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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Untouched

April 22, 2025 | S25:E64

T.D. Jakes - Untouched
We all need a touch from God. Once we are healed, we must help others!
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Untouched | April 22, 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: i came to tell you this morning that god
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  • Is passing by you.
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  • He's passing by your situation.
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  • He's passing by your circumstance.
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  • He's passing by your life.
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  • I want you to open up your mouth and praise him like you're lost.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: i want to give you six touch points that god
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  • Speaks of in this text that are important for us to consider in
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  • Understanding this whole dilemma this baby is in, the nation of
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  • Israel is in, the church is in, the world is in, of
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  • Being untouched.
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  • I want--there are six different things we wanna talk about.
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  • The naval wasn't cut is number one.
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  • That's the first thing that god says about the baby.
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  • The baby is still attached to the mother in a way that is no
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  • Longer natural.
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  • It is no longer natural for the baby to be dependent on what the
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  • Mother eats in order to survive, but the naval was not cut.
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  • There's been no separation, so there's been no development.
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  • You are over-dependent on the thing that birthed you.
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  • And i look at the church today that we have to preach you happy
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  • Every sunday.
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  • And i wonder when is the cord going to be cut where you don't
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  • Depend on me to do your bible study.
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  • "pray for me, pastor."
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  • When are you going to be able to pray for yourself?
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  • When is my message gonna become a confirming word and not a
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  • Revelatory word because you have your own devotion to god?
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  • The problem is no one has cut your--
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  • Number two, the second indictment is no one washed you.
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  • You still look like what you've been through.
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  • That afterbirth is something else, child, i'm telling you.
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  • That afterbirth is not pretty.
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  • It's necessary and in the right place at the right time
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  • It's wonderful.
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  • But if it stays too long, it can be infectious and disastrous
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  • And stink.
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  • When you allow what you came from to still cling to you, the
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  • Question arises, "no one washed you?"
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  • Do you understand that that is part of the symbolism of water
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  • Baptism, to wash away where you came from?
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  • We baptize you in water saying that the old man is gone and you
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  • Rise walking in the newness of life, so that means that your
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  • Old temper is gone, that your anger management issue is gone,
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  • That your domestic violence is gone, that your abusive nasty
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  • Mouth is gone.
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  • We washed off--if that's still hanging onto you, you might be a
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  • Church member, but no one washed you?
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  • The radical thing about this text is that on one hand, it is
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  • So successful.
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  • This mother has done what other women pray to do.
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  • She has successfully had a baby that she doesn't care for.
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  • Anything you have, you have to care for.
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  • Stop praying for stuff that you're not gonna care for.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: if you get married, you can't be selfish.
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  • This is why the marriages are not working in a narcissistic
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  • Society because everybody's in it for themselves.
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  • Me, me, me, me, me, no, it's not about you, it's about us.
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  • Everybody wants to have a baby.
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  • Do you wanna care for?
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  • Everybody wants to have a business.
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  • Do you wanna care for them?
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  • Everybody wants to have a church.
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  • Do you wanna care for them?
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  • If you don't really wanna care for it, why did you have it?
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  • Maybe your request is ego driven and not purpose driven.
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  • Maybe you wanna have the baby to prove to the other women
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  • That you're just as much woman as they are.
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  • Maybe you want to have the job so when you go to the family
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  • Reunion you can tell them who you are.
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  • Maybe you only got the degree so you could feel important,
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  • But the problem is now you're degreed and you still don't
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  • Feel important.
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  • Now you got the job and you still feel like nothing because
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  • No one washed you.
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  • Getting stuff on the outside doesn't compare to getting stuff
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  • On the inside.
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  • Has anybody heard the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  • Jesus says the most radical thing.
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  • He says, "you are clean through the word that i've spoken
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  • Unto you."
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  • He says, "the reason i preach to you is to wash you."
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  • That little by little every time you hear a sermon it ought to
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  • Take something off.
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  • It ought to peel something off, it ought to clean something up.
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  • It ought to make you see yourself.
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  • It ought to make you govern your tongue.
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  • It ought to make you feel convicted in some way.
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  • Jesus said, "my way of bathing you is to preach truth to you."
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  • You cannot hide that you didn't bathe.
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  • You know how you have a 5-year-old and you say, "did you
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  • Brush your teeth?"
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  • "yes, sir."
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  • And the breath is hitting you all in the head.
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  • It's hitting you like atomic neutron bombs blowing up in your
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  • Nostrils, and you say, "get back in there and brush those teeth."
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  • People can tell.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Bishop jakes: people can tell when you've not been washed.
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  • But what's weird about this text, this baby is delivered,
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  • But damaged.
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  • I wonder how many people in this room are watching online,
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  • Streaming, watching me right now.
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  • I wonder how many of you who are looking at me on your tv.
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  • I'm wondering how many of you that are watching on your ipad
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  • Or on your cell phone.
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  • I'm wondering how many of you have really been washed.
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  • Can i go deeper?
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  • Number three is a big one. number three is a big one.
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  • The third indictment he brings up against the scene before us
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  • Is no one salted you.
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  • And that's a funny thing because today you would not salt a baby.
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  • But in the bible days you would salt a baby to heal the
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  • Abrasions that were on the baby.
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  • Now the baby has been delivered, but god is saying, "i don't
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  • Question that you've been delivered, but are you healed?
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  • I don't question that you've been born again, but are
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  • You healed?"
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  • Oh, in the church i grew up in, they were adamant, and
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  • Biblically and rightfully so, that you do not
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  • Marry unbelievers.
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  • They were adamant about it.
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  • It was totally taboo.
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  • It was just--it was just unthinkable that you would marry
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  • An unbeliever.
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  • The whole church would just sit you down.
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  • They would sit you down.
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  • You couldn't sing.
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  • You couldn't usher.
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  • The deacons couldn't deac if you married somebody.
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  • I know.
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  • You know, whatever, if you married an unbeliever.
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  • But what they didn't tell us is that some unbelievers are
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  • In church.
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  • That just because you go to church and just because you
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  • Speak in tongues and just because you can quote scriptures
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  • Doesn't mean that you are healed.
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  • I don't want to pastor a gang.
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  • I want to pastor a church, and in order to pastor a church,
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  • You gotta be healed.
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  • You gotta be salted.
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  • Now the salt alone doesn't do the healing, it promotes the
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  • Healing process, you understand?
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  • So you can't salt the baby and all the abrasions immediately
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  • Disappear but it sets in motion a healing process.
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  • Be honest with me, how many of you feel like that a healing
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  • Process has been set in motion in your life?
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  • That's salt.
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  • Is it possible that those of us that are in processes of healing
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  • Do not extend the same grace to other people to be in processes
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  • Of healing?
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  • I want you to make it your objective this week to be salt
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  • In somebody's life.
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  • To be salt in somebody's life is to help them to heal.
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  • I want you to be salt in some co-worker's life, some
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  • Relative's life, some student's life, some neighbor's life.
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  • I want you to be salt.
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  • I want you to be salt in your marriage.
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  • You know what she came through.
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  • You know why she flares up like that.
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  • Instead of flaring up with her, be salt.
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  • Oh, it's a tough sunday this morning.
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  • Good god, it's a tough one this morning.
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  • I wish god would have let somebody else do this.
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  • I think you have lost a lot of good people, not because they
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  • Were bad people, but because you were not salt.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: think scale.
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  • John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have
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  • Seeds of potential in us.
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  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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  • John: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs, right now is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: "with great power, the apostles continued to
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  • Testify to the resurrection of the lord jesus, and much grace
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  • Was upon them all."
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  • Celebrate with us the resurrection
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  • Of our lord and savior jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and the bible says that they cast him out into an
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  • Open field, number six.
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  • They threw--honey, they threw the baby
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  • Into an open field.
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  • You left me uncovered and threw me out there to the wolves?
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  • And now you're talking about me because they bit me?
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  • They bit me but you threw me.
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  • Any time you leave me uncovered, you throw me out into the
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  • Open field.
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  • I want to talk to some open field people who got thrown out
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  • Into stuff, found yourself with wolves,
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  • Snakes, and lions and tigers.
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  • When you say you threw me away, though, you didn't throw me
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  • Away, you threw me to.
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  • Your away sent me to an open field.
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  • Good god almighty.
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  • No wonder we're stressed out.
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  • No man swaddled you.
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  • No man salted you.
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  • No man covered you.
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  • No man cut you.
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  • And when they finally did make contact with you, it was to
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  • Throw you to an open field.
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  • Have you ever been thrown?
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  • Have you ever been divorced?
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  • Have you ever been rejected?
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  • Have you ever been thrown?
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  • Have you ever been thrown into a strange, foreign, dangerous,
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  • Vulnerable situation?
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  • It's one of the reasons we're in church this morning.
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  • One of the reasons we're in church this morning is to get
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  • Some cover and get some guidance and get some direction and get
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  • Some help and get some healing.
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  • Because it's hard on a baby in an open field.
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  • It's hard, when you don't abuse me but you neglect me.
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  • And that neglect is abuse.
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  • And then the bible goes real therapeutic and shows you what
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  • All of this does, and i'm gonna show you what it does and i'll
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  • Be done.
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  • It says when they got through, not salting, not cutting, not
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  • Washing, not covering, not pitying you, it led
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  • To self-loathing.
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  • To the loathing of thy person.
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  • Good god almighty, that's so heavy, to the loathing of
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  • Thy person.
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  • How in the world can i convince you to love me
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  • When inside i loathe me,
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  • And i wish i were not me?
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  • That's what that means: to the loathing of thy person.
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  • I wish i wasn't me.
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  • If i open up this altar right now to people who loathe
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  • Themselves and loathe their mistakes and loathe their
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  • Memories and loathe what happened to them and loathe
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  • Their abortions and loathe what they did and loathe who hurt
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  • Them and loathe who they hurt.
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  • That's what this text means.
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  • It's my job to explain the text.
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  • To the loathing of thy person is a really deep thing when you
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  • Don't like you, and you can't forgive you, and you won't have
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  • Mercy on you.
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  • And you're angry with yourself and that anger turns inside into
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  • Depression and you're depressed and nothing seems to lift you
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  • Out of it.
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  • You know why?
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  • You loathe yourself and you won't let anybody close because
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  • How could you love me?
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  • And you're only attracted to people who are mean because they
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  • Are a reflection of how you think about yourself.
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  • Because if anybody comes along and they're too nice you run
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  • Them away.
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  • You run them away because you disagree with them because you
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  • Don't think you're worthy of love and you won't receive the
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  • Best of life because you don't really think you deserve the
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  • Best of life, so you play the role and get the reward that you
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  • Have pre-scripted in your mind that you deserve.
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  • To the loathing of thy person.
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  • How could a relationship work?
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  • Ain't no way for it to work.
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  • How could you have somebody that love you when you don't
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  • Love you?
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  • That's what the text means, to the loathing.
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  • You were out in the open field to the loathing of thy person.
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  • Oh yes, you love jesus, "oh how i love jesus.
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  • Oh oh, how i--" oh, you do good at loving jesus.
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  • That ain't the problem.
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  • I'm not talking about loving jesus.
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  • It's easy to love jesus.
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  • Yes, you love jesus, but how about, "oh, how i love you"?
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  • To the loathing.
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  • I've found my enemy, and it's me.
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  • I found my enemy. it took me a while.
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  • It took me years to find him. i found him.
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  • I looked in the mirror one day and i saw him, face to face.
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  • I looked him head on.
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  • So you're the one who been making all them dumb decisions
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  • And messing up things and going and all and crazy.
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  • So you're the one who keep playing the fool and
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  • Sabotaging yourself.
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  • So you the terrorist who strapped bombs around yourself
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  • And blew up that opportunity.
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  • You blew that up yourself because you don't think you
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  • Deserve no better, do you?
  • 00:20:15.664 --> 00:20:17.733
  • So you keep sinking back into what you think you deserve.
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  • To the loathing of thy person.
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  • But i will not--i will not--i will not die here.
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  • I was ministering, i was counseling a brother going
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  • Through a crisis and i was telling him, i understand how
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  • You feel.
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  • I understand what you're going through, because i remember
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  • Taking a bottle of pills and being mad because i woke up.
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  • I'm not there now, but i have been there and i wanted him to
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  • Know i have been there and you cannot help people if you're not
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  • Willing to put yourself on the line.
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  • I will not die here.
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  • And then it says, "when i passed by you."
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  • When i pass, that's why i love it when the glory of the lord
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  • Comes into a building like this because whenever the glory of
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  • The lord comes into a church, he is passing by.
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  • He is doing inspections.
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  • He is doing checkups.
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  • He is dealing with issues.
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  • He's doing x-rays and ultrasounds and sonograms and
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  • Checking you out.
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  • He didn't just come so you could get your praise on.
  • 00:22:04.706 --> 00:22:07.109
  • He came to do a real inspection.
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  • How you really doing?
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  • Are you really good?
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  • Are you really happy?
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  • Where is your joy?
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  • What happened to the twinkle that used to be in your eye?
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  • It is not there.
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  • Adam, where art thou?
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  • It is gone.
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  • You are missing in action.
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  • I want you back.
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  • When i passed by you.
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  • When i passed by you, when i, when i passed by you, when i
  • 00:22:30.298 --> 00:22:34.302
  • Passed by you, when i passed by you, everybody else looked away,
  • 00:22:34.302 --> 00:22:38.273
  • But when i passed by you, everybody else turned the
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  • Corner, but when i passed by you, everybody turned up their
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  • Nose, but when i passed by you, when i passed by you, when i
  • 00:22:45.347 --> 00:22:50.385
  • Passed by you, when i passed by you.
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  • What did i pass?
  • 00:22:56.024 --> 00:22:59.194
  • When i passed by.
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  • I came to tell you this morning that god is passing by you.
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  • He's passing by your situation.
  • 00:23:05.133 --> 00:23:08.103
  • He's passing by your circumstance.
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  • He's passing by your life.
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  • I want you to open up your mouth and praise him like you lost.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: he's passing by you.
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  • He's passing by you, man.
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  • He's passing by you.
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  • He still makes house calls.
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  • He's coming right up your street.
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  • He's coming for you.
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  • Ain't nobody else.
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  • He's coming for you.
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  • He's coming into your darkest corner, your deepest agony, your
  • 00:23:49.077 --> 00:23:53.515
  • Darkest night, your moment of pain, your deepest secret,
  • 00:23:53.515 --> 00:23:57.552
  • Your--oh my god.
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  • When i passed by you, i saw you.
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  • I saw you.
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  • God wants you to know he sees you.
  • 00:24:08.296 --> 00:24:13.835
  • He sees you.
  • 00:24:13.835 --> 00:24:23.011
  • He sees you, he knows what you're afraid of.
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  • He knows what life did to you.
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  • He knows what age has made you afraid of.
  • 00:24:28.016 --> 00:24:30.452
  • He knows where you are in your heart and in your mind.
  • 00:24:30.452 --> 00:24:33.154
  • God said, "i see you."
  • 00:24:33.154 --> 00:24:37.392
  • Look at three people and say, "something is about to happen."
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  • Something's about to happen.
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  • I'm not gonna leave here like i came.
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  • Something is about to happen.
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  • Y'all must not hear me, something is about to happen.
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  • Resuscitation is coming into your life.
  • 00:25:00.282 --> 00:25:03.752
  • Resuscitation is coming into your spirit.
  • 00:25:03.752 --> 00:25:06.421
  • Resuscitation is coming into your marriage.
  • 00:25:06.421 --> 00:25:10.458
  • Resuscitation is coming into your home.
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  • Resuscitation, open your mouth, get ready to win--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: i can't hear you.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: god is about to resuscitate somebody
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  • In this place this morning.
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  • Somebody in this place is about to get a touch from the lord.
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  • Breathe in, breathe out, get ready.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: they thought you was gonna die.
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  • They thought you wasn't gonna make it.
  • 00:25:56.671 --> 00:25:58.673
  • They thought they threw you away.
  • 00:25:58.673 --> 00:26:00.775
  • They thought you wouldn't be back.
  • 00:26:00.775 --> 00:26:02.644
  • They thought you'd never get up, but the devil is a liar.
  • 00:26:02.644 --> 00:26:07.415
  • Bishop jakes: when the children of israel got ready to go down
  • 00:26:07.482 --> 00:26:10.318
  • Into the red sea, and god made the water stand up on the right
  • 00:26:10.318 --> 00:26:14.155
  • And the left, we talk about the faith that they went down into
  • 00:26:14.155 --> 00:26:18.426
  • The dry bed with, but we don't talk about the fear.
  • 00:26:18.426 --> 00:26:21.997
  • The real art to life is not to be controlled by the feeling of
  • 00:26:21.997 --> 00:26:27.102
  • Fear, but to let faith drive the wheel even if fear is sitting in
  • 00:26:27.102 --> 00:26:31.906
  • The backseat.
  • 00:26:31.906 --> 00:26:33.241
  • You cannot count on fear to get out of the car in order for you
  • 00:26:33.241 --> 00:26:37.145
  • To be mobile.
  • 00:26:37.145 --> 00:26:38.747
  • You just don't want fear to drive the car.
  • 00:26:38.747 --> 00:26:42.017
  • You want your faith to drive the car.
  • 00:26:42.017 --> 00:26:45.920
  • Even though you acknowledge the fact that you have a feeling
  • 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.958
  • That wants to drive called fear, it's up to you not to turn your
  • 00:26:49.958 --> 00:26:55.030
  • Car keys over to your fears and be driven by fear.
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  • You want to be driven by faith.
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  • Announcer: feel free to reach out to us
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  • On social media and share your story
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  • Of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time
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  • 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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