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T.D. Jakes - The Principle of Circumcision

July 28, 2025 | S E | 28:30

T.D. Jakes - The Principle of Circumcision
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Principle of Circumcision | July 28, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: the substratum of this text then
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  • Centers around the reality that they have now crossed through
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  • The jordan, and what you don't realize is that this whole story
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  • Is full of circumcision.
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  • It is not merely the physical act of circumcision that is the
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  • Substratum of this text.
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  • The very fact that they went through the jordan is a type
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  • Of circumcision.
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  • It is a type of baptism.
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  • It is a type of burial.
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  • It is a type of new beginnings.
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  • It is a type of new understanding of yourself.
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  • A new self-actualization takes place as they come through the
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  • Jordan on dry ground, and it was so powerful that when the
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  • Heathens heard about it, their hearts melted inside of them
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  • When they saw how god made a way for them.
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  • Now, you've got to be in trouble in order for god to make a way.
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  • Now, you want god to prove himself strong in your life, but
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  • You don't want to get in no trouble.
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  • But the reality is, in order for god to prove himself strong, he
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  • Has to put you in trouble in order to show you how strong he
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  • Is, so that the heathens can see that god brought you forth on
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  • Dry ground and you made it across to the other side.
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  • Somebody shout hallelujah.
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  • So, here we have this new generation of hebrews who are
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  • Now ready to possess the promises of god.
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  • They have seen the hand of god on moses.
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  • They have seen the anointing that's on moses.
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  • They have seen the gifting that is on moses.
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  • Moses has led them for 40 years through the wilderness, but the
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  • Truth of the matter is, the circumcision doesn't start
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  • At gilgal.
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  • The circumcision starts at mount nebo.
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  • When moses goes up on the mountain top and never comes
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  • Back again, that's a circumcision too.
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  • There is a synergism between moses going up on the mountain
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  • And in the book of exodus and them cutting away the flesh in
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  • The book of joshua because to lose moses sent them into a
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  • State of grieving that lasted 30 days before they were healed.
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  • And to lose their flesh sent them into a state of pain that
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  • Required them to spend weeks and weeks and weeks before
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  • They recovered.
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  • So, we are seeing a series of circumcisions.
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  • From the death of moses to the jordan.
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  • Let me go deeper in the jordan.
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  • You must understand that the jordan is fed by the sea
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  • Of galilee.
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  • It starts out as fresh water, turns into salt water, and it
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  • Ends up in the dead sea.
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  • So, to cross the jordan is to say everything that i was goes
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  • Into the dead sea.
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  • Everything that i went through went into the dead sea.
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  • This is why when jesus got ready to be baptized, he got baptized
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  • Into the jordan, that it might fulfill all righteousness,
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  • Letting us know that god doesn't hold grudges.
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  • When god washes it away, he washes it all the way into the
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  • Dead sea, not to be remembered in the world or in the world
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  • To come.
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  • I wish i had somebody whose sins had been washed into the sea
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  • Of forgetfulness.
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  • Somebody who understood that you might remember but god
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  • Doesn't remember.
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  • I've been through the jordan and i walked through the process and
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  • My past is behind me, so i don't have to live in guilt and i
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  • Don't have to cross the street when you walk by.
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  • You can roll your eyes at me, but it doesn't stop the fact
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  • That i've been through the jordan.
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  • There is a principle that goes along with circumcision that
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  • Says to us, instead of god sending them in to fight their
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  • Enemy, see, he told them to be circumcised.
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  • It seems like it's a bad time to be circumcised while i got
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  • To fight.
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  • I would rather wait till i got healed before i fight.
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  • And right in the face of an enemy whose heart is melting for
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  • Fear of the fact that you're with me, this seems like a bad
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  • Time for me to take pto.
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  • Right when i'm about to possess the land, right when i'm about
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  • To step into the blessing, right when i'm about to walk into my
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  • Destiny, right when i'm about to walk into my future, right when
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  • I'm about to rebuke the witch, right when i'm about to rebuke
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  • The warlord, right when i'm about to break the curse, this
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  • Ain't no time for me to have any--
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  • Have you ever had something bad happen at the wrong time?
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  • Have you ever noticed that the worst things happen at the best
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  • Times in your life?
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  • Just when you're getting ready to get yourself together, all
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  • Hell breaks loose.
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  • It is the principle of circumcision.
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  • Just when you're about to step into your destiny, that's when
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  • You have the most trouble with your spouse, the most trouble
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  • With your children, the most trouble on your job, the most
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  • Trouble in your house.
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  • It is the principle of circumcision that before you can
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  • Possess, you gotta go through pain to possess.
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  • You have to do cutaways to possess.
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  • Abraham's going up on the mountaintop.
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  • He's followed by his minions who are following behind him.
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  • When he found the vision of where he was supposed to go, he
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  • Told them to stay with the assess, being in the ladder
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  • Going yonder to worship.
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  • The separation from the servants that were serving him
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  • Is circumcision.
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  • Circumcision isn't just about a sharp knife in a personal place.
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  • Circumcision is about who doesn't get to go.
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  • Come on with me.
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  • Come on, i'm just getting started.
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  • I'm ready for you this morning.
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  • And the problem with some of you, the reason you can't
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  • Possess the promised land is because you can't say goodbye to
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  • Some of your fleshly, no bible reading, no faith believing, no
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  • Favor developing people.
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  • But some of us have made up our mind, "if mama don't go, if
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  • Daddy don't go, if sister don't go, if brother don't go, i'm
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  • Going all the way with the lord."
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  • Is there anybody in this place that's made up in your mind that
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  • You're going all the way with the lord?
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  • Is there anybody in the balcony?
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  • Is there anybody online?
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  • Is there anybody--
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  • Whatever i got to give up, whatever habit i have to break,
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  • Whatever problem i have to solve, whatever mountain i have
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  • To cross, whatever river i have to ford, whatever dry place i
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  • Gotta walk through, i'm willing to walk through it to get what
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  • God promised me.
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  • I want to talk to some people who are standing on the verge of
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  • The next dimension.
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  • If you're in the house, give god a little bit of praise.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: this word is for you.
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  • Before you cross into the next dimension, there's some cutting
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  • That's gotta be done.
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  • Get your scissors out, snip, snip.
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  • It's time to cut away.
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  • Stop trying to be polite.
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  • Stop trying to fit in.
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  • Stop trying to get along.
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  • Whatever it takes to get to the next level, snip, snip.
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  • It may hurt, but i'm gonna cut.
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  • I might be lonely, but i'm gonna cut.
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  • I may cry myself to sleep, but it's got to be cut.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: now i want you to understand this--sit down,
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  • I'm still developing.
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  • It's just a little bit.
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  • Can i go deeper?
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  • I said can i go deeper?
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  • You must understand that before they ever even got to the
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  • Jordan, they lost moses.
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  • They lost moses.
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  • The losing of moses is is a professional circumcision.
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  • The person who mentored you and fed you and brought you through
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  • The wilderness and brought you to where you need to be, it's a
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  • Professional circumcision.
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  • No moses stays.
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  • I'm gonna say it to y'all, see if y'all get it.
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  • No moses stays.
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  • That's why you have to value them while you have them because
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  • No moses stays.
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  • That's why parents don't outlive their children because no
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  • Moses stays.
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  • No elijah stays.
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  • No paul stays.
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  • No naomi stays.
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  • God puts people in your life to hold you up like jet propulsion.
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  • He puts them in your life to hold you up until you get to a
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  • Certain height and then they fall off.
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  • When our purpose is completed, our separations occur.
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  • It doesn't have to be a devil, it doesn't have to be a witch,
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  • It doesn't have to be satan.
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  • It can be by design.
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  • The device attached to the top of a rocket is put there, it's
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  • Called a payload fairing, and it's put on the top of the
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  • Rocket, and when they put it on there, they know it's
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  • Coming off.
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  • They put it on for it to come off.
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  • The standard payload fairing is typically a cone cylinder object
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  • At the top of the apparatus.
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  • Due to aerodynamics, it is put in place with the considerations
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  • That, although other specialized fairings are in use, these are
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  • Designed to come apart and fall off.
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  • The type of fairing that i'm talking about in the
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  • Illustration which separates into two halves upon jettisoning
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  • Into place is called a clamshell.
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  • Like a clam opens up and releases what's important on the
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  • Inside, it is designed to come off.
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  • There are some people in your life that were there for a
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  • Season and they were designed to come off.
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  • And when you get high enough, when you get high enough, when
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  • You get high enough, when you get high enough, when you get
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  • High enough, when you get high enough, when you get high
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  • Enough, when you get high enough, when you get high
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  • Enough, when you get high enough, when you get
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  • High enough, when you get high enough, things start
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  • Coming apart, things start falling off.
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  • Everything that wasn't necessary starts moving out of your way.
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  • It's because you're airborne now.
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  • I want to talk to some people that are airborne.
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  • And everybody that started with you is not staying with you.
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  • Everybody that launched with you is not staying with you, but
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  • You're right on track.
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  • God designed you that once you got to a certain height, they
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  • Have gone as far as they can go.
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  • They have to come off for you to go to the next level.
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  • And you've been feeling like your life is falling apart.
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  • Your life is not falling apart.
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  • It's doing exactly what it's designed to do.
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  • It's the principles of circumcision.
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  • When you get so high, it's gotta come off.
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: let's lift our gifts up before the lord,
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  • And this time when we lift our gifts up before the lord,
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  • Let us consider that it might not be demons.
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  • It might not be warlocks and witches that's stopping
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  • Us from abundance.
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  • It might not even be bigotry
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  • That's stopping us from abundance.
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  • The enemy might be inner me.
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  • So, as i lift my tithe and my offering up before you,
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  • Search my heart and know my ways,
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  • And if you find any wicked way, any in-productive way,
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  • Any toxicity in the way that i am living my life,
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  • I wanna be safe enough for you to bless.
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  • I wanna be a safe place for you to pour abundance into.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: ever wonder what goes into producing "the
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  • Potter's touch?"
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  • It all begins on sunday mornings when bishop t.d. jakes delivers
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  • His message live from the potter's house.
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  • Multiple cameras capture every moment.
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  • From sweeping sanctuary shots to intimate close-ups, ensuring no
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  • Ounce of impact is lost.
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  • Bishop jakes: shout unto god.
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  • Announcer: then editors carefully craft the full sermon
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  • Into a tight, 30 minute episode, preserving the heart of the
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  • Message while making it accessible for a global
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  • Television audience.
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  • Seamless, spirit-filled viewing experience.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: look over at somebody and say, "i
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  • Will survive.
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  • I'm hurt, but i will survive.
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  • I'm bleeding, but i will survive.
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  • I'm in pain, but i will survive.
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  • I'm in grief, but i will survive.
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  • I miss them, but i will survive.
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  • I was built to fly.
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  • I was built to go up.
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  • I was built to go further.
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  • I was built to reach up.
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  • I was not built to sit down.
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  • I was not built to give up.
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  • I was not built to quit.
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  • I was not built to walk away.
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  • The devil is a liar.
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  • You ain't gonna stop me because you fall off.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • I'm about to go higher than you ever saw me go in my life."
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  • Can i stop right here and say, when i think of the goodness of
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  • Jesus and all that the lord has done for me, my soul cries out.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: touch your neighbor, touch your neighbor
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  • And say, "you just dropped something.
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  • You just dropped something. you just dropped something.
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  • You just dropped something. you just dropped something.
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  • You just dropped something."
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  • Excuse me, ma'am, you just dropped something.
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  • Excuse me, lady, you just dropped something.
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  • Excuse me, puja, you just dropped something.
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  • Excuse me, businessman, you just dropped something.
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  • You just dropped it. you just dropped it.
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  • If you would have needed it, it would have stayed attached, but
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  • It fell off so you could go higher.
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  • Shout yes!
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: as i hasten, there was professional pain,
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  • The pain of separation, the pain of abandonment, the pain that
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  • Moses is not coming back, the pain that the chariot has taken
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  • My father away.
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  • There's pain associated with it.
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  • There's pain that naomi is no longer there.
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  • There's pain associated with it.
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  • Professional pain.
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  • My mentor is gone.
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  • I'm not sure if this will work for me like it worked for you.
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  • Elijah comes to the jordan, there we are at the jordan
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  • Again, and he has the mantle of his father, but will it work for
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  • Me like it worked for my father?
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  • It's the same mantle.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • It's the same mantle.
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  • And the bible said when elijah smote the waters, it wasn't so
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  • Much the man that the water recognized, it was the mantle
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  • That the water recognized.
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  • And when the water recognized the mantle, it will part for
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  • Any man.
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  • Anybody got the mantle in here?
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  • Something getting ready to open up for you if you got
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  • The mantle.
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  • Are you hearing what i'm saying to you?
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  • So, that's the professional loss.
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  • My father, my father, the host of israel has taken you away,
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  • And i feel like i still need you and you're backing away.
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  • No, i must back away so you can discover who you are.
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  • If i don't back away, you will never come into your own.
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  • You will never reach the height that you could have reached if
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  • You allow me to stay stuck in the place i was in.
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  • And then from professional pain to personal pain.
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  • Personal pain is the pain that you bear in your body, the
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  • Things that you go through that nobody knows that you
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  • Go through.
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  • The pain that you bear and you're smiling and it's hurting
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  • To walk.
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  • The bruises you incurred that you don't testify about.
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  • The things you live within your house that you say
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  • Nothing about.
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  • Personal pain is when you've been cut in a place that you
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  • Can cover.
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  • The bible said, "don't do any work yet.
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  • Even though you can cover it, covering is not healing."
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  • So jericho was the first city.
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  • It was the foreskin of the promised land.
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  • It was to be offered up to god.
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  • Much like david killed the philistines and took 100
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  • Foreskins and threw them at the feet of saul, it is a sign that
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  • I made contact with my promise.
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  • So god said, "don't save anything out of jericho 'cause
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  • We're gonna cut this once and for all.
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  • And if you cut it right, i'll give you every other city that
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  • Comes after it."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • If you cut it off, if you cut it right, i mean, if you stop
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  • Babying yourself and pampering yourself and snipping at
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  • Yourself and, ooh that hurt.
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  • If you just go ahead and--i feel like i'm talking to somebody.
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  • I don't know who it is.
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  • Just go ahead, the quicker the better, just cut it off.
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  • Have you ever had somebody, the men can relate to this, they put
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  • Some tape on your chest and they're trying to be delicate
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  • And you just said just rip it off, just--
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  • Some of you are so close to where you got to go that you
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  • Gotta rip it off.
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  • Personal pain.
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  • And then they gave themselves time to heal so that they
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  • Wouldn't walk into their promises still bruised by
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  • Their past.
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  • So that your next marriage doesn't get your old
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  • Marriage's beating.
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  • Somebody holler, "cut it off."
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  • So that you're not in a situation bitter about where you
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  • Came from, somebody say, "cut it off."
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  • So that you don't go on your new job talking about your old
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  • Employer, somebody say, "cut it off."
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  • Whoever said that you getting ready to step into a new arena
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  • And a new place in your life and god wanted you to hear this word
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  • So that you will get the principles of circumcision.
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  • So they completely destroyed jericho, annihilated it, burned
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  • It down to the ground,
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  • Destroyed it so bad, they still can't find it.
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  • Burned it completely up except for one man who tried to save a
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  • Little bit for himself, which led to the defeat at ai.
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  • They didn't get beat because they weren't able.
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  • Ai was a small city.
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  • They got beat because he didn't fully cut it off.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: you broke up but you still got their number.
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  • Oh no, no.
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  • No, no, no, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout.
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  • No, no, shout, shout, shout.
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  • Y'all ain't going together, but you inbox from time to time.
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  • Come on, shout, no, no, shout, shout, shout.
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  • See if they shout now and say cut it off.
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  • You do it, you just don't do it as frequently as you used to.
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  • Look at somebody and say, "cut it off."
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  • Because god is about to give you--
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  • Listen to this, everybody stand.
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  • When i was studying to preach this message, the lord let me
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  • Imagine--'cause i can't remember being circumcised--
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  • He let me imagine, imagine the
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  • Intense, uncomfortable pain
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  • Of circumcision.
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  • The danger of infection in the vulnerable state of having
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  • Just bled.
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  • You know, when you, just lost somebody, you're vulnerable
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  • To infections.
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  • People who come and look like answers.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: i'm almost done.
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  • If you have a good experience at gilgal, you will make it
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • If you can be grief-stricken, heartbroken, teary eyed, and
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  • Still keep walking--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: the lord told me if i would preach this message,
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  • That there would be somebody here who's been in pain
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  • In a secret place.
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  • And it's been hard
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  • And it's been tough 'cause not only have you lost people that
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  • You love, you've been hit in places you can't talk about.
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  • And god told me to teach on the principles of circumcision.
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  • You might be limping now, but you won't be limping long.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time on
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  • "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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