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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Fit For The Fight | February 19, 2025
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- Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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- Bishop t.d. jakes: stand in the middle of controversy.
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- Stand in the middle of the storm.
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- Stand in the middle of loneliness.
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- Stand in the middle of an attack.
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- Oh my god, i don't care whether you can fight.
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- I care that you can stand.
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- ♪ whoa, the potter's touch. the potter's touch ♪
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- Bishop jakes: paul is on his way to antioch, but somewhere along
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- The way, barnabas's cousin has decided, "i was with you in
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- Jerusalem when it was glamorous and all my friends could see me,
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- But now that you're leaving outside of the palestinian area
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- And going into other regimes of influence and thought,"
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- He disappeared.
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- He didn't backslide, he disappeared he didn't resign,
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- He just disappeared.
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- He didn't give any reason.
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- We have to guess at what the reason was.
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- He just didn't show up for the fight.
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- He was sent for the fun.
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- He was fit for the fun, but he wasn't fit for the fight.
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- So, paul takes barnabas.
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- John mark has disappeared.
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- And he goes into the antioch.
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- And he goes into antioch like you do when you're going
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- Into controversy.
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- You know how you feel when you're going into controversy
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- And you're kinda cocked because you don't know what's
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- Gonna happen?
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- And he gets there and there is one of the nastiest blowouts you
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- Have ever seen.
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- And the preachers almost got to fight, physically fighting.
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- They should have called it the preachers of antioch.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- And it got so nasty, it got so violent that paul and peter
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- Got into a shouting match.
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- "you shout out it is," it's going crazy.
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- Paul got in peter's face because peter vacillated.
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- One moment he was eating with the gentiles, embracing them as
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- Legitimate brothers endorsing that the blood had made
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- Them equal.
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- And then when james comes along and starts to criticize him,
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- He stops eating with them and moves away.
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- And paul is on the short end of the fight because very few
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- People agreed with paul about this.
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- Very few people agreed with paul about this.
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- And paul got up in peter's face because their friendship was
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- Making paul's life harder.
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- Have you ever loved somebody who was making your life?
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- And there is no kind of fight like the fight you get in with
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- Somebody you care about.
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- Because what paul really is saying to peter is, "you're
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- Making my life harder.
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- Now because of your foolishness, barnabas is questioning me too.
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- And if it were not hard enough that it is hard to be me, now i
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- Gotta walk with with a guy who is questioning my revelation.
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- And you made my life harder and i wanted you to make my
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- Life better."
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- Have you ever wanted somebody to make your life better and they
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- Made your life harder?
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- And you think, "i had every right to expect better things
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- From you, but because you were not as fit as you needed to be,
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- As strong as you needed to be, loving you is killing me."
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- John mark, who was with him, has blown the coop.
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- He has put his hand to the plow and looked back and walked back
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- And went back and we don't even know where he is.
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- How many people started out with you that are not with you today?
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- That's why you cannot build your life around what people say
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- Because today they say, "hosanna and tamara," they
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- Say, "crucified."
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- You can't count on people.
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- When it all boils down, you got jesus.
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- I mean when all hell breaks loose, if you get sick long
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- Enough, if you go down bad enough, if they say the wrong
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- Thing about you, you'll be shocked about who'll let you go.
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- By verse 36, the bible says, "after some days, paul said to
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- Barnabas, 'let us return and visit the brothers in every city
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- Where we proclaim the word of the lord, and see how they are.'
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- Now barnabas," i told you barnabas has already got a
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- Little attitude, "wanted to take with them john called mark."
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- But paul says, "uh-uh."
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- "he thought it best not to take with them one who had withdrawn
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- From them in pamphylia."
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- He said, "this is no time to take a quitter."
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- He says, "it's too thick in here to be fooling with somebody
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- Who's shaking.
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- I can't pick somebody who's not fit for the fight.
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- I don't know what's gonna happen next.
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- I can't lean on somebody that i don't know.
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- You got me in the foxhole.
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- John mark is good.
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- I know he's your cousin and everything, and his mama sent a
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- Big love offering, but leave john mark at home because he
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- Might do another pamphylia on me.
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- John mark is not fit for the fights."
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- [speaking in tongues]
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- Ask your neighbor, "are you sit for the fight?"
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- So, it says, "but paul thought best not to take with him one
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- Who had withdrawn from them in pamphylia and had not gone with
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- Them to the work," didn't go to the work.
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- Fit for the fun, but wasn't down for the work.
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- I wanna eat the bread, but i don't wanna grind the meal.
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- I wanna have a husband, but i don't wanna cook.
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- I wanna have a wife, but i don't wanna provide.
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- I wanna have kids, but i don't want them to take my time.
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- I want success, but no sacrifice.
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- I want the championship.
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- I want the trophy, but i don't wanna sweat.
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- He said, "i can't take nobody with me like that."
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- He said, "he's not up for it."
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- "and there rose a sharp disagreement," they're already
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- On the edge.
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- You know how you got somebody with you and you've already
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- Kinda marked them 'cause you've already seen them kinda shake on
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- You a little bit and now if pushes come to shove and things
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- That come to a head and john mark is just an underbelly of a
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- Conflict that was already pre-existing, you understand
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- What i'm saying?
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- And so, the--a sharp argument arose.
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- They shouldn't have got this mad about this, but when there's
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- Already an undercurrent, it was the straw that broke the
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- Camel's back.
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- There was a disagreement that rose up against him that was so
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- Strong that they separated from each other.
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- This is painful.
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- They separated from each other.
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- And when they separated from each other, barnabas took mark
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- With him.
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- He said, "you don't want to take him, i'll take him."
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- "and he took mark with him and they sailed away to cyprus."
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- They must have fell off the boat or something because you don't
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- Hear much about nothing mighty happening in cyprus or anywhere
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- Else about barnabas and john mark because john mark was not
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- Fit for the fight.
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- "but paul chose silas and departed, having been commended
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- By the brothers to the grace of the lord."
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- He left with silas.
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- You remember silas.
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- Silas--paul and silas later would be locked in jail.
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- Lord, help paul, if he would have gone to jail with
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- John mark.
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- You remember the text, the text i'm going to now, "and at
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- Midnight, paul and silas prayed and gave thanks unto god.
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- And suddenly there was a sound and a shaking down from heaven."
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- If paul would have went to jail with john mark, they'd have
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- Killed him because john mark wasn't fit for the fight.
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- But when he got in a fight with silas, silas said, "if you sing,
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- I'll pray.
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- We gonna get out of this, brother."
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- Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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- Male: it's about integration, not competition.
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- Male: 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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- Yusi thembekwayo: think scale.
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- John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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- Bishop jakes: all of us have seats of potential in us.
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- Male: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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- Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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- Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
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- Business is.
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- John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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- Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
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- It's the moment.
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- This is just the beginning.
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- Bishop jakes: it may not be the alluring temptation of lust and
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- Degradation that makes you drop your hands.
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- It can be you just get tired.
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- Just get tired.
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- Ever got tired?
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- Just get tired and quit.
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- You know, i found out something about tired it's funny.
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- Tired will always reign if it goes unchallenged.
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- Sometimes you have to challenge tired.
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- I'm not saying you ought not to go to bed and normal stuff
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- Thinks got sense.
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- I'm not talking about the tired that sleep will fix.
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- I'm talking about being weary in well doing.
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- I'm talking about how you can show up and still be missing.
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- I'm talking about how you can be there and not be present.
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- And people don't know that in your heart, like john mark,
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- You're gone.
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- And when you go away, other people get what should have
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- Been yours.
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- They step in and they receive what by rights should have
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- Been yours.
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- And then what you have to do--this is what you have to do.
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- Either you lie to yourself and get bitter and blame everybody
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- For your own weaknesses or you strengthen yourself.
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- The reason i said tired reigns when it goes unchallenged is
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- Because when i started working out, the first sign of not being
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- Fit is how tired you get.
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- But if you keep working out, the point that used to wear you out,
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- You'll push right past it.
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- It doesn't even bother you anymore.
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- The more you get in shape, the more you can run and you won't
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- Even get winded where you used to get winded because you're
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- Getting fit.
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- You can tell you're fit by your speed of exhaustion.
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- The more you are able to endure, the more you are fit for
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- The fight.
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- Fast forward, paul is now an old man.
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- He's in a jail cell and he's writing to timothy.
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- He's in the final hours of his life.
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- He's matured and he's seasoned.
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- He's coming to the end.
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- He says to timothy, he says, "alexander the coppersmith has
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- Done me much evil.
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- May the lord reward him for what he has done."
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- He says, "timothy, i fought a good fight.
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- I fought all the way down to the end.
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- I finished my cause.
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- Now laid up for me is a crown of righteousness."
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- He says, "timothy, when you come, bring me my coat.
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- I'm cold in this jail.
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- And bring me some paper because i gotta keep writing.
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- I'm down to the last drops."
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- Then almost at the end of the chapter, he says, "timothy, when
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- You come, bring john mark."
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- He says, "because john mark is profitable unto me for
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- The ministry."
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- My takeaway point is this.
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- Don't ever throw anybody completely away just because
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- They're not fit now.
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- Doesn't mean, [speaking in tongues],
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- That they won't be fit later.
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- Paul is now seething and he's aged and he's matured.
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- He was strong enough to say no when no needed to be said, but
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- He was not malicious.
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- He didn't become hateful.
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- He wasn't vindictive.
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- He said, "go get john mark."
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- "john, you sure didn't let me down, but you've grown
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- Since then.
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- You ran away from stuff, left me in a mess, but you've grown
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- Since then.
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- You didn't keep your word and you didn't manage your
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- Responsibilities and you caused me trouble that i would have
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- Never had to go through, but you've grown since then.
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- You have gone from unprofitable having nothing left, to being
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- Profitable, being strong enough to have reserves.
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- You are profitable unto me for ministry."
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- P.s., most scholars believe that the gospel of saint mark was
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- Written by john mark.
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- Isn't it amazing that somebody who could make such a mess,
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- Could make such a turnaround and write the gospel of saint mark?
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- The lord told me to tell you, "you did blow it.
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- You did disappoint me.
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- Really let me down.
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- But i have not forgotten you."
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- And he said to me this morning, "go get john mark.
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- Tell," [speaking in tongues], "tell john mark that though he
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- Was weak in the middle," tell john mark, "you're gonna
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- Finish strong."
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Stand to your feet.
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- I wanna ask you a question this morning.
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- There may be somebody in this room, in fact, there is somebody
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- In this room when testing time came, you didn't have what
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- It took.
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- When it was really important, you weren't fit for the fight.
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- But the lord said to t.d. jakes,
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- "when you come to the part of the house, go get
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- John mark."
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- Paul says, "i cannot leave till i tell john mark who he is.
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- I cannot go until i tell john mark," leave her alone, leave
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- Her alone, it's okay.
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- Leave her alone, leave her alone, leave her alone.
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- Bring her to me.
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- Let her come right to me.
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- Let her come to me, i said.
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- Come on, come on, stay right here.
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- He told me to go get john mark.
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- You blew it, you hurt me, but god is not finished
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- With you yet.
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- Bishop jakes: we got a new devil to fight because we're at a new
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- Level and we've got to change our game plan and i'm tired of
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- People feeding me 40-year-old messages to keep me back where
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- I came from.
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- It's time to go up or get out of the way.
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- Oh, you don't like me. [congregation cheering]
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- I wish i could just lay on that right there because i got
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- A whole lot to say about that.
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- I'm telling you, be suspicious.
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- Somebody may be poisoning your food.
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- Anybody who's feeding you things that make you feel sorry for
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- Yourself, anybody who keeps dragging you back into your
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- Past, anybody who keeps holding you down and telling you you
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- Can't get up because of somebody else, they're putting poison in
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- Your food.
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- Poison in your food, poison in your mind, poison in
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- Your thinking.
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- Nobody has to help you.
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- Nobody has to give you anything.
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- Unity will straighten out the whole community.
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- Come on, it's time to let's go higher and decide who we are.
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- If god be for us. [congregation cheering]
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- If one person overcame crack cocaine, then every other addict
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- Ought to look at him and say, "if he got out of it,
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- I can too."
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- If one person got out of jail and didn't go back, every other
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- Person i would say, "listen, i'm not going back where i
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- Came from."
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- If one person opened up a business in an inner city or any
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- Other part of the city and they made it, what is wrong with you?
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- God has blessed you with the same skills that he did
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- Anybody else.
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- You may have to do some digging and dugging, but when we get
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- Through digging and dugging you--i expect you to go into the
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- Enemy's cab and take back what he stole from you.
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- Notice that phrase, take back what he stole from you, not sit
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- Back and whine and then you go, "please give me back.
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- You didn't treat me right," take it back.
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- Somebody holler, take it back.
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- I don't have time to wait for somebody to give it back.
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- If it's mine, i'm go--
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- Well, i need somebody to help.
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- That's what i'm talking about cross pollinating, getting with
- 00:24:26.647 --> 00:24:28.649
- People who are going in your direction, letting them teach
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- You and train you and equip you and motivate you so you can go
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- To that next level.
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- Bishop jakes: innovation is to see something that is not there
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- That could be there, to see the potential to change and alter
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- And innovate it so that you can be creative in your own space.
- 00:24:44.999 --> 00:24:49.737
- I need innovative people all around me in every aspect of
- 00:24:49.737 --> 00:24:53.541
- What i do.
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- I need innovative people.
- 00:24:54.909 --> 00:24:56.243
- Innovative people are not the people who bring you problems,
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- They are the people who bring you solutions.
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- They are the people who stare at the problem until an emergence
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- Of a solution begins to develop out of the problem.
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- Even if it has not existed before, innovative creativity is
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- Extremely important for you to surround yourself with that
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- Level of innovation, to stay abreast on the latest
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- Technology, the latest opportunities, the new ways that
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- They're doing things now.
- 00:25:24.705 --> 00:25:26.440
- We don't need the file cabinets we had when i came along.
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- The world has changed.
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- Innovation is necessary in order for you to be relevant.
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- Are you innovative and are the people around you innovative,
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- And are they prepared to engage this world and be plugged into
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- A slot that only innovative people can feel?
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- If not, you are lagging behind while you are standing still.
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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.
- 00:26:47.054 --> 00:26:50.691
- 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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- Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on
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- Social media and share your story of how god is
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- Impacting your life.
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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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