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T.D. Jakes - Grasping the Moment

December 16, 2024 | S

T.D. Jakes - Grasping the Moment
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Grasping the Moment | December 16, 2024
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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: you are not going to get to your next
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  • Destination just by prayer.
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  • I hate to mess with you.
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  • I hate to mess with your mind, but prayer will not be enough.
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  • It will be by choice.
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  • The subject of the sermon is "grasp the moment."
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  • That's what's wrong with you now.
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  • When the other people are taking action, you are looking around.
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  • When i say, "praise the lord," let every--
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • ♪ woo-oh, the potter's touch, ♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: he grasps esau by the heel.
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  • The position is not lined up right.
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  • And the bible says--to his mama, rebekah, he says in
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  • The word of god that "the elder shall serve the younger."
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  • Now, let's translate this out of the context of the text into
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  • The turbulence of you.
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  • You--the human you and the divine you.
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  • The human you and the divine you are still you.
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  • They still wear the same suit.
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  • They got on the same tennis shoes.
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  • They wearing the same shirt.
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  • They came out at different times.
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  • I was born june the 9, 1957.
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  • I was born again september 1972.
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  • And the trial of my life is to make sure that the elder--
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Y'all didn't get that.
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  • Y'all ain't ready for me this morning.
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  • Y'all can't handle that kind of stuff.
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  • Y'all can't handle that.
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  • The bible said that "the elder shall serve the younger."
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  • So i'm trying to make the old me serve the new me.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • I'm gonna give you 30 minutes to get a good praise out.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • This is a moment--this is a moment--this is a moment.
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  • This is a moment--this is a moment--this is a moment.
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  • This is a moment.--this is a moment--some of y'all missed it.
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  • When i told you to praise the lord, some of y'all just
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  • Looking around with your cute self.
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  • The subject of the sermon is "grasp the moment."
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  • That's what's wrong with you now.
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  • When other people are taking action, you are looking around.
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  • When i say, "praise the lord," let every--
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Everything that has breath, praise ye the lord.
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  • Slap your neighbor and tell him, "i'm getting ready to grasp
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  • The moment."
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  • I'm getting ready to grasp the moment.
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  • So if you're nervous, you better get out of the way.
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  • I'm getting ready to grasp this moment.
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  • You won't get this until you make your flesh serve
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  • Your spirit.
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  • You gotta bring your flesh up under subjection.
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  • You gotta bring your lust up under subjection.
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  • You gotta bring your pride up under subjection.
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  • You gotta bring your selfishness up under subjection because the
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  • Elder shall serve--now, watch this because this is important.
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  • This is important.
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  • They fought in the belly, they fought in the birth.
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  • And the next thing, they grow up, and they fight over
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  • The bowl.
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  • The belly, the birth, the bowl.
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  • The belly, the birth, the bowl.
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  • And all this texas-talking about dimensional warfare.
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  • In order to bring things into divine alignment, there will be
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  • Dimensional warfare.
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  • The belly, the birth, the bowl.
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  • So it doesn't talk about them growing up.
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  • It goes from the birth to now they're grown.
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  • And it describes how different they are grown.
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  • They were different in the belly.
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  • They were different in the birth.
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  • They are now different at the bowl.
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  • It says that jacob was kinda a mama's boy.
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  • He had to be.
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  • His daddy didn't like him.
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  • If i had a men's meeting i'd wear that out.
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  • And so he's good at what mama's good at.
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  • The anointing you respect is the anointing you receive.
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  • So jacob can do what rebekah can do.
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  • Are you following me?
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  • Let me get into this.
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  • Jacob can do what his mama can do, but jacob is important
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  • Because jacob is the one that spreads the lineage.
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  • It shall not come through esau.
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  • Now, isaac doesn't pay much attention to jacob, though jacob
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  • Is serving isaac.
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  • According to the talmud, the particular meal he prepared is
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  • In honor of his father, meaning he's a mama's boy, but he got
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  • Daddy hunger.
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  • Esau comes in the house hungry.
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  • We pass over all of their childhood experiences, we come
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  • Down to their hunger.
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  • Point four: the power of choice is always based on your values.
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  • How you choose the decisions you make will always tell me what
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  • You value.
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  • Esau comes in hungry.
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  • He comes in hungry.
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  • He comes in hungry.
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  • Flesh is hungry.
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  • Flesh is always--flesh is always hungry--your flesh, my
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  • Flesh, his flesh, her flesh, young flesh, old flesh.
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  • Flesh is always hungry.
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  • Later in the new testament, it will use esau as a type of
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  • Fornication and lust because flesh always wants something.
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  • They not shouting out like they was before.
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  • I told you they wasn't gonna like this part when i got down
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  • To this.
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  • Esau is so hungry, and he values flesh over spirit, so he says,
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  • "give me some of what you got in that pot."
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  • And what jacob was cooking--let me tell you something, jacob:
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  • Don't despise your gift, 'cause your gift is gonna make room
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  • For you.
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  • I know it's not a gift that people want to recognize, but
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  • It's a gift that god is gonna use to open up
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  • The next dimension.
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  • This is a prophetic word for somebody who wishes you had
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  • A gift somewhere else.
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  • No, god's gonna take the gift that he gave you, and it's gonna
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  • Make room and bring you before great men.
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  • And though it looks like you ain't doing nothing, sitting
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  • Around in the house cooking beans, who would have thought
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  • That god would have took a bowl of soup and turned it into
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  • A moment?
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  • But while he was stirring the pot.
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  • While he was stirring the pot, esau busts in the door.
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  • He said, "hey, jacob!
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  • Man, i'm hungry."
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  • Jacob said, "you know i can cook.
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  • You know this is good.
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  • You smell it, don't you?
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  • You smell it, don't you?"
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  • And then the bible tells us something that
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  • Seems unnecessary.
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  • It tells us that the soup is red.
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  • The red man wants red soup.
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  • And i had to read it over and over again because when esau saw
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  • The soup, the red soup cooking in the pot, the boy who was born
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  • Red values what he is.
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  • Flesh always values what it is.
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  • I'm coming in.
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  • Watch this: you are no greater than your choices.
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  • Your choices are built off of your values.
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  • Whatever you value is what you're gonna choose.
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  • Esau chose what he was.
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  • The red man chose the red soup, and he didn't value
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  • His birthright.
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  • He said, "what good is my birthright when i'm hungry
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  • Like this?"
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  • He had something that he didn't value.
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  • And anytime you have something that you don't value, you will
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  • Always lose it.
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  • Somebody who knows the word oughta shout right there.
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  • Anytime you have something or somebody or some job or some
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  • Place or some opportunity that you do not value, you will
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  • Always lose what you do not value.
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages,
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  • History reveals a timeless truth:
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  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails
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  • But lights the path for those who follow.
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  • Every era has its torchbearers who inspire,
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  • Innovate, and take risks.
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  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard,
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  • A new 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
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  • Are equipped to shape the future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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  • Bishop jakes: your choice determines your change.
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  • God is going to offer it to you.
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  • Your values will determine whether you are worthy of it.
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  • Jacob is cooking soup.
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  • Esau has a birthright that will affect thousands of years and
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  • All of his children, and jacob was over there just cooking.
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  • This is the moment.
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  • The moment is determined by choice, not who they like
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  • The best, not who came out first, not how they struggled.
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  • This is the moment that all of heaven is taken over the balcony
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  • To see the choice because the choice determines the change.
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  • You are not going to get to your next destination just by prayer.
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  • I hate to mess with you.
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  • I hate to mess with your mind, but prayer will not be enough.
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  • It will be by choice.
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  • I thought for sure.
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  • I thought for sure--before i went back and studied the text,
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  • I thought for sure that esau's name changed to edom, from which
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  • Came the edomites, which means red.
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  • I thought it happened at birth, but it didn't.
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  • They didn't change his name to edom, which caused all his
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  • Descendants to be the edomites, who ended up possessing the
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  • Territory that we now call jordan and a little bit of what
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  • Is israel, too, was their dwelling place.
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  • It did not happen at birth.
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  • It did not happen at birth.
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  • It happened at the bowl.
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  • When he looked at the red soup and thought it was more valuable
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  • Than his birthright.
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  • When he looked at the depreciating asset and didn't
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  • Value the appreciating asset.
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  • When he looked at the gratification of the moment
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  • Rather than the reality of the process.
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  • When he looked at exciting the crowd as a preacher but not
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  • Studying at home to know the message.
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  • See, that's what's wrong with what we got right now.
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  • We got a lot of people who want to look like what they are not.
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  • They don't want to really do the work.
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  • You always draw what you value, but you're doing it to you.
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  • You end up with the man you deserve.
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  • You end up with what you value.
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  • We end up with the president we value.
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  • Our presidents are not anything but a reflection--
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  • None of 'em.
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  • I don't care whether it's democrat or republican or--
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  • I don't care what you call it, choice is always determined by
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  • Value or the lack thereof.
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  • So what you see going on outwardly is always a reflection
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  • Of what started going on inwardly because it determines
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  • What you value.
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  • Now, a choice is coming, and you have to be strong enough to go
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  • Long enough in pain for a greater vision of what god is
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  • About to do in your life.
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  • This choice changed his name, changed his children.
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  • Had he not made this choice, god would later tell moses, "i am
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  • The god of abraham, isaac, and esau."
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  • Had he not given up his birthright, his children would
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  • Have been the heads of the tribes of the children that we
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  • Know as israel, but for a bowl of soup.
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  • The jewish talmud said that esau spent the rest of his life
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  • Trying to get that birthright back, and even in-depth that he
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  • Was bringing gold and silver trying to get the right to be
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  • Buried in the sepulcher of his fathers.
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  • Because by the time his values caught up with his life, he had
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  • Lost, point five, the moment.
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  • The power of the moment.
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  • The power of the moment is not retroactive.
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  • There are some moments you will never have again.
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  • There are some things that once you lose 'em, you will never get
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  • A do-over again.
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  • The bible said, "esau sought repentance with many tears
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  • And found it not."
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  • What is this that god is saying?
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  • Repentance wouldn't work.
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  • Repentance always works, but not this time.
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  • Because this time, it is the power of the moment.
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  • Doing the right thing at the right time will determine
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  • The right outcome.
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  • If you miss the moment.
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  • All of heaven is suspended.
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  • The chronicles could not be written until the choice
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  • Was made.
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  • This choice will determine the rest of the book.
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  • But god already knew what he was going to do.
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  • And he chose on the level he was, not on the order of his
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  • Birth, because he was in a position he wasn't, and he sunk
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  • To the level of who he really was.
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  • He was a soup guy in a prince's place.
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  • And so he valued low, and he miss his moment.
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  • There is a moment-- stand to your feet.
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  • There is a moment-- [speaking in tongues]
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  • Hear me.
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  • Hear me good.
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  • Hear me.
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  • Hear me, church.
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  • Please, hear me. please, hear me.
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  • There is a moment that god will give you that will determine how
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  • Your story ends.
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  • There is a moment that god will give you that if you discern the
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  • Power of that moment, no devil in hell can stop you from your
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  • Destiny in that moment.
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  • Who would have fought that after all of jacob's fighting,
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  • He would win the battle with a bowl of soup?
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  • Some of you that have been struggling for years for what is
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  • Rightfully yours and all of your fussing and all of your fighting
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  • Hadn't got it done, god's gonna use your gifts.
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  • After years of struggle, after years of inequity and injustice
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  • And misfortune, after years of being stepped over and
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  • Overlooked, after years of crying his self to sleep and
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  • Saying, "why doesn't daddy like me?"
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  • After years of not getting what he knew inside of himself was
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  • Really his, everything shifted in a moment.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You don't even see it coming.
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  • You don't even suspect it's gonna happen.
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  • You have decided, "i'm gonna make the best of how
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  • Things are."
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  • You said, "it is what it is."
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  • No, it ain't. no, it ain't.
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  • No, it ain't. no, it ain't.
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  • It ain't what it is. it's about to shift.
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  • Who am i preaching to?
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  • For god's sake, let me see who i'm preaching to.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • I heard the lord say, "i'm gonna give you a moment, and what you
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  • Do with that moment is up to you."
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  • Hear ye the word of the lord.
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  • God is going to give you a moment, and what you do with
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  • That moment is up to you.
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  • My subject is "grasp the moment."
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  • Jacob was a fighter in his mama's belly.
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  • He was a fighter in the belly.
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  • He was a fighter in the birth.
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  • He was a fighter in the bowl.
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  • He was a fighter even when god confronted him.
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  • He was a fighter all of his life.
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  • He wrestled with god.
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  • He wrestled with esau.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You have had to fight all of your life.
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  • Hear me today: after years of struggle and being tough and
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  • Sucking it up and dealing with what you gotta deal with, god
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  • Said, "i'm about to give you a moment, and if you will grasp
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  • That moment, i will open up the windows of heaven
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  • And pour you out a blessing."
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  • Bishop jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the most
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  • In my life.
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  • It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
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  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that
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  • I saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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  • Let there be light!
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  • Couldn't see no way out, and god made a way out of no way.
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  • Think about the times that you had no plan and you just
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  • Stumbled into a blessing.
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