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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Interview with Dr. Alveda King (Part 2) | February 3, 2025
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- Allen jackson: we had the privilege recently of having dr.
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- Alveda king visit our congregation.
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- And we sat down for a conversation.
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- It was such a blessing to our community of faith,
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- We wanted to share it with you.
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- There are things that are being left out of our history that our
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- Children aren't being taught, and dr. king reminds us of the
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- Sacrifices that have been made so that we have freedom and
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- Liberty before the law.
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- I think you'll enjoy the conversation.
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- God bless you.
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- Allen: we were having a conversation earlier and we
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- Talked about some of the challenges.
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- A lot of language for it.
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- Whether it's selfish ambition or we compete with one another, and
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- I think social media oftentimes feeds that.
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- You know, my vacation is better than your vacation or my
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- Kitchen's prettier than your kitchen, and i mean, we don't
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- Say that in the post, but it's heavily implied, "celebrating my
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- New kitchen."
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- Or my new golf clubs or my new whatever, so.
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- James 3:16 says, "where you have envy" or selfish ambition,
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- "there you find disorder and every evil practice."
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- You have a lot of wisdom on this topic.
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- I felt like you came to coach me.
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- So, will you share that with the rest of us?
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- Alveda king: i had a phone call this week.
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- I've been having several calls, and i finally realized god has
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- Put me in a position at 74 years of age and i'm still healthy and
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- Able to do things.
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- So different people will call, "well, i've got this concept.
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- I've got that idea.
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- If somebody in washington could hear it or--"
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- And i travel all over the world too as an ambassador for christ,
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- You know.
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- "and so we're the only one that has this whatever."
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- I said, "well, you know, i'm not a competitive person.
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- If you have it, there's probably enough room in the world for 10
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- Of them, or 20 or 100.
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- So, don't think i'm gonna sell it 'cause you're the only one
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- That knows it."
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- The competition, so we've got the world, the flesh, and
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- The devil.
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- That's three kingdoms.
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- They are real kingdoms in this world.
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- You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours.
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- What am i gonna get out of it if i do it for you?
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- And then the flesh says, "i'm gonna do it for myself."
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- We don't have to explain the devil, do i?
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- Y'all know what the devil is, right?
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- That's the kingdom of darkness.
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- Now, and i talked to lance wallnau about this.
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- Have y'all heard of lance wallnau?
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- Y'all heard of lance.
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- So lance was on our show, the "vision tv show," as a matter
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- Of fact.
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- I said, "lance, i don't understand one thing."
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- I said, "so you've got the seven mountains, and that's the
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- Mountains that we take governance over.
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- And that's true."
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- I said, "but why don't you even talk about the first mountain or
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- The eighth mountain?
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- It's the mountain of god.
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- It's referenced in the old testament and the new testament
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- And it's higher than the seven mountains.
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- It's higher than us."
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- So lance actually said it and it's recorded.
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- He says, "when we started, that's what we started with the
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- Mountain of god."
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- And he says, "and god is over all those mountains."
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- So i talk about we have those mountains, we take dominion, but
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- If we're competing, "i've got the answer to the media mountain
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- Or the education mountain or the whatever, and so everybody
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- Should listen to me.
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- I'm the one."
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- Then that's over on the mountain of flesh.
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- You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours.
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- So then that brings us to this very strange place, and i
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- Finally had to stop and say it out loud often, just like
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- I have to say there's only one blood and one race.
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- The human race, we're not separate races, and i got a lot
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- Of heat for that.
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- People don't like to hear that.
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- Please give god the glory, acts 17:26.
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- You don't know how many hits i've taken.
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- So lately, don't raise your hand, but i want you to think
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- About this.
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- I keep hearing people say, "i'm jealous of you."
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- I was like, "what?"
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- "i'm jealous."
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- "oh, i'm just kidding."
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- Jealousy is not a fruit of the spirit.
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- And even if we're kidding, "oh, i'm jealous of you."
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- Eartha, would you mind standing up for a moment, please?
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- So eartha is a world entertainer, a
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- Christian entertainer.
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- And we were in the studio and we were, i sing too, and i could
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- Not sing a line of a song and she could do it better than
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- I could.
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- Normally i would just get somebody--i'd let her do it.
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- God says, "i want you to sing it."
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- So i didn't say, "eartha, i'm jealous of you.
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- I wanna sing better than you."
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- I said, "eartha, i can't sing this note."
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- I just wanted them to see.
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- I said, "would you show me how to sing this note 'cause i
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- Cannot do it."
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- I got it.
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- God gave it to me.
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- But how would, and plus i weigh more than she does and she looks
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- Cuter in her dress.
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- That just happens to be a fact.
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- Eartha, i'm not jealous of you.
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- If i keep working and not eating so much, i can be small too.
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- That's hard.
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- So why are we jealous of people?
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- And then and maybe this is in the black community, it might be
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- A black thing.
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- I don't know.
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- But a lot of times we'll look at something, somebody, "i'm scared
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- Of you."
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- Well, god didn't give us a spirit of fear.
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- God gave us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.
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- And so we need to learn to appreciate the gifts of others,
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- Realizing that we have gifts and god will bless our gifts
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- As well.
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- So i need to give one more example.
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- Miss kay, i'm not jealous of your cornbread.
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- I think i can make it too.
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- I think i can.
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- So, i just, i do humor with what i say because some of these
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- Lessons are very hard and there was some movie, "a spoonful of
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- Sugar makes the medicine go down."
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- So sometimes i do it with a little chuckle, but this is
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- Not funny.
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- Christians are going around saying they're jealous.
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- I don't get it.
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- I'm not blaming you.
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- If you've done that, just listen and just say, "i commend you
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- For that.
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- I wanna know how to do that too."
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- It's just that simple.
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- It's just that simple, okay.
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- Allen: it may be simple, but that's not easy 'cause my flesh
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- Screams at me about some of that stuff, you know.
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- Alveda: it does.
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- It actually--mine still does, and it's you just have to decide
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- To practice it, and 'cause i asked somebody the other day and
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- It's a controversy, a habit forms after 21 days or how many
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- Days or so many days or whatever, and if you do it over
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- And over on purpose, you'll begin to do it.
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- And so, just practice it.
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- Just, well, he already gave you some homework.
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- I'm not gonna say how many gonna go home and do it though 'cause
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- You might have to tell a story.
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- So, but try it, try it.
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- Allen: no, we're gonna practice this one too 'cause i bet
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- Without--give the holy spirit permission to remind you if you
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- Can't think of someone.
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- But somebody that you're kind of agitated with because of
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- Something they have or they've achieved or their children got
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- To do or their grandchildren got to do that you didn't or
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- Yours didn't, and then see once you take that step, your carnal
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- Nature gets help from evil.
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- And you'll start to imagine the reasons they got those
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- Advantages and you didn't.
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- And before very long, you're in a dark pit.
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- And you're forfeiting all the good things around you 'cause
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- You're filled with a bunch of carnal, negative,
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- Destructive things.
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- And she gave you, it's simple but it's not easy.
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- If the lord reminds you of one of those persons, send them a
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- Note, send them a text, if you can tell them how thankful you
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- Are for the blessing they have.
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- Alveda: i know it's--i'm gonna do this too.
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- I'm taking the same lesson, and i have to do it, and i can
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- Immediately think of some things that i have to do right away.
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- Allen: if you'll do that, you'll have a breakthrough.
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- We just did a whole long thing on breakthroughs.
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- You'll have a new year.
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- 'cause what she just said to you, i believe it's the truth
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- That if you will bless them in what they have received, it
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- Opens your life for you an even greater blessing.
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- But if you allow the jealousy and the envy, you cannot
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- Tolerate those things, folks.
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- We've been sloppy christians.
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- If we will stand in the authority we've been given and
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- Practice the simple but not easy things, it'll change our lives
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- And our homes, our communities.
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- All right, you're one of the most hopeful people i know.
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- And it isn't always because your circumstances.
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- I think we could agree that life's not fair, but god
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- Is faithful.
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- So can you talk to us a little bit about why you have
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- Such hope?
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- Alveda: and i don't know why i've used eartha as an example
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- So much today, and i have a goddaughter.
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- I have many godchildren and godgrandchildren, some we
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- Rescued from abortion, many kinds of things.
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- So one of my goddaughters is part german.
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- And so when it snowed, that's how i was able to give you the
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- Answer i gave you too that i will, i'll come.
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- So i said, "so what are you gonna do?"
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- "i'm gonna take this cup of hot tea and sit outside."
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- I said, "but it's snowing, it's freezing."
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- "i'm gonna get the crisp air and breathe the air."
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- So then i called eartha i said, "what are you doing?"
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- "i'm getting ready to go sit outside with this cup of hot,"
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- Whatever she was drinking.
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- And i said, "are they crazy, god?
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- Are they out of their minds?"
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- And that's what they did, you know, and i thought about it.
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- And i said, everybody else is scared, grocery store, people
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- Were taking everything off the shelves.
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- You couldn't get anything.
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- You had to just, it's almost like you ever seen the tv
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- Show "chopped"?
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- So you take whatever is left on the shelf and come up with
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- A meal.
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- It was just that desperate.
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- So i'm like, but eartha is smiling, tamara is smiling.
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- It's not doom and gloom.
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- So when you're around people who see the glass half full instead
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- Of half empty, it's full of air either way, but it's half full
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- Or half empty so you just, my granddaddy, he had two cents,
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- Make it plain, write the vision and make it plain.
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- That's out of the old testament.
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- And his other one was thank god for what we have left.
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- So i wear my mother's butterfly rings.
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- She passed away march 7 last year, and i choose not to think
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- "she's gone.
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- I'll never see her again,"
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- But, "when mom was here, she said this.
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- When mom was here, she said that."
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- And then i see and knowing she's in a better place, knowing.
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- That's my blessed hope.
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- She is in a better place, and i can keep working--not work--
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- Well, my faith is working and believing god is who he says he
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- Is and repenting of my sins and accepting the blood of jesus,
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- That is my work.
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- So as i do that, i'll see mom again.
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- So the hope, the bible talks about hold on to a blessed hope.
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- When i was younger, now i buy faith, hope, and love.
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- The greatest of these is love.
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- And in the psalms, at first i wouldn't read the psalms because
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- David was like kill them, my enemies, the animals, burn their
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- Trees, just do everything, and of course that was as christ was
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- Coming, and when christ said it is finished, everything was
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- Fixed and repaired.
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- And so i began to read the psalms with a new heart.
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- There is hope because christ is here.
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- The blood of jesus is here.
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- I added genesis to revelation, that's why i say read the whole
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- Bible, don't just read part of it
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- And only go all grace, go by the grace of god, absolutely.
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- Have faith in god, faith, hope, and love.
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- Hope is strong, faith is strong, love is the greatest.
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- However, you wanna--god is merciful and grace does override
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- Mercy, but god can still swat us like a bug.
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- We need the blood of jesus.
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- We have to have the--come on, i mean, do we?
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- Do we need the power of the holy ghost?
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- Do we?
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- So mercy and judgment, righteousness and justice, we
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- Have to put it all together.
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- This is a good place to do it too.
- 00:13:01.930 --> 00:13:04.365
- This is a very good place to learn that and practice that.
- 00:13:04.365 --> 00:13:09.037
- 'cause right--the world is a mess, it's horrible.
- 00:13:09.037 --> 00:13:12.273
- I'm telling you, sometimes it just is.
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- And one of my friends called and i don't even know where that
- 00:13:14.876 --> 00:13:17.345
- Scripture is, i have to find it.
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- But it's a scripture that says, "god, remember your mercy.
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- God, remember your mercy."
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- So we've got to have that, but we cannot pretend, "oh,
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- God understands.
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- I could just do this."
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- Oh no, god can still swat you like a bug.
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- And i don't want that to happen to any of us, yeah.
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- Allen: i like that image, swatted like a bug.
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- I think about we have--
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- Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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- News everywhere.
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- Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
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- Female: we have the groceries we need.
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- Male: another year cancer free.
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- Female: we bought our first house this year.
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- Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
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- Male: i have a working car.
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- Female: my husband came home safe.
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- Announcer: philippians 4 tells us to think about whatever is
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- True, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent,
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- And praiseworthy.
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- All of these things honor god and when we take time to notice
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- Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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- Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
- 00:14:52.874 --> 00:14:55.376
- Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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- So the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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- We've prepared a tool we wanna share with you.
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- It's a good news journal.
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- We wanna help you set a habit this year to do something with a
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- Bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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- The past.
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- We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
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- Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
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- So we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
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- Of your devotional, it's something you could include the
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- A good news journal for the people you work with.
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- Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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- Intentionally saying thank you to the lord for his goodness
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- To us.
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- I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
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- Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
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- Blessings of god in this year.
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- I think you'll enjoy the journal.
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- God bless.
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- Announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice how god
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- Current prayer requests.
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- As you look back on your lists over the weeks and months to
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- Come, you'll find a personal record of god's faithfulness
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- To you.
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- Allen: we are trusting god for a year like no other, for his
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- Breakthroughs this year.
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- And to have that acknowledged by president trump and first lady
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- Melania, and i know they do, i know them.
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- And so we've got to have faith in god.
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- We cannot hate because politics is a very low frequency.
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- I don't know if we know that.
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- Kingdom of god is way above it.
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- And in my own family and probably you heard it in the
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- I think i'm still a registered republican actually.
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- And then, but i was elected as a democrat to the house
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- In georgia.
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- I've been an independent.
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- Seats and things.
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- So and none of that, it's not about that.
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- So my family and i have serious political differences,
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- Very serious.
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- But i refuse to let me--that can't make me hate them.
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- It cannot.
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- And we have to talk, we have to love each other.
- 00:19:10.231 --> 00:19:14.035
- And i'm seeing some little differences along the way now,
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- And that's what we're gonna have to do.
- 00:19:17.939 --> 00:19:19.473
- The hope for this nation is in jesus christ.
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- It just is.
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- And there's a beautiful scripture, "pray for those who
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- Are in authority so that we can live peaceful lives."
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- It didn't say pray for the republicans only or, you know,
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- Pray that i judge the democrats.
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- It doesn't say any of that.
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- John 3:16, "for god so loved the world," except, is that in
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- That bible?
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- Is it?
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- Except who?
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- Have you ever said, "if god could save me, he could
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- Save anybody?"
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- Anybody out there ever said that?
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- Yeah, it's true.
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- So our hope is in jesus, father, son, holy spirit, and god.
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- And so somebody says, "well, what about a muslim?"
- 00:20:10.291 --> 00:20:13.794
- You know that there are folks who are muslims who are
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- Accepting jesus everyday.
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- Does anybody, don't raise your hand, but just think about it.
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- Anybody knows anybody that's what's called a messianic jew?
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- God does god.
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- We need to serve god.
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- And somebody said this, if you point that way, all of these
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- Other fingers point at you.
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- Look, you see that?
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- I point at you, but all the rest of them are pointing at me.
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- And this is a hard lesson.
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- But it actually can be done.
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- Allen: you have blessed us.
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- Alveda: and you have blessed me.
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- Allen: i learned something many years ago, and i think it's
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- Relevant this morning.
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- Someone said to me that there is no success without sacrifice.
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- That if you succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone
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- Sacrificed so you could have that success.
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- And if you sacrifice and you don't see the success, you made
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- It possible for someone else to have success because of
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- Your sacrifice.
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- Well, i think we would be in agreement no matter what, where
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- We come from today that we need momentum.
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- So if we can call that success, the tragedy is i think we want
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- It without the sacrifice.
- 00:21:45.786 --> 00:21:49.256
- The best things in our lives have come at a very, very
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- Steep price.
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- The beaches of normandy were littered with the bodies of
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- Young people
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- So that freedom might be extended for another
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- Few generations.
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- When i think of alveda and the price that her family has paid,
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- I cannot imagine that.
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- I truly don't even pretend, i wouldn't suggest to you that
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- I understand.
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- But i know we have all benefited and been blessed because of it.
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- The question that i think is on the table for us today is are we
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- Willing to make the sacrifices so that there's a better future
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- For those who are coming after us or will we gobble up the
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- Blessings of those who have sacrificed before us?
- 00:22:39.573 --> 00:22:45.312
- I'm not content just to celebrate what's happened.
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- We want our legacy to be a generation of sacrifice so that
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- Liberty and freedom and the name of jesus can be extended for the
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- Generations who follow us, amen.
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- And you model that so beautifully.
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- I thank you for coming here and reminding us of that.
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- I'm gonna ask you all to stand if you will.
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- Alveda: can i sing, "this little light of mine?"
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- Allen: yes ma'am, you better.
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- Alveda: everybody stand up.
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- I'm gonna sit till michael comes helps me stand back up and leave
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- The stage, but really quick because i've got--it's got three
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- Quick verses, so let's sing it all together.
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- ♪ this little light of mine, i'm gonna let it shine. ♪
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- ♪ this little light of mine, i'm gonna let it shine. ♪
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- ♪ this little light of mine, i'm gonna let it shine, ♪
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- ♪ let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. ♪♪
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- Alveda: now this verse i'm just gonna sing to pastor here, but
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- We are friends.
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- So don't misunderstand it, but i'm gonna sing this verse.
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- ♪ if your light won't shine, please don't put out mine. ♪
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- ♪ oh, if your light won't shine, ♪
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- Alveda: tell your neighbor.
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- ♪ please don't put out mine. ♪
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- Alveda: this little light.
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- ♪ this little light of mine, i'm going to let it shine, ♪
- 00:24:16.437 --> 00:24:22.309
- ♪ let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. ♪
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- Alveda: now can i hold your hand now?
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- This is a serious one.
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- ♪ if your light won't shine, i'll share some of mine. ♪
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- ♪ oh, if your light won't shine, i'll share some of mine. ♪
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- Alveda: this little light.
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- ♪ this little light of mine, i'm gonna let it shine. ♪
- 00:24:44.632 --> 00:24:50.638
- ♪ let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. ♪♪
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- Allen: i want you to stretch out your hand.
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- We're gonna pray for her and her family.
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- I don't know what god has for them, but i'm gonna pray that
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- The years ahead will be the most fruitful of their journey.
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- Wouldn't that be good?
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- Sounds like our god, doesn't it?
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- Father, i thank you for alveda and her life and the joy she
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- Brought to us today.
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- Father, i know you know the prayer she has prayed in quiet,
- 00:25:32.479 --> 00:25:36.750
- Lord, in those secret places in her heart and we lift them
- 00:25:36.750 --> 00:25:39.320
- Before you tonight and we ask your blessing upon her.
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- Keep her strong body, soul, and spirit.
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- Open before her the doors you have.
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- May no man be able to close them.
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- I thank you.
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- Give her the strength she needs to finish her assignment.
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- Lord, i pray that her entire family will know the blessings
- 00:25:53.267 --> 00:25:55.869
- Of god in a way that they will exceed every expression of evil
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- That they have had to overcome.
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- We bless them today.
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- In jesus's name, amen.
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- Make sure to follow pastor allen
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- On social media to stay up to date with everything happening
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- Here with allen jackson ministries.
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- Male announcer: join us every week for another exciting
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- Message from pastor allen jackson.
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- And until then, visit us online and discover remarkable
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- Information and resources to help take your christian life to
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- The next level.
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- And if you're visiting the nashville area, we'd love to see
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- You at world outreach church in murfreesboro.
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- We're easy to find, so look us up when you're traveling through
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- And don't forget to connect with pastor jackson every day through
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- Social media.
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- Thanks so much for joining us and being a part of
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- This ministry.
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- We'll see you again next time for another encounter with
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- Pastor allen jackson.
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- ♪♪♪
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