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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Choice That Breaks The Curse | January 14, 2025
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- ♪♪♪
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- Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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- Bishop t.d. jakes: i wanna hear somebody praise the lord who
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- Knows you're not worthy.
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- Who knows you've been through hell.
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- Who knows that the odds were against you.
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- Who knows that if it had not been for the lord that was on
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- Your side, you would have been swallowed up.
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- That's who i want to hear.
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- Praise ye the lord!
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- ♪ woo-oh, the potter's touch, ♪
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- ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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- Bishop jakes: jacob was dying.
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- But israel sat up in the bed and strengthen himself.
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- The fact, men, the fact that i have a jacob does not mean that
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- I don't have an israel that can bless you.
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- Sisters, just because you discovered my jacob, don't you
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- Think for one minute that i don't have an israel that's
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- Stronger than jacob that can rise up over top of the jacob
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- Because after all, jacob is dying.
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- I said jacob is dying.
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- I said jacob is dying.
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- I said jacob is dying.
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- He's not dead yet, but jacob is.
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- And israel will always strengthen himself.
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- Anyway, levi and simeon and dan and gad nepalon, they all
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- Gathered around the bed to get their father's blessing.
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- Judah came too.
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- Issachar was there to get the blessing from their father and
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- The father began to sit up in the bed and strengthen himself
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- And when levi and simeon come to the bed, instead of him blessing
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- Them, he cursed them.
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- Jacob cursed them.
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- He cursed him because he was angry at them.
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- And he brings up the past.
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- And he says, "now you come for a blessing.
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- But i am going to curse you.
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- Cursed art thou simeon and levi, because of your anger, and
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- Because of your wrath and because of your cruelty.
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- I curse you."
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- Let me give you the backstory.
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- The reason the old man cursed them is because simeon and levi
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- Had found out that the men of shechem had raped their
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- Sister dinah.
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- And they decided we're gonna retaliate and get even.
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- They didn't ask their father, they didn't tell their father,
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- But they took matters into their own hands.
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- They were angry men and they had good reason to be angry.
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- Whenever a man is angry, he has good reason to be angry.
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- He didn't just get angry.
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- There are no such things as kids that just are angry.
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- That boy is mad about something.
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- You cannot correct the behavior until you find the cause.
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- They were angry because their daughter, their sister dina had
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- Been raped by the men of shechem.
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- She had no business going over there in the first place, but
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- That's another message i preach it on mother's day.
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- And so they decided this is what they did.
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- They told the men of shem, "since you have had our
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- Daughter, we're gonna take you into the family.
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- But in order to be a legitimate part of the family and get our
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- Blessing, you have to be circumcised."
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- So all of the men of shechem circumcised themselves so they
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- Could be accepted in the family.
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- And levi and simeon waited until after they had shed the blood of
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- Circumcision and they were swollen and hurting and couldn't
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- Move and then they swooped down on them and killed every last
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- One of them.
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- When jacob heard about it, he was angry with them.
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- He was angry with his sons because they were cruel and
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- Because they were mean and because they were con artists
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- And tricksters.
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- He was angry with his sons because they took matters into
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- Their own hands and caused blood to be shed.
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- He was angry with his sons because they were--oh he was
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- Angry with his sons because they were like him.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Could it be possible that there are men in this room who are
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- Angry with your son because that boy is too much
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- Like you.
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- You see, jacob had mellowed now.
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- He wasn't a trickster he was when he was young.
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- He had gotten wiser and more mature, and then he has kids and
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- He has to fight a young version of himself.
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- Isn't it funny how we forget the stupid things we did?
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- When we're raising our children, we sit on our high horses of
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- Judgment and say, "boy, that was stupid.
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- How could you do that?"
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- Only because you have amnesia, jacob.
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- You have forgotten the many stupid things you did and do.
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- He cursed levi for being too much like him because generally
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- Whatever is wrong runs in the family.
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- Levi had lived with the curse of his father.
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- That curse stayed on his sons and on his son's sons because
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- When you have a curse, it affects the next generation.
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- Generational curses passed down.
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- Jacob, who had cursed him, cursed him for being like him,
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- For being like his grandmother, rebecca, who was slick and his
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- Great great uncle laban who was a trickster and a con artist.
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- This propensity had run through the family and now the old man
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- Is fighting the boy for being like the family.
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- And the curse was on him.
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- The curse was on him for years until we come to our text.
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- And what is amazing in this damnable situation.
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- In this damnable situation where moses has gone up on the
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- Mountain top to pray and all of the children of israel have
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- Stripped out of their clothes and they're dancing naked around
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- The calf in the worst situation in the history of the
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- Inauguration of the nation of israel, became an opportunity
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- For redemption.
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- Everybody's naked and out of breath.
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- I'll explain it later.
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- And and pastor moses has come back to the church and the whole
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- Congregation is, "what had happened was."
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- And moses is angry.
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- He's angry. he's angry.
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- Moses himself is a part of the levites.
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- Moses is angry.
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- Aaron himself is a part of tribe of levi.
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- Moses is angry because what he is kin to has gone out
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- Of control.
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- The hardest thing to correct is the enemy that you are akin to.
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- I know right through the heart went right through the heart.
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- And so moses says, "who is on the lord's side?"
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- And you would have thought that judah would've jumped up because
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- Judah means praise.
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- You would have thought that judah would have jumped up and
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- Said, "hallelujah, glory to god.
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- I'm on the lord's side."
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- You would have thought that benjamin would come out of
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- Benjamin would come all the kings of israel would come in
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- With a crown on his head and say, "i am on the lord's side."
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- But of all the people to say something, here come
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- The levites.
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- The ones who had lived with the curse of their father on their
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- Lives, all of their lives, jumped up and with one choice,
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- Said, "i am."
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- I know i'm not much.
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- I know i've done some dumb things.
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- I know i've made some horrible mistakes in my life.
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- I know that y'all don't really like me because of the crazy
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- Things i did, but in spite of what you say about me, i made
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- This decision just as i am without one plea.
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- Here i am, i'm coming to the lord.
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- I know, i know i did some things that i couldn't pass
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- A drug test.
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- I couldn't pass.
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- Oh y'all don't hear me.
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- I couldn't pass an alcohol test.
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- I've got some spots on my background, some mess ups on
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- My resume.
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- I did something that has shut down some things.
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- It's hard for me to get a job.
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- They won't give me a place to stay in, but in spite of all
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- Of that.
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- Although i wonder if there's anybody on the lord's side with
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- Blotches on your record and mistakes in your past, but she
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- Said, "i am."
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- Shake hands with three people and tell them i am on
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- The lord's side.
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- I may not be much, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I made some mistakes, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I wish i could take it away, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I've been lied on, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I've been guilty sometimes, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I've been cursed, but i am on the lord's side.
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- I've been bruised, but i am on the lord.
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- That's who i want to hear.
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- Praise the lord.
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- I don't mean no harm, but i don't wanna hear you goody two
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- Shoe people praise the lord.
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- I don't know you.
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- I can't relate to you, and sometimes i don't even like you.
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- I wanna hear somebody praise the lord who knows you're not
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- Worthy, who knows you've been through hell, who knows that the
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- Odds were against you, who knows that if it had not been for the
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- Lord that was on your side, you would have been swallowed.
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- That's who i want to hear.
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- Praise ye the lord.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, i did some dumb things but i made the
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- Right choice.
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- I made some bad mistakes but i made the right choice.
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- You cute folk don't have to praise him, but i made too
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- Many mistakes.
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- I had too many curses not to praise the lord.
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- I will bless the lord at all times.
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- His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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- I can't hear you levi.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals
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- A timeless truth.
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- That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails but lights
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- The path for those who follow.
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- Every era has its torch bearers who inspire, innovate, and
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- Take risks.
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- And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
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- Dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
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- This is the international leadership summit.
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- A place where leaders from all walks are equipped to shape
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- The future.
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- Will your legacy light the way?
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- Bishop jakes: let me tell you why god chose you.
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- He chose you so he could show off that when all hell was
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- Against you, that if god before you, he's more than the world
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- Against you.
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- He said, "i'm gonna pick you up.
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- I'm gonna turn you around.
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- I may have to be your daddy.
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- I may have to be your mamma but when i get through with him,
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- Will make you the head and not the tail, above not beneath.
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- And if nobody else will praise me.
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- Let the redeemed of the lord."
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- [congregation applauding]
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- I'm almost finished.
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- Sit and we're done.
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- I'm gonna show you one more thing.
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- I wanna show you what happened to your curse.
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- I wanna show you what happened to your curse if you make the
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- Right choice.
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- I'm gonna show you what happened to your curse.
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- I'm gonna show you why you don't have to be a statistic even
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- Though you were molested.
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- I'm gonna show you why you don't have to be a statistic even
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- Though you never met your father.
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- I'm gonna show you why you don't have to have a bad end just
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- Because your father left you and your mother.
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- I'm gonna show you why there was a curse on your life.
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- There's no denying that.
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- The odds were stacked against you.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You didn't have the advantage that your neighbors did.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You've cried yourself to sleep of many a nights wishing you had
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- What you didn't have.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You had to go to school by yourself.
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- You had to clap when you made your own touchdown.
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- You felt funny when the other kid's daddy celebrated.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You got married trying to be something that you didn't see.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You're trying to be a husband, but you never live with one.
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- There's no denying that.
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- You're old enough to have a baby but not mad enough to be
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- A father and you're trying to feel your way and there's no
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- Denying that.
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- And if satan had his way, your end would be terrible.
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- You would never succeed because there was a curse on your life.
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- But 2,000 years ago on an old rugged cross,
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- There was a man from galilee who walked the cobblestone streets
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- Of jerusalem and he healed the sick, and he raised the dead,
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- But that wasn't what he came to do.
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- He came to take the curse that was on your life.
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- And the bible said that he took every curse that was against us,
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- And when he was nailed to the tree, your curse was nailed to
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- The tree.
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- Somebody shout in this house.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Isaiah said, and i'm almost finished, he was wounded for
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- Our transgressions.
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- He was bruised for our iniquities.
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- The chastisement for our peace was upon him.
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- Do you know what that means?
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- He took a beating so you could go to bed.
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- He took a beating so you wouldn't have to worry about it.
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- He took a beating so he could reverse the curse.
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- The bible said every curse was nailed to the tree.
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- And on the cross the book said, "cursed is he that hangs on
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- The tree."
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- He was cursed so you wouldn't have to be.
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- He was killed so you wouldn't be.
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- He was bruised so that you would be liberated.
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- He was beaten so that you could break the curse and if you carry
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- Your curse now it is your fault.
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- He took the sting out of your death the victory out of
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- Your grave.
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- And everything that you should have been as a result of how you
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- Was raised was nailed to the cross with jesus
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- So that you can be free.
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- And if you're paying that bill, it's just because you want to,
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- You don't have to pay for it because jesus.
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- Anybody in the balcony hear me because jesus.
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- Because--do y'all hear me over there?
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- Because jesus.
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- Does anybody hear me over there?
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- Because jesus.
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- So the next time the devil wakes you up at 2 o'clock in the
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- Morning and tells you what you can't be, and tells you what you
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- Can't have, and tells you what you can't do, and reminds you of
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- Painful moments, and memories and incidents in your life, and
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- He tells you you will always be less sin and you will always
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- Be limited.
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- And the next time the enemy makes you feel bad when you're
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- Walking through the mall and you see a boy with his daddy.
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- And the next time the enemy makes you feel bad because you
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- Had to get somebody to walk you down the aisle.
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- And the next time the enemy tries to make you feel bad
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- Because you think you didn't get what other people got.
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- You throw the word right up in his face and tell him, "he who
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- The son have set free."
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- He who the son has set free.
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- "he whom the son has set free, is free indeed."
- 00:21:27.402 --> 00:21:34.343
- And i asked the lord, "what would you have me preach?"
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- He said, "preach to the children who are carrying
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- A needless curse.
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- Tell my young sons and daughters."
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- Then i took the blows for your freedom
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- So that the rest of your life
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- Doesn't have to look like the past of your life.
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- "tell my daughters that i will walk you down the aisle and i
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- Will open doors for you and i will make a way for you and i
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- Will take you on the college campus and i will give you favor
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- With god and with man and tell my children that if i be for
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- You, i am more than the world against you."
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- The lord told me, he said, "let everybody else minister to
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- The fathers."
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- You got forest and all of them to talk to the fathers.
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- Talk to the children even if they're 40 and 50 years old who
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- Drugged themselves to church, not really wanting to hear this
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- Father's day stuff, talk to the children whose fathers are dead
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- And they feel uncovered.
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- And tell them that i covered you.
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- Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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- John hope bryant: it's about integration, not competition.
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- Vusi thembekwayo: you are the change makers.
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- Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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- Be united.
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- Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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- Vusi: think scale.
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- John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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- Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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- Vusi: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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- Janell stephens: i started it in my kitchen.
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- Actually yes.
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- Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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- John: the world shifted.
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- Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs.
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- Right now is the moment.
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- This is just the beginning.
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- Bishop jakes: i was sitting around with a bunch of
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- My friends.
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- It was steve harvey, and i was talking to steve harvey and
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- Ll cool j. i've talked to to tyler perry and oprah and all
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- These different kinds of people, and one of the things i found in
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- Common in all of their stories, all of their stories had
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- Problem childhoods.
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- You can either use it to drag you down or you can use it to
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- Pull you up.
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- Some of our biggest heroes came from broken places.
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- Squeeze that hand.
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- There's a hero in you.
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- There's an overcomer in that woman, there's an overcomer in
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- That young girl, there's a toughness, there's a fight in
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- Her, there's a drive in her, there's a call on her life.
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- There's a strength in that young man that is going to
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- Unearth today.
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- And we're gonna turn that thing around and we're gonna run
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- Through troops and we're gonna leap over walls and we're gonna
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- Be overcomers and we're gonna go further than other people went
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- And we're gonna learn how to applaud ourselves and encourage
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- Ourselves and believe in ourselves and we're gonna stop
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- Crying over who left and who died and who wasn't and we're
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- Gonna say this is the day that the lord hath made, i will
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- Rejoice and be glad in it.
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- Squeeze that hand.
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- The spirit of the lord god be upon you and upon your life and
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- Upon your family and upon your children.
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- I speak to those childhood things.
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- When i was a child, i thought as a child, i spake as a child, i
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- Understood as a child.
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- But when i became a man, when i became a woman, i put away
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- Childish things.
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- This sunday morning i'm gonna celebrate because this is
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- The day that i put away childish things, squeeze that hand.
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- Father, let fresh oil fall on your children.
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- Let fresh oil fall on your daughters.
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- Let fresh oil fall on them like never before and show them that
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- You are our father, that you saw every game, that you attend
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- Graduations, that you've been our protector and our shield and
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- Our buckler, and even when we got in trouble it was you that
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- Got us out.
- 00:26:43.652 --> 00:26:45.153
- It was you that got us out.
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- It was you that got us over.
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- It was you that got us through and right here on this sunday
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- Morning, we give our god the glory and we give our god the
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- Honor and we give our god the praise for thine is the kingdom
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- And the power and the glory.
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