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Allen Jackson: February 26, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

February 26, 2025 | S25:E226

Allen Jackson: February 26, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now
Allen Jackson NOW is a lifeline for a struggling and anxious nation. A guiding hand for those who are not ready to give up, and for those who want to find a way past the negativity before things get worse. Americans still have hope, they are searching for the wisdom embedded in a Christian World View.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 26, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 26, 2025
  • We have a very
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  • Special guest this morning.
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  • We have.
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  • I've had the privilege of interacting
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  • With doctor king on a number of occasions, and,
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  • We wanted her to to come be a part of our community of faith.
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  • So you're going to get to meet in
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  • Just a moment, doctor alveda king.
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  • Amen.
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  • But i discovered something as i was walking through
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  • These weeks to get ready for that.
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  • We invited some teenagers to some things
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  • To have an opportunity
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  • To hear her, and we wanted our students to
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  • To have some learning
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  • Opportunities beyond just the sanctuary.
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  • You know, because of what's happened in education.
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  • Churches are going to have to take a step forward.
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  • That's that's another day.
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  • But what i learned in that was the the civil rights
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  • Movement of the 50s and 60s is really,
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  • Been lost a great deal.
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  • Our young people didn't know who doctor martin luther king was.
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  • Many of them.
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  • I'm sure there were some exceptions to that.
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  • And so we began doing some things
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  • To help them understand.
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  • And it to me, it was tragic.
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  • I earned a degree in history,
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  • But i'm old enough now that i am history.
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  • So that's like a different thing.
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  • That's a very hard fact to reconcile,
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  • But that seems to have happened, and i'm grateful
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  • For that privilege.
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  • But, you know, the authority of the civil rights movement
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  • Was not political authority.
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  • It was biblical authority.
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  • And that's been lost
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  • Because we haven't been willing to hold those lessons.
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  • It's very important to remember that scripture
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  • Thunders against sin.
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  • And what doctor king did was hold out
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  • The authority of scripture,
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  • And it
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  • Brought conviction enough that meaningful change,
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  • Significant change, emerged in our nation.
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  • And if the church loses
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  • Sight of the moral authority of scripture,
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  • Then imagine that that's going to be exchanged with a policy
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  • Or a party
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  • Or an executive order.
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  • We have forfeited our assignment.
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  • You know, we have exchanged
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  • The biblical presentation
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  • For a
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  • Polite jesus
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  • And a passive scripture,
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  • And the result of that is an inept church.
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  • And we have to change.
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  • If we will change, we will see change in the culture.
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  • You know, doctor king was a flawed human
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  • Being like all of us.
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  • And i've lived long enough to discover that
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  • When we get tired of someone's message,
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  • We start finding the weaknesses in their lives
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  • And trying to promote those above
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  • The outcomes that their life brought.
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  • We've done it with founders.
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  • They've done it with doctor king.
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  • What he did and we all benefited from
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  • Was he held up the authority of scripture.
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  • And in that mirror,
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  • With god's grace,
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  • There were some very significant changes that took place.
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  • Will you help.
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  • Me welcome doctor alveda king?
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  • Hello,
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  • Everybody.
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  • Hello, marty.
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  • Come on, sit with us.
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  • God bless you.
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  • So welcome to world outreach church.
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  • We are honored to have you.
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  • When i think of an overcomer, which, in
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  • My opinion, is really the story of the new testament,
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  • Jesus overcame sin.
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  • He overcame death in the grave,
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  • And then he hands off the assignment to us.
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  • And the book of revelation is written to people
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  • Who will overcome at the end of revelation.
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  • The ones
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  • Welcomed into the kingdom of god are those who overcome.
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  • And when i think of overcoming, you were really very near
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  • The top of the list in my life experience.
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  • You have had some challenges.
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  • Your uncle, doctor martin luther king, most of us know,
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  • Was assassinated.
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  • Your father was killed.
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  • Your grandmother was killed
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  • All really holding out the authority of scripture,
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  • In our nation.
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  • And yet you don't seem to me to be filled
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  • With bitterness or anger or hatred.
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  • Can you tell us a little bit of how you managed to do that?
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  • I will do that.
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  • But i want to tell another little secret first.
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  • Now i got to do something.
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  • You all cannot do.
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  • I went to their house for dinner. right.
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  • I had the best cornbread
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  • I've ever had in my life.
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  • Maybe he can put it on his podcast. kathy.
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  • Mike can get on there and show you how to do it or something.
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  • But this is what happened because we worshiped
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  • And we sang and we talked about scriptures.
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  • And that was an every day, 365 day bible reading
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  • Plan that you have here that's available at this church.
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  • That is really how i overcome i really read the bible
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  • Every day.
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  • That's one of the things i pray every day.
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  • And so i get that strength because i will become very weak,
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  • If i'm not reading the bible, jesus said, in this world
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  • You'll have tribulations, but take courage,
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  • Because i have overcome the world,
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  • So we can't be overcomers
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  • If that word is not in us.
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  • And i admit, anybody who who's on the 30.
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  • Can you raise your hands, please?
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  • I'm not going to make you stand up, i promise.
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  • Anybody under 30 raise your hands bigger.
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  • See that? there we are here.
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  • So if you're reading the bible
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  • On your phone every day, keep doing that.
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  • That's okay.
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  • But try to get a paper bible, too,
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  • Because, one day this year, i guess it was a last.
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  • All the stuff crashed for a minute
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  • And nobody could go on their phone.
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  • So we've had to have some word
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  • In our hearts.
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  • We have to have the word in our hearts.
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  • And i was so blessed
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  • By so many things, by meeting you, by being here,
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  • Seeing that everyday bible reading plan.
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  • And, so that's how you overcome it.
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  • There's more to it, of course, than that,
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  • But it starts with not having a relationship with god.
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  • And i was raised by baptist preachers.
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  • I'm a non-denominational christian
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  • And i go to a non-denominational church.
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  • I've been there over almost 40 years.
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  • However, they read the bible, they actually read the bible.
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  • And i will tell this little story.
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  • So and this is what they told
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  • Me, my granddaddy, martin luther king senior, and his wife
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  • And they were married
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  • And there would be dinner every day and all of that.
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  • So he comes in from church, are doing community work.
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  • She did two fabulous musician and directed choirs,
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  • And she was playing
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  • The lord's prayer
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  • And ebenezer baptist church in 1974 when they shot.
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  • But anyway, when they were growing up,
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  • Dad would come in and wash his hands.
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  • They'd all said, okay, let us have a scripture before dinner.
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  • So my dad and my uncle wanted the shortest script.
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  • Anybody know what the shortest scripture in the bible is?
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  • It's two words.
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  • So as they say, jesus did what jesus went,
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  • So they thought they would get to the chicken leg real quick.
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  • But he goes, granddad, wait a minute, where did he wait?
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  • Why did he wait? what happened was
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  • So they begin to learn the bible not only at church,
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  • But in their home,
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  • Because their dad and mother insisted that they know
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  • The bible and put it in genuine context in their lives.
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  • Amen.
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  • Amen.
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  • I think it's fashionable today
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  • To separate us as a people by hatred,
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  • To point out what
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  • Makes us unique, and then finding a, a grievance
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  • In that biblically, we're called to forgive.
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  • Jesus said that if we don't forgive, we won't be forgiven.
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  • But apart from that, he said, we just have to forgive because
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  • You have modeled that, you know,
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  • When doctor king was assassinated,
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  • I was a boy, but it got a lot of media attention.
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  • When your father was killed, it was mostly overlooked.
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  • And that had to be hurtful.
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  • I mean, to lose an uncle and then to lose your father.
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  • But to see the differences in that,
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  • Even to me, would have been difficult.
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  • How have you managed to forgive?
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  • I'm going to look at michael just for a minute.
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  • News man.
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  • My father was killed on the day man walked on the moon,
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  • And it was connected to the death of his brother.
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  • They were brothers, almost like president
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  • John kennedy and his brother bobby.
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  • So both were killed, if you remember.
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  • Because if you took away one, but the other one
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  • Was going to do the same thing, you had to get both.
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  • So daddy was overlooked
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  • Because it happened on the day that man walked on the moon.
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  • And yes, it hurt and it was very difficult.
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  • But i remember when my uncle was killed, reverend doctor
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  • Martin luther king junior, we called him uncle ma
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  • And his children called my daddy uncle eddie.
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  • And so when my uncle was killed, i remember dad came home.
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  • We were living in louisville, kentucky.
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  • Our home had been bombed in 1963, in louisville, kentucky.
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  • Okay. i'm sorry.
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  • Birmingham, alabama. excuse me.
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  • And so i remember when the house was bombed that stood on a car
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  • And all the people wanted to riot
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  • In what was called the outside agitators.
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  • There were people who were hired to come into birmingham
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  • And mingle among the people who live there and cause riots.
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  • That happened on january 6th here in this sanctuary.
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  • So they were there throwing martinis, cocktails,
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  • You know, bottles with fluid, flammable fluid.
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  • And they were throwing.
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  • And the people who lived
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  • There were in the middle trying to see about our family.
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  • My daddy stood on that car.
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  • He says, listen, my family and i are okay.
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  • We go home and pray.
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  • If you have to hit somebody, hit me, but go home and pray.
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  • Well.
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  • The people who lived there went home and prayed.
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  • But after
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  • That, people were still there and they were able to catch him
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  • Because that had been designed.
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  • So that was a lesson i learned from daddy in 63
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  • When my uncle emil was killed in 68, my daddy was bereaved.
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  • That was his brother.
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  • They preached together, worked together, grew up together,
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  • Raised families together.
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  • He was so grieved.
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  • But i remember
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  • I did write about this.
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  • So i'll say this to that.
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  • Daddy, i hate white people.
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  • Oh, i hate white people, daddy.
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  • They killed uncle mel.
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  • I'm mad. i'm.
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  • I have to blame somebody. dad said, well, wait, wait, wait.
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  • We had one blood at 1726.
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  • That's a favorite scripture in our family.
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  • One blood of one blood.
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  • God made all people.
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  • Uncle emil said we must.
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  • Yeah, that's a good one.
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  • That's good.
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  • And he said, we must learn to live together
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  • As brothers and sisters and not perish together as fools.
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  • He says white people live with us.
  • 00:11:21.441 --> 00:11:24.010
  • White people pray with us.
  • 00:11:24.010 --> 00:11:27.313
  • White people cry with us.
  • 00:11:27.881 --> 00:11:29.048
  • Sometimes white people die with us.
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  • We have one blood, one human family.
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  • Why are people did not kill my brother?
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  • They never did.
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  • Now that's what he told me.
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  • And he says, you're going to have to forgive.
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  • And he put his arms around me.
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  • I write in one of my children's book.
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  • I have a picture of him rocking.
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  • Just rocking.
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  • Alveda, you have to forgive you. you have to care.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:11:53.339 --> 00:11:54.374
  • Uncle emil was killed, and then 18 months later,
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  • Daddy walked me down the aisle.
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  • I got married when i was 18.
  • 00:11:59.045 --> 00:12:00.947
  • I was a grown woman.
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  • I wasn't a baby.
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  • And when, daddy was killed,
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  • My granddaddy at the eulogy said they kill my sons.
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  • So in s he wasn't talking about skin color.
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  • We really are one blood.
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  • But it was an evil system
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  • That had taken both of his sons.
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  • And i got that.
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  • I'm going to.
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  • I'm not going to take too long
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  • On this, but i want to tie those three.
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  • The loss of martin luther king jr, ed king and alberta king,
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  • My grandmother
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  • And i was not living for the lord at that time.
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  • I had been divorced, that i had abortions
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  • And all those things i repented of all that many years later.
  • 00:12:38.918 --> 00:12:43.122
  • So my grandmother called that morning.
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  • There were 30 people in younger.
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  • They didn't have cell phones back then.
  • 00:12:46.593 --> 00:12:48.094
  • She couldn't call me on the cell phone.
  • 00:12:48.094 --> 00:12:49.963
  • She called me,
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  • Come to church, please come to church, please come to church.
  • 00:12:51.164 --> 00:12:54.834
  • And i heard her and i went to church.
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  • I'm so glad i did. yeah.
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  • As i drove up to the church, i got dropped off.
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  • People were running out of the church was what i wear.
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  • So they kill mrs. king.
  • 00:13:05.678 --> 00:13:08.047
  • Now that was a coretta king, a naomi king, my mother
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  • And mama k, i had no idea
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  • A demented man had come here, a black man,
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  • And shot my grandmother.
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  • She was playing the lord's prayer.
  • 00:13:19.525 --> 00:13:22.428
  • So my brother apprehended him, wrestled him down,
  • 00:13:22.428 --> 00:13:25.298
  • Kind of fought with him and all that.
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  • They took him to jail.
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  • They later arrested him.
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  • My granddaddy went to the jail.
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  • As they see the man who killed his wife,
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  • He said, son,
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  • Man, you have taken away the most precious thing on
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  • This earth for me.
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  • But i forgive you.
  • 00:13:44.884 --> 00:13:48.054
  • And he appealed to the court not to give
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  • That man the death sentence.
  • 00:13:50.123 --> 00:13:51.724
  • I couldn't understand it back then.
  • 00:13:52.492 --> 00:13:53.793
  • I couldn't act, i didn't understand it.
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  • I just didn't make any sense.
  • 00:13:55.728 --> 00:13:57.697
  • I was in my 20s, not living for the lord.
  • 00:13:57.697 --> 00:14:01.367
  • Granddaddy, how can you forgive him?
  • 00:14:01.367 --> 00:14:05.338
  • And as a scripture, have faith in god.
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  • Mark 11
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  • And when you pray, you can have what you say and believe.
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  • It says all that that's true.
  • 00:14:13.313 --> 00:14:15.114
  • And when you pray, what's that word
  • 00:14:15.114 --> 00:14:18.518
  • You have to quiet?
  • 00:14:18.518 --> 00:14:19.819
  • And when you pray
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  • Louder and when you pray
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  • For gifts, it's hard for you to say the word in the.
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  • It's hard for me to say it, i forgive you.
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  • It's very it's today. it still is.
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  • I had to learn that.
  • 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:36.002
  • And things still happen today.
  • 00:14:36.002 --> 00:14:38.037
  • And i still get angry, i still lost, and i did do a
  • 00:14:38.037 --> 00:14:42.308
  • Thumbs down gesture to somebody in this century,
  • 00:14:42.308 --> 00:14:44.844
  • And it did go viral. and i shouldn't have done it.
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  • I should not have.
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  • I i'm sorry.
  • 00:14:49.983 --> 00:14:58.124
  • It is hard.
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  • I have a very good friend and he's going to be inaugurated.
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  • We're not going political, i promise,
  • 00:15:04.664 --> 00:15:06.366
  • But he's going to be inaugurated.
  • 00:15:06.366 --> 00:15:07.867
  • And he was at a prayer breakfast,
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  • And i remember him standing in front of the crowd
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  • And he says, i know y'all say i need to learn how to forgive.
  • 00:15:12.238 --> 00:15:15.508
  • And i know you say that i should watch what i say.
  • 00:15:15.508 --> 00:15:18.578
  • He said, is hard.
  • 00:15:18.578 --> 00:15:20.847
  • And a tear really did come in his eye.
  • 00:15:20.847 --> 00:15:22.982
  • And i was like, amen, brother, amen, amen.
  • 00:15:22.982 --> 00:15:26.686
  • So can we say the word is not a dirty word?
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  • One more time. laugh.
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  • Forgive.
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  • Oh, they did it. they did do it.
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  • So maybe, maybe they can really do it.
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  • You think so?
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  • I'm going to give them a chance to practice.
  • 00:15:39.165 --> 00:15:40.566
  • It's not fair. okay.
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  • To come listen to her and celebrate her courage
  • 00:15:42.568 --> 00:15:45.204
  • And forgiveness. if we don't go away and live it out.
  • 00:15:45.204 --> 00:15:54.006
  • And forgiveness. if we don't go away and live it out.
  • 00:15:54.006 --> 00:15:56.284
  • We were having a conversation earlier,
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  • And we talked about some of the challenges.
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  • A lot of language for it,
  • 00:16:02.357 --> 00:16:04.025
  • Whether it's selfish ambition or we compete with one another.
  • 00:16:04.025 --> 00:16:06.961
  • And i think social media oftentimes
  • 00:16:06.961 --> 00:16:09.164
  • Feeds that you know, my vacations
  • 00:16:09.164 --> 00:16:10.598
  • Better than your vacation or
  • 00:16:10.598 --> 00:16:12.734
  • My kitchen's prettier than your kitchen.
  • 00:16:12.734 --> 00:16:14.602
  • And, i mean,
  • 00:16:14.602 --> 00:16:15.770
  • We don't say that in the post, but it's heavily implied.
  • 00:16:15.770 --> 00:16:18.373
  • I'm celebrating my new kitchen.
  • 00:16:19.007 --> 00:16:23.578
  • Or my new golf clubs
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  • Or my new whatever. so
  • 00:16:25.413 --> 00:16:28.550
  • James 316 says, where you have in your selfish ambition,
  • 00:16:28.550 --> 00:16:32.020
  • There you find disorder in every evil practice.
  • 00:16:32.020 --> 00:16:35.790
  • You have a lot of wisdom on this topic.
  • 00:16:35.790 --> 00:16:37.892
  • I felt like you came to coach me
  • 00:16:37.892 --> 00:16:39.360
  • So will you share that with the rest of us?
  • 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.430
  • I had a phone call this week.
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  • I've been having several calls
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  • And i finally realized god has put me in a position
  • 00:16:46.668 --> 00:16:49.404
  • If 74 years of age and i'm still healthy and able to do things
  • 00:16:49.404 --> 00:16:53.875
  • So different people a call.
  • 00:16:53.875 --> 00:16:55.343
  • Well, i've got this concept, i've got that idea.
  • 00:16:55.343 --> 00:16:58.079
  • If somebody in washington could hear it or
  • 00:16:58.079 --> 00:17:00.748
  • And i travel all over the world to as an ambassador for christ,
  • 00:17:00.748 --> 00:17:04.652
  • You know, and so we're the only one that has this
  • 00:17:04.652 --> 00:17:08.990
  • Whatever i said, well, you know,
  • 00:17:08.990 --> 00:17:12.193
  • I'm not a competitive person.
  • 00:17:12.193 --> 00:17:14.562
  • If you have it, there's probably enough room in the world
  • 00:17:14.562 --> 00:17:16.998
  • For ten of them or 20 or 100.
  • 00:17:16.998 --> 00:17:19.834
  • So don't think i'm going to sell it
  • 00:17:19.834 --> 00:17:21.836
  • Because you're the only one that knows it.
  • 00:17:21.836 --> 00:17:24.372
  • The competition.
  • 00:17:24.372 --> 00:17:25.573
  • So we've got the world, the flesh and the devil.
  • 00:17:25.573 --> 00:17:28.977
  • There's three kingdoms.
  • 00:17:28.977 --> 00:17:29.978
  • They are real kingdoms in this world.
  • 00:17:29.978 --> 00:17:32.580
  • You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours.
  • 00:17:32.580 --> 00:17:34.516
  • What am i going to get out of it if i do it for you?
  • 00:17:34.516 --> 00:17:37.719
  • And then the flesh says i'm going to do it for myself.
  • 00:17:37.719 --> 00:17:40.955
  • We don't have to explain.
  • 00:17:41.523 --> 00:17:42.624
  • The devil, do i? y'all know what the devil is, right?
  • 00:17:42.624 --> 00:17:44.792
  • That's the kingdom of darkness now.
  • 00:17:44.792 --> 00:17:47.495
  • And i talked to lance.
  • 00:17:47.495 --> 00:17:48.563
  • While not about this, if y'all heard of lance,
  • 00:17:48.563 --> 00:17:50.465
  • Well, now i said, lance, i don't understand one thing.
  • 00:17:50.465 --> 00:17:53.601
  • I say it.
  • 00:17:53.601 --> 00:17:54.435
  • So you've got the seven mountains,
  • 00:17:54.435 --> 00:17:56.371
  • And that's the mountains that we take governance so far.
  • 00:17:56.371 --> 00:17:59.440
  • And that's true, i say, but why don't you even
  • 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.309
  • Talk about the first mountain or the eighth mountain
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  • Is the mountain of god.
  • 00:18:03.912 --> 00:18:05.480
  • It's a reference in the old testament, in the new testament
  • 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.082
  • And is higher than the seven mountains is higher than us.
  • 00:18:08.082 --> 00:18:11.886
  • So let's actually say it, it and it's recorded, he says.
  • 00:18:11.886 --> 00:18:14.923
  • When we started, that's what we started
  • 00:18:14.923 --> 00:18:16.624
  • With, the mountain of god.
  • 00:18:16.624 --> 00:18:18.560
  • And he says, when god is over all those mountains.
  • 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:22.297
  • So i talk about we have those mountains, we take them in.
  • 00:18:22.297 --> 00:18:26.367
  • But if we're competing, i've got to answer to the medium
  • 00:18:26.367 --> 00:18:29.637
  • Mountain or the education mountain or the whatever.
  • 00:18:29.637 --> 00:18:33.308
  • And so everybody should listen to me.
  • 00:18:33.308 --> 00:18:35.677
  • I'm the one.
  • 00:18:35.677 --> 00:18:37.312
  • Then that's over on the mountain, the flesh.
  • 00:18:37.312 --> 00:18:40.014
  • You scratch my back, i scratch yours.
  • 00:18:40.848 --> 00:18:43.518
  • So then that brings us to this very strange place.
  • 00:18:43.518 --> 00:18:47.622
  • And i finally had to stop and say it out loud.
  • 00:18:47.622 --> 00:18:50.225
  • Often,
  • 00:18:50.225 --> 00:18:51.459
  • Just like i have to say, there's only one blood and white race.
  • 00:18:51.459 --> 00:18:54.896
  • The human race.
  • 00:18:55.263 --> 00:18:56.531
  • We're not separate races, and i got a lot of heat for that.
  • 00:18:56.531 --> 00:18:59.200
  • People don't like to hear that.
  • 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:00.501
  • Please give god the glory.
  • 00:19:00.501 --> 00:19:02.003
  • At 1726.
  • 00:19:02.003 --> 00:19:04.839
  • You don't know how many hits i've taken so lightly.
  • 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.743
  • Don't raise your hand.
  • 00:19:08.743 --> 00:19:10.511
  • But i want you to think about this.
  • 00:19:10.511 --> 00:19:11.713
  • I keep hearing people say, i'm jealous of you.
  • 00:19:11.713 --> 00:19:14.082
  • I was like, what?
  • 00:19:14.082 --> 00:19:16.217
  • I'm jealous.
  • 00:19:16.217 --> 00:19:17.051
  • Oh, i'm just kidding.
  • 00:19:17.051 --> 00:19:18.720
  • Jealousy is not a fruit of the spirit.
  • 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:28.004
  • Jealousy is not a fruit of the spirit.
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  • I want you to stretch out your hand.
  • 00:19:30.966 --> 00:19:32.268
  • We're going to pray for her and her family.
  • 00:19:32.268 --> 00:19:34.870
  • I don't know what god has for them,
  • 00:19:34.870 --> 00:19:37.139
  • But i'm going to pray that the years ahead
  • 00:19:37.139 --> 00:19:38.707
  • Will be the most fruitful of their journey.
  • 00:19:38.707 --> 00:19:41.577
  • Wouldn't that be good?
  • 00:19:42.044 --> 00:19:43.245
  • It sounds like our god, doesn't it?
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  • Father, i thank you for alveda her new life
  • 00:19:45.714 --> 00:19:48.517
  • And the joy she brought to us today.
  • 00:19:48.517 --> 00:19:51.587
  • Father, i know you know the prayers
  • 00:19:51.587 --> 00:19:53.422
  • She has prayed in quiet,
  • 00:19:53.422 --> 00:19:55.858
  • Lord, in those secret places in her heart, and we lift him
  • 00:19:55.858 --> 00:19:58.360
  • Before you. tonight we ask your blessing upon her.
  • 00:19:58.360 --> 00:20:01.063
  • Keep her strong body, soul and spirit open before her.
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  • The doors you have.
  • 00:20:04.767 --> 00:20:06.168
  • May no man be able to close them.
  • 00:20:06.168 --> 00:20:08.737
  • I thank you, give her the strength
  • 00:20:08.737 --> 00:20:10.039
  • She needs to finish your assignment.
  • 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.408
  • Lord, i pray that her entire family
  • 00:20:12.408 --> 00:20:14.243
  • Will know the blessings of god in a way that they will exceed
  • 00:20:14.243 --> 00:20:17.513
  • Every expression of evil that they have had to overcome.
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  • We bless them today, in jesus name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah! god bless you.
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