere, and there is aplan. Not only are you going somewhere,

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but there is a plan. Andyea, I walk through the valley
of the shadow. I'm a fairno evil, because thou art with me.
Even when I didn't know he wasthere. He was there all the
time, in the room with thatevil uncle. He was there in the

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room with that wicked man. Hewas there in the room where they tried
to turn me out Homosexually he wassaying, Ah, he was there,
and he had consecrated and anointed andsaid, in spite of the hell you're
in right now, I've got aplan and you're going somewhere. I feel

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it here. It was Paul Tillickwho influenced Rollomey, and he defined destiny
as a pattern of limits and talentsthat constitutes the givens in life, because
there were some things. No matterwho you are, there are some things
that are given, like death.Death is a given or a minor scale,

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like the shortage of water or gasprices. That's just a given and
you can't shriek from it. Youcan't turn your back on it. You've
got to confront these limits because whenyou confront these limits now, it brings
out your creativity, that gift inyou that God has planned it, and

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it just so happened for you,just for you. Just touch your chest
and said, just for me,it just so happened for you. To
be who you are. You hadto go through what you didn't like because
God wanted to deposit something in youbecause of the experience you didn't like,

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in order to bring something out ofyou that would destroy the devil's kingdom that
puts you through that in the firstplace. I feel like preaching in here.
Have I told you touch your neighboryet? I think right now is

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a good time give somebody high fiveand say I used to be a victim,
but I'm a fittor now. Ifeel the Holygos. Our destiny then,

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cannot be canceled. Our destiny,might I say it again, cannot
be canceled. Our destiny cannot beerased. Our destiny cannot be substituted or
exchanged. It is what it is. It is what it is. I
am who I am. I've gotwhat God gave I feeling me here,

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So now all I can do ischoose how I will respond to it.
Because destiny is a term that describesour condition prior to sociological and moral judgments.
It's archetypical and it's ontological, meaningthat it's the original pattern or model

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of a work. Your destiny,then, is uniquely yours. That's why
you can't use your fingerprint for somebodyelse's life. You can only use the
fingerprint of your destiny for your life. I'm not trying to live anybody else's
destiny. I can't do it anyway. I can only live mine. And

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that's why I don't want anything that'syours, but I want all of what's
mine and devil I won't get intome onto logical meaning the nature of being
or reality. Your destiny is asreal as you are. It is as

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real as God is, because Heis the designer and he is the life
giver. So it confronts us.I'm just gonna your few levels. It
confronts us on the cosmic level,like birth and death. You can slow
death down by not smoking, maybeby not drinking, but you're sure can't

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stop it. It's coming no matterwhat you do. You can speed it
up by suicide, but death issitting there waiting, irrevocably. Nothing cancels
out the fact that we will die. On a cosmic level, you got
earthquakes and you got volcanoes, andain't nothing you can do about them.

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And here's what the insurance company callsthem acts of God. Insurance company,
you're wrong. I am also anact of God. It does not matter
where you go. You can goto California, run into earthquakes, go
to the West Indies. Ain't nothingbut hurricanes. The second set of givens

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is genetic, and that is justwhat passed down through your genes, and
you can't determine what comes your way. My mother was high jump champion when
she went to high school. Iwas long jump champion when I went to
high school. My son holds thehigh jump and the triple jump record at

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Claremont College, and my grandson,four years old, has a vertical leap
of twenty five inches. And sothat's all genetic. You can't make my
genetics and try to live my lifebecause whatever genetics you got, that's your
destiny. You got to live withinyour genetic proclivity and become all that you

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can be. And now that I'vemet Jesus, he has removed the negative.
Oh, I wish I could preachthis thing. The next set of
gibbons are your talents, because oneis possessed by these talents, and you
cannot deny your talance without penalty.And one name for denial is neurosis.

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Anytimes you deny who you are,you're a neurotic. I didn't say psychotic.
You ain't that bad. The thirdis cultural because within this family that
we were born in, within theworld, it's a given. And the
fourth, of course, is circumstantial. You can't stop the war in Iraqi.

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You can't stop what is going onaround you. Do I have a
few more minutes because that severe somepushing me here and is now I have
to take all of this and cooperateit. When I open my eyes and
understand that what has happened here hasnot happened by chance, but it's happened

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by the hand of God, becauseit begins when he says to those who
love God and a called according toHis purpose, Now all things work together
for good. You thought you weredestroying me, but every time you hit

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me, it was good. Igot news for you, devil. You
didn't hit me. It was Godwho used your hand to hit me in
order to change my direction because itwas my destiny. Ah feel the Holy
Ghost. Give somebody high five andsaid you rejection ain't nothing but direction.

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Shake somebody's hand. Yeah, rejectme so I can find out where I
ought to be. Don't keep mehanging on, take me out. So
godcha pulled me in the place Iought to be. It is here now
that he includes eternity and time.Because of what he does now is he

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moves into eternity, and he bringseternity into time. The chain reaches back
and forward into eternity. Therefore,your future is always better because your future
is not born out of time.Your future is born out of eternity because

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I was chosen in Him before thefoundation of the world. Now, every
link in this chain is a chainthat is founded by divine action. Human
responsibility doesn't rise in this text.This text is all divine action. How

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did I come out of my state? I was called according to his purpose.
This is why I couldn't hang withfolk I wanted to hang with,
Because I was called according to hispurpose. This is why I had to
learn that every relationship that I hadwas not a permanent one. Some people

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are supposed to come and some aresupposed to go, because they are only
here for a purpose to bring meto a certain level. And then,
like the tanks that's shooting the spaceshuttle, after a certain stage, it's
got to fall off. I havespent too much time in my life trying

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to hold on to what needed tofall off. I feel victury coming through
here. So because I wouldn't letit go, God had to take it
from me. The first link hereis foreknown from the word prognosco. It's

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better understood from Acts chapter two andabout verse twenty three, where it says
him being delivered by the determined Councilco U sel and for knowledge of God.
This determinate council here is the translationof a perfect participle and a noun.

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The noun here is Bowley, andit means coo U n Cil.
It means that a co U nCil convened for the purpose of administrating the
affairs of government on a war council. So the co U n Cil came

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together. In this case, theco U n cil was the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I feel some pushing me now.
And what they did was determined acoo u n se l, And that
is a predetermined course of action thatwould best meet the circumstances that they had

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to face in the future. Inother words, before you came in here,
the coun ci l brought your nameacross the best of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It was there that they chose you
in him before the foundation of theworld. Now who did they choose you

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in? Well, the Father andSon did not come to die. It
was the Son rather than the HolySpirit, and the Father didn't come to
die. They selected the Son tohandle Calfrey before he died. You were
outside, but because he's a Lambslain from the foundation of the world,

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they decided to choose you in himbefore the foundation of the world. I
feel something helping me now. Whathe's trying to tell me is I ought
not to sit here and worry aboutmy recent pass because before my recent pass

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was my permanent pass. My permanentpast began in eternity. I feel a
holy spirit, So the devil didn'treally get me first. God had me
before the devil got me because Godhad me in eternity. I feel a

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breakthrough coming here. Somebody's gonna getout of here and tell the devil where
to go. So God had aseal unc is l to decide the son
of God would pay the sacrifice,and the word bowling counsel is described by
the perfect participle to mark out boundariesor limits. That's why God's got a

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limit on everybody in this room that'shis. And I told them in Bible
class last night, and it messedthem up. I got all kinds of
calls when I told him that chasteningis grace. Anytime God whips you is
grace. It ain't just money that'sgrace. But when God can make your

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decisions come back and bite you sothat you don't make those decisions again,
that ain't nothing but the grace ofGod. Don't let me get away,
Lord, I don't want to getaway. I don't want to live a
life that you just let me dowhat I want to do because it says

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I'm not chosen. But when you'rechosen, He'll let your decisions smack you
in the face so that you canturn from your ways and declare, for
God I live, and forgot I'lldie. How much time do I have?
What he says here when he talksabout Horazo the verb tells us these

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deliberations were for the purpose of determiningsomething, and the fact that is shown
in the perfect tense means that hedid it one time and didn't have to
do it again. When I decidedto choose you, I don't ever unchoose
you. I've done it one timeand it's settled in heaven, and I

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know what to do with everything yougo through because I'm the one who's designing
your life. I'm the one whoput it on the drawing board. And
that's why I know the end fromthe beginning, because I'm the one who
mapped out the path. So thecoo U n si l has put forth

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a sea you n sel and becauseof that, I've got four knowledge.
It's not that he looked down andsaw something and then went down to make
it happen. No, he wasthe one who orchestrated it from the very
beginning of your life. So it'snot just previous knowledge, it's fore ordained.

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He fore ordained that that man wouldtreat you the way he treated you.
He fore ordained that that woman wouldact the way he acted. He
fore ordained for you to lose thejob at a particular time so that you
would go into business, because youwere so satisfied with the job that you

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would have never made a move unlesssome happened to turn it upside down.
When it happened, you thought itwas bad. But now that you look
back at it, you say,ain't God good? I feel no holdself.

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Give somebody high five and say,God designed my life. He puts
in it who he wants, Hetakes out of it who he wants.
He takes me higher when he wants, And all I got to do is
ride with him. Just you drive, Lord, and while you drive our
brazier. I feel like preaching here. And whomly he for knew them,

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He also called, and he callswith an eternal calling. Because when God
called you, you had to move. I feel like preaching here. You
had to move. I don't carewho you were with. It's you I
want, but it's Him I need. And I tell folk, don't mess

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around with unsaved, with half savedpeople. I feel like preaching here.
I've told the fellows, don't youfool around them girls that ain't walking with
God like they should, and buythem BMW's and condos because God's gonna call
him back. And when he callsthem again, they're gonna come out of

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there and they're gonna walk away fromyou and your money. And you're gonna
say, well, baby, didnot buy you all this. But when
God calls, you ain't got enoughmoney to keep her. When God calls,
I need to go, know youain't got enough money to hold her
there. Don't you fool around noman that God's got his hand on.

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And if he's not living right rightnow, don't worry about it. When
God begins to move him back,he'll leave you standing where you are because
he calls with an effective calling,and whom he calls he justifies. And

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you can't take it off me.You can find fault with me all you
want to, but when he justifiesme, he puts me in the right
standing with him, and whom hejustifies he glorified. And it's all in
the past. Tense. I feellike preaching in here, give somebody high

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five and say it's already done.I'm just living it out. But God
has already fixed it. Because hedesigned it from the beginning to the end.
So he says, now, letyou know it. I've got to
take you the class for a minute, because we got to answer some questions

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for you to walk out of thisclassroom and get to where I want you
to go. And the first questionis if God be for you. I
feel like great Jack. If Godbe for you, who can be against
you? Shake somebody's hands and neighbor. If God is for me, can

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you do something about it? Whatcan you do about it? If God
decides to take me to the nextlevel, what can you do about it?
If God decides he wants me tomove a little higher. There is
no senator, there is no president, There is no human that can stop

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Gone from taking me to the nextlevel because it's already in his design.
I feel like creature. Let shakesomeone out of his hand. Say God
designed it, God prepared it,God executed it, and it's got to

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come to answer. God, openthe door. Who somebody hollow hoo,
whoo whoo. When it said who, it went down into Hell and it
walked through the corridors. It bockon the Devil's door. It leaned over

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his desk and say, if Godis for those little folcon in Tampa,
Florida. Ho, come on,devil, I got a question to you.
What can you do about it?I'm gonna get a new house,
and what can you do about it? I've got a new car. What

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can you do about it? Igot a fresh anointinglor. What can you
do about it? Door's getting aready over. What can you do about
it? The way it's already made? What can you do about it?
I wait, kill the battles,open a can you raise it now?

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Because my life? If I feelthe hold, I feel like lifting him
up. I feel like lifting himup. I feel like shutting. I
wish I had some help. Comeon and help me. I need somebody.
Come on, a young man,come on and help me. Nita,

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come on out here, come onreal fast. Somebody gives somebody high
five and say who who can layany charge to God's eleck? Who can
find fault and condemn somebody that God'sgot his hand on while you talking about

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me, while you trying to putme down, He's washing me with his
blood. He's why are you tryingto destroy me? He's fixing me up
and making me just like Jesus poo. I feel like prison in here can

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open their mouth when God is cleaningme up? Who can condemn me?
When God is elevated me? Thenhe says, one other thing. You
got to answer this writer, whocan talk, can keep you from your
blessing? He said, if hegive you Jesus, how will he lie

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with Jesus freely give you all things? If you got Jesus, you already
got the best God can jil Andif he gave you Jesus a house,
saying nothing, if he gave youJesus by caring nothing, if he gave

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you Jesus a million, ain't nothing. If he gave you Jesus, how
good husband, ain't nothing now?Because at any time you've got Jesus,
you got the best. That callhas to kill. Give somebody hand find
say life by design. Walk inyour design, Walk in your destiny,

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walk in your anointing, walk walkwalk walk, walk, walk in it.
Crass and fat, laughing it glorisith. It's yours, it's yours,

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it's yours, it's yours, it'syours, it's yours, it's you.

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Hmm yeah, yeah, h mhm. I desired I fore knew it.

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I called you into it. Ijustified you because of it, and
you're already glorified. Who what shallwe then say to these things? If

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God before us, I'm closing mytime as ever, But I point out
to you a real subtlety in thesex. If I run a race and
I happen to win, I ama conqueror. I have one. So

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how do I become a more thanwinner? I mean, if I beat
him by an inch, or Ibeat him by a mile, I have
won. I'm pugilistic. If I'min a battle, I'm fighting and I
knocked the other man out, Ihave one. How do I become a

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more than winner? I need tosend me two brothers, real fast.
I am into examples. Tonight,come here, come here, Come here,
come here, two brothers washed inthe blood, go to church.

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I see his hands raised giving Godpraise. He's got one suit and holes
in his shoes, had to catcha riot. Excuse me, me and
his wife, worse kids, livingfrom hand to mouth. Yet I come

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to church, see him praising God. He's right beside. The brothers,
got everything in the world, livinglarge, beautiful wife, beautiful home.
He's a conqueror because he's washed inthe blood, never had an abusive pass

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never had to fight through snakes andmyriads of difficulties. Mother was never on
drugs. Father never nothing, justhad a picture perfect life. He's a
conqueror. But right beside him,with his hands raised just like his are

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and praising God with the same intensity, here is somebody who had to face
hell every day of their lives.Now he's not just a conqueror, because
if anybody should have lost in life, it should have been him. But

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he's right up in the middle givingGod the glory like everybody else. He
ain't just a conqueror. And Irose to tell you as our clothe,
that Gone has destroyed the devil's hole. Because God does not only raise conquerors,

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He raises more than You. Ain'tjust a conqueror. You should have
been dead, you should have beencrazy, you should have been wasted.
But you're still here because you're notjust a conqueror. You're a more thing.

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Take somebody's head. He designs yourlife. Walk in this design.
He designed the circumstances, the eventslive in that design. Father. Right
now, I particularly reach out throughthe power of your anointing through that person

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in here who has been carrying theburden of the past, seeking with every
move to deny it, to compensatefor, to consciously repress it. But

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tonight, Lord, through the powerof your truth, cause my brother,
my sister to embrace it. Heyyeada Chatau, it too is part of
your design and out of that hellOh I feel it. It's coming of

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future that is going to define everydemonic power. Hey yadah ba chata.
I claim it right now. Iclaim it right now in the name of
Jesus. Embrace it, mix itin with everything else, and watch it

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come out good, good, good, good good because God designed it and
I claim it now in Jesus' name. Give somebody high five and say I'll
see you on the top side.Donna went with all the way through the