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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - The Guardian

April 27, 2025 | S25:E66

T.D. Jakes - The Guardian
Don’t rely on your own strength. In your submission, you will find every necessity and comfort you require.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Guardian | April 27, 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 will leave you an advocate, a comforter,
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  • A standby.
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  • I will leave you somebody, a guardian that stands in for you
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  • Until i return again.
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  • You are protected, you are covered, you are sealed, you
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  • Are connected.
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  • He is in you, glory to god.
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  • He is inside of you, protecting you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: so the 2nd chapter of john opens with jesus
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  • At the marriage at cana.
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  • In the times of christ, a jewish wedding was a joyous and
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  • Important event that typically lasted for several days.
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  • Days, i don't know how they afforded it.
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  • We did it in one day and i almost went broke.
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  • The wedding was typically held in a couple's home or in a
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  • Rented space or in a banquet hall or a palace.
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  • The day of the wedding was considered a holiday, and many
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  • Friends and people would come to celebrate this particular
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  • Magnanimous occasion.
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  • The wedding started with the betrothal, which was a simple
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  • Ceremony where the couple would pledge to marry each other.
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  • It started way back then.
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  • Some marriages took longer than others.
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  • After the betrothal, the couple would wait for a few months or
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  • Even years for the wedding to take place.
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  • During this time, the couple would prepare for the wedding,
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  • And not just the couple, but the bridegroom would go and build a
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  • House for his wife because he understood that it was his
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  • Responsibility to provide.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: so, i wanna be sure you get this.
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  • So he engaged her, but he says, i can't marry you.
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  • I have to go prepare a place for you.
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  • And if i go away, i will come again and receive you unto
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  • Myself, that where i am, there ye may be also.
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  • And so jesus is speaking in language that is familiar to the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • He's speaking groom talk. he's speaking groom talk.
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  • He says, "in my father's house, there are many mansions there.
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you so.
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  • But none of them are suitable for you.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you that where i am, there ye may
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  • Be also.
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  • And if i go, i will come again and receive you unto myself."
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  • Hallelujah, that this-- this is marriage talk.
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  • This is wedding talk.
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  • This is what the wedding ceremony is symbolic of.
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  • When we say that the wedding is sacred, it's not sacred because
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  • Jimmy and susie are standing there, 'cause jimmy might not be
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  • Sacred and susie might not be sacred either.
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  • But they could be, i'm not taking anything away from her,
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  • But the institution itself is an icon and an allegory of a
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  • Relationship that has a much deeper meaning than what society
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  • Is talking about today.
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  • This is not a sociological or a political issue.
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  • From the text it is a theological issue.
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  • It always was and it always will be because marriage is a picture
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  • Of the relationship that god has with us in that he has adopted
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  • Us and given us his name.
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  • Did he not say, "whatsoever you ask the father in my name, that
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  • Will i do"?
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  • Did he not say, "whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do it all in
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  • The name of the lord jesus"?
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  • He's given us his name as a sign of betrothal, of adoption.
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  • I will not leave you orphaned.
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  • I will not leave you doubting who you are.
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  • I will not leave you at the mercy of anybody else accepting
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  • You in order for you to be whole.
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  • I will come to you.
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  • Are you hearing what i'm saying to you?
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  • On the day of the wedding, the bride and the groom would start
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  • Their day with a church service, followed by a procession to a
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  • Wedding ceremony.
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  • They would go through all of these routines.
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  • The wedding ceremony typically took place in a synagogue, and
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  • It was led by a rabbi.
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  • During the ceremony, the bride and groom would exchange vows
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  • And make promises to each other.
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  • Make promises to each other.
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  • No wonder we have precious promises.
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  • He made promises to us like any groom would make to his bride.
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  • Precious promises have been extended to you.
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  • And the good thing about his promise, he always keeps
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  • His promises.
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  • He said, "i'm not a man that i should lie, or the son of man
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  • That i should repent.
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  • Have i not spoken it?
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  • Shall i not perform it?
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  • Have i not said it?
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  • Will i not make it good?"
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  • After the wedding ceremony, there would be a grand feast
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  • Which was attended by the family and the friends and the members
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  • Of the community.
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  • The feast typically lasted for several days.
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  • That's why you hear the book of revelations talking about the
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  • Marriage supper of the lamb.
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  • It is a celebration of after the wedding has taken place, we go
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  • Into the marriage supper of the lamb.
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  • In fact, on the cross, jesus was giving his body to his bride.
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  • Oh, you're gonna get with me in a minute.
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  • On the cross, he was giving his body to the bride.
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  • In the resurrection, the bride will give her body to him, and
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  • We will enter into the marriage supper of the lamb.
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  • Do you hear what i'm saying to you?
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  • "let not your heart be troubled.
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  • Ye believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • In my father's house, there are many mansions there.
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you so.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you."
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  • Remember when jesus rose from the dead and mary saw him out in
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  • The garden and she called him "rabboni," and he said, "touch
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  • Me not, for i have not yet ascended to my father."
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  • What he means by that is i've got to put the blood on the
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  • Mercy seat.
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  • I've got to sanctify a place for you.
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  • I've got to consecrate a place for you.
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  • I am not saying that your marriage is a picture of christ
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  • And the church.
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  • I'm saying the institution, the ideology, the concept of
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  • Marriage itself is a picture of christ and the church, that did
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  • He not say in the old testament, "i'm married to the backslider"?
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  • Yeah, you threw him out of the church, but i'm still married to
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  • The backslider.
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  • That's why i told the prophet to go marry a prostitute and i let
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  • Him go redeem her off the slave table because that's what i did
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  • With you.
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  • I promised you and you went a-whoring and had strange
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  • Children, but i still want you.
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  • And if i have to buy you back, that's what redemption means, to
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  • Buy you back.
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  • I bought you back off the slave table.
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  • You embarrassed me, but i still bought you.
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  • You made me ashamed, but i still brought you.
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  • You scandalized my love, but i still brought you.
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  • You took my promises for granted, but i still bought you.
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  • And if i have to go down to the slave auction and see you
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  • Standing there butt naked on the table, you're still my wife.
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  • Your hair is all over your head, your makeup is smudged, but
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  • You're still my wife.
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  • And i will pay the price that is necessary to redeem you
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  • Unto myself.
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  • Notice it is not demption, it is redemption.
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  • I will buy you back.
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  • I will pull you out of your mess.
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  • I will pull you out of your shame.
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  • I will pull you out of your disgrace.
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  • I will pull you out of your troubles.
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  • I will pull you out.
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  • I will snatch you out because you're still mine.
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  • Shake your head and say i'm still his.
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  • I messed up, but i'm still his.
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  • I blew it, but i'm still his.
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  • I haven't been steadfast, but i'm still his.
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  • He says, "i am married to the backslider."
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  • So what jesus is doing in the 14th chapter of the gospel of
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  • Saint john is talking to us like a groom talks to
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  • His spouse/fiancee.
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  • He said, "don't be upset.
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  • I know you're in love with me."
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  • He said, "i'm going away for a little bit, but i'm coming back
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  • To receive you unto myself.
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  • We ain't finished.
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  • We're just getting started.
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  • And while i am gone--and while i am gone, i will not leave you
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  • As an orphan.
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  • I will not leave you in this world by yourself.
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  • I will not leave you in this world to deal with witches
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  • By yourself.
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  • I will not leave you in this world to deal with devils
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  • By yourself.
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  • I will not leave you in this world to face diseases
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  • By yourself.
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  • I will not leave you in this world to have to fend
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  • For yourself.
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  • I will leave you an advocate, a comforter, a standby.
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  • I will leave you somebody, a guardian that stands in for you
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  • Until i return again."
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  • You are protected, you are covered, you are sealed, you
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  • Are connected.
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  • He is in you, glory to god.
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  • He is inside of you, protecting you.
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  • You might not always sense him, but the devil knows that
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  • You're anointed.
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  • The devil already knows that there's oil in your lamp.
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  • The devil already knows that there's glory down inside
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  • Of you.
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  • Did not the bible say, "paul i know, and jesus i know, but who
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  • Are you?"
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  • That means that the devil can really detect when you have had
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  • An encounter with god.
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  • There are certain things he can't do to you because you're
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  • Covered by the blood.
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  • Do you hear what i'm saying to you?
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: so the bible said that when the sons of god came
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  • Around the throne, along with them also came satan.
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  • And jesus--and god asked him, "where have you been?"
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  • He said, "i've been going to and fro and up and down, seeking,"
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  • Watch this, "whom i may devour."
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  • If you gotta seek who you can, then there's gotta be somebody
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  • Who you can't devour.
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  • The reason you're still here is because he couldn't devour you.
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  • The reason you made it through your test is 'cause he couldn't
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  • Devour you.
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  • The reason he didn't take you out is because he couldn't
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  • Devour you.
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  • The devil can only devour some people.
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  • A thousand may fall at your right side, ten thousand will
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  • Fall at your left side, but it will not come nigh you, 'cause
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  • I've got a guardian around you.
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  • Do you hear what i'm saying to you?
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  • Bishop jakes: god wants something
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  • That costs you something.
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  • In the old testament, it was a bleeding sacrifice.
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  • And the bible says, "the life of the flesh is in the blood."
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  • Now, isn't that an offering?
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  • Imagine if the offering this morning was a pint of blood.
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  • God respects blood because it costs you something,
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  • Something is only valuable if it costs you something.
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  • If it didn't cost you something, some time, some effort
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  • Or something, then it doesn't mean anything.
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  • If it doesn't mean anything to you, it doesn't mean anything
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  • To me.
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  • And what god wants, it's not about your stuff, because
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  • If you think about it a minute, whatever you got,
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  • He already gave it to you.
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  • And if he was worried about the money, he had just kept it
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  • And you wouldn't have a job.
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  • He is giving you the prosperity to prove you.
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  • Bishop jakes: the apostle paul, who was a new convert who had
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  • Been a follower of judaism all his life, a hebrew and zealous
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  • Concerning the law when he was converted on the road to
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  • Damascus, the very first book he wrote was
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  • The book of thessalonians.
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  • So don't read paul's writings in the order that they are in your
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  • Bible, the first writing of paul came from thessalonians, and he
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  • Says--he says, "that day will appear, but not before the man
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  • Of sin is revealed," because all paul knew is that the groom was
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  • Coming back.
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  • It was years before he understood the death, burial,
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  • And resurrection.
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  • It was years before he understood justification
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  • By faith.
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  • It was years before he understood the fruit of
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  • The spirit.
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  • It was years before he understood the gifts of the
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  • Spirit, but while he was still in corinth trying to establish
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  • The church, he wrote thessalonians because the one
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  • Thing he was sure of is that he was coming back.
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  • The guardian had not yet reminded him of all that
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  • Jesus taught.
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  • So as paul's understanding increases, his
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  • Epistles increased.
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  • But the one thing he understood from the beginning is
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  • That he's coming back again.
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  • Touch somebody and say, "he's coming back again."
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  • He's coming back again.
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  • He's coming back.
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  • You'd be surprised how differently people would live if
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  • They really believed he was coming back again.
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  • You'd be surprised at the habits you say you can't quit, that you
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  • Would quit if you believe that jesus was coming back again.
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  • You'd be surprised at the people you wouldn't cuss out if you
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  • Believe that jesus was coming back again.
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  • You'd be surprised the people you wouldn't do evil to if you
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  • Really believe that jesus was coming back, because the bible
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  • Said, "if you really believe what i said, you will keep
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  • My commandments."
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  • "not 'you will dance,' not 'you will shout,' not 'you will
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  • Holler,' but the sign that you really believe me and that you
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  • Really love me is that you obey me."
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  • Oh, i lost you.
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  • Let me try you.
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  • Obedience is a sign of love. obedience is a sign of love.
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  • Obedience is a sign of love.
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  • So that's why obey him is in the vow.
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  • It's not 'cause he's smarter than you.
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  • It's because your marriage is playing a role, and the bride is
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  • The church.
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  • And as a bride, the bible--we include the word "obey" into it,
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  • Because obedience is a sign of love.
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  • It's not that you're any lesser.
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  • It's not who makes the most money.
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  • It's not anything that society is talking about today.
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  • That's why the text said that society cannot see me.
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  • You're trying to make the culture see the christ.
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  • The culture can't see the christ.
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  • The culture only sees what's fair, what's right, according to
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  • The norms of the times that you're living in.
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  • But this is not about you and harry.
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  • This is not about you and boo boo.
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  • This is not about you and frankie.
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  • This--you're just an icon, you're just a symbol.
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  • The union is a symbol of a far deeper principle and a allegory
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  • That has way more strength in it than your personality does
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  • With his.
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  • This is not about you.
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  • "i'm not obeying nobody."
  • 00:17:13.749 --> 00:17:15.584
  • This is not about you.
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  • Your marriage because--becomes a symbol of a struggling church,
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  • To obey the lord.
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  • Let me go deeper.
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  • "husbands,
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  • Love your wives as," i told you playing a role, "as
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  • Christ has loved the church and gave himself a ransom for it."
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  • I wish y'all would stop complaining about obeying 'cause
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  • You got the best deal.
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  • It told the men to love you like christ loved the church.
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  • Christ died for the church.
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  • And if you stay married long enough--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: i said if you stay married long enough,
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  • You're gonna have to die.
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  • What you would do, what you'd like to do as a man, what you'd
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  • Like to say, how you like to respond has to die because
  • 00:18:31.894 --> 00:18:36.131
  • You're playing a role.
  • 00:18:36.131 --> 00:18:38.934
  • "husbands, love your wives as christ has loved the church and
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  • Gave himself a ransom for it."
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  • Can i preach this thing this morning?
  • 00:18:49.912 --> 00:18:55.918
  • So god establishes the marriage
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  • As a prophecy that has meaning
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  • Behind it because it is symbolic
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  • Of christ and the church.
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  • "i go to prepare a place for you that where i am, there ye may
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  • Be also.
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  • Whether ye go, you do not know, but i am the way, the truth, and
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  • The life.
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  • No man cometh unto the father save he come by me."
  • 00:19:36.892 --> 00:19:42.364
  • Jesus is talking language that they understood.
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  • He's talking marriage talk.
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  • The reason it sounds like funeral talk is that we are in a
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  • Different culture, so we bring bodies in saying, "let not your
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  • Heart be troubled.
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  • Ye believe in god, believe also in me.
  • 00:20:03.685 --> 00:20:06.922
  • In my father's house, there are many mansions there.
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you so.
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  • I go to prepare a place."
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  • We don't even know what we're talking about!
  • 00:20:16.098 --> 00:20:21.637
  • What we're really talking about is the promise of the betrothed,
  • 00:20:21.637 --> 00:20:28.043
  • Christ to the church.
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  • What we're really talking about is the dilemma joseph was in,
  • 00:20:31.446 --> 00:20:35.617
  • Because before he could build a house, mary got pregnant.
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  • And he said, "let me give her a bill of divorcement privately to
  • 00:20:41.490 --> 00:20:45.294
  • Put her away," because had he finished the house, she wouldn't
  • 00:20:45.294 --> 00:20:50.499
  • Have had jesus in a barn.
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  • He didn't have a prepared place for her.
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  • So she rode on a donkey.
  • 00:21:02.177 --> 00:21:03.745
  • I feel like preaching this morning.
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  • She rode on a donkey.
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  • 'cause everything was going down so fast, and he said, "well,
  • 00:21:09.951 --> 00:21:13.221
  • Maybe i should divorce her," but the angel said, "don't
  • 00:21:13.221 --> 00:21:15.957
  • Divorce her.
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  • That that is in mary was conceived by the holy ghost,"
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  • And it put him in a dilemma because he hadn't prepared a
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  • Place for her.
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  • So he said--he said, as a guardian, "i'mma have to put you
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  • In the inn," but there was no room at the inn, so she had the
  • 00:21:32.407 --> 00:21:37.646
  • Baby in the barn.
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  • But because god is sovereign, he meant for her to have the baby
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  • In the barn, because she didn't really have a baby, 'cause
  • 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.623
  • Babies aren't born in barns.
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  • She had a lamb.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: come on, come on with me,
  • 00:21:56.965 --> 00:21:59.067
  • Come on with me, church.
  • 00:21:59.067 --> 00:22:00.836
  • Come on with me, church. come on with me, church.
  • 00:22:00.836 --> 00:22:03.972
  • Come on with me, church. come on with me, church.
  • 00:22:05.207 --> 00:22:09.211
  • Come on with me, church. come on with me, church.
  • 00:22:09.277 --> 00:22:12.180
  • Come on with me, come on, come on.
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  • Do you know god's got a place for you?
  • 00:22:14.883 --> 00:22:18.653
  • God's got a prepared place for you.
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  • That you are not in this world by yourself.
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  • Holler at me.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: i remember when i used to have to go out and speak
  • 00:22:34.069 --> 00:22:37.072
  • A lot, i was going all the time, and my kids were real small, and
  • 00:22:37.072 --> 00:22:40.876
  • They never liked for me to go preach, you know.
  • 00:22:40.876 --> 00:22:43.378
  • Man, they felt like i was leaving them.
  • 00:22:43.378 --> 00:22:45.180
  • They didn't understand i was taking care of them, but they
  • 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:48.283
  • Felt like i was leaving them.
  • 00:22:48.283 --> 00:22:49.618
  • They'd grab my legs and say, "daddy, don't go.
  • 00:22:49.618 --> 00:22:53.388
  • Daddy, don't go."
  • 00:22:53.388 --> 00:22:55.157
  • I'd have suitcases at the door, "daddy, don't go."
  • 00:22:55.157 --> 00:22:57.225
  • I'd say, "i'm coming--i'm coming back.
  • 00:22:57.225 --> 00:23:01.630
  • I'm coming back.
  • 00:23:01.630 --> 00:23:03.365
  • But i left you with your mother.
  • 00:23:03.365 --> 00:23:08.403
  • I didn't leave you by yourself.
  • 00:23:08.403 --> 00:23:10.906
  • I left you with your mother.
  • 00:23:10.906 --> 00:23:12.774
  • You're in good hands," and this is what jesus is saying to
  • 00:23:12.774 --> 00:23:16.511
  • His disciples.
  • 00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:17.846
  • He said, "i'm not gonna leave you by yourself.
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  • You're not gonna be without a guardian.
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  • You're not gonna be without a protector.
  • 00:23:25.153 --> 00:23:27.656
  • You're not without somebody who's gonna feed you.
  • 00:23:27.656 --> 00:23:30.725
  • You're not without somebody who won't fight for you.
  • 00:23:30.725 --> 00:23:33.595
  • You're not without somebody who won't take care of you," but
  • 00:23:33.595 --> 00:23:36.832
  • Jesus is speaking of the holy spirit, glory to god.
  • 00:23:36.832 --> 00:23:41.603
  • Can i go deeper with this thing?
  • 00:23:41.603 --> 00:23:44.639
  • Do you not realize that the holy spirit is your guardian,
  • 00:23:44.639 --> 00:23:52.414
  • Protecting you in the wait,
  • 00:23:52.414 --> 00:23:55.750
  • That the anointing of god in your life is there to protect
  • 00:23:55.750 --> 00:23:59.654
  • You in the wait?
  • 00:23:59.654 --> 00:24:02.257
  • So that people can get a lock of your hair and can't curse you.
  • 00:24:02.257 --> 00:24:09.231
  • So that they can make a doll that looks like you and stick
  • 00:24:09.231 --> 00:24:11.967
  • Pins in it, but you can't feel it.
  • 00:24:11.967 --> 00:24:15.904
  • Because you got the holy ghost.
  • 00:24:15.904 --> 00:24:19.241
  • Because you got the holy ghost down on the inside, you are
  • 00:24:19.241 --> 00:24:23.678
  • Still here.
  • 00:24:23.678 --> 00:24:25.447
  • Some of you are the only one in your family that survived, but
  • 00:24:25.447 --> 00:24:29.751
  • Because of the holy ghost, you are still here.
  • 00:24:29.751 --> 00:24:33.688
  • The disease that runs through your family ran into a wall when
  • 00:24:33.688 --> 00:24:39.394
  • It ran into the guardian that's standing up to protect you from
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  • All hurt, harm, or danger.
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  • Touch seven people and say, "i'm protected."
  • 00:24:46.101 --> 00:24:53.275
  • I'm protected, i'm protected.
  • 00:24:53.275 --> 00:24:57.612
  • God's got me covered.
  • 00:24:57.612 --> 00:24:59.481
  • I am protected.
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  • You ought to put ad--you ought to put adt on your shirt and let
  • 00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:08.356
  • Hell know this house is protected.
  • 00:25:08.356 --> 00:25:12.961
  • Don't try to burglarize me because god has got
  • 00:25:12.961 --> 00:25:16.965
  • Me protected.
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  • I wish i had a thousand people with the holy ghost in this
  • 00:25:18.466 --> 00:25:22.637
  • Place that would thank god for the guardian that you have over
  • 00:25:22.637 --> 00:25:27.242
  • Your life.
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  • Slap somebody and say, "the guardian did it."
  • 00:25:28.577 --> 00:25:31.913
  • The guardian blessed me with my house.
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  • The guardian blessed me with my car.
  • 00:25:34.950 --> 00:25:37.819
  • The guardian blessed me with my life.
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  • He's just that good.
  • 00:25:40.689 --> 00:25:42.824
  • He makes a way for me.
  • 00:25:42.824 --> 00:25:44.960
  • He prepares a place for me.
  • 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.429
  • He opens doors for me.
  • 00:25:47.429 --> 00:25:49.864
  • He provides for me.
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  • He protects me when the serpent tries to bite me.
  • 00:25:52.100 --> 00:25:57.105
  • It's the oil that drives the serpent away from me.
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  • I'm covered by the oil of god.
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  • Somebody shout, "yes."
  • 00:26:05.113 --> 00:26:07.215
  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
  • 00:26:09.317 --> 00:26:15.757
  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
  • 00:26:15.757 --> 00:26:18.493
  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
  • 00:26:18.493 --> 00:26:21.529
  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
  • 00:26:21.529 --> 00:26:25.166
  • Be united.
  • 00:26:25.166 --> 00:26:26.534
  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
  • 00:26:26.534 --> 00:26:28.937
  • Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
  • 00:26:28.937 --> 00:26:30.939
  • John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
  • 00:26:30.939 --> 00:26:37.112
  • Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
  • 00:26:37.112 --> 00:26:41.650
  • John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
  • 00:26:41.650 --> 00:26:43.985
  • Of you.
  • 00:26:43.985 --> 00:26:45.353
  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
  • 00:26:45.353 --> 00:26:47.822
  • Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
  • 00:26:47.822 --> 00:26:50.091
  • 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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  • "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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