Andrew Wommack - How to Find, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will

December 19, 2024 | S

God created you with a specific purpose and He wants you to find His will for your life, follow that path and fulfill it in His strength and timing.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - How to Find, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will | December 19, 2024
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  • >> welcome to gospel truth with
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  • Andrew wommack. celebrating 56
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  • Years of changing lives through
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  • The power of god's word
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  • And 30 years making disciples
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  • Through charis bible college.
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  • Music
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  • >> i know he was
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  • Expounding truth.
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  • >> he has a very simple way
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  • Of explaining the word
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  • To you and helps you to
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  • Digest what he's saying at the
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  • Same time, with revelation.
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  • >> the teachings of this
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  • Ministry are powerful.
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  • >> and now, here's andrew.
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  • >> welcome to our thursday's
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  • Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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  • Today i'm continuing a series.
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  • Actually tomorrow is going to be
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  • The end of my series that i've
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  • Done for five weeks on how
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  • To find, follow and fulfill
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  • God's will. we've just got
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  • A wealth of material, and
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  • I encourage you to please
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  • Take advantage of it. i've
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  • Already been teaching on just
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  • Already been teaching on just this series on, on television
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  • This series on, on television for over 12 hours on this.
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  • For over 12 hours on this. tomorrow is going to be my last
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  • Tomorrow is going to be my last day, and there's no way i can go
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  • Day, and there's no way i can go back and summarize everything
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  • Back and summarize everything i've said. but i want to just
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  • I've said. but i want to just say that everything i've said
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  • Say that everything i've said was really important about this.
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  • Was really important about this. i would really encourage you to
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  • I would really encourage you to please get the materials. let me
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  • Please get the materials. let me go to romans 1:21. it describes
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  • Go to romans 1:21. it describes that everybody had an intuitive
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  • That everybody had an intuitive knowledge at one time in their
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  • Knowledge at one time in their heart about the existence of god
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  • Heart about the existence of god and their failure to live up to
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  • And their failure to live up to the proper standard. that's
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  • The proper standard. that's what it says. it's like a homing
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  • What it says. it's like a homing device in every person drawing
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  • Device in every person drawing them towards god. but in
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  • Them towards god. but in verse 21, it starts showing you
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  • Verse 21, it starts showing you progressive steps that you can
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  • Progressive steps that you can take away from this intuitive
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  • Take away from this intuitive knowledge of god's existence and
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  • Knowledge of god's existence and his holiness and what he demands
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  • His holiness and what he demands of us, and you can deaden
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  • Of us, and you can deaden yourself to it. and i spent
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  • Yourself to it. and i spent quite a bit of time talking
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  • Quite a bit of time talking about that yesterday.
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  • About that yesterday. let me just focus on
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  • This 21st verse, it says,
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  • This 21st verse, it says, because that, when they knew
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  • Because that, when they knew god, when they were aware
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  • That this intuitive knowledge
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  • That this intuitive knowledge which every person was born
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  • Which every person was born with. you can sever it, you can
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  • With. you can sever it, you can deaden yourself to it, but every
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  • Deaden yourself to it, but every person at one time had this
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  • Person at one time had this knowledge of right and
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  • Knowledge of right and wrong. it's not perfect. it
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  • Wrong. it's not perfect. it can be corrupted, but
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  • Can be corrupted, but at one time it existed.
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  • So, but when they knew
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  • So, but when they knew god, the first thing what they
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  • God, the first thing what they did that was wrong, they didn't
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  • Did that was wrong, they didn't glorify him as god. you know,
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  • When i first saw this, i got
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  • When i first saw this, i got to praying about this and
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  • To praying about this and i thought, what does it
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  • I thought, what does it mean to glorify god? so
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  • Mean to glorify god? so i looked the word up
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  • In the greek, and it means,
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  • In the greek, and it means, to render or esteem glorious.
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  • To render or esteem glorious. and you know what, that
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  • Didn't really help me. it was
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  • Didn't really help me. it was still using a form of the
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  • Still using a form of the word glory. it was talking about
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  • Word glory. it was talking about to render or esteem glorious. it
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  • To render or esteem glorious. it was kind of using the same word
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  • Was kind of using the same word to define it, and that didn't
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  • To define it, and that didn't get... minister to me. so i
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  • Get... minister to me. so i started looking these words up
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  • Started looking these words up in the dictionary. and the word
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  • In the dictionary. and the word render is talking about the way
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  • Render is talking about the way you think, the value you place
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  • You think, the value you place on something. and the word
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  • On something. and the word esteem means to value or to
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  • Esteem means to value or to prize. and so when i began to
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  • Prize. and so when i began to look at those words, i began to
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  • Look at those words, i began to see what this is talking about
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  • See what this is talking about is, that everybody at one time
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  • Is, that everybody at one time had god reveal himself to them.
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  • And i could go into much, much
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  • And i could go into much, much explanation on this but that's
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  • Explanation on this but that's what these verses are saying.
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  • What these verses are saying. there... today, people say, no,
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  • There... today, people say, no, that's not true. i have no
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  • That's not true. i have no knowledge of god. that's a lie.
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  • The verses right here say
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  • The verses right here say every person. and i used this
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  • Every person. and i used this yesterday but in vietnam people
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  • Yesterday but in vietnam people would say that they were an
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  • Would say that they were an atheist, and yet when the bombs
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  • Atheist, and yet when the bombs were, you know, exploding and
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  • Were, you know, exploding and the bullets flying, these
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  • The bullets flying, these atheists, i could hear them
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  • Atheists, i could hear them screaming out to god at the top
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  • Screaming out to god at the top of their lungs. it's a lie. you
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  • Of their lungs. it's a lie. you put a gun to a person's head,
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  • Put a gun to a person's head, they're going to say, my god.
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  • It's a lie when they say they
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  • It's a lie when they say they don't believe that there's a
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  • Don't believe that there's a god. on a heart level everybody
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  • God. on a heart level everybody knows that there is. but you
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  • Knows that there is. but you have to esteem, render, and
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  • Have to esteem, render, and esteem glorious. you have to
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  • Esteem glorious. you have to value god. and if you don't
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  • Value god. and if you don't value god, if you deaden
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  • Value god, if you deaden yourself to this intuitive
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  • Yourself to this intuitive knowledge of god, you lessen its
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  • Knowledge of god, you lessen its influence in your life and you
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  • Influence in your life and you can eventually deaden yourself
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  • Can eventually deaden yourself to it, reject it so many times
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  • To it, reject it so many times that it ceases to function, and
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  • That it ceases to function, and that's what it says down here in
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  • That's what it says down here in the 28th verse. you become
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  • The 28th verse. you become reprobate, where god just takes
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  • Reprobate, where god just takes all of this knowledge, all of
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  • All of this knowledge, all of this conviction away from you.
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  • This conviction away from you. and that's a dangerous place to
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  • And that's a dangerous place to be. and you can't come to god
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  • Be. and you can't come to god on your own. you have
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  • On your own. you have to have god draw you.
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  • So what does it mean they
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  • So what does it mean they didn't glorify him as god? that
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  • Didn't glorify him as god? that means they didn't put the
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  • Value on this conviction,
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  • Value on this conviction, this knowledge, this intuitive
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  • This knowledge, this intuitive knowledge of god that he placed
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  • Knowledge of god that he placed on the inside of them. so that's
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  • On the inside of them. so that's the first step. before you can
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  • The first step. before you can lose something that god has
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  • Lose something that god has shown you, you have to first
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  • Shown you, you have to first of all, quit esteeming it and
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  • Of all, quit esteeming it and valuing it. and let me just give
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  • Valuing it. and let me just give you an example of this because
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  • You an example of this because in my life, when i got really
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  • Turned on to the lord in 1968, i
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  • Had this miraculous encounter
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  • Where god just revealed himself
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  • To me. and i mean, i was an
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  • Instant starving, raving, mad
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  • Fanatic. i mean i was just in
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  • Love with god with all of my
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  • Heart. and when i did that, i
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  • Remember the morning after i had
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  • Remember the morning after i had this encounter with the lord, i
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  • This encounter with the lord, i stood in front of my baptist
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  • Stood in front of my baptist church. and i didn't know how to
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  • Church. and i didn't know how to express what happened to me, but
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  • Express what happened to me, but i tried to tell them, i said, i
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  • I tried to tell them, i said, i encountered god. god filled me
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  • Encountered god. god filled me with his holy spirit. and when i
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  • With his holy spirit. and when i said that, you'd have thought, i
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  • Said that, you'd have thought, i went i confessed to committing
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  • Went i confessed to committing adultery or something. i had the
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  • Adultery or something. i had the pastor of the church come out
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  • Pastor of the church come out and say, who do you think you
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  • And say, who do you think you are? paul was filled with the
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  • Are? paul was filled with the holy spirit. peter was filled
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  • Holy spirit. peter was filled with the holy spirit. but people
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  • With the holy spirit. but people today aren't filled with the
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  • Today aren't filled with the holy spirit. are you making
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  • Holy spirit. are you making yourself holy? and i began to
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  • Yourself holy? and i began to have authority figures come out
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  • Have authority figures come out and criticize me and tell me
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  • And criticize me and tell me that that wasn't god you
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  • That that wasn't god you encountered. this was just a
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  • Encountered. this was just a flesh flash. this is something
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  • Flesh flash. this is something that you devised on your own.
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  • That you devised on your own. you know what they were trying
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  • You know what they were trying to do? they were trying to get
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  • To do? they were trying to get me to disesteem god. this is
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  • Me to disesteem god. this is what it says here. that when god
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  • What it says here. that when god shows you something, the... if
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  • Shows you something, the... if you are going to lose it, if
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  • You are going to lose it, if it's going to cease to have its
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  • It's going to cease to have its power in your life, you first of
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  • Power in your life, you first of all have to not glorify him as
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  • All have to not glorify him as god. you don't put the proper
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  • God. you don't put the proper value on it. but for whatever
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  • Value on it. but for whatever reason, i'm not claiming that i
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  • Reason, i'm not claiming that i was superior. man, this is when
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  • Was superior. man, this is when i was 18 years old and i knew
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  • I was 18 years old and i knew virtually nothing. but for
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  • Virtually nothing. but for whatever reason, i was so
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  • Whatever reason, i was so impacted by what god had done in
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  • Impacted by what god had done in my life, that even though the
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  • My life, that even though the pastor of the church and other
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  • Pastor of the church and other authority figures began
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  • Authority figures began to criticize me, i said, i don't
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  • To criticize me, i said, i don't care what you say. i know
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  • Care what you say. i know what god did, and i refused to
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  • What god did, and i refused to devalue what god had done in my
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  • Devalue what god had done in my life. and the story goes on that
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  • Life. and the story goes on that the lord told me to quit secular
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  • The lord told me to quit secular college, told me that going to
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  • College, told me that going to college is not what he wanted
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  • College is not what he wanted for me. that's not to discredit
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  • For me. that's not to discredit education. man, i study the word
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  • Education. man, i study the word constantly. i have a education.
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  • Constantly. i have a education. i even have some doctorate
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  • I even have some doctorate degrees that have been conferred
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  • Degrees that have been conferred on me and stuff, but i just
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  • On me and stuff, but i just didn't get it through secular
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  • Didn't get it through secular education. i just got it through
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  • Education. i just got it through sticking my nose in the word
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  • Sticking my nose in the word of god. and so, i'm not against
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  • Of god. and so, i'm not against education, but god told me to
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  • Education, but god told me to quit this secular school i
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  • Quit this secular school i was going to. and when i did,
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  • Was going to. and when i did, immediately i got a notice from
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  • Immediately i got a notice from the draft board, and they
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  • The draft board, and they sent me to get a preinduction
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  • Sent me to get a preinduction physical and i passed it. and so
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  • Physical and i passed it. and so not long after that, i had a
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  • Not long after that, i had a recruiter, an army recruiter
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  • Recruiter, an army recruiter come to my house. and he walked
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  • Come to my house. and he walked in, opened up his briefcase, put
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  • In, opened up his briefcase, put out all of these pamphlets and
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  • Out all of these pamphlets and started telling me all of the
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  • Started telling me all of the benefits that could come my way
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  • Benefits that could come my way if i would volunteer instead of
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  • If i would volunteer instead of being drafted. and i just told
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  • Being drafted. and i just told this guy, i said, hey, i can
  • 00:07:53.429 --> 00:07:54.397
  • This guy, i said, hey, i can save both of us a lot of time.
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  • Save both of us a lot of time. and he says, how's that? and i
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  • And he says, how's that? and i said, the reason you're
  • 00:07:57.099 --> 00:07:58.901
  • Said, the reason you're here, the reason i got this
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  • Here, the reason i got this preinduction physical notice was
  • 00:08:00.269 --> 00:08:02.572
  • Preinduction physical notice was because i quit school. and they
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  • Because i quit school. and they said, that's right. this is back
  • 00:08:03.873 --> 00:08:06.042
  • Said, that's right. this is back before there was the lottery and
  • 00:08:06.108 --> 00:08:07.410
  • Before there was the lottery and i had a student deferment as
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  • I had a student deferment as long as i was in school. and he
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  • Long as i was in school. and he said, that's right. and i said,
  • 00:08:12.281 --> 00:08:13.449
  • Said, that's right. and i said, well, the reason i quit school
  • 00:08:13.516 --> 00:08:15.017
  • Well, the reason i quit school is because god told me to quit
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  • Is because god told me to quit school. and when i said that he
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  • School. and when i said that he had this little smirk come over
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  • Had this little smirk come over his face, and i could tell he
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  • His face, and i could tell he didn't, you know, believe that
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  • Didn't, you know, believe that was an important thing. and i
  • 00:08:24.961 --> 00:08:26.896
  • Was an important thing. and i said, but god told me to quit
  • 00:08:26.963 --> 00:08:28.197
  • Said, but god told me to quit school. i said, so, it's up to
  • 00:08:28.264 --> 00:08:30.199
  • School. i said, so, it's up to god whether i get drafted or
  • 00:08:30.266 --> 00:08:31.734
  • God whether i get drafted or don't get drafted. and when i
  • 00:08:31.801 --> 00:08:34.003
  • Don't get drafted. and when i said that, this guy broke out
  • 00:08:34.070 --> 00:08:36.772
  • Said that, this guy broke out laughing, and he looked at
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  • Laughing, and he looked at me and he said, boy, i can
  • 00:08:38.007 --> 00:08:38.874
  • Me and he said, boy, i can guarantee you, you are going to
  • 00:08:38.941 --> 00:08:40.843
  • Guarantee you, you are going to vietnam. and when he said that,
  • 00:08:40.910 --> 00:08:43.579
  • Vietnam. and when he said that, it made me furious. because
  • 00:08:43.646 --> 00:08:46.916
  • It made me furious. because he didn't value god. i did. i
  • 00:08:46.983 --> 00:08:49.719
  • He didn't value god. i did. i valued what god told me, but he
  • 00:08:49.785 --> 00:08:51.687
  • Valued what god told me, but he didn't value god. he thought the
  • 00:08:51.754 --> 00:08:53.489
  • Didn't value god. he thought the government, man, who is god
  • 00:08:53.556 --> 00:08:55.658
  • Government, man, who is god compared to the united states
  • 00:08:55.725 --> 00:08:57.159
  • Compared to the united states government, or him as a
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  • Government, or him as a representative of the u.s.
  • 00:08:59.095 --> 00:09:00.329
  • Representative of the u.s. government. and he just mocked
  • 00:09:00.396 --> 00:09:02.331
  • Government. and he just mocked me and laughed. and when he said
  • 00:09:02.398 --> 00:09:05.201
  • Me and laughed. and when he said that, here he was probably 30
  • 00:09:05.267 --> 00:09:07.436
  • That, here he was probably 30 something years old, a
  • 00:09:07.503 --> 00:09:08.571
  • Something years old, a representative of the u.s.
  • 00:09:08.638 --> 00:09:10.172
  • Representative of the u.s. government, with the power to
  • 00:09:10.239 --> 00:09:11.607
  • Government, with the power to draft me and send me to vietnam,
  • 00:09:11.674 --> 00:09:14.010
  • Draft me and send me to vietnam, and here i was, an 18 year old
  • 00:09:14.076 --> 00:09:15.678
  • And here i was, an 18 year old kid that you... knew next
  • 00:09:15.745 --> 00:09:17.146
  • Kid that you... knew next to nothing, but man, i had
  • 00:09:17.213 --> 00:09:18.914
  • To nothing, but man, i had encountered god and i loved god
  • 00:09:18.981 --> 00:09:22.184
  • Encountered god and i loved god and believed god with all of my
  • 00:09:22.251 --> 00:09:23.819
  • And believed god with all of my heart. and i valued god and he
  • 00:09:23.886 --> 00:09:26.622
  • Heart. and i valued god and he didn't value god. and when he
  • 00:09:26.689 --> 00:09:29.892
  • Didn't value god. and when he said that it made me mad, and i
  • 00:09:29.959 --> 00:09:31.694
  • Said that it made me mad, and i stood up and i remember poking
  • 00:09:31.761 --> 00:09:33.462
  • Stood up and i remember poking my finger in his chest like this
  • 00:09:33.529 --> 00:09:35.865
  • My finger in his chest like this and saying, buddy, i said, god
  • 00:09:35.931 --> 00:09:37.967
  • And saying, buddy, i said, god told me to quit school, and if
  • 00:09:38.034 --> 00:09:39.502
  • Told me to quit school, and if god told me to quit school, i'm
  • 00:09:39.568 --> 00:09:41.237
  • God told me to quit school, i'm doing it and i don't care what
  • 00:09:41.303 --> 00:09:42.605
  • Doing it and i don't care what the results is. if god wants me
  • 00:09:42.672 --> 00:09:44.774
  • The results is. if god wants me drafted, i'll be drafted. if he
  • 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.609
  • Drafted, i'll be drafted. if he doesn't, i won't. and this guy,
  • 00:09:46.676 --> 00:09:49.945
  • Doesn't, i won't. and this guy, he never said a word. he just
  • 00:09:50.012 --> 00:09:51.213
  • He never said a word. he just folded up all of his stuff, put
  • 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:52.815
  • Folded up all of his stuff, put it in his briefcase, walked out
  • 00:09:52.882 --> 00:09:54.717
  • It in his briefcase, walked out the door without saying another
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  • The door without saying another word. and guess what? the next
  • 00:09:56.152 --> 00:09:58.654
  • Word. and guess what? the next morning i had in my mailbox my
  • 00:09:58.721 --> 00:10:02.324
  • Morning i had in my mailbox my draft notice. and you know back
  • 00:10:02.391 --> 00:10:04.694
  • Draft notice. and you know back then i didn't even think about
  • 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:06.262
  • Then i didn't even think about it. i wished i would have looked
  • 00:10:06.328 --> 00:10:07.930
  • It. i wished i would have looked to see if there was a stamp on
  • 00:10:07.997 --> 00:10:09.665
  • To see if there was a stamp on that, or i believe that this guy
  • 00:10:09.732 --> 00:10:11.834
  • That, or i believe that this guy probably went and processed my
  • 00:10:11.901 --> 00:10:13.436
  • Probably went and processed my papers himself and put it in my
  • 00:10:13.502 --> 00:10:16.038
  • Papers himself and put it in my mailbox, and he did that to show
  • 00:10:16.105 --> 00:10:18.040
  • Mailbox, and he did that to show me, you know, that he valued the
  • 00:10:18.107 --> 00:10:20.743
  • Me, you know, that he valued the government and not god. i don't
  • 00:10:20.810 --> 00:10:22.578
  • Government and not god. i don't care what his motivation was.
  • 00:10:22.645 --> 00:10:25.147
  • Care what his motivation was. god was in it. and i, i went
  • 00:10:25.214 --> 00:10:27.016
  • God was in it. and i, i went through vietnam, and it turned
  • 00:10:27.083 --> 00:10:28.184
  • Through vietnam, and it turned out being a good experience for
  • 00:10:28.250 --> 00:10:29.819
  • Out being a good experience for me. it really transformed my
  • 00:10:29.885 --> 00:10:31.620
  • Me. it really transformed my life because i just stuck my
  • 00:10:31.687 --> 00:10:33.155
  • Life because i just stuck my nose in the word of god. and
  • 00:10:33.222 --> 00:10:35.124
  • Nose in the word of god. and when i came out of vietnam, i
  • 00:10:35.191 --> 00:10:36.592
  • When i came out of vietnam, i wasn't a baptist anymore. i
  • 00:10:36.659 --> 00:10:38.661
  • Wasn't a baptist anymore. i tried to go back to the same
  • 00:10:38.728 --> 00:10:39.995
  • Tried to go back to the same baptist church, and they didn't
  • 00:10:40.062 --> 00:10:41.197
  • Baptist church, and they didn't want me because i'd gotten to
  • 00:10:41.263 --> 00:10:42.364
  • Want me because i'd gotten to where i was believing the word
  • 00:10:42.431 --> 00:10:43.766
  • Where i was believing the word and speaking about the baptism
  • 00:10:43.833 --> 00:10:45.301
  • And speaking about the baptism of the holy spirit and speaking
  • 00:10:45.367 --> 00:10:46.569
  • Of the holy spirit and speaking in tongues and miracles, and
  • 00:10:46.635 --> 00:10:48.471
  • In tongues and miracles, and they didn't believe those things
  • 00:10:48.537 --> 00:10:49.605
  • They didn't believe those things and told me i needed to leave.
  • 00:10:49.672 --> 00:10:51.907
  • And told me i needed to leave. but anyway, my point in all of
  • 00:10:51.974 --> 00:10:53.075
  • But anyway, my point in all of this is see, it's like, if you
  • 00:10:53.142 --> 00:10:54.643
  • This is see, it's like, if you could imagine a seesaw is what
  • 00:10:54.710 --> 00:10:56.779
  • Could imagine a seesaw is what we used to call it. some people
  • 00:10:56.846 --> 00:10:58.013
  • We used to call it. some people call it a teeter-totter, but you
  • 00:10:58.080 --> 00:10:59.482
  • Call it a teeter-totter, but you have a fulcrum in the middle and
  • 00:10:59.548 --> 00:11:01.317
  • Have a fulcrum in the middle and you have this thing where you
  • 00:11:01.383 --> 00:11:02.318
  • You have this thing where you sit on these eh.. ends. did you
  • 00:11:02.384 --> 00:11:04.420
  • Sit on these eh.. ends. did you know you can't have both ends
  • 00:11:04.487 --> 00:11:06.255
  • Know you can't have both ends up at the same time? if one end
  • 00:11:06.322 --> 00:11:08.624
  • Up at the same time? if one end is up, the other one is down.
  • 00:11:08.691 --> 00:11:10.960
  • And this is what this is talking
  • 00:11:12.328 --> 00:11:13.696
  • And this is what this is talking about. when god does something
  • 00:11:13.763 --> 00:11:15.464
  • About. when god does something in your life, like in my
  • 00:11:15.531 --> 00:11:16.532
  • In your life, like in my situation he revealed himself to
  • 00:11:16.599 --> 00:11:18.968
  • Situation he revealed himself to me. man, i saw the glory of god.
  • 00:11:19.034 --> 00:11:21.303
  • Me. man, i saw the glory of god. he spoke to me and told me to
  • 00:11:21.370 --> 00:11:22.905
  • He spoke to me and told me to quit school. and so, i was
  • 00:11:22.972 --> 00:11:24.774
  • Quit school. and so, i was glorifying god, and i was
  • 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:26.509
  • Glorifying god, and i was esteeming him and placing
  • 00:11:26.575 --> 00:11:28.244
  • Esteeming him and placing this value on god and what
  • 00:11:28.310 --> 00:11:30.112
  • This value on god and what he said. here comes along a
  • 00:11:30.179 --> 00:11:33.115
  • He said. here comes along a representative of the u.s. army
  • 00:11:33.182 --> 00:11:35.317
  • Representative of the u.s. army who laughed at me and mocked and
  • 00:11:35.384 --> 00:11:37.987
  • Who laughed at me and mocked and said, god is nothing. the u.s.
  • 00:11:38.053 --> 00:11:40.790
  • Said, god is nothing. the u.s. is stronger than god, and he was
  • 00:11:40.856 --> 00:11:43.125
  • Is stronger than god, and he was mocking what i was saying. he
  • 00:11:43.192 --> 00:11:45.060
  • Mocking what i was saying. he was attempting to get me to
  • 00:11:45.127 --> 00:11:47.062
  • Was attempting to get me to place a value on, on the
  • 00:11:47.129 --> 00:11:49.532
  • Place a value on, on the government and what he was
  • 00:11:49.598 --> 00:11:51.033
  • Government and what he was saying and what he was
  • 00:11:51.100 --> 00:11:52.034
  • Saying and what he was representing. and you can't have
  • 00:11:52.101 --> 00:11:53.536
  • Representing. and you can't have both ends up. if i would have
  • 00:11:53.602 --> 00:11:54.904
  • Both ends up. if i would have esteemed what he said, if i
  • 00:11:54.970 --> 00:11:57.106
  • Esteemed what he said, if i would have been fearful of what
  • 00:11:57.173 --> 00:11:58.374
  • Would have been fearful of what he was saying and the things
  • 00:11:58.440 --> 00:11:59.708
  • He was saying and the things that he was saying about me, it
  • 00:11:59.775 --> 00:12:01.343
  • That he was saying about me, it would have automatically
  • 00:12:01.410 --> 00:12:02.244
  • Would have automatically decreased the value, the glory
  • 00:12:02.311 --> 00:12:05.414
  • Decreased the value, the glory that i put on what god said. you
  • 00:12:05.481 --> 00:12:07.716
  • That i put on what god said. you can't have both. when i went to
  • 00:12:07.783 --> 00:12:09.885
  • Can't have both. when i went to my baptist church and told them
  • 00:12:09.952 --> 00:12:11.320
  • My baptist church and told them i was filled with the spirit and
  • 00:12:11.387 --> 00:12:12.688
  • I was filled with the spirit and the pastor came out against me,
  • 00:12:12.755 --> 00:12:14.256
  • The pastor came out against me, here i was glorifying god and
  • 00:12:14.323 --> 00:12:16.091
  • Here i was glorifying god and what he had done in my life. the
  • 00:12:16.158 --> 00:12:17.760
  • What he had done in my life. the pastor wanted me to evaluate
  • 00:12:17.827 --> 00:12:19.428
  • What he said more important. and
  • 00:12:20.696 --> 00:12:23.866
  • What he said more important. and satan was trying to get me to
  • 00:12:23.933 --> 00:12:25.401
  • Satan was trying to get me to respond, and if i would have
  • 00:12:25.467 --> 00:12:27.269
  • Respond, and if i would have esteemed his opinion, then i
  • 00:12:27.336 --> 00:12:29.138
  • Esteemed his opinion, then i would have automatically
  • 00:12:29.205 --> 00:12:30.139
  • Would have automatically disesteemed what god had said. i
  • 00:12:30.206 --> 00:12:34.043
  • Disesteemed what god had said. i hope you can see what i'm trying
  • 00:12:34.109 --> 00:12:35.144
  • Hope you can see what i'm trying to say here. you can't glorify
  • 00:12:35.211 --> 00:12:37.546
  • To say here. you can't glorify god and glorify everybody
  • 00:12:37.613 --> 00:12:39.782
  • God and glorify everybody else and everything else
  • 00:12:39.849 --> 00:12:40.816
  • Else and everything else at the same time. it's like
  • 00:12:40.883 --> 00:12:42.384
  • Romans, chapter 3, verse
  • 00:12:42.451 --> 00:12:43.752
  • Romans, chapter 3, verse 4, says, let god be true, and
  • 00:12:43.819 --> 00:12:46.288
  • 4, says, let god be true, and every man a liar. if you want
  • 00:12:46.355 --> 00:12:49.158
  • To fulfill what god has
  • 00:12:49.225 --> 00:12:50.826
  • To fulfill what god has called you to do, i can promise
  • 00:12:50.893 --> 00:12:52.561
  • Called you to do, i can promise you along the way, once you know
  • 00:12:52.628 --> 00:12:54.430
  • You along the way, once you know god's will, once you're headed
  • 00:12:54.496 --> 00:12:55.831
  • God's will, once you're headed in that direction with his plan
  • 00:12:55.898 --> 00:12:58.100
  • In that direction with his plan and his timing, you're going to
  • 00:12:58.167 --> 00:13:00.035
  • And his timing, you're going to have people come out and attack
  • 00:13:00.102 --> 00:13:01.604
  • Have people come out and attack you. and what they're trying to
  • 00:13:01.670 --> 00:13:02.805
  • You. and what they're trying to do is to get you to value their
  • 00:13:02.872 --> 00:13:05.040
  • Do is to get you to value their opinion and raise that up. and
  • 00:13:05.107 --> 00:13:07.576
  • Opinion and raise that up. and the moment you do, the value
  • 00:13:07.643 --> 00:13:09.745
  • The moment you do, the value you've placed on god diminishes,
  • 00:13:09.812 --> 00:13:12.581
  • You've placed on god diminishes, and that allows this miracle
  • 00:13:12.648 --> 00:13:15.084
  • And that allows this miracle that god has done in your life
  • 00:13:15.150 --> 00:13:16.418
  • That god has done in your life to start diminishing and fading
  • 00:13:16.485 --> 00:13:17.920
  • To start diminishing and fading away. if god has revealed his
  • 00:13:17.987 --> 00:13:20.022
  • Away. if god has revealed his love to you and you are just
  • 00:13:20.089 --> 00:13:21.557
  • Love to you and you are just basking in the love of god,
  • 00:13:21.624 --> 00:13:23.626
  • Basking in the love of god, you're going to go to work, and
  • 00:13:23.692 --> 00:13:26.395
  • You're going to go to work, and satan is always going to have
  • 00:13:26.462 --> 00:13:28.364
  • Satan is always going to have somebody who's yielded to him
  • 00:13:28.430 --> 00:13:30.733
  • Somebody who's yielded to him that he can send across your
  • 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.001
  • That he can send across your path that will, you know, say
  • 00:13:32.067 --> 00:13:34.136
  • Path that will, you know, say something to you, criticize you,
  • 00:13:34.203 --> 00:13:36.105
  • Something to you, criticize you, just do something. he'll have a
  • 00:13:36.171 --> 00:13:37.706
  • Just do something. he'll have a dog bark, you know, bite you or
  • 00:13:37.773 --> 00:13:40.109
  • Dog bark, you know, bite you or do something. he will have
  • 00:13:40.175 --> 00:13:41.176
  • Do something. he will have something to try and take your
  • 00:13:41.243 --> 00:13:43.212
  • Something to try and take your value off of god and get you to
  • 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.147
  • Value off of god and get you to valuing what other people say,
  • 00:13:45.214 --> 00:13:47.516
  • Valuing what other people say, to value, you know, the fact
  • 00:13:47.583 --> 00:13:49.051
  • To value, you know, the fact that your car is broke down and
  • 00:13:49.118 --> 00:13:50.519
  • That your car is broke down and you start thinking about all
  • 00:13:50.586 --> 00:13:51.887
  • You start thinking about all these other things. but you can
  • 00:13:51.954 --> 00:13:53.389
  • These other things. but you can get to a place to where you just
  • 00:13:53.455 --> 00:13:55.758
  • Get to a place to where you just value god so much that nothing
  • 00:13:55.824 --> 00:13:57.826
  • Value god so much that nothing else in comparison even
  • 00:13:57.893 --> 00:14:00.863
  • Else in comparison even compares. and did you know,
  • 00:14:00.930 --> 00:14:02.798
  • Compares. and did you know, i was drafted. i did go to
  • 00:14:02.865 --> 00:14:05.034
  • I was drafted. i did go to vietnam, and i could give
  • 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:06.669
  • Vietnam, and i could give you a lot of stories, but i
  • 00:14:06.735 --> 00:14:08.037
  • You a lot of stories, but i remember being sent.
  • 00:14:08.103 --> 00:14:08.437
  • I was a chaplain's assistant,
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  • And they sent this chaplain
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  • Out to a temporary fire
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  • Support base. it was on top of
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  • Support base. it was on top of just a little hill, and it had
  • 00:14:16.612 --> 00:14:19.949
  • Just a little hill, and it had about 100 and something people
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  • About 100 and something people there. and it was way, way, way
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  • There. and it was way, way, way removed from the rest of the
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  • Removed from the rest of the u.s. troops, and it was a very
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  • U.s. troops, and it was a very dangerous position but it was a
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  • Dangerous position but it was a fire support base to support the
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  • Fire support base to support the troops that were out in the
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  • Troops that were out in the field actually doing the battle.
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  • Field actually doing the battle. and the vietnamese attacked that
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  • And the vietnamese attacked that hill. and i actually was there.
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  • Hill. and i actually was there. and we were in an area that was,
  • 00:14:40.736 --> 00:14:42.504
  • And we were in an area that was, i don't, i don't know how to
  • 00:14:42.571 --> 00:14:43.439
  • I don't, i don't know how to describe this, but i mean, we
  • 00:14:43.505 --> 00:14:45.007
  • Describe this, but i mean, we were crammed in there, a 100
  • 00:14:45.074 --> 00:14:47.476
  • Were crammed in there, a 100 people in this little tiny
  • 00:14:47.543 --> 00:14:49.244
  • People in this little tiny space. the chaplain was in a
  • 00:14:49.311 --> 00:14:50.679
  • Space. the chaplain was in a sense giving the last rites. and
  • 00:14:50.746 --> 00:14:53.148
  • Sense giving the last rites. and sure enough as soon as we left,
  • 00:14:53.215 --> 00:14:54.616
  • Sure enough as soon as we left, because i was with the chaplain,
  • 00:14:54.683 --> 00:14:56.618
  • Because i was with the chaplain, they... the chaplain, you know,
  • 00:14:56.685 --> 00:14:57.853
  • They... the chaplain, you know, was more important in the
  • 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:00.489
  • Was more important in the government's opinion than the
  • 00:15:00.556 --> 00:15:02.291
  • Government's opinion than the rest of those troops, and so
  • 00:15:02.358 --> 00:15:03.559
  • Rest of those troops, and so they evacuated us, and we
  • 00:15:03.625 --> 00:15:05.794
  • They evacuated us, and we actually took bullets to our
  • 00:15:05.861 --> 00:15:07.262
  • Actually took bullets to our helicopter as we were leaving.
  • 00:15:07.329 --> 00:15:09.398
  • Helicopter as we were leaving. and shortly after we left, that
  • 00:15:09.465 --> 00:15:11.000
  • And shortly after we left, that hill was overrun and most of the
  • 00:15:11.066 --> 00:15:13.602
  • Hill was overrun and most of the people on that hill died. and
  • 00:15:13.669 --> 00:15:16.805
  • People on that hill died. and so, i was in that situation, and
  • 00:15:16.872 --> 00:15:18.374
  • So, i was in that situation, and i actually could see the muzzle
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  • I actually could see the muzzle fire from the vietnamese'
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  • Fire from the vietnamese' weapons as they were coming up
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  • Weapons as they were coming up the hill. now they were far
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  • The hill. now they were far enough away that i didn't fire.
  • 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:26.548
  • Enough away that i didn't fire. i had my m16 pointed at them,
  • 00:15:26.615 --> 00:15:29.451
  • I had my m16 pointed at them, but i didn't fire because it
  • 00:15:29.518 --> 00:15:30.886
  • But i didn't fire because it would have been just, you know
  • 00:15:30.953 --> 00:15:32.087
  • Would have been just, you know it... they weren't close enough
  • 00:15:32.154 --> 00:15:33.589
  • It... they weren't close enough to being effective. but i'm
  • 00:15:33.655 --> 00:15:35.491
  • To being effective. but i'm saying that i would have
  • 00:15:35.557 --> 00:15:36.658
  • Saying that i would have defended myself. i would have
  • 00:15:36.725 --> 00:15:38.060
  • Defended myself. i would have fought, but i was evacuated with
  • 00:15:38.127 --> 00:15:40.729
  • Fought, but i was evacuated with the chaplain. but here's my
  • 00:15:40.796 --> 00:15:42.664
  • The chaplain. but here's my point in relating all of that. i
  • 00:15:42.731 --> 00:15:44.633
  • Point in relating all of that. i was valuing god and what he had
  • 00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:46.935
  • Was valuing god and what he had done so much, i was so in love
  • 00:15:47.002 --> 00:15:49.271
  • Done so much, i was so in love with the lord, that you know
  • 00:15:49.338 --> 00:15:51.206
  • With the lord, that you know what i was thinking? i was
  • 00:15:51.273 --> 00:15:53.442
  • What i was thinking? i was thinking, jesus, this is
  • 00:15:53.509 --> 00:15:54.877
  • Thinking, jesus, this is awesome. i could be with you in
  • 00:15:54.943 --> 00:15:57.212
  • Awesome. i could be with you in heaven before the day is over.
  • 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.114
  • Heaven before the day is over. and instead of there being fear
  • 00:15:59.181 --> 00:16:01.183
  • And instead of there being fear and terror and all of these
  • 00:16:01.250 --> 00:16:02.584
  • And terror and all of these things, i actually was feeling
  • 00:16:02.651 --> 00:16:04.753
  • Things, i actually was feeling the love of god and thinking
  • 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:06.388
  • The love of god and thinking this is just awesome. i know
  • 00:16:06.455 --> 00:16:08.590
  • This is just awesome. i know some of you think i'm weird, but
  • 00:16:08.657 --> 00:16:10.926
  • Some of you think i'm weird, but i think you're weird. when you
  • 00:16:10.993 --> 00:16:12.728
  • I think you're weird. when you have this available, and yet you
  • 00:16:12.795 --> 00:16:14.430
  • Have this available, and yet you are just going by what you see,
  • 00:16:14.496 --> 00:16:15.764
  • Are just going by what you see, taste, hear, smell, and feel,
  • 00:16:15.831 --> 00:16:17.132
  • Taste, hear, smell, and feel, instead of by letting your
  • 00:16:17.199 --> 00:16:18.567
  • Instead of by letting your spirit man dominate you. i was
  • 00:16:18.634 --> 00:16:21.403
  • Spirit man dominate you. i was just feeling the love of god,
  • 00:16:21.470 --> 00:16:22.838
  • Just feeling the love of god, and then i got to having
  • 00:16:22.905 --> 00:16:24.373
  • And then i got to having compassion towards the
  • 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:25.874
  • Compassion towards the vietnamese that were coming up
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  • Vietnamese that were coming up the hill trying to kill us all.
  • 00:16:27.309 --> 00:16:28.811
  • The hill trying to kill us all. and i got to praying for them,
  • 00:16:28.877 --> 00:16:30.145
  • And i got to praying for them, saying, god, i know where i'm
  • 00:16:30.212 --> 00:16:31.513
  • Saying, god, i know where i'm going, but what about these
  • 00:16:31.580 --> 00:16:33.148
  • Going, but what about these people? and i got to praying
  • 00:16:33.215 --> 00:16:34.450
  • People? and i got to praying that, god, somehow or another,
  • 00:16:34.516 --> 00:16:35.584
  • That, god, somehow or another, would be touching them and, and
  • 00:16:35.651 --> 00:16:38.220
  • Would be touching them and, and changing their life. i know some
  • 00:16:38.287 --> 00:16:41.657
  • Changing their life. i know some of you think that's impossible,
  • 00:16:41.723 --> 00:16:42.925
  • Of you think that's impossible, but this is what i'm trying to
  • 00:16:42.991 --> 00:16:44.126
  • But this is what i'm trying to get across is that you can
  • 00:16:44.193 --> 00:16:45.994
  • Get across is that you can glorify god, and it doesn't
  • 00:16:46.061 --> 00:16:47.596
  • Glorify god, and it doesn't matter if it's the criticism of
  • 00:16:47.663 --> 00:16:49.131
  • Matter if it's the criticism of some, you know, fellow worker,
  • 00:16:49.198 --> 00:16:51.433
  • Some, you know, fellow worker, the criticism of some family
  • 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:53.135
  • The criticism of some family member, the criticism of a
  • 00:16:53.202 --> 00:16:54.736
  • Member, the criticism of a pastor that tries to get you to
  • 00:16:54.803 --> 00:16:56.405
  • Pastor that tries to get you to elevate their opinion. it
  • 00:16:56.472 --> 00:16:58.307
  • Elevate their opinion. it doesn't matter what it is. it
  • 00:16:58.373 --> 00:16:59.541
  • Doesn't matter what it is. it doesn't matter if somebody is
  • 00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:00.509
  • Doesn't matter if somebody is trying to kill you. it doesn't
  • 00:17:00.576 --> 00:17:01.510
  • Trying to kill you. it doesn't matter if the economy is bad. if
  • 00:17:01.577 --> 00:17:03.612
  • Matter if the economy is bad. if you truly glorify god and just
  • 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.281
  • You truly glorify god and just think about, put the value on
  • 00:17:06.348 --> 00:17:08.250
  • Think about, put the value on him and what he's done in
  • 00:17:08.317 --> 00:17:10.185
  • Him and what he's done in your life, then it will never
  • 00:17:10.252 --> 00:17:13.222
  • Your life, then it will never diminish. for you to begin to
  • 00:17:13.288 --> 00:17:16.225
  • Diminish. for you to begin to start losing the love, the joy,
  • 00:17:16.291 --> 00:17:18.794
  • Start losing the love, the joy, the peace of god, you had to
  • 00:17:18.861 --> 00:17:20.662
  • The peace of god, you had to elevate something else. it might
  • 00:17:20.729 --> 00:17:22.965
  • Elevate something else. it might be that you just elevated a
  • 00:17:23.031 --> 00:17:24.566
  • Be that you just elevated a movie, and that you went and
  • 00:17:24.633 --> 00:17:26.168
  • Movie, and that you went and you're watching some horror
  • 00:17:26.235 --> 00:17:27.536
  • You're watching some horror flick and people lying and
  • 00:17:27.603 --> 00:17:29.271
  • Flick and people lying and stealing and you start enjoying
  • 00:17:29.338 --> 00:17:31.640
  • Stealing and you start enjoying those kind of things. you can't
  • 00:17:31.707 --> 00:17:32.841
  • Those kind of things. you can't enjoy the pure holiness of god
  • 00:17:32.908 --> 00:17:36.011
  • Enjoy the pure holiness of god and enjoy evil at the same time.
  • 00:17:36.078 --> 00:17:38.847
  • And enjoy evil at the same time. they aren't going to both be up
  • 00:17:38.914 --> 00:17:40.149
  • They aren't going to both be up at the same time. if you elevate
  • 00:17:40.215 --> 00:17:41.984
  • At the same time. if you elevate those things, you're going to
  • 00:17:42.050 --> 00:17:43.352
  • Those things, you're going to automatically start losing the
  • 00:17:43.418 --> 00:17:45.120
  • Automatically start losing the joy and the peace that god has
  • 00:17:45.187 --> 00:17:46.688
  • Joy and the peace that god has given you. so one of the keys to
  • 00:17:46.755 --> 00:17:49.124
  • Given you. so one of the keys to maintaining what god has done in
  • 00:17:49.191 --> 00:17:50.392
  • Your life, or as this teaching
  • 00:17:51.026 --> 00:17:52.794
  • Goes, one of the keys of
  • 00:17:52.794 --> 00:17:54.029
  • Fulfilling god's will in your
  • 00:17:54.029 --> 00:17:56.798
  • Life is that you just have to
  • 00:17:56.798 --> 00:17:59.501
  • Glorify god. you have to render
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  • And esteem him glorious. you
  • 00:18:02.538 --> 00:18:04.473
  • And esteem him glorious. you have to value what he's done. i
  • 00:18:04.540 --> 00:18:07.309
  • Have to value what he's done. i value what da... god has
  • 00:18:07.376 --> 00:18:08.777
  • Value what da... god has done in my life so much that
  • 00:18:08.844 --> 00:18:11.246
  • Done in my life so much that i guarantee you i have
  • 00:18:11.313 --> 00:18:12.614
  • I guarantee you i have disesteemed all kinds of
  • 00:18:12.681 --> 00:18:15.117
  • Disesteemed all kinds of other things. you know, i'm...
  • 00:18:15.184 --> 00:18:19.454
  • Other things. you know, i'm... i'... i'm not saying anything
  • 00:18:19.521 --> 00:18:21.223
  • I'... i'm not saying anything here to discredit anybody else.
  • 00:18:21.290 --> 00:18:24.259
  • Here to discredit anybody else. but i just met with one of the
  • 00:18:24.326 --> 00:18:25.794
  • But i just met with one of the most important people on the
  • 00:18:25.861 --> 00:18:27.596
  • Most important people on the planet. i... and that's not an
  • 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:29.831
  • Planet. i... and that's not an exaggeration. if i was to use
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:31.366
  • Exaggeration. if i was to use names, i believe most people
  • 00:18:31.433 --> 00:18:33.368
  • Names, i believe most people would a... agree with that. and
  • 00:18:33.435 --> 00:18:35.938
  • Would a... agree with that. and yet i had the... one of the guys
  • 00:18:36.004 --> 00:18:37.673
  • Yet i had the... one of the guys that was with me says, did you
  • 00:18:37.739 --> 00:18:38.707
  • That was with me says, did you get to shake hands with him? and
  • 00:18:38.774 --> 00:18:41.043
  • Get to shake hands with him? and i said, well, i'm not sure. i, i
  • 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:44.446
  • I said, well, i'm not sure. i, i couldn't remember. and he looked
  • 00:18:44.513 --> 00:18:46.982
  • Couldn't remember. and he looked at me like, you can't remember?
  • 00:18:47.049 --> 00:18:48.684
  • At me like, you can't remember? i said, well, he's just a
  • 00:18:48.750 --> 00:18:49.785
  • I said, well, he's just a person. i said, i am just as
  • 00:18:49.851 --> 00:18:51.920
  • Person. i said, i am just as honored sitting next to you as i
  • 00:18:51.987 --> 00:18:54.990
  • Honored sitting next to you as i am towards this person who is
  • 00:18:55.057 --> 00:18:56.658
  • Am towards this person who is one of the major influencers in
  • 00:18:56.725 --> 00:18:58.927
  • One of the major influencers in the world. and some people just
  • 00:18:58.994 --> 00:19:01.597
  • The world. and some people just look at that, well, that's
  • 00:19:01.663 --> 00:19:02.831
  • Look at that, well, that's weird. it's because i value god
  • 00:19:02.898 --> 00:19:06.702
  • Weird. it's because i value god and i fellowship with god
  • 00:19:06.768 --> 00:19:08.270
  • And i fellowship with god almighty, the creator, the lord
  • 00:19:08.337 --> 00:19:10.205
  • Almighty, the creator, the lord of all. and did you know,
  • 00:19:10.272 --> 00:19:11.740
  • Of all. and did you know, compared to god, i don't care
  • 00:19:11.807 --> 00:19:13.542
  • Compared to god, i don't care who you are. you put your pants
  • 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:15.744
  • Who you are. you put your pants on one leg at a time the same as
  • 00:19:15.811 --> 00:19:17.613
  • On one leg at a time the same as i do. and i'm not saying that i
  • 00:19:17.679 --> 00:19:19.448
  • I do. and i'm not saying that i don't honor people and respect
  • 00:19:19.514 --> 00:19:21.750
  • Don't honor people and respect people. but you know what, i am
  • 00:19:21.817 --> 00:19:23.452
  • People. but you know what, i am not just overwhelmed to be in
  • 00:19:23.518 --> 00:19:25.988
  • Not just overwhelmed to be in the presence of somebody who is
  • 00:19:26.054 --> 00:19:28.223
  • The presence of somebody who is affecting things all over
  • 00:19:28.290 --> 00:19:29.825
  • Affecting things all over the world. i, i meet with god
  • 00:19:29.891 --> 00:19:33.128
  • The world. i, i meet with god constantly. and because of
  • 00:19:33.195 --> 00:19:35.530
  • Constantly. and because of that, i just glorify him, and in
  • 00:19:35.597 --> 00:19:37.666
  • That, i just glorify him, and in comparison, i don't exalt other
  • 00:19:37.733 --> 00:19:39.835
  • Comparison, i don't exalt other people. the moment you start
  • 00:19:39.901 --> 00:19:40.969
  • People. the moment you start exalting other people and
  • 00:19:41.036 --> 00:19:42.271
  • Exalting other people and putting them on a pedestal,
  • 00:19:42.337 --> 00:19:43.739
  • Putting them on a pedestal, you have to de... de...disesteem
  • 00:19:43.805 --> 00:19:45.440
  • God, and i just don't do that.
  • 00:19:46.775 --> 00:19:50.045
  • God, and i just don't do that. i tell you i love god and god
  • 00:19:50.112 --> 00:19:51.847
  • I tell you i love god and god loves me and i value him more
  • 00:19:51.913 --> 00:19:53.915
  • Loves me and i value him more than anything else. i've had
  • 00:19:53.982 --> 00:19:55.684
  • Than anything else. i've had people come up to me before
  • 00:19:55.751 --> 00:19:56.952
  • People come up to me before after i preach and they find
  • 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:58.420
  • After i preach and they find something that i said and start
  • 00:19:58.487 --> 00:19:59.788
  • Something that i said and start criticizing me. i remember this
  • 00:19:59.855 --> 00:20:01.890
  • Criticizing me. i remember this one guy in particular who just
  • 00:20:01.957 --> 00:20:03.358
  • One guy in particular who just let me have it about, and he was
  • 00:20:03.425 --> 00:20:05.093
  • Let me have it about, and he was just reading me the riot act and
  • 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.030
  • Just reading me the riot act and rebuking me. and i just stopped
  • 00:20:08.096 --> 00:20:09.331
  • Rebuking me. and i just stopped him in the middle and i said,
  • 00:20:09.398 --> 00:20:10.198
  • Him in the middle and i said, who died and made you god? and
  • 00:20:10.265 --> 00:20:12.467
  • Who died and made you god? and he looked at me like, what are
  • 00:20:12.534 --> 00:20:13.635
  • He looked at me like, what are you saying? i said, you aren't
  • 00:20:13.702 --> 00:20:15.137
  • You saying? i said, you aren't god. i don't have to have your
  • 00:20:15.203 --> 00:20:16.738
  • God. i don't have to have your approval. i don't care what you
  • 00:20:16.805 --> 00:20:18.140
  • Approval. i don't care what you think about me. he says, well,
  • 00:20:18.206 --> 00:20:19.408
  • Think about me. he says, well, you should, and i said, i don't.
  • 00:20:19.474 --> 00:20:21.576
  • You should, and i said, i don't. i said, i don't care. and some
  • 00:20:21.643 --> 00:20:24.780
  • I said, i don't care. and some people just, you can't even
  • 00:20:24.846 --> 00:20:26.248
  • People just, you can't even relate to what i'm saying
  • 00:20:26.315 --> 00:20:27.182
  • Relate to what i'm saying because you have to have the
  • 00:20:27.249 --> 00:20:28.717
  • Because you have to have the approval of other people. you
  • 00:20:28.784 --> 00:20:30.319
  • Approval of other people. you are codependent upon
  • 00:20:30.385 --> 00:20:31.920
  • People. you will not fulfill
  • 00:20:32.521 --> 00:20:35.957
  • God's will if you have to be
  • 00:20:35.957 --> 00:20:39.027
  • Popular. i can guarantee you,
  • 00:20:39.027 --> 00:20:41.463
  • You will suffer persecution.
  • 00:20:41.463 --> 00:20:43.165
  • Jesus said, if they've called
  • 00:20:43.231 --> 00:20:44.333
  • Jesus said, if they've called the master of the house
  • 00:20:44.399 --> 00:20:45.667
  • The master of the house beelzebub, how much more
  • 00:20:45.734 --> 00:20:47.102
  • Beelzebub, how much more are they going to call you
  • 00:20:47.169 --> 00:20:48.303
  • Are they going to call you something? it says in 2 timothy,
  • 00:20:48.370 --> 00:20:51.206
  • Something? it says in 2 timothy, chapter 3, verse 12, yea, all
  • 00:20:51.273 --> 00:20:53.041
  • Chapter 3, verse 12, yea, all those who will live godly in
  • 00:20:53.108 --> 00:20:54.509
  • Those who will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer
  • 00:20:54.576 --> 00:20:56.011
  • Christ jesus shall suffer persecution. if you are out to
  • 00:20:56.078 --> 00:20:58.113
  • Win a popularity contest, if you
  • 00:20:58.180 --> 00:21:00.248
  • Win a popularity contest, if you have to have everybody approve
  • 00:21:00.315 --> 00:21:02.184
  • Have to have everybody approve of you, you aren't going to
  • 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:04.586
  • Of you, you aren't going to fulfill god's will because you
  • 00:21:04.653 --> 00:21:05.854
  • Fulfill god's will because you will deviate. satan will put
  • 00:21:05.921 --> 00:21:07.656
  • Will deviate. satan will put people in your path that try and
  • 00:21:07.723 --> 00:21:09.524
  • People in your path that try and get you to esteem them and their
  • 00:21:09.591 --> 00:21:11.593
  • Get you to esteem them and their opinion, and... and the moment
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  • Opinion, and... and the moment you do, you automatically start
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  • You do, you automatically start disesteeming, not glorifying,
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  • Disesteeming, not glorifying, not valuing god the way you
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  • Not valuing god the way you should. you need to get to a
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  • Should. you need to get to a place to where i don't care who
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  • Place to where i don't care who you are, here's god. everybody
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  • You are, here's god. everybody else in, in relation to god is
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  • Else in, in relation to god is way down here. that's not to say
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  • Way down here. that's not to say that i don't love people and
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  • That i don't love people and that i don't value and honor
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  • That i don't value and honor people. but i don't value
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  • People. but i don't value anybody even close to the way i
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  • Anybody even close to the way i value god. and because of that,
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  • Value god. and because of that, i haven't lost my joy and my
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  • I haven't lost my joy and my peace over 56 years. and because
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  • Peace over 56 years. and because of that, man, i can rejoice even
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  • Of that, man, i can rejoice even when people are shooting at
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  • When people are shooting at me and killing people all
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  • Me and killing people all around me, and i don't have to
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  • Around me, and i don't have to operate in fear because i value
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  • God. for me to live is christ,
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  • God. for me to live is christ, and to die is gain. that's
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  • And to die is gain. that's what paul said and that's
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  • What paul said and that's the way that i feel about
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  • The way that i feel about it. and that's not just a
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  • Theology. that's not just
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  • Theology. that's not just something i'm saying. i've lived
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  • Something i'm saying. i've lived it. and you may disagree with me
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  • It. and you may disagree with me and you're entitled to your
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  • And you're entitled to your opinion, but i'm not going to
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  • Opinion, but i'm not going to agree with you or we'd both be
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  • Agree with you or we'd both be wrong. i'm telling you you can
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  • Wrong. i'm telling you you can get to where you glorify god so
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  • Get to where you glorify god so much it just makes you like
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  • Much it just makes you like you're in a bubble. you're in
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  • You're in a bubble. you're in this forcefield around you, and,
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  • This forcefield around you, and, and everybody over here is
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  • And everybody over here is hating me and criticizing me,
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  • Hating me and criticizing me, and i have newspaper articles
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  • And i have newspaper articles written against me, and i got
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  • Written against me, and i got blogs written what a terrible
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  • Blogs written what a terrible person i am, and yet i'm just
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  • Person i am, and yet i'm just enjoying the presence of god.
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  • Enjoying the presence of god. i'm not discouraged. i'm not
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  • I'm not discouraged. i'm not upset. i'm not hurt. i'm not
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  • Upset. i'm not hurt. i'm not offended. and if you are, i'm
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  • Offended. and if you are, i'm saying this in love, but it's
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  • Saying this in love, but it's because you haven't glorified
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  • Because you haven't glorified god. you haven't put the proper
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  • God. you haven't put the proper value on god and what he says
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  • Value on god and what he says about you. it's not that you
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  • About you. it's not that you don't like other people. but
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  • Don't like other people. but relative to god, what is some
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  • Relative to god, what is some person to criticize you? they
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  • Person to criticize you? they are nothing in comparison.
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  • Stephen was being stoned to
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  • Stephen was being stoned to death, but he saw the heavens
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