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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Bruised Love

July 30, 2025 | S E | 28:30

T.D. Jakes - Bruised Love
Even at our worst, God still loves us!
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Bruised Love | July 30, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: to every person who made this journey
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  • Possible, thank you.
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  • Whether you've been with us from the very beginning or found us
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  • Just last week, we're grateful you showed up, you served, you
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  • Watched, you listen, you told your friends, you called them up
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  • And told 'em, "turn it on, he's on."
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  • You gave, you sowed, you made it possible for us to be able to
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  • Bring the gospel to you and for all of our staff to be paid
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  • While they were doing it.
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  • It was you. it was you.
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  • It wasn't us. it was you.
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  • God in you working through you.
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  • Continue to let him work through you.
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  • You opened your heart, you opened your love, you opened
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  • Your pocketbooks, you opened your mind.
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  • You shared your stories, you received the word with hunger,
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  • Faith, and expectation.
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  • And now as "the potter's touch" moves forward in a new format,
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  • We do so with vision that's clearer and fire
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  • That's stronger.
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  • The legacy is alive and it's multiplying.
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  • Pastor touré and sarah are not just stepping in, they're
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  • Stepping forward and so are we.
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  • Together we will continue to build something that's bigger
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  • Than a moment, bigger than a message, bigger than a man,
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  • Bigger than any one voice.
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  • This is not the closing of a chapter.
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  • This is the opening of a new chapter.
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  • I'm not through yet and don't you be finish either.
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  • This is the launching of a new beginning for all of us and we
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  • Step into it armed and dangerous, filled with the faith
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  • Of god who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above
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  • All that we may ask or think.
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  • From all of us to all of you, we just want to say thank you.
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  • Now let's go into today's message, "bruised love."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: when john the writer writes here about god,
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  • He says that god so loved.
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  • It would be enough to say that god loved because god is love,
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  • But he says that god so loved.
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  • He had to put an adjective in front of it to modify the noun
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  • To make you understand the magnitude of the infinitive
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  • Capacity of god to so love.
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  • The infinite capacity, paul said, peter said, "i pray that
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  • You might know the love of god which passeth
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  • All understanding."
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  • The breadth, the height, the depth of the love of god
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  • Is incomparable.
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  • You can only try to come up with anthropomorphic terms to
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  • Describe the infinite capacity for god to love.
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  • God said, "i have loved you with an everlasting love."
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  • I loved you when you were drunk.
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  • I loved you when you were high.
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  • I loved you when you were nasty.
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  • I loved you when you were wicked.
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  • I loved you when you were evil.
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  • I loved you when you were fornicating.
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  • I loved you when you were stealing.
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  • I loved you when you were down and out.
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  • I loved you when you were in a homeless shelter.
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  • I loved you when you were in a jail cell.
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  • I loved you when you didn't have food to eat.
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  • I loved you when you was rich.
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  • God so loved. god so loved.
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  • God so loved.
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  • God so loved. god so loved.
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  • Can--i want you to drink that.
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  • That's hard for you to drink, but if you drink that, that will
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  • Heal you.
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  • God so loved you.
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  • If you drink that, you won't need people as much as you
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  • Need them.
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  • If you drink that, you won't be as lonely as you are.
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  • If you drink that, you won't be as desperate as you are.
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  • You don't need somebody to love you.
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  • God so loved.
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  • And don't buy what the church people say.
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  • It didn't say that god so loved the church.
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  • It didn't say that god so loved the christians.
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  • It didn't say that god so loved the believers.
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  • It said that god so loved.
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  • And most of us who preach about him and teach about him can't
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  • Express that because we are so self-righteous and judgmental
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  • That we wanna pick who god loves, but you cannot build a
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  • Wall high enough that god's love will not scale it.
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  • It will climb over top of it.
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  • It will put a ladder up and reach it.
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  • I don't care what you say, you might not like them, you might
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  • Not like them.
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  • You might lock them out.
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  • There are people that god loves your enemies.
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  • God loves the people that did you wrong.
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  • God loves the people that you wanna get even with.
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  • I know you don't wanna hear that because you want god to destroy
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  • Them, but that person is god's child too and god loves them.
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  • The crazy ones, the foolish ones, the spiteful ones, the
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  • Vicious one.
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  • God so loved the world. the world.
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  • The world. the world.
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  • The world.
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  • The world. the world.
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  • God has fallen in love with the fool.
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  • God has fallen in love with a fool.
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  • God has fallen in love with the world who he says, "it's hard,
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  • It's continually wicked, and every imagination in it is evil
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  • And still.
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  • I loved you while you were living in sin.
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  • I loved you while you were in the gutter.
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  • How could you get saved and then think that i don't love you?
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  • I loved you when you were blasted.
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  • I loved you when," oh god, don't, don't.
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  • See, we don't preach about love.
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  • We don't preach about the love of god.
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  • The love of god.
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  • And because we don't preach about it, it does not manifest
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  • In our character because anything that's not preached
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  • About is not planted in our character.
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  • So what we have is a situational love.
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  • I love you if i like you.
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  • I love you if i agree with you.
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  • I love you if you vote like me.
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  • I had a woman hit me up on instagram the other day said,
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  • "i used to love you."
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  • Hallelujah, i thought, oh god, then you never did in the
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  • First place.
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  • If somebody--if something i said could kill your love that
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  • Quickly wasn't real love because love suffers long and is not
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  • Puffed up.
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  • How can you be brokenhearted?
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  • You don't even know me.
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  • You never met me.
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  • Have you lost your mind?
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  • I want you to see the inequity of this statement.
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  • Not that god so loved the righteous or the church.
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  • The inequity of the statement is that god so loved the fool.
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  • Have you ever fallen in love with somebody that was crazy?
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  • Let's go back and understand that satan, lucifer, i'll call
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  • Him by his angelic name, lucifer knew the love of god.
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  • So when he was cast down out of heaven, he wanted to get even
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  • With god because he knew that god loved man and hated sin.
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  • And as long as what god loved, which is man, was separate from
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  • What that which god hated, which is sin, god had no problem in
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  • His own emotions.
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  • But if he could get man to sin, then man would be filled with
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  • What god hated and put god in a dilemma that if he reacted to
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  • What he hated, he would kill what he loved.
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  • If he reacted to what he loved then he would have to love what
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  • He hated.
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  • That's why salvation is not about you.
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  • Salvation is about god, his right hand, and his holy arm
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  • Have gotten him the victory.
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  • Salvation is of the lord.
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  • It's not about you.
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  • It's not about your doings.
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  • It was god's dilemma and it was satan's trick to work god's love
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  • Against him.
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  • He said, "i'll put what you hate in what you love and say how you
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  • Like them now."
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  • And god had warned man the day you eat of the tree, you shall
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  • Surely die.
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  • And so now god is in a dilemma.
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  • Do i come into the garden and kill him?
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  • But i love him.
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  • So the doctrine of substitution is born in the dilemma that
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  • Satan has placed god in.
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  • That god paces the floor, the voice of the lord walking
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  • Through the cool of the garden.
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  • God paces the floor trying to figure out how to save what he
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  • Loves and kill what he hates.
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  • And he says, "adam, where art thou?"
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  • And adam is standing wrapped up in fig leaves hiding in trees
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  • And god is pacing the floor.
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  • And god goes back and forth and says, "stay right there.
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  • You can't fix this.
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  • This is above your pay grade.
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  • You can't get yourself out of this.
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  • You can't sow nothing on yourself that will cover you
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  • Well enough to make you righteous enough.
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  • And if i let you live, i will have lied and i'm not a man that
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  • I should lie or the son of man that i should repent.
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  • So if i let you live, i can't wink at your sin 'cause if i
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  • Wink at your sin, then lucifer will have tricked me into lying.
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  • So i gotta do something about it, but i don't wanna kill you
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  • 'cause i love you.
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  • Stay right there."
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  • And the bible said that god went out into the garden and found an
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  • Innocent lamb.
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  • And he took the lamb and took the sins of the man and placed
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  • It on an innocent animal and he slayed the lamb and the lamb
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  • Became a substitute for the man so that the man might be free so
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  • God could go back to lucifer and say, "i did kill adam in
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  • The animal.
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  • And then i took the life of the animal and covered the
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  • Wretchedness of adam."
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  • So that adam stood there with blood running down his legs from
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  • The just from the fresh kill body of the animal and the life
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  • That he now lived in the flesh, he lived by the faith of the
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  • Animal that died in his stead that he might live.
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  • Justice is satisfied.
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  • Mercy is victorious.
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  • God has been glorified and his word has not been broken.
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  • God so loved the world.
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  • Bishop jakes: the higher you go, the more you must take god
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  • With you.
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  • I don't care how big it gets.
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  • I don't care how mighty it gets.
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  • You have to remember that god is a covenant keeping god and he
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  • Will bless you as you bless him.
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  • And this is the thing about it is, he don't need your tithe.
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  • He proves you through the tithe to see if he blesses you, can he
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  • Trust you?
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  • God could trust abraham.
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  • God blessed joseph out of all his brothers because he could
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  • Trust him.
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  • When we tithe is not just something we do to get out of
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  • The way, it's not intermission.
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  • It's an opportunity to say, "god, you can trust me."
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  • Female announcer: no scripts, no regrets.
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  • Here's the moments that had everyone laughing.
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  • Bishop jakes: good morning.
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  • Welcome to the--multitasking.
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  • Yeah, i've been for multitasking.
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  • Bishop jakes: i was in my groove.
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  • [audience laughing]
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  • Female: yas.
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  • Bishop jakes: they would be running the cash register,
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  • "daddy, look, there's money in here."
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  • Bishop jakes: this is gonna be interesting.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Bishop jakes: this is just part of the sermon.
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  • Don't ask me about this in the car.
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  • Bishop jakes: if they changed that script after i had
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  • Memorized have them lines.
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  • Bishop jakes: looks like the hunchback of notre dame.
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  • [laughing]
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  • Bishop jakes: don't you wanna go to the vatican?
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  • No, i don't wanna go to the vatican.
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  • I wanna go here.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and all of a sudden, i have to challenge how
  • 00:14:19.073 --> 00:14:22.610
  • I define love, how i understand passion because when i think
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  • Of passion, i think of pleasure.
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  • When god thinks of passion, he thinks of pain.
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  • When i think of love, i think of a wonderful feeling.
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  • When god thinks of love, he thinks of bruises.
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  • "he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of
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  • Our peace was upon him and by his stripes, by his stripes, we
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  • Are healed."
  • 00:15:11.192 --> 00:15:15.096
  • We are healed.
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  • Not just healed, we're made whole.
  • 00:15:17.832 --> 00:15:22.670
  • Like the ten lepers, nine of them got healed, but one of them
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  • Was made whole.
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  • In order to go from heal to whole, you gotta come back.
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  • Tell y'all, y'all come to church one time, come to the altar call
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  • And go on about your business.
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  • You think you got something you didn't get nothing.
  • 00:15:36.451 --> 00:15:38.319
  • You got healed, but you're not whole.
  • 00:15:38.319 --> 00:15:40.021
  • You get whole when you keep coming back, when you keep
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  • Coming back to say thank you for what you did for me, thank you
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  • For how you changed my life.
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  • Thank you for how you picked me up.
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  • Thank you for how you looked over my sin.
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  • Thank you for how you made a way of escape.
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  • Thank you for how you love the unlovable, touch the
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  • Untouchable, reconcile the unreconcilable.
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  • Redeem the unredeemable.
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  • I owe you the praise.
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  • You good little two shoe people who never did anything.
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  • I understand why you don't praise the lord 'cause you think
  • 00:16:07.648 --> 00:16:11.119
  • You're righteous, but i cannot understand all of you dirty, low
  • 00:16:11.119 --> 00:16:16.024
  • Down filthy people that know you as a wretch undone.
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  • How you can sit there with your cute dress on and not praise god
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  • For his mercy towards you because god took bruises.
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  • He took bruises for you.
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  • And every animal that was ever slain was just a stand in
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  • For him.
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  • When we do movies and the actors are they're setting up the set
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  • And they're getting ready for the scene and the director is
  • 00:16:49.357 --> 00:16:51.392
  • Trying to get the shot right, he has substitute actors that come
  • 00:16:51.392 --> 00:16:55.696
  • In and fill in for the real actors so that the actors won't
  • 00:16:55.696 --> 00:16:58.966
  • Spin themselves.
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  • Every bullock and goat that was slain until jesus went to the
  • 00:17:00.334 --> 00:17:03.871
  • Cross was a substitute actor standing in for the legitimate
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  • One who would go to the cross and die for the sins of
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  • The world.
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  • They were filling in for bruised love.
  • 00:17:13.514 --> 00:17:21.289
  • By the way, you can't have bruises without blood.
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  • A bruise that's made out of blood.
  • 00:17:30.798 --> 00:17:34.769
  • So the impact, the bond, the pain, the point of impact is
  • 00:17:34.769 --> 00:17:42.343
  • Over, but the bruise remains.
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  • He took my bruises.
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  • He took my bruises so much so that even after he rose from the
  • 00:17:52.153 --> 00:17:59.160
  • Dead, he still bore the scars in his body.
  • 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:04.132
  • The scars were still there for the price he paid for you to
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  • Have a chance.
  • 00:18:09.036 --> 00:18:10.404
  • While you complain about parking places and you complain about
  • 00:18:10.404 --> 00:18:13.307
  • Coming out in the cold and you complain about driving too far,
  • 00:18:13.307 --> 00:18:16.978
  • He carried his cross up golgotha's hill and let them
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  • Inflict him with bruises that even the resurrection couldn't
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  • Take away.
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  • He rose from the dead and still didn't rise from the bruises.
  • 00:18:28.556 --> 00:18:41.002
  • And you sit up here talking about, "when will somebody ever
  • 00:18:45.173 --> 00:18:47.675
  • Love me?
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  • I'm just wondering how long will i have to go through this before
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  • I find somebody who loves me like i need to be loved.
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  • I'm just not being loved like i needed to be loved and i refuse
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  • To settle for anything less."
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  • If god refused to settle for anything less, you would go
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  • To hell.
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  • I'm gonna say it again for the people in the back.
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  • If god refused to settle for anything less, you would go
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  • To hell.
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  • So you have more right to be loved than god?
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  • God so loved the world.
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  • The problem with us is we think more highly of ourselves than we
  • 00:19:34.655 --> 00:19:39.694
  • Ought because we have romanticized love.
  • 00:19:39.694 --> 00:19:46.734
  • That's why you're 30 and been married three times.
  • 00:19:46.734 --> 00:19:50.371
  • We have romanticized relationships that the moment it
  • 00:19:50.371 --> 00:19:54.041
  • Gets uncomfortable we get out and the moment we don't like
  • 00:19:54.041 --> 00:19:57.745
  • What you say and the moment you lost your job, i'm through
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  • With you.
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  • Yeah, it's about the benjamins, baby.
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  • No, it's not about the benjamins.
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  • With a job, without a job, up or down, sick or well, dialysis,
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  • Kidney machines, oxygen tank.
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  • I don't care what it is.
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  • There is a love, there is a love that endureth all things.
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  • It may get bruised, but it will never back away.
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  • It is the love of god.
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  • The only way we can do it, and i'm gonna stop here because i
  • 00:20:29.343 --> 00:20:33.214
  • See i can't get through my message, the only way we can do
  • 00:20:33.214 --> 00:20:36.751
  • It is that the bible says that the holy ghost is shed abroad in
  • 00:20:36.751 --> 00:20:42.590
  • Our hearts by the holy--the love of god is shared abroad in our
  • 00:20:42.590 --> 00:20:47.828
  • Hearts by the holy ghost.
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  • The only way you can love like god is to be filled with god and
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  • When you get filled with god, you can love like god.
  • 00:20:53.634 --> 00:20:57.238
  • Until you get filled with god, you can't love like god.
  • 00:20:57.238 --> 00:21:01.075
  • You can't do it out of your emotions.
  • 00:21:01.075 --> 00:21:02.843
  • You can't do it out of your head.
  • 00:21:02.843 --> 00:21:04.545
  • You can't do it because i preached it.
  • 00:21:04.545 --> 00:21:06.514
  • You gotta be filled with god to love like god.
  • 00:21:06.514 --> 00:21:10.484
  • The love of god is shared abroad in our hearts by the holy ghost
  • 00:21:10.484 --> 00:21:14.689
  • And if you really got the holy ghost, the real sign of
  • 00:21:14.689 --> 00:21:19.193
  • The holy ghost is not speaking in tongues.
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  • The real sign of the holy ghost is when you love your neighbor.
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  • The real sign of being filled with the holy ghost is when you
  • 00:21:26.233 --> 00:21:30.204
  • Love people who mistreated you.
  • 00:21:30.204 --> 00:21:32.273
  • The real sign of the holy ghost is when you love people after
  • 00:21:32.273 --> 00:21:36.344
  • They have done you wrong.
  • 00:21:36.344 --> 00:21:37.712
  • The real sign of the holy ghost--i'm not talking
  • 00:21:37.712 --> 00:21:40.681
  • About letting people make a fool out of you.
  • 00:21:40.681 --> 00:21:42.717
  • You may have to love them at a distance, but you still
  • 00:21:42.717 --> 00:21:45.386
  • Love them.
  • 00:21:45.386 --> 00:21:46.754
  • The real sign of being filled with the holy ghost is that you
  • 00:21:46.754 --> 00:21:50.191
  • Love them with an everlasting love.
  • 00:21:50.191 --> 00:21:52.426
  • And i'm sick and tired of people preaching about something that
  • 00:21:52.426 --> 00:21:56.030
  • They don't have, teaching about something that they don't have,
  • 00:21:56.030 --> 00:21:59.266
  • Worshiping with something that they don't have.
  • 00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:01.435
  • How can you be a worship leader and can't be speaking to the
  • 00:22:01.435 --> 00:22:04.705
  • People you're worshiping with and yet you wanna bring glory
  • 00:22:04.705 --> 00:22:08.042
  • Down in the house.
  • 00:22:08.042 --> 00:22:09.410
  • The devil is a liar.
  • 00:22:09.410 --> 00:22:11.312
  • Until the love of god is shed abroad in your heart by the
  • 00:22:11.312 --> 00:22:14.782
  • Holy ghost, there will always be something missing out of your
  • 00:22:14.782 --> 00:22:17.752
  • Message, out of your soul, out of your business, out of
  • 00:22:17.752 --> 00:22:20.888
  • Your life.
  • 00:22:20.888 --> 00:22:30.998
  • There is something that god is about to do in your life that
  • 00:22:31.065 --> 00:22:35.069
  • Means you're going to have to have a makeover.
  • 00:22:35.069 --> 00:22:38.239
  • You're gonna have to have a makeover.
  • 00:22:38.239 --> 00:22:40.207
  • You're gonna have to get rid of your old filthy garments and
  • 00:22:40.207 --> 00:22:43.310
  • Your own hateful opinions and your stiff-necked attitudes and
  • 00:22:43.310 --> 00:22:47.882
  • You're gonna have to humble yourself at the cross and first
  • 00:22:47.882 --> 00:22:51.385
  • Receive the love of god into your heart and into your spirit
  • 00:22:51.385 --> 00:22:55.156
  • And then emanate the love of god into the way you treat people
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  • And handle people.
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  • "this is how we know.
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  • By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, that ye
  • 00:23:01.996 --> 00:23:06.400
  • Have love one toward another."
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  • You'll never be my disciple because you wear long dresses.
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  • You'll never be my disciple because you don't wear makeup.
  • 00:23:12.606 --> 00:23:15.609
  • You'll never be my disciple because you shout all over
  • 00:23:15.609 --> 00:23:18.512
  • The church.
  • 00:23:18.512 --> 00:23:19.880
  • You are my disciple when the love of god affects how you
  • 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:24.452
  • Treat the people around you.
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  • You are my disciple when you learn how to forgive.
  • 00:23:26.353 --> 00:23:29.557
  • You are my disciple when you can't hold a grudge.
  • 00:23:29.557 --> 00:23:33.160
  • You are my disciple when you love people for which you have
  • 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.730
  • Nothing to gain.
  • 00:23:36.730 --> 00:23:38.065
  • You are my disciple when you don't get nothing back out of it
  • 00:23:38.065 --> 00:23:41.268
  • And you still do it anyway.
  • 00:23:41.268 --> 00:23:43.204
  • You are my disciple when you love people who are downtrodden.
  • 00:23:43.204 --> 00:23:47.007
  • You are my disciple when you love people who stink.
  • 00:23:47.007 --> 00:23:50.444
  • You are my disciple when you love people who can't live like
  • 00:23:50.444 --> 00:23:53.948
  • You live or go where you go or eat what you eat and you
  • 00:23:53.948 --> 00:23:57.485
  • Still love.
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  • You are my disciple when you love the homeless.
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  • You are my disciple when you love people with
  • 00:24:01.088 --> 00:24:03.524
  • Mental problems.
  • 00:24:03.524 --> 00:24:04.892
  • You are my disciple when you love people who are handicapped.
  • 00:24:04.892 --> 00:24:08.128
  • You are my disciple when you love people who are fornicators
  • 00:24:08.128 --> 00:24:11.732
  • And whoremongers.
  • 00:24:11.732 --> 00:24:13.067
  • You are my disciple when you love people who do things you
  • 00:24:13.067 --> 00:24:16.604
  • Don't like.
  • 00:24:16.604 --> 00:24:17.938
  • You are my disciple when you can feed somebody and can't stand
  • 00:24:17.938 --> 00:24:21.709
  • The smell, but you feed them anyway.
  • 00:24:21.709 --> 00:24:24.011
  • You are my disciple when you serve.
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  • You are my disciple when you carry the bruises of love.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • What it ought to do if you're honest is humble you.
  • 00:24:41.762 --> 00:24:48.669
  • What it ought to do is make you so grateful that god
  • 00:24:48.669 --> 00:24:58.712
  • Could love me.
  • 00:25:00.247 --> 00:25:04.818
  • It's so grateful.
  • 00:25:04.818 --> 00:25:06.887
  • This is what it ought to make you do.
  • 00:25:06.887 --> 00:25:09.456
  • It ought to bring you to the altar like this with a broken
  • 00:25:09.456 --> 00:25:16.230
  • Heart and a contrite spirit laying before god saying i'm not
  • 00:25:16.230 --> 00:25:22.503
  • Even worthy of the kind of love.
  • 00:25:22.503 --> 00:25:24.905
  • I'm not even worthy of the kind of blessings.
  • 00:25:24.905 --> 00:25:26.907
  • I'm not even worthy of the opportunities.
  • 00:25:26.907 --> 00:25:29.243
  • I'm not even worthy of the grace of god.
  • 00:25:29.243 --> 00:25:31.979
  • And until we see conviction come back to church like this, we
  • 00:25:31.979 --> 00:25:36.450
  • Will never have revival.
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  • Bishop jakes: we gotta stop there.
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  • I'm out of time, but it has been a real joy to share with you
  • 00:25:45.059 --> 00:25:48.162
  • "bruised from love."
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  • May god bless you and strengthen you and keep you and could i
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  • Take this opportunity to just say a word of prayer for you?
  • 00:25:52.499 --> 00:25:56.870
  • I know we're living in turbulent times.
  • 00:25:56.870 --> 00:25:59.873
  • I know some things are harder than they've ever been.
  • 00:25:59.873 --> 00:26:02.042
  • Uncertainty is hard to live in.
  • 00:26:02.042 --> 00:26:05.145
  • This restlessness and turmoil every time you turn on the tv or
  • 00:26:05.145 --> 00:26:09.083
  • Turn on your phone or pick up the newspaper and you wonder
  • 00:26:09.083 --> 00:26:13.387
  • Where this world is going.
  • 00:26:13.387 --> 00:26:15.789
  • But you have to understand who holds the world in his hands and
  • 00:26:15.789 --> 00:26:22.296
  • He can do with it whatever he wills.
  • 00:26:22.296 --> 00:26:25.165
  • And we have to trust him in every season of our lives.
  • 00:26:25.165 --> 00:26:30.337
  • And i pray for peace and i pray for comfort and i pray for
  • 00:26:30.337 --> 00:26:35.409
  • Calmness and i pray for those who are grieving and i pray for
  • 00:26:35.409 --> 00:26:40.080
  • Those who are going through changes you never expected to go
  • 00:26:40.080 --> 00:26:43.617
  • Through, that god would strengthen you and give you
  • 00:26:43.617 --> 00:26:47.521
  • Grace that passes all human comprehension.
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  • May he walk with you through this season with dignity and
  • 00:26:52.426 --> 00:26:57.631
  • With grace.
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  • God bless you.
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  • I love you, amen.
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time on
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  • "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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