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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - The Encounter (Part 2) | May 19, 2026
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- - hello everyone.
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- How are you doing?
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- I'm pastor ron carpenter.
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- I wanna welcome you to ron carpenter television,
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- And we are deep inside the encounter now,
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- As you can see it written behind me.
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- And i'm just so excited
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- About walking you through this journey
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- Of what god wants to do in our life,
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- Of taking us in the pit that we're in, the background,
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- And moving us to the forefront.
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- I have said over and over,
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- Grace always takes you like you are,
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- But it never leaves you like you are.
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- Grace is a journey.
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- The bible says that we can come into the throne room of god
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- And obtain mercy and find grace.
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- We can obtain means immediately seize mercy,
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- But we have to find grace.
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- Grace means what god has given us that we don't deserve.
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- That is a journey.
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- You'll spend the rest of your life
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- Finding the things that god has prepared for you
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- By his grace that you never deserved,
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- You never earned, but he's prepared them for you anyway.
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- We've been studying this journey in the life of ruth,
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- And now we've come to the part where her and boaz
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- Are about to meet,
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- Where the true encounter of us and christ,
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- We come together and we meet.
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- That explosion takes place of heaven kissing earth,
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- And earth kissing heaven.
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- Are you ready to find out what we're talking about
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- Here in the encounter?
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- Don't go away.
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- I really believe you're about to be blessed.
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- The earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof.
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- You don't own anything anyway.
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- Everything you've been given,
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- You have been given to steward and to manage it
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- And manage it well.
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- The voice that i have, i've been given to manage it,
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- The energy i have, the time that i have,
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- The resources that i have,
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- They have been delegated to me
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- For the efficient and effective use to god's intended end.
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- So i cannot look at my talents, my skillset, and my time
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- As though they are to be used for my advantages in life.
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- They are to be used to the intent
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- To which the owner of them has delegated them to me.
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- I know that god didn't give everybody this skillset.
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- So the skillset i have,
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- I have to go to the owner and say,
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- "exactly what are you wanting out of this skillset
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- "so i can effectively oversee my life
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- "and manage it in such a way
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- "that you're getting everything out of it that you wanted
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- "when you delegated it to ron carpenter
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- "for this time that he is here on the earth."
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- I know you can't clap, but just swallow it like vinegar.
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- Therefore, a new value system has to come into play
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- Where i learn when to say yes, and i learn when to say no.
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- When i learn when i need to be in a crowd,
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- And i learn where i probably need to be alone.
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- When i learn that it's a time for me,
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- And when i learn that it's a time for sacrifice,
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- Where i have to come into the my,
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- Where i have to come into a very fine balance
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- Of how i'm doing everything in my life.
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- Now that i am 49, and i'm not an old man,
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- But i am older than i have ever been.
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- I can already feel myself beginning to shift my thinking
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- In looking at the time, the energetic time
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- That i have left in the earth,
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- And what is the highest and best use of that time
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- That i have left in the earth.
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- So therefore, i don't go everywhere
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- That calls me and ask me to come preach.
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- I tell more people no than i tell yes.
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- Why?
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- Because it's not the highest and best use of my time,
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- Because at the end of my value system
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- Is not a check and a dollar bill.
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- Y'all don't understand what i'm saying?
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- Can i keep going further here?
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- Somebody called the other day,
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- And they said, "i wanna talk to you and your media team,"
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- Is a good friend of mine,
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- "about your approach to tv
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- "because we've just been given tv opportunities."
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- I said, "you may not want to talk to me."
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- They said, "why?"
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- I said, "because i've used a very controlled approach."
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- And they said, "what do you mean?"
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- I said, "i could be on tv all day every day
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- "if i wanna be a fundraiser all the time."
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- I said, "i have a very controlled approach to tv.
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- "why?
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- "because i do not want to spend 20 minutes
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- "of a 28-minute tv program begging folk to send me money,
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- "'cause i got $50 million in tv bills,
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- "and so i'm giving out all,
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- "and i'm cutting my hair and giving people pieces of my hair
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- "and i'm pulling buttons off my shirt and saying,
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- "'touch one of them and the lord will heal ya.'
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- "and i'm selling handkerchiefs,
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- "and i'm giving them sand from galilee
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- "and water from canaan and everything,
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- "trying my best to raise money,
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- "and make the gospel look cheaper than walmart and target."
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- I refuse to live my life like that
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- Because i had a set of value.
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- God has delegated a kingdom to me,
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- And i got to make sure that the kingdom
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- Is represented in a high way, not in a cheap way.
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- Some of you ain't smiled or clapped yet,
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- But hang on, i'm coming at ya.
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- When i was first trying to grow this church,
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- And we began to first hit our first little breakthrough
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- That we had back in 1999,
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- As a pastor, i called and asked to have an audience with
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- That shouldn't have never had a meeting with me,
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- But he did.
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- I had a lot of questions and i needed to see him
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- And he took a meeting.
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- I flew down to where he was.
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- I've been there about five minutes,
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- And it was right when phones came out.
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- Flip phone.
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- Some of you ain't never upgraded it.
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- That thing, it's about time.
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- It's about time.
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- Now i got a call and i pulled out that flip phone.
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- He took the phone outta my hand.
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- He said, "you don't understand where i am."
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- He closed the phone up.
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- He said, "you on my time now, son."
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- He said, "you don't ask for an audience with me
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- "so i can sit here listen to you talk to somebody else."
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- Just time after time,
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- People challenging my thinking,
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- People showing me the next level,
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- And people confronting my mindset and my weaknesses
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- Without me getting offended,
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- But learning that that was not telling me
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- How great he was and how small i was,
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- But him giving me the first lesson of the next level
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- Is that you get in a great man's presence,
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- You take his time wisely and you don't sit there and hold on
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- So you can talk to the babysitter.
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- Y'all wait...
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- Somebody scream management, somebody shout management.
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- Somebody say, let take me higher god.
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- Somebody say, lift me up, take me.
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- God wants to reign!
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- I hear the sound of an abundance of rain.
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- The thunder is clapping in the air.
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- I see the lightning bolts about to shatter,
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- And there is a sound of rain like i've never heard
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- At redemption before,
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- But it cannot rain on your life
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- Until you begin to take yourself higher
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- And begin to examine every area of your life.
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- Are you using everything god gave you
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- To the best of your ability?
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- Somebody shout, hallelujah!
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- I want you to tap four people and say,
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- "we got to get our house in order."
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- Tell 'em, we got to.
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- (audience chattering)
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- You don't know what other people have done
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- To get where they are.
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- We just hate on them 'cause of where they are.
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- I'm sick of this hating on people culture.
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- I'm sick of it.
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- I'm so sick of it.
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- Anybody that gets anything or wins anything or does well,
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- Everybody just destroys them.
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- I'm gonna break that thing in the name of jesus.
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- It's time to celebrate people who make sacrifices,
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- Celebrate people who worked hard,
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- Celebrate people who did whatever it took to get there,
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- That took everything they did and made good decisions
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- And managed their life.
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- Well, it's time to celebrate those people
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- Instead of hating on them
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- Because it's an indictment against how lazy we've been!
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- I got more.
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- (ron coughing)
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- Now i've got the thing flipped on me.
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- I have pastors of smaller churches,
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- And they say, "well, i remember,
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- "you didn't have that big old church.
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- "i remember when you was like us.
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- "maybe you done got too big for your,"
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- Like somehow i got here and lost my character.
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- But what they don't understand about me
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- Is what i do understand about jake's.
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- That in god having now give me international stewardship
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- For me to jump on airplanes
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- And go preach to 75 people
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- Does not mean i don't love folk,
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- Does not mean i've gotten above my raisin'.
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- It means that is a terrible,
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- Terrible use of my time
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- And energy in the kingdom.
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- And that's what people have got to get to.
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- The concept of management,
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- The concept of understanding that life is choice-driven,
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- And one of the greatest gifts god gave you
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- Is the ability to make a decision.
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- The kingdom is a government.
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- The government is in charge of our resources.
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- We should hold them accountable
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- For how they use our resources.
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- God sent jesus to bring a government.
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- The government starts inside of me.
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- The greatest ability god gave me
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- Was to make godly decisions about my own life
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- That could give me specific outcomes,
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- 'cause as a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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- What does he reap?
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- That that he sow.
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- That shall he reap.
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- So god gave me the ability to make decisions,
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- Not do it for me,
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- But to make decisions that cause it to happen. (grunting)
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- God did not come to do it for me!
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- He come to give me the government
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- To govern my life in such a way
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- That the blessing i desire,
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- I can do the decision that creates the outcome
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- That god told me i could have.
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- That's why he says,
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- "choose you this day whom you will serve."
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- He didn't say, "you gonna serve me."
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- He said, "choose you this day who's,"
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- In deuteronomy 28,
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- "i put before you blessings and i put before you curses."
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- Choose, choose, choose life.
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- He's begging you to choose life.
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- He's beg, he says,
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- "you can bless yourself or you can curse yourself.
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- "it's your choice."
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- How you going to respond to a problem?
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- Judas went and committed suicide.
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- Peter repented.
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- What are you going to do?
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- (audience applauding)
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- Same problem, same night.
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- One went and killed himself,
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- Another went and said, "i'm sorry."
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- (upbeat music)
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- (upbeat music continues)
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- (upbeat music continues)
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- He says, "you can bless yourself or you can curse yourself."
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- It's your choice.
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- How you going to respond to a problem?
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- Judas went and committed suicide.
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- Peter repented.
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- What are you gonna do?
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- - [vo] the encounter,
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- Eight dynamic messages from ron carpenter
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- Designed to help you encounter greatness.
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- - the anointing of the holy ghost breaking curses.
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- Your daddy's words are falling outta your head right now.
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- God has got seeds of greatness in people,
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- And i'm ready for him to rain.
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- But you've got to serve god
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- And do what your hands have been given to do
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- With all your might.
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- I'm preaching this with such passion because some of you,
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- This is your ticket to the next level.
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- - [vo] this eight-message series is available
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- Call now or visit roncarpenter.com,
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- Or write to the address on your screen.
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- - decisions governing your life,
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- Managing your life.
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- There's a lot of you in here mad that you have no money,
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- But you waste time.
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- (audience cheering)
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- I don't waste time.
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- There is no downtime.
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- When i'm in a car and i'm driving
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- To one of our other campuses and i got two hours,
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- Something's in there teaching me.
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- There is no downtime.
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- I'm learning.
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- Something's calling me higher,
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- Something's offending my comfort zone,
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- Something is teaching me.
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- I'm on airplanes for four hours.
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- I got my book, downloaded my ipad.
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- I'm reading, i'm studying, i'm making myself better.
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- And in the next seat, they listening to music.
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- Okay, then don't you get mad
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- That while i was investing in myself,
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- You over there being entertained.
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- And when i did an outcome that you don't get,
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- Don't you turn around and start hating on me
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- Because for four hours, i was studying
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- While you were listening to music.
- 00:15:48.630 --> 00:15:50.466
- Y'all ain't listening to what i'm saying in here.
- 00:15:50.466 --> 00:15:52.735
- Somebody knows what i'm talking about.
- 00:15:52.735 --> 00:15:55.237
- Stand up and give jesus 15 seconds to pray.
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- God is about to rain.
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- It's about to rain.
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- Get your house in order.
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- It's about to rain.
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- Shout hallelujah!
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- Yes! (audience cheering)
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- (upbeat organ music)
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- I got a little bit more, then i'll quit.
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- I don't wanna contradict myself
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- And people,
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- The thing i detest about social media is people take clips
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- And take you outta context.
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- And no, 90% of my critics battles
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- Could be overcome if they just listened to the whole sermon.
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- - [audience] right.
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- (ron coughing)
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- - pastor todd came up here
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- And talked about miracles and signs.
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- I heard him when he was exhorting wonders and miracles.
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- We have altar calls for miracles.
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- This church believes every page in the bible.
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- We don't skip any of them.
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- We believe in casting.
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- Do we believe god's power to cast out demons,
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- Break curses, raise the dead.
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- We believe in prophecies, tongues,
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- Interpretations, gifts of healings,
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- Miracles, wonders, faith.
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- We believe in every bit of it.
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- Do not take out of context what i'm saying,
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- But miracles are dangerous to church people,
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- Because miracles negate work.
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- - [audience member] yes sir, yes sir, yes sir, come on.
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- - you had your chance.
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- (audience laughing)
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- Miracles are dangerous,
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- Because miracles negate diligence and negate work.
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- (audience cheering)
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- (ron coughing)
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- There is a thread of the miraculous from genesis
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- All the way through the whole bible,
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- And everywhere that i off the top of my head can think,
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- Where there is a the miraculous is performed
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- Is where something was out of their control,
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- Or god was correcting a bad decision that had been made.
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- Other than that, i do not ever see the miraculous.
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- Israel was slaves.
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- That meant they had no ability to make their own decisions.
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- God gives them fire in the day
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- 'cause they can't do any better.
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- He gives 'em a pillar at night.
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- I mean a pillar by day to cool him, a fire at night.
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- There's nothing to drink in the desert.
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- God gives 'em water from rocks.
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- He lets quail fly low.
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- He lets manna be on ground.
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- Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle,
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- Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.
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- Now we got into the promised land.
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- Go read it.
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- And from that day forward,
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- The manna ceased,
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- And god looked at him and said, "tend it."
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- You're in a different place now.
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- Some of you have not recognized the new season you're in,
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- And you're in a new place,
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- But you want god to respond in an old way,
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- And you want god to take care of you
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- Like you're in a wilderness,
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- And you don't know that you've already stepped over
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- A threshold into a new season which is the promised land,
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- And there ain't no manna,
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- And there ain't no water outta rock,
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- And there ain't no miracle in the promised land.
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- You got a good ground with seed in it.
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- Now manage it, steward it and work it,
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- And make it be what you want to be.
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- If you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly.
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- If you sow generously, you will reap generously.
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- Whatever you do with the ground
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- Is what you'll get out of it.
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- Whatever you sow is what you'll reap.
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- Manage well!
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- (audience cheering) (upbeat organ music)
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- You coulda had a good woman.
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- No, you wanted hot sauce.
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- (audience laughing)
- 00:20:39.421 --> 00:20:42.658
- Well how's that working?
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- How's that working?
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- 'cause she's 55 and now she's still trying to be hot sauce.
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- You need a mama.
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- You need somebody to help clean the house.
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- And she's 55 and her honey cheeks hanging out her miniskirt,
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- 'cause you had to have you some hot sauce.
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- And now you mad!
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- It was your decision!
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- Demons didn't do it!
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- You coulda had a good man!
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- In fact, he asked you!
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- No,
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- He looked so good on that motorcycle.
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- He didn't buy it.
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- His daddy bought it for him,
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- 'cause he's never worked a day in his life,
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- But he looked so good on it.
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- (upbeat organ music)
- 00:21:42.951 --> 00:21:47.289
- Well how's that working?
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- They came to jesus and the pharisees said,
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- "give us a sign.
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- "work a miracle.
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- "do something.
- 00:22:01.870 --> 00:22:03.271
- "prove to us you're the son of god."
- 00:22:03.271 --> 00:22:06.208
- Lemme tell you what jesus said in matthew 16.
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- He said,
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- "you bunch of hypocrites."
- 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.684
- He said, "only a wicked generation
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- "keeps asking for miracles.
- 00:22:19.855 --> 00:22:26.294
- "only a wicked generation keeps asking me to do
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- "what they now are in a season they can do for themselves."
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- (audience applauding)
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- (upbeat music)
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- (upbeat music continues)
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- (upbeat music continues)
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- You know what?
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- That's all the time we've got,
- 00:23:19.147 --> 00:23:20.081
- But i love the word of god.
- 00:23:20.081 --> 00:23:21.783
- So many kingdom principles away in the life of ruth,
- 00:23:21.783 --> 00:23:26.221
- And we've been walking through it for a very long time.
- 00:23:26.221 --> 00:23:28.423
- I hope you've not gotten bored,
- 00:23:28.423 --> 00:23:29.691
- But i hope if anything, you've been drawn in
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- To on a deeper walk with god.
- 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:33.895
- I'm really hoping and believing, praying,
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- Whether you believe it or not, yep, i pray,
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- Believe everything, everyone connected to me in any way
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- That god's blessings would overrun in your life.
- 00:23:41.203 --> 00:23:43.738
- And this is the part where i do two things,
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- Where i thank those who've so graciously been
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- A part of our ministry,
- 00:23:48.577 --> 00:23:50.078
- And then encourage those who maybe happened to come in
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- And be a part of this giant redemption family.
- 00:23:52.614 --> 00:23:55.150
- You know what?
- 00:23:55.150 --> 00:23:56.084
- I just believe
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- That whenever something goes out of your life for god,
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- It does not leave your life,
- 00:24:02.190 --> 00:24:03.925
- But it goes in the ground and it comes back.
- 00:24:03.925 --> 00:24:06.094
- And so many people have a difficult time giving
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- Because when they give,
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- They see the thing leaving their hand as leaving their life.
- 00:24:10.165 --> 00:24:13.435
- And that may happen at the gas station,
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- That may happen at the grocery store,
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- That may happen when you buy a new pair of shoes,
- 00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:19.508
- But when you're in the kingdom,
- 00:24:19.508 --> 00:24:21.176
- What goes out from you doesn't leave you.
- 00:24:21.176 --> 00:24:23.411
- It just goes to a place
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- And then returns back to you larger than it left.
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- I'm talking about sowing.
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- I'm talking about giving.
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- We are in the business
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- Of taking this message of jesus christ,
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- Hopefully translating it into as many languages as we can
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- During my lifetime,
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- And taking it all over the world.
- 00:24:39.294 --> 00:24:41.596
- We are already, you have helped us go all over the world.
- 00:24:41.596 --> 00:24:45.967
- Now we wanna stay all over the world.
- 00:24:45.967 --> 00:24:48.036
- We want to increase our presence all over the world,
- 00:24:48.036 --> 00:24:50.939
- Increase the kingdom message,
- 00:24:50.939 --> 00:24:52.641
- And now translate it into people's known tongue.
- 00:24:52.641 --> 00:24:55.944
- We have a great challenge before us.
- 00:24:55.944 --> 00:24:58.480
- And i'm just telling you,
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- I thank those of you who've been a short time,
- 00:24:59.848 --> 00:25:02.484
- A long time partner,
- 00:25:02.484 --> 00:25:03.919
- Or maybe you've just given a gift here or there
- 00:25:03.919 --> 00:25:05.754
- When we've needed it and god's spoken to your heart.
- 00:25:05.754 --> 00:25:08.590
- I'm grateful for the fact you love jesus.
- 00:25:08.590 --> 00:25:11.092
- And i'm grateful for the fact that you believe in us.
- 00:25:11.092 --> 00:25:13.695
- But anyone out there who like, you know what?
- 00:25:13.695 --> 00:25:15.997
- I've been watching this program, i've been receiving.
- 00:25:15.997 --> 00:25:18.867
- I wanna give back.
- 00:25:18.867 --> 00:25:20.335
- I wanna help out.
- 00:25:20.335 --> 00:25:22.003
- I believe in what they're saying.
- 00:25:22.003 --> 00:25:23.271
- I believe in what they're doing.
- 00:25:23.271 --> 00:25:24.306
- We could use your help.
- 00:25:24.306 --> 00:25:26.007
- And i wanna let you know for your first time gift,
- 00:25:26.007 --> 00:25:28.843
- Whether you want it to be a one-time gift
- 00:25:28.843 --> 00:25:30.946
- Or whether you wanna be a monthly contributor,
- 00:25:30.946 --> 00:25:33.281
- For your first time gift of any amount,
- 00:25:33.281 --> 00:25:35.183
- We have this very special offer just for you,
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- To say thank you to you.
- 00:25:39.054 --> 00:25:40.822
- We wanna be a giver back.
- 00:25:40.822 --> 00:25:42.123
- We wanna let you know how appreciative we are
- 00:25:42.123 --> 00:25:44.225
- That you've made this investment in the kingdom
- 00:25:44.225 --> 00:25:46.361
- And you chose to do it here.
- 00:25:46.361 --> 00:25:48.029
- My prayers for you is that god would establish you
- 00:25:48.029 --> 00:25:50.365
- And bless you, and that god would repay you
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- Many times over that which you have given,
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- That god would reward you 30, 60 and a hundred-fold
- 00:25:55.437 --> 00:25:58.139
- For every seed that you sow,
- 00:25:58.139 --> 00:26:00.008
- And that the blessings of god
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- Would surround you and overtake you.
- 00:26:01.209 --> 00:26:03.111
- We want to see everyone connected to us
- 00:26:03.111 --> 00:26:05.880
- Lead the blessed life.
- 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:07.616
- And we believe the keys of the kingdom can unlock doors
- 00:26:07.616 --> 00:26:10.418
- Where heaven invades your home.
- 00:26:10.418 --> 00:26:12.787
- So i want you to connect with me, if you would,
- 00:26:12.787 --> 00:26:14.389
- On a greater level too.
- 00:26:14.389 --> 00:26:15.790
- Go to facebook, go to twitter, go to instagram.
- 00:26:15.790 --> 00:26:18.126
- I'm talking all the time,
- 00:26:18.126 --> 00:26:19.694
- Giving nuggets all the time,
- 00:26:19.694 --> 00:26:20.996
- Pulling sermon clips all the time.
- 00:26:20.996 --> 00:26:22.530
- Every once in a while, i just get the unction.
- 00:26:22.530 --> 00:26:24.666
- I say, "let me pray for some people,"
- 00:26:24.666 --> 00:26:26.234
- And we pray and just have a huge amount of people on there
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- For those prayer times.
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- I wanna minister to you and be a source of life to you
- 00:26:30.438 --> 00:26:33.541
- In any way that we can.
- 00:26:33.541 --> 00:26:35.076
- So do what you can if you would to help us.
- 00:26:35.076 --> 00:26:37.512
- Pray, ask god what he'd have you to do,
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- And may god reward you and bless you openly
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- For what you've done in secret.
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