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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Timing Is Everything

May 7, 2025 | S25:E73

T.D. Jakes - Timing Is Everything
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Timing Is Everything | May 7, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: understand that you're going to have to
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  • Break some sweat.
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  • You're going to have to put some effort in it.
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  • You're going to have to grind the wheat.
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  • You're going to have to pulverize it.
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  • You can't just bring the wheat in and make bread until you
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  • Crush it.
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  • It's got to be crushed.
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  • It's got to be made into a usable form.
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  • And so it doesn't mean that god hasn't blessed you with the
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  • Bread, it could mean that you haven't put in the work to go
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  • From seed to-- to--
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  • From seed-- to--
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  • Oh, you're listening this morning.
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: in the story we have a certain man who had his
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  • Servants to sow good seed in the field, and while they slept--and
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  • I used to preach against them sleeping until i realized that
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  • Everybody has to go to sleep sometime.
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  • It is impossible for you to stay up around the clock.
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  • The enemy comes in while they are asleep and plants the weeds
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  • Or the tare while they're sleeping.
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  • In the story, they don't wake up the next morning and know the
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  • Enemy has been there because the enemy has planted it in such a
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  • Way that when they wake up in the morning they do not notice
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  • Any change.
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  • Notice the timing.
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  • It was not the next day.
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  • But while they did not notice it, the evil or weeds were sown
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  • In the wheat.
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  • Anybody who unders--don't let me get ahead of myself.
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  • Anybody who understands this understands that there are
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  • Important truths to be learned.
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  • Lesson number one, it is naive to think that the planting of
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  • Good exempts us from the presence of bad.
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  • It is naive to think that the planting of good exempts us from
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  • The presence of bad.
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  • This is important for us to understand.
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  • Just because god allows wheat to be planted doesn't mean that
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  • Weeds are restricted.
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  • Are you hearing what i'm saying?
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  • The kingdom is like this. the kingdom is like this.
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  • So we have to be able to produce in the presence of weeds.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: so for all of you who are waiting for all the
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  • Weeds to be gone before you produce the wheat, you are not
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  • Digging deep enough into this text because this text
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  • Declares there will never be a day that you can be wheatful
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  • Without being weedful.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: god allows the wheat to be planted.
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  • That doesn't mean that the weeds are restricted.
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  • Wheat is planted with great intentionality.
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  • In other words, wheat is not going to grow in this ground if
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  • It is not planted.
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  • It is not a natural result of the climate, the soil, the rain,
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  • And the sunshine.
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  • It has to be planted.
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  • Nobody succeeds accidentally.
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  • Nobody wins a marathon accidentally.
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  • Nobody wins the olympics accidentally.
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  • Nobody gets a master's degree accidentally.
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  • Nobody gets a diploma accidentally.
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  • Nobody passes a ged accidentally.
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  • Nobody gets a promotion accidentally.
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  • Just because you pray doesn't mean you win.
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  • This is work.
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  • This is sweat.
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  • This is labor because this is agriculture, and agriculture
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  • Means that the intention of sowing the seed is that i might
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  • Have wheat and the intention of having wheat is that i might
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  • Have bread.
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  • From seed to wheat to bread
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  • Is going to take--
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  • I can't plant seed today
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  • And eat bread tonight
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  • Because timing is--
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  • So if i am going to be seedful, i have to be patient
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  • For the seed to grow first down
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  • And then up.
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  • You didn't get that.
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  • It's going to first grow down and then up.
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  • Some of you are standing over your life talking about, "i
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  • Don't see nothing.
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  • I don't see nothing.
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  • I keep sowing and i don't see nothing."
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  • The seed grows down before it grows up.
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  • You're not supposed to see it, but just because you don't see
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  • It doesn't mean that the roots are not growing in the soil.
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  • And if you wait a little while, it is going to go from seed to
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  • Wheat and from wheat to bread and there is work in between
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  • Every stage.
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  • The seed is work.
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  • The weed is work.
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  • The bread is work.
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  • You cannot eat any better than you work.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: nudge somebody and say,
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  • "your blessing is going to be work."
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  • When you get through dancing and shouting about the promise of
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  • God, understand that you're going to have to break
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  • Some sweat.
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  • You're going to have to put some effort in it.
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  • You're going to have to grind the wheat.
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  • You're going to have to pulverize it.
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  • You can't just bring the wheat in and make bread until you
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  • Crush it.
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  • It's got to be crushed.
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  • It's got to be made into a usable form.
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  • And so it doesn't mean that god hasn't blessed you with the
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  • Bread, it could mean that you haven't put in the work to go
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  • From seed to-- to--
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  • From seed-- to--
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  • Oh, you're listening this morning.
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  • Look at somebody and tell them, "i'm going from seed to wheat
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  • To bread.
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  • I might not be ready for consumption right now, but i'm
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  • In process and i'm going somewhere.
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  • And don't look down at me because i'm not bread.
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  • I may be in the wheat stage, i may be in the seed stage, but i
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  • Am on my way to a place that god has destined for me."
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  • Who am i talking to this morning?
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  • Whoever i'm talking to, god says, "hang on in there.
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  • I'm not finished with you yet.
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  • I'm taking you through process and at the right time i'm going
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  • To take you from seed to-- to--"
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: i'm still dancing off.
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  • It's already done. it's already done.
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  • It's already done, and it is done on purpose.
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  • I want you to get this.
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  • The reason it is planted is because it is not indigenous to
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  • The land.
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  • The word agriculture is rooted in the word cult.
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  • Cult means you're not orthodox.
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  • Means you're not natural, you're not normal.
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  • Agra means land.
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  • That means that wheat is not normal to the land.
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  • You can't just wish for it.
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  • You have to make it happen.
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  • Agriculture.
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  • Cult-ure.
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  • "i'm going to make this happen."
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  • It is not indigenous.
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  • You don't get it just 'cause you want it.
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  • You got to plant it.
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  • You got to be intentional about it.
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  • You got to work on it.
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  • You got to labor for it.
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  • Because you were not raised in an environment that agrees with
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  • Your dream, that doesn't mean you can't have it.
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  • It means that you've got to be cultural enough to be a cult
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  • Against your neighborhood.
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  • "i'm the only one in my family.
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  • I'm the only one in my neighborhood.
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  • I'm the only one in my city.
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  • I'm the only one in my house.
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  • And they don't like me at the family reunion, and they don't
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  • Invite me back to the parties, and my friends have changed
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  • Because i am cultish to them.
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  • I broke the rule.
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  • I got out."
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  • Everybody who got out make some noise.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: can i go deeper?
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  • How many people are getting blessed in this room?
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  • You got to be willing to be different.
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  • You've got to be willing to be controversial.
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  • You've got to be willing to be talked about, and the greatest
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  • Problem in our community right now is that we are so sensitive.
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  • We're more worried about being liked than we are
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  • Being fruitful.
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  • And you're praying to god about what they said and she said and
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  • He said and god said, "unless you deny mother, father, sister,
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  • Brother, and even deny yourself, you cannot be my disciple."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: the higher you go, the more you must take god
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  • With you.
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  • I don't care how big it gets.
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  • I don't care how mighty it gets.
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  • You have to remember that god is a covenant-keeping god and he
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  • Will bless you as you bless him, and this is the thing about him.
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  • He don't need your tithe.
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  • He proves you through the tithe to see if he blesses you can he
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  • Trust you.
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  • God could trust abraham.
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  • God blessed joseph out of all his brothers because he could
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  • Trust him.
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  • When we tithe, it's not just something we do to get out
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  • The way.
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  • It's not intermission.
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  • It's some opportunity to say, "god, you can trust me."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: this is a good lesson.
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  • Whenever there is great potential for harvest, the enemy
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  • Will always earmark the spot with calamity.
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  • Whenever there is great potential for harvest, the enemy
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  • Will earmark the spot with calamity.
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  • Somebody was telling me about a restaurant that they liked up in
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  • North dallas, and i was getting my head shaved at the time and i
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  • Said, "let me find it in my phone."
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  • So i got in my phone and found it in my phone and then i
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  • Earmarked it as a favorite.
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  • I haven't been there yet, but i earmarked it as a favorite so i
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  • Could find it easily.
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  • I haven't been yet, but i heard there was potential.
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  • So i earmarked it so i could find it when i had--
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  • So wherever the enemy sees potential he will always earmark
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  • It with calamity.
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  • So they never planted weeds before the wheat.
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  • Notice the sequence.
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  • It was the wheat being planted that caused them to plant
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  • The weed.
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  • They didn't plant the weed and then plant the wheat.
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  • The wheat attracts the weed so that the enemy can earmark
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  • The spot.
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  • The devil knew god was going to bless you.
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  • Hell knew god was going to use you.
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  • Hell knew that god had a purpose for your life.
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  • He earmarked it with calamity.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: so while men slept he came,
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  • Planting in the dark,
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  • Sowing in the soil.
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  • I don't get to see him plant it and i don't get to see what
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  • He planted.
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  • He is covered by the darkness of night and his craftiness is
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  • Hidden under the soil.
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  • When they wake up that morning, they see no difference.
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  • How many of you have gone through something and nobody saw
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  • No difference?
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  • Here comes my rooting system.
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  • When the men woke up that morning, they didn't know when
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  • They were watering the wheat
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  • They were watering the weeds and
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  • The infrastructure has now become a system underground
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  • Before the wheat comes up, before the wedding, before the
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  • Degree, before the call to ministry.
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  • The system--you're fighting a system.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You're fighting a system.
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  • You're not fighting a devil, you're fighting a system.
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  • All i could see for days and days and days were these
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  • Tangled-up roots.
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  • You are fighting an infrastructure.
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  • The kingdom of heaven is like--listen at what jesus
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  • Is saying.
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  • The kingdom of heaven is like the war is underground.
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  • The war is underground.
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  • The tangle is underground.
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  • You're trying to fight on top of the soil, but the system
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  • Is underground.
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  • You're trying to fight in the flesh, but the system is in
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  • The spirit.
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  • It's in the spirit world.
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  • It's in the spirit world. it's in the spirit world.
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  • Somebody say, "it's in the spirit world."
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  • So the enemy has brought me to lesson number three.
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  • Lesson number three, get this, corruption and destruction are
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  • Two different things.
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  • Corruption and destruction are two different things.
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  • He could not destroy the wheat, so all he could do was corrupt
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  • The environment in which the wheat was coming.
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  • Oh, god.
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  • He couldn't stop you from coming up.
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  • He just wanted to make it hard for you.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: we know what the system is.
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  • We know who planted it.
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  • The question remains in the text, why did he plant it?
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  • And this is an important question.
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  • If you don't understand why he planted it, you can't figure out
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  • How to overcome it.
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  • My first thought was maybe the weeds will kill the wheat, but
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  • The truth of the matter is the wheat and the weed can grow up
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  • Right beside each other.
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  • And if it was wheat when it went in the ground, it'll be wheat
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  • When it comes out of the ground.
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  • If it was a weed when it went in the ground, it'll be a weed when
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  • It comes out of the ground.
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  • So if the weeds didn't kill the wheat, why did he plant it?
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  • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like, the kingdom of heaven
  • 00:19:54.943 --> 00:19:58.580
  • Is like--are y'all tired, should i quit?
  • 00:19:58.580 --> 00:20:04.786
  • Why did he plant it?
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  • Serita, i can't figure out why did he plant it.
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  • If he couldn't curse what god has blessed, if he couldn't
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  • Change the molecular structure of what he planted in me, if he
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  • Couldn't change my wheat to weed, why did he go out at night
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  • And slither and put the weed beside the wheat?
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  • The temptation is not in the substance of the wheat and the
  • 00:20:28.010 --> 00:20:33.382
  • Weed but the decision of how you handle it.
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  • Come on, come on. come on, come on.
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  • Don't leave me now because if you leave me now you're going to
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  • Miss the whole thing.
  • 00:20:45.861 --> 00:20:49.865
  • The whole mystery is in the question when they asked him,
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  • "from whence cometh this?"
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  • The master said, "an enemy has done this."
  • 00:20:55.337 --> 00:20:59.308
  • They said, "should we go," here it is, "and pull up the weeds?"
  • 00:20:59.308 --> 00:21:05.881
  • And he said, "no, leave it alone."
  • 00:21:05.881 --> 00:21:11.186
  • See, the master knew that there was a system underground that
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  • Even if you pull only the weeds there was such a tangling in the
  • 00:21:16.692 --> 00:21:22.064
  • Roots that he said, "if you pull up the weeds, you will kill
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  • The wheats."
  • 00:21:28.036 --> 00:21:29.638
  • Now i see what the devil is trying to get me to do.
  • 00:21:29.638 --> 00:21:33.842
  • He's trying to get me to take matters into my own hands and
  • 00:21:33.842 --> 00:21:39.314
  • Try to solve the problem, but the holy ghost told me to tell
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  • You leave it alone.
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  • I don't know who i'm talking to.
  • 00:21:50.258 --> 00:21:54.029
  • I don't even know what this means to you.
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  • God said you're uncomfortable, but leave it alone.
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  • You're frustrated, but leave it alone.
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  • You're aggravated, but leave it alone.
  • 00:22:05.707 --> 00:22:09.511
  • You're afraid, but leave it alone.
  • 00:22:09.511 --> 00:22:13.382
  • You're tired of it, but leave it alone.
  • 00:22:13.382 --> 00:22:17.152
  • That's the set up.
  • 00:22:17.152 --> 00:22:19.354
  • The devil wants you to do something.
  • 00:22:19.354 --> 00:22:22.090
  • God said you got to have enough faith to leave it alone.
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  • Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: so the master says--lesson four.
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  • Let me give you this. i'm almost out.
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  • We got one more. after this i'm done.
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  • I want you to get this.
  • 00:22:52.287 --> 00:22:53.855
  • The wisdom of waiting is the opiate of faith.
  • 00:22:53.855 --> 00:22:58.894
  • The wisdom of waiting is the opiate of faith, especially
  • 00:22:58.894 --> 00:23:03.532
  • Since time is so expensive to spend.
  • 00:23:03.532 --> 00:23:12.874
  • The trick is to wait it out.
  • 00:23:12.874 --> 00:23:21.149
  • The master saith, "leave it alone, lest while trying to fix
  • 00:23:21.149 --> 00:23:26.688
  • It you make it worse."
  • 00:23:26.688 --> 00:23:30.759
  • It's a setup.
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  • Weed cannot change wheat.
  • 00:23:33.962 --> 00:23:38.099
  • So why did he plant it?
  • 00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:41.970
  • To trick you into this impatience where you feel like
  • 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:47.542
  • You're running out of time and you got to do something now.
  • 00:23:47.542 --> 00:23:56.218
  • Your faith is expressed through your silence.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: this is not your battle.
  • 00:24:10.665 --> 00:24:13.335
  • The wisdom of waiting is the opiate of faith.
  • 00:24:13.335 --> 00:24:18.807
  • The most expensive seed you can plant is time.
  • 00:24:18.807 --> 00:24:24.813
  • If you sow money, you're going to get some more money; but if
  • 00:24:24.813 --> 00:24:29.251
  • You plant time, you'll never have it again and the enemy has
  • 00:24:29.251 --> 00:24:34.623
  • Plagued you with a spirit of urgency that makes you want to
  • 00:24:34.623 --> 00:24:39.728
  • Take matters into your own hands.
  • 00:24:39.728 --> 00:24:45.800
  • They that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength.
  • 00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:52.774
  • They shall mount up on wings like eagles.
  • 00:24:52.774 --> 00:24:55.176
  • They shall run and not be weary.
  • 00:24:55.176 --> 00:24:57.445
  • They shall walk and not faint.
  • 00:24:57.445 --> 00:24:59.681
  • Somebody holler, "wait."
  • 00:24:59.681 --> 00:25:02.484
  • Somebody holler, "wait." somebody holler, "wait."
  • 00:25:02.484 --> 00:25:07.822
  • Be still.
  • 00:25:07.822 --> 00:25:12.460
  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: he says leave it alone.
  • 00:25:19.467 --> 00:25:24.839
  • It's not that you're wrong, it's that the timing isn't right.
  • 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:32.914
  • If you pull it before the wheat is harvested, we will lose the
  • 00:25:32.914 --> 00:25:39.955
  • Whole harvest through the seduction of your frustration
  • 00:25:39.955 --> 00:25:46.795
  • With the wheat.
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  • He said in the ti--i feel prophetic.
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  • Am i prophesying to somebody?
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  • If i'm prophesying to you, shout unto god.
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
  • 00:26:04.646 --> 00:26:11.086
  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
  • 00:26:11.086 --> 00:26:13.822
  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
  • 00:26:13.822 --> 00:26:16.858
  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
  • 00:26:16.858 --> 00:26:20.495
  • Be united.
  • 00:26:20.495 --> 00:26:21.863
  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
  • 00:26:21.863 --> 00:26:24.265
  • 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
  • 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:33.775
  • 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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  • 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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