April 14, 2025

He Arose, the Importance, the Significance in Today's World

He Arose, the Importance, the Significance in Today's World

April, Resurrection, 3 days, significance

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April, Resurrection, 3 days, significance

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Oh excuse me, good evening, good evening, good evening. I

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was directing the orchestra. You just feel like that, you know,

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good evening and everybody, and welcome to another segment of

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Setting it Straight with Miss Gray. Fabulous co hosts and

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we have a guest. But before we go any further,

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we're gonna take it to the throne room because we

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need we need the strength, we need the power, we

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need the authority, we need the clarification and the discovery

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and the discussion. Father God, we just love you so

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much and we thank you for everything. Father, We just

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thank you for everything. Thank you for this week. We

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thank you Father God for the revelation, the uh, the

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strength and and and the the the clarification you clarified,

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and a lot of things you made clear of the path,

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Father God, you answered the questions Father God, that we're

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not even prayed for and about. And we just thank you, Father,

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We just thank you.

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Uh.

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We we're praying for the people in near San Diego

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that experience that earthquake. We're not sure. I don't know

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the proximities and stuff. I don't know if there was

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any losses, but please Father, here our prayer. Father, we

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also asked a special prayer. We're just learning of a loss.

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Where are our I t our engineer and our technician lives,

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really where she works, and please be with this that

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person's family. We don't we're not going to understand it.

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We're not going to understand it. We just we just

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pray that the family is strengthened and that they're going

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to persevere despite all. Now tonight, Father God, this is

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one of your special topics of talking about your son

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and all that he had to go through and in

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three days and what the how significant, what the significance

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is to us today and what we need to be

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doing today as always, we stand behind the cross. We're

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gonna peak, We're gonna listen as you set the captors free.

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In your most holiest name, we pray. Amen and Amen, Amen,

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amy to everybody, and please help me. Welcome Pastor Michelle

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Fears all the way from Knoxville, Tennis.

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Same, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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I we appreciate that. I'm gonna give you a chance

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to talk about prayers. Thank you and the station. Amen. Pastor,

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I want you to take the lead, but we're gonna

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talk about you know what does resurrection Sunday? This whole week?

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We got good Friday on Friday, and we've had Palm

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Sunday yesterday, and you know what all of this means

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and why is it still significant. I'm gonna mute myself

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because you'll hear me. Amen. Okay, you'll hear me, So

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I'll mute myself out of respect. Give us some give

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us a little introduction to you. How long you you

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know you've been pastor at Knoxville at Bitley Street Church,

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very new, very.

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New, and it's just going into my fourth year at

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Bentley Street and Knoxville, Tennessee Disciples of Christ Church. So

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I'm very very new but have been in ordained since

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nineteen ninety eight and then called in to be a

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pastor in twenty twenty one. So it's all good.

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Amen, Amen and amen. So yeah, the listening, the faithful

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listeners and my co hosts already know our history. It

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is beautiful. Okay, nick A, thank you.

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All right, all right, it is it is.

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Yes, I may have a peak, you know, do a

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sneaking peak, you know, may have to help Trade me waiting.

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We're waiting. We have the whole Knoxville on alert for

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you coming. But she thinks she's gonna know when we're

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gonna arrive in the spirit.

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In the spirit, that's what we're gonna say, Okay.

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Asking God please let us know. But I'm trying to

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tell her. I gave us some hints. I'm gonna surprise,

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may interrupt the flow of service because I'm gonna wait

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till everybody's inside. Gave us some hints, give us some hints.

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That's all I could do. But yeah, Trade, you may

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need to think about meeting me halfway because you all

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the way up there. You gop on the plane and

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meet me in Tennessee. That yeah you can. And we

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look at and we looking. We can charge it off.

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We can charge it off.

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Holliday like, yeah, you're welcome to come to let's let's

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do the whole.

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I'm there.

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Well, he is always so busy, he's always doing foreign

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missionary work. We the you know, check the calendars with him,

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so you know. But yeah, we've been to roll up

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and surprise you and everything. You all have been so

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faithful and so supportive of me and just being there

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and praying for me. And I could tell when prayers

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are coming up from the northern outside the state, and

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it really means a lot to me, It really does.

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But you know, I know this is a week where

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traditionally and in some cultures, especially black culture, so I

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can only speak from that perspective. You know, already, you know,

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people are looking at what kind of money they have.

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And already every salon and barber shop is going to

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be jumping from Saturday night. The most retail busy season

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will occur Friday and Saturday because we got to go

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get the outfits. We've got to go get the hair done.

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Now we're adding you have a right and hands and suits.

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And you know I was I was thinking about that

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the other day. And it has to do with the newness.

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You know, we're going into newness and you know, receiving

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a new life. And I think that, I mean, you know,

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I'm even want to do something new.

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It doesn't have to be on a.

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Big scale, but just something new, you know, for this

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new life that Jesus Christ has so sacrificially given us.

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You know, I just want to do it because hey,

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I have new life.

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You know, a new you get something new, you start

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getting a new mind. I mean it's like, oh, I

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got this dress on, you know, and I got my

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nails dead and all of that stuff, you know, but

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it gives you a different attitude about about you know, yourself.

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Not that it all of that, but we need to

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be to be happy with who we are in Christ,

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Jesus Man, and that's where the freedom comes.

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So yeah, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna buy me something.

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I I am definitely gonna buy me something new for

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u this new life, celebrate new life that I have

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received because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Yeah, So that's a great segue because of the importance

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and the significance beyond the shopping, beyond being made over

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beyond the makeover, beyond getting something new, beyond getting the

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hair done and the suits and the clothing and everything.

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Like I said, retail is gonna be I hope they

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know what's coming. And I hope the stores because I mean,

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I'm sure folks in retail have been so discombobulated with

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everything happening, you know, stores closing and all this kind

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of stuff that those that are still fighting to stay

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open this weekend, give it your best. Put your best

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on that front line as they're coming in the door.

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Forget about clearance, get just just get your nice stuff

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on the front line. I promise you. You know, hair stores,

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get all the hair ready, get all the not the

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wild looking wigs, get you know this this. They're coming

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in and they're gonna buy. They're gonna buy now. Some

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gonna take the bill money and do this, and you

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know they're sacrificing and they're trying to get you know,

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and hopefully those who have family nearby, they're gonna celebrate

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and eat. Then they're probably gonna be a couple of

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places that's gonna have an Easter egg hunt. And I

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was doing some research and I was surprised how the

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Easter egg piece of it. They're trying to weave that

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in into Christian thought and say that you know, the eggs,

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I guess like you just said about the life and

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and the celebration of newness, you know, uh, they're they're

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they're weaving that in and and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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So finding the eggs. I still haven't known how they

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bridge that together, but that's they're trying to weave that

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in a and poor Ai, you know, it's just trying

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to go on what it's got. But Ai is like,

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I really don't know how to get pictures up here, right,

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So talk to us a little bit more. Now you've

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open up that door very nicely, you know, just celebrating

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who we are. We've got to It's not I don't

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know how much more longer we as the teachers and

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the preachers and the evangelists and the prophets and the

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apostles are going to be able to keep trying to

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convince people to give God a try and and and

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and and not for the things God's gonna do. The

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thing it's already in the word. I mean, you know,

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don't feel bad if you ask him for something. Are

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you're giving him right, right, you're giving him, So you

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go ahead, you do.

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I just think that that that there's going to come

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a time in the near future when we don't have

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to go after they that they're going to be running

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to us.

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They're going to be running to us. You know. The

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harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

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I think that situations happen in order to draw people,

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not unto God uh And so I think that what

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we're dealing with in our world, not along in the

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United States, but it's all over that people are looking

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for hope and the only hope, the only.

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True hope, is in Christ Jesus.

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So I think I think it's going to be a fire,

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there's going to be lit uh in the earth atmosphere

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for those that want to uh to to flock to

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the truth.

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A man finding the truth doors the doors of the church.

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You know, honest believe the people are going their hearts

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are going to be right to receive the word or

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the truth.

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Well, one of our faithful viewers, Charles uh typed in,

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you know, is is it another opportunity? Is a tradition

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or another reason for to dress fancy for holidays? And

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people have made it both, Charles. I mean, you know

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they've made it both. And we talked about we were

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talking about that earlier. You know, it's a time to

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go get the fancy is they look the best, so

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we can go to church, you know, and to celebrate

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that way. But we want after Sunday is over, there's Monday.

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You got to go back to work. You know, did

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your life change over the weekend? Was the message? Uh,

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one that you can say, you know what, I'm just

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gonna let go and really let God on this one,

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because I don't know about tomorrow, and we don't want

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to scare you to Christ that now. We're not doing that.

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We're just talking about real life stuff and we really

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want you to catch you on because Jesus says, come

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to me as you are, so you know, just come

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to me as you are. I don't need to fancy nothing.

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I know your heart. I know what you're thinking as

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you're walking into this anxiu wary. I know what you're

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thinking about that you don't know when you get your

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next paycheck, you know, how do you split it? Do

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you pay the bills or do you pay the licen?

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Do you get some grocery or you know, what do

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I do? And we don't know what may not be available.

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I know everybody's already looking at the egg costs and

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and and how we're gonna die them, and you know,

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and things like that.

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It's just a time for you to.

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Really sit back and think about just to think where

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am I in Christ? Do I will I have access

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to eternal life? What does that mean for me? Have

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I done everything I can to this day? Have I

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done everything today? And I was thinking about that all

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day to day as I was doing my nonprofit work,

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you know, doing my following my nine ninety and and

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getting the solicitation charitable forms done, and I just God

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wouldn't let me stop. I was just just zoo and

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it was not my plan that I really want to

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really be prepared for tonight. But God said, ye, get

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her done and and everything fell into place, and I'm like, whoa, wow,

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and be honest on things. And I was just thinking

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about that and just really excited that you're going to

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be on tonight and and and we are hoping and

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praying that we all will experience a newness. We're never

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too delivered, We're never too uh. This is our best

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we're not at our best, right Okay, you know, I know, Pastor,

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you know, Miguel's got the sermon coming up. He's like, okay,

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a few people did respond as he'll look back and

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they'll be like, okay, you know, but it's beyond that.

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Their lives are going to change. We need life changing moments.

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And yes, Pastor, the revival is coming.

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It's coming.

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the change is a process. And uh, all all we're

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asked to do is uh, the seed and the watering

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and the increase is totally up to God. And so

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if we do what we're supposed to do, then God's

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going to do what he's gonna do, you know. And

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so let us, you know, let us get the seed

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in and water and you know this time, you know

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when when the churches are going to be full because

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we have the c M. E Uh Christians, the Christmas,

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Mother and Day and Easter folks, and the churches are

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going to repack because are they coming in to see

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you know, family coming together and and and uh, you

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know they'll be in their little outfits. And in the

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African American churches, we used to have a little Stout show,

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you know, around that time, because they would have those.

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Cute little outfits and everything.

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but I think that's all kind of like kind of

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like leaving us. You know, the awe in it, you know,

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the excitement in it. I think people have just labeled

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it as just another day, but it's not just another day.

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It's your resurrection day.

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Yes.

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For you. I can't name it Easter. I can't name

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it Easter. I name it resurrection Day. This is a

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resurrection weekend. And you know that. And the one song.

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I was thinking about the song and I began to cry,

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like you know, they hung him high, they stretched him wide,

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he hung his head for me.

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He died.

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That's love. And I sang the whole chorus. I couldn't

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believe it to day. I don't sing that song, but

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it just it just kept and I just kept and

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I'm hearing myself and I'm hearing the words, and it's like,

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oh my god, you know, you know, that's love. That's love.

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He died for us. He knew coming in this world

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what he had to be. Most of us can't even

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remember what we used to think. What we were when

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we were little people. I can remember. I think it

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was after the fifth through eighth grade that, you know,

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because of my experience with the greatest music teacher, I

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wanted to just get back to the stage. I just

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wanted to get back to this to everybody wants to

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be a doctor. Everybody wanted to be a nurse, everybody

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want to be a teacher, everybody want to be a firefighter. No,

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I wanted to get back to the stage. That's all

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I can remember that I ever said out loud. And

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now I want to be his child. I want to

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be his daughter. I want to be everything he has

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purposed me to be. And that's you know, that's love.

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Because I can't imagine at age twelve me going into

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the church at Saint John Missionary Baptist Church telling him, oh,

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I got a word for you.

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I can't imagine that.

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It is twelve, you know, and I barely get sing

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in the choir, the adult choir. So yes, Pastor, you're right,

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Pastor Miguel, you want to say something.

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To It's interesting that Pastor Michelle and I have the

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same the same thought process because I'm speaking on I'm

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speaking after Easter and what many people don't you know

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that that seems to be a very difficult follow up

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after Easter, because you know what, what what do people

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talk about? And Pastor Michelle really touched on it and

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I named a sermon process because nobody really understands. I mean,

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I'm going to be touching on the four soils, but

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how I'm going to be delivering it. The Holy Spirit

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delivered it to me during breakfast while I was talking

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to my wife, how we as Christians, how we are

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the four soils, how we are hard and the seeds

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fall on us, and how we walk away and step

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on them because we feel that we don't need Jesus.

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And I'm putting how we all the different stages that

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we go through, and then when the Word finally penetrates

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into us, how we are able to do thirty sixty

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and one hundredfold by the people we touch. So this

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to me is something very vital in a Christian's walk,

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because yes, Easter becomes a very tactful day where people understand, yes,

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Rice went in as a king, he was hung like

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a thief when that all happened in a period of

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five days, where people don't understand faith is not feeling.

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Faith is a lifestyle, and this is why we have

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to understand. You know, we can't feel that we're a

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Christian today because we're not getting answered prayer by God,

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we're not going to be a Christian. No, it's not

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about that. You don't if you don't see God. But

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faith is believing in what you don't see, and that's

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what he grew touches on. So why we have to

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understand that faith is not what we see. Faith is

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how we live. They trust that when Jesus said I

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will I will come back on the third day, what's

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a promise? And people don't want to understand that that

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promise is what gives us the hope that we know

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that Jesus does not lie. Jesus doesn't create stories to

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attract us. No, Jesus was teaching us what it is

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like to.

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Live in the Kingdom of God and what it really

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means to follow in his footsteps, to live faithfully like

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the prophet lived faithfully to God.

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And they delivered it and people didn't like the truth.

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So what did they do? They killed the prophets. Just

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as innocent as he was, he was telling the truth.

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Guess what happened to Christ. So we already know people

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are not going to like the truth. But we have

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to trust in God that what we do for him,

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it's because we do it because we trust him, we

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have faith, we love him with our heart, mind, spirit, strength,

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as it says.

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Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

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And now if I could just piggyback on what I

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what I hear in that, maybe my sermon with the

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four souls and the process is that we all are

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one of those types of souls in certain seasons of

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our lives. And we've all been you know, the but

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the thorny, the thorny, the one that go down. We've

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all been that in the process of getting to that

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that's the soil where everything is just right, and and

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and then we might go back, you know, come forward.

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What what My thing that that I look at, that

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that's been my stability is that I might not act right,

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you know, like Christian dumb would want me to act

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or do like the textbook whatever like that. But I

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am so thankful to God that He looks on my

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heart where the man.

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Looks on the outside.

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You can say what you see that God sees what

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he says about me?

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Amen?

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I mean, I just I don't have.

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When when I was asked to come on here tonight.

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I'm.

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Michelle. You touched on something. You touched on something that

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that people need to understand something And and I'm gonna

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go deep here in the Old Testament, when David was

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picked being the king of trial, people don't understand. People

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may not know David wasn't the illustrious person. He was

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a sign. He was a love child. People don't understand.

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As a love child, he became the trill turned out

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to be the most powerful because he was convicted by God,

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and and and and that that goes to show and

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that's something that that that we have to understand and

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and miss Gray, you touched on it. We have to

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come to God as we are.

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Man.

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He's the one that he's the one that dusts us off.

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He's the one that cleans us with the blood. So

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he wants us the way we are, because if he

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wanted perfection, guess what we would all be non existent?

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Right now?

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Amen?

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Amen, I think, go ahead ahead, mister tray, go ahead.

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Speaking when I was.

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Here, I go, but don't just pick you back and

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on what what pastor was saying it's God's message, but

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when it's delivered through through the leader of the organization,

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you know, the church or whatever. Just making sure that

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this conveyed God said, come as you are, because some

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people are intimidated by going into the church because they

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don't have you know, so let let's let's let's you know,

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be clear. I know a few people that said, I

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don't have the outfit or or I don't know if

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I measure up to go in, and what if they

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ask for uh tithings or offerings and I don't have that.

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You know, it's it's a process, you know. And there's

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some people with church hurt, you know. Unfortunately, there's some

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church hurt there. And sometimes it starts with no offense

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to anyone. It starts at the top that that's where

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the hurt came. And then some other folks that not recognizing. Okay,

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when you want people to come in, that's as you are.

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That that's whatever.

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Your sin may be, whatever you look like, whatever you're

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wearing not you know, you need to be respectful really

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not coming anyotype. But if it's jeans, if it's neat,

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you know, if if it's somebody a homeless person or

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somebody's walking.

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Down the street and they hadn't showered in a few

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days or whatever, because they don't.

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You know, we need to make sure that we welcome

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the people.

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Because there's sick people in the church.

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They're there to get well, right, And I think people

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because do I measure up going before the Lord in

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front of these.

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People who are judging me?

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And I try to push that because I've seen it

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and unfortunately I've experienced some of that myself. And what

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I try to do.

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Go ahead, I'm sorry, And so what its to is,

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you know, sometimes we have to take the message outside

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of the four walls so people can see, Yes, we

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do come out, we as Christians do come out, and

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we don't have to have church inside here.

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Come on a law, you know what I mean.

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It's something serial and sermonal, something that just just to

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make it fun. Well, it's not so intimidating, and then

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that's how people grab Okay, this is not so bad.

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It's not what I thought, not what I perceived it

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to be, not what I see on television, not what

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I see people posting on Facebook with these things that

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are so scary. Maybe I can go on. Because people

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greeted me with kindness, and they show Christian in value

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what what Jesus would probably show a man.

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And it all goes back to the heart. You can't

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do it unless you have the heart to do it.

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And people who are not Christians can sense it when

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you faking it. They'll come for you when you're faking it.

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You know.

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It's kind of like they know how we're supposed to offer,

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but we don't have that, you know. So uh, yeah,

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I understand where you're coming coming from. But for any

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anyone who has experienced church hurt, my thing would but

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would be to tell them to uh, let God get

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you through it, get a good support team. Because being

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a uh in the female in the ministry, I was

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shunned and and a lot of places uh and talked

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about and uh and uh even before I became pastor,

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I was treated very very bad because of of what

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the gift that God the gifts that God had given me,

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and it was it was so bad to where you know,

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if I hadn't heard God say keep on going, then

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I would have turned back and ran and and wouldn't

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be where I am today. But we've you've got to

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just presevere and and uh know, that the voices you

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you know, the voices that that are telling you the

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opposite thing. Uh, you just have to learn how to

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rebuke that and and get close to God and and

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and and be able to hear his voice. I honestly

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wouldn't be where I am today had I listened to

477
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:56.480
all the other voices in my head having a traumatic

478
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:01.880
past as a child, and I'm thinking that I deserved

479
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.880
to be in this uh place, you know, as pastor.

480
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.880
But God told me to come on, and I followed

481
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:14.839
his voice and not the other voices of you know

482
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:15.839
that we're in my head.

483
00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:18.440
So every one of us that are.

484
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.440
Called on at stages asking why did people treat you

485
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.079
like that?

486
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:24.039
Because they're mean.

487
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:30.480
They like that because of the tradition of women not

488
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:35.880
being in in ministry, and they didn't understand. And it

489
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:41.200
was mostly male pastors that did not understand that God,

490
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.119
God is a god of all and God can call

491
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.240
whoever he wants to call. And my my thing is

492
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:51.759
if God, if if if the woman birthed the word,

493
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:53.640
then why can't she birth the word.

494
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.839
The word?

495
00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.559
Then why can't she carry the word and birth? And

496
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.839
it worked in other people? Uh, you know, let's not.

497
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.920
I guess they didn't read your Bible where they said

498
00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:10.240
that women went into the tomb before the disciples. I

499
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:15.319
don't know the woman, the woman at the well, very Magdalen.

500
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:21.079
Yeah, you know, Ann No, believe me, he's not in there.

501
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:24.079
They're like, it's married. So we all grieve it.

502
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:29.319
It's not it's this, This is this has been a fight,

503
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.920
fight for a long time. Jesus came and he he

504
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:36.559
showed that women have a right. This is just as

505
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.240
well as men.

506
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.960
We are all equal in his sight, you know.

507
00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.680
And uh, and we're all there to do what what

508
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:46.480
he wants us to do is is to help seek

509
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:47.680
and save the laws.

510
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:50.279
And it takes all of us doing that. You know.

511
00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:54.480
And you talk about the pastor, Well, the pastor is

512
00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:57.160
one person, but then there's a whole church that the

513
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.000
that the world, that that the community is looking at,

514
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.000
not just the pastor, you know, to church. I come home,

515
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:05.720
I go get some food, and I come home. But

516
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:08.960
then the members are the ones that are out there.

517
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:10.079
And uh.

518
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:14.079
And so if we can equip the members to do

519
00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:17.559
with God the mission, if we can equip the members

520
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.720
for the mission in God's ministry would prevail.

521
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:24.200
Sorry, you were treated that way. This is Missy saying

522
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.720
glad you kept pushing to get where you are. Now

523
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.960
that's fair, Thank you, missy, thank you.

524
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:34.279
And what Master Michelle's talking about is Ephesians for the

525
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.279
Fivefold Ministry. She's a pastor. What she's doing is she's

526
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.480
equipping the body of Christ. And that's that's what we're

527
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.559
supposed to do. And if you can go you can

528
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:49.160
even go back to Genesis one twenty six. God created

529
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:55.599
male and female, and so there's a reason there. And

530
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.839
you know, I understand that that the dogma of the

531
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:03.039
male should be leading the church, but that that's what

532
00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:04.960
religion says.

533
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.039
Right right, and and and and when.

534
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:11.640
We are walking, when we are walking the path that

535
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.039
the Holy Spirit puts us through, it's a matter of

536
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:18.720
God using us. That's in that's in Psalms twenty four

537
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:23.880
to one. He God uses everything for his purpose, So

538
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.960
he even enemies, he uses for his purpose for God

539
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.839
to receive the glory. So who are we? And and

540
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.559
and I'm sorry I'm getting all my soapbox here, but

541
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.160
i got to tell you something. This religion stuff, okay,

542
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:45.880
is what's killing the church. That's exactly what it is.

543
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.759
And and it's religion that crucified Christy, and that's we

544
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:55.480
don't understand that. And and this is why faith is

545
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.000
a relationship with Christ. How the Holy Spirit uses you.

546
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.599
It's between you and the Holy Spirit and God who

547
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.079
appointed the Holy Spirit. So this is why we have

548
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:12.960
to understand that when God calls us, it's for his purpose,

549
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.880
not man's purpose. And that was the downfall of Saul.

550
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:20.920
He wanted he got the kingdom, and he wanted it

551
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.160
all for himself until God said I'm done with you.

552
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:27.160
I'm going to get a boy who's after my own heart.

553
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.039
And that was Amen.

554
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.240
And I want to add these two pieces. I want

555
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:35.680
to I'm a segue a little bit, but we're gonna

556
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.319
be able to loop it around. Easter eggs have a

557
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.480
dual significance, one symbolic and the other related to the

558
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:48.599
Christian holiday Amen. It is in Christianity, Easter eggs represent

559
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:54.039
Jesus resurrection and the empty tomb, simolizing new life, and

560
00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:57.839
andes have also been a symbol of fertility and rebirth

561
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:04.240
in various pagan culture and these traditions were adapted into

562
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:08.760
the Christian Easter celebration. So I don't remember any of

563
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.679
my my pastors explaining why we had the Easter egg

564
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:18.320
hunt after service, they never correlated that to the tune

565
00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:21.360
and Jesus Rising all and new hope and new birth.

566
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.480
That they never drew that line. Now, this is what

567
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:27.960
they're saying now as to the reason why we have

568
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:31.000
the Easter egg and what it's supposed to symbolize. I

569
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:33.800
was talking to my younger sister this morning, and I said,

570
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:36.719
I don't have to ever go to Africa to find myself.

571
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.679
I find myself in the Word of God. I got

572
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.840
Uncle David. Speaking of David, I've got cousin Solomon, I

573
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:48.039
got cousin Joshua. Those are my peeps, Auntie, Deborah, Auntie Ruth,

574
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:53.079
Auntie Esther. Okay, those are my people. You know, Lydya

575
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:56.119
who remained in the church. You know, those are my

576
00:34:56.360 --> 00:35:00.400
That's my identity because that's where I really found my self,

577
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.280
going deep into it, doing my research, studying to show

578
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:09.679
myself a proof that I can rightly divide the truth

579
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:13.760
and not what my future was gonna look like, you see.

580
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.159
And going back to what you said, pastor, you know,

581
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.400
if we didn't have the Lord, I was able to

582
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:23.320
minister to her that the whole in our heart is real.

583
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.239
We don't know as a whole, but it's real. I

584
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.519
was adopted. She wasn't, but she was raised an only

585
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:32.280
child by her single mom. But she still has a whole.

586
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:36.119
I have to leave chatting, but I will listening to

587
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.760
the car driving. Okay, Charles, thank you before I stopped

588
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:46.800
chatting to the appreciate. But to be able to tell

589
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:50.119
her the whole in your heart, only Jesus can feel it.

590
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.079
Only Jesus can feel it. And if you would study

591
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:56.320
his word, I said most And you're going to be

592
00:35:56.400 --> 00:36:00.239
so uptight when you start really studying, getting in the scripture.

593
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.840
Anybody like, what this authority? What is expecting me to

594
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:05.119
do this?

595
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:06.199
Right?

596
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:10.159
This is the power I do have? Right, these are

597
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.079
the supporting elements around me. Is getting stuck on little things.

598
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.239
That's why you can't listen to small conversation. I can't.

599
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:21.960
I'm like, so, what are we gonna do now? What's

600
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.760
what's next? Now that you brought this to the surface,

601
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.159
what are your action steps? You know? Don't tell me, Oh,

602
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:30.320
we went on this fast, were on the Daniels Fast.

603
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.719
We'll see somebody called it the Daniels Fast because of

604
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:34.960
the foods that you're restricting in the foods that you're

605
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.880
eating according to what biblically was you know, pronounced the

606
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:41.960
share of the Bible. When you go on the fast,

607
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:44.360
you are supposed to come out of there a little different.

608
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.320
You're not supposed to be looking the same, and I

609
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.559
supposed to be talking the same. And you can just

610
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:52.639
do this and you don't have to have a title,

611
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.000
just grabbing your word and say, you know what, I'm

612
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.840
I'm gonna just learn a scripture a day. It's so funny.

613
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.880
I'm on this script your challenge. And I already told

614
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.199
I think I told one of my sons. I said, no,

615
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:05.800
I'm taking this the next month. This is just going

616
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.719
to be because God answered my prayer. I really thought

617
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.440
that I would need to go and study and read,

618
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.440
you know, read the word all over again, right right,

619
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:19.719
because you know, I'm like, okay, I'm missing scripture. I

620
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.239
can't remember. I'm trying to. I know it's Old Testament,

621
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:24.840
but you know, and thank God for Google. But he

622
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:26.760
answered body, he said, no, do a scripture to day.

623
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.519
Just do a scripture day. But I'm like, thank you,

624
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:33.760
Oh that is that scripture? Okay? You know, and everything

625
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.760
the whole point. We would want and hope that you

626
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:41.239
will understand the need to give your life to Christ

627
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.480
if you feel compelled. And how you would know is

628
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.840
that there will be a conviction. There's going to be

629
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:52.519
a pull on you. Sometimes you can't even sleep until

630
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:54.800
you grab your word and say okay, and with your

631
00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:56.920
phone and you're looking for what am I looking for?

632
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.840
And the Bible opens up and there's the scripture to

633
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.960
speak to your life, speak to your problem. That's how

634
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.159
he works. That's how he works. That's how he works.

635
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.119
And he gave me. When I talked to my sister

636
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:08.840
this morning, I said, oh my god, my god, she

637
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:11.079
said what I said? He just gave me revelation. He

638
00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:12.760
just gave me an answer to that. Because I'm like,

639
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.760
what's my next? I know it's bigger than what I've

640
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:19.360
ever done before. I can feel the happiness, and you

641
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:21.840
lift it off of me. And you're changing things. You're

642
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.599
changing how I'm eating, You're changing how I'm dressing. My

643
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:28.639
walk eyes to you, my walk is different. I don't

644
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:29.880
shuffle anymore.

645
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.000
Amen. Amen.

646
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:36.440
You can hear me coming. I don't shuffle anymore.

647
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:39.880
Amen. Amen.

648
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:43.039
And he gave me, he said yes, he needs you

649
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:47.400
on the wall praying. But for everybody you see, I

650
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:49.400
know you've done it before, but this time I need

651
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:53.280
you to go in old Testament style. I said, Man,

652
00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:58.679
I can do that. It's on it popping now. Yes,

653
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.760
And I didn't fuss too much in the cart arrange

654
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:05.840
when I went out earlier. So I'm changing. Look at me,

655
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:13.119
I am changing, even though that was Jennifer Holiday drive

656
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:18.599
every way. I can come on come on now, I mean,

657
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:23.320
come on, come on all right. Time is running by,

658
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:27.039
pastor you want to add anything to this? What what

659
00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:30.280
the believers? Now, let's let's let's talk to us, us

660
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.960
on the wall. Us for believers who have blacked off.

661
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:40.519
M okay for listen to this, for believers who have

662
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:47.960
have a lesson their believing. Uh, God's gonna catch catch,

663
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:51.119
He's gonna He's gonna catch He's gonna get your attention.

664
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:57.440
And because that's what he does, I'm I'm just gonna

665
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:01.039
use this example just if I can, just as fast

666
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:02.800
as I can say it, because I know time is

667
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.559
coming up. But if I can use this example as

668
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.800
my husband's starting a men's ministry at the church for

669
00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:14.199
men mentoring men, and it's like the age forties in

670
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:18.000
that area. Somewhere in the room. Well he started out.

671
00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:20.119
It was something in him that said, I just want

672
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:22.519
to get these bibles for the men. I can get

673
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:25.280
them into their hands. Well, we didn't know that put

674
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.159
in that bible, the Word of God in their hands

675
00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:31.199
would be something that would like the fire. So now

676
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.440
the men are carrying their bibles, not in their phone,

677
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:39.960
but in their hands to church and they're getting other

678
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:42.320
men saying, hey, you got to come to church so

679
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.920
you can get your bible. And we just had somebody

680
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:47.719
come to church last Sunday talking about I want my Bible,

681
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:50.519
I want I want the Word of God. I want

682
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.719
the Word of God. These are guys that have never

683
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:56.480
done this before and they're coming. So if hey, we

684
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.679
just have to be ready. Just pray that the church

685
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.000
would be ready when they come and and and uh,

686
00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:04.719
you know, just to be we.

687
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:05.639
Just have to be ready.

688
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.519
God, give us a ready heart, give us already heart

689
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:13.239
to receive those that you're want to call until the church.

690
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:18.880
Oh wow, Jesus can fill that hole. Thank you. Thank

691
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:23.400
God for Jesus teaching God, bless you go past their fears.

692
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:27.000
Thank you.

693
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:34.880
Not in the house I'm scared. Well, this is what

694
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.480
he does, and he don't. What's that saying? He don't.

695
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:41.239
He don't call the qualify, he qualify, the call the call.

696
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:46.000
He don't. Oh you're this, Oh you're an orator, or

697
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.800
you're this. He may have you sit in the back

698
00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:52.159
and pray for everybody coming in, but I want to.

699
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.440
But I'm gonna speaker. Lord, I can do yeah, but

700
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:56.840
I need you to write a book. Write a book.

701
00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:59.639
You know, my writing skills are nowhere in there. He said,

702
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:04.239
that's so, hey, Moses, that's okay, Dejeremiah. I got this,

703
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:08.599
I really do. I know you don't. You know, Paul, disciples,

704
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:10.039
you got to accept them. You don't have to be

705
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:14.079
a part of you, because he can walk along, Jesus,

706
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:15.679
he can walk along.

707
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:16.599
Amen.

708
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:18.679
He don't have to be a part of you. But

709
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:22.159
he's one of my mind. Three men, one of mine,

710
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:24.360
and you can't tell me nothing different. I believe that

711
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:28.440
sword they say he yielded that sword. His sword was heavy.

712
00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:31.760
Sometime they describe it as that. And he was right

713
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:35.480
into the churches. And he's so precious that first few

714
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.800
statements be you know, brother, and I hear you do

715
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:41.000
it well? And hope everything's good. Do I need to

716
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send my son Timothy? Or when I get out, I'm

717
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coming to see you. They're like, oh God, And then

718
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I forgot the man of preaks, the work that Paul said,

719
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:53.679
he coming. I don't know what you mean, what did

720
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you do?

721
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I didn't do anything.

722
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Why ain't gonna say? I don't know where he's gonna stay.

723
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.840
Can you imagine those compensations? But Paul, I want to say,

724
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:08.199
he wrote with his right hand, that hand that yielded

725
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:12.760
that sword. He retired the sword and took up the

726
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pen amen, however, and they were still scared the death

727
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.360
of him. He had the death of it. But they

728
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:24.159
were like, he's different, but uh sure, God will change

729
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:27.000
you in the twinkling of an eye. You're right on

730
00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:30.119
that edge. You're right on that cuss. Just let it go,

731
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.760
just let go. We made it. And like the masters

732
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:39.400
said earlier, you know, yeah, we've all walked that prickly road,

733
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:42.360
you know, yeah, we were all in deepest sword. I

734
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ain't even think I was worthy.

735
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And I'm too amen, you know, And I thank God,

736
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I thank God, I thank God, I thank God he

737
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:54.599
chose us.

738
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If you don't want to believe anything else you don't

739
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.000
want to. Look how people have you. Look how your

740
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:04.039
family has disowned you. Look how your family talked about you.

741
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.400
Look how you know never supported you, didn't help you

742
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:08.400
to get through college, didn't help you with all those people.

743
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.519
But I still gotta forgive him. Yeah, I was meant

744
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:14.800
to be You weren't meant to help me. Yes, but

745
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:19.480
he scholarship. Here, here's an opportunity. Here, we're reducing the

746
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.320
rate of the of the of the the tuition here.

747
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:26.880
What yeah, hold on Now, he's the author and the

748
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:30.960
finisher of the me. He's the AFA and they'll make it.

749
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.320
He's the beginning and the end, and he does very

750
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.760
well with the end between the process helping us. And

751
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:41.639
he waited on us. I can't speak to nobody, but

752
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.719
he waited because he's that's my chosen She coming to me.

753
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:48.360
It may be in her latter years where she's coming

754
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.920
to me. He's coming to me. He waited, and he's

755
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:55.079
waiting on you all just to say, yes, you know

756
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.320
what I'm done. I'm done. To put on your best

757
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:03.840
this week, stud of your word before Thursday, before Friday,

758
00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:08.760
study your word pad and pencil, journal, let down, write

759
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.800
it down, make your memory, make your mind remember that

760
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:17.400
scripture and the reason why for the scripture, and go

761
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.840
into any sanctuary with a new attitude this week, new

762
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.039
attitude like you know what, it's not gonna be the same.

763
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.519
I'm not gonna be the same. I'm not gonna be

764
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:29.440
the same. I'm not. I'm leaving here with a newness.

765
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:33.199
I'm leaving here understanding. I'm leaving here with a decision

766
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:38.719
I have to make now because my life depends on it. Amen,

767
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:42.719
my life depends on it. So churches would speak to

768
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.320
the leaders out there, those of you who have your churches. Now,

769
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:48.119
if people come in and they're strangers, you've never seen them,

770
00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:50.559
but they stay on their knees, leave them alone. You

771
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.440
better get cleanex boxes all over the church. Leave them alone,

772
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:58.480
because some of that that they're dragging in, they're gonna

773
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:02.199
make it, but they're gonna drag again. Don't you dare,

774
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:05.760
Don't you dare? Continue on, don't you dare. It's not

775
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:12.159
about service, not about formality. It's about saving souls, even

776
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:15.679
those who are regulars, and even in the Old testa

777
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:17.559
maymon I should maybe I shouldn't bring this up, but

778
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:19.199
you know, only once a year. They went up to

779
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:22.719
the Holy Temple, some of them. We can't go back

780
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.639
to that. If there's a temple, open a synagogue, open

781
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.719
a church, open, make your way there in the church.

782
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:30.960
Is all you need to do is get the clean

783
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:33.840
ux boxes, or get the tissue, the rolls of tissue,

784
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:37.360
and put her on every every row. Get ready, get ready,

785
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:41.639
because he rose, He rolls a victor in the dark domain,

786
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.360
and he lives forever with the saints ter rain. He rolls,

787
00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:55.559
rolls Loulia. Thank you Jesus Christ, the rose. When you

788
00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:58.800
study your scripture, especially in the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark,

789
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:02.199
Luke or John, you see why we celebrate the fact

790
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:05.639
that he arose. He said on the third day, Yes,

791
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:07.840
he said, on the third day, he said, but oops,

792
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.000
I gotta go make a detour. I'll be right back

793
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:13.719
with the hell. Didn't even know he was coming, and

794
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:16.800
took the keys of death, and the sting of the

795
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:22.360
green took him and say, not so so for you

796
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:24.480
little people, now, this is the other folks, real quick,

797
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:27.000
for you little people in Texas over there, having you

798
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:29.960
a little meeting, you know, and putting the upside the

799
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:34.000
cross upside down on your face. Man, you never You

800
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:38.719
will never disgrace my God because that fool you follow.

801
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.480
All he's doing is mimicking. He's trying to disturb and

802
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:48.039
stir up mess. This is christ Week specifically, and billions

803
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:51.719
of people will celebrate it, not you. That's our time.

804
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.239
We love you. We'll see you next week.

805
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I'm saves you. Try you