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Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm excited. I've been studying the Word and getting ready
to share with you. Then I am just excited to
share with you what God has shared with me. We're
gonna be getting a Verse number twenty four through thirty one.
I'm gonna be reading it out of the NIV when
you have it. Save men.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thomas, also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, one
of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
So the other disciples told him, we have seen the Lord.
But he said to them, unless I see the nail
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marks in his hands, and put my finger where the
nails were, and put.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
My hand into his side again it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Paraphrase. A week later, his disciples were in the house again,
and Thomas was with them, though the doors were locked.
Jesus came and stood among them and said, peace be
with you. Then he said to Thomas, put your fingers
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here see my hands. Reach out your hand and put
it into my side. Stop doubting and believe. Thomas said
to him, my Lord and my God. Then Jesus told him,
because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are
those who have not seen, And yet they have believed
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Jesus performed many other signs, many other signs in the
presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus say,
is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by
believing you may have life, and that by believing you
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may have life in his name. I'm not even supposed
to be preaching about that part, but it just leaped
out at me. And yet that by believing you may
have life in his name says to me, if you
don't believe, you don't get life, you may get existence.
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That by believing you may have life in his name.
But what I'm supposed to be talking about, and we
get on track here, what I'm supposed to be talking
about is in verse number twenty four. Now Thomas also own,
as Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with the
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disciples when Jesus came. My subject this morning is ghosting, ghosting.
Before I finish, I'll make it clear. Sweet lead, swee,
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sweet Heaven lead, stay right here. We thus feeling us
sweet your love, and for these blesses we lift are
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in praise. With our doubt. We'll know that we have
been we when we shall be these please and all
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the people say, Amen, you may be seated. Ledlujah. We
are at an extremely awkward moment in history. In this text,
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we have stepped into the quagmire of an unexpected dilemma.
We are dealing with a an ancient religion. Judaism is
an ancient religion with deep roots and heritage feel not
only with sages, but also with prophets, with prophetic utterances,
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with the Torah that gave an expectation of which a
religion has coalesced around an experience. Religion corealesse around an experience.
If you have no experience with God, then there is
nothing for religion to coalesce around. Religion has coalesced around
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this experience for thousands and thousands of years. It gives
us our understanding of creation. It gives us the unveiling
of the Pentateock. It gives us the unveiling of the laws.
It gives us the unveiling of the sacraments, and the
ordinances and the rituals, and the major prophets and the
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minor prophets all contribute to the continuity of the face
of Hebraistic theology. In a profound and provocative way. I'm
going somewhere. The prophets foretold the future. They foretold what
they foresaw of the future. And yet the future was mountainous,
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with peaks and valleys, And they saw the peaks, but
they did not see the valleys. They foresaw the coming
of the Messiah. They foresaw the captivity that Israel would
go through in Babylon. They foresaw from Genesis three point fifteen,
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where the seed of the woman will rise up and
bruise ahead of the servant, and the servant shall bruise
his heel. They were clear that a messiah was come,
for the prophet Isaiah has said, surely he had borne
our griefs and carried our sorrows. The chastisement of our
peace shall be upon him, and with his stripes we
are healed. They saw that they saw the regathering of
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the dry bones in the valley, forming a nation again,
an army which was prophetic of becoming a nation again.
That Israel would be dispersed, but then be regathered into
an army and coalesced together to fight back and possess
their land. They saw that Abraham, before he died, saw
that his descendants were sojourn in Egypt for four hundred years,
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and afterwards they would come out with great substance. They
saw the peaks. But the texts before you is in
a valley. It is in a valley that is so
barren and so destitute that it has thrown them off.
It comes after four hundred years of silence from Malaki
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to Matthew, where God stops talking at all. And then
in the Gospel of Saint Matthew, God opens up his
mouth and starts talking, not through Matthew, but through John
the Baptist, saying, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand. Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
See that doesn't excite you because you're not bound. But
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if you lived in a society where you were oppressed
in your own country, for the prophet to prophecy repent
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, that is
a message of liberation, and it is a powerful thing.
So they are looking for the kingdom. John told him
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the kingdom was at hand. That they reached out after
the kingdom, and they experienced across neither Isaiah or Jeremiah
or Daniel mentations fully articulate the cross. They talk about
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the kingdom, they talk about the crown. Kingdom is rooted
in the word the king's domain. He's going to come
that John told him the kingdom was at hand. He
never told them the cross was at hand. If you
preach a message that promises kingdom, and people spend three
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years walking away from their jobs and their families and
their friends and travel by foot all over the world.
They are committed to the kingdom, but they are confronted
by the cross. What do you do when you expected
the kingdom and you encounter the cross. Jesus has picked
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the Three the Twelve. The twelve Disciples suggest government. These
chosen men for government had only to debate who's going
to sit on your right side, and who's gonna sit
on your left. Who's going to be your vice president,
he's going to be your sergeant at arms, who's going
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to be this, who's going to be that, who's going
to be the other, who's gonna.
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Hold this road?
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They were fighting, jocking for political power in the kingdom,
and so they gave up their jobs, and they gave
up their livelies, and they followed Jesus. And why not
follow him? Not only was he a king after the
order of David, the son of David and the seed
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of Abraham, but he was also a water walking king.
He was a dead raising king. He was a healing king.
He was such a loving king that he provided miracles
for his children. Why not follow him? They had the
luxury of having not a dictator, but the lover of
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our souls to establish the kingdom on earth. And after Caesar,
that was refreshing, after waking up every morning to the
burning smell of flesh either burned or nailed to a cross,
and the oppressor of Rome, Jesus was a refreshing idea.
And they followed him by foot, not by airways, not
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by Delta airlines, not by American airlines. They followed him
by foot, not even by camel. They followed him by
foot from city to city. As he campaigned for the kingdom,
for the kingdom. He opened blinded eyes for the kingdom.
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He cleansed the lepers for the kingdom. He drove the
Roman influence out of the temple away. To all of
you old school church people, they were not selling chicken dinners.
That is not what the text means when Jesus says
you have turned my house into a den of thieves.
It means that the oppression of Herod had become so
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overwhelming that they were collecting taxes and upselling donations to
the people for them to offer up as sacrifice. And
the government has started ripping off the church, and Jesus
turned over the temples. He acted like a boss. He
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walked in like a boss. They woke him up in
the middle of a storm, and he spoke to the
winds and the waves, peace be steel, And even the
winds and the waves lay down, and they were prostrated
the force. Who wouldn't serve God like that? Then little
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disruptions started happening when Jesus started talking strange things. No
man takes my life. I laid down. If I laid down,
I'll pick it up again. And if you destroy the
temple in three days, I'll raise it up. Confusing statements
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for disciples who signed up for the Kingdom and ended
up with the cross. If you read the Bible from
the past tense of the cross, and you don't go
back before your understanding of the cross, and understand the
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disciples approach to the cross did not have the benefit
of being two thousand years past it. Then you understand
that these men had committed their lives, their livelihoods, their family,
their resources, and their money to following Jesus. Because John
said the kingdom was at hand, he didn't say nothing
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about a cross. And so when Jesus is finally chased
down like a dog and I apprehended like a prisoner,
and then trapped like a slave and beaten till his
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entriols were hanging out, and he doesn't say a mumbling word.
This is trauma. This is scary stuff. This is the
kind of stuff that makes you want to run away.
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This is the kind of stuff that you could not
find in the Torah. There were no scriptures for it.
Have you had ad on through a time in your
life that you could not find? Have you ever had
a problem in your family that you didn't have a
Bible verse for? Have you ever gone through a time
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in your life that you confronted something that you did
not expect to happen, didn't see that coming? Oh, I'm
the only one. Have you ever had something you prayed
against this, and you prayed against that, and you rebuke this,
and you annointed that, and you poured all over here
and you pleaded the blood over here, and the very
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thing that you never thought you would ever go through
in your life slaps you in the face and you
have no strategy and you have no defense and you
have nothing to say because you didn't see it coming,
and it's sent them into trauma and to chaos and
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confusing that Jesus has spent three years building up something
that three days tore down. You can spend thirty years
building something that three days tears down. You can spend
ten years building something that one incident tears down. That's
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why it's foolish to be arrogant, is foolish, to turn
up your nose is foolish. Had like you got it
together and you're so such much, because one incident can
turn down everything you're proud of. You can spend all
of your money and all of your education and all
of your resources building something that one incident robs you
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off and leaves your helplet. One hurricane destroys that beautiful house.
One tornado and you've got water, and it's not in
the pool, it's in the living room, it's in the kitchen,
and your couchs went. How dare you take for granted
the gifts of God. One incident can drop you to
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your knees. One incident can make you say where is God?
One incident can cause you to lose your sleep, make
you traumatize, drive you back to drinking, make you want
to smoke a joy. I came to tell you this
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morning that there will be times in your life when
everything seems to be falling apart. Jesus has put together
this task force sixteen, and he has trained them diligently,
day and night for three years and three days turns
it apart. Twelve men d twelve. Now we're in a
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sense auacing with the twelve where one of them has
committed suicide. Can you imagine spending three years shoulder a
shoulder with your brother in the trenches of hell, casting
out demons, dealing with witches, healing the sick, and raising
the dead, and one of the most trusted disciples that
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you had, who held the money, hung himself and his
guts spilled out in the potter's field. I would say
that was trauma. If you were going to kill yourself,
why didn't you kill yourself when the boss was still here.
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We're already traumatized because we saw our Lord go to
the cross beating and bloody, and then we get the
news that one of our inner circle has committed suicide.
And Peter, who was so loyal that he would cut
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off a Roman soldier's ear and risked being crucified himself,
has now whimpered like a little girl, disguised himself, warning
himself by the fire of the enemy, and denied that
he even knew Jesus it in fronny. How people will
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name drop to your name drops. Oh yeah, Jesus, Yeah,
I know Jesus. Way I didn't know it. Jedu know him, Mama, No,
everybody know him brother and says they ain't gent over
his house. Jesus, he cool, he finds he's wonderful. No,
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I don't know, Jesus. People will name drop to your
name drop when your name drops. Don't expect people to
name drop anymore. If you think they will stick by
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you through a real crisis, you are a fool. Ninety
percent of people will drop you like a hot potato
and act like they never knew you, And they will
text other people about you and tell your business like
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they never ate at your table. I want you to
feel what goes on around the text of feeling of
decersion and the feeling of frustration, and the feeling of unraveling.
And you won't get this message. You won't even enjoy
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this message unless you've been through a time in your
life that everything you expected fell apart and blew up
in your face. Is there anybody in here who's gone
through a time in your life that everything just blew
up in your face and you didn't know what to say,
You didn't know what to do, You didn't know who
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to call, you didn't know where to go because you
never saw it. Nobody prophesied to you about it, nobody
gave you a word of knowledge about it. You just
woke up one morning and oopstrdy is these are the
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guys who saw Jesus do amazing stuff, and they they
are distruct They are distruct I want to talk to
some people who have gone through some things that let
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you distract. I want to talk to some people who
are going through things you never expected. I want to
talk to some people who have gone through some stuff
that was downright frightening. I want to talk to some
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people who have lost their sleep going through different moments
in your life that you wondered would I will I
ever survive. I want to talk to some people who
weren't sure your mind could take it. I want to
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talk to some people who were so traumatized that you
didn't even know how to respond to people or answer people.
And you saw the phone ringing and you didn't answer
because you didn't know what you might say. Praise the Lord,
Glory to God, how they Loujah, And you thought, I
better not talk to you right now, because I don't
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even know which one of me is going to answer
the phone, the save me or the crazy me to
me I suppressed and the me I held down might
answer the phone. Oh God, I'm about to hit something
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in a minute. Here are the feelings of people who
go through crisis trying to manage disruption. Have you ever
tried to get your arms around crazy and you call
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a family media everybody's sitting around the table and you're
trying to get your arms around crazy. Or you're sitting
on the side of the bed talking to your spouse
and you're trying to get around or you're not talking
to him, you're just looking at him. Have your children
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ever come home and told you something so stupid that
you didn't know whether to cry or punch them. You
just and you can't divorce him. You have divorced everybody
you could divorce, but you can't divorce him. But Lord,
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would you let me just choke them a little bit?
How mean out? I'm not gonna kill them about I
just want to choke them a little bit, just a
little bit, so they'll understand the words that are coming
out of out. Have you ever tried to manage disruption
where the bills were running in and the money had
walked out, and you're calling people and you're making promises
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that you're not sure you can fulfill, and I'm telling
you about the fifteenth Have you ever tried to manage disruption?
Here's a few things that happened to you. When you
try to manage disruption. It's discombobulating. Discombobulating meaning everything that
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you thought was solid and stable has become discombobulated. You're
not sure nothing. You're not sure who you are, you're
not sure who they are. You're not sure of what
you believe. You're not sure where you stand. You're not
sure everything's going to be all right. You're not sure
you're gonna get out of it. It is totally discombobulating.
You're not safe to be around because when you get discombobulated,
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you might say anything. One minute, I'm praying into the spirit.
In the next minute, come on, I need some real
people this morning. That's why God let it rain so
all other people will stay at home. This is a
messy for some real people this morning. Is there anybody
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in here that's ever been discombobulated? You don't know who
you gonna get from hour to hour. At one o'clock,
I'm Jesse. At two point thirty, I'm fretty. At five o'clock,
I'm freaky. At six o'clock, I'm foolish. At seven o'clock,
I'm frantic. That's the joys of getting in your sixties.
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You can say whatever you want. People just blame it
on your age. That's why I wear my gray hair.
That's my license to go off without warning our hearnness.
It's discombobulating. Number two, it's destabilizing. You can't find anything stable,
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can't find anything stable? Can I anchor and you can?
I anchor and you can? I anchor and you can?
I anchor? And do I know I have a job?
Do I know I have a position? Do I know
do I know? Do this is anything? It's destabilizing. Number
three is disincentivizing. Then centive I had to build, to fight,
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to run, to move is come. Why would I step
off the boat into the water if there is no
Jesus saying come? Disincentivizing means deals with my future. The
incentives that I had to go into the future have collapsed.
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They collapsed in the funeral. They just bury my father.
I buried my incentive. I didn't just bury my mother.
I buried my incentive. Have you ever come through anything
that was disincentivizing? Number four it's distressful. Stress, the silent killer,
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the author of most diseases, the secret silent saboteur that
kills your joy and robs you of your smile and
takes the glean out of your eye and the bounce
out of your walk. Stress will take the taste out
of food, the rest out of your bed. Stress will
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rearrange your emotions until you're so numb. You don't feel hate,
you don't feel loved, you don't feel joy, you don't
feel nothing. Stress shuts your system down. Stress upsets your
digestive tray. Stress will make you throw up and other stuff.
Stress so trying to manage disruption, which, by the way,
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you were not called to do. You were called to
survive disruption, not to control it, but because you need
to control everything. I told a grieving member the other
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day who just lost a loved one, I said, don't
try to understand it, don't try to explain it, don't
try to manage it. Just survive it. Just survive it.
Survive it on your knees, survive it, standing up, survive it,
getting around people, surviving staying away from people, survive it.
Going to work, survive it, not going to work. Whatever
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you gotta do, whatever works for you at that moment.
Grief it's something you survived. It's discombobulating, it's stabilizing, it's disincentivizing,
it's distressful. And the next one is disappearing. Disappearing is
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when you decide I don't want to play no more.
I'm I'm gonna yeah, I said, I know, well, I
well participate you. I'm just gonna act like this didn't happen.
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I Am going to disappear even if I'm there. I
am going to ghost my life. I'm going to.
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Ghost my life.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Ghosting is the practice of ending a personal relationship with
someone by suddenly and without explanation, with drawing from all communication,
even if there's someone is me. I quit. I don't explain,
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I don't call, I don't negotiate, I don't try to
work it out. I'm just done. I'm ghosting a ghost.
Call me Gasper, I am not here. I am the
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invisible woman. I am the invisible man. Would you like
some more coffee? Breakfast is on the table. I can
ghost you and still live with you. Never mind the
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normal kind of ghosting where I don't return texas or
phone calls or messages or block you and you don't
know why, and you're left to figure out why I disappeared.
I can disappear in your house and you still wonder
where did I go. And the reason I want to
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talk about ghosting is that the Bible doesn't explain where
Thomas was. The Bible just says that Thomas is with ghosts.
He was not there when Jesus showed up. How many
of you have been absent from your own life and
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praying for things to get better without you being present?
Come on, stay with me, tay with me.
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I'm coming.
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Where are you at now? I'm coming right where you are.
He was one of the twelve till he wasn't. This
is the same Thomas that when Jesus was about to die,
Thomas said, I must go and die with him. But
the pressure and the stress has become too much, and
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now he's ghost. Jesus has died a horrendous, terrible public death,
scandalous death. The cross was scandalous. It was not popular,
it was not praised. There weren't no worship songs about
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the cross. It was a scandal of massive proportions. And
Thomas said, I'm not going to anymore. I'm not there,
and until you show up, life will never get better.
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The first thing God did with Adam when Adam ghosts,
what say, Adam, where are thou? Because I cannot heal
what is not present, I cannot fix what is not there.
I cannot prove to someone something that they cannot see
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because they are not present. The first thing I got
to do is get you back on the scene. And
what the devil doesn't want is you back. I don't
know who I'm preaching to, but I'm talking to somebody.
He doesn't want you, president, he doesn't want you, and
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he doesn't want you inspired. He doesn't want you to move,
He doesn't want you to have feelings or passions, because
the first thing we do when we get hurt real
bad is cut off our feelings. Switch. I don't want
to feel the pain. So if I don't feel the pain,
I don't feel the joy, I don't feel the love,
I don't feel nothing. I don't take any risks. I'm
ghost and I know for sure that there are some
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ghosts in this room, Ghosting on your job, ghosting on
your marriage, ghosting with your family, ghosting in your situation.
Oh yes, you show up physically. Do you really think
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we're so stupid that we don't notice that you are
a ghost? That just because you brought your box that
I want notice that it's empty, that your words are empty,
and your passion is not there, and your enthusiasm is
not there. And yet your praying for recovery, really really
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your praying for recovery and you're not even there. What
is there?
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Recover?
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What? And I love the way the text talks about it,
because it says Thomas called Dinamus, who was one of
the twelve, was not there. Can I go deeper? I
want to talk about the doctrine of the twelve. This
does not start with Jesus. The doctrine of the twelve
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pre existed Christ, his era, his time, his generation, or
his age. Go back to Jacob, and Jacob has twelve sons.
The beginning of the Hebrew Nation started with a family,
and the family is based on twelve sons because twelve
is a number of government, and the twelve sons had
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twelve tribes. And when Jesus fixed twelve disciples, it is
not by accident. He is setting up a new kingdom
and the circle has been broken. He is not there,
but the twelve are not there. Jesus plan not to
be there, but he didn't say anything about the twelve
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not being there. He didn't say anything about Judas hanging himself.
And what do we do about it? Do we replacing
or move on without him? How do we handle when
people go off? Oh my god, if this was a CD,
I would buy it. How do we handle when people
go off? They just go off and do something berserk
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in your life? Do you hide it? Do you talk
about it? Do you deal with it? Do you confront it?
Do you sweep it under the rug? Do you just
go another one? There wasn't anything in the Bible that
told him how to deal with suicide. Jesus never told
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him that the one of the twelve would commit suicide.
And Jesus has started a new nation with the twelve,
and he hasn't been gone but a few days, and
we're already coming on glue. And the person that I
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would normally ask what to do is not there. And
the person that I relied on for wisdom, who had
the master plan and could handle anything, lightning, storms, hunger, death,
he could handle anything, he's not there. He would tell
us what to do about Judas, he would tell us
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what to do about Thomas.
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I don't know how to handle a suicide and a ghoster.
So Jacob had twelve sons. The twelve sons had twelve tribes.
The twelve tribes became the nation of Israel.
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Jesus started a new nation with twelve disciples. But it
didn't work out like it did in the Old Testament,
because Thomas called Didamus, who was one of the twelve,
is ghosting. The woman with issue of blood had been
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sick for twelve years. This number twelve keeps coming up
over and over and over again, and she didn't get healed.
To the twelfth year, because that's when God government took
authority over every condition in her life. Glory to God.
I came to tell somebody, it's your twelfth year of
dealing with that situation that God's about to take over
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everything in your life, shouting me down in this place.
Gyra's daughter was twelve years old when they went for
Jesus father finally say enough is enough. And she was
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twelve at the time that the woman with the issue
of blood had been sick twelve long years. The doctrine
of the twelfth of the twelve twelve disciples, twelve apostles,
twelve years of afflicting twelve years of adversity to the
daughter is twelve years. Oh. And we have been so
focused in the story about the two fish and the
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five loaves of bread that all we remember is the
two fish, the five loaves, and the groups of fifty,
and we ignored the only number that remained was not
the two, the five, or the fifty, but the twelve
baskets full the twelfth baskets. Have you forgotten about the
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twelfth baskets full of broken pieces? Because there is a
correlation between the twelve baskets and the broken pieces. The
twelve baskets are the twelve positions, and the broken pieces
are the men who feel them. Oh God, I wish
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I had time to work with that. You can have
a whole position feel with a broken person, don't you
remember Jesus kept telling them, remember the loaves. We are
right there at the same place again. The only thing
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they took away from it was twelve government.
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Of baskets full.
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Of broken pieces. Your position is whole, your person is
broken Matthew Chapter fourteen twenty in the NIV, the Bible
says they all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples
picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were
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left over. That's what the disciples are. They're leftovers. Jesus
is gone, and they are leftovers, and they are broken pieces,
unsure and uncertain, discombobulated, disincentivized, They're distressed, They're in crisis.
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They are the broken pieces in the twelve baskets. This
prophetic equivalency of the twelve baskets and the broken pieces
sets the stage for this text. DOCXA Moron of the
Twelve Baskets Full of Broken Pieces depicts the fragmentation of
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the twelve who are now broken and they are leftovers?
Are there any leftovers in this room? Leftovers? Leftovers? What's
left of me? All I have is what's.
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God?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Who I think I'm preaching this for me. All I
have to give you is what's left of me after
all the hell I've been through, in the storms I've
been through, and the pain I've been through, and the
trauma I've been through. I wish you would have met
me when I was better. I wish you would have
met me when I was who. I wish you would
have met me when I was fresh. I wish you
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would have known me when I was happy. I wish
you would have met me when I was optimisy. But
if you're gonna date me, you're gonna date leftover sinsus.
This is what I got left. This is what I
got left. I can't have another discussion with you about
what I didn't do for you when you were young,
because I can't help none of that. This is all
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I got left. Take it or leave it. I'm left over.
This is what I got left after life got through
with me, after the church got through with me, after
the divorce got through with me, after the death and
the sickness and the affliction, and the pain and the turmoil,
and the court system, had the prisons, had the prejudice,
had the pain and the crisis.
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This is all I got left.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Is there anybody in here that is a leftover? The
doctrine of the twelve is broken. The team is shattered.
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How can we play the game when we don't have
the right number.
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The twelve?
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The doctrine of the twelve is now shattered, and the
Disciples are fragmented.
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And Judas is dead.
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And Peter's denying, and the ten Disciples are hiding, and
Thomas's ghost. I can't do anything about Judas. He's dead.
I can't make Jesus come back through Mary. He's gone.
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So the only hope I have of restoring the doctrine
of the twelve is to preach to the ghost Thomas.
I call him the friendly ghost. Now to Thomas, called
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didnamis dinamous means twin. He's one of the twelve. But
depend on that didnamus means twelve because his name was Thomas,
but his nickname was twin.
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There's there's two of us. It's I do divo seek. Yeah,
there's two of us.
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When I would do good evil as present with me.
That which I would do, I do not, that which
I would not do, I do to man that I
am who shall deliver me from this other guy because
I am Thomas, but I am Dinamous. Hey, Didnamous? Where
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are you at in here? Everybody in this room got
a twin. Everybody in this room got a twin Thomas
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called Dinamous walked out. Both of them left me and
him a ghosted you, Me and my alter ego, Me
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and myself and stop blood, me and myself. You remember
when God told Abram I swear by my Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's part of my likeness of God. Then there's me,
and then there's myself. Yeah yeah, yeah, and yeah. There's
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a deacon, and then there's myself. There's the vision and
then there's myself. There's the wife, and then there's myself.
There's the CEO, and then there's myself. I'm doing great
as a CEO. I'm catching hell with myself. I'm doing
good with myself. I'm catching hell on my job. I
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got to get both of them to Okay. It's not
enough for me to get part of me free if
the other part's found, Because if the part of brown
is allowed to live, it will pull the other one
down until I'm acting out at home where things are
going good, because I'm frustrated with how things are going
on my job. It's me, myself and I till I'm ghosts.
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I'm gone. I don't answer my phone, I don't respond
to my texas. I get to it. When I get
to it. It don't make no difference because I'm ghosts
because the stress and the pressure and the anxiety has
gotten too much that I stop participating at my highest
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level because either me or my twins stayed home. Oh,
I love it when the police house gets quiet. This
scripture loan is an admonition to the benefits of faithfulness
because had Thomas not went ghost he would have been
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there when Jesus showed up. But when Jesus got there,
Thomas was ghosting. That's why I hate missing church, because
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I don't know which service is gonna be my service.
I don't know which message is gonna be my message.
I don't know which breakthrough is gonna be my breakthrough.
And I don't want to hear about what Jesus did
while I was ghosting. I don't want to hear about
the message that I should have heard that would have
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liberated me and heal me, and bless me and set
me free. I don't want to hear us suckingd hand comphecy.
I don't want to catch a sucking hand an on it.
I don't want to sucking hand glory. I feel the
annoyy of the holy gals. I want to be right
in the room when it happens. I want to be
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right in the room when it happens. I want to
be right in the place when the glory fall, when
the power moves, when the lump shrinks, when the cancer dissipates,
when the yo kiss broken, when the kidney start working,
when the liver starts working. I want to be right there.
I don't want to read about it. I don't want
to hear about it. I don't want to google about it.
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I want to be present. But the devil wants me
to be ghosts. Do you understand the words that are
coming out of my mouth? Jesus got up out of
the grave and came to the rule of his disciples.
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And Thomas was, of course Jesus, who was so dead
that his blood had started separating, For out of his
side came blood and water. The white corpuscles of blood
corpuscles red corpuscles had separated until it appeared as blood
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from water. Rigamortis is setting in Jesus, who was so
dead that they took his stiff arms and folded them together,
had wrapped him up in one inch pieces of lending Jesus,
who they lead in the tomb and rolled a stone
in front of him. Jesus, who they surrounded with Franklin
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Simpson mirror, had got up out of the grid. Well,
that's good, but Lazar got up out of the grad.
But the difference between Jesus and Lazra. One of the
differences is Lazar got up, but he couldn't loose himself,
but Jesus loosed him shelf from the grave, created him
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an outfit, and came walking to the garden and showed
up in the room, and Thomas was ghost. We are
going to be talking about this moment for the next
two thousand years. And Thomas was ghost. Now, somebody said,
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you should have been there. You should have been there.
You should have been there, You should have been there.
You should have been there when the power failed. You
should have been there when the yolks were broken. You
should have been there when the prison doors opened up.
You should have been there when the captains were set free.
You should have been there when God walked in the room.
You should have been there when the glory fall. You
should have been there when they annoying. It was president,
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but your mind was on something else. You were flipping
through your phone, you were playing with your Instagram, and
even though you were in the building, you were not there.
You should have been there when God gave the answer
to your problem, the solution to your deliver the change
that you've been waiting for. You should have been there,
but your ghost. Jesus walks into a room full of
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unbelief and repeats his first miracle, when he turned the
dismal waters of Cana into the blissful wine of celebration.
One appearance of Jesus turns a room full of whimpering,
doubting ten men into praising, leaping, jumping, rejoicing, sure of themselves,
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guided together, not discombobulated, no longer stressed out, now sure
of themselves, absolute in their conviction. And he did it
in one moment. He showed up in the room and
showed them that he was God enough to walk through
her door and man enough to eat fish when he
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got inside. I feel like preaching better than y'all feel
like having church. I'm talking about my Lord and my God,
who can be whatever he wants to be, whenever he
wants to be. In that he's man enough to eat
fish with you, and God enough to walk through the
door for you and come get you. When you are
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a ghost, he will come jet you can. I go
just a little bit deeper. I want to talk about
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white people go ghosts. It's isolationism. Everybody copes with things differently.
The ten went to an introversion. Thomas goes into isolation.
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He was no better or worse than the ten. His
coping mechanism was to unplug. How many of you are
strong enough to admit that you cope with trauma by unplugging.
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This message is for you. If you unplug, it won't
get worse, but it definitely won't get better. Because when
change happens, it does not announce itself. It does not
schedule itself, It does not make it up appointment with you.
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It's not like Jesus told the deciples of Okay Boys
at three o'clock I'm coming over to y'all's house, and
I'm going to fix everything that's wrong in your life.
No Jesus expects for you to be where you're supposed
to be, when you're supposed to be there, so that
when he pops in the room, all you have to
do is be present. Adam, where art? Now? All you
have to do is be in the room. You don't
have to have the answers, you don't have to have
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the solution, you don't have to have the way out.
All you have to do is show up in your
whole life. God knows where you live, God knows where
you are, God knows what you're going through. And when
he comes walking in the door, make sure you are
where you're supposed to be, even if you don't.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Like it, even if it don't feel good.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
Even if it makes you cry, even if.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
It makes you hurt.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
Don't be a ghost in your whole life.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
And I bet.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
You this church and everything in it that you were
not an isolator. It is a learned behavior. Somebody taught
you that the best way to deal with pain was
to isolate, So you adopted a method of ignoring stuff
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you couldn't fix. And I bet you. You've been doing
it all of your life, since you were a little girl,
since you were a little boy.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
You have become a master at leaving.
Speaker 1 (59:42):
It hurts. I leave, it hurts. I leave. It's embarrassing.
I leave.
Speaker 2 (59:49):
It's hurtful.
Speaker 1 (59:50):
I leave.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
It's distressful.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
I leave. It's just combobulated. I leave. How are you
gonna win if you're not in the game, if there's
a suspected winner in the house, give me thirty seconds
of crazy place.
Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
If I stay connected.
Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
If I stay connected, if I stay connected, if I
stay connected, if I stay connected, if I stay connected,
he may not come when you wanting to come, But
he's right old time. He may not fix it the
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first night I cried, But he's right a time. If
I just show up, I can be here. If I
just show up, I can be lost. If I just
shove up. If I can drag my way head, if
I can touch to him of his garment, if I
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could crawl my way Jesus, will somebody praise him if
you know he will, Somebody praise him. If you know
he'll show up, Somebody praise him. If you know his name,
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Somebody praise him. If you know he's relevant. Somebody praise him.
If you believe in for change, I can't hear you, hm,
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praise him. Praise him a line, Praise him in the room.
Pray them if you catchen, pray them on your couch. Shup,
Let the devil do I expect Jesus, just show up
and I go nowhere. Now, the neighbors say, if you
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show up, something's gonna happen. If you show up on
your job, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your house, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your marriage, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
that position, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your church, something's gonna happen. If you show up. That's
why the Devilah wants you to show up. He'll give
you a thousand excuses to be upset. He wants you
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to be a war he wants you to be ghost.
Somebody scream at the top of your lungs. I'm here,
I'm here. I'm here. I'm here for a miracle. I'm
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here for deliverance. I'm here for a breakthrough. I'm here
for it. Whatever I gotta go through. I'm here. I'm here. Oh,
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the devil tried to kill me, but I'm here. He
tried to take me out.
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But I'm here. He wanted me to walk away, but
I'm here here. I ain't going the way.
Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Yeah, yeah, I need some stubborn folk. I need some
angry folk. Better put your hands on your heaven and say, devil,
I'm here for it, whatever it takes, no matter how long,
no matter how tough, no matter if I cry from here,
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I'm here. I'm here. I'm through running. I'm through quintin,
I'm through resigning, I'm through hiding, I'm through leading. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
I'm here here, I'm talented for In the room, oh my,
in the space, somebody has been praising ten minutes of
Holy go sprays.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Keep that's right, announce yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
Let hell know back, Let the double out back, Let
the Demus know out by not that Centarizonal.
Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
No, I'm mid, I'm finished.
Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
There's just two things I want to tell you. One
of them is ghost talk. Ghost talk is what happened
when Thomas did sure this is ghost talk. They told me,
you know, Jesus is alive, and he showed up in
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the room, and Thomas says. One twin said, I will
not believe unless I thrust my hands into his side
and feel the nail prints in his hands, I will
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not believe. That's what one twin said, But the other
twins said, I'm still going to church.
Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
If you really didn't believe, what are you throwing up here?
Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Ghost talk is when your mouth says something different from
your actions. Ghost talk is when you say one thing
to people, but your actions betray your confession. Because if
Thomas has decided not to believe, why did you come
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back in the room.
Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Ghost talk.
Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
It is when that voice in us is it ain't
worth it, but that heart in you makes you say,
give me a hood. Ghost talk is when you say
I ain't thinking about that girl and your fingers centered
a texts. Y'all don't know nothing about ghost talk. Just
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stand there and look real stupid. Maybe nobody will know
that I'm talking about you.
Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Ghost talk.
Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
What really blows my mind the most. It's not that
Jesus died. It's not that Judas hung himself. It's not
the pity or the cussin. It's not that Thomas with ghosts.
Is that Jesus, who only had forty days to show
himself alive with many infallible proofs, comes to see the
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ten and Thomas isn't there. He's ghosting. And here is
the amazing thing. Jesus comes back for one. Y'all. Don't
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get it, y'all. Don't get it. Y'all, don't get it.
The first thing you learn in life, in business and
success is to budget your time. If you ain't got
but forty days, you have to consider the impact of
where you put your time. And Jesus now invests a
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whole another day into one ghost. And the Lord said,
for me to tell you he's coming for you.
I'm excited. I've been studying the Word and getting ready
to share with you. Then I am just excited to
share with you what God has shared with me. We're
gonna be getting a Verse number twenty four through thirty one.
I'm gonna be reading it out of the NIV when
you have it. Save men.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thomas, also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, one
of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
So the other disciples told him, we have seen the Lord.
But he said to them, unless I see the nail
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marks in his hands, and put my finger where the
nails were, and put.
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My hand into his side again it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Paraphrase. A week later, his disciples were in the house again,
and Thomas was with them, though the doors were locked.
Jesus came and stood among them and said, peace be
with you. Then he said to Thomas, put your fingers
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here see my hands. Reach out your hand and put
it into my side. Stop doubting and believe. Thomas said
to him, my Lord and my God. Then Jesus told him,
because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are
those who have not seen, And yet they have believed
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Jesus performed many other signs, many other signs in the
presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus say,
is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by
believing you may have life, and that by believing you
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may have life in his name. I'm not even supposed
to be preaching about that part, but it just leaped
out at me. And yet that by believing you may
have life in his name says to me, if you
don't believe, you don't get life, you may get existence.
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That by believing you may have life in his name.
But what I'm supposed to be talking about, and we
get on track here, what I'm supposed to be talking
about is in verse number twenty four. Now Thomas also own,
as Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with the
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disciples when Jesus came. My subject this morning is ghosting, ghosting.
Before I finish, I'll make it clear. Sweet lead, swee,
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sweet Heaven lead, stay right here. We thus feeling us
sweet your love, and for these blesses we lift are
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in praise. With our doubt. We'll know that we have
been we when we shall be these please and all
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the people say, Amen, you may be seated. Ledlujah. We
are at an extremely awkward moment in history. In this text,
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we have stepped into the quagmire of an unexpected dilemma.
We are dealing with a an ancient religion. Judaism is
an ancient religion with deep roots and heritage feel not
only with sages, but also with prophets, with prophetic utterances,
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with the Torah that gave an expectation of which a
religion has coalesced around an experience. Religion corealesse around an experience.
If you have no experience with God, then there is
nothing for religion to coalesce around. Religion has coalesced around
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this experience for thousands and thousands of years. It gives
us our understanding of creation. It gives us the unveiling
of the Pentateock. It gives us the unveiling of the laws.
It gives us the unveiling of the sacraments, and the
ordinances and the rituals, and the major prophets and the
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minor prophets all contribute to the continuity of the face
of Hebraistic theology. In a profound and provocative way. I'm
going somewhere. The prophets foretold the future. They foretold what
they foresaw of the future. And yet the future was mountainous,
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with peaks and valleys, And they saw the peaks, but
they did not see the valleys. They foresaw the coming
of the Messiah. They foresaw the captivity that Israel would
go through in Babylon. They foresaw from Genesis three point fifteen,
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where the seed of the woman will rise up and
bruise ahead of the servant, and the servant shall bruise
his heel. They were clear that a messiah was come,
for the prophet Isaiah has said, surely he had borne
our griefs and carried our sorrows. The chastisement of our
peace shall be upon him, and with his stripes we
are healed. They saw that they saw the regathering of
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the dry bones in the valley, forming a nation again,
an army which was prophetic of becoming a nation again.
That Israel would be dispersed, but then be regathered into
an army and coalesced together to fight back and possess
their land. They saw that Abraham, before he died, saw
that his descendants were sojourn in Egypt for four hundred years,
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and afterwards they would come out with great substance. They
saw the peaks. But the texts before you is in
a valley. It is in a valley that is so
barren and so destitute that it has thrown them off.
It comes after four hundred years of silence from Malaki
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to Matthew, where God stops talking at all. And then
in the Gospel of Saint Matthew, God opens up his
mouth and starts talking, not through Matthew, but through John
the Baptist, saying, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand. Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
See that doesn't excite you because you're not bound. But
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if you lived in a society where you were oppressed
in your own country, for the prophet to prophecy repent
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, that is
a message of liberation, and it is a powerful thing.
So they are looking for the kingdom. John told him
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the kingdom was at hand. That they reached out after
the kingdom, and they experienced across neither Isaiah or Jeremiah
or Daniel mentations fully articulate the cross. They talk about
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the kingdom, they talk about the crown. Kingdom is rooted
in the word the king's domain. He's going to come
that John told him the kingdom was at hand. He
never told them the cross was at hand. If you
preach a message that promises kingdom, and people spend three
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years walking away from their jobs and their families and
their friends and travel by foot all over the world.
They are committed to the kingdom, but they are confronted
by the cross. What do you do when you expected
the kingdom and you encounter the cross. Jesus has picked
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the Three the Twelve. The twelve Disciples suggest government. These
chosen men for government had only to debate who's going
to sit on your right side, and who's gonna sit
on your left. Who's going to be your vice president,
he's going to be your sergeant at arms, who's going
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to be this, who's going to be that, who's going
to be the other, who's gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Hold this road?
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They were fighting, jocking for political power in the kingdom,
and so they gave up their jobs, and they gave
up their livelies, and they followed Jesus. And why not
follow him? Not only was he a king after the
order of David, the son of David and the seed
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of Abraham, but he was also a water walking king.
He was a dead raising king. He was a healing king.
He was such a loving king that he provided miracles
for his children. Why not follow him? They had the
luxury of having not a dictator, but the lover of
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our souls to establish the kingdom on earth. And after Caesar,
that was refreshing, after waking up every morning to the
burning smell of flesh either burned or nailed to a cross,
and the oppressor of Rome, Jesus was a refreshing idea.
And they followed him by foot, not by airways, not
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by Delta airlines, not by American airlines. They followed him
by foot, not even by camel. They followed him by
foot from city to city. As he campaigned for the kingdom,
for the kingdom. He opened blinded eyes for the kingdom.
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He cleansed the lepers for the kingdom. He drove the
Roman influence out of the temple away. To all of
you old school church people, they were not selling chicken dinners.
That is not what the text means when Jesus says
you have turned my house into a den of thieves.
It means that the oppression of Herod had become so
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overwhelming that they were collecting taxes and upselling donations to
the people for them to offer up as sacrifice. And
the government has started ripping off the church, and Jesus
turned over the temples. He acted like a boss. He
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walked in like a boss. They woke him up in
the middle of a storm, and he spoke to the
winds and the waves, peace be steel, And even the
winds and the waves lay down, and they were prostrated
the force. Who wouldn't serve God like that? Then little
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disruptions started happening when Jesus started talking strange things. No
man takes my life. I laid down. If I laid down,
I'll pick it up again. And if you destroy the
temple in three days, I'll raise it up. Confusing statements
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for disciples who signed up for the Kingdom and ended
up with the cross. If you read the Bible from
the past tense of the cross, and you don't go
back before your understanding of the cross, and understand the
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disciples approach to the cross did not have the benefit
of being two thousand years past it. Then you understand
that these men had committed their lives, their livelihoods, their family,
their resources, and their money to following Jesus. Because John
said the kingdom was at hand, he didn't say nothing
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about a cross. And so when Jesus is finally chased
down like a dog and I apprehended like a prisoner,
and then trapped like a slave and beaten till his
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entriols were hanging out, and he doesn't say a mumbling word.
This is trauma. This is scary stuff. This is the
kind of stuff that makes you want to run away.
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This is the kind of stuff that you could not
find in the Torah. There were no scriptures for it.
Have you had ad on through a time in your
life that you could not find? Have you ever had
a problem in your family that you didn't have a
Bible verse for? Have you ever gone through a time
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in your life that you confronted something that you did
not expect to happen, didn't see that coming? Oh, I'm
the only one. Have you ever had something you prayed
against this, and you prayed against that, and you rebuke this,
and you annointed that, and you poured all over here
and you pleaded the blood over here, and the very
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thing that you never thought you would ever go through
in your life slaps you in the face and you
have no strategy and you have no defense and you
have nothing to say because you didn't see it coming,
and it's sent them into trauma and to chaos and
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confusing that Jesus has spent three years building up something
that three days tore down. You can spend thirty years
building something that three days tears down. You can spend
ten years building something that one incident tears down. That's
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why it's foolish to be arrogant, is foolish, to turn
up your nose is foolish. Had like you got it
together and you're so such much, because one incident can
turn down everything you're proud of. You can spend all
of your money and all of your education and all
of your resources building something that one incident robs you
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off and leaves your helplet. One hurricane destroys that beautiful house.
One tornado and you've got water, and it's not in
the pool, it's in the living room, it's in the kitchen,
and your couchs went. How dare you take for granted
the gifts of God. One incident can drop you to
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your knees. One incident can make you say where is God?
One incident can cause you to lose your sleep, make
you traumatize, drive you back to drinking, make you want
to smoke a joy. I came to tell you this
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morning that there will be times in your life when
everything seems to be falling apart. Jesus has put together
this task force sixteen, and he has trained them diligently,
day and night for three years and three days turns
it apart. Twelve men d twelve. Now we're in a
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sense auacing with the twelve where one of them has
committed suicide. Can you imagine spending three years shoulder a
shoulder with your brother in the trenches of hell, casting
out demons, dealing with witches, healing the sick, and raising
the dead, and one of the most trusted disciples that
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you had, who held the money, hung himself and his
guts spilled out in the potter's field. I would say
that was trauma. If you were going to kill yourself,
why didn't you kill yourself when the boss was still here.
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We're already traumatized because we saw our Lord go to
the cross beating and bloody, and then we get the
news that one of our inner circle has committed suicide.
And Peter, who was so loyal that he would cut
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off a Roman soldier's ear and risked being crucified himself,
has now whimpered like a little girl, disguised himself, warning
himself by the fire of the enemy, and denied that
he even knew Jesus it in fronny. How people will
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name drop to your name drops. Oh yeah, Jesus, Yeah,
I know Jesus. Way I didn't know it. Jedu know him, Mama, No,
everybody know him brother and says they ain't gent over
his house. Jesus, he cool, he finds he's wonderful. No,
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I don't know, Jesus. People will name drop to your
name drop when your name drops. Don't expect people to
name drop anymore. If you think they will stick by
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you through a real crisis, you are a fool. Ninety
percent of people will drop you like a hot potato
and act like they never knew you, And they will
text other people about you and tell your business like
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they never ate at your table. I want you to
feel what goes on around the text of feeling of
decersion and the feeling of frustration, and the feeling of unraveling.
And you won't get this message. You won't even enjoy
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this message unless you've been through a time in your
life that everything you expected fell apart and blew up
in your face. Is there anybody in here who's gone
through a time in your life that everything just blew
up in your face and you didn't know what to say,
You didn't know what to do, You didn't know who
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to call, you didn't know where to go because you
never saw it. Nobody prophesied to you about it, nobody
gave you a word of knowledge about it. You just
woke up one morning and oopstrdy is these are the
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guys who saw Jesus do amazing stuff, and they they
are distruct They are distruct I want to talk to
some people who have gone through some things that let
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you distract. I want to talk to some people who
are going through things you never expected. I want to
talk to some people who have gone through some stuff
that was downright frightening. I want to talk to some
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people who have lost their sleep going through different moments
in your life that you wondered would I will I
ever survive. I want to talk to some people who
weren't sure your mind could take it. I want to
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talk to some people who were so traumatized that you
didn't even know how to respond to people or answer people.
And you saw the phone ringing and you didn't answer
because you didn't know what you might say. Praise the Lord,
Glory to God, how they Loujah, And you thought, I
better not talk to you right now, because I don't
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even know which one of me is going to answer
the phone, the save me or the crazy me to
me I suppressed and the me I held down might
answer the phone. Oh God, I'm about to hit something
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in a minute. Here are the feelings of people who
go through crisis trying to manage disruption. Have you ever
tried to get your arms around crazy and you call
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a family media everybody's sitting around the table and you're
trying to get your arms around crazy. Or you're sitting
on the side of the bed talking to your spouse
and you're trying to get around or you're not talking
to him, you're just looking at him. Have your children
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ever come home and told you something so stupid that
you didn't know whether to cry or punch them. You
just and you can't divorce him. You have divorced everybody
you could divorce, but you can't divorce him. But Lord,
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would you let me just choke them a little bit?
How mean out? I'm not gonna kill them about I
just want to choke them a little bit, just a
little bit, so they'll understand the words that are coming
out of out. Have you ever tried to manage disruption
where the bills were running in and the money had
walked out, and you're calling people and you're making promises
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that you're not sure you can fulfill, and I'm telling
you about the fifteenth Have you ever tried to manage disruption?
Here's a few things that happened to you. When you
try to manage disruption. It's discombobulating. Discombobulating meaning everything that
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you thought was solid and stable has become discombobulated. You're
not sure nothing. You're not sure who you are, you're
not sure who they are. You're not sure of what
you believe. You're not sure where you stand. You're not
sure everything's going to be all right. You're not sure
you're gonna get out of it. It is totally discombobulating.
You're not safe to be around because when you get discombobulated,
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you might say anything. One minute, I'm praying into the spirit.
In the next minute, come on, I need some real
people this morning. That's why God let it rain so
all other people will stay at home. This is a
messy for some real people this morning. Is there anybody
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in here that's ever been discombobulated? You don't know who
you gonna get from hour to hour. At one o'clock,
I'm Jesse. At two point thirty, I'm fretty. At five o'clock,
I'm freaky. At six o'clock, I'm foolish. At seven o'clock,
I'm frantic. That's the joys of getting in your sixties.
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You can say whatever you want. People just blame it
on your age. That's why I wear my gray hair.
That's my license to go off without warning our hearnness.
It's discombobulating. Number two, it's destabilizing. You can't find anything stable,
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can't find anything stable? Can I anchor and you can?
I anchor and you can? I anchor and you can?
I anchor? And do I know I have a job?
Do I know I have a position? Do I know
do I know? Do this is anything? It's destabilizing. Number
three is disincentivizing. Then centive I had to build, to fight,
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to run, to move is come. Why would I step
off the boat into the water if there is no
Jesus saying come? Disincentivizing means deals with my future. The
incentives that I had to go into the future have collapsed.
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They collapsed in the funeral. They just bury my father.
I buried my incentive. I didn't just bury my mother.
I buried my incentive. Have you ever come through anything
that was disincentivizing? Number four it's distressful. Stress, the silent killer,
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the author of most diseases, the secret silent saboteur that
kills your joy and robs you of your smile and
takes the glean out of your eye and the bounce
out of your walk. Stress will take the taste out
of food, the rest out of your bed. Stress will
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rearrange your emotions until you're so numb. You don't feel hate,
you don't feel loved, you don't feel joy, you don't
feel nothing. Stress shuts your system down. Stress upsets your
digestive tray. Stress will make you throw up and other stuff.
Stress so trying to manage disruption, which, by the way,
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you were not called to do. You were called to
survive disruption, not to control it, but because you need
to control everything. I told a grieving member the other
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day who just lost a loved one, I said, don't
try to understand it, don't try to explain it, don't
try to manage it. Just survive it. Just survive it.
Survive it on your knees, survive it, standing up, survive it,
getting around people, surviving staying away from people, survive it.
Going to work, survive it, not going to work. Whatever
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you gotta do, whatever works for you at that moment.
Grief it's something you survived. It's discombobulating, it's stabilizing, it's disincentivizing,
it's distressful. And the next one is disappearing. Disappearing is
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when you decide I don't want to play no more.
I'm I'm gonna yeah, I said, I know, well, I
well participate you. I'm just gonna act like this didn't happen.
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I Am going to disappear even if I'm there. I
am going to ghost my life. I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Ghost my life.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Ghosting is the practice of ending a personal relationship with
someone by suddenly and without explanation, with drawing from all communication,
even if there's someone is me. I quit. I don't explain,
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I don't call, I don't negotiate, I don't try to
work it out. I'm just done. I'm ghosting a ghost.
Call me Gasper, I am not here. I am the
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invisible woman. I am the invisible man. Would you like
some more coffee? Breakfast is on the table. I can
ghost you and still live with you. Never mind the
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normal kind of ghosting where I don't return texas or
phone calls or messages or block you and you don't
know why, and you're left to figure out why I disappeared.
I can disappear in your house and you still wonder
where did I go. And the reason I want to
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talk about ghosting is that the Bible doesn't explain where
Thomas was. The Bible just says that Thomas is with ghosts.
He was not there when Jesus showed up. How many
of you have been absent from your own life and
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praying for things to get better without you being present?
Come on, stay with me, tay with me.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Where are you at now? I'm coming right where you are.
He was one of the twelve till he wasn't. This
is the same Thomas that when Jesus was about to die,
Thomas said, I must go and die with him. But
the pressure and the stress has become too much, and
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now he's ghost. Jesus has died a horrendous, terrible public death,
scandalous death. The cross was scandalous. It was not popular,
it was not praised. There weren't no worship songs about
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the cross. It was a scandal of massive proportions. And
Thomas said, I'm not going to anymore. I'm not there,
and until you show up, life will never get better.
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The first thing God did with Adam when Adam ghosts,
what say, Adam, where are thou? Because I cannot heal
what is not present, I cannot fix what is not there.
I cannot prove to someone something that they cannot see
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because they are not present. The first thing I got
to do is get you back on the scene. And
what the devil doesn't want is you back. I don't
know who I'm preaching to, but I'm talking to somebody.
He doesn't want you, president, he doesn't want you, and
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he doesn't want you inspired. He doesn't want you to move,
He doesn't want you to have feelings or passions, because
the first thing we do when we get hurt real
bad is cut off our feelings. Switch. I don't want
to feel the pain. So if I don't feel the pain,
I don't feel the joy, I don't feel the love,
I don't feel nothing. I don't take any risks. I'm
ghost and I know for sure that there are some
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ghosts in this room, Ghosting on your job, ghosting on
your marriage, ghosting with your family, ghosting in your situation.
Oh yes, you show up physically. Do you really think
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we're so stupid that we don't notice that you are
a ghost? That just because you brought your box that
I want notice that it's empty, that your words are empty,
and your passion is not there, and your enthusiasm is
not there. And yet your praying for recovery, really really
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your praying for recovery and you're not even there. What
is there?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Recover?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
What? And I love the way the text talks about it,
because it says Thomas called Dinamus, who was one of
the twelve, was not there. Can I go deeper? I
want to talk about the doctrine of the twelve. This
does not start with Jesus. The doctrine of the twelve
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pre existed Christ, his era, his time, his generation, or
his age. Go back to Jacob, and Jacob has twelve sons.
The beginning of the Hebrew Nation started with a family,
and the family is based on twelve sons because twelve
is a number of government, and the twelve sons had
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twelve tribes. And when Jesus fixed twelve disciples, it is
not by accident. He is setting up a new kingdom
and the circle has been broken. He is not there,
but the twelve are not there. Jesus plan not to
be there, but he didn't say anything about the twelve
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not being there. He didn't say anything about Judas hanging himself.
And what do we do about it? Do we replacing
or move on without him? How do we handle when
people go off? Oh my god, if this was a CD,
I would buy it. How do we handle when people
go off? They just go off and do something berserk
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in your life? Do you hide it? Do you talk
about it? Do you deal with it? Do you confront it?
Do you sweep it under the rug? Do you just
go another one? There wasn't anything in the Bible that
told him how to deal with suicide. Jesus never told
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him that the one of the twelve would commit suicide.
And Jesus has started a new nation with the twelve,
and he hasn't been gone but a few days, and
we're already coming on glue. And the person that I
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would normally ask what to do is not there. And
the person that I relied on for wisdom, who had
the master plan and could handle anything, lightning, storms, hunger, death,
he could handle anything, he's not there. He would tell
us what to do about Judas, he would tell us
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what to do about Thomas.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I don't know how to handle a suicide and a ghoster.
So Jacob had twelve sons. The twelve sons had twelve tribes.
The twelve tribes became the nation of Israel.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Jesus started a new nation with twelve disciples. But it
didn't work out like it did in the Old Testament,
because Thomas called Didamus, who was one of the twelve,
is ghosting. The woman with issue of blood had been
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sick for twelve years. This number twelve keeps coming up
over and over and over again, and she didn't get healed.
To the twelfth year, because that's when God government took
authority over every condition in her life. Glory to God.
I came to tell somebody, it's your twelfth year of
dealing with that situation that God's about to take over
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everything in your life, shouting me down in this place.
Gyra's daughter was twelve years old when they went for
Jesus father finally say enough is enough. And she was
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twelve at the time that the woman with the issue
of blood had been sick twelve long years. The doctrine
of the twelfth of the twelve twelve disciples, twelve apostles,
twelve years of afflicting twelve years of adversity to the
daughter is twelve years. Oh. And we have been so
focused in the story about the two fish and the
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five loaves of bread that all we remember is the
two fish, the five loaves, and the groups of fifty,
and we ignored the only number that remained was not
the two, the five, or the fifty, but the twelve
baskets full the twelfth baskets. Have you forgotten about the
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twelfth baskets full of broken pieces? Because there is a
correlation between the twelve baskets and the broken pieces. The
twelve baskets are the twelve positions, and the broken pieces
are the men who feel them. Oh God, I wish
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I had time to work with that. You can have
a whole position feel with a broken person, don't you
remember Jesus kept telling them, remember the loaves. We are
right there at the same place again. The only thing
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they took away from it was twelve government.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Of baskets full.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Of broken pieces. Your position is whole, your person is
broken Matthew Chapter fourteen twenty in the NIV, the Bible
says they all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples
picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were
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left over. That's what the disciples are. They're leftovers. Jesus
is gone, and they are leftovers, and they are broken pieces,
unsure and uncertain, discombobulated, disincentivized, They're distressed, They're in crisis.
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They are the broken pieces in the twelve baskets. This
prophetic equivalency of the twelve baskets and the broken pieces
sets the stage for this text. DOCXA Moron of the
Twelve Baskets Full of Broken Pieces depicts the fragmentation of
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the twelve who are now broken and they are leftovers?
Are there any leftovers in this room? Leftovers? Leftovers? What's
left of me? All I have is what's.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
God?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Who I think I'm preaching this for me. All I
have to give you is what's left of me after
all the hell I've been through, in the storms I've
been through, and the pain I've been through, and the
trauma I've been through. I wish you would have met
me when I was better. I wish you would have
met me when I was who. I wish you would
have met me when I was fresh. I wish you
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would have known me when I was happy. I wish
you would have met me when I was optimisy. But
if you're gonna date me, you're gonna date leftover sinsus.
This is what I got left. This is what I
got left. I can't have another discussion with you about
what I didn't do for you when you were young,
because I can't help none of that. This is all
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I got left. Take it or leave it. I'm left over.
This is what I got left after life got through
with me, after the church got through with me, after
the divorce got through with me, after the death and
the sickness and the affliction, and the pain and the turmoil,
and the court system, had the prisons, had the prejudice,
had the pain and the crisis.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
This is all I got left.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Is there anybody in here that is a leftover? The
doctrine of the twelve is broken. The team is shattered.
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How can we play the game when we don't have
the right number.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
The twelve?
Speaker 3 (46:16):
The doctrine of the twelve is now shattered, and the
Disciples are fragmented.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And Judas is dead.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
And Peter's denying, and the ten Disciples are hiding, and
Thomas's ghost. I can't do anything about Judas. He's dead.
I can't make Jesus come back through Mary. He's gone.
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So the only hope I have of restoring the doctrine
of the twelve is to preach to the ghost Thomas.
I call him the friendly ghost. Now to Thomas, called
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didnamis dinamous means twin. He's one of the twelve. But
depend on that didnamus means twelve because his name was Thomas,
but his nickname was twin.
Speaker 4 (47:40):
There's there's two of us. It's I do divo seek. Yeah,
there's two of us.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
When I would do good evil as present with me.
That which I would do, I do not, that which
I would not do, I do to man that I
am who shall deliver me from this other guy because
I am Thomas, but I am Dinamous. Hey, Didnamous? Where
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are you at in here? Everybody in this room got
a twin. Everybody in this room got a twin Thomas
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called Dinamous walked out. Both of them left me and
him a ghosted you, Me and my alter ego, Me
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and myself and stop blood, me and myself. You remember
when God told Abram I swear by my Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's part of my likeness of God. Then there's me,
and then there's myself. Yeah yeah, yeah, and yeah. There's
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a deacon, and then there's myself. There's the vision and
then there's myself. There's the wife, and then there's myself.
There's the CEO, and then there's myself. I'm doing great
as a CEO. I'm catching hell with myself. I'm doing
good with myself. I'm catching hell on my job. I
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got to get both of them to Okay. It's not
enough for me to get part of me free if
the other part's found, Because if the part of brown
is allowed to live, it will pull the other one
down until I'm acting out at home where things are
going good, because I'm frustrated with how things are going
on my job. It's me, myself and I till I'm ghosts.
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I'm gone. I don't answer my phone, I don't respond
to my texas. I get to it. When I get
to it. It don't make no difference because I'm ghosts
because the stress and the pressure and the anxiety has
gotten too much that I stop participating at my highest
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level because either me or my twins stayed home. Oh,
I love it when the police house gets quiet. This
scripture loan is an admonition to the benefits of faithfulness
because had Thomas not went ghost he would have been
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there when Jesus showed up. But when Jesus got there,
Thomas was ghosting. That's why I hate missing church, because
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I don't know which service is gonna be my service.
I don't know which message is gonna be my message.
I don't know which breakthrough is gonna be my breakthrough.
And I don't want to hear about what Jesus did
while I was ghosting. I don't want to hear about
the message that I should have heard that would have
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liberated me and heal me, and bless me and set
me free. I don't want to hear us suckingd hand comphecy.
I don't want to catch a sucking hand an on it.
I don't want to sucking hand glory. I feel the
annoyy of the holy gals. I want to be right
in the room when it happens. I want to be
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right in the room when it happens. I want to
be right in the place when the glory fall, when
the power moves, when the lump shrinks, when the cancer dissipates,
when the yo kiss broken, when the kidney start working,
when the liver starts working. I want to be right there.
I don't want to read about it. I don't want
to hear about it. I don't want to google about it.
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I want to be present. But the devil wants me
to be ghosts. Do you understand the words that are
coming out of my mouth? Jesus got up out of
the grave and came to the rule of his disciples.
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And Thomas was, of course Jesus, who was so dead
that his blood had started separating, For out of his
side came blood and water. The white corpuscles of blood
corpuscles red corpuscles had separated until it appeared as blood
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from water. Rigamortis is setting in Jesus, who was so
dead that they took his stiff arms and folded them together,
had wrapped him up in one inch pieces of lending Jesus,
who they lead in the tomb and rolled a stone
in front of him. Jesus, who they surrounded with Franklin
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Simpson mirror, had got up out of the grid. Well,
that's good, but Lazar got up out of the grad.
But the difference between Jesus and Lazra. One of the
differences is Lazar got up, but he couldn't loose himself,
but Jesus loosed him shelf from the grave, created him
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an outfit, and came walking to the garden and showed
up in the room, and Thomas was ghost. We are
going to be talking about this moment for the next
two thousand years. And Thomas was ghost. Now, somebody said,
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you should have been there. You should have been there.
You should have been there, You should have been there.
You should have been there when the power failed. You
should have been there when the yolks were broken. You
should have been there when the prison doors opened up.
You should have been there when the captains were set free.
You should have been there when God walked in the room.
You should have been there when the glory fall. You
should have been there when they annoying. It was president,
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but your mind was on something else. You were flipping
through your phone, you were playing with your Instagram, and
even though you were in the building, you were not there.
You should have been there when God gave the answer
to your problem, the solution to your deliver the change
that you've been waiting for. You should have been there,
but your ghost. Jesus walks into a room full of
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unbelief and repeats his first miracle, when he turned the
dismal waters of Cana into the blissful wine of celebration.
One appearance of Jesus turns a room full of whimpering,
doubting ten men into praising, leaping, jumping, rejoicing, sure of themselves,
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guided together, not discombobulated, no longer stressed out, now sure
of themselves, absolute in their conviction. And he did it
in one moment. He showed up in the room and
showed them that he was God enough to walk through
her door and man enough to eat fish when he
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got inside. I feel like preaching better than y'all feel
like having church. I'm talking about my Lord and my God,
who can be whatever he wants to be, whenever he
wants to be. In that he's man enough to eat
fish with you, and God enough to walk through the
door for you and come get you. When you are
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a ghost, he will come jet you can. I go
just a little bit deeper. I want to talk about
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white people go ghosts. It's isolationism. Everybody copes with things differently.
The ten went to an introversion. Thomas goes into isolation.
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He was no better or worse than the ten. His
coping mechanism was to unplug. How many of you are
strong enough to admit that you cope with trauma by unplugging.
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This message is for you. If you unplug, it won't
get worse, but it definitely won't get better. Because when
change happens, it does not announce itself. It does not
schedule itself, It does not make it up appointment with you.
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It's not like Jesus told the deciples of Okay Boys
at three o'clock I'm coming over to y'all's house, and
I'm going to fix everything that's wrong in your life.
No Jesus expects for you to be where you're supposed
to be, when you're supposed to be there, so that
when he pops in the room, all you have to
do is be present. Adam, where art? Now? All you
have to do is be in the room. You don't
have to have the answers, you don't have to have
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the solution, you don't have to have the way out.
All you have to do is show up in your
whole life. God knows where you live, God knows where
you are, God knows what you're going through. And when
he comes walking in the door, make sure you are
where you're supposed to be, even if you don't.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Like it, even if it don't feel good.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
Even if it makes you cry, even if.
Speaker 2 (58:46):
It makes you hurt.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
Don't be a ghost in your whole life.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
And I bet.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
You this church and everything in it that you were
not an isolator. It is a learned behavior. Somebody taught
you that the best way to deal with pain was
to isolate, So you adopted a method of ignoring stuff
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you couldn't fix. And I bet you. You've been doing
it all of your life, since you were a little girl,
since you were a little boy.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
You have become a master at leaving.
Speaker 1 (59:42):
It hurts. I leave, it hurts. I leave. It's embarrassing.
I leave.
Speaker 2 (59:49):
It's hurtful.
Speaker 1 (59:50):
I leave.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
It's distressful.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
I leave. It's just combobulated. I leave. How are you
gonna win if you're not in the game, if there's
a suspected winner in the house, give me thirty seconds
of crazy place.
Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
If I stay connected.
Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
If I stay connected, if I stay connected, if I
stay connected, if I stay connected, if I stay connected,
he may not come when you wanting to come, But
he's right old time. He may not fix it the
(01:00:39):
first night I cried, But he's right a time. If
I just show up, I can be here. If I
just show up, I can be lost. If I just
shove up. If I can drag my way head, if
I can touch to him of his garment, if I
(01:01:00):
could crawl my way Jesus, will somebody praise him if
you know he will, Somebody praise him. If you know
he'll show up, Somebody praise him. If you know his name,
(01:01:21):
Somebody praise him. If you know he's relevant. Somebody praise him.
If you believe in for change, I can't hear you, hm,
(01:01:55):
praise him. Praise him a line, Praise him in the room.
Pray them if you catchen, pray them on your couch. Shup,
Let the devil do I expect Jesus, just show up
and I go nowhere. Now, the neighbors say, if you
(01:02:38):
show up, something's gonna happen. If you show up on
your job, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your house, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your marriage, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
that position, something's gonna happen. If you show up in
your church, something's gonna happen. If you show up. That's
why the Devilah wants you to show up. He'll give
you a thousand excuses to be upset. He wants you
(01:02:59):
to be a war he wants you to be ghost.
Somebody scream at the top of your lungs. I'm here,
I'm here. I'm here. I'm here for a miracle. I'm
(01:03:21):
here for deliverance. I'm here for a breakthrough. I'm here
for it. Whatever I gotta go through. I'm here. I'm here. Oh,
(01:03:41):
the devil tried to kill me, but I'm here. He
tried to take me out.
Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
But I'm here. He wanted me to walk away, but
I'm here here. I ain't going the way.
Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Yeah, yeah, I need some stubborn folk. I need some
angry folk. Better put your hands on your heaven and say, devil,
I'm here for it, whatever it takes, no matter how long,
no matter how tough, no matter if I cry from here,
(01:04:35):
I'm here. I'm here. I'm through running. I'm through quintin,
I'm through resigning, I'm through hiding, I'm through leading. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
I'm here here, I'm talented for In the room, oh my,
in the space, somebody has been praising ten minutes of
Holy go sprays.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Keep that's right, announce yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
Let hell know back, Let the double out back, Let
the Demus know out by not that Centarizonal.
Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
No, I'm mid, I'm finished.
Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
There's just two things I want to tell you. One
of them is ghost talk. Ghost talk is what happened
when Thomas did sure this is ghost talk. They told me,
you know, Jesus is alive, and he showed up in
(01:06:52):
the room, and Thomas says. One twin said, I will
not believe unless I thrust my hands into his side
and feel the nail prints in his hands, I will
(01:07:12):
not believe. That's what one twin said, But the other
twins said, I'm still going to church.
Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
If you really didn't believe, what are you throwing up here?
Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Ghost talk is when your mouth says something different from
your actions. Ghost talk is when you say one thing
to people, but your actions betray your confession. Because if
Thomas has decided not to believe, why did you come
(01:07:58):
back in the room.
Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Ghost talk.
Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
It is when that voice in us is it ain't
worth it, but that heart in you makes you say,
give me a hood. Ghost talk is when you say
I ain't thinking about that girl and your fingers centered
a texts. Y'all don't know nothing about ghost talk. Just
(01:08:29):
stand there and look real stupid. Maybe nobody will know
that I'm talking about you.
Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Ghost talk.
Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
What really blows my mind the most. It's not that
Jesus died. It's not that Judas hung himself. It's not
the pity or the cussin. It's not that Thomas with ghosts.
Is that Jesus, who only had forty days to show
himself alive with many infallible proofs, comes to see the
(01:09:04):
ten and Thomas isn't there. He's ghosting. And here is
the amazing thing. Jesus comes back for one. Y'all. Don't
(01:09:26):
get it, y'all. Don't get it. Y'all, don't get it.
The first thing you learn in life, in business and
success is to budget your time. If you ain't got
but forty days, you have to consider the impact of
where you put your time. And Jesus now invests a
(01:09:48):
whole another day into one ghost. And the Lord said,
for me to tell you he's coming for you.
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