Bishop TD Jakes - Desperate Faith

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Now it's preaching time. In this play, work glory to God.
Go to the Gospel, Saint Manthew, Chapter fifteen, verse twenty
one through twenty eight. I'll be reading out of the end.
I'll be this morning, and I believe I have a
word from the Lord the Gospel, Saint Manthew, Chapter fifteen,

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beginning at verse twenty one and concluding at verse twenty eight.
When you have it, say, man, you watch it online.
I want you to get your Bible too. Don't just
watch us read out the Bible. Get your Bible two,
or read the Bible as it is as it appears
on the screen. I want you to listen at every
word of this text as if it were vital important,

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starting with the first verse, which is generally skimmed over.
It is important. Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the
region of Tier and saadan A came a night woman
from that vicinity came to him, crying out, Lord, son

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of David, having mursed him on me, my daughter is
demon possessed and suffering terribly. Jesus didn't say nothing. He
did not answer a.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Word, So he says Hephess came to him and urged him, send.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Her away, for she keeps crying out after us. Woman
ain't saying nothing about them. Ain't that funny how people
like to be important because they're around somebody important. Sent
her away because she crying after us.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
She ain't said nothing about no just sad Peter James,
John Louke marking nobody.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
She said, Jesus, thou son of David. Now they're talking
about she crying after us? He answered, watch just I
was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. The
woman came and knelt before him. Lord, help me, she said.

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He replied, it is not a right to take the
children's bread and toss it to the dogs. She said, yes,
it is, Lord, She said, even the dogs seen the crimes,
said fall from their master's table. Then Jesus said to her, woman,

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you have great faith, and the king jay's further, he says,
I have not found so great a faith in all
of Israel. Your request is granted, and her daughter was
healed at that moment. Can you say, man, follow sanctify
the word in our hearts. I thank you for the

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privilege of having this opportunity to assemble not only with
the believers in this room, but believers around the world
and around the country, in different time zones and circumstances,
in different socioeconomic levels of life, different genders, different ideas,
different backgrounds, different circumstances. We have all come to tabernacle

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under the cloud of your glory. Speak Lord, for thy servant.
He is open up our ears to hear what the
spirit of the Lord is saying to the church. I
thank you in advance from what you're going to do.
In the name of Jesus. We praise somebody, shout amen.
You may be seated in the presence of the Lord

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many many times. When you see this texts, it's Mother's Day,
and we tend to take texts about women and applied
them to women. But if we only see this woman
from her gender alone, I think we missed some significant

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points for our consideration. But before I get too deep
into this, I want to share a story with you.
So about three or four weeks ago I had met
a gentleman. We had corresponded by email a few times.
He was from another country. He said, I'm going to
be in the US on and such a date. I

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want to meet you. I admire your work. I stream
your broadcasts. He make me streaming this morning. I'm not
going to call you his name, but he knows who
he is if he's streaming. He said, I stream your
broadcast all the time. He knew my message is better
than I did. I mean, he knew that word by word,
verse by verse, quote by quote, even knew what I
had on when I was preaching and all that kind

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of stuff. And I was amazed. And I was amazed
in part because he was not a Christian. He was
not a Christian, he was not a Center either, just
he belonged to another faith, another faith tradition altogether. And
I was amazed that somebody from a completely different faith

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tradition would pay that much attention to what I was
preaching and to consume it and to value it in
the way that he did. So I agreed to meet
with him, and I met with him because he is
building work incubators all around the country for job creation
in underserved communities, and he's doing it very well, and

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I was excited about it. How he has this global
impact on the world by building these business incubators that
are largely stem programs that enable people to start businesses
from these incubators. And he had one in our area,
and I went to see it and I toured the facility.
Then I was impressed by and I was inspired by it,

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and I was moved by it. I got to meet
his board, I got to address him for a few
moments and talk to them, and to think that he
was doing what I would be happy to do in
a few places. He's literally doing it all over the world.
I googled it and done my homework, and he was
a world renowned individual who has more degrees than a thermometer,

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and all these accomplishments and all these great things that
he had done, and I enjoyed talking with him. I
connected with being a person of vision. We were both
people of vision and people of passion and people who
went after what we saw and believed God to help
the community and change the world around us and leave
something behind in terms of legacy. That really mattered. But

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he was another religion, and that was fine. I worked
with all types of people. You can't be a broad
person that only work with church people. Yeah. I grew
up in a small church in a small town with
small ideas, and when small eyes read scriptures, they pull

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out small things, and so they would teach us small ideas.
Come out from among them, and be ye separated, says
the Lord. And I shall be your God, and ye
shall be my people. And they may come out from
among them, come out from them worldly people. Well I
did come out, but I went to school with them,
and I had to work with them, and I had
to interact with them. And they lived across the street

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from me. And I understand what the Bible means when
it says come out from among them. It means have
your own identity, not to you can associate without assimilating
with those types of people. But in a broader sense,
God says, all souls are mine, all souls are mine,
and understanding that all souls belongs to God, that God

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cares about all people. I was just wrestling between my
own traditions and my own philosophy. And the reason I
was wrestling is because we got to the end of
the tour. His executive staff is all standing out there,
his CFO, his COO, his co o E, his CEE,
his c AA, he's c KY and all I'm just

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standing out there on the sidewalk, and they've come to
say goodbye to me. And of all times in the world,
the annoying came on me, and I said, this is
not a good time. Jesus, They're not a good time.
Jesus is not the bots. This is not a good time.
The annoying of God came upon me, and worse still,

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God gave me a word of knowledge. I said, I
don't get him no word of knowledge, Floyd. He already
has plainly told me that he is of a different religion.
And what I looked like giving him a word of knowledge?
And the Lord said, do what I said. And I
gave this guy the word of knowledge. And the next

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thing I knew, I had laid hands on him on
the sidewalk, on the sidewalk, in front of his board,
in front of his staff. And Hottie has taught me
better than to do that. I know, I'm not supposed
to be like speaking in tongues in a board meeting.
But there I am talking to this very important person,

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and I had grabbed him with both hands by the head.
Forgot about Koch and everything judged. I laid hands on
him and gave him this word of knowledge. And it
wasn't necessarily about salvation. There was a word of knowledge

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for him. And tears leaped out of his eyes. He
leaped out of his eyes, and he turned, he looked
at me, and he turned and he walked away, and
he went walking down the sidewalk, and he was crying.
And I drove home confused because all of our different
religious ideas was arguing with each other. But one of

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us said, that's not supposed to happen. He's not one
of us. He's not one of us. And you gave
him a word and it affected him like that, And
the way that you felt about it goes against your
background and your tradition knowledge, and sometimes your tradition gets
in the way of a revelation. And in that moment,

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we both talked about it later that we learned something
about God. That God has a way of transcending what
we have been taught and what our background was, and
what country we come from and what language we speak.
That God will break all of those rules to accomplish
what He's trying to accomplish in your life. Now, if

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we only see this texts through the lens of a
desperate mother seeking help for her daughter, though that is
what she is. If that's all we see about the text,
we will do an injustice to the text. It's obvious
that though she wasn't a follower of Jesus, she had
been an observer of him, like my friend was. She

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knew who he was. Jesus, our son of David is not.
That's a Messianic greeting that normally a Jew would give
to the Messiah. She is non Jewish at all, and
yet she is familiar enough with the lingo that she
speaks Jesus' language. She'd been an observer of him, she

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knew exactly who he was. She was desperate enough, desperate
enough to cross the line of her tradition, desperate enough
to cross the line of her tradition. And you know something,
God can't do anything with you until you get desperate.

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As long as you say, I'm not going over to
that inner denomination church because I'm a Baptist, or I'm
not going over to that nominational church house race Catholic.
I'm not going because I'm white. I'm not going because
i'm Black. I'm not going because I'm Asian. I'm not
going because I'm Indian. Let me tell you something, when
you get in enough trouble, you will go anywhere to

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get anything from anybody that will help you to get
to It's like down to nine one one. I don't
call nine one one. I say, please send a black paramedic. No,
send a paramedic that can help me right now. I
don't care if I can't pronounce the name. I want
them to be able to help me right now. I

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don't ask them when they pull up, are you a Christian?
I am you got some oxygen? I need some help
right now. You have to understand that desperate situations require
a desperate response. And this morning, I want to talk
to you about desperate faith. I want to talk to

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you about desperate faith. Desperate faith not passive religious, superficial, traditional,
self righteous, pharaceutical faith. I want to talk to you
about desperate faith, the kind of faith that will cross lines,
break rules, make you reach out, cross generations, break down barriers,

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whatever you got to do to get a breakthrough. You
have to have to have that level of desperate faith.
Now you have to be radical, and you may even
have had to live a wile to know what desperate
faith is, because sometimes if you haven't lived a while,
you haven't been desperate. See when my kids were little,

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they weren't desperate because they were disciple. They had everything
they needed. It was our job to make sure that
they weren't desperate. Maybe when they grew up and got
out on their own, they got a little desperate because
even those bills start coming in your name, had house
payment comes in your name, and all of a sudden,
you get a revelation that milk doesn't just appear in

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the refrigerator by magic, and so you stop leaving it
out on the counter for three days. Come on, talk
to me, somebody. Let's be real. Are there any desperate
people listening at me today? You've gone through some things,
you understand some things, You've been doing some things, and

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you need God to help you get through some things.
And you're going through some critical things right now. You
didn't come to church this Sunday because you got a
cute dress. You didn't come to church this Sunday because
you got a new suit and you want to show
it off. You didn't come to church this morning. Just
see what's going on. You're not logged onto this Prodgast
broadcast because you don't need to wash your clothes and

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you don't have nothing else to do, and the kids
ain't pulling at you. But you're desperate enough to be
engaged in God in a way that's different from other people.
Some of your other family members may be playing in
the house. Some of them may went out to play golf.
Some of them might be shooting hoops. Somebody might be
doing some of us. But as for you, you're stuck

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in front of this screen because you are looking for
a word from God. You're looking for a word from God.
Somebody shout desperate faith. Desperate faith isn't passively blaming God
for our own choices and mistakes. A lot of times
we've blamed God for things that we did to ourselves.

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I've been believing God for three years to get out
of debt, and he hadn't come through for me. Yet
he didn't get you in debt. Let's first assume responsibility
that your behavior brought you to the place that you're in,
and stop blaming God. Like God fail you for not
being codependent in your cycle of dysfunction. Because sometimes we

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use faith because we want God to enable us to
remain dysfunctional, and He doesn't answer us a word, because
until you fix your habits, he's not gonna pour more
of resources into a dysfunctional system. I know I lost
a few people on that, but I'm just sick and

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tired of people saying how tired. Then it didn't work.
I gave a couple of sign days. I threw a
twenty dollar bill on the all time, and I was
expected my million dollar breakthrough. Why would God give you
a million dollars when you ran through a thousand dollars.
God wants you to be faithful over a few things
before he makes you ruler over many. I know I

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won't get much shout in today, but that's okay. Desperate
faith isn't sitting idly by in despair waiting for the
divine miracle to replace human effort. I believe in God
for a job with my remote control in the hand,

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I'm believe in God. I prayed three times for a job,
and the Lord ain't answering me. I don't understand what's wrong.
God ain't gonna never answer you. Because faith without works
is dead being alone. You got to get out there
and get your hustle on, sister girl, You got to
get your hustle on. You got to get out there

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and make it happen. You gotta make it do what
it do. And if don't nobody hire you. You gotta
make t shirts, candid apples, hot dogs. I don't care
what you gotta do ribed in us. You gotta be
about your father's business and then ask God to bless
the works in your hands. The Bible said whatsoever he

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doeth shall prosper. And if you're not doing anything, you're
not giving God anything to prosper. No, he not coming
in your living room. Boas is never gonna ring the
doorbell while you're sitting in the house in your house
coat and your hair and rolling my bow ads is coming.
You better hope he don't. If he comes, he's gonna leave.

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He gonna get up out of there as quickly as
you can because you're not ready for bow As. You
ain't ruth, don't expect Boas desperate. Faith is not us
manipulating God to serve our agenda. I want you to

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help me do this. I want you to help me
do this. I want you to help me do this.
It's not about getting God to serve your agenda. It's
about getting you to serve God's agenda. When you get
on God's agenda, You'll already be blessed. Instead of creating
something separate over here and asking God to bless something

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that he didn't create. What you really want God to
do is find out what he's doing. Do what God
is doing, because the blessing is already on the purpose
of God. Come on, talk to me. Somebody desperate faith
is not rejecting God's decision because of personal pain to say,

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I got desperate faith. I'm just believing God that Mama's
gonna live. I'm believing God that she's I understand that.
I've been there. I understand that. But God is still God.
And you have to pray on kind of prayer that says, Lord,
I want my mother to live as long as she
possibly can, but if you decide that you're gonna take her,

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I have to trust you. I have to trust you.
It hurts, but I trust you. I don't understand it,
but I trust you. I'm in pain, but I trust you.
You know what's best for me. Just give me the
strength to stand what hurts in my life. I told
the Lord, I told you this last Sunday. I told

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the Lord. I said, listen, I want my mother to
keep on living. But if you give me ninety I'm
gonna ask for a hundred and if you give me
a hundred, I'm gonna ask for one ten. And if
you ask me for one ten, I said, hi about
one twelve, I'm gonna be like twelve, one twelve, one ten,
well going, once going, twenty going, twenty twelve? One? Can
I hear one fifteen? Can I get one? Fifteen? Can
I get one? Fifteen? One fifteen? Anybody? One? Fifteen? Fifty

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wasn't plenty I'm going, but one, Brittany wasn't preentyre wasn't
plenty over there. God, I believe it though. It wasn't
plenty there cause I'm greedy. I got a greedy love.
When I love you, I love you, I really love you.
Sometimes I wish I would like when I love you,
I love you like crazy, and I want you to

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stay forever and ever and ever and ever. And I
had to learn that keeping people when they're in pain
and when they're suffering and when they're hurting it is
not a matter of great faith, it's great cruelty. It
took me a while to finally say I would rather

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be in pain and her be in peace. You have
to grow a while to get to that. Then for
her to be in pain so I can be in peace.
It takes a while to grow to that. And I

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just want to tell you what that's what faith is
not because a lot of people come to church because
they really think that faith is like witchcraft, that you
can make it do what it do. You can make
it do whatever you wanted to do. You can just
kind of believe God's until you believe somebody else's husband
away from them. I believe in God. I know he married,

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but I believe in God. He not supposed to be
married to her. He not happy. I believe in God
that I'm gone. They say God, real being, God, g
A w D God, God. I believe in God. I
don't care how much you believe God for my wife.
You can't have her. Yeah, that's a line spirit from

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the pens of Hell. That's a demon spirit and we
got to cast that out because she's already taken. So
ain't no need of you believe in God for those
Serena and Jakes, believe God for your wife. Go out

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there and do the hard word, get your own way,
and leave mine alone. The thing that made this woman
desperate is that she had a devil to fight. Is
there anybody in here that has a devil to fight.
I mean a nasty, old, relentless, vicious, wicked, tenacious devil

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to fight. You got a devil to fight, and you
can't afford to have no cute religion. You got a
devil to fight. You can't afford to be steeped in tradition.
You got a devil to fight, and whatever it takes
to beat that devil out of your house, out of
your life, out of your body, out of your mind,

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out of your emotions, out of your family, out of
your children, out of your circumstances. You got a devil
to fight. That's why you come to church when you're
dressed up. You come to church when you're dressed down.
You come to church when your nails are done. You
come to church when your nails are broke. It off
because you're a desperate woman. You a desperate man. You

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got a desperate fight. If they don't tell you to
praise the Lord, you gonna praise the Lord anyway, because
you desperate. If they don't tell you to clap your hands,
you're gonna clap your hands anyway because you're desperate. I
ain't gonna need to sitting beside somebody that's not desperate
because they ain't gonnack you. You gonna get on their nerves.

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You keep jumping up, you keep making noise, you keep
crying out, you keep seeking the master, you keep calling
on his name, because you're desperate. I want some desperate people.
I want some desperate people. Type it on the line.
Let hell know I'm desperate. I'm desperate. I'll use unusual tactics.

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I'll fight across the line. I'll do stuff you didn't
expect me to do because I'm desperate. I'm getting too
old of me playing games. I'm desper now. I'll fight
you now. I roll around in the floor. I'll do
something bad to you now because I'm desperate. I want
some desperate believers in this house to make some noise.

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Look as if I tell him I'm desperate now, I'm desperate,
you might want to sit by somebody else. Because I'm desperate.
I'm desperate. I may fall out in the floor. I
may be slain in the spirit. I may start talking
into her. I may run up to the altar and
fall flat out on my faith. I'm desperate. I got
a devil to fight. He's after my daughter, he's after

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my son. He's out to my granddaughter, he's out to
my finances, he's after my children. I got a devil
to fight. This means war and devil. I'm rolling up
my sleeves, that's right. And whatever I gotta do to
get a breakthrough, I'm gonna get a breakthrough. I'll mess
up my hair, I'll cry up my makeup, I'll shake

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down my curls, I'll sweat out my clothes. I'm desperate
for a breakthrough from the Lord. I need about twenty
seconds of a sound of a sound of a sound
of a of a desperate pray. So sit down, Sit down,

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said so. This woman, this woman, she was not a Jew.
She was not a Jew, She was not even a Christian.
She was a desperate mother who had run out of options.

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None of her idols or her pagan deities had relieved
the suffering of her daughter. If they had, she wouldn't
have come. The day to day suffering of her daughter,
she obviously loved, had brought her to a place of
breaking past her traditions and seeking deliverance from Jesus of God.

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She had never met, she'd heard about him. It had
been noise abroad. There had been some history between her
ancestors and Jehovah God, but they had never really fully
embraced Jehovah, not then, not now, and not in the

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days of Jesus Christ. Before we get too wrapped up
in the apparel that this woman besought and what she
went through and what happened in her life, let's take
a look at the historical context of the region itself.
It's no accident that the text starts off that Jesus
was in the region of Tyre and Sadah. It's no

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accident it is the modern day Lebanon. Tyrn Saadan are
ancient cities that were originally Phoenician. They're mentioned several times,
both in the Old and the New Testament, over and
over again. They have a history with God. Jesus mentions

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Tyrn Saadan and luke Tan in the context of judgment
he was pronouncing against cities of Korzen and beth Seda.
He said they would rise up and condemn you, that
that Tyrant Saadan would have repented had the right miracles
been done in their city, and they would rise up
against you because I gave you so much more and

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I got so much less. Tyr and Saadan are port
cities still existing to this day. One of them a
primary city, the modern Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast. Saadan
is believed to have existed prior to two thousand BC.

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They've been around a long time, with Tire being just
a little bit younger. The Old Testament mentions Israel's dealing
with these cities, including the Israelites' failure to conquer Saadan
in the Conquests of the Promised Land. Them Phoenicians could fight.
They were known for their ability to fight on the water.

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They were warriors, and they were wealthy, and they were
a port city. And in all of Joshua's might, he
could not whip those Phoenicians. Those Phoenicians bad, they could
throw down, they would go to war. They couldn't conquer
Sadan in the Conquests of the Promised Land in Judges

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one point thirty one. Their worship of Sardonian gods on
several occasions is mentioned in Judges and other places. And
they're obtaining materials from Sa'adan in Tire for the building
of the temple. They donated the materials that built the
temple in Jerusalem, but would not worship there. King Hiram

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of Tire is a prominent figure in the Bible, provided
many of the temple furnishings for Solomon. Tyrannians and Sidonians
are also mentioned in helping rebuild the temple in Israetired.
So they had a close association, but they had their

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own identity and their own deities, and their own libations,
and their own ceremonies and their own rituals. Queen Jezebel
was a Sidonian. Yeah, she was a Sidonian. And when
she summons all of her prophets to come, they were

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from Sa'adan that they came to take up their residence
over there. So that gives you a feeling of the
temperament of what's going on with this woman in Sadan.
The Sidonian city of Zarapath was where a widow took
care of Elijah and the Lord provided oil and flower
for her through the famine. Remember how Elijah ministered to

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the widow of Zarafath but never converted her. It is
important to understand that God cares about people who don't
always care about him, that God helps people who don't

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always help him, that God does not give you a
theological test before he gives you a blessing. And yet
we live in a world that if you are even
seen with somebody of a different faith or a different
theology or a different idea, you get all kinds of

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at least I do, get all kinds of criticism, as
if we should be segregated off to ourselves, only talk to,
walk with, interact with, interview, do anything with anybody who
has different ideas. And my question always becomes, how can
you convert people you don't talk to? How can you

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win people you're not nice to? You mean to tell
me that we can have a flood like Ida or Katrina,
and I'm supposed to knock on the door and say
are you saved? And if you saved, I'll save you,
and if you not save, shame on you. You mean
to tell me that we're supposed to feed people in

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the street and only feed people that we agree with
and interview them and interrogate them before we feed them.
When God feeds everybody, God loves everybody, God helps everybody,
God has mercy on everybody. God heals everybody. God opens
doors for everybody. Later, the widow's son became ill and died,

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and Elijah came and raised him from the dead. God
does not just reserve miracles for people who meet a
certain criteria. You will remember that the woman who prepared
Jesus' body for burial, they called her a sinner and
said if he knew who she was, he would not

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let her anoint his feet withal. Do you really think
that Jesus, did you know who and what that woman was?
And yet he suffered it? To me so because that
woman honored him and treasured him, even though she did
not fully embrace his ideas that had not yet been converted. Oh,

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I'm gonna mess with your theology today. The Old Testament
of the household several prophecies against Tyran Saddan that predicted
a complete overthrow in Isaiah twenty three, Jeremiah twenty five,
if you're writing them down, Jeremiah twenty five and twenty seven,
Ezekiel twenty eight, twenty six to twenty eight, Joel Amos,

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zachariahz on and on and on. There are all kinds
of and they were overthrown over and over again. They
were taken into captivity over and over again. Nebukanez He
besieged Tyre from five eighty five to five seventy two BC,
they were overtaken over and over again. Later, later, after

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Jesus time comes along Alexander the Great, or before rather,
Alexander the Great besiege Tire in three pot twenty two BC.
So they had been free and bound, and free and bound,
and back and forth, but no matter what state they
were in, they held on to their idologry. Alexander the

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Great almost completely destroyed the city, left it in shambles
and pieces. The Persian kings are taxarects conquered Sa'adan. In short,
God prophesied judgment came to pass. Later both cities became
prosperous provinces of Rome. It was while they were provinces

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of Rome that Jesus comes to Tyre and Sa'adan. But
it's important that you understand the histerosity of what was
going on at the time, because they had had a
casual relationship with God, but not had been converted by
the casual. It is while they were up under Roman

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colonization that Jesus moves freely into an area where Israel
and his theology is not the pre eminent influence of
the people. The woman is one of the last persons
you would expect to see fighting through his minions and
his disciples to get an audience with Israel's Messiah. She

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is the last person. She is the last person. And
when she asked Jesus and referred to him as the
son of David and asked him that her daughter was
grievously vexed with the devil, there was a reason for
his silence. He was quiet because he didn't come to her.

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He wasn't seeking her, he wasn't after her, and he
knew that she was an idolatrous and yet she was desperate.
She was desperate, and so Jesus heard her when she

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came to him, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy
on me. My daughter is grievously vexed with the devil.
But he answered her not a word, Because sometimes our
request contradicts our behavior. Oh, y'all, ain't gonna talk to me.

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Sometimes we want God to do stuff for us that
we don't do for him, and we want God to
open doors for us, and we have not surrendered to him,
and we want God to bless us out of our predicament.
But we have a sumtime me on again, off again
relationship with God. And it's just like some of your
friends that only call you when they want something. I got.

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Some folks say, only call me when they want something.
And I looked down at the call I did, and
I think, oh Lord, here we go again. I don't hear.
I don't hear from them on a birthday, Christmas, a holiday,
a Father's day. I don't hear from them on the
fourth of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, any other day.

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They don't ask me, Am I okay? Am I breathing?
Am I live? Have I survived? Can I make it?
Am I starving to death? Did the ice age get me?
Did the flood get me? Am I floating around in
my living room? But the move they want something, They

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get on the phone and say, hey, man, how you doing.
I've been having you on my mind. That's a lie.
You ain't thought about me since the last you was
in last time. And you use me like I'm a bellhop,
like I'm a waiter, and you use me when you
need me, and you throw me in the back of
your car like I'm a spare tire until the next

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trip goes along. Because we don't value relationships. We don't
value relationship, We don't give reciprocity to relationship. We only
want people when we want them, and we want them,
we want them to stop every thing they're doing and
turn around and see about us. But your emergency does

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not constitute my emergency. And I might be doing something
and I might not be able to be there, and
there's no need. And you pinned sticking pins and a
witch doll just because I didn't answer the phone because
sometimes I'm busy. Y'all didn't shut me down. But I

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know I'm telling the truth. What would make this woman
from tiring? So God Jesus is in the region, and
she goes out searching for Jesus. What would make her
do it? I want to tell you what made her
do it. The devil made her do it. You know why,
because when the devil gets on your trail tough enough,

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it will make you call on the name of the Lord.
You might be in prison, you might be in the hospital.
You might have a needle in your arm, you may
have tracks in your legs. You might be shooting up
in your toenails. You might be shooting up in your
eye lids, you might be shooting up under your fingernail.
But when the devil gets through with you. He will

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make you call on the name of the Lord. He
will make you reach out and call on him. He
will make you drop down on your knees and say
yes to God. Everybody in the church ain't in the
church just because they wanted to be in the church.
They not in the church because they never smoked. Nope.
They're not in the church because they never got high.
They ain't in the church because they ain't been in

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no strip. They ain't in the church because they ain't
been in the street. They ain't be in the church
because they had a hoard around. They ain't in the
church because they ain't never messing around with a boy.
They ain't in the church because they ain't been bisexual.
They ain't in the church because they ain't been gay.
They ain't in the church. Oh, y'all ain't gonna bother me.
Y'all ain't gonna bother me. Church folks, y'all ain't gonna
bother me with your phoniness. Y'all not gonna bother me today.

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They ain't in the church because they ain't had Ronnie
bus in the middle of the night, Booty calls at
one o'clock in the morning, done all kinds of crazy mess.
They're in the church because when the devil got through
whipping there behind, they had to come out of them streets.
They had to come out of them holly. They had
to come out of their corner. When suicide got through

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chasing them, When afflictions got through chasing them, when sickness
got through chasing them, it brought them down to their knee.
I wish I had some real people. I'm sick of
phony folks. I'm sick of phony church folk. I'm sick
of phony church. For you ain't never had affair, You
ain't never slept around. You ain't never messing with nobody.

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You ain't never done nothing. The devil is a lie.
You haven't done all kind of mess. If your life
came on screen right now, you put your finger up
and tip hout the church right now. But when the
hell got hot enough, and life got tough enough, and
storms got deep enough, and trials got hard enough, you

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came looking for Jesus. I want sixty seconds of praise
if I'm telling the truth. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah

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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah, And all your problems ain't over.
Some of y'all still got some problem some of y'all
still living a double life. Some of y'all still got
some issues. But you have learned, Come what may, From
day to day, I'm gonna be in the house of

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the Lord. You just gonna have to work on me.
You're gonna have to fix me. You're gonna have to
put band aids on me. You're gonna have to give
me chemo. You're gonna have to do whatever you're gonna
have to do and treat me because I ain't never
leave and you no more. I'm not leaven you no more.
I'm not going nowhere else. I'm not serving no other God.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
I'm not bound in the other he or I will.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
I have no other than God before you. If I'm broke,
I'm broken in you. If I'm torn, I'm torn in you.
If I'm hurt, I'm hurt in you. If I'm talking
to you, make some noise. I need some real noise.

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Look at somebody, Tell them they never made me do it.
I've always said that whenever you see somebody who moves
forward exceedingly, it is not always what they're going to
that drove them it's what they're running from. Sometimes the

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hell you're running from will make you run to Jesus
with a power and a passion that would blow your mind.
And the exceptional people who do exceptional things, who are
exceptional in school, exceptional in business, exceptional in life, stop
being a hater. They're not there because they're greedy. They're

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they're because they're needed. They're they're because they all hell brokelues.
Some of them have and raped, some of them have
been battered, some of them have been tittered. Some of
them have been torn, and they had to run to Jesus.
They had to be exceptional. They had to get up
because they never dared be vulnerable ever again in their life.

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I want to talk to somebody. I want to talk
to somebody. I want to talk to somebody that you
got up because you had to get up. You bought
a heart because you had to fight hard. You got
that job because you had to have a job. You
got tired of being hit upside your head, you got
tired of being hit with killers. You had to go
back and get a degree so you could take care

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of yourself, your kids, your children. I want to talk
to some people that were driven to Jesus, pulled to Jesus,
yank to Jesus, told to Jesus, told to Jesus, I
want to talk to some people in this room that
you didn't come because you were a nicely nice person.

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You came because you were desperate. You do it desperate
for God. You need a desperate miracle, You need a
desperate touch, you need a desperate move of the Holy Gold.
And that's why you praise Him like you're praise him
because you're a desperate woman. And frankly, you don't care
what none of these church people think, because you got

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to praise him anyway. You don't care how they look
at you. You don't care what they say about you.
You don't care what you got on because you're desperate.
I'm gonna allow a moment for some desperate people to
teach these nice people how to praise the Lord, some
desperate people who got problems right now, some desperate people.

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Holp it up your mouth and give God some praise.
Holp it up your mouth and shout under God. Open
up your mouth, way up in the mouth of it.
I want to hear you home, Yes, make some noise.

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You saved and everything still ain't right at home. You
still dealing with some solt. It's nothing that her daughter
was grievously vexed. She said, my daughter is grievously vexed
with for neever, you be shocked at what we shout over.
You be shouted at and shocked at what we dance over.
You be shocked at what we're dealing with right now.

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You be shocked at how the enemy tries to destroy
your house. How know you standing there with your cute dress,
hood and them big old shoes you can't walk in.
But I want some people that got a devil in
your house over it up your mouth. They give God
to pray.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I want you over.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
And your mouth and your God. Some preaton.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Elbow.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Somebody said, I want him out of my house, taking
on the line. I want him out of my house.
I want him off for my children. I want him
off of my son. I want him off of my daughter.
I want him out of my financer. I want him
out of my body. I want him out of my spouse.
I got a devil in my house, and that's why

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I'm in church right now. That's why I'm desperate, That's
why I'm shouting that's why I'm hollering. That's why I'm praying,
That's why i'm fastening. All stop being cute, and let's
be real this morning. I want some real people come
it up your mouth and shouting the God. Don't get

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me wrong. I'll pray about you. I'll pray for you.
I'll pray for your marriage. I pray for your children,
I really will. I'll innercee, I'll let my face and
go before God. But it's one thing to pray for
the devil in your house, and it's a whole other
thingure to pray for the devil in mind. I want

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him out of my house. I want him out of
my body. I want him out of my child. I
want him out of my finances. I want him out
of my mind. It's one thing to have a double
on your job, and it's another thing to have a
double in your house. Get out of my house, Get
out of my getting gett get that debt, get get

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get get.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Get out, get out.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Get out. Somebody take a minute and tell him get
out of my house, Get out of my get out
of my get out of my house, Get out of
my need, get out of my joy, Get out of
my leg Get out of my lungs, Get out of
my tissul, Get out of my children, get out, get out,

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spirit of suicide, get out of my house. Mental illness,
get out of my house. I don't want it in
my children. I don't want it in my son. I
don't want it in my dorn.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Get out.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Oh you ain't desperate, Oh you ain't desperate. It's the
praise stops. When the music stops, You ain't desperate. But
when you really get desperate, you don't need no organ
to make you praise. And when you really get desperate,
his praise shall contell you. Let me in your mouth

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when you really get desperate.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Oh God, Oh God, he God.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Give us some desperate people this morning. Give us some
desperate people.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Don't lie.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I want to preach to somebody who's sick and tired
of the in mean walking in your house makes some noise,
and me you the problem is, and I'm almost finished.

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The problem is some of us see us Shah, Hallelujah,

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and God. I feel the Holy Gods in this place.
I feel the power the living God in this place.
I feel God breaking yokes, caned down, wall, moving buriers. Heylijah,
He's acting.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Your household house, your household house, your house.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
So who can you tell? Who can you talk to
when it's your child? Who can you talk to when

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it's your child? Who can you talk to when it's
your spouse. Who can you talk to when it's your mama?
Who can you talk to when it's about your daddy?
So there you are wrestling between secrets and deliverance. I

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want deliverance, but it's a secret. I want deliverance, but
it's a secret. And the woman decided the only one
I can trust with what's going on in my house
it's Jesus. I'm not going out to the nonn saymos,
I'm going out to Jees Jesus, thou son of David,

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have mercy on me my daughter, my daughter, my daughter,
my daughter, my daughter, my daughter. I feel like preaching now. Yah,
my daughter, my daughter, my daughter, my flesh, my bone,
my blood, my dna, my daughter, my daughter. My daughter

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is grieviously vexed with the devil. I'm singing there, my

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daughter's grievously vents with the nevil. I don't know what
to do about it. I put out our basis and
she didn't get better. I prayed to our dnt that
she didn't get better. I called on her idols and

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they didn't get better. And I know I'm not one
of your favorites, and I know I know it only
your church, and I know I'm not one of y'all, but.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
I came all a well because the devil drove me away.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Here to you. If anybody can do it, you care.
I heard about your papa. I heard what you did
for the centiot. I heard what's it did for the
woman with these your blood. I heard what you did
for love. My daughter needs a part from God and he.

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I feel the Holy Ghost working on something. I feel
the Holy goes working on someone. I feel the Holy
Ghost getting behind walls. I feel the Holy Ghost getting
behind doors. I feel the Holy Ghost doing some surgery
right now. I feel the Holy Ghost doing some operations
right now. I feel the Holy Ghost dealing with marriages

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right now. I feel the Holy Ghost dealing with minds
and emosis right now. I feel the Holy Ghost uncovering
some secrets right now. I feel the Holy Ghost touched
in some areas where you've been traumatizing in pain, and
that's your with sining and don't know what to do,
but God, I got news for you. God's gonna get
some victory out of what you're going through. Can I

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tell you again, God's gonna get some victory out of
what you're going through. If I'm talking to you, praise
him like it's already done. You may be online, but
praise him like it's already done. Praise him like it's
already done. I know he ain't said nothing. I know

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he ain't done nothing yet, but praising him lie is
hard ready done.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
What's this?

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Tall her desperation, tall of her feary and frustration and stress.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
And pain.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
And turnbol and screaming out at him? He said nothing.

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What do you do when you have articulated the problem
clearly to the only one who can fix it? And
he says nothing? Respectfully. I'm sick of preachers, and I'm

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thinking preaching we get half the time because y'all always
preaching about when he answers. And I don't need you
to tell me how to react when he answers. I
ain't stupid. I know how to praise him when he answers.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I know how to ask.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
When he answers.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
But what are you know.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
When you're down line one one? Thank God don't say nothing.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
What are you now.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
When the enemy is breaking in your back door and
the police don't answer the phone. What do you do
when you call on Jesus and he acts death? He

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kept on walking.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
We'll sing about the silence of God. We sing about
what he said and what do you do? And what
is promise? But we don't write no songs about the silence.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Of God. I'm not struggling with his promises. I'm struggling
with his silence.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Don't just see me bleeding, don't just see me in pain.
Do you know what it's like to see your child suffolk?

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I'd rather suffer myself in the hospital at a restaator
and your child can't bread Una hooked them and get
it to me. At least I'm old enough to have

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experienced enough. And he ain't said He ain't said nothing.
What do you do when God said nothing? I'll tell

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you what she did. She drew closer. Sometimes God doesn't answer.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
To draw you closer. Sometimes he doesn't respond to draw
you closer. She draws closer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
To Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
And says, look, Lord.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Help me, help me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
I'm through with titles, I'm through with honor.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
I'm through with protocol, protocol.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
I just want some help, Lord, b Lord, help me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
And she put Jesus in into the dilemma. I never
was a driving home. I have to praying for that guy.
And I said, Lord, that ain't supposed to happen like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Then no, they're not supposed to follow me and give
me a word of knowledge for somebody from a whole
different religion. And the glory moved and I said, I
was confused.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
She put Jesus in a in a dilemma. He says,
almost says if he wasn't even talking to her, it's
not right. But you asking me to do it's not
it's not protocol. It's not it's not it's not the
way I planned it. It's another way it's supposed to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
It's not supposed to be like that. It's not appropriate.
It's not my assignment. Now, that's not what he told
me to do. He told me to come to my
own and I'm not through dealing with my own. You

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dealing with your daughter, and I'm dealing with my children.
Your daughter is grievously vexed with the devil, and my
children are vexed with unbelief. Oh, y'all didn't hear what
I said.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Both of us got child problems, and how am I
supposed to deal with your child?

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
And I can't hardly fix my own. It's not meat,
it's not meat. It's not mean to get the children's
bread to the dogs. I'm still trying to get them
to eat the bread. I'm trying to get my child

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to eat the bread. And you telling me about your child.
My child in trouble too, for we have not a
high priest who cannot be touched by the feeling of
our infirmity, tempted in all points like as we are.

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You got a trouble child, he said, I drew too.
It's not meat to give the children's bread to the dogs.
And the woman blew his mind. She said, yeah, I'm
a dog. I'm a dog, and the Bible of a

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dog meant without covenant. I'm a gentile, I'm an idolaty,
I'm a dog. But even the dogs, even the dogs,

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can eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table.
She says, I will settle for what your church waste,

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your children waste enough glory to heal my daughter. Listen
at them at the bargaining table. It's like the woman
in Jesus are at the bargaining table, at a good
conference table where at they're arguing their positions. And she says,

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you know, my daughter's previously vexed with a devil. He says,
I can't do nothing. My children crazy too. I'm trying
to deal with my own children. It's not mean to
give the children read to the dogs. She said, yeah,
I may be a dog, but even the dogs can
eat the crumbs and fall from the master's table. And

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with that she broke in her humility, broken, her inability
to be insulted broken. Sometimes you can't get your miracle

(01:08:28):
because you're too proud. I'm talking to somebody. I don't
know who I'm talking to, but God has your online
for a reason. Your pride is killing you. That woman

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didn't argue with Jesus about calling her dog. She said, truth,
I'm a hope. True, I'd have done some mess. Lord. True,
I have not been to picture of morality and integrity

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and honor. But I'm desperate. I'll be a dog, but
can't I have a crub. Her indictment is as much
against our waste as it is his power. She says,

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we waste sermons that would save the world, messages that
would stop guns from going off, We waste them. She said,
I could get healed from the crumbs. I could get

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here from what your children don't even pay attention to
leave the bread on the table for you kids. I'll
sit in your lap and catch the crumbs. In the
days of Jesus, they had what was called In the
days of Jesus, they had what was called lot dogs,

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and they would sit in the lap of the master
and look up and catch the crumbs. She says, I'll
be your lapdog. If I can get a crumb or
what falls from the master's table, my daughter will be here.

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And then I said sit away. She cries out to us.
It was never about them, because she knew that what
she needed only God could be. And the Lord told me,
if I would preach this, he would minige to some

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people who are going through something that only God can fix.
And the Lord said, he's seeing your desperate faith, your
radical tenacity, your relentless pursuit of Him, and your refusal

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to let anybody run you out of church, your refusal.
You came if you had to get a ride, you
came you came. You came when you had money, You
came when you didn't have money. If you had to

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wear a mask, had to take a shot, if they
had to get a test, whatever it took, because you're
too desperate to be cute. And God said, I I'm

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not found buildable shock. I've not found this kind of
faith amongst my own her faith, not her feelings, not
her emotions, not her attitude, not her beauty, not her intellect,

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not her sensuality, her faith. He said, I cannot.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Deny you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Because you have so much confidence that I ain't going
to do it. Woman, you have desperate faith. And I
don't know who I'm preaching to today, but to get
out of what you're into, it's gonna take desperate faith.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
And that self, same hour, that self, same hour, not
later or not. When she got back home now, when
she took an annoying rag and put it in the there,

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that self same.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Her daughter was made hold. I want some folks to
stand who ain't even asking for you. You're asking for
somebody else.