Bishop TD Jakes - Hide and Go Seek - Potter's Touch

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Anybody feel like blessing the name of the Lord this morning?
I said, does anybody feel like blessing the name of
the Lord this morning? If the Lord's been good.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
To you, you got something to shout about, you.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Out open your mouth to give him glory all over
this room.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, hallelujah, holley lujah, hollylujah this song. As David said,
I was glad when they said, under me, let us
go into the house of the Lord. So he didn't
come into the houst of the Lord looking like this.
He came in with joy and exuberance and thanksgiving. Anybody
got the joy.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Of the Lord this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I want to officially deputize you to be on our
greet's committee, and I want you to at least get
three or four and hugged them and welcome them into
the presence of the Lord this morning. I hope you

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gave a special hug to all the fathers. Let's clap
our hands and honor all the father's. Happy Father's Day,
Happy Father's Day to every father in the building. You
may be seated in his presence. I'm going to take
a liberty this morning. I want all the fathers to stand.

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I want you to stand up. Yeah, let's recognize all
the fathers. Amen. Hey, oh you can do better than that.
There you go, give the man some love and go.
All the men that are watching online. I have big

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Father's Day to you and all of your respective places.
We thank God for you. Thank God, thank you, thank you,
thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you,

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thank you. I'm excited about it. Glad to be in
the House of the Lord with all of my spiritual
children and some of my natural children makes me feel
real fatherly. Amen, I'm excited about Let me take a
moment too. I want to just take a moment and
thank all of you. My birthday was last Sunday. I

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rack up in June. All the cards, all the text,
all the tweets, all the comments on Facebook and Twitter
and Instagram, all the gifts. I just want to thank
all of you. I was opening gift till I fell asleep.
I was sitting at the dining room table, nod and

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open it up.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
You have been so delightful to me and I just
appreciate you so much. Give yourselves a round of applause.
Thank you for your kindness toward me. I want to
tell the fathers that we've got gifts out in the
lobby for you for a Father's Day. We just want
to recognize you and honor you and give you just
a little gift from the Potterish House to you, acknowledging

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you for the job that you're doing as a man
of God that you are. We appreciate you and the lords,
and don't forget, don't get shouting and forget to stop
and get your gift out there in the back, because
if you do, I have to collect your portion. Amen.
I told them upstairs. I even got some of the
Mother's Day gifts. Amen. It was suppost been for the women,

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but I liked it. I got me some too. Get
my nails fixed up too, Amen, Say amen, somebody, I
want to take a moment. I'm excited. We have had
for years and years of National Pastors and Leadership Conference.
Give God a praise for National Pastor Leadership. We're going

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to continue to have that, and we're going to have it,
and we have not released a date yet, and I
want to release it this morning. However, I also want
to make you aware that there's going to be a
name change from the National Pastors Leadership Conference to the
International Leadership Summit, the International Leadership Summit, and I'll be

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honest with you, we have seen such a growth in
leaders of all types and all kinds, elected officials, CEOs, managers,
entrepreneurs coming to our leadership conference that we just decided
to just call it an International Leadership Summer. That I'm
excited about that, can you say?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Man?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
It is my goal through these meetings. I want to
say this to you. We're not just doing things to
be doing them. We're not just having things to be
having them. But I went to the Broadway play up
in New York to see Hamilton, and yeah, let me
tell you some of it. If you have not been

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to see it, I don't care if you have to
sell popcorn balls, you need to go see Hamilton. It
is absolutely amazing, incredible. I saw it there. I saw
it in Puerto Rico. I've been chasing Hamilton around just
seeing it over and over again because it is just
that impactful. But in that process of that movie, of

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that Broadway play, there is a song that they do.
It's a hip hop song about being in the room
where things happen. Hey man, and I tell you it
just sent me in the orbit because a lot of
times things don't happen because we're not in the right room.

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You're going to have the right dream and the right vision,
but if you're not in the right room where things happen,
you can't really bring that dream to fruition. Some of
us can't get the change of mentality that we need
because we can't escape the room that we're in. Anybody
ever feel like you were in the wrong room. You know,

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you hear people talking on one level and you're thinking
on another level. You want to be in the room.
And so what I'm doing with these things like our
Leadership conference and even our Women are Loose that's coming
up in Atlanta. The things that we're doing is to
allow the saints to be in the room with people
who are reshaping the world, so that you could hear

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the way they think, so that you could get some notes,
so that you can get some ideas, so that you'll
be well rounded in every area of your life. Some
people think all you need is to talk in tongues
and layout on the floor, But when you get through
laying out on the floor, you got to deal with
real life stuff. Talk to me, everybody, And so I

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am using my relationships in and outside of the church
arena to bring together to some people who are really
shaking the world and putting them at the table so
that you can hear the discussions and ask questions and
growing any individual and continue to be fruitful all of
your life. And I'm so happy to announce that we're

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going to be at Charlotte, North Carolina, Amen for our
International Leadership Conference this year.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Come on clapp.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
So you got plenty of time to get ready for it,
and to call your cousin up in Charlotte and tell
her she got company coming over and be a part
of the International Leadership Summon. Take a look at this
screen and you'll know more about it.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Throughout the course of history, great men and women have
sacrificed the unimaginable to elevate humanity and show us the
untapped potential of the human mind and heart. These great
leaders share many of the same traits, the willingness to dream,
the ability to inspire, and the determination to execute on

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their vision against all odds. When the key decisions were
being made, they were in the room when crucial strategies
were being devised. They were in the room when laws
that had the potential to change the path of history
were being written. They were in the room. They put

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themselves directly in the rooms where change was happening to
make sure they didn't end up stuck on the outside,
confined to the wrong side of history. We stand on
the shoulders of these giants, poised to fulfill the promise
of our potential. In every one of us, there is
a leader waiting for the chance to emerge and change

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the world for the better. Since its inception, the goal
of the International Pastors and Leadership Conference has always been
to educate and enlighten the leaders of tomorrow so they
may fulfill their potential and make a lasting and positive
mark on the world. Over the years, we have helped
thousands of people make their dreams a reality, and we

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have no intention of stopping any time soon. But we
also recognize we are in a time of rapid change,
one where if you aren't willing or agile enough to adapt,
you will left behind. To make an impact, you must
not only be relevant, but you must stay relevant. In
order to do this, we must broaden our scope to

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ensure we are addressing today's most pressing issues. We must
extend our reach to leaders from every walk of life.
We must underscore the huge importance of knowing how to
deftly navigate the obstacles of life, so the leaders of
tomorrow can put themselves in the room where the most
important change is happening. Welcome to that room, and welcome

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to the International Leadership Summit.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Amen. Every leader in the room makes a noise. That's
good stuff. That's good stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Mark these days down April thirtieth through made the sucked
April thirtieth through made the sucket in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And if you go to you can visit this is
ils dot org. This is ils dot org to register
and take advantage of the special pre sale price of

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ninety nine dollars. Amen. Yeah, that's right. That's a rule
for the entire thing, the early bird special. You can
still get it and the information is on the screen.
How you can go right there to this is ils
dot org and get the information and take advantage of
the early bird special and go ahead and register. Register

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by faith, Amen, Register by faith. I'm not saying that
you're out of register and then start coughing in April
to get off work. I'm not saying nothing like that.
But just register by faith, believe in God. You're go
get off work and be a part of the international leadership.

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It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. If you're watching online,
the same thing is true for you. You have an opportunity
to avail yourself. Go to this is ils dot org
right now and you can get that special ninety nine
dollars special for registration for the year. Amen. We're excited

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about it. We're believing God for it. As we begin
to think and to understand and to recognize who we
are as leaders. And it's no accident that we're talking
about leadership on Father's Day because we need more men
that will take the lead and stand up.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Burn my brothers that make some noise.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
We need more men who will stand up and take
the lead and move into your rightful places. And this
tungue of war that seems to be going on in
society about women in leadership versus men in leadership live.
I celebrate the women who have moved into leadership. I
celebrate the women that have moved into power. I celebrate

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the women who can go and get the bacon and
fry it up in the pan and do all of
that kind of stuff. But that doesn't mean you replace us.
Let's not get that twisted. Amen. You can stand beside us,
but don't let this feminism drive you to the point
that you replace us. There's still something that men bring

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to the table that's in a class all by themselves.
Come on, talk to me, somebody, Come on, talk.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
To me somebody. Amen. Amen.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
And I believe there's still enough women in the room
who appreciate a strong man that you're Yeah, you're not
looking for no little weak mama's boy who won't stand
up and take authority. You'll look for a man who
can handle his own and get things done, so that

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when we say I got your back, you know that
your back is coming because you got a good Come on,
talk to me, amn.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
And you cannot be the man that you need to be,
and you cannot be the woman that you need to be.
And you cannot be the leader or even the person
that you need to be without God in your life.
He makes a difference. He makes a difference. He makes
a difference. He makes a difference. I don't care whether

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you're leading in the church or leading in the world
or leading an ice cream cold stand. You need God
in your life to give you the stript to stand
up against the wows of the devil. You're fighting the
wows of the devil. Talk to me, somebody, glory to God.
But greater is he that is in you, then he that's.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
In in the world.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Can I get a witness in here? Glory to God.
I want him in my everything. I want him in
my everything. I want him in my decisions. I want
him in my choices. I want him to get in
my friendships and my relationships. I want him in my finances.

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I want him in my four one cave, amen and
all the other alphabets. I want God in everything. I
want him to take my stops like the two fish
and five loads of bread.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
And multified.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
The world might be having a recession, but I'm not
having one. I refuse to participate. I'm going to the
next level. Is anybody going with me? Is anybody going
with me? Is anybody going with me? You might have
a recession. I'm gonna have a progression going further and

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further and higher and higher in the Lord. I still
believe that this is your year. Y'all ain't talking back
to me. I still believe that this is your year.
I believe it's your year. Now. I know a lot
of stuff happened. People get sick, cars break down, people die.

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That's life. Life is gonna be life. I don't care
what year it is. But in the midst of all
hell breaking, Louise I still declare, this is your year,
and no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper.
Don't let the devil talk you out of your dream,

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I said, don't let the devil talk you out of
your dream. Who am I talking to this morning? Shake
hands with somebody I didn't tell him. I swear God's
gonna bless you. Yeah, I swear God's gonna bless you.
I swear God's gonna bless you. You don't know it,

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but you're quoting scriptures when you say that. God said
that himself. He said, I swear I'm gonna bless you.
I swear I'm gonna bless you. I swear I'm gonna
bless you. I swear, I swear. I'm not a man
that I should lie God should. I swear I'm gonna
bless you. Oh.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I feel a praise in this place right now. Go
over to God.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Don't clap your hands on yet. Evil shout at the
God with the voice of crying. Don't clap your hands
on yet. People shout at the God with the voice
of criar, Oh, clock your hand on you.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
People shouting to.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
God, the voice of try off.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
The voice of trying, the voice of trying.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Gloried to God, Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory
to God, Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
The Lord spoke to me the other day and he said,
I've set.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Before you an open door, and God's brought some new
doors and some new opportunities into my life. And I
know they're there, and I see that they're there, but
I've been kind of procrastinating about it because sometimes opportunity
is so big that you make excuses. Anybody knows what
I'm talking about. I got me a real good whooping

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the other day. Said stop making excuses.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
And walk on in that door. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Whether you need that or not, but stop making excuses
and walk on in that door. If you are that,
God's got it, clock their heads, somebody. I have seen
the Lord say some things this year, and I've seen

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some people walk into my office and say some things
to me that if I told you you would almost
think I was crazy. When they said it to me.
It almost from I almost thought they were crazy. Amen, God,
to give you a blessing this heart for you to believe.
Come on, somebody, He'll open up a door. Leave your

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mouth hanging open, saying, Lord, how can these things be?
How can these things be? That's what Mary said, how
can these things be? Singing as I know not a man,
Glory to God. And then she said, nevertheless, be it
unto me according to Thy word. I need some nevertheless

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people in here. I'm talking about promotions that you weren't
trained for. Jobs, you weren't supposed to get, houses, you
weren't supposed to be able to buy. I'm talking about
God opening up some doors for some people that are
ready to walk by faith. Talk to me, somebody, I'm

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ready to go in and take back what the enemy
is stole from me. Shot yes, somebody, I said, I'm
ready to go back and take money what the enemy
stole from me.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Shout hallelujah. Let me hurry up to preach. I feel
it's offering time in the sanctuary. I'm gonna move this
service along so long.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
So that we can get into the word of God.
It is in my offering and in my tithes that
my faith becomes tangible. Until I actually give, my faith
is just talkable. When I activate my giving, my faith
becomes tangible. Come on, somebody, a tangible evidence that I

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believe God, that I expect God to show up, that
I'm in business with God. I'm in business with God.
You know that I'm in business with God.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Say that with me.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
God is my partner. If you mess with me, you
got to mess with my partner. When I bring the tithes,
I am saying to the devil, I am in business
with God. God said, I will do business with you
if you just remember me with ten percent of everything

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I bless you with. God said, I will be in
business with you, and I will cost your figs not
to cancer fruit before their time. I'll cast your leaf
lu to wither. I'll cost you to prosper glory to
God because you're in business with God. I said, You're
in business with God. And then you got to be

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careful to remember to acknowledge Him in all your ways,
because sometimes you'll get happy and get beside yourself and
think that you did it, but you didn't get there
by yourself God brought you there, and then some people
think that their job did it. But suppose the job
goes down. There are some people in this room. The

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job went down, but they kept on eating every day
because God supplied all of their needs according to as
rich as in glory. If your job was your only source,
you'd have been cut off. But thanks to me on
the God, God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ,
our Lord. I want to pray over your seed today
you're watching online. I want to believe God with you

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as you prepare the sowing too the Kingdom of God.
You're gonna need a faith to break that yo. That
yoke is not gonna break without faith. It's not gonna
break because you're cute. It's not gonna break because you've
got a degree. There are people sleeping up under bridge
God a degree. There are people locked up in prison.
God a degree. It's gonna break because you're in business

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with God. You need to set your affections on things
that are above. Talk to me, somebody, Glory to God.
I expect something to happen in this place. Glory to God.
I'm giving you a moment to get ready to get
your time and get your offerings and acknowledge the Lord
with your substance. This is worship too. It's not just

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about singing and dancing. That's a mistake Israel made. God said,
with your lips you drow nigh unto me, but your
heart is far from me. In other words, God said,
you talk a good game, but when it really comes
to put up and shut up, all of a sudden,
you're missing in action. Lord, have mercy. If the church

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had a dollar for every dance, if we had a
dollar for every Halleluja and every thank you Jesus, the
church for the next three generations would be paid for.
And thank you Jesus is running like running water. Glory
to God. But let me tell you, what you do

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with your money is an indication of what you do
with your heart. You find money for what you love.
If somebody tells you they love you and they don't
ever give you nothing, don't you believe it. If somebody
tells you they love you they don't ever give you anything,

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don't you believe it. Love will always give it self away.
Even a little child will come home and give his
mama a picture, a drawing. You might not know what
it is but to say, look what I made you, mama.
Because love is about giving. Talk to me, somebody. Love

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is about giving. God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosover believes on him,
shall my parents but have everlasting life. Love is about giving,
young people, hear me. Love is about giving. Love is
about giving. It's not about blinging. It's not about lax,

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it's not about more followers. Love is about giving. Talk
to me, somebody. Love is about giving. Love is about giving.
God so loved that he gave. He's so loved that
he gave. When you soul love, you gonna give glory

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to God, Glory to God. Sisters, don't go for his wallet,
go for his hard.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
If you go for his hard, oh I told a secret.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Brother.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
If you get that hard, that wallet is gonna come
right with it. Their Siamese twins, they're tied together.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Hey man.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
People who love drugs always find money for drugs. People
who like liquor always find money for liquor. People like
strip clubs. Ain't go to the strip club. Ain't got
no job still in the strip club. Talking about I'm
gonna make it You ain't gonna make it rain. It

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ain't even gonna do it, ain't even gonna drive people
support what they love. How many people in here love Jesus.
Go ready, God, get your times and your offerings, and
stand up on your feet. And I want to pray
over the things that you're believe in God to do
in your life. I want to believe God with you.

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I want to stand in covenant with you. I want
to pray with you and agree with you that you
will have the courage to walk into every opportunity that
God is about to release in your life. The courage,
the courage. It takes courage to be blessed. It takes

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courage to be blessed. I want you to have the
courage to be blessed. Glory to God. I want to
pray the spirit of prosperity on you. The spirit of prosperity.
Prosperity has a spirit with it. Millionaires and billionaires go

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bankrupt and then open up another business and they're back
on top again in a month because they have a
spirit of prosperity. You say, how did they go bankrupt
and then open up a new chain a store. They
have a spirit of prosperity. Are you ready to receive
a spirit of prosperity? The Bible said, I wish above

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all things that you prosper and being good health, as
your soul does prosper Father God, in the name of Jesus,
I join my faith with the faith of this congregation
and all of those that are viewing online, that the
spirit of prosperity would fall upon us. I mean that
kind of spirit that is more than money, that that

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includes good health, that kind of spirit that includes good judgment,
that kind of spirit that includes good energy. What good
is it to have an opportunity and not have the
energy to walk in and take the opportunity. Whatever the
hindrance has been that has held us back from receiving

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everything that you have for it, I rebuke it right
now in the name of Jesus. And as we wave
our times before you, as we give all over the world,
as we saw across the country, as we sow from
other country, we stand in alienmen. Because faith knows no distance,
it knows no boundaries. It cares nothing about state lines

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or country lines or seashoores. Faith will go anywhere in
a flash. Release the faith of God and let it
flow in this place.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I receive it.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Now in Jesus' name. Shout a man, you may be
seated lorry of God. Our professional ministry technicians are in
place in Maryland, Q. They're ready to serve you in
the spirit of excellence. You're ready to give to God.
Shout allylujah, serve the people of God.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Come on Potter's house, put those hands together right here.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I'm all blessed Lord at all times.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
He's good.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
And y'all see, I will bless.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
The Lord Lord times he's good. One more times.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, we live lessen it all.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
For he is bad, humble soul. Come on, said, I
will blaster he's good.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Boy, he's good.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
He's soul, good, real good. Eat you every day everything,
I'll glass gor for he Come on to put those
hands together upon his house. Yeah, oh, I will bless

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the Lord.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Less the Lord it all.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
He is good, sound real good.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I will bless the lot, lessing it off.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
He's good.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Let's do that again. I will bless her.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
He's good.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
I will bless the Lord at all times.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Lord he's good.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah boy, he's good, so good.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Real good, each and every day.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Problems but he's.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah, yeah, I will bless the long head off there
the I will bless her long Yeah, say, I will
bless her Lord, say I will please, said, I will

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bless to come up, I will bless, I will bless
the lot of I will glassterble blessed love. I will
glister Lord, no.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Glass to.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Riverle Blester's said, I will bless her master it all bunkies, d.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I will bless the Lord at all times where he's good.
Grab your bibles and jump up on your feet as
we go to the Book of Genesis, chapter number three,
verse eight thro eleven.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
We're gonna play a little hide and go seek this morning.
You ready for it.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
We're in the Book of Genesis chapter number three, verse
eight through eleven. When you haven't said, man, if you're
still looking, say.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Wait on me.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
All right, you're all ready today. Forgive me for jumping
right into the middle of this text, into the middle
of this story. But I wanted to extrapolate those passages

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of scripture that are most relevant to my assignment today.
And I want you to pray for me because I
am on assignment this morning. I got a word from
the Lord today and a mandate and a responsibility to
deliver this word to the people of God. I'm excited

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about it. I'm praying about it, and I wanted to
do everything that God told me it was going to do. Amen,
We're just gonna play a little hide and go see
Genesis chapter three, verse eight. And they heard the voice
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid

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themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees,
amongst the trees of the garden, and the Lord God
called under Adam and said, unto him, where art thou?

Speaker 2 (35:34):
And he said, I heard that voice in the garden.
I was afraid because I was snaked, and I hid myself.

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And he said, who told you that you were naked?

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Has all eaten of the tree wherever I commanded thee
that thou shouldst not eat?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I heard that voice in the garden. I was scared.
I was naked, and I hid. I hid myself. What

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a thing to hide? I hid myself? My subject has
hide and go seek. Father, have your way in this place.

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Saturate this place with your anointing and your presence, moving
such a supernatural way that lives and hearts are changed
at the same time that broken places are mended and
crooked places are made straight. I think you in advance
for what you're going to do. Have your way in

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the midst of your people. Today in the name of Jesus,
we prayed. Somebody shouted, say, Amen, you may be seated
in the presence of God. Now, because half of my
church's millennials, I have to explain my subject. Because you

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grew up playing with toys that had batteries plugged up
or were automated electronic had aps for it before there
were apps, and before there were Apple telephones, and before
there was all of these gadgets that you grew up
playing with.

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We played a game called hide and go seek.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Now, tall the rich people in here, I'm gonna have
to explain it to you, because hide and go seek
is a game you play when you don't have no money.
You don't have no money, you don't have no toys,
and your cousins came over and your mama puts you
out the house because the house was hot and told

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you to go outside and play and gave you nothing
to play with, so you had to make up games
like hide and go seek because she told you don't
come back in this house. The house was hot. You
had one fan, the old folks had it. She didn't
want you going in and out the screen door. Shut

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the screen door. Don't be letting them flies in the house.
Once you get outside, stay outside. But when the street
lights come on, you y'all don't know nothing about that.

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And so there was a game we would play call
hide and go seek. And I grew up in West
Virginia where we had big trees. You would go and
somebody would standing over by the tree and put their
face up against the.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Tree and start counting. Wine tell and they count.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
And while they counted, everybody would run and hide, And
when they got to a certain number, they would turn
around and start seeking that which was hidden. You might
hide up under rock, You might hide up under a bush.
You might hide in the basement or behind a rock,

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somewhere a closed door, anywhere you could get come because
you didn't want to be discovered. You wanted to hide yourself.
In our text today, as almost as if God is
playing hide and go seek.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
With Adam.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
When the Bible talks about that they saw that they
were naked, they hid themselves, They hid themselves, they saw
that they were nicked. They hid themselves. But when God
got ready to talk, he didn't talk to they. He

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talked to the men. He talked to the man. He said,
he said, Adam, where are you? You must understand that
the voice.

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Of the Lord walked through the cool of the garden.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
God broke his Sabbath day rests. It was broken by
the weekend sins of mankind. The voice of the Father
struck terror in the son. It struck terror in the
son and made him go into hiding. And when he
went into hiding, he hid himself from God. Without that happening,

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there's an ache in the heart of a man. A
voice of leadership, a voice of discipline, a voice of
authority is important in the life of even a young man.
Somebody whose voice gets a different response. That voice of authority,
that voice of power, makes a difference. Generally it is

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the voice of a father. Not always, but generally it's
the voice of a father. And all of a sudden,
you have this feeling inside of yourself like you've been busted.
It has to be somebody in whom you have high regard.
It has to be somebody that you really respect. Without
that there in your life, there's something missing inside of

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your life. Without that, there there's an ape for some
compass or God through which approval doesn't come easy, but
if yet attainable. It doesn't come easy, but it's attainable.
One of the things we do with young men we
mess them up when we clap too fast. You need

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to make me work for it. You need to make
me strive for it. You need to You need to
make me extend myself, because when I extend myself, I
discover myself in my in my house. Mama's applauds came easy.
Oh my little man, look at my little man, Look

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at my little.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Man to play. Oh, look at Boo boo.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
But that he didn't clap so fast, he didn't clap
so easy. He didn't he didn't move so quickly. You
had you had to work for it. That's very important
in the development of who we are as men. It's
very important. In fact, Adam said, there's four things that
he said. He said, I heard thy voice. Now it's

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clear that Adam knows God's voice. The Bible said, my
sheep know my voice, or stranger, they will not follow.
He said, I heard thy voice.

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I know, I know it was you. I heard thy voice.
I was afreid now reverence.

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In fact, the Bible said the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom. And so he says, I
was afraid. I was afraid. I was afraid because I wasnked.
Exposing oneself doesn't come easy to most men. It's Father's day.

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Exposing oneself doesn't come easy to most men. I'm not
talking about physical exposure. I'm talking about emotional exposure. I'm
talking about vulnerabilities. I'm talking about who we really are.
That doesn't come easily because we are afred, and any

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time we are afred number four, we hide ourselves. So
I heard thy voice number two. I was afred number three.
I was naked number four. I hid myself. Hiding who
we are, what we've done, or even what we think.

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Is common amongst men.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
And when you start talking about hiding yourself, you're tying
into the substratum of what I want to talk to
you about today. Because it was a hidden reality of
the man that caused God to walk through the cool
of the garden. God starts walking when man started hiding.

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He's after you, He's searching for you, he's looking for you.
It all started It didn't start with this. It started
with the tree. And I'm calling the tree Hidden Love
because God has placed Adam and then pulled Eve out
of Adam into this utopia, this beautiful utopia and environment

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surrounded with flowers and fruits and vegetables and trees and
bushes and plants, and streams and waterfalls and creeks and
oceans and the sound of crashing water against dashing against
solid rocks. He has set them in an atmosphere and
an environment that is so beautiful and so picturesque and

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so opulent to the eye that they could stay there
for absolute eff He has given them everything. They don't
have to work, they don't have to labor, a myst
comes up out of the ground waters to earth. They
don't have to do anything. Everything is self sustaining. But

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God is wise enough to know that any time you
give us everything, you're gonna have problems with us. That
in order to really train us and discipline us, we
become men by what we don't do. A man that

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will do anything is not a man. There ought to
be some things that you absolutely will not do. They
may not be the same things as a person next
to you, but every man in this room ought to
have some boundaries around his life that says I have struggles.
I'm human, I'm frail, I'm weak, but this I will

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not do and that I will not do. There needs
to be some boundary somewhere. That's part of what being
a man is all about. So God gave him a
tree and said, you can have anything except this tree
right here. Don't touch this tree. That don't touch this tree.

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Is disciplined, and discipline is necessary for you to be
a disciple. You cannot be a disciple because you clap.
You can only be a disciple when you have discipline.
And the tree was in the garden to provide discipline,

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because discipline for a man is love. Anytime you can
get away with anything, do anything anytime, anywhere, go anywhere,
come back when you get ready to leave, whenever you please.
You don't have to come home, you go anywhere. It

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causes a child not to feel loved. As odd as
it is, as much as they fuss about it, as
much as they complain about it, as much as they
get in your face about it, there's something about being
disciplined that says, I matter, You're.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Concerned about me.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
When you turn me loose and say, I don't care
when you come back. I don't care what you eat.
I don't care where you sleep, I don't care where
you go. You do whatever you want to do. Behind
all of that freedom is the feeling of being in love.
Unrestrained lack of disciplined, lassibous behavior causes men, especially as children,

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not to feel loved, not to feel safe, not.

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To have a sense of belonging.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
So, whether you recognize it or not, the tree is
really hidden love. It's tough love. It's dangerous to have
a life with no rules. The rules are the place
where you learn temperance. The rules are the place where

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you learn respect. The rules are the place where you
learn boundaries. And if you have no rules, you have
no boundaries. And if you don't have them as a boy,
you're out not to have them as a man. Talk
to me, somebody. The tree is the pruning place for

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the man. It is the pruning place for the man
where you cut off flesh and curiosity, And just because
you're curious doesn't mean you have to do it. You
will notice that even though the woman was a partaker
of the fruit, the forbidden fruit, the woman ate from

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the tree. But humanity did not fall when women ate.
I know you want to be the same about everything.
But in the Bible, I'm talking about the word of God.
I'm not talking about the times that we're living in
right now. The Word of God said when the woman ate,
nothing fell. It was when the man ate. It was

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when the man ate from the tree. When the man
had no boundaries, when he had no discipline, when.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
He had no order.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
All of Hugh mannity fell when the man ate from
the tree. Oh, I want to help you, Just give
you a little time with this this morning. Go to
Romans five twelve if you will, and because I want
to prove that Romans five twelve, and take a quick

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look at that Romans five twelve. Roman five twelve. Wherefore
as by one man, sin, by one man, by one man,
sin entered into the world, not by a woman, but
by one man, sin entered into the world, and death

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by sin, So death passed upon all men.

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For that all have sin.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
That's why when I get to heaven, I'm gonna slap
at him, just one good slap, just one good slap.
We had it good Adam blew everything. There would have
been no alarm clocks. There would have been no unions.
There would have been no sweating your brother. That have

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been no working that are we no payroll, There have
been no fight or taxes to pay. There have been
no nothing to argue about. Adam messed up everything for everybody. Man,
one man, failing to be prone, failing to be disciplined
by the tree, brought us all down. I know this

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whenever I sit with my children and we sit around
the table, if we sit around the table long enough,
they tell what I call Daddy's stories, and they got
a lot of them, and they start whipping about, one
after another, talking about stuff I did, and they made
me sound like an older Daddy didn't take no stuff,

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and Daddy said this, and Daddy didn't do this. Daddy
wouldn't let me go here. Daddy went and got me
from here, and Daddy said so and so and so
and so on, and Daddy got out to me, and
Daddy got on me. Daddy got on And the funny
thing about it is they're talking about it as if
I wasn't ogre. But they're happy. They're not talking about

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it like they're in therapy and they need recovery. They're
not talking about it showing where I hit them in
the head with an eye something. I'm talking about that
kind of crazy kind of stuff like that. They're talking
about it from the perspective of having boundaries, and they
see me enjoy it. And what really got weird. I
thought it was just you all, it was just my
natural kids. But even amongst my spiritual sons, when they

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get together, they start swapping these stories about me getting
in their face, about something getting in their face, about
their sermon, picking their sermon apart. I told one preacher,
I told him, you're too smart to preach that dum.

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I told him, you're an Olympic swimmer swimming in shallow water.
I picked the sermon apart. I said to stop preaching
about spark plugs and metaphors and letting the metaphor being
bigger than the message. And I picked his message apart.
He said, I picked it apart so bad that he
said he had to put the phone on mute because

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he was crying and he didn't want me to hear it. See,
you don't want me to minor you.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
He was crying.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
He was crying over the phone, and I picked the
sermon apart and told him how sorry it was, and
told him, you can do better than this. You're smarter
than this, you got more in you than that. That's
not acceptable. Why did you go off on that rabbit
trail that didn't have anything to do with the message.
You got lost in the middle of them. Get yourself together,

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bring yourself in, coordinate your tech, organize your theology, pull
yourself up. I'm talking about the way you deal with me.
Even my daughter, My daughter Sarah sent me something she
wrote one time. And I was busy and I was working,

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and I can be abrupt. I'm not mean. It makes
me sound mean even when I tell it. Gee, But
I told her she sent me something.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
I said.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
I was in California when I read it, and I
read it kind of quick, and I said, Sarah, I said,
I don't even know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
It is it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
It's discombobulated, it's disorganized, is out of order. I said,
I don't, I don't even get it. You need to
rewrite this fast forward. She ended up writing a book.
When she wrote the book, I told her, I called
her and I got her voicemail and I said, Sarah,

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I read the book. I was going to read the
book because I'm your father, and that's what we do.
When my girls were cooking, I ate everything they cooked,
whether they were good or not, is the one that
I'm still breathing. The mama wouldn't eat it. Serena was

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not eating that. You know, you didn't need that stuff.
I hate everything. I hate everything cook, half cook, sort
of cooked. I hate everything they did. So I was
reading the book because she was my daughter, I said.
But when I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I said.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
The rhythm in which you wrote, the articulation of your speech,
the way in which it flowed, was so eloquent that
I couldn't stop reading it. And she called me back
and she said, Daddy, She said, I want to keep
this message forever. She said, I want to keep it forever.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
She said.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
It touched me so deeply. And then she told me
something that taught me. She said, what made your compliment
half validity? It's the criticism that preceded it. She said,
I couldn't trust what you said to be good if

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I didn't know that you had the courage to tell
me when I'm bad. And so y'all don't hear what
I'm saying to you. So it's important that you understand
that discipline in the life of a child gives him
the feeling of being loved, of being safe, of being secure,
and being able to trust you.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Everything I do is not good.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
You'll never get better with people always applauding you. Who
needs a coach that just compliments you, tells you how
good you are, how wonderful you are. If boys sit
around and get to talk to one by one, they
started telling the story, one of them sitting up looking
at me. Now, I ain't gonna point him out in
the crowd, but he said. I embarrassed him on national
TV and told him what he did was stupid.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
It was stupid. He was so mad at me.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
He got to picture him looking at me later like
he was gonna jump on me. He said, look at
the way I'm looking at you like I'm gonna jump
on you. I said, look at the way I'm looking
back at you like I wish. And the brother who

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was mad enough to jump on me and beat me
up has now joined this church, follows me around everywhere
I go because discipline for a man means you love me.
He had the sense to understand The reason I was
in your face was because I didn't want you dead.
I didn't want to bury you, and I was afraid

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for you. And I challenged the way you did stuff
because I care about you.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Unrestrained accent is not good. Are you hear what I'm saying?
Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Doctor Campbell of a well known clinical psychologist, did an
article in the Huffington Post as she listed about eight things,
eight traits of children who have been disciplined. And I'm
going to give you those eight things really quick. That
shows you what discipline in the life of a child does.
Number one, it gives them self control and maturity. Emotional

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maturity is the ability to delay gratification. Emotional maturity is
the ability to delay gratification. It teaches you how to wait,
that you don't get everything when you want it. It
gives you a strategy and a structure. This means that
the parenting has taught them to keep commitments even when

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they are no longer new or exciting. Disciplined children can
commit to doing what's right even when they don't feel
like it. Number two is empathy. It gives them empathy.
Disciplined children are able to put themselves in the shoes
of someone else's emotional experience, which allows them to develop

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understanding and genuine care. This enables them to help someone
from a place of purity, rather than helping someone to
meet their own agenda. Oh wait on me, I'm gonna
step on your tob before it's over. The reason we
got all of these these people running around here, players
playing on all these systems is that they had no discipline.

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Number three.

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It gives them the desire to feel good. Disciplined children
have been parented to know they are good, and because
of this, they are driven through their own behaviors to
maintain this state of internal well being. Feeling good is
their natural state which they will always reach back for

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they when their lives get off track. Number four, and
this is so important. It teaches them to be responsible.

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Children who have.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Been disciplined are motivated from within to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Help around the house, school, and in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
At large because they see the value in contributing to
the whole rather than just thinking about their own needs.
When you have discipline, you want to contribute. You want
to be an asset. You don't want to be a liability.
Number five. Children who have been disciplined are more out
to love themselves. Children who are disciplined have an internal

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sense of confidence. In other words, confidence is derived from
within and not just from performance or outside validation. You
don't have to have a thousand likes to like yourself.
They have been loved correctly, which makes them see themselves
as lovable, worthy of being loved, worthy of being honored

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because they've been disciplined. You would think the more you
babied them, the more they feel loved. But the truth is,
the more you discipline and set boundaries, the more they
see themselves as lovable and worth being loved. Number six
is accountable. It makes them accountable. Disciplined children, she says,

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own up to their mistakes and are more likely to
make good choices because they desire to feel good. Ownership
is not seen as shameful, but rather seen as an
opportunity to practice having good character. Responsible children are taught
that being wrong in life is okay and just a
part of the process. Number seven they respect her thought,

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so they're not gonna be all up in the police
officer's face. They're not gonna cuss out the school teacher
because their first encounter with discipline was at home. He
gave them structure, he gave them order, he gave them boundaries.
They learned stuff. I know it's old school. I'm dating myself,
but they learned. They like yes sir and no sir,

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and yes ma'am and no, ma'am. May I have another cookie? Please?

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Number eight.

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Children who have been disciplined are happy. They tend to
be more happy people. They're pleasant to be around and
have an easy time making and sustaining relationships. They tend
to be lacked by all age groups and are the
kids other parents which their kids could be. All of

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that comes from discipline. All of that comes out of
this tree. All of that comes out of the Almighty
showing us how to father because he is fathering Adam.
He is fathering Adam, and he is teaching Adam values
that will set the stage for the entire rest of

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the human experience. Father's Day often brings out unique emotions.
It's kind of a tough day. I wish they had
it before Mother's Day. They have it after Mother's Day.
We have to watch Mother's Day. Father's Day has a

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unique feeling to it because not all of us had fathers,
Not all of us had present fathers. Not all of
us had good fathers, not all of us had pleasant
experiences with fathers. And now we're living in a time
where the modern contemporary idea is that men are optional,

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just firm donors will do. Because the thought today is
just because you can buy a house, you can make
a home without us. And so when it comes to
Father's Day, it's a bit of a hard sell. It's
a hard sell because so many men have messed it up,

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blown it up, shot it up, until women as a
recourse have developed survival techniques to make it without you.
And now they are proud to tell you how much
they don't need you, and shock that you don't stay.

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Oh it's quiet, what man wants to stay in the
house where your constant speech is I can make it
without you. If you don't want to be here, hit
the door. I got more education, I make more money,
I can do good all by myself. I don't need
you at all. And then when he leave, you wonder
why he left. You talked him out of the house

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and then cried because he was gone. Father's Day is
a hard seal. It brings out all kinds of emotions
because because Adam said I was a fred I was nicked.

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I hid myself. I want to talk about men that hid.
I hid myself. I showed you who you wanted to see.

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Rui's gonna get quiet in here. I showed you what
I thought you could handle. But I hid myself. I
hid myself as one issue. I hid myself. I was
never really there. There's not a man. I'm gonna make

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a bold statement. There's not a man in this room
that has not hid himself in some way. I know
you uncomfortable. I'm pulling at your fig leaves, but it's

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gonna be all right. There's not a man in this
room that doesn't understand what I'm talking about. I hid myself.
I responded to you in a way that you have
taught me gets me rewarded. But I was not legitimately

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there because I don't think you could handle me. So
I hid myself. That's one thing I heard myself that
didn't get you. Think about this. I hid from myself.

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I don't even talk to me about me. I hid
from myself. So don't get mad because I hid myself
from you. I hid myself from me too. I didn't

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ask myself questions that might get wrong answers. I hid
from myself. I hid behind my job. I hid behind
my anger. I hid behind my rage. I hid behind

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working out. I hid behind my intellectual capacity. I hid
behind how much money I make. I hid myself till
I hid from myself. Some men hid by leaving. I

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hid myself by leaving. It got hard, I quit, I
walk away. I hid myself by leaving. And other man

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said I didn't leave. There's a lot of men in
here didn't leave, not physically. The truth of the matter is,
you've been gone for years. You been gone from years,

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and don't nobody even though you gone. You hid while staying.
You buried yourself beneath other things. So you were there,
but you were opposet. I heard that voice. I was naked.

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I was afraid.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
I hid.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Myself. Let me talk about anger for a minute. Let
me tell you what anger is. One of the fig
leies we hide behind. Anger is how we hide hurt.
We don't want to burst into tears. It is easier

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to get mad than it is to express hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
But what you don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
You think we're a hot head. No we're not a
hot head. We're a hurt head. But hot seems easier
to hide behind than to be naked and say I'm hurt,

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So I can hide by staying, or I could hide
by leaving. But I had This isn't just bad stuff. Yes,
it's true. I hide my weaknesses, but I hide my

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compliments too. There's not a man in this room who
hadn't thought something wonderful about the woman he loves that
he didn't tell her, because once you start hiding, you
can't control what all you had. And you built it

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to protect yourself, but it en is up in prisoning yourself.
So we don't have to go to jail to be
in prison. So the man you dreamed of is a
man you got, but he's hidden himself. Oh Lord Jesus,

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they quiet this morning, long, they reacquiet this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
One man just turned blue.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
The funny thing about men, and I've been counseling, I've
been working with a lot of men who are going
through a lot of things right now. One of the
most amazing things is that Adam took these fig leaves
and he hid his loins. He hid the most productive
part of himself. And I have found the funny thing

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about men. It's the parts we hide are the parts
that would make a difference in the family, that we
hide the most productive part of ourselves and hide behind
what we think is masculinity. Sometime we need to cry.

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Sometimes we need to struggle. Sometimes we need to let
people know that it's not easy to be us. Sometimes
we don't get the respect that we need, or the
accolades that we need, or the support that we need
because we hide that we needed. And the woman you

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married may not have been raised around a man, so
she doesn't know how to read a man. And the
man she got she cannot see because he.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
He hid himself.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
If we would stop hiding for a moment in this room,
you would be shocked.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
At who we are. So God says, Adam, where are you?
Does that mean that God couldn't see him? Of course not.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
It might mean that God couldn't recognize him in all
the stuff he was hiding behind. I don't recognize who
you have become. I don't recognize who you pretend to be.
I don't recognize this person that you're acting like you are.

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I don't recognize you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Where are you? When I left you, you were naked.
When I came back, you were you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Were some strange creature with leaves on them, walking around,
playing the role because you're scared that if anybody saw you,
they wouldn't love you. Yeah, anybody got the courage to

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say amen, Yes, that's why we hide. We hide because
we think if you saw us, maybe you wouldn't love us.
So we hide ourselves, and we make stuff up to

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cover us up. We make up stuff we gotta do,
in places we gotta go, and things that got to
happen to hide ourselves. We get positions and jobs and
money and status or muscles or tricepts or girlfriends.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
As to hide.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
Ourselves. And she thinks you're with her because she's sexy.
It ain't because she's sexy. It's because she covers you.
She covers your vulnerability, She covers what you're afraid of
about yourself, She covers what happened to you, She covers

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the part of you that don't feel so strong, and
she tells you what you want to hear, and she
is your fig leaves.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
I heard God voice, I was naked. I was afraid.
What are you afraid of? Adam?

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
You've been naked the whole show. Adam has been naked
the whole time. He's never had a suit on in
his life, but he didn't know he was naked. Who
told you you was naked? When he found out that
you could see him?

Speaker 7 (01:18:21):
My God?

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
He himself?

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
One?

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Two he four?

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
She satd Hey, nah, did ready or not?

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
God?

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Iss thing? Ready or not? Here? I come? Y.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
You know why we can't really worship good cause we
hide ourselves. So it's difficult for many men to really
get lost in worship. Or we can act like we're
at a football game and get the raw rah going.
But if we get into deep worship with tears and

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praise and your heart is open and you gotta be
naked before him, leave us out cause we can raw
raw y'all, y'all like we're on a football game.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
We up for that. But if we have to be
naked emotionally and vulnerable and exposed, oh no, that's for
the women. So our idea of a great praise service
is noise. I heard that voice. Hm, I was naked.

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I was afraid. I hid myself. We can live and
die and never be known.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Yes, woo.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Mm.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
You can grieve over the death of a father you
never really met.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
M wow, Well, well talk.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
You met who he showed you. You met who he
showed you. You met who he showed you, because most
of the men in this room don't even feel like
anybody even knows who they really are. Clapping if I'm

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talking about you, I hid myself means I lost.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Myself, Adam, Where I go.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
All of this happens from Adam's relationship with the tree.
Partaking of a fruit from a tree makes him aware
of stuff about him that he wasn't aware of, and

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he's scared of himself. Scared I'm not good enough. Scared
I'm not smart enough. Scared I don't have enough. Scared
I'm getting older, Scared I can't impress you like I
used to.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Scared I'm not the same man you fell in love with.
Scared I'm not valuable to you. Scared of what I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Think, and scared of what runs through my mind, and
scared of what happened to me, and scared of what
I've been through.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
So I hidding myself. That's why I get high, That's
why I get drunk. It's how I myself.

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
Adam.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
I'm looking for you, Hey, Adam, I'm looking for naked you.
I'm looking for open you. I'm looking for feeling you.
I'm looking for you, alive and real and present and vulnerable. Adam,

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Where are you? You Hi your vulnerabilities because you need
to age. Nothing gets to you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Yes, so you hear.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Your vulnerabilities because you thought if anybody saw you, they
wouldn't want you. And I'm looking for you. Your son
is looking for you, not who you pretend to me.
He's looking for you so he can figure out who
he is. He doesn't understand who he is because he's

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not like this carocature that you're painted of yourself. Your
son is looking for you. Your God is looking for you.
Your woman is looking for you. You shes up with somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
That you used to be. Yes, she couldn't find you.
Seven eight nine ten Radio Lot.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
Adam, Where the walk? The naked you, the nervous you,
the worried you, the crying you, the confused and broken you,

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the upset you, the you that can't sleep at night,
the you that's walking the floor, the you that that
is WIT's it to you that come to play suicide up?
Stop faking for the people. I am looking for you,

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don't you know? Don't you know that I love you,
not who you pretend to be. Adam, I don't recognize
this church boys game you plan. I didn't die for
this church boy you planning while you were yet sinners.
Christ commended his love toward us in that he died

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for us while we were naked. He died for the
person you are hiding. He shed his blood for the
guy you're trying to convince him that you're not. And
you're up at two o'clock in the morning ventor who
you really are, because daylight can't catch you. And if

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God is looking for you, and your sons and your
daughters are looking for you, and your wife is looking
for you, sometimes even you. You're fooling with them, but
you're looking for you. You're fooling with her, but you're

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looking for You're messing with him, but you're looking for Oh,
they're quiet, just like you said they was gonna be.
He thinks you're looking for him. No, you're looking for you.
She thinks it's about her. No, you're looking for you.

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You know how you looking for you cause your daddy
was looking for him. Tom, let's get this come on or.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten ready or not high or
not suicidal or not gay or not adultress or not

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drunk or not. Here I come. This is a man thing.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
It's a man thing, one man, the father of all men,
and everything came into the family through him. It's a
man thing. And it comes up in his voice cantenable

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because the father has been on sorry grapes. The teeth
of the children are set on the edge.

Speaker 6 (01:28:46):
Mm.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
And what you mad at him about?

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Hm?

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
You cost?

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
Oh, it's a it's a man thing, one man. In
the sight of God, there are only two men. Come
on now, in the sight of God. I swear to you,

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it's only two men. The first man had him yeah,
and the last man at him yeah. And either you're
born in the first one or you're born in the
last one. But there are only there are only two men,

(01:29:50):
and both of 'em got this thing going on with
a tree. The first man, Adam, died because he ate

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from their tree. The last man, Adam lives because he
was hung.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
On a tree.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Why do you think Jesus died on the tree when
they beat him bad enough, he should have died on
the whipping post. But had he died on the whipping post,
he wouldn't have broke the curse that was on the
first man at him because it was not about a
whipping post. It was always about a tree. So Jesus

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had to die.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
On a tree. Adam. Where now I can fix this.
I can fix this.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
You don't have to take matters into your own hands.
You don't have to fix yourself. You don't have to
father yourself. You don't have to mentor yourself. Come out
of hiding, out of Adam, before you destroy yourself.

Speaker 8 (01:31:40):
Come out, Come out wherever it, wherever you are, whatever
you're into, whatever you did, whoever you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Are, Adam, If you come out to hide it, I
can fix it. Adam, Adam, you don't have to be

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this son ipye.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Adam. You don't have to be this miserable right Adam.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
You don't have to make your own clothes. Adam.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
I will cover you, Adam. I will hear you, Adam.
I will bless you, Adam. I will save you, Adam.
I will raise you up.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Adam. I've already seen you. I've already seen you, Adam.
I love you with an e elastic love. You can't
fool me with. I feel fig leaves out of them,
out of them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Whatever you're making to cover yourself is dying while you're
stitching it, and that's why the relationships keep falling apart,
because they fig leaves, and fig leaves always die when
you pull them away from the roots.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
And if I.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
If I could ask God for anything this morning, I
would ask God to give them in.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
In this room. The courage, just the courage, just the courage,
just scourage to come naked crazy. But here I come.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
I'm kind of white over, but here I come. I'm
kind of depressed, but here I come. I'm kind of scared,
but here I come. I'm getting older.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
I don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
I don't know how to handle it. I define myself
by stuff that's changing in me. And I'm scared to
death and I can't talk to anybody. But here I come.
I'm young, and I thought i'd be further than I
am right now. And I can't get a job and
I can't get up on my feet. But here I come.
I'm afraid I got too much of my mama and me.

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I give up too easy, I run too fast. But
here I come. I'm coming to you. You see the
problem with Adam is that God was raising Adam because
Adam never had a childhood.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
He never got to be a little boy.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
He got thrust into a position of authority so fast
that he never got to have the childhood. And so
God is using the story not to raise a little boy,
He's trying to raise a man who's got a little
boy down on the inside.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Ah. Hey, God says, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
You didn't get everything you were supposed to get, but
I still love you, and if you come.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Out, I'll fix you. O child about you.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
I know you saw too much too soon. I know
you went through too much too fast. I know you
were exposed to stuff you shouldn't have been exposed to.
And I know you're a grown.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Man and you never got to be a little boy.
But I swear I'm looking for you. I want you.
I want you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
I don't know what the Eve wants you, but I
want you. I can't promise you can't Anabel, but I
want you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
I want you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
I want you because you didn't get all those eight steps.
You didn't get all that stuff, and now you're trying
to be what you didn't see, and you're playing a
role that you have no script for, and.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
You don't know how to really be a father because
you never really had one cut up, cut up.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
Where hell you are, Come out and DYSLEXI, come out
not reading well, Come out and didn't do well in school.
Come out, come out wherever you are. Come out with
your molested self. You can't have enough women to take

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away the memories of what happened to you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
Come out, Come out.

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
Wherever you are. Leave him alone, leave him alone, Come out,
come out, man, come.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Out, bood, come out, come out.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Then.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
I know what it feels like to be you. I
know what it feels like to be you.

Speaker 9 (01:38:06):
Come up, Hot up, Hod, I'm up in the balcony hiding.
You gonna hide in the balcony. You don't use while
you're sitting down.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
Hut up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Hod with your pre only suit. Dog cut up. I
don't care nothing about your suit. Cut out you and
the Germany. Now I see your process and your process.
I don't care. Come out, come out, come out, and Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
For Father's Day, I thought we'd play hide and go seek.
Just us fellas, just us, guys. We know the real deal.
We know the real deal. I'm not preaching it because

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I'm better than you. I'm preaching it because.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
I'm one of you. He's come yeah, he is, call
I'm one of you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:37):
He called me.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
He's called come in there, come here, come here, give
it to me.

Speaker 10 (01:39:56):
He jeez Esus is calling you. Who Jesus is calling you?

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Come out?

Speaker 10 (01:40:16):
He called out?

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Come out?

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Why are you alive? He's called out? Are your God of.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
What I was right?

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
What I was wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
He's calling you.

Speaker 7 (01:40:35):
Yeah, jee Us is calling geezes Us is calling.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
He's called.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
You. See, as long as Adams stayed behind the finger leaves,
he couldn't get what God had for It's as long
as Adam stayed behind that workload, he couldn't get what
God had for him. As long as Adam hid behind
his money, or his richest or his muscle or his

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penis out. Ain't you tired? I want every man that's tired.

(01:41:38):
I want every man that's sick and tired of being
sick and tired. This is what I got you for
Father's Day. This is your father's day care. This is
your father's stay care. Oh here, this is your father's

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day care.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
Head him.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
I got to the truth. I got you the truth
for Father's Day. I got you the truth for Father's Day.
I got you the truth for Father's Day. And I
don't care what you did. And I don't care who
you did it with. And I don't care what you are,
and I don't care if you're positive or negative or

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stand to get tested.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
I'm calling you out.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
I don't love you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Hold on just one second. I'm gonna go back to
it in just a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
The only thing I ask for you, the only thing
I ask for you either either stay there with your
clothes on, or come to this altar.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Naked and hoping and vulnerable and real and real, just real,
just real. Can we just be real?

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
Can we just be real for a minute? Can we
just be real for a minute? Can you forsake the
facade for a minute? Can you forsake the facade for
a minute. You don't have an anger problem. You have

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a hurt problem. You have a broken problem. You have
a sad problem, you have a worried problem, you have
a lonely problem.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Don't nobody know you? Don't nobody know you cause you
won't let them seal.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
And if there's anything in you, there's tired of it
all and you want to receive help this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
Ready or not here I come ready or not?

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Press in tight because it's a bunch of y'all. Press
in type because see. The devil's been telling you that
you're the only one. And the devil is a liar.
The devil is a liar. He tells all of us.
He tells me too. You're the only one. You're not alone.
It's all of us. It's every last one of us.

(01:44:53):
It's every breathing, thinking one of us. One night I
ran over into the room where my wife was and
I said, I want to tell you something while I
can talk. And it was something wonderful, and it was

(01:45:18):
something beautiful. And I was sitting over there in my
gentleman's quarters, wondering why I don't say it, because even
when it's good, I don't say it. And I got
a window of grace where I could talk, and I thought,

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I don't say nothing. Just let me come talk, because
being naked don't come easy. Oh you too, mission Yeah,
me too. That's why I can describe you so good.
Very few women could preach this, Messa.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
You have to be a man. You have to be
a man. You have to be one of us to
understand us. The thing you must.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
Understand is said Adam didn't get to grow up. He
didn't get to grow up. He got all this stuff
thrust on him. He never got to grow up, and

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he's hiding the fact that he don't know what he's doing,
and he's trying to be a leader and he doesn't
know what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
This is your day. This is your day. This is
your day.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
This is why God brought you here right so you
could have this woman. This is what you couldn't find
nowhere else. Receive.

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28):
You may go ten years before you're in another service
like this. And if you let the devil talk you
out of coming to this altar, then you deserve what
your fig leaves do to you. Yes, yes, if there's
another man in this room that needs this touch from God, yes,

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come right now, yes, alright, come right now. He loves you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
He loves you. You've doubted it and wondered it, but
he loves you. He loves you.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
He cares about you. He cares about you, the real you,
the real you, the complicated you, the complicated you, the
confuse you, the broken you, the messed up you, the
parson don't go together.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
That don't make no sense that you wonder why I
am out this and that and the other hand. He
wants you, he wants you.

Speaker 1 (01:48:46):
To open up your heart and open up your spirit
and come alive again and feel again, and wake up
again and behold and be well. And you are running
out of time. You're running out of time. You gotta
get this right. You gotta get this right. You gotta
get this right. You're running out of time. If you

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don't get this now, you're not gonna get it. If
you don't get this now, you're not gonna get it.
If you don't get this now, you're not gonna get it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
You run it out of time. You running out of time.
You running.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
Don't you see? Don't you see this? Don't you see?
Don't you see? Don't you see you killing yourself, working

(01:50:05):
yourself to death, hiding yourself, running from yourself. I heard
thy voice. I knew there was a call on my life.
I heard thy voice, but I didn't come cause I

(01:50:28):
was naked. If I come, you don't know what I
all mess you gonna getting?

Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
When you kidding me? I'm a naked and I was
a friend.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Because I didn't want to mess it up. I hid
myself happen, hiding all my life, and I'm running out
of life. I'm running out of life and I don't
even know how to again to open up my heart,

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because I've been hiding up under these fig leaves so
long that I don't even know how to get in
touch with myself.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
But I'm standing here at this altar to say I
want to. I want to. I want to. I want
to try to get this out. I want to open up.
I want to be free.

Speaker 4 (01:51:20):
I want to be whole.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
I want to be better. I want to be better.
I want to be happy. I want to be whole.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
I want to have that confidence. I want to have
all that stuff that I should have got that I
didn't get. I want it if I can still get it.
God said, I'll give it to you. I'll restore what
the take of worms and the locusts and the palmer
worms ain't up. God said, I'll give it back to you.

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I'll show you how to be responsible. I'll show you
how to be responsible. I'll show you how to be resourceful.
I'll show you I'll show you how to be accountable.
I'll show you how to be happy. I'll show you
how to be relational. I'll show you how to open up.
I'll show you how to open up. You learn this
shut up, you learn to say nothing that's a learned behavior.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
It's a learned behavior. If you can learn it, you
cannot learn it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:19):
Open your mouth, open your mouth up, open your mouth,
Open your mouth to God. Open your mouth for God's sake.
Open your mouth before you blow your brains out, open
your mouth, before you shoot yourself in the head. Open
your mouth, before you give up on life itself. Open

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your mouth, open your mouth, Open your mouth, man, open
your mouth. Open your heart up to God. Open your
heart up to God. The hidden part, the hidden man
of the heart, the part that hides and runs, the

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part that nobody sees, the part that's empty and lowly
and tired and thirsty, the part that's been beat down
and cussed out and fussed that and complained that to
the point that they had talked to you in the silence.
Open your mouth, lift your hands, and open your mouth,

(01:53:26):
and show the devil you got a voice. Show the
devil you got a voice. Show the devil you got
a voice. Show the devil you got a voice, Show
the devil you got a voice.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
I still got a voice.

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and
delivered him out of all his troubles. This poor man cried,
and the Lord heard him and delivered him out of
all his troubles. Holly, y'all, I'm coming out of these sickles.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Hotly, y'all. I'm coming out of these grave claws.

Speaker 1 (01:54:18):
Holly, he y'all. Oh. I lay my hands on you

(01:54:41):
as a father would a sorry. I laid my hands
on where you ache. I lay my hands on your depression.
I say my hands on your pains. I lay my

(01:55:04):
hands on your damage.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
Masculine spirit, receive.

Speaker 1 (01:55:08):
A touch, some good, Oh, just a touch, just a
touch from God. That's what we wanted to touch from God.
And if you call them to him, he'll call them
to you. And if you'll show yourself to him, he'll

(01:55:28):
show himself to you. He'll show himself to you. If
you'll show yourself to him, he'll show himself to you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
He'll do it, he'll do it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
He knows about your sins, and he knows about your secrets,
and he knows about your struggles. And he still loves you,
and he still wants you. And it's time for you to.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Open up your heart and allow the Lord to come in.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
I prophesy to you this day that you will never
be the same again, that you will never be the
same again, that you will never be the same again,
that you will never be the same again. I prophisey
to you that you will not die and be a

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secret and nobody know who you are. You will not
live and die and be a secret and nobody love
who you really are. I prophesy to you that you
will not live your life and nobody ever touch who
you really are. Or somebody'll give some glory in this place.

(01:57:05):
Somebody to give God some glory of this place. Some
of us are exhausted because we're torn between our wives
and our mama's and they are pulling us apart, and

(01:57:33):
both of them think they own you, oh glory. And
some of us are torn apart because we are so
angry and our fathers, even though we do the same thing,

(01:57:56):
we are angry at him about doing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
Let it out.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Let it out Let it out Let it out Let
it out let it out let it out let it
out let it out let it out let it out.

Speaker 2 (01:58:16):
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no.

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
No. You're not gonna get that close to deliverance and
not get out. You gonna get out today. You don't
get out today. You're gonna get out today. You're gonna
get out today. Ah yeah, there, let it out, Let
it out, Let it out, Let let it out, Let
it out, Let it out, Let it out, Let it out.

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You're destined to repeat him because you can't forgive him,
and you can't forgive him, and you're you're acting licking.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
Let it go, Let it go.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
This has got to go. This has got to go.
You cannot live like this. You cannot go on like this.
You cannot play this game. You cannot do this to
your life. God has a plan for you. He has
a life for you, and you got to be healed
so you can do what he created you to do,

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so that you can be who he created you to be.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
And the Lord told me to tell you you are
worth something. You are worth something.

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
Every man whoever felt worthless in this room receives this word.
You are worth something. You are valuable. You do matter,
you do matter, you do have purpose. You do make
a difference. You do make a difference. You do make
a difference. You do make a difference. You do make

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a difference. Slip your hands to the Lord, bulke every
spirit of worthlessness that has plagued you things that people
said about you, things that people yelled at you, things
that people cursed you with, that made you think you
was a dog and that you was nothing, and you

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lost respect for yourself. Let it out, Let it out,
Let it out, Let it out, Let it out, Let
it out, Let it out. They're wrong, they're all wrong,

(02:00:39):
they're all wrong. You are valuable, You are precious. You
are created in the likeness and the image of God.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
You don't have to.

Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
You don't have to be perfect. Let it out, Let
let it out, Let it out. Get free today, you
get free. Today, you get free. Today, you get free. Today,

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you get.

Speaker 2 (02:01:15):
Free, free deed.

Speaker 1 (02:01:18):
You don't have to be perfect to be precious. You
don't have to be perfect to be precious. You don't
have to be perfect to be precious. Everybody's flawed, and
everybody's got an issue saying that's not mean that you
are worthless.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
You have value.

Speaker 1 (02:01:34):
You won't let nobody love you because you don't love yourself.
You don't love yourself. You don't love yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
You never have not sense that happen. Ah, Brothers, here
we are.

Speaker 1 (02:02:03):
At the altar before our father, and most of us
are fathers. But we're before our father, and we get
to be kids again, and we get to be little
boys again, and we get to climb up on daddy's
lap and tell him where it hurts, and we get
to tell him what's wrong and where we're broken. Okay,

(02:02:23):
don't you miss this opportunity, because the grown man don't
get this opportunity often to climb up in his daddy's
lap and say it hurts right here. And I'm confused
right here, and I'm messed up. I'm messed up, and
I keep messing up. I can't believe.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
You love me.

Speaker 1 (02:03:00):
You love me, you love me. I'm not saying he
loved what you did. I wanna separate what you did
from who you are.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
You are not what you did.

Speaker 1 (02:03:24):
You don't have to rewrite the Bible and change the
truth to fit your situation. He may not love what
you did, but he loves who you are. We need

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this space, you and me. I want to do a set,
I said, I kid, I wanna do a session with
you where it's just me and you.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
I wanna talk to you. I wanna talk to you.
I wanna talk to you. I wanna talk to you.

Speaker 1 (02:04:25):
I had a message I've been holding for months, and
I can't give it around the women. I wanna give
it to you. I need to talk to you. I'm
tired of you killing yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
Some do it the fast way and some do it
the slow way. Yeah, but we killing ourselves. Yeah, that's
why the women outlive us. We end up sitting in
a chair over in a corner with a piece of
sweet potato pie dying right in front of 'em while

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they talking in the kitchen. Mama loves you, and she
don't even know her babies dying. But today it starts.

(02:05:40):
I'm'a show you one thing and then I'm gonna close.
I'm gonna show you one thing. How many people are
glad you came to church today. Let me say something
to the women. I know you are mad at him.
I know you are mad at your baby daddy because

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he cheated on you. I know he cheated on you
with your friend, your girlfriend, your sister, your mama, your cousin,
and you are convinced he is a dog. But being
a bad husband doesn't mean that he's gonna be a
bad father.

Speaker 2 (02:06:27):
And using your children to get even.

Speaker 1 (02:06:31):
With him is not the way to go, because if
you do that to your children. They're gonna end up
up here like this, broken and wounded and hurting. I'm
not talking about exposing your children to child molestors and

(02:06:54):
crazy people and stuff like that. I'm talking about letting
your need for revenge make you use your kids as
a switch to beat him up with, because the switch
gets beaten too. I'm talking about nagging your man out

(02:07:24):
of your life. He escaped a nagging mama to marry
a nagging wife, and now he's decided I ain't gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
Never be happy.

Speaker 1 (02:07:59):
And you win the argument. But just because we quiet
don't mean you want We will shut up to keep
the peace. But you didn't win. Let it out.

Speaker 2 (02:08:25):
This is what we're here for. God promised me if
I preach this word.

Speaker 1 (02:08:30):
I told my wife, I just baby, pray for me
because I got something really happy to preach and I'm
scared I won't get it right. And I said it's
really important. I gotta get it right.

Speaker 2 (02:08:50):
I got it right.

Speaker 3 (02:08:53):
Oh man, the Lord.

Speaker 1 (02:09:09):
The Lord told me that some man's life depended on
me getting this message right. This morning I told her,
I said, pray for me because I got to get
it right. It's not easy to get us to come
out of our fig leaves. Well, if you say I
got it right, that I'll accepted. I did women that

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are loose, and I did it for years and years
and years and years, and I think I really helped women.
And I did what God gave me to do for women.
I was called a woman, but I'm not. I'm a man.

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And the kind of ministry that I'm doing right now,
most women wouldn't even think.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
To do or know to do.

Speaker 3 (02:10:17):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:26):
A man, they don't know we're miserable. How not a
don't like?

Speaker 1 (02:10:31):
But who interesting that they don't know that some of
us have not been happy for years? Yeah, they don't

(02:10:52):
know now that we can't take not one more complain
that some of you are dying because you don't feel appreciated. Ah,

(02:11:13):
it might not have been enough, but it was the
best I had. Oh good, it was the best I had.

Speaker 2 (02:11:26):
It was the best I had, well what I had
to work with, And for that we say thank you
to every last one.

Speaker 1 (02:11:40):
Did you? I'm'a show you this. The boy gonna said, Behold,
how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell

(02:12:02):
together in unity? There should not be divisions amongst us,
not by age, not by generation, not by money, not
by race, not by language.

Speaker 2 (02:12:18):
There should not be divisions.

Speaker 1 (02:12:21):
The Bible says, behold, how good and pleasant it is
for brethren, for brethren, for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
It says, it is like the oil.

Speaker 1 (02:12:33):
It is like the oil that fell upon the head
of Erin and onto his bears and down to his skirts,
which means that when we get together, God will annoint us.

Speaker 4 (02:12:44):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:12:51):
It means that the oil will flow down, and when
men get into alignment, the oil will come to you.
All you got to do is get in place, because
when they're annoying in Erin's head, everything that was in
alignment got the oil. And you need to get in
alignment with leadership, because when the oil flows, it's gonna

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get to you. The annoying that is flowing right now
is flowing from the head to the beard to the skirts.
It's in alignment. It says, it is like the dew
that fell upon Mount Herman. And I am told at
the bottom of Mount Herman that the flowers grow wild

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because of the moisture content at the bottom of Mount Herman,
that the flowers grow wild. And I think you're gonna
bud again and blossom again. You're gonna blossom again. You're
gonna blossom again. And here's my killer point. The last verses.

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For Their, God commanded a blessing.

Speaker 2 (02:14:00):
There is there.

Speaker 1 (02:14:01):
God said, whenever you guys get together, I will command
the blessing. I will command the blessing. I will command
a blessing. I will command the blessing. I will command
bless it. Not ask for it, not hope for it,
not pray for it. God said, I will command bless him.

(02:14:23):
I will command no bless it. I will command the
bless whenever you get together. We came to this altar,
and we came broken and repented and tearful, and we cried,

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and we fell out, and we collapsed and we screamed,
and nobody died. The earth didn't stop rotating. The sun
is still shining. We can, we can, we can, we
can cry, and the world won't stop. It's gonna be okay.

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It's gonna be okay.

Speaker 2 (02:15:13):
To open up before you explode.

Speaker 1 (02:15:19):
For Their, God commands a blessing. I want you to
take one brother by both hands, one brother by both hands.
And the reason I want you to take one brother
by both hands is so you can focus on him.

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And I want you to look him right in his eye.
And it's gonna be a little uncomfortable, but I want
you to look him.

Speaker 2 (02:15:46):
Right in his eye. And the reason I want you
to look him right.

Speaker 1 (02:15:53):
And eye in spite of his discomfort, it's because nobody
sees him. Nobody sees him, Nobody sees who he wants

(02:16:19):
to be, who he's trying to be, what he wanted
to do. Nobody sees it, nobody sees it. Come up here, Michael,
come up here and get this brother. He don't have nobody.

(02:16:39):
I can't have that, this brother right here. He got
to have somebody, his brother in the right to strip
his shirt right here. You gotta have somebody come up here.
Nobody sees him. Nobody sees him. And he's got people
that love him, but they don't always see him. And

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I want you to command a blessing on his life.
I want you to speak a word over him. I
want you to speak a word over his dysfunction. I
want you to speak a word over his disease. And
I want every woman who loves a man to stand

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up and point your hand this way. Every woman who
loves a son, a daddy, a brother or uncle, a husband,
a lover. I need your inncessory, sister, I need your inncessory.
We're breaking generational curses. I need mama and big Mama

(02:17:44):
and Grandmama and auntie. I need wives and daughters and
little girls. To point your hand at these men. I'm
coming against suicide. I'm coming against addiction, man against death.
Please help me, just for a minute, just help me.

(02:18:08):
Just help me, help me, help me, help.

Speaker 2 (02:18:30):
Me, help me. There's some healing going on here. There's
some healing going on here. There's some real healing going
on here.

Speaker 1 (02:18:42):
Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you,

(02:19:30):
thank you. God commands a blessing. God commands a blessing.
God commands a blessing. God commands a blessing. God commands
a blessing. God commands a blessing. God commands a blessing.
God commands a blessing. God commands a blessing. God commands
a blessing. God commands a blessing for their God commands yeah,

(02:20:02):
God commands a blessing. God commands a blessing. God commands
a blessing. God commands a blessen thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:20:26):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (02:20:27):
I love you, Man, thank you. I love you, Man,
I love you, I love you Man. I love you, brother.
I love you, Man.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (02:20:43):
I'm swear I do, I swear I do. I love
you Man, I love you, I love you. I love
you Man. I love you, man. H I love you,
I love you. I love you Man. I love you

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so real. I hope somebody takes you out and buys
you the biggest steak. I hope the dagon steak is
so big that you got to take a doggie bag home.
I hope somebody be you a hamburger so big you
can't get your mouth around it. Happy Father's Day, Happy

(02:21:35):
Father's Day, Happy Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (02:21:40):
Let the man wrong, let the mad line, let the
mad lie. I'm going hudge him over. That's it. God
bless you