Hold Fast to Your Faith
September 1, 2016
28:32
Living by Faith with Mike & DeeDee Freeman
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Hold Fast to Your Faith
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- (dramatic music)
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- - I am prepared to handle the fight.
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- I am winning the fight.
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- I am in for the long haul.
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- I don't give a care how long it takes, I win.
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- She said "It is your faith that have guided us."
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- And I'm saying "You sure got that right."
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- People should see your faith.
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- Don't tell me you got faith and nobody can see it.
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- Don't tell me you believe in God and can't nobody see it!
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- Don't tell me you're walking by faith and nobody see it!
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- Today, on Living by Faith...
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- And I need all of us on the same page
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- as it relates to our Man of God
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- saying the same thing
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- and that we win.
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- Oh no.
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- Every time somebody come to you
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- and try to tell you something.
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- You should say "Have you talked to Dr. Dee dee?
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- "No, we win."
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- I'm saying it because he's my Pastor.
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- Everything he has ever
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- spoken has come to.
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- - [Audience] Pass.
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- I've seen too much.
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- I've seen too much.
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- Man, I know too much.
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- I be in the hospital.
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- I done wrote a song in the hospital.
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- Didn't I write a song, didn't I write a song?
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- I sent it Tim Brelyn friend,
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- like you wanna be in the family
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- you gonna have to fix this up.
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- (audience laughs)
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- You gonna hear too.
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- But I know too much.
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- I go in there, everybody say "Hi, hi."
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- Doctor said "We have never seen anybody like you.
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- "Your family, everybody comes in there so nice.
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- "They smile and treat you good.
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- "It's just, you have a good community."
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- You know that's how it is.
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- Who you got hanging around you?
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- Do you have any people that know how to walk by faith?
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- They really live by faith.
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- That you could call on
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- to say "Hey look, I need you to believe God with me."
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- You don't wait til you get into a battle
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- to then try to identify who those are around you
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- that can stand with you.
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- You don't wait til you get in the midst of a battle
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- and then try to learn how to fight.
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- You bout to get your butt kicked
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- Come on Genesis 12.
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- You know because I was reading this
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- and I was wondering.
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- How did Abraham
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- learn about faith?
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- How did Abraham learn faith?
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- There weren't any CD's or.
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- Oh not CD's 8 track.
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- Were there 8 tracks back then?
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- What was it before that?
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- Y'all anybody older than 8 track you know?
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- The real to real.
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- Wasn't any real to reals.
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- You know, it wasn't any SOFBI.
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- It wasn't any churches.
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- Wasn't any books on faith.
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- The tour wasn't out.
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- The 10 commandments hadn't come.
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- So there was no law.
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- Where did Abraham receive faith?
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- How did he learn how to be faithful?
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- And I was reading this.
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- Let's look at this.
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- Genesis 12:1.
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- It says, "Now the Lord
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- "has said to Abraham."
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- "Now the Lord
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- "has said to Abraham."
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- This is how Abraham received faith.
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- God ministered to him personally.
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- God didn't send Pastor Mike or any other Pastors
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- that you're familiar with to give him a word to learn faith.
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- But God says "Now the Lord has said to Abraham,
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- "get out of your country from your family
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- "and from your fathers house
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- "to a land that I will show you."
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- Wait a minute.
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- God gives him a set of instructions.
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- And tell him, "Leave your family.
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- "Go into a country that you don't even know.
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- "Just go."
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- Some of y'all have reduced Abraham
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- like you have reduced Jesus.
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- To thinking that, or maybe not reduce.
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- Maybe made bigger than
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- or more than.
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- You think Abraham didn't go through stuff
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- like you go through.
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- "Oh Abraham didn't have any family.
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- "Abraham didn't feel what I would feel
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- "if God told me to go."
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- Abraham had family!
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- What about his mom and them?
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- I don't know if his mom was living.
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- He's 75.
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- Abraham felt just like you feel.
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- When God give you a set of instructions
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- that you are not even familiar with.
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- He had to deal with the same type of emotions.
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- But let's go on.
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- "I will make you a great nation.
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- "I will bless you and make your name great.
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- "And you shall be a blessing.
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- "I will bless those who bless you.
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- "I will curse him who curses you.
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- "And in you,
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- "all the families of the earth
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- "shall be blessed."
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- Say that's me, that's me, that's me, that's me.
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- Okay, right here, right here.
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- So Abraham departed!
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- Wait, verse one said, "And God said."
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- The Lord said.
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- Verse four says, "So Abraham departed."
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- That's faith.
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- You hear and you do.
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- You hear and you do.
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- You hear and you do.
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- You don't have to figure it all out.
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- I don't have to know how God is gonna do what he's gonna do!
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- But because I believe, because I trust God,
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- because I know that God is my provider,
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- he's my protector, and then he will promote me!
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- I will do exactly what he tells me to do.
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- I don't care how unfamiliar it looks to you.
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- I don't care how you feel.
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- Faith isn't motivated by fear or feelings.
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- I will tell you, they will try to visit you.
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- They ain't even gonna try, they gonna visit you.
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- Fear and feelings gonna be right here.
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- (hums)
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- Like a drip of water.
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- But guess what?
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- We got the power of the Holy Ghost
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- on the inside of us.
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- That we can cast down every thought
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- and every imagination that exalts itself
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- against the knowledge of God.
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- But if you don't know what God has told you,
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- you gonna have to deal with it.
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- What did God tell you?
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- What did God tell you?
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- What has he promised you?
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- Regardless of how it looks.
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- When everything around you
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- looks like it's not coming to pass.
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- When everybody around you seems
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- to have turned their backs on you.
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- When it looks like it's about to wither up and die.
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- What did God promise you?
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- Don't try to read through what I'm saying to you
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- to apply to Pastor Mike.
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- This is for you.
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- I heard that by the Holy Ghost.
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- Cause some of y'all saying "Oh you see that's it."
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- No, this ain't about Pastor Mike.
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- I got this.
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- I...
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- I look at Pastor Wayne and Lisa
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- cause they right there with me.
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- Boy they be there Darnice.
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- And I tell her "I got this."
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- I am so pumped.
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- It's like you can be pissed and pumped at the same time.
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- Two P's.
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- I ain't Dee dee no more I'm Pee pee.
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- (audience laughs)
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- Pastor Mike's Spirit done got on me.
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- Come on, where are we.
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- What verse were we?
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- Four, so Abraham departed.
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- If you not gonna do it,
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- that ain't faith.
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- Y'all know.
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- Faith without works is what?
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- (audience responds)
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- - So don't tell me you have faith
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- and you not gonna do it.
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- Don't tell me you trust God and believe God
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- and you not gonna put any actions with what you believe.
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- Don't tell me you believe God, and you trust God,
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- and you have faith in God's word.
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- And you gonna worry, and you gonna go through like that.
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- Come on let's go.
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- Let's go to five.
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- I think I wanna go to five.
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- "Then Abraham took Sarai his wife and Lot,
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- "his brother's son and all their possessions
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- "that they had gathered.
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- "And the people whom they had acquired in Harran
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- "and they departed to go to the land of Canaan."
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- So they came to the land of Canaan.
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- "Abraham passed through the land to the place of Shechum.
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- "As far as the Tarapith" or whatever.
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- Y'all know "Tree of Moreh.
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- "And the Canaanite's were there in the land.
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- "Then the Lord appeared to Abram, Abram,
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- "and said to your descendents,
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- "'I will give this land.'
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- "And there he built an altar to the Lord
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- "who had appeared to him."
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- I like that.
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- I like that.
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- You know what he did?
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- He memorialized what God said to him.
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- He put it in his heart.
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- He built an altar in the natural.
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- But now we don't have to build an altar.
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- Because we got the altar right here.
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- Now when God speaks to us,
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- we have to know that we need to memorialize
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- what God said to us.
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- So we can go back and revisit those things
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- to remind ourselves of what the Lord had said to us.
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- Because the Lord is not a man that he should lie.
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- If he said it to you, he's gonna make it good.
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- But if you don't believe it,
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- ain't no need to hear Him talking to you no way.
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- He talking to you but why?
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- Mmm hmm, come on come on.
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- Say I'm a memorialize that word.
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- - [Audience] I'm a memorialize that word.
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- - Whatever God tells me.
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- "And he moved from there to the mountains
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- "east of Bethel.
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- "And he pitched his tent with Bethel
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- "on the west of AI,
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- "on the east there he built an altar again.
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- "And the Lord called on the name."
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- What?
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- "The altar to the Lord
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- "and called on the name of the Lord."
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- So Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south.
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- Where did he go?
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- Listen, now there was a famine in the land.
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- Say Abram was on a journey.
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- - [Audience] Abram was on a journey.
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- - [Dee dee] "And Abram went down to hell."
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- Oh, oh, can I say hell?
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- Abram was about to go through hell.
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- Abram was about to go through hell.
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- "To dwell there."
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- And he was gonna stay there.
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- Say nothing wrong with going through hell
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- just don't stop.
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- Now there was a.
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- Okay, okay.
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- Come on, come on, come on, 11.
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- "And it came to pass,
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- "when he was close to entering in Egypt,
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- "that he said to Sarai his wife.
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- "Indeed I know that you are a woman
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- "of beautiful countenance."
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- So Sarai had to be about what?
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- How far back was she from Abram?
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- He was 75, she was close to it.
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- Cause she was like 85 or so,
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- 75 when she had the baby wasn't she?
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- I don't know, y'all do the math.
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- I know he was 100.
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- She was up there.
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- She had to be five.
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- I'm telling y'all, y'all can get old if y'all want to.
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- I ain't getting old for my man.
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- I'm telling you, when I get 75 I want him to be afraid
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- that some man gonna come and pick up, you know.
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- Step to me.
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- Like "Hey girl what's your name?"
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- Mmm hmm, that's what I want.
- 00:15:30.030 --> 00:15:32.040
- "Therefore it will happen,
- 00:15:32.150 --> 00:15:34.090
- "when the Egyptians see you that they will say
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- "this is his wife, and they will kill me,
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- "but they will let you live."
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- She got to be bad.
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- I wonder if she had to use some products.
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- If she going through the change of life like.
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- Okay, okay, okay.
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- It's not a woman's meeting.
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- It's not a woman's meeting.
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- "Please say you are my sister."
- 00:15:58.180 --> 00:16:01.130
- Which she really was his half sister.
- 00:16:01.130 --> 00:16:04.000
- But he was lying, you know he was lying.
- 00:16:04.060 --> 00:16:06.200
- "That it may be well with me for your sake
- 00:16:07.010 --> 00:16:10.220
- "and that I may live because of you.
- 00:16:11.130 --> 00:16:15.050
- "So it was, when Abram came into Egypt,
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- "that the Egyptians saw the woman,
- 00:16:20.020 --> 00:16:22.060
- "that she was very beautiful.
- 00:16:22.160 --> 00:16:25.200
- "The princess of Pharaoh also saw her
- 00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:28.270
- "and commended her to Pharaoh."
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- How many men do we have in here?
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- Come on, if you're a man raise your hand.
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- I shouldn't have to go through all that.
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- We ain't gotta do no tests in here do we?
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- Put your hands down, you passed.
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- If a man sitting next to you didn't raise his hand
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- tell him Pastor Wayne will check him out in the back later.
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- Can you imagine,
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- your wife being taken from you?
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- Being given to another man.
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- The most powerful man in the nation.
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- And there's nothing you can do about it.
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- Come on in natural I need you to think.
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- Come on, just go there with me for a minute.
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- Can you imagine another man having your woman?
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- Touching her, feeling her, having sex with her.
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- Can you imagine that for a moment?
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- Don't you know Abram had the same feelings
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- that you felt.
- 00:17:50.050 --> 00:17:51.260
- Abram could've dealt with the same thing.
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- Abram could've tripped out.
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- But you know what?
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- Abram stayed right there.
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- Most of us would of high tailed it back home.
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- We would've been thinking like
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- "Oh, yeah my mother told me I shouldn't of left.
- 00:18:08.210 --> 00:18:11.190
- "My mother told me I shouldn't of went
- 00:18:11.190 --> 00:18:13.130
- "when I thought that was God's voice speaking to me.
- 00:18:13.130 --> 00:18:17.060
- "You know you're crazy.
- 00:18:17.260 --> 00:18:19.070
- "You're a fool.
- 00:18:19.070 --> 00:18:20.180
- "Why did you do this?
- 00:18:21.010 --> 00:18:22.200
- "Now you brought your woman out here for another man to take
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- "and there's nothing you can do about it."
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- Abram didn't move at all.
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- He remained in the same place of faith.
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- Believing and trusting God.
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- Because God found him faithful.
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- The Bible says that God found him faithful.
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- God knew that he would live by faith
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- and raise his family in faith.
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- And you know what happened?
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- You know the end of the story.
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- Some of you don't.
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- God begin to speak to Pharaoh.
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- Say speak Lord, speak Lord.
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- - [Audience] Speak Lord, speak Lord.
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- - I told y'all Abram was about to go through hell.
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- But God begin to speak to Pharaoh.
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- Next morning got up and said
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- "Why didn't you tell me this was your wife?!"
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- And he turned her back over.
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- The Bible says he didn't touch her, nothing.
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- And the point that I'm wanting to get to about that.
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- Some of y'all worry for so much dumb stuff
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- that don't even come to pass.
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- You waste so much time sitting around thinking about
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- "Okay, what if this and what if that?
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- "And who, what's gonna happen?"
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- The same thing happened to my mother.
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- They told my mother she had some heart,
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- enlarged heart.
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- So you know, be careful, don't do this, don't do that.
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- So my mother would think "Well I can't walk
- 00:20:12.050 --> 00:20:13.280
- "up the steps cause I got an enlarged heart.
- 00:20:13.280 --> 00:20:16.040
- "No, I'm not gonna walk around the mall,
- 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:17.170
- "I'll just walk a little bit then I'll sit down.
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- "I can't walk too much."
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- Not because she didn't feel like she always could.
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- But because of what she has been told.
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- We just found my mother a new doctor
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- not even a year ago.
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- She goes back, she has all of these tests
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- and the doctor say "You don't have an enlarged heart,
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- "you got a heart like a teenager."
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- Wasted dog gone time!
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- Worrying and complaining and murmuring,
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- thinking about all of the stuff that could happen!
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- I'm telling y'all.
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- You better trust God
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- like you have never trusted him before.
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- All of those scriptures you've been quoting.
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- All of those scriptures you've been learning.
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- You better lean in and begin to meditate on em
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- and begin to make em a daily practice of your life.
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- Church is not something that we do.
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- Church is who we are.
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- So I wanted to come in here
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- and charge your faith up.
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- To get you stirred back up.
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- To get you pumped up and believing that
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- our God reigns.
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- Our God rules.
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- You're gonna have to believe God.
- 00:21:47.110 --> 00:21:49.120
- You're gonna have to trust God.
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- We are Abraham's seed you know.
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- We're being called alongside of Abraham.
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- And Abraham believed.
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- There is so much more I could share.
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- I'm not even gonna keep going.
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- Cause you should go over there and read Genesis 13.
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- Cause the journey began.
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- But now ain't the time.
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- We've been hearing about people that.
- 00:22:20.260 --> 00:22:22.240
- You know people hear all kind of stuff
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- and I warn.
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- I don't know the Sunday crew that come on Sunday's.
- 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.050
- When we started talking about hearing from God.
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- I warned them.
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- Because I know when God starts talking.
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- Again, you know who else talks?
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- And people they say "Oh God said."
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- You better know it's God.
- 00:22:45.230 --> 00:22:47.180
- God ministered to Abram.
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- And he didn't even have no CD's to go home an replay it.
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- He had to hide it in his heart.
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- And he believed God.
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- He knew God would keep His word.
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- He knew God would do exactly what he said he would do.
- 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:12.080
- And the good thing about that,
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- after he went through that little thing with Pharaoh.
- 00:23:13.270 --> 00:23:16.020
- Guess what, Pharaoh hooked him up.
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- Gave him a whole bunch of stuff.
- 00:23:18.110 --> 00:23:21.000
- So much stuff that over in 13 when it kept going
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- they couldn't even stay together.
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- Him and Lot.
- 00:23:26.010 --> 00:23:27.090
- It was like "Little dude we got too much stuff,
- 00:23:27.090 --> 00:23:29.020
- "you gonna have to go.
- 00:23:29.020 --> 00:23:29.260
- "We got to split up."
- 00:23:29.260 --> 00:23:31.030
- And you know what?
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- You where that stuff came from?
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- Abram was a tither.
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- So y'all wanna be with faithful Abraham
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- but not tithing Abraham.
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- That's another lesson Pastor Wayne
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- or somebody will teach y'all.
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- But God took care of him.
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- God provided for him.
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- If God give you an assignment.
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- God tell you something to do.
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- You will know sooner or later
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- whether it was God or not.
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- Because everybody is gonna be able to tell.
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- Turn over there to 2 Corinthians 4:13.
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- Y'all know that scripture right?
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- Say I'm a man of faith.
- 00:24:22.110 --> 00:24:23.220
- - [Audience] I'm a man of faith.
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- - [ Dee dee] No, say I'm a man of faith.
- 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:26.170
- - [Audience] I'm a man of faith.
- 00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:28.120
- - [Dee dee] I know you want to say I'm a woman of faith.
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- No I'm talking about human, man, all in one.
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- Come on, y'all read this with me.
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- - [Audience and Dee dee] Since we had.
- 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.040
- - [Dee dee] No, say we had.
- 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:42.180
- - [Audience] We had.
- 00:24:42.180 --> 00:24:43.110
- - And since we had
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- - [Audience and Dee dee] the same Spirit of faith,
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- according to what is written
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- I believe and therefore I spoke.
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- We also believe and therefore speak.
- 00:24:55.260 --> 00:24:59.280
- - [Dee dee] Please, let's read it again.
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- - [Audience and Dee dee] And since we had
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- the same spirit of faith
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- according to what is written,
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- I believe.
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- - [Dee dee] Say I believe.
- 00:25:11.280 --> 00:25:12.240
- - [Audience] I believe.
- 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.170
- - No, say I believe.
- 00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:15.070
- - [Audience] I believe.
- 00:25:15.070 --> 00:25:16.220
- - [Audience and Dee dee] Therefore I spoke.
- 00:25:16.220 --> 00:25:19.160
- We also believe and therefore speak.
- 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:24.060
- - [Dee dee] I'm here giving you
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- some instructions on tonight.
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- I want you to apply your faith like never before.
- 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:32.230
- Listen, I'm telling you we win.
- 00:25:33.230 --> 00:25:37.160
- I don't give a care how it looks.
- 00:25:38.190 --> 00:25:43.190
- And I need all of us on the same page
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- as it relates to our Man of God
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- saying the same thing
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- and that we win.
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- Oh no.
- 00:25:57.260 --> 00:25:58.270
- Every time somebody come to you
- 00:25:58.270 --> 00:26:01.000
- and try to tell you something.
- 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:02.190
- You should say "Have you talked to Dr. Dee dee?
- 00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:04.040
- "No, we win."
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- We win.
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- We win!
- 00:26:12.020 --> 00:26:13.150
- Look at the person sitting next to you and say we win!
- 00:26:13.150 --> 00:26:16.070
- - [Audience] We win.
- 00:26:16.070 --> 00:26:17.210
- - [Audience and Dee dee] We having the same spirit of faith.
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- The same Spirit of faith.
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- We got a Pastor that has taught us how to believe God.
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- We have a Pastor that knows how to trust God
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- and stand on the word of God.
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- You're sitting here, we never thought
- 00:26:37.080 --> 00:26:38.240
- never knew we would even be here.
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- But he was bold enough, courageous enough.
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- Stood on the word enough.
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- He trusted God enough to come here, plant here,
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- and now guess what, you here.
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- I think you should give God some praise
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- for our man of God.
- 00:26:58.010 --> 00:26:59.190
- (audience cheers)
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- Come on somebody!
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- We bless your name oh God!
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- We bless your name!
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- We bless your name!
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