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T.D. Jakes - The Phenomenon that God Would Be Born

December 25, 2024 | S

T.D. Jakes - The Phenomenon that God Would Be Born
The birth of Christ showed God’s incredible desire to participate in every aspect of our human experience.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Phenomenon that God Would Be Born | December 25, 2024
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: god is with us.
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  • The personification of jesus, step one is to realize that all
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  • Of this great, big god would come into the world at all.
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  • That he would come into his ottoman.
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: the polar propensity of the nativity scene
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  • Tells more than a story.
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  • That the king of kings would not be born in a palace, or a
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  • Mansion, or a cathedral, or a house, or a hotel.
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  • That the king of kings, the ancient of days, the mighty god,
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  • The everlasting father, the prince of peace, the wonderful
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  • Counselor, the bright and morning star, the lily of
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  • The valley.
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  • That he would come and choose to live homeless.
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  • Now, even homeless people don't choose to be homeless.
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  • He chose to be homeless,
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  • Not because he was broke because his
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  • Father was looking for a hotel room.
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  • You don't look for a hotel room if you broke.
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  • But god had shut the door on every possible option so that he
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  • Could choose a spot to be born that was the lowest of the
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  • Lowest of the low.
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  • Not a house because houses were built for people, but a barn
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  • Because a barn is built for animals.
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  • Because a man that is about to be born wants to be born in a
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  • Barn 'cause he's a lamb.
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  • No, no, no, no, no, let me show you the polarities of the text.
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  • You must understand that jesus is the light of the world, but
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  • He was born at night.
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  • He was born at night though he--in him, was life and the
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  • Life was the light of men.
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  • He was born at night in a lowly place so low that he could hear
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  • The cry of poor folks, broke folks, folks eating government
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  • Cheese, folks that can't afford powdered milk, people eating
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  • Outta trash can.
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  • Jesus says, "i can be touched by the feeling of your infirmity
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  • Because i understand what it is to not have a place to stay.
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  • A windy, drafty place."
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  • Y'all too young to know about what i'm about to talk about but
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  • I wanna talk about the old houses our grandparents lived in
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  • Where they had newspaper in the cracks to stop the wind from
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  • Blowing in the house.
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  • Jesus was born in a barn so that even if he was a slave in a
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  • Shack, you can call him and he'll hear you.
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  • Somebody holler, "jesus."
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  • And we are comfortable with understanding a broke jesus, a
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  • Poor jesus, an empty jesus.
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  • We love to talk about how lonely, and poor, and broke
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  • He was.
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  • But the oxymoron of the text.
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  • It said, "three wise men
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  • Bought him gold, frankincense,
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  • And myrrh."
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  • This is an offering that you give to a king.
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  • The king's ransom is brought to a barn by camel.
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  • Tell everybody--how many people need god to work on your credit?
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  • Touch everybody got their hands tell 'em, "the camels
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  • Are coming."
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  • The camels are coming, the camels are coming, the camels
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  • Are coming, the camels are coming.
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  • I know it looks crazy, i know you're staying with your mama, i
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  • Know you're living in a garage apartment but god said, "the
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  • Camels are coming."
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  • God said, "what i got for you, i got for you and you don't have
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  • To come to it and you don't have to lure yourself for it, it'll
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  • Come to you.
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  • I'll find you wherever you are.
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  • If i have to find you by night, if i had to follow the star,
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  • I'll find you in the shelter, i'll find you in your
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  • Lonely place.
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  • I'll find you with your power off.
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  • I'll find you with nothing to eat for christmas but a
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  • Hot dog."
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  • But i got good news for the--jesus said, "preach good
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  • News to the poor."
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  • I want the broke folk to know that the camels are coming to
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  • You and if you receive it, praise him like you lost
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  • Your mind.
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  • Praise him like you don't care who's looking at you.
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  • Praise him like you don't care what nobody thinks.
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  • Praise him like you don't care what you got on.
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  • I don't care if you're borrowing something to come to church,
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  • Give him a crazy praise.
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  • Anybody look at your friend and tell 'em, "my camels
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  • Are covered.
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  • I don't care what you say, i don't care how you look, i don't
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  • Care how you roll your eyes, my camels are coming."
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  • Now we got a gold rush in a barn.
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  • We got a baby laying in a trough.
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  • We got a child wrapped up in milk rags.
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  • That's what swaddling clothes are.
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  • The rags you use when you're milking a cow and the excess
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  • Milk gets in the rag.
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  • And the old rags with the old milk with the old stinking rags,
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  • They used them to wrap up jesus.
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  • He was wrapped up in milk rags because he is the milk of the
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  • Word, glory to god.
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  • The rags recognize the milk and the milk recognize the rags.
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  • And it wasn't any dirtier than the flesh he came in.
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  • So, if he was willing to step in the flesh, he was willing to
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  • Come into sour milk rags and dwelt among us.
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  • You can't get so low that god can't find you.
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  • If you make your bed in hell, he is there.
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  • If you take the wings of the morning and ascend to the
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  • Uttermost parts of the earth, god is still there.
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  • And still he was god.
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  • Smelling like sour milk, he's still god.
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  • Listen to what isaiah said, "unto us a son is born and unto
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  • Us a child, a child is given."
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  • So, here we are you know how big a baby is?
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  • We got a child.
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  • And the next verse says, "the government shall be upon
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  • His shoulders."
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  • Look at how much weight the baby could carry.
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  • No wonder the bible said, "despise not the day."
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  • I'm preaching to somebody, i don't know who it is.
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  • If i'm preaching to you, make some noise.
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  • If you started out in a small place, make some noise.
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  • If you got more weight on you than it looks like you can
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  • Carry, make some noise.
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  • If the devil's been measuring your shoulders but not your god,
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  • Make some noise.
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  • The god you serve came with little shoulders but great
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  • Grace, "and the government shall be upon his shoulders and of his
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  • Kingdom there shall be no,"--i feel like preaching.
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  • I don't know what y'all came to do.
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  • I didn't come to bury nobody, i came to have some church.
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  • "the government shall be upon his shoulders and of his kingdom
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  • There shall be no end."
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  • While shepherds were tending their sheep in the field.
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  • The lamb was born in a trough and dwelt amongst us.
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  • If you're rich, he can reach you.
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  • If you're dealing in gold, he got you.
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  • If you got frankincense, and myrrh, and stocks, and bonds,
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  • And annuities, he--look at the oxymoron under the text.
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  • Barn and gold.
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  • Little shoulders, big government.
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  • Oh, i feel like praying for somebody who feels like your
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  • Shoulders are too small for the weight you carry.
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  • I pray god strengthens you this morning because god can
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  • Strengthen your little shoulders to stand a whole lot of weight.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: when i think about the three wise men, i think
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  • About them from the perspective of how far they journeyed to
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  • See jesus.
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  • Laden down, perhaps, with camels filled, saddle bags loaded down
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  • With goods in search of jesus, not just by day, but by night.
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  • Led by a star, a flickering star that gallantly led them over the
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  • Terrain till they finally came to the place where he was.
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  • Let us be like the wise men and follow the star to jesus.
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  • Announcer: "and the angel said unto them, fear not.
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  • For behold, i bring you good tidings of great joy, which
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  • Shall be to all people.
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  • For unto you is born this day in the city of david, a savior,
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  • Which is christ, the lord."
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  • Luke 2:10 through 11.
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  • From our hearts to yours, "the potter's house" is wishing you
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  • And your family a very merry christmas and happy holidays.
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  • Announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a
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  • Timeless truth.
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  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails, but lights
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  • The path for those who follow.
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  • Every era has its torch bearers who inspire, innovate, and
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  • Take risks.
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  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
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  • Dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
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  • This is the international leadership summit, a place where
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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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: that's who i serve.
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  • I serve god.
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  • I'm trying to help you but i serve god, hallelujah.
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  • I'm trying to help you but i serve god.
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  • I serve god.
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  • "he that hath began a good work in me shall perform it until the
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  • Day of jesus christ," because i serve the lord.
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  • I wish i had about ten people that had a little bit of holy
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  • Ghost in here.
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  • I know you're dressed up and you look cute and you're red, but if
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  • I had about ten people that would get over looking
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  • Christmas-ey and start praising god, god would do something in
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  • This place.
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  • Since we're out here, we might as well have church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: somebody shout, "god."
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  • You don't know, you just use the biggest word you know.
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  • I don't care if you know a word that has 15 letters in it, those
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  • Three letters are the biggest words you will ever speak.
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  • Somebody throw your head up and shout, "god."
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  • Hallelujah, it's big in the earth, it's big under the earth,
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  • It's big over the earth, it's big in the times of trouble,
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  • It's big in the times of blessing.
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  • Somebody say, "god."
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  • When the doctor says, "you gotta die."
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  • You oughta your hands up and say, "god."
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  • When the bill collector says, "you got more bills than you got
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  • Money," you oughta shout, "god."
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  • When all hell is breaking loose in your life and the devil
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  • Expects you to crumble, you oughta shout, "god."
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  • Nobody can stop you from having god.
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  • Nobody can stop god from having you.
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  • Nobody can stop god from reaching you.
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  • Nobody can stop god from saving you.
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  • They can hate on you and they can't stop you.
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  • They can put you in jail and they can't stop you.
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  • They can put their foot on you and can't stop you.
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  • If god be for you.
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  • Excuse me, while i praise him.
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  • I said if god be.
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  • Please just take note, if god be for you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: you have to understand the magnitude of what
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  • We are about,
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  • So you can understand the magnitude of the fight we're in.
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  • Hell hates us because god loves us.
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  • And i'm not speaking in code about me, i'm talking about you.
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  • The devil hates you because god loves you and he does everything
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  • He can to block you, depress you, defeat you, discourage
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  • You, intimidate you, make you doubt yourself, make you doubt
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  • Your faith, make you doubt that you're enough, make you doubt
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  • That you can succeed, make you doubt that you can make it by
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  • Yourself, make you think you need people you don't need.
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  • You don't need none of 'em.
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  • If god be for you.
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  • Oh.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: they asked me whether i gonna preach
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  • This morning.
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  • I said, "if i had a guest preacher, i'd cancel it."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: i would call him up and cancel him
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  • Because i know who god is.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: high five and somebody say, "god got you."
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  • God's got your bills, god's got your house.
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  • God's got your marriage.
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  • God's got your mind.
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  • God's got your children.
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  • God's got your circumstance.
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  • God's got your situation.
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  • God's got your turmoil.
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  • God's got your pain.
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  • God's got your grief.
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  • God's got whatever the devil is trying to use against you.
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  • God's got you.
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  • How dare you look astonished?
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  • If you believe in god, god has got you.
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  • Shout, "god."
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  • Sit down, i'm just talking to you.
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  • I just wanted to put the text in context that when they called
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  • His name emmanuel, god with us, i wanted you to see how big that
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  • Is for god to be--
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  • God is with us.
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  • The personification of jesus, step one is to realize that all
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  • Of this great, big god would come into the world at all.
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  • That he would come into his ottoman.
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  • That's amazing.
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  • Truth is, he can't even fit inside of his ottoman.
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  • Truth is, he had to reduce himself down to his lowest
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  • Common denominator.
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  • The bible says it this way, "he poured out of himself his glory,
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  • And honor, and humbled himself and got low enough to come into
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  • His furniture.
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  • And having come into his furniture, which was awesome,
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  • Then he picks out a woman and comes inside of a woman."
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  • No, you didn't get it.
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  • The god who perform the delivery
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  • Of the first woman, put adam to
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  • Sleep so no man could get the credit for her.
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  • And said, "this is not your fight, adam, i got this covered.
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  • I'm gonna show you what you got."
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  • And he reached in her--in him and pulled her out of him.
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  • And heaven was amazed.
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  • But what i'm talking about is, the god who created the woman,
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  • Now got in the woman he created, wrapped himself up in flesh, and
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  • Came walking out in a flesh suit.
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  • And they call his name emmanuel, god tabernacled with us.
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  • He--it is him answering the question, "adam where art thou?"
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  • The question never got answered till jesus came.
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  • He said, "i'm coming to get you.
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  • I'm gonna use this lamb as a temporary substitute.
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  • But lo, i come in the volume of the book to do thy will
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  • Oh, god."
  • 00:20:43.492 --> 00:20:44.826
  • And it comes down to over 42 generations and wraps himself up
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  • In flesh and says, "i'm coming to get you the incarnate god."
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  • Carna, carna, carna, where we get the word carnal, where we
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  • Get carn, where we get carnivorous meat.
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  • God wrapped himself in a meat suit.
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  • Incarnation means "in meat."
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  • In m-e-a-t,
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  • To m-e-e-t you.
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  • I came down on your level.
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  • I came where you could touch me.
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  • I came where you could see me.
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  • Bishop jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the most
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  • In my life.
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  • It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
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  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
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  • Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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  • Let there be light.
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  • Female announcer: reveal the treasures god has hidden in you.
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  • For your gift of any amount, you'll receive the "flowing in
  • 00:22:02.270 --> 00:22:04.906
  • Favor" 2025 calendar.
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  • Featuring inspirational scriptures and spiritual
  • 00:22:06.942 --> 00:22:09.544
  • Insights, you can strengthen your faith every day of
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  • The year.
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  • For your gift of $110 or more, you'll receive the "gifts of the
  • 00:22:13.749 --> 00:22:16.551
  • Wise men" anointing oil set, a beautiful wood box containing
  • 00:22:16.551 --> 00:22:20.155
  • Frankincense, myrrh, and symbolic faux gold, in addition
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  • To the "flowing in favor" calendar.
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  • Bishop jakes: think about the times in your life that you
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  • Couldn't see no way out and god made a way outta no way.
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  • Think about the times that you had no plan and you just
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  • Stumbled into a blessing.
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  • Female announcer: let god's light shine in you.
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  • Call or click today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: we got a new devil to fight, 'cause we're at a new
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  • Level and we got to change our game plan and i'm tired of
  • 00:22:48.450 --> 00:22:52.354
  • People feeding me 40 year old messages to keep me back where i
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  • Came from.
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  • Is time to go up or get out of the way.
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  • Oh, you don't like me.
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  • [congregation cheering and applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: i wish i could just lay on that right there
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  • Because i gotta whole lot to say about that.
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  • I'm telling you, be suspicious, somebody may be poisoning
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  • Your food.
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  • Anybody who's feeding you things that make you feel sorry for
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  • Yourself, anybody who keeps dragging you back into your
  • 00:23:39.835 --> 00:23:43.004
  • Past, anybody who keeps holding you down and telling you you
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  • Can't get up because of somebody else, they're putting poison in
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  • Your food.
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  • Poison in your food, poison in your mind, poison in
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  • Your thinking.
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  • Nobody has to help you, nobody has to give you anything.
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  • Unity would straighten out the whole community.
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  • Come on, it's time to let's go higher and decide who we are, if
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  • God be for us.
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  • [congregation cheering and applauding]
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  • [congregation cheering and applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: if one person overcame crack cocaine, then
  • 00:24:19.741 --> 00:24:21.877
  • Every other addict ought to look at him and say, if he got out of
  • 00:24:21.877 --> 00:24:24.713
  • It, i can too.
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  • If one person got out of jail and didn't go back, to every
  • 00:24:27.048 --> 00:24:29.484
  • Other person i'd have said, listen, i'm not going back where
  • 00:24:29.484 --> 00:24:32.287
  • I came from.
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  • If one person opened up a business in an inner city or any
  • 00:24:33.622 --> 00:24:36.191
  • Other part of the city and they made it, what is wrong with you?
  • 00:24:36.191 --> 00:24:40.061
  • God has blessed you with the same skills that he did anybody
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  • Else, you may have to do some digging and dunging, but when we
  • 00:24:44.266 --> 00:24:47.502
  • Get through digging and dunging you, i expect you to go into the
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  • Enemy's camp and take back what he stole from you.
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  • Notice that phrase, take back what he stole from you.
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  • Not sit back and whine and then with you, please give it back.
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  • Oh, you didn't treat me right.
  • 00:25:06.755 --> 00:25:09.357
  • Take it back.
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  • Somebody holler, take it back.
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  • I don't have time to wait for somebody to give it back.
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  • If it's mine, i'm going--well, i need somebody to help.
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  • That's what i'm talking about.
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  • Cross pollinating, getting with people who are going in your
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  • Direction, letting them teach you and train you and equip you
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  • And motivate you, so you can go to that next level.
  • 00:25:35.150 --> 00:25:37.385
  • Bishop jakes: innovation is to see something that is not there,
  • 00:25:38.954 --> 00:25:42.457
  • That could be there.
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  • To see the potential to change and alter and innovate it, so
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  • That you can be creative in your own space.
  • 00:25:48.697 --> 00:25:52.033
  • I need innovative people all around me.
  • 00:25:52.033 --> 00:25:54.603
  • In every aspect of what i do, i need innovative people.
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  • Innovative people are not the people who bring you problems,
  • 00:25:58.473 --> 00:26:01.309
  • They are the people who bring you solutions.
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  • They are the people who stare at the problem until an emergence
  • 00:26:03.411 --> 00:26:07.315
  • Of a solution begins to develop out of the problem.
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  • Even if it has not existed before, innovative creativity is
  • 00:26:10.585 --> 00:26:15.490
  • Extremely important for you to surround yourself with that
  • 00:26:15.490 --> 00:26:19.961
  • Level of innovation.
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  • To stay abreast on the latest technology, the latest
  • 00:26:21.363 --> 00:26:25.033
  • Opportunities, the new ways that they're doing things now, we
  • 00:26:25.033 --> 00:26:28.870
  • Don't need the file cabinets we had when i came along.
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  • The world has changed.
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  • Innovation is necessary in order for you to be relevant.
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  • Are you innovative and are the people around you innovative and
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  • Are they prepared to engage this world and be plugged into a slot
  • 00:26:40.849 --> 00:26:46.054
  • That only innovative people can fill?
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  • If not, you are lagging behind while you are standing still.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media and
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  • Share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you
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  • Next time on "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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