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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Let Us Not Rend It

April 21, 2025 | S25:E63

T.D. Jakes - Let Us Not Rend It
Jesus is more precious and valuable that any possession we can own. Lay aside anything that would keep you from following Him.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Let Us Not Rend It | April 21, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: we celebrate the resurrection because it is
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  • The triumphant result of the death and the burial.
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  • The resurrection is so climactic because the cross was so brutal
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  • And the burial so lonely.
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  • Ultimately, when we carry a cross, it should be empty
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  • Because he is not there anymore.
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  • And when we look into the tomb, the angel said, "he is not here.
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  • He is risen."
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  • I don't want to be where jesus used to be.
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  • I don't want to worship who he used to be or how he used to be.
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  • I want to worship a resurrected savior.
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  • Because as he is, so are we in this world, not as he was, as
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  • He is.
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  • He is resurrected and, according to the book of ephesians, when
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  • He got up, we got up in him.
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  • And we should live a resurrected life.
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  • A resurrected life is the culmination of somebody who is
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  • Willing to go to the cross for him.
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  • Somebody who is willing to be buried and obscured and
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  • Forgotten and rejected like him.
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  • If you are that somebody, you will also be in the likeness of
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  • His resurrection.
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  • That's what baptism is all about.
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  • That's what this season is all about.
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  • That's what the resurrection is all about, and we celebrate that
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  • He may have died on friday, but he rose on sunday morning.
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  • Let that be a template for your life.
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  • Focus on the resurrection, not the crucifixion.
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  • This too shall pass.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: god is offering you something this morning.
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  • But if you just think it's another sunday morning, just
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  • Another easter sunday, you could miss it.
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  • The thing that stands out to me
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  • Is that they brought jesus
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  • Before the courts, before pilate.
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  • And when pilate remanded him over into the custody of the
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  • Romans, they beat him so severely that many men died on
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  • The whipping posts.
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  • They plucked the beard out of his face.
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  • I didn't say they shaved him, they plucked the beard.
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  • Every man in here who's ever grown a beard understands.
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  • They plucked the beard out of his face.
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  • He carried his cross, bleeding, before he was ever nailed to it.
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  • Isn't it funny how you have to carry stuff, bleeding?
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  • Have weight on you and bleeding.
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  • They were abusive.
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  • They humiliated him, they ridiculed him.
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  • His flesh was torn.
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  • His garments were torn.
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  • The only thing that doesn't fit in the story is this robe.
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  • Everything else is poor and ugly and bruised and tattered and
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  • Torn, but this robe.
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  • The bible says it was a seamless robe.
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  • Rich, expensive.
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  • Woven, hand woven,
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  • From the top to the bottom, like the veil of
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  • The temple, from the top to the bottom.
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  • Well, the roman soldiers weren't particularly church
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  • People anyway.
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  • They weren't spiritual or anything like that.
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  • They were just doing their job.
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  • They didn't see jesus as anything except another thing on
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  • The punch list they had to do.
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  • Like people who decided a week or two ago, "okay, yeah, let's
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  • Go to church.
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  • It's another thing i have to do."
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  • While jesus was dying, they divided his garments
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  • Amongst themselves.
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  • They didn't see anything valuable about him dying, but
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  • His clothes.
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  • But when it came to this garment, it was--it was the
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  • Kind of garment that royalty would wear.
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  • What is jesus doing with this?
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  • This bleeding, bruised, emaciated piece of flesh.
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  • This ugly scene has a beautiful robe.
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  • They thought it was valuable.
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  • So they, you know.
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  • He bled in it.
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  • He'd suffered in it.
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  • That they said, "let's be careful with this.
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  • This might be worth something."
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  • Yeah, it's sharp.
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  • I come home with that, that'll be something.
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  • That'd blow my wife's mind, i come in with this.
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  • This is--this is valuable, this is, yeah, it's nice.
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  • Fit good too.
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  • This is--this is valuable.
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  • Be careful with it.
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  • Be careful with this, that's something.
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  • Jesus had to give it up because for what he had to do.
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  • For what he had to do, he had to come out of it, but he had come
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  • Out of things before, because before he came to earth, he was
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  • Surrounded with majesty and honor and glory and the host of
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  • Heaven and the royal diadem surrounded him, but when he saw
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  • You in trouble, he came out of it.
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  • He came out of it.
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  • He tossed it aside like it wasn't nothing.
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  • And came down through 42 generations, wrapped himself up
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  • In flesh, and dwelt among us.
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  • And we beheld the wonder of his glory, the only begotten of the
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  • Father full of grace and truth.
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  • He gave up what he had to be who he is.
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  • When those roman soldiers found that robe, they were so careful
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  • With it, because they said, "let us not rend it.
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  • Be careful with it.
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  • Let's don't tear it.
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  • This is valuable."
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  • How in the world could you be so careful with his robe
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  • And so brutal with him?
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  • You thought nothing about tearing his flesh, but you said,
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  • "let us not rend it."
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  • You think that is more valuable
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  • Than that.
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  • You're no better than joseph's brothers who thought his favor
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  • Was in his coat.
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  • And they thought if they got the coat, they got the favor, but
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  • The favor is never on what's on me.
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  • You foolish men, the favor is never what's on you.
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  • It's always what's in you.
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  • The favor is not in gucci bags and louis vuitton purses and
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  • Finery, the favor is not in fancy hairdos and
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  • Expensive clothes.
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  • That's nice, but the favor!
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  • You need a favor that if you had to be stripped out of all of
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  • That, you would still know who you are and know what you've got
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  • And know that what's on the inside is always greater than
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  • What's on the outside.
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  • You see, all of life is built on this one principle.
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  • Your life is a result of what you value.
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  • You will always get what you value.
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  • It's amazing to be amazing and not amaze people,
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  • Though you are amazing.
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  • Because they are not amazed by you, they are amazed by what
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  • They can get from you.
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  • Isn't that amazing?
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  • Isn't it amazing how they could be that close to the most
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  • Precious thing that heaven had to offer and not perceive its
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  • Value and be careful with that which is corruptible, and be
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  • Abusive to that which is eternal?
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  • It's amazing to me, but i don't know why i think it's amazing.
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  • It's no more amazing than men who can be good to their
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  • Girlfriends and bad to their wives.
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  • It's no more--it's no more amazing
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  • Than people who treat other people's children
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  • Better than they treat their own children.
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  • It's no more amazing.
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  • I think--i think that when choices are about to be made,
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  • God will always send--will allow distractions to come so
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  • That you can prove what you value.
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  • This is a distraction.
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  • If you had any idea what really mattered, you would walk away
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  • From every distraction.
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  • You would walk away from everything that's held your
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  • Fascination and held your attention and stopped you from
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  • Getting the things that matter most in your life.
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  • You would walk away from that which is temporal and go to that
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  • Which is eternal.
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  • I know--i know this isn't shiny and i know it's not bright and i
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  • Know it's not beautiful to some of you, but all that matters is
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  • This, and all that will fade away is that and why are you so
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  • Careful with things that do not last?
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  • Why do you put so much into people that don't value you,
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  • Into things that won't be there for you?
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  • Why do you go for that which is shiny and walk away from that
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  • Which is rugged?
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  • They didn't understand the value of the cross.
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  • This is more than a service and this is more than a ceremony,
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  • And this is more than a routine and some of us are simply tired
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  • Of being careful with things that are gonna perish anyway.
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  • Why are you so careful with people that really don't want
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  • You anyway?
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  • Why do you put so much into stuff that really doesn't care
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  • About you anyway and you laugh at the cross and you hold on to
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  • The robe?
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  • But let me tell you, i'd rather have the blesser than to have
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  • The blessing.
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  • I'd rather have the healer than to have the healing.
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  • I'd rather have the savior, than to have the saving.
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  • But some people don't see.
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  • They don't see the value, they're careful.
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  • They're careful with that that perishes.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration not competition.
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  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: think scale.
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  • John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have
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  • Seeds of potential in us.
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  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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  • John: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs, right now is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: "jesus said unto her, i am the resurrection,
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  • And the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
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  • Shall he live."
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  • Celebrate with us the resurrection of our lord and
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  • Savior jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: on a hill far away
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  • Stood an old rugged cross.
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  • It was a wondrous attraction for me.
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  • I want to cling.
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  • You can have your garments, you can have the robe.
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  • I will cling to the old,
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  • The old rugged cross.
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  • I'm gonna lay my burdens down.
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  • I've been carrying too much too long.
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  • I've been trying to fix my life by myself.
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  • Give me that cross.
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  • I'm not as smart as i thought i was.
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  • I'm not as bright as i thought i was.
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  • I've clung to some dumb things, but i'm finally getting to the
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  • Point that i know what is really valuable.
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  • Can i touch it?
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  • I know i'm not worthy.
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  • And i've done some horrible stuff.
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  • I've done some things i'm so ashamed of, but can i touch it?
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  • Can i touch it?
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  • I'm not worthy, but i want it.
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  • I need to do something about this.
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  • It's got my healing in it.
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  • It's got my deliverance in it.
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  • It's got my hope in it.
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  • It's got my future in it.
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  • I will cling to the old rugged cross.
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  • I need it, i need it.
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  • It's gonna have to be my daddy.
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  • You know, i didn't know my daddy.
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  • It's gonna have to be my daddy.
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  • I want to cling to it because there's still some parts of me
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  • Even though i'm grown, that's still a little boy.
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  • I need it.
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  • I need jesus 'cause i'm broken in places and i'm hurting in
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  • Places that i--i don't need his stuff.
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  • I need him.
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  • I don't need his stuff.
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  • I need him.
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  • I don't need his stuff.
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  • I need him.
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  • I want to touch this cross.
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  • Have mercy on me.
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  • I want to touch this cross.
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  • I've been in the club. i've been in the streets.
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  • I've been in the alley.
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  • I've been abused. i've been molested.
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  • I've been raped. i've been ostracized.
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  • I want to touch it.
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  • I've been beating my wife.
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  • I've been beaten by--i need--i don't wanna go through what my
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  • Daddy--i don't wanna end up like that.
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  • I can--i get to the--
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  • You know what, you know what?
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  • I don't know, no, nah,
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  • Why would i go back to what i already
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  • Tried and do what i've already done?
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  • Why would i return to my own vomit?
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  • I don't want that.
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  • I don't want.
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  • I've already tried you.
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  • If you were gonna fix me, you'd have fixed me a long time ago.
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  • That's it, i decided.
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  • I said i decided.
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  • Made up my mind i'm going all the way with this.
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  • I'm gonna be here when i'm strong and i'm gonna be here
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  • When i'm weak and i'm gonna be here when i'm right and y'all
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  • Might not like it, but i'm gonna be here when i'm wrong.
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  • I ain't going nowhere.
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  • I'm gonna--i decided.
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  • It may be the only smart decision i've ever made.
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  • I don't know how, i don't know how this is gonna end.
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  • It might end with you going right on out the door to do your
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  • Own thing, take your robe with you.
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  • You might be sitting up here texting your boyfriend
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  • Right now.
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  • Take your robe with you.
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  • You might be going back to the same old stuff that you
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  • Did before.
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  • Well, that's okay, take your robe with you.
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  • But if you perceive the value of this cross, if i were you i
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  • Would come running down this aisle and tell the devil, "i
  • 00:22:10.779 --> 00:22:15.617
  • Have decided to follow jesus.
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  • I know i'm not worthy, but i've decided to follow jesus.
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  • It's crowded.
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  • I know it's crowded.
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  • But there's a little bit of room left right here for somebody at
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  • This cross."
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  • There's a little room.
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  • There's a little room left.
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  • There's just a little bit of room.
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  • I don't care what you've been through.
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  • I don't care what you did.
  • 00:22:42.344 --> 00:22:43.712
  • I don't care who you did it with.
  • 00:22:43.712 --> 00:22:45.080
  • I don't care how long you've been doing it.
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  • I don't care how messed up you are.
  • 00:22:46.782 --> 00:22:48.517
  • I don't care how rich you are.
  • 00:22:48.517 --> 00:22:50.185
  • I don't care how many degrees you got.
  • 00:22:50.185 --> 00:22:52.354
  • I don't care how successful you think you are.
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  • I don't care how pretty your resume is or how fine you are.
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  • There's a little bit of room left at this old rugged cross.
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  • There's a little bit of room.
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  • There's a little bit of room.
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  • If there's something missing out of your life, there's a little
  • 00:23:18.413 --> 00:23:20.382
  • Bit of room.
  • 00:23:20.382 --> 00:23:22.451
  • I am tired of being careful with stuff that don't matter.
  • 00:23:22.451 --> 00:23:29.958
  • And being frivolous with all that really matters.
  • 00:23:29.958 --> 00:23:35.564
  • I'm tired of picking up stuff that can't pick me up.
  • 00:23:35.564 --> 00:23:42.804
  • I'm tired of it.
  • 00:23:42.804 --> 00:23:44.573
  • I'm tired.
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  • I'm tired of carrying stuff that can't carry me.
  • 00:23:46.174 --> 00:23:51.980
  • Let us not rend it.
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  • Your priorities are in the wrong place.
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  • Everything that's been on you.
  • 00:24:00.422 --> 00:24:03.158
  • Everything that kept you up at night, everything that made you
  • 00:24:03.158 --> 00:24:05.360
  • Sick on the stomach, everything that ever made you wanna crawl
  • 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:08.330
  • In a hole and die is about to break off of your life today.
  • 00:24:08.330 --> 00:24:12.234
  • Everything that promised you everything and gave you
  • 00:24:12.234 --> 00:24:14.436
  • Absolutely nothing is about to come off of your life today.
  • 00:24:14.436 --> 00:24:19.074
  • Today you're coming to christ.
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  • Today the yoke is broken.
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  • Today the bondage is destroyed.
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  • Today the captive is set free.
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  • Today somebody bound is going to be delivered by the power
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  • Of god.
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  • Today your name will be written in the lamb's book of life.
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  • Today god's prepared for you a place in glory, today, today.
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  • Lift your hands and open your mouth to god in praise.
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  • Every yoke is gonna be broken in your life.
  • 00:24:53.141 --> 00:24:56.311
  • Every bondage is gonna be destroyed.
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  • Lift your hands and say, "lord, i come to you right now.
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  • I confess my sins.
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  • I'm not hiding it.
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  • I know i've been wrong.
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  • I know i messed up.
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  • I need you, lord, in my life to set me free, to forgive my sins.
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  • I believe that jesus died for my sins and that he rose up on the
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  • Third day with all power in his hands, and i came to this altar
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  • To give the devil all his stuff back.
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  • We're finished.
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  • I break up, i quit.
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  • I'm giving my life to jesus."
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  • Lift your hands and open your mouth and praise him.
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: open your mouth and praise him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: some of you are trying to mold with dirt.
  • 00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:10.552
  • You can't make a vase out of dirt.
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  • There is a difference between dirt and clay.
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  • Though the clay is found on the ground, it has been through
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  • Enough that it has become pliable.
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  • It is on the wheel where the shaping occurs.
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  • Stop avoiding the spin, because you'll never be what he had in
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  • Mind until you're willing to jump into the spin cycle.
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  • And all of a sudden a lump of clay begins to look
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  • Like something.
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