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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Know Your Role

January 19, 2025 | S25:E10

T.D. Jakes - Know Your Role
It’s time to stop letting others tell you who you are.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Know Your Role | January 19, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ oh, the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: you must understand me that when it comes
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  • To knowing your role, it's not just important for disciples or
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  • Preachers or leaders or thinkers or business leaders or fathers
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  • Or mothers or wives or husbands.
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  • And when it comes to knowing your role, it's
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  • Important even for animals, even--all fowl are not
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  • The same.
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  • All reptiles are not the same.
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  • All four-footed beasts are not the same.
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  • Not--all mammals are not the same.
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  • All fish are not the same.
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  • And peace comes in knowing who you are, knowing how you're
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  • Created, and being willing to be yourself.
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  • If you're a bird, be a bird.
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  • Be a bird.
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  • You don't see birds-- "pray for me that i might
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  • Fly better.
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  • Pray for me that i might do this better.
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  • Pray for me that i'll have more feathers," because they know
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  • That they're not all--they're not created the same because all
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  • Of them have something, but none of them have the same thing.
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  • And you ought to at least be a smart--take the chicken,
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  • For instance.
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  • The chicken is happy to be a chicken with its short, little
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  • Wings and his big, fat body and his skinny, little legs.
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  • They don't need therapists.
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  • They don't need counseling.
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  • They don't need--they don't have emotional disorders.
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  • They don't have breakdowns.
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  • They don't cry.
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  • They walk around on them little-bitty legs as happy as
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  • They could be.
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  • They jump and fly about 3, 4, 5 feet into the air, fall back
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  • Down to the ground again.
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  • They know who they are.
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  • They're in a class all by themselves.
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  • You don't see any other bird any more popular on the cuisine, on
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  • The restaurant list, on the table list.
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  • And the chicken is in a class all by himself, in demand all
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  • Over the world.
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  • From japan to jamaica, the chicken is in demand.
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  • He is always in demand.
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  • But he is nothing like anybody else.
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  • He's not like the eagle, for example.
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  • The eagle, who is majestic and powerful and spreads his wings.
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  • The eagle's wings have a 9-foot span from tip to tip.
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  • He's able to spread his wings as if he is a god-made jet.
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  • He flies faster than any bird.
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  • He goes higher than the chicken would ever go.
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  • His eyesight is so keen that he can see miles away in the storm
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  • And in the dark, and he functions on another level.
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  • They mate in the air.
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  • They give birth in--they make love in the air.
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  • They lay their eggs in the high places.
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  • Eagles are to the the fowl kingdom what a lion is to
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  • The jungle.
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  • They are the masters of where they are.
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  • But they're happy to be eagles.
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  • They're not trying to be chickens.
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  • They're not trying to be an hors d'oeuvre.
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  • They're not trying to be filleted.
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  • They're not trying to be sautéed.
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  • They'll never be on a menu.
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  • They'll never be raised up to be eaten because, though they can
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  • Fly, they are not tasty.
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  • They got something, but they didn't get everything.
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  • And it's long, and it's bright, and as brilliant as the eagle's
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  • Wings are and as high as he can fly, his beauty cannot be
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  • Compared to the peacock, who spreads its wings in the middle
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  • Of mating to attract its mates to show how beautiful its
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  • Feathers is.
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  • Its back is straight as h--.
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  • Its head is held up high.
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  • It may not fly like the eagle, and it may not taste like the
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  • Chicken, but it has amazing wings.
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  • And each of them, though they are the same species, they were
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  • Created to play a different role.
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  • All of them have attributes and liabilities, but they know who
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  • They are, and they are happy to play their role.
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  • Lord, wouldn't it be amazing to be in a church where people knew
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  • Their abilities and knew their limitations, and they were happy
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  • To be who they?
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  • I would love to work in a place where everybody knew their
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  • Abilities and they knew their limitations and they were happy
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  • To play the role.
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  • I would love to be in a family where everybody knew their
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  • Abilities and they knew their limitations and they were happy
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  • To play the role, not comparing themselves.
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  • "you gave him a bigger bicycle than you gave me.
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  • You did this, but--" no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  • See, peace comes from knowing and comes from understanding
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  • That every one of these has its own kind of beauty and its own
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  • Kind of purpose and its own kind of limitations, and it will all
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  • Work out fine if you don't try to be like the eagle.
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  • Everything will be all right.
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  • And if you don't come down to the chicken coop, everything
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  • Will be fine.
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  • And if you don't use those beautiful wings you have to try
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  • To climb to the top of a mountain and soar, you will
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  • Remain beautiful.
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  • But if you go to the clifftop with them beautiful wings,
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  • They will not support you.
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  • You must know your role.
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  • I wanna talk to you this morning because the holy spirit said to
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  • Me that there are some of you who do not know your role.
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  • And he said, "god, i wanna know my purpose.
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  • I wanna know my role.
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  • I wanna know what i'm supposed to do.
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  • I wanna know where i am.
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  • I wanna know this--"
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  • You want all the information.
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  • You don't need information, you need understanding.
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  • You need an understanding that you are not a mistake, that you
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  • Are not an accident, that you are not an afterthought, that
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  • You are not a mishap, that you are not a failure.
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  • You need to understand that you got short wings for a reason.
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  • You need to understand that you're not supposed to fly like
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  • The eagle.
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  • You need to understand that god didn't make a mistake when he
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  • Made you.
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  • You have to understand who you are so that you can interact
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  • With other people on other levels and know who you are
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  • Because you know your role.
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  • You can't produce a film if the supporting actor is trying to
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  • Compete with the leading actor.
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  • You signed up to be a supporting actor, now be happy to be a
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  • Supporting actor.
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  • Don't get in the middle of the movie and start trying to steal
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  • The lines from the lead role, because that's not who you are
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  • In the movie.
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  • Can i get after this?
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  • 'cause i wanna get after this 'cause i'm tired.
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  • I'm tired of shouting saints who get happy but ain't happy, who
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  • Dance but have no joy, who clap but have no peace, who shout but
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  • Have no power.
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  • And the reason you don't have any power is that you have never
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  • Learned how to maximize your potential on your level.
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  • God didn't promise to give us all the same stuff.
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  • Some, he'll give 30.
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  • And some, he'll give 60.
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  • And some, he'll give 100-fold.
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  • And to one man, he gave one talent.
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  • And to another one, he gave two.
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  • And to another one, he gave five.
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  • God did not prepare--did not say that he would equip us all
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  • The same.
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  • He says to us, "i gave you what i gave you, and the only thing
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  • You have to give and account for is what?
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  • The lines i gave you and the script i read to you.
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  • And the only thing i'm asking you to do is play your role."
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  • Good god almighty.
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  • I'm gonna help somebody today.
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  • I can feel it.
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  • "i'm not asking you to play somebody else's role.
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  • I'm not asking you to work with the gift i didn't give you.
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  • The only thing i ask of you is to know your role and play
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  • Your role."
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  • And be confident to play the role that god has given you and
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  • To know that that is what this is all about.
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  • "bishop, i hear you, and you're talking to me, and you're making
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  • Great sense, but i wanna know how does this all tie
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  • Up together?"
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  • I'm so glad you asked because you won't really understand why
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  • I'm preaching this text, because i've only talked to you about
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  • The first john.
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  • I'm talking to you about john, the gospel of saint john, the
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  • Apostle john, the disciple john, the one who laid on
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  • Jesus's breast.
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  • I've been talking to you about him, but he talks to you about
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  • John the baptist.
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  • And you won't understand the power of this text until i tell
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  • You why in the first chapter of the gospel of saint john that
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  • John the writer talks about john the baptist.
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  • There are two different johns.
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  • John the writer is the sons-- one of the sons of zebedee
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  • Described as the son of thunder.
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  • His mother, salome, is said to be the sister of mary, and john
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  • The writer is said to be a cousin of jesus.
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  • And now we understand why he lays on jesus's breast: because
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  • He was a young protégé--younger than peter and the rest of them.
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  • That's why he outran them when they went to the empty tomb,
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  • Because he was young when they were getting older.
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  • That's why he outlived them and ends up out on patmos, writing,
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  • And dies of old age and is not martyred the way the rest of
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  • Them were, because we're talking about john the writer.
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  • But john the writer immediately in the first chapter introduces
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  • Us to john the baptist.
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  • What was it about john the baptist that made john the
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  • Writer write about john the baptist?
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  • Can i have some time with this?
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  • You see, john the baptist is the one that introduced john the
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  • Writer to jesus.
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  • See, john, the saint john, the writer who wrote the book,
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  • Started out not as a disciple of jesus christ.
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  • He was a disciple of john the baptist.
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  • So john the baptist was his first pastor.
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  • And he writes to us about the experience and the lesson he
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  • Learned from his first pastor, john the baptist.
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  • Wild locusts and honey-eating john the baptist.
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  • John the baptist with the funny clothes.
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  • John the baptist, who ministered in the wilderness.
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  • John the baptist, who broke the protocol and was not like
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  • His father.
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  • He did not serve in the temple, but he preached in
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  • The wilderness.
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  • John the baptist, who was confident in his own skin.
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  • John the baptist, who had his own name set apart from all of
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  • His kindred, and none of his kindred had been called by
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  • His name.
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  • John the baptist, his first pastor knew he--who he was.
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  • He says, "i am not elias.
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  • I am not esaias.
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  • I am not the messiah.
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  • I am a voice.
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  • I am!"
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  • The "i am's" keep going on and on.
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  • "i am a voice crying in the wilderness."
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  • And john writes to us about his first pastor, john the baptist.
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  • And theologians agree that it was john who--john and andrew
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  • Who were introduced to jesus when john the baptist was
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  • Baptizing in the jordan and said, "behold the lamb of god,
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  • Who takes away the sins of the world."
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  • That it was, in fact, this experience that caused them to
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  • Follow jesus.
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  • You will remember the text-- they heard john, but they
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  • Followed jesus.
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  • That is something you need to understand.
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  • When the gospel is best applied, they need to hear you, but
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  • Follow jesus.
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  • They need to hear you but follow jesus.
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  • They don't hear you and follow you.
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  • They hear you, and follow jesus.
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  • Bishop jakes: the higher you go, the more you must take god
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  • With you.
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  • I don't care how big it gets, i don't care how mighty it gets.
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  • You have to remember that god is a covenant keeping god, and
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  • Will bless you as you bless him.
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  • And this is the thing about him.
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  • He don't need your tithe.
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  • He proves you through the tithe to see if he blesses you,
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  • Can he trust you?
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  • God could trust abraham.
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  • God blessed joseph out of all his brothers because he could
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  • Trust him.
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  • When we tithe, it's not just something
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  • We do to get it out of the way.
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  • It's not intermission.
  • 00:13:08.971 --> 00:13:10.773
  • It is an opportunity to say, "god, you can trust me."
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  • Bishop jakes: the problem in most of our relationships is
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  • That people do not know their role.
  • 00:13:20.616 --> 00:13:23.319
  • John knew his role.
  • 00:13:23.319 --> 00:13:25.888
  • He said, "i indeed baptize you with water, but there is
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  • One coming after me who is mightier than i."
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  • And that's where most of us lose it.
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  • We're cool until somebody mightier comes.
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  • We're happy until somebody prettier comes.
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  • We're great until somebody smarter comes.
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  • We're satisfied until somebody more anointed comes.
  • 00:13:45.841 --> 00:13:49.078
  • And then we become all frustrated, and we stop being
  • 00:13:49.078 --> 00:13:52.248
  • Us, trying to be them because we are comparing ourselves with
  • 00:13:52.248 --> 00:13:55.818
  • Other people rather than to be satisfied to be who they are.
  • 00:13:55.818 --> 00:13:59.655
  • But john said, "no, you're not gonna make me say i'm esaias.
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  • And you're not gonna make me play like i'm isaiah.
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  • And you're not gonna trick me into trying to be the messiah.
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  • I am not the one.
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  • I am the forerunner of the one.
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  • And there is one coming after me who is mightier than i, and
  • 00:14:17.206 --> 00:14:22.244
  • I'm cool with it.
  • 00:14:22.244 --> 00:14:24.813
  • There's one coming after me who's prettier than i, and i'm
  • 00:14:24.813 --> 00:14:29.118
  • Cool with it.
  • 00:14:29.118 --> 00:14:30.452
  • There's one coming after me who is more intellectual than i, and
  • 00:14:30.452 --> 00:14:34.223
  • I'm cool with it."
  • 00:14:34.223 --> 00:14:35.557
  • Because there's always somebody coming along that's gonna do
  • 00:14:35.557 --> 00:14:39.628
  • Greater, and you gotta be happy to do you.
  • 00:14:39.628 --> 00:14:45.467
  • Until you learn to be happy with the gifts that god gave you,
  • 00:14:45.467 --> 00:14:51.840
  • You'll never be strong enough to introduce somebody greater
  • 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.777
  • Than you.
  • 00:14:54.777 --> 00:14:56.111
  • You'll never be strong enough to walk into a mighty room and be
  • 00:14:56.111 --> 00:14:58.380
  • Comfortable enough not to be competitive.
  • 00:14:58.380 --> 00:15:00.783
  • You'll never be strong enough to stop being envious of
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  • Everybody else.
  • 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:05.955
  • John said, "the one coming after me is mightier than i, and i'm
  • 00:15:05.955 --> 00:15:08.824
  • Cool with it 'cause i know my role.
  • 00:15:08.824 --> 00:15:13.429
  • I am excellent at preparing the way for what's next."
  • 00:15:13.429 --> 00:15:19.802
  • And john the baptist was so self-assured that john--saint
  • 00:15:19.802 --> 00:15:25.808
  • John--wrote about him in his opening chapter because john the
  • 00:15:25.808 --> 00:15:33.549
  • Baptist knew how to play his role.
  • 00:15:33.549 --> 00:15:38.921
  • He said, "you see him?
  • 00:15:38.921 --> 00:15:40.255
  • Behold the lamb of god, who takes away the sins of
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  • The world."
  • 00:15:42.624 --> 00:15:43.959
  • He said, "this is the guy right here.
  • 00:15:43.959 --> 00:15:45.327
  • This is the guy right here.
  • 00:15:45.327 --> 00:15:46.662
  • What's coming after me--he's mightier than me.
  • 00:15:46.662 --> 00:15:48.297
  • I'm not even worthy to tie his shoes, and i'm cool with it.
  • 00:15:48.297 --> 00:15:54.370
  • I'm happy to be me.
  • 00:15:54.370 --> 00:15:57.506
  • I'm happy to be me.
  • 00:15:57.573 --> 00:16:00.442
  • I'm happy to be me."
  • 00:16:00.442 --> 00:16:01.910
  • You'll never find fulfillment until you learn to walk into the
  • 00:16:01.910 --> 00:16:05.180
  • Joy of how you are created.
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  • Even if you quack like a chicken, you gotta learn how to
  • 00:16:08.784 --> 00:16:12.254
  • Walk around in the barnyard and quack and crow and make your
  • 00:16:12.254 --> 00:16:18.060
  • Noises and be happy to understand, "i'm doing what i
  • 00:16:18.060 --> 00:16:21.096
  • Was created to do."
  • 00:16:21.096 --> 00:16:22.865
  • If you spread your wings like the eagle and soar in the air,
  • 00:16:22.865 --> 00:16:27.369
  • While the wind is up under your wings, you can't be looking down
  • 00:16:27.369 --> 00:16:31.707
  • At the chickens, saying, "they want their eggs more than they
  • 00:16:31.707 --> 00:16:35.010
  • Want mine."
  • 00:16:35.010 --> 00:16:38.614
  • Or even if you walk around in the forest, occasionally
  • 00:16:38.614 --> 00:16:41.917
  • Spreading your wings like the peacock and catching the
  • 00:16:41.917 --> 00:16:45.654
  • Attention of people even though you don't fly at all, you know
  • 00:16:45.654 --> 00:16:50.592
  • Who you are.
  • 00:16:50.592 --> 00:16:51.960
  • John the baptist knew who he was.
  • 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.999
  • He knew who he was.
  • 00:16:56.999 --> 00:16:58.667
  • He was happy to be who he was.
  • 00:16:58.667 --> 00:17:00.502
  • He said, "i am a voice crying in the wilderness, 'prepare ye the
  • 00:17:00.502 --> 00:17:04.506
  • Way of the lord.'
  • 00:17:04.506 --> 00:17:05.874
  • I'm just a voice.
  • 00:17:05.874 --> 00:17:07.209
  • My name's not important.
  • 00:17:07.209 --> 00:17:08.577
  • My degrees are not important.
  • 00:17:08.577 --> 00:17:09.912
  • My background is not important.
  • 00:17:09.912 --> 00:17:11.280
  • My pedigree is not important.
  • 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:12.714
  • I'm a voice crying in the wilderness, 'prepare ye the way
  • 00:17:12.714 --> 00:17:22.624
  • Of the lord.'
  • 00:17:22.624 --> 00:17:25.160
  • Greater is coming, and i'm cool with it.
  • 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.296
  • Bigger is coming, and i'm cool with it.
  • 00:17:27.296 --> 00:17:29.264
  • More is coming, and i'm cool with it.
  • 00:17:29.264 --> 00:17:31.100
  • I'm not gonna compete with your calling or your gifting.
  • 00:17:31.100 --> 00:17:34.536
  • I'm happy to be who i am."
  • 00:17:34.536 --> 00:17:38.740
  • And here's my final statement: john, who seems so humble and
  • 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:46.014
  • Knows his role and is so cool to be in his role and says,
  • 00:17:46.014 --> 00:17:50.652
  • "there's one coming after me who is mightier than i," he's
  • 00:17:50.652 --> 00:17:55.591
  • Talking about jesus.
  • 00:17:55.591 --> 00:17:57.526
  • Not long after he introduces jesus, he has fulfilled his
  • 00:17:57.526 --> 00:18:02.297
  • Purpose, and he dies because he has done what he was created
  • 00:18:02.297 --> 00:18:08.804
  • To do.
  • 00:18:08.804 --> 00:18:10.172
  • That's why you die--because i have done what i was created
  • 00:18:10.172 --> 00:18:15.310
  • To do.
  • 00:18:15.310 --> 00:18:16.678
  • And when he had done it, he died.
  • 00:18:16.678 --> 00:18:18.213
  • And the guy who was greater, jesus, is now preaching the
  • 00:18:18.213 --> 00:18:23.185
  • Eulogy of john the baptist.
  • 00:18:23.185 --> 00:18:26.822
  • And jesus is the one that john the baptist said was greater.
  • 00:18:26.822 --> 00:18:33.028
  • But when jesus preaches john the baptist's funeral, he said,
  • 00:18:33.028 --> 00:18:38.867
  • "there is none greater."
  • 00:18:38.867 --> 00:18:41.637
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:18:41.637 --> 00:18:42.971
  • "there is none greater amongst all the prophets than john
  • 00:18:42.971 --> 00:18:47.943
  • The baptist, none."
  • 00:18:47.943 --> 00:18:51.513
  • How can jesus say that there is none greater than john
  • 00:18:51.513 --> 00:18:55.551
  • The baptist?
  • 00:18:55.551 --> 00:18:56.919
  • John never wrote a book of the bible.
  • 00:18:56.919 --> 00:18:59.721
  • John never performed a miracle.
  • 00:18:59.721 --> 00:19:02.824
  • John never stopped the red sea.
  • 00:19:02.824 --> 00:19:05.961
  • John never was neither a major nor minor prophet.
  • 00:19:05.961 --> 00:19:10.032
  • He was just a voice crying in the wilderness.
  • 00:19:10.032 --> 00:19:13.635
  • But jesus says, "there is none greater than john the baptist."
  • 00:19:13.635 --> 00:19:20.242
  • What made john the baptist greater?
  • 00:19:20.242 --> 00:19:25.214
  • It's because john the baptist knew his role.
  • 00:19:25.214 --> 00:19:30.319
  • And i wanna pray for you because the lord said to me that if i
  • 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:35.057
  • Would preach this message, he would minister to people who
  • 00:19:35.057 --> 00:19:38.860
  • Have been tormented by the success and accomplishments of
  • 00:19:38.860 --> 00:19:42.931
  • Other people, comparing themselves with other people.
  • 00:19:42.931 --> 00:19:47.769
  • You have missed great moments of joy and peace and contentment
  • 00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:52.574
  • Because you're not happy to be the rooster.
  • 00:19:52.574 --> 00:19:55.010
  • You wanna be the eagle.
  • 00:19:55.010 --> 00:19:57.045
  • Or you're not happy to be the eagle.
  • 00:19:57.045 --> 00:19:58.480
  • You wanna be the peacock.
  • 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.616
  • And as long as you torment yourself, satan won't even waste
  • 00:20:00.616 --> 00:20:04.820
  • The devil on you because you are your own worst enemy because you
  • 00:20:04.820 --> 00:20:10.025
  • Don't know your role.
  • 00:20:10.025 --> 00:20:13.462
  • And i want to challenge you today that, today, we break
  • 00:20:13.462 --> 00:20:17.165
  • The curse.
  • 00:20:17.165 --> 00:20:19.534
  • Today, we break the stone.
  • 00:20:19.534 --> 00:20:22.037
  • Today, we break through the struggle that has tormented you
  • 00:20:22.037 --> 00:20:25.073
  • All of your life.
  • 00:20:25.073 --> 00:20:26.708
  • Today, we break all the things that were said to you that
  • 00:20:26.708 --> 00:20:30.078
  • Compared you with your sister and compared you with your
  • 00:20:30.078 --> 00:20:32.914
  • Brother and made you always feel less than.
  • 00:20:32.914 --> 00:20:37.519
  • You've always been fighting from a disadvantage because you were
  • 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.956
  • Cursed as a child to feel insecure and inferior, and the
  • 00:20:40.956 --> 00:20:45.260
  • Lord sent this word to you to break through all those other
  • 00:20:45.260 --> 00:20:50.432
  • Words that have ever been said about you.
  • 00:20:50.432 --> 00:20:53.201
  • God said you're not a failure.
  • 00:20:53.201 --> 00:20:55.304
  • You're not a mistake.
  • 00:20:55.304 --> 00:20:56.672
  • You're not a mishap.
  • 00:20:56.672 --> 00:20:58.006
  • You're not a less-than.
  • 00:20:58.006 --> 00:20:59.875
  • You were created for a divine purpose, and everything you need
  • 00:20:59.875 --> 00:21:05.580
  • To fulfill that purpose, you have.
  • 00:21:05.580 --> 00:21:08.216
  • So stop praying for bigger wings, 'cause he didn't mean for
  • 00:21:08.216 --> 00:21:14.489
  • You to fly.
  • 00:21:14.489 --> 00:21:16.425
  • And stop praying, eagle, for more colors, 'cause where you
  • 00:21:16.425 --> 00:21:21.863
  • Are in height, nobody could see 'em anyway.
  • 00:21:21.863 --> 00:21:26.535
  • You have to understand why god gave you what he gave you and to
  • 00:21:26.535 --> 00:21:34.976
  • Just know your role.
  • 00:21:34.976 --> 00:21:38.180
  • Bishop jakes: we got a new devil to fight 'cause we're at a new
  • 00:21:42.384 --> 00:21:45.454
  • Level, and we got to change our game plan.
  • 00:21:45.454 --> 00:21:48.390
  • And i'm tired of people feeding me 40-year-old messages to keep
  • 00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:52.427
  • Me back where i came from.
  • 00:21:52.427 --> 00:21:54.429
  • It's time to go up or get out of the way.
  • 00:21:54.429 --> 00:21:58.300
  • Oh, you don't like me.
  • 00:21:58.300 --> 00:22:00.669
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:22:00.669 --> 00:22:13.648
  • I wish i could just lay on that right there 'cause i got a whole
  • 00:22:17.886 --> 00:22:21.022
  • Lot to say about that.
  • 00:22:21.022 --> 00:22:26.094
  • I'm telling you, be suspicious.
  • 00:22:26.094 --> 00:22:27.763
  • Somebody may be poisoning your food.
  • 00:22:27.763 --> 00:22:34.069
  • Anybody who's feeding you things that make you feel sorry for
  • 00:22:34.069 --> 00:22:37.038
  • Yourself, anybody who keeps dragging you back into your
  • 00:22:37.038 --> 00:22:40.041
  • Past, anybody who keeps holding you down and telling you you
  • 00:22:40.041 --> 00:22:43.011
  • Can't get up because of somebody else, they're putting poison in
  • 00:22:43.011 --> 00:22:45.947
  • Your food.
  • 00:22:45.947 --> 00:22:47.315
  • Poison in your food.
  • 00:22:47.315 --> 00:22:48.650
  • Poison in your mind.
  • 00:22:48.650 --> 00:22:50.118
  • Poison in your thinking.
  • 00:22:50.118 --> 00:22:51.553
  • Nobody has to help you.
  • 00:22:51.553 --> 00:22:52.888
  • Nobody has to give you anything.
  • 00:22:52.888 --> 00:22:54.289
  • Unity will straighten out the whole community.
  • 00:22:54.289 --> 00:22:56.625
  • Come on, it's time to let's go higher and decide who we are.
  • 00:22:56.625 --> 00:23:00.395
  • If god be for us--
  • 00:23:00.395 --> 00:23:02.330
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:23:02.330 --> 00:23:12.407
  • If one person overcame crack cocaine, then every other addict
  • 00:23:16.578 --> 00:23:19.648
  • Ought to look at him and say, "if he got out of it,
  • 00:23:19.648 --> 00:23:22.017
  • I can, too."
  • 00:23:22.017 --> 00:23:24.052
  • If one person got out of jail and didn't go back, every other
  • 00:23:24.052 --> 00:23:26.655
  • Person ought to say, "listen, i'm not going back where
  • 00:23:26.655 --> 00:23:29.391
  • I came from."
  • 00:23:29.391 --> 00:23:30.759
  • If one person opened up a business in an inner city or any
  • 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.061
  • Other part of the city and they made it, what is wrong with you?
  • 00:23:33.061 --> 00:23:37.199
  • God has blessed you with the same skills that he did
  • 00:23:37.199 --> 00:23:40.702
  • Anybody else.
  • 00:23:40.702 --> 00:23:42.070
  • You may have to do some digging and dunging, but when we get
  • 00:23:42.070 --> 00:23:44.673
  • Through digging and dunging, you--i expect you to go into
  • 00:23:44.673 --> 00:23:47.676
  • The enemy's camp and take back what he stole from you.
  • 00:23:47.676 --> 00:23:57.385
  • Notice that phrase, "take back what he stole from you," not
  • 00:23:57.385 --> 00:24:00.388
  • "sit back and whine, and then, 'will you please give me back?
  • 00:24:00.388 --> 00:24:03.358
  • Aww, you didn't treat me right.'"
  • 00:24:03.358 --> 00:24:06.595
  • Take it back.
  • 00:24:06.595 --> 00:24:08.463
  • Somebody holler, "take it back."
  • 00:24:08.463 --> 00:24:13.502
  • I don't have time to wait for somebody to give it back.
  • 00:24:13.502 --> 00:24:17.506
  • If it's mine, i'm gonna--
  • 00:24:17.506 --> 00:24:24.579
  • "well, i need somebody to help."
  • 00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.947
  • That's what i'm talking about-- cross-pollinating, getting with
  • 00:24:25.947 --> 00:24:27.949
  • People who are going in your direction, letting them teach
  • 00:24:27.949 --> 00:24:30.752
  • You and train you and equip you and motivate you so you can go
  • 00:24:30.752 --> 00:24:33.255
  • To the next level.
  • 00:24:33.255 --> 00:24:34.756
  • Bishop jakes: innovation is to see something that is not there
  • 00:24:36.291 --> 00:24:39.227
  • That could be there, to see the potential to change and alter
  • 00:24:39.227 --> 00:24:44.165
  • And innovate it so that you can be creative in your own space.
  • 00:24:44.165 --> 00:24:49.004
  • I need innovative people all around me.
  • 00:24:49.004 --> 00:24:51.506
  • In every aspect of what i do, i need innovative people.
  • 00:24:51.506 --> 00:24:55.443
  • Innovative people are not the people who bring you problems.
  • 00:24:55.443 --> 00:24:58.280
  • They are the people who bring you solutions.
  • 00:24:58.280 --> 00:25:00.348
  • They are the people who stare at the problem until an emergence
  • 00:25:00.348 --> 00:25:04.219
  • Of a solution begins to develop out of the problem, even if it
  • 00:25:04.219 --> 00:25:08.189
  • Has not existed before.
  • 00:25:08.189 --> 00:25:10.025
  • Innovative creativity is extremely important for you to
  • 00:25:10.025 --> 00:25:14.963
  • Surround yourself with that level of innovation, to stay
  • 00:25:14.963 --> 00:25:18.800
  • Abreast on the latest technology, the latest
  • 00:25:18.800 --> 00:25:21.937
  • Opportunities, the new ways that they're doing things now.
  • 00:25:21.937 --> 00:25:25.574
  • We don't need the file cabinets we had when i came along.
  • 00:25:25.574 --> 00:25:28.944
  • The world has changed.
  • 00:25:28.944 --> 00:25:30.345
  • Innovation is necessary in order for you to be relevant.
  • 00:25:30.345 --> 00:25:34.049
  • Are you innovative, and are the people around you innovative,
  • 00:25:34.049 --> 00:25:37.552
  • And are they prepared to engage this world and be plugged into a
  • 00:25:37.552 --> 00:25:42.290
  • Slot that only innovative people can fill?
  • 00:25:42.290 --> 00:25:46.127
  • If not, you are lagging behind while you are standing still.
  • 00:25:46.127 --> 00:25:51.466
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:25:51.466 --> 00:25:59.207
  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals
  • 00:26:02.744 --> 00:26:06.481
  • A timeless truth--
  • 00:26:06.481 --> 00:26:11.319
  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails, but lights
  • 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:20.662
  • The path for those who follow.
  • 00:26:20.662 --> 00:26:27.669
  • Every era has its torchbearers who inspire, innovate, and
  • 00:26:27.669 --> 00:26:32.107
  • Take risks.
  • 00:26:32.107 --> 00:26:34.976
  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
  • 00:26:34.976 --> 00:26:39.247
  • Dawn rises, and the flame multiplies.
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  • Leaders from all walks are equipped to shape the future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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