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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Which One | October 12, 2022
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- female announcer: Coming up on "The Potter's Touch."
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- Bishop T.D. Jakes: The Bible says they were healed as
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- they went.
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- This is something that I want to work on a little bit, because a
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- lot of us want God to do it so we can go, but God is teaching
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- us here I will do it as you go.
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- To take the chance of going and showing ourselves, our true
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- selves, not who you pretend to be, not who you would like to
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- be, not who you want me to think you are, go show yourself, your
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- original, authentic self to the priest.
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- Information for centuries that said you must go to this priest
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- to be declared clean, and whole, and delivered, but revelation
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- said the greater priest is behind me.
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- And I want to ask you this Sunday morning, which one are
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- you going to follow?
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- ♪ "The Potter's Touch," "The Potter's Touch." ♪♪
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- Bishop Jakes: And then Jesus says to them the statement that
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- causes me to really get microscopic in my understanding
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- of really scrutinizing the continuity of this text, because
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- Jesus says to them, "Go show thyself to the priest."
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- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, he didn't say be healed, he didn't
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- say be whole, he didn't say I bless you, he didn't say I'll
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- fix you, he didn't say anything to them but told them to go show
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- yourself to the priests like this, with boils on my skin, and
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- fingers falling off, and oozing, infectious sores.
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- You want me to go into the crowd of the whole still broken?
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- God will often challenge us to get out of our sociological
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- constructs, to get out of our circle of comfortability, to get
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- away from that which is familiar, to take the chance of
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- going and showing ourselves, our true selves, not who you pretend
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- to be, not who you would like to be, not who you want me to think
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- you are, go show yourself, your original, authentic self to
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- the priest.
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- And the Bible said that they turned to go show themselves to
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- the priest.
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- I have to stop and acknowledge what faith it took to turn
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- around and head to the priest still infected, still oozing.
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- It would've been good if I was healed and then I went to the
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- priest, but I had to go lame, and crippled, and I had to walk
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- as if Jesus had not touched me.
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- It doesn't look like they've had an encounter with God.
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- It doesn't look like they're any better than they were.
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- It doesn't look like things have changed at all, and yet they
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- were called to walk by faith.
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- My brothers and sisters, hear me good, God doesn't have to prove
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- who he is to challenge you to take a walk.
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- You've got to be willing to step out on faith, even when it looks
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- like things are not getting better and sometimes it looks
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- like things are getting worse.
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- But in spite of the fact that it looks like things are getting
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- worse, you have got to be willing to go show thyself to
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- the priest.
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- Jesus is calling for authenticity.
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- Jesus is causing us to be transparent.
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- Jesus is asking us to show ourselves to the priest.
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- But there's something wrong with myself, and there's something
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- broken with myself, and there's something wrong with my home,
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- and there's something wrong with my marriage, and there's
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- something wrong with my finances.
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- It's like telling me to go buy a house and I know I got
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- bad credit.
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- How can I go house shopping when my credit is bad?
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- Go show thyself to the priest.
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- Then I began to wonder why did Jesus send
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- them to the priest?
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- What was it about the priest?
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- What was it about the priests that he comes into this scene,
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- he comes into this circumstance, he comes into this situation?
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- Why would Jesus send the lepers to the priests?
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- Of course they were separated, of course they were alienated,
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- and then of course, according to the Scriptures, they were
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- unclean, untouchable, undesirable, disconnected,
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- alienated, ostracized, rejected, scorned, alienated from the
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- commonwealth of Israel.
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- They were separated, and Jesus says, "Go show thyself to
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- the priest."
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- What would the priest do with ten lepers?
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- Priests don't heal.
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- Priests don't perform miracles.
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- Priests do sacraments.
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- what sacrament would the priest offer that would help the
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- lepers recover?
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- And then I stumbled upon the mystery of the red heifer.
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- You won't find it in the story, you'll have to go into Numbers
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- to really dig it out and begin to understand, but if you go
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- into Numbers 19, you will hear that early on in the experience
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- of Moses, God introduces Aaron and Eliezer to a concept that is
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- centered around the red heifer.
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- Not anybody, but the red heifer, had to be offered up.
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- Generally, most of the sacrifices were male in species,
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- but this was a red heifer.
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- The red heifer had to be completely red, no white, no
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- other color, no strange hairs, could not have ever been ridden
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- on, could not have had sex of any kind, it had to be a pure,
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- red heifer, about three years old.
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- The specificity with which the commandment is given
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- is overwhelming.
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- Let me tell you why, because the red heifer was used to cleanse
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- the unclean, and when the red heifer was offered up, she had
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- to be burned, completely burned with scarlet wool tossed in, and
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- hyssop tossed in.
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- A fire was created, and after the fire had completely
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- dissolved, every part of the perfect, pure red heifer, then
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- the commandment was made to Eliezer to show the red heifer
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- ashes to Aaron, and to take those ashes and place them in
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- water, and to mix the ashes with water so that if anybody touched
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- anything that defiled them, that made them unclean, this would be
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- the purification that the priests would use not to
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- cleanse, but to declare you clean.
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- It's one thing to be cleansed and it's another thing to be
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- declared clean.
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- See, it could be that you are cleansed, but you still need
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- a declaration.
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- For example, Christ is the anointed one before John pointed
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- him out, but he still needed a declaration.
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- At the Jordan River, John says, "Behold, the Lamb of God," so he
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- gets a declaration from men, and then the heavens opened up and
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- the voice spoke and said, "This is my beloved Son," so he gets
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- the declaration from God.
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- You cannot do this without declaration.
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- The mystery of the red heifer is what sanctified them and
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- officially declared them clean, and so they were going filthy to
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- the priest to be declared clean.
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- They were going infected to the priest to be declared clean.
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- No scarf, no mask, no covering, no shield, no disinfectant, they
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- were going filthy to the priest, and they went anyway.
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- The message I want you to get, the message I want you to
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- understand quite clearly, is that sometimes you have to
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- go anyway.
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- See, the mystery you have to realize about this is that if
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- they went to the priest and the priests had the ashes from the
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- red heifer, it would so cleanse them that they could be communal
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- again, they could be connected again, they could be released,
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- they could be authenticated, they could be validated.
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- It set them into a category that was unique, and this was rare
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- because from the days of Moses to the building of the second
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- temple, there have only been nine red heifers that were used
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- in an official ceremony of cleansing.
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- This is so rare not only because it is difficult to find a heifer
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- that meets the stiff qualifications, but it's so rare
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- because the ashes in the water of the heifer would last a long,
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- long time.
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- Even to this day, they have only been nine red heifers that have
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- been used.
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- And when I talk to my Jewish scholars and friends, they say
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- they are waiting on the tenth heifer.
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- They cannot began to build the temple which will bring back the
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- Messiah until they have found the right red heifer.
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- That's what's underlying this text.
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- Nine red heifers will be offered up, and we are at this moment
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- looking for the tenth so that they become clean enough to
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- rebuild the temple that provokes, according to my Hebrew
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- brothers, the coming of the Messiah.
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- But in Jesus's day, there was no shortage of ashes, and he tells
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- them to go show yourself to the priest.
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- Go, go, and as they turn to go, the Bible says they were healed
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- as they went.
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- This is something that I want to work on a little bit, because a
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- lot of us want God to do it so we can go, but God is teaching
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- us here I will do it as you go.
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- You've been praying Lord, do it so I can go.
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- Lord, fix me so you can use me.
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- Lord, heal me so I can be delivered.
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- But God is saying I will not heal you so you can go, I will
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- heal you as you go.
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- Oh, look at somebody and say, "Keep on walking."
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- It don't look good right now, but keep on walking.
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- It doesn't look like the word is at work, but keep on walking.
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- It does not look like your faith has been legitimized, but
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- sometimes you've got to keep on walking.
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- You might be in pain, but you gotta keep on walking.
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- You might be limping, but you gotta keep on walking.
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- You might be uncertain, but you gotta keep on walking.
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- And there they were, some with two toes and some were ten, and
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- some with two fingers, and some with oozing, infectious
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- diseases, but they kept on walking.
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- You can walk with it.
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- [laughing]
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- Everything doesn't have to be alright for you to be able to
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- walk with it.
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- You gotta be able to walk with stuff.
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- The problem in the world right now is that we give up on things
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- because they are broken, or lame, or hurt, and we don't
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- understand how to walk with less than what we want.
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- The ten lepers are walking with less than what they wanted, less
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- than what they had, less than what they were born with, less
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- than what they expected, less than what they believed, but
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- they kept on walking.
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- I want to look you in your face and tell you you can walk
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- with it.
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- You can walk with it.
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- We've just read in the news how Brother Boseman, who performed,
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- and did "Black Panther," and all of those feats, and all of those
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- acts, he did it with cancer in the fourth stage, and in between
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- chemo he was a superhero, because you can walk with it.
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- It might not be perfect, but you can walk with it.
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- You might have to work on yourself, oh, my God, I feel the
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- anointing of the Holy Ghost, but you can walk with it.
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- I know the devil's been telling you you can't take anymore, and
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- you can't stand it, and you gotta run, and you gotta get
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- away, and you gotta fight back, but God is saying go show
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- yourself to the priest.
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- How can I go like this?
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- You can walk with it.
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- Bishop Jakes: I'm on a plane, I can't fly a plane, and as long
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- as the pilot don't come out of that door, white as a sheet,
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- I'm good.
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- But the day the pilot comes out the door and says, "Oh, my God,
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- we got a problem," I don't know what he's talking about, but I'm
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- worried about it.
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- As a driver, as a leader, you can't vent on your children, you
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- have to be steadfast.
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- Because when you are not steadfast, you represent their
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- whole world.
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- So, this is a great opportunity to teach them about life, that
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- things come out of nowhere.
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- To teach your children a lot of life lessons and how to be happy
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- in confinement.
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- So, you begin to teach the children, this is a trial of our
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- faith, and this is a season that we're going through right now,
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- and we're going to lean and trust God to take us through
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- those circumstances and to bring us out safely.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Bishop Jakes: Healed, cleansed, and whole.
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- Healed, cleansed, and whole.
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- The Bible said they were healed as they went, [laughing]
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- and that they were cleansed, but one of them saw that he
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- was healed.
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- One out of ten.
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- This one guy has revelation, and revelation can
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- create frustration.
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- He has a revelation, number one, that he is not only cleansed but
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- that he's healed.
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- And then what do you do with this revelation?
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- Do you still keep walking in what God has said?
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- Because the revelation that I'm healed does not necessarily give
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- me permission to disobeyed the healer.
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- But one of them said, "I don't know, this is risky, but I'm
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- going to turn around and glorify God."
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- Now, the other nine kept going to the priest.
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- Isn't that interesting?
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- There have been nine red heifers offered up from the days of
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- Moses until now, and there were nine lepers that kept walking
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- toward the priest.
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- Only one of them got a revelation that challenged
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- the tradition.
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- What I want you to see is not which one of the ten, but which
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- one of the priests, because nine of them kept walking toward the
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- priests that they were familiar with, but one of them perceived
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- that the real priest was behind him.
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- And the great decision that they had to make was...
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- which one?
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- Do I go with the former or the latter?
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- Do I go with tradition, or do I go with revelation?
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- I have a decision to make, because I'm stuck between that
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- which was and that which is, and only one of them decided I don't
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- have to go there to get to the priest, the priest is behind me.
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- Oh, God, can I preach this?
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- The priest, the one who spoke the word, he is my priest, and
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- he turns around and goes with revelation over information.
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- Information for centuries that says you must go to this priest
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- to be declared clean, and whole, and delivered, but revelation
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- said the greater priest is behind me.
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- And I want to ask you this Sunday morning, which one are
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- you going to follow, the traditions of your fathers, or
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- the revelation of this moment?
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- I want to ask you.
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- You've got a decision to make.
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- Either you'll keep on going through your traditions, or
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- you'll have the audacity to walk in your revelation and
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- turn around.
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- And the Bible said he cried with a loud voice and glorified God.
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- I wish I had somebody that would holler in here.
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- There's something about a shout that provokes a victory.
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- There's somethin' about a shout that commands deliverance.
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- There's somethin' about a shout that will break every yoke.
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- He started shouting because he finally decided which one.
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- Nine of them chose the other one, but one out of ten came
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- back to Jesus.
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- Wait a minute, one out of ten is the tithe.
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- The tithe turned back to glorify God.
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- The nine kept walking.
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- When was the last time that you brought the tithe back to
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- glorify God?
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- When you bring the tithe back to glorify God, you are officially
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- made whole.
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- Now they were healed, and they were cleansed, but we don't see
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- whole until the tithe came back to the priest.
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- The tithe glorified God.
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- The tithe lay prostrate in the floor.
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- The tithe recognized who the real priest was.
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- The tithe recognized who was the author and finisher of our
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- faith, and it was exemplified through the tenth.
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- And the temple cannot be built in Jerusalem until we get to the
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- tenth, because the tithe provokes the presence of
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- the Messiah.
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- And so in our text today--God bless every person who
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- understands the principle of the tenth one.
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- That tenth one turning back to God provoked the breaking of a
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- yoke, the tearing down of a system, the release of a
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- pattern, the change of a circumstance.
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- And he fell on Jesus's feet and glorified God because he had
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- decided which one.
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- And then Jesus asked this very complicated question Where are
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- the nine?
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- But wait a minute, Lord, they're walking in what you told them
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- to do.
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- Yes, but they're walking in an old revelation.
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- They walked in what I had said, you walked in what I am saying.
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- Where are the nine?
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- So, the expectation was for Jesus to give them a command,
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- and while they were walking in their last command, for them to
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- receive a revelation.
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- A revelation that was so overwhelming that they knew that
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- they would not be justified through the law, but be saved
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- by grace.
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- And Jesus says where are the nine?
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- I'm wondering if you're walking in tradition, or are you walking
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- in present-day revelation?
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- I'm wondering if you can connect the dots between getting better
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- and recovering, and who you owe the glory to.
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- Which priest, which place?
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- What shall I render unto the Lord for all of his benefits
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- toward me?
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- Can I keep on asking God to bless me while all the ten is
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- walking away?
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- Do I have the courage to move away from the red heifer who is
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- only a shadow of what Christ is in reality?
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- The red heifer had to be pure.
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- The red heifer had to be set apart.
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- The red heifer had to be mixed with myrrh.
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- Hallelujah, the red heifer had to be burned with wood.
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- The red heifer cleansed the trespasses of sin.
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- Jesus was crucified on wood.
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- He was nailed to a cross.
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- He is the spotless sacrifice that was offered up for not only
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- the sins that we have committed, but laid in store enough
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- efficacious power in his blood to deal with everything that we
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- will ever run into.
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- And you're still standing here arguing law to grace, and law
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- grace, which one?
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- The nine kept on walking, and they were cleansed there's no
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- doubt about it.
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- The Bible says they were cleansed and they were healed,
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- and the Bible says they were healed, but only one of them was
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- made whole.
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- You wanna be whole?
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- You wanna keep it one hundred?
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- You wanna be whole so that the point that you're no longer
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- fragmented and needing somebody to fill you up, to make up the
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- distance between where you left off and what it still a void,
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- vacant spot in your life?
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- If you wanna be whole, you gotta go to the right priest.
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- If you wanna be whole, you cannot make people your priest.
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- If you wanna be whole, you cannot make things your priest.
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- They become your idols.
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- If you want to be whole, you gotta go back to the one that
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- spoke the word over you to begin with, and lay your tithe, and
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- lay yourself, and lay your burdens, and lay your needs down
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- at his feet, and thereby you will have glorified God.
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- Bishop Jakes: When you dance in the wilderness, you let hell
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- know I don't believe this, this won't last.
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- Because if you will give God your dance, he will give you
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- his water.
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