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Speaker 1 (00:00):
People live and die based on your instincts. Your instincts,
you can be totally oblivious to making somebody happy or
miserable simply because you don't have the inner voice that
tells you what to do with the moment. What do
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I do with this moment? What do I do with
this situation? Most people just live the moment without thinking
the moment and understanding that there is an inner instinct
that causes you to react spontaneously to the moment, to
the opportunity, to the timing. And it's a terrible thing
to deal with anybody, to ride in the car with,
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to dance with, to live with, to work with. Somebody
who has no instincts. They bring you the right information
at the wrong time. Instincts. Ask you, naby, do you
have good instincts? This is the primes Greetings in the
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Invincible name of Jesus Christ, our King. I am so
excited to have this opportunity to share the word of
the Lord with you. To be blessed of God and
chosen of the Lord to present his word to you
is my highest honor. As we prepare to go into
the Word of God there, I want to prepare your
heart for what I believe is a life changing series
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that the Lord gave me. We're calling the series Open Doors.
I believe that God's going to really open doors for you.
The question is are you ready for the door that's
about to open? I believe as God presents opportunities to you,
what you do with that opportunity is actually your gift
back to God. Now understand that sometimes opportunities come dressed
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up in opposition. But if you define it correctly, and
you understand it correctly, and you perceive it correctly, well,
let me go into this word. I believe it's going
to help you. Like this particular message, shoot the nation,
it's an instinct to increase. Take a look at this.
This is absolute pure food for the soul. Here we
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are listening at Jesus teach. He has meandered through the
preceding texts in an almost loquacious matter, letting himself go
from this subject to that subject to the other, as
it were, not as someone who is just gibbering and
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jabbering along, but more as someone who has more to
say than he has.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Time to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
He's trying to convey to them a truth that is
quite profound. If you approach this truth, then you must
realize that what he is saying to them, it is
like a man, and he lets us know that this
man is a very wealthy man. And in a conversation
with what the king James version translates his servants my version,
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they're translated as slave. But there it's definitely a golf
in the conversation. There is a golf in the conversation.
It is a superior speaking to an inferior. There is
a golf in the conversation, and yet there is a conversation.
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There is a sociological golf. There is definitely an economic gulf,
and yet there is a conversation. The slaves were not
on the level with the master, and the master was
not on the level with the slaves, but there was
a conversation. When we look at that that word slave,
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it makes servant. It makes us a little bit uncomfortable.
It's just just doesn't feel good for us to hear that.
We just not only if you're of my historical background,
they're a little tens where you know, you don't like
to hear that word, but just people in we don't
like to hear that word because we live in a
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democracy that lends itself to the ideology that we can
lift up the lower class to the middle class, and
that we've done away with other systems that would alienate
people from opportunity. And the word is foreign to us.
But this is not an American text. This is not
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a text about New York or Washington, d c. Or
about about your corporate office building. This is not a
Western text at all. It is steeped in an Eastern
culture that embraced a caste system, whereby the notion was
whatever you were born into, that's what you were supposed
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to be. A cast system teaches an ideology that there
is no responsibility on people or government or has to
have nots to bring people up, because whoever you are,
it's what you are.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Deal with it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is this sociological notion and ideology that was pervasive
in the times that Christ ministered. You can see it
in attitudes like the poor you have with you always.
You can see it in how the Bible is written.
You know all got quite on me, stay with me.
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You can see it in how the Bible is written.
There were some people that were not Their names were
not included, though their miracles were substantive. Their names were
not recorded, and maybe you didn't even notice, like, uh,
you remember who is that lady the woman at the well?
What was her name? Oh yeah, sister woman at the well.
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And and uh yeah, the lady with the woman, the
woman with the issue of blood. You know her name was, uh,
the woman with the issue of blood. Why the scriptures
give some names like blind Bartimeus, the son of Tamayas
sat by the highwayside begging, and other people remain nameless
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on the text. It is the reflection of the ideas
of the writer that certain people's names were not even
worth recording because there was such a gulf. No need
to record your name. You are a nobody. You must
understand the expansive dimension of the gulf to appreciate to
appreciate the power of the conversation. So if you approach
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it purely from your from the notions of republicism, if
you approach it purely from the notions of democracy, you
will get lost in your reasoning because you look at
it through the lens of American historosity, and you look
at it with a condescending voice and says slaves and
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turn up your nose. But you must understand the beauty
of the texts exist with the understanding that there is
a gulf between these three slaves and this one master,
And yet there is conversation. Could it be that Jesus
might be saying to us that the gulf between the
Master and the slaves is lack. It is lacked the
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gulf between God and man. That his thoughts are above
our thoughts, and his ways above our ways. As I
as the heaven is above the earth, so are my
thoughts above your thoughts, and my ways above your ways.
You were born on this level, born in sin shape
and in iniquity. I wasn't born at all. I had
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no mother, no father, no beginning or end of days.
I am the Ancient of days. I am the Father
of wisdom. I have more wisdom and the foes of
my garment than all of your universities compiled together. Hollylujah,
Whatever your highest thought is, it is my lowest thought.
Your highs are my lows. My thoughts are so far
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above you. And yet I have a conversation. What a
mighty god is this? A god, Oh, my God, a
god who doesn't need anything. See, the Master doesn't need
the slave, The slave needs the master. The master could
go out and get another slave. And yet there is
the conversation of God, who doesn't need me, but I
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need him, saying that in spite of the gulf between
your ways and my ways, and your thoughts and my thoughts,
I'm gonna have a conversation with you, and I'm gonna
express it. And I know you don't understand the gulf
between us, but it is lack. It is lacking unto
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a master talking to a slave. And not only did
they have a conversation, the audacity of the text suggests
that the master gave his goods to the slave, gave
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it to committed into their hands. I want you to
understand that the slave owns nothing, has nothing, has no
rights or privileges. And yet the master, through a decision
in his own mind, not a request from the slave,
but a decision from the Master, has decided to gift
the slave with something that he could not gift himself with.
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This vulnerable position of the slave is the position of
us on earth, and it begins with the understanding that
you have been gifted. If you don't understand you have
been gifted, you will spend your life walking away and
walking past what only God has given you. Somebody say,
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I have been gifted. Yet I have been gifted. I
have been gifted. My gift may not be your gift.
It may not be shimmering in the light like yours is.
It might not be enclustered on a ring. It might
not be in a singing voice. It may not be
the ability to do something that you're able to do.
But let me tell you something. I have been gifted.
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I have something. I have something, some nebulous, indiscript thing
that God has given me that is so unique in
the earth that you will never see it again. I
have been gifted. Do you understand that you have been gifted?
Because if you don't see what you have as a gift,
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you won't protect it. You won't guard it, you won't
take care of it, you won't appreciate it. You'll run
around to other people who are gifted, and you'll be
so enamored with what they have that deep down you
won't appreciate what you have.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The greatest mystery of.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All mysteries in life is to discover where is the
treasure inside of me? What all have you put inside
of me? And what does it take for me to
discover what do I have to go through to dig
down deep enough to find out what God has placed
down inside of me. I have been gifted. If you
don't see it, you the wrong one. If you don't
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appreciate it, you can't have it. But the rest assured
when I cried out my first cry and the doctor
smite my bottom. The first cry was a gifted cry.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Still to come on the potter's tack.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's the goal. That's what you're aiming at. That's
what you're shooting for. You want to be excellent on
your level. You don't want to sit in your little
trailer and look across the street at the guy in
the house and begrudge him his house. When you have
fixed up your trailer, you want.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
To be excellent.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You see masses of people jumping in cars, filling up
tapes full of gas, trying to get away from what
they perceive as an opposition. You will see a people
running toward what everybody else is running away from, because
what is other people's opposition?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
changed my view the gifts He laid within before time
begin gives me the goods to win.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I see an open door.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
the least I can do is to work that thing.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Others may run from what I run to, aligning my
purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior, scale
walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
I've done them.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Master, because you handle the opportunity correctly, you were able
to move into the next dimension.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I have the ability, right permission to enter in. So
look to the heels from which cometh your health.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Can you see your open door?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Learn how to identify and seize your God give an
opportunity for increase. For your best gift received Open Doors
three insightful messages on DVD, and when your gift is
one hundred and twenty five dollars or more, you will
also receive Bishop Jake's new books. Are you Ready and
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Bishop two today.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Talk like you know who you are and say I
have been gifted. I can't take credit for it. It's
been given to me. I don't know why I can
do what I can do like I do. When I
do it, I just know I can do it. When
you have been gifted, you just got something you can do.
When you read it, you understood it. Other people read it,
they couldn't understand it. But when you read it, it
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makes sense to you. Everybody in the room might be
able to read, but they might not be able to
decipher it like you decipher it. You have been gifted,
or you wouldn't be where you are. Do what you do,
have what you got, know what you know. You have
been gifted. Somebody shot I'm gifted running a ball like
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you run a ball, stretching your legs like you stretching
touchdown after touchdown. Don't know why it came natural to me.
Other people went out for it, couldn't do it, but
I could do it. I have been gifted. Shoe I
worked on it, Shoe I trained for it. Sue I
went to school for Sue. I enhanced it. But if
the core gift isn't there, you can't enhance the invisible.
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I have been gifted. Don't give all the credit to
the university. Some people went to the same school and
flunked out.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I have been.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I feel something in this room. It's some gifted people
in this room right now, all the gifted people, clap
your hands.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Whoa, And he gave the baster gave unto them.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To one he gave five, To the other he gave
two talents. And to the third one he gave one.
They all were gifted. Yeah, they were all. They all
were gifted. We're all gifted. Glory to God. My mother
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taught me a poem you've heard me mention it before
about George, written by George Washington Carver. When I was
the little boys, call you all that the greatest of
men have had, And when I was eight or so,
I had to memorize it. Little did I know that
it was shaped my thinking the rest of my life.
That if you have two hands, two highs, two feet,
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all that the greatest of men have had, you start
out with the same stuff. What you do with it
is up to you. But you've all that the greatest
of men have had. With the same thing, they have
subdued nations and taken down kingdoms because you have all
that the greatest of men have had. I did not
know that she was depositing into my self esteem the
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wealth that was necessary through necessary through which I might
be able to expand and draw from it the rest
of my life. That she was vanquishing my excuses for
failure and opening my eyes to possibility because it was fair.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I have all that the greatest of men have had
two eyes, one of those two ears. Look at that.
Look at this stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I have been gifted, fearfully and marvelously made. I'm bad
from the beginning. There is no question then, that all three,
the one with the five, the one with the two,
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and the one with the one, all of them have
been gifted, gifted, but not equally, not equally gifted, but
gifted nonetheless. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I may not
have what you have, but I'm gifted nonetheless. I might
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not have the dimension of gifts.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That you have.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But just because I don't have the dimension does not
mean that I am destitutes. I may not have five,
I may only have one. But Lord, I sure do
thank you for this one. I sure do thank you
for this one. I may be a too talent kind
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of dude. I'm just a too talent kind of dude. Yeah,
but Lord, I thank you for two because I realized
that I didn't get that by myself. You just gave
it to me, willed it to me, bequeathed it to me,
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decreed it unto me, declared it unto me, handed it
to me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I have been gifted. No no, no, no, no, no, no no.
The problem comes. The problem comes, as the apostle.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Apostle clearly says, when we compare ourselves with ourselves, and
so doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Is not wise.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Because if I become distracted by the discrepancies in the
volume of gifts between us, then jealousy is born. Oh yeah,
rather than feeling gifted, I compare myself with you, and
I can't enjoy my two for being envious of your fire.
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So when my boat leads a sure of understanding that
I'm gifted and dalks on the bay of comparing myself
with you, that is where my carnality destroys my creativity,
because you cannot be jealous and creative at the same
time in order to be in order to be truly creative,
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I cannot be distracted by comparisons with other people. Creativity
begins when I invest, develop, and bring to fruition what
I do have within my power to do, rather than
to become distracted by the inconsistencies between me and you
and what I don't have. If I don't understand that,
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I may waste years of my life thinking that the
goal of my life is to catch up with you.
Never realize that I am not to be compared with
you at all. What I'm supposed to be is excellent
on my level. Yeah, that's the goal. That's what you're
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aiming at. That's what you're shooting for. You want to
be excellent on your level. You don't want to sit
in your little trailer and look across the street at
the guy in the house and begrudge him his house
when you haven't fixed up your trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You want to be excellent.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
He gave them five the same men, had the same status,
had the same master, and they had something else. They
had something else. He gave them talents. All the men talents,
but they were not the same talents five, two and one.
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One other thing he gave each of them that is
not written in the text, but it implied in the text.
And if you overlook at you will miss the power
of the text. He gave them an opportunity. There is
nothing in the world as wonderful as to have been
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given an opportunity. So many people wait in the wings,
showing at.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The bit, patting your foot, waiting on an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
An opportunity is an invisible thing that if you don't
discern it instinctively, it will not be mentioned in the text.
Because opportunities are a matter of perception. You must have
a revelation to see a moment as an opportunity. An
opportunity will not walk up to you and say hello, ma'am,
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I am an opportunity, And if you're not care for,
you will become so distracted by the inequities of life
that you won't even notice that the opportunity has been
given to you, because you are distracted by the comparison
to such a dimension that you don't see what is
in front of you as an opportunity. I'm going to
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tell you how deeply veiled an opportunity may become. Opportunities
are so often bailed that not only are they invisible,
they are often come before you in the form of opposition.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I said to you that opportunities often come to you
draped in the suit of opposition, and if you don't
perceive it correctly, you won't benefit from it. Correctly, because
you don't understand that the opposition is just a suit,
but up under the code is an opportunity. I can't
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go too deep.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Time won't allow on me.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But you see when the waves come in and the
wings are blowing and the ocean has produced high waves,
and you see masses of people jumping in cars, filling
up tates full of gas, trying to get away from
what they perceive as an opposition. You will see a
few people running two ward where everybody else is running
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away from. And they've got surfboards, because what is other
people's opposition? If you got a surfboard, it's an opportunity.
And I'm wondering, are you running away from what you
think is an opposition because you don't see it correctly
as an opportunity. Oh, y'all don't want to talk to me.
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We've got to start right there in. My announcers gonna
share more with you. I want you to get your
hands on this message. Take a look. You see masses
of people jumping in cars, filling up tates full of gas,
trying to get away from what they perceive as an opposition.
You will see a few people running toward what everybody
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else is running away from because what is other people's opposition?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
changed my view.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The gifts he.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Laid within before time begin gives me the goods to win.
I see an open door.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
the least I can do is to work that same.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Others may run from what I run to. Aligning my
purpose to his will, I attack like a warrior, scale
walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
I've done them Master.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Because you handle the opportunity correctly, you were able to
move into the next dimension.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I have the ability, right permission to enter in. So
look to the heels from which cometh your health.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Can you see your open doors?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Learn how to identify and seize your God give an
opportunity for increase. For your best gift received Open Doors
three insightful messages on DVD, and when your gift is
one hundred and twenty five dollars or more, you will
also receive Bishop Jake's new books Are You Ready and
God's Provision. Visit our website or call one eight hundred
bishop too.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Today ten thousand men take over the city, they take
over the nations, they take over nator.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's something fresh and new about legacy. Leave it something
for your family.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
My dad brought me. It was more than just a conflict.
It was impatition. Changed my whole life.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
You could actually talk and just be.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Men, men of God that could pour into our lives.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Beyond the brotherhood this year, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Then you just have to be here to spirits, some
watery brothers.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It was a movie.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get yourself up and
work that thing. Work that apartment to you, you get
the house, work that job till you get the company.
Work at where you're at. I'm talking to somebody. I'm
talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody. I know. God
is not gonna command you, and he's not gonna he's
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not gonna make you. But he did expect you to
have an instinct to perceive that moment to bring yourself
back home. Bring yourself back home every day and look
at what you have and say how can I make
this better? Every six days you are to be creating
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and rest.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Every seven.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
You can't go forward if you're resting six days and
creative one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You got the wrong formula.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Creative six days one day of rest, not rest seven
days for one day of creativity. It doesn't work. I'm sorry,
I'm fired up. I feel compelled to reach somebody. Somebody
wants us. I don't know who it is. Somebody, somebody
really is gonna use this.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're out of time. We've got to start right now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But it's been a real joy to have the opportunity
just to pierce your heart with the light and the
revelation of God's word and to allow that word to
dwell in your heart richly in Christ Jesus. I pray
that the Word has blessed you in a supernatural way,
and I'm believing God for an increase, an abundance to
break forth in your life. I'm not just talking about money,
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but if you need it that too. I'm talking about
in wisdom and health and all the aspects of God
prospering your life. It's more than an accountant can tabulate.
It's something you feel on the inside, the feeling of
growth and productivity, the feeling of increase. Let me open
this door for you so that you can experience the
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second half of your life to be the best half
of your life. Know that we're praying for you here
at the Potter's House, and that we love you, and
that we're waiting for you. Many of you have been
calling the register for Megafester. Families are coming from all
over the world. Oh my God, we're going to have
a time. I hope you get to come and enjoy
the Lord with us. If not, know that we're praying
for you, we're believing God for you, and the best
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is yet to come.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
This is the best
People live and die based on your instincts. Your instincts,
you can be totally oblivious to making somebody happy or
miserable simply because you don't have the inner voice that
tells you what to do with the moment. What do
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I do with this moment? What do I do with
this situation? Most people just live the moment without thinking
the moment and understanding that there is an inner instinct
that causes you to react spontaneously to the moment, to
the opportunity, to the timing. And it's a terrible thing
to deal with anybody, to ride in the car with,
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to dance with, to live with, to work with. Somebody
who has no instincts. They bring you the right information
at the wrong time. Instincts. Ask you, naby, do you
have good instincts? This is the primes Greetings in the
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Invincible name of Jesus Christ, our King. I am so
excited to have this opportunity to share the word of
the Lord with you. To be blessed of God and
chosen of the Lord to present his word to you
is my highest honor. As we prepare to go into
the Word of God there, I want to prepare your
heart for what I believe is a life changing series
(01:24):
that the Lord gave me. We're calling the series Open Doors.
I believe that God's going to really open doors for you.
The question is are you ready for the door that's
about to open? I believe as God presents opportunities to you,
what you do with that opportunity is actually your gift
back to God. Now understand that sometimes opportunities come dressed
(01:45):
up in opposition. But if you define it correctly, and
you understand it correctly, and you perceive it correctly, well,
let me go into this word. I believe it's going
to help you. Like this particular message, shoot the nation,
it's an instinct to increase. Take a look at this.
This is absolute pure food for the soul. Here we
(02:07):
are listening at Jesus teach. He has meandered through the
preceding texts in an almost loquacious matter, letting himself go
from this subject to that subject to the other, as
it were, not as someone who is just gibbering and
(02:28):
jabbering along, but more as someone who has more to
say than he has.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Time to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
He's trying to convey to them a truth that is
quite profound. If you approach this truth, then you must
realize that what he is saying to them, it is
like a man, and he lets us know that this
man is a very wealthy man. And in a conversation
with what the king James version translates his servants my version,
(02:58):
they're translated as slave. But there it's definitely a golf
in the conversation. There is a golf in the conversation.
It is a superior speaking to an inferior. There is
a golf in the conversation, and yet there is a conversation.
(03:19):
There is a sociological golf. There is definitely an economic gulf,
and yet there is a conversation. The slaves were not
on the level with the master, and the master was
not on the level with the slaves, but there was
a conversation. When we look at that that word slave,
(03:42):
it makes servant. It makes us a little bit uncomfortable.
It's just just doesn't feel good for us to hear that.
We just not only if you're of my historical background,
they're a little tens where you know, you don't like
to hear that word, but just people in we don't
like to hear that word because we live in a
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democracy that lends itself to the ideology that we can
lift up the lower class to the middle class, and
that we've done away with other systems that would alienate
people from opportunity. And the word is foreign to us.
But this is not an American text. This is not
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a text about New York or Washington, d c. Or
about about your corporate office building. This is not a
Western text at all. It is steeped in an Eastern
culture that embraced a caste system, whereby the notion was
whatever you were born into, that's what you were supposed
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to be. A cast system teaches an ideology that there
is no responsibility on people or government or has to
have nots to bring people up, because whoever you are,
it's what you are.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Deal with it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is this sociological notion and ideology that was pervasive
in the times that Christ ministered. You can see it
in attitudes like the poor you have with you always.
You can see it in how the Bible is written.
You know all got quite on me, stay with me.
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You can see it in how the Bible is written.
There were some people that were not Their names were
not included, though their miracles were substantive. Their names were
not recorded, and maybe you didn't even notice, like, uh,
you remember who is that lady the woman at the well?
What was her name? Oh yeah, sister woman at the well.
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And and uh yeah, the lady with the woman, the
woman with the issue of blood. You know her name was, uh,
the woman with the issue of blood. Why the scriptures
give some names like blind Bartimeus, the son of Tamayas
sat by the highwayside begging, and other people remain nameless
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on the text. It is the reflection of the ideas
of the writer that certain people's names were not even
worth recording because there was such a gulf. No need
to record your name. You are a nobody. You must
understand the expansive dimension of the gulf to appreciate to
appreciate the power of the conversation. So if you approach
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it purely from your from the notions of republicism, if
you approach it purely from the notions of democracy, you
will get lost in your reasoning because you look at
it through the lens of American historosity, and you look
at it with a condescending voice and says slaves and
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turn up your nose. But you must understand the beauty
of the texts exist with the understanding that there is
a gulf between these three slaves and this one master,
And yet there is conversation. Could it be that Jesus
might be saying to us that the gulf between the
Master and the slaves is lack. It is lacked the
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gulf between God and man. That his thoughts are above
our thoughts, and his ways above our ways. As I
as the heaven is above the earth, so are my
thoughts above your thoughts, and my ways above your ways.
You were born on this level, born in sin shape
and in iniquity. I wasn't born at all. I had
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no mother, no father, no beginning or end of days.
I am the Ancient of days. I am the Father
of wisdom. I have more wisdom and the foes of
my garment than all of your universities compiled together. Hollylujah,
Whatever your highest thought is, it is my lowest thought.
Your highs are my lows. My thoughts are so far
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above you. And yet I have a conversation. What a
mighty god is this? A god, Oh, my God, a
god who doesn't need anything. See, the Master doesn't need
the slave, The slave needs the master. The master could
go out and get another slave. And yet there is
the conversation of God, who doesn't need me, but I
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need him, saying that in spite of the gulf between
your ways and my ways, and your thoughts and my thoughts,
I'm gonna have a conversation with you, and I'm gonna
express it. And I know you don't understand the gulf
between us, but it is lack. It is lacking unto
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a master talking to a slave. And not only did
they have a conversation, the audacity of the text suggests
that the master gave his goods to the slave, gave
(08:59):
it to committed into their hands. I want you to
understand that the slave owns nothing, has nothing, has no
rights or privileges. And yet the master, through a decision
in his own mind, not a request from the slave,
but a decision from the Master, has decided to gift
the slave with something that he could not gift himself with.
(09:24):
This vulnerable position of the slave is the position of
us on earth, and it begins with the understanding that
you have been gifted. If you don't understand you have
been gifted, you will spend your life walking away and
walking past what only God has given you. Somebody say,
(09:44):
I have been gifted. Yet I have been gifted. I
have been gifted. My gift may not be your gift.
It may not be shimmering in the light like yours is.
It might not be enclustered on a ring. It might
not be in a singing voice. It may not be
the ability to do something that you're able to do.
But let me tell you something. I have been gifted.
(10:09):
I have something. I have something, some nebulous, indiscript thing
that God has given me that is so unique in
the earth that you will never see it again. I
have been gifted. Do you understand that you have been gifted?
Because if you don't see what you have as a gift,
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you won't protect it. You won't guard it, you won't
take care of it, you won't appreciate it. You'll run
around to other people who are gifted, and you'll be
so enamored with what they have that deep down you
won't appreciate what you have.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The greatest mystery of.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All mysteries in life is to discover where is the
treasure inside of me? What all have you put inside
of me? And what does it take for me to
discover what do I have to go through to dig
down deep enough to find out what God has placed
down inside of me. I have been gifted. If you
don't see it, you the wrong one. If you don't
(11:08):
appreciate it, you can't have it. But the rest assured
when I cried out my first cry and the doctor
smite my bottom. The first cry was a gifted cry.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Still to come on the potter's tack.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, that's the goal. That's what you're aiming at. That's
what you're shooting for. You want to be excellent on
your level. You don't want to sit in your little
trailer and look across the street at the guy in
the house and begrudge him his house. When you have
fixed up your trailer, you want.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
To be excellent.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You see masses of people jumping in cars, filling up
tapes full of gas, trying to get away from what
they perceive as an opposition. You will see a people
running toward what everybody else is running away from, because
what is other people's opposition?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
changed my view the gifts He laid within before time
begin gives me the goods to win.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I see an open door.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
the least I can do is to work that thing.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Others may run from what I run to, aligning my
purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior, scale
walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
I've done them.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Master, because you handle the opportunity correctly, you were able
to move into the next dimension.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I have the ability, right permission to enter in. So
look to the heels from which cometh your health.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Can you see your open door?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
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Speaker 1 (13:23):
Talk like you know who you are and say I
have been gifted. I can't take credit for it. It's
been given to me. I don't know why I can
do what I can do like I do. When I
do it, I just know I can do it. When
you have been gifted, you just got something you can do.
When you read it, you understood it. Other people read it,
they couldn't understand it. But when you read it, it
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makes sense to you. Everybody in the room might be
able to read, but they might not be able to
decipher it like you decipher it. You have been gifted,
or you wouldn't be where you are. Do what you do,
have what you got, know what you know. You have
been gifted. Somebody shot I'm gifted running a ball like
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you run a ball, stretching your legs like you stretching
touchdown after touchdown. Don't know why it came natural to me.
Other people went out for it, couldn't do it, but
I could do it. I have been gifted. Shoe I
worked on it, Shoe I trained for it. Sue I
went to school for Sue. I enhanced it. But if
the core gift isn't there, you can't enhance the invisible.
(14:31):
I have been gifted. Don't give all the credit to
the university. Some people went to the same school and
flunked out.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I have been.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I feel something in this room. It's some gifted people
in this room right now, all the gifted people, clap
your hands.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Whoa, And he gave the baster gave unto them.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To one he gave five, To the other he gave
two talents. And to the third one he gave one.
They all were gifted. Yeah, they were all. They all
were gifted. We're all gifted. Glory to God. My mother
(15:33):
taught me a poem you've heard me mention it before
about George, written by George Washington Carver. When I was
the little boys, call you all that the greatest of
men have had, And when I was eight or so,
I had to memorize it. Little did I know that
it was shaped my thinking the rest of my life.
That if you have two hands, two highs, two feet,
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all that the greatest of men have had, you start
out with the same stuff. What you do with it
is up to you. But you've all that the greatest
of men have had. With the same thing, they have
subdued nations and taken down kingdoms because you have all
that the greatest of men have had. I did not
know that she was depositing into my self esteem the
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wealth that was necessary through necessary through which I might
be able to expand and draw from it the rest
of my life. That she was vanquishing my excuses for
failure and opening my eyes to possibility because it was fair.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I have all that the greatest of men have had
two eyes, one of those two ears. Look at that.
Look at this stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I have been gifted, fearfully and marvelously made. I'm bad
from the beginning. There is no question then, that all three,
the one with the five, the one with the two,
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and the one with the one, all of them have
been gifted, gifted, but not equally, not equally gifted, but
gifted nonetheless. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I may not
have what you have, but I'm gifted nonetheless. I might
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not have the dimension of gifts.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That you have.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But just because I don't have the dimension does not
mean that I am destitutes. I may not have five,
I may only have one. But Lord, I sure do
thank you for this one. I sure do thank you
for this one. I may be a too talent kind
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of dude. I'm just a too talent kind of dude. Yeah,
but Lord, I thank you for two because I realized
that I didn't get that by myself. You just gave
it to me, willed it to me, bequeathed it to me,
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decreed it unto me, declared it unto me, handed it
to me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I have been gifted. No no, no, no, no, no, no no.
The problem comes. The problem comes, as the apostle.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Apostle clearly says, when we compare ourselves with ourselves, and
so doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Is not wise.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Because if I become distracted by the discrepancies in the
volume of gifts between us, then jealousy is born. Oh yeah,
rather than feeling gifted, I compare myself with you, and
I can't enjoy my two for being envious of your fire.
(18:55):
So when my boat leads a sure of understanding that
I'm gifted and dalks on the bay of comparing myself
with you, that is where my carnality destroys my creativity,
because you cannot be jealous and creative at the same
time in order to be in order to be truly creative,
(19:23):
I cannot be distracted by comparisons with other people. Creativity
begins when I invest, develop, and bring to fruition what
I do have within my power to do, rather than
to become distracted by the inconsistencies between me and you
and what I don't have. If I don't understand that,
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I may waste years of my life thinking that the
goal of my life is to catch up with you.
Never realize that I am not to be compared with
you at all. What I'm supposed to be is excellent
on my level. Yeah, that's the goal. That's what you're
(20:09):
aiming at. That's what you're shooting for. You want to
be excellent on your level. You don't want to sit
in your little trailer and look across the street at
the guy in the house and begrudge him his house
when you haven't fixed up your trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You want to be excellent.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
He gave them five the same men, had the same status,
had the same master, and they had something else. They
had something else. He gave them talents. All the men talents,
but they were not the same talents five, two and one.
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One other thing he gave each of them that is
not written in the text, but it implied in the text.
And if you overlook at you will miss the power
of the text. He gave them an opportunity. There is
nothing in the world as wonderful as to have been
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given an opportunity. So many people wait in the wings,
showing at.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The bit, patting your foot, waiting on an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
An opportunity is an invisible thing that if you don't
discern it instinctively, it will not be mentioned in the text.
Because opportunities are a matter of perception. You must have
a revelation to see a moment as an opportunity. An
opportunity will not walk up to you and say hello, ma'am,
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I am an opportunity, And if you're not care for,
you will become so distracted by the inequities of life
that you won't even notice that the opportunity has been
given to you, because you are distracted by the comparison
to such a dimension that you don't see what is
in front of you as an opportunity. I'm going to
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tell you how deeply veiled an opportunity may become. Opportunities
are so often bailed that not only are they invisible,
they are often come before you in the form of opposition.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I said to you that opportunities often come to you
draped in the suit of opposition, and if you don't
perceive it correctly, you won't benefit from it. Correctly, because
you don't understand that the opposition is just a suit,
but up under the code is an opportunity. I can't
(23:00):
go too deep.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Time won't allow on me.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But you see when the waves come in and the
wings are blowing and the ocean has produced high waves,
and you see masses of people jumping in cars, filling
up tates full of gas, trying to get away from
what they perceive as an opposition. You will see a
few people running two ward where everybody else is running
(23:24):
away from. And they've got surfboards, because what is other
people's opposition? If you got a surfboard, it's an opportunity.
And I'm wondering, are you running away from what you
think is an opposition because you don't see it correctly
as an opportunity. Oh, y'all don't want to talk to me.
(23:46):
We've got to start right there in. My announcers gonna
share more with you. I want you to get your
hands on this message. Take a look. You see masses
of people jumping in cars, filling up tates full of gas,
trying to get away from what they perceive as an opposition.
You will see a few people running toward what everybody
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else is running away from because what is other people's opposition?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
changed my view.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The gifts he.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Laid within before time begin gives me the goods to win.
I see an open door.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
the least I can do is to work that same.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Others may run from what I run to. Aligning my
purpose to his will, I attack like a warrior, scale
walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
I've done them Master.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Because you handle the opportunity correctly, you were able to
move into the next dimension.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I have the ability, right permission to enter in. So
look to the heels from which cometh your health.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Can you see your open doors?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
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opportunity for increase. For your best gift received Open Doors
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Speaker 4 (25:22):
Today ten thousand men take over the city, they take
over the nations, they take over nator.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's something fresh and new about legacy. Leave it something
for your family.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
My dad brought me. It was more than just a conflict.
It was impatition. Changed my whole life.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
You could actually talk and just be.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Men, men of God that could pour into our lives.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Beyond the brotherhood this year, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Then you just have to be here to spirits, some
watery brothers.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It was a movie.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get yourself up and
work that thing. Work that apartment to you, you get
the house, work that job till you get the company.
Work at where you're at. I'm talking to somebody. I'm
talking to somebody. I'm talking to somebody. I know. God
is not gonna command you, and he's not gonna he's
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not gonna make you. But he did expect you to
have an instinct to perceive that moment to bring yourself
back home. Bring yourself back home every day and look
at what you have and say how can I make
this better? Every six days you are to be creating
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and rest.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Every seven.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
You can't go forward if you're resting six days and
creative one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You got the wrong formula.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Creative six days one day of rest, not rest seven
days for one day of creativity. It doesn't work. I'm sorry,
I'm fired up. I feel compelled to reach somebody. Somebody
wants us. I don't know who it is. Somebody, somebody
really is gonna use this.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We're out of time. We've got to start right now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But it's been a real joy to have the opportunity
just to pierce your heart with the light and the
revelation of God's word and to allow that word to
dwell in your heart richly in Christ Jesus. I pray
that the Word has blessed you in a supernatural way,
and I'm believing God for an increase, an abundance to
break forth in your life. I'm not just talking about money,
(27:36):
but if you need it that too. I'm talking about
in wisdom and health and all the aspects of God
prospering your life. It's more than an accountant can tabulate.
It's something you feel on the inside, the feeling of
growth and productivity, the feeling of increase. Let me open
this door for you so that you can experience the
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second half of your life to be the best half
of your life. Know that we're praying for you here
at the Potter's House, and that we love you, and
that we're waiting for you. Many of you have been
calling the register for Megafester. Families are coming from all
over the world. Oh my God, we're going to have
a time. I hope you get to come and enjoy
the Lord with us. If not, know that we're praying
for you, we're believing God for you, and the best
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is yet to come.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
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