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Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 7)

May 1, 2026 | 27:29

Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 7)
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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 7) | May 1, 2026
  • (countdown beeping)
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  • - there is a time where you need
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  • To step back and wash yourself.
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  • When you don't deal with life's pain and life's traumas,
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  • You carry them into your next season.
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  • And your new season is sabotaged
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  • Because you never washed off your old one,
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  • And you're shooting your foot off
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  • Because now god has brought you something great
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  • But you've never cleansed yourself from your last season.
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  • And you need to go somewhere
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  • And you need to wash that bitterness out of you,
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  • And you need to wash that hurt out of you,
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  • And you need to wash that pain out of you,
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  • And you need to find some grace and some mercy
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  • And some forgiveness,
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  • And you need to wash your faith from that situation.
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  • Come on, somebody.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • (upbeat music continues)
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  • Ruth chapter 3. let's go, gentlemen.
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  • "then naomi her mother-in-law said to her,
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  • 'my daughter, shall i not seek security for you?'"
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  • "we are out here, there's no security,
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  • There's no support system, and there is no tomorrow,
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  • So i need you to listen to me.
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  • I seek your wellbeing. i see your future.
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  • I know how to help you get there. listen to me."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "now boaz, whose young women you were with,
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  • Is he not our relative?
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  • In fact, he is winnowing barley tonight
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  • At the threshing floor.
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  • Therefore, wash yourself, anoint yourself,
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  • Put on your best garment," three instructions,
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  • "go down to the threshing floor," four,
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  • "do not make yourself known," number five,
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  • "until the man has finished eating and drinking."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "then it shall be when he lies down, that you shall notice,"
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  • Six, "where he lies."
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  • Seven, "you shall go in."
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  • Eight, "uncover his feet and lie down,
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  • And then he will tell you what to do."
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  • Verse 5. "all that you say to me i will do."
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  • (peaceful piano music)
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  • So many times,
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  • Your favor, your blessing is locked up in somebody else.
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  • And when you honor them and their instruction,
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  • They can open up a whole new life to you.
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  • So, father, bless your word in jesus' name,
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  • And everybody said amen.
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  • Don't tell you neighbor, "here we go."
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  • Tell them, say, "this is going to sting a little bit."
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  • - [congregants] this is going to sting a little bit.
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  • (pastor laughing)
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  • - give me a few minutes
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  • To break a couple of these points down.
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  • Naomi is shifting from mother-in-law to mentor.
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  • "i seek your wellbeing."
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  • Mentors are not best friends.
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  • Your best friend is all right with your past,
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  • Your mentor's concerned with your future.
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  • Your best friend accepts your weaknesses,
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  • Your mentor removes them.
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  • - [congregant] amen. - [congregant] right.
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  • Amen. i'm just letting this sink in.
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  • Sometimes a mentor is the only difference
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  • Between poverty and prosperity.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
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  • Pain and pleasure.
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  • Obscurity and notoriety.
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  • Success and failure.
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  • Just one voice.
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  • Mentorship is different from learning.
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  • I know that people will pay $10, $20,000 sometimes
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  • To go sit in a room with the grant cardones
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  • And the tony robbins.
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  • No throwing shade. if you can go, go do it.
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  • Very intelligent men, got great things to say.
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  • But that is information.
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  • I'm not talking about information.
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  • You can go to youtube and get information.
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  • But you can't go to youtube and get an impartation.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Impartation comes through relationship.
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  • What i wanted to do,
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  • The proper protocol in order for me to come in up,
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  • I was flying by the seat of my pants,
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  • And that's why i have so many painful stories i can tell.
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  • I didn't mean to do dumb things.
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  • I just didn't know any better.
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  • And since life is choice-driven,
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  • You have to live with your choices.
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  • And you can even have the right intention,
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  • But you don't get to live in your intention.
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  • You live in your results.
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  • There's a lot of people say, "well, i meant well."
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  • It doesn't matter what you mean.
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  • You're living with the results of your decision
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  • No matter what your intentions were.
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  • Oh, i'm preaching real good.
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  • I know some of you used to hear me like this.
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  • I'm kind of coming from a different angle today.
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  • A mentor is not your friend.
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  • A mentor wants to anchor you to your purpose
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  • And anchor you to who you are
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  • And anchor you to your character.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
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  • - a friend sees everything you do right,
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  • But a mentor sees what you're doing wrong.
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  • And we've not cherished relationships,
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  • Nobody talks about relationships
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  • Because we don't live in the impartation age,
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  • We live in the information age.
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  • But wisdom and knowledge are not the same thing.
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  • I know people who can quote the bible
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  • And can't live a verse of it.
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  • Wisdom is, can you apply what you know?
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Okay? i know people with phds and cannot pay the rent.
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  • Because they are loaded with information
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  • But do not know how to take that information
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  • And make it work for them,
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  • Which is sliding over into wisdom.
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  • Ah-ah.
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  • (congregation applauding and laughing)
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  • I'm going to keep pushing.
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  • May have to take a little novocaine, whatever,
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  • But you will get it.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • And we want people to tell us how great we are
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  • Because we're empty vessels
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  • And many of us have had deficiencies going up.
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  • So we want people to affirm us and value us
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  • And see the good in us,
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  • And we can't take the people that talk straight.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • The people who coached me in the '80s,
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  • All of them would be in jail today.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Ain't nobody could take the kind of coaching i got.
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  • I come up, you know, and nobody even spanks anymore.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Everybody in your neighborhood could spank you.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • If i did something at my friend's house,
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  • They could give me a spanking.
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  • Then he would walk me back and tell my daddy what he did
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  • And he'd say, "did you spank him?"
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  • "yeah, i spanked him, mr. carpenter." "all right."
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  • Then my daddy take me and spanked me,
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  • Because he had to spank me.
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  • (congregation laughing and applauding)
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  • Those were the way they were teaching us to be men.
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  • And they were teaching us to have the impartation
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  • Of a father on our life.
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  • The coaches didn't just want us
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  • To do the football assignment,
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  • They were teaching us to be men.
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  • They wanted the relationship,
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  • And although they were very tough on us,
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  • That showed us that they loved us and loved our future.
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  • And these people that are mentors in your life,
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  • They're not okay with everything.
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  • And they're not going to affirm you all the time.
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  • And we have very little of them
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  • Because what you celebrate, you never have into your life.
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  • Okay? you got to celebrate something before it comes to you.
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  • What you celebrate, you attract.
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  • What you disrespect, you repel.
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  • - [congregants] yeah.
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  • - and when we disrespect authority, authority stays away.
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  • And so we've become masters of our own destiny,
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  • Meaning what?
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  • There's no voices, there's no impartation,
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  • There's no instruction, there's no wisdom.
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  • It's just "figure it out."
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  • And so we have people train wreck after train wreck
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  • After train wreck.
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  • So, all my anointing
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  • And all my energy is focused on cleaning up
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  • The last mess i made because i didn't know any better.
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  • Okay? are y'all mad at me?
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  • I can't read your face. so y'all are...
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  • Okay.
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  • (congregation speaking indistinctly)
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  • I told you it's going to hit a little bit different today.
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  • Two scriptures. proverbs 13, throw it up there real fast.
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  • Then we go to john 15.
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  • Proverbs 13, i think, verse 20 somewhere. yeah.
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  • "he who walks with the wise will be wise,
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  • But a companion of fools will be destroyed."
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  • Walking with and companion of.
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  • It is transferred through relationship.
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  • That's why you can't get it in an arena with 30,000 people.
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  • When you have the impartation of somebody else's life...
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  • Elisha...
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  • Mentored under elijah.
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  • Okay?
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  • The bible says he did two things.
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  • He poured water on the hands of elijah
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  • And he listened to his instruction.
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  • That was it.
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  • And then when elijah was taken up...
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  • Only two people in the bible were taken up
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  • Without tasting death.
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  • That's elijah and enoch.
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  • Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire.
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  • When he was taken up, listen...
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  • Oh, thank you, jesus.
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  • Listen to what elisha said.
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  • He didn't say, "my teacher, my teacher."
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  • He said, "my father, my father."
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  • Okay?
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  • Because teachers give you information,
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  • But fathers know your destiny, know what's in you,
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  • And they anchor you to your purpose.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • And when he did,
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  • The mantle of elijah had fell on him,
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  • And he asked for a double portion of it.
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  • And if you go study the bible,
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  • Elisha did exactly twice as many miracles as elijah.
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  • And what were his qualifications for that great mantle?
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  • Did what he said.
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  • Instruction.
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  • See how popular that was when i said, "did what he said,"
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  • I heard, "um."
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • It's not a popular thing.
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  • And i knew when i come in here today,
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  • It'd be somewhat a strange sound,
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  • Especially for different generations,
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  • That just have not been taught this and the value of this.
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  • (soft upbeat music)
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  • (soft upbeat music continues)
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  • (soft upbeat music continues)
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • Favor is not just the way you meet god.
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  • Favor is your entire benefit package with god.
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • When god gets you a word,
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  • Very rarely does he give you details.
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  • He just starts giving you a framework
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  • Of how it's going to take.
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  • So he'll take a ron and hope carpenter
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  • Who got a little warehouse
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  • And he let a prophetic word come through someone to us
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  • And said, "i'm going to take y'all one day
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  • What you're preaching and what's on your lips
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  • Many times is what's happening.
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  • And my wife has always told me, she said,
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  • "it never fails that whatever it is you're speaking about
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  • Seems to be the thing that's breaking out in our life."
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  • Well, the power of life and death is in the tongue.
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  • But i just pray that it's breaking out on your life
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  • From the right and from the left
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  • And god is just doing great things.
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  • Because there's nothing like when favor breaks out on you
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  • And all this unexplained blessing
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  • Just starts manifesting in your life.
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  • But also we are so very aware
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  • Of all the possibilities media-wise
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  • Of touching large, large worlds
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  • That i can never touch with my hand,
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  • But we can do it through these cameras.
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  • Would you help us? thank you for all that you do.
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  • Now, let's get back to this word.
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  • Now...
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  • Go back to chapter 3.
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  • Ah, man, my time.
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  • Can i give you a couple of points?
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  • You're about five minutes per point.
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  • Throw it back up there.
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  • "i'm seeking security for you."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "now boaz..."
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  • Do you know what you're even aiming at?
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  • I'm amazed at the people
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  • That get up and live life with no plan
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  • And then are mad at everybody when nothing happens.
  • 00:15:12.828 --> 00:15:16.498
  • (congregants speaking indistinctly)
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  • "listen to me, ruth. number one, we're aiming for boaz.
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  • There's tons of guys out there.
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  • We're not after them.
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  • We're after boaz.
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  • And here is how you catch a boaz."
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  • Do you know what you're aiming at?
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  • Do you know what you are aiming for?
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  • - [congregant] yes.
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  • - you have got to believe
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  • That god has something that is just for you.
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  • Because when you know he's got something for you,
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  • Then you don't envy everybody else's.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Envy is when you despise the blessings of god on another.
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  • Whenever i see god blessing somebody,
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  • It doesn't bother me a bit in the world.
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  • I clap and i celebrate. why?
  • 00:16:04.813 --> 00:16:06.949
  • Because i don't want what they have.
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  • I believe there's favor for me.
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  • I believe there's blessing for me. there's a future for me.
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  • There's something for me he has out there.
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  • And i fundamentally want you to live every day
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  • Knowing "god don't have to give me theirs
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  • And god don't have to give me theirs,
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  • For there's something for me."
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  • But i'm asking you the question,
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  • Do you know what you're aiming at?
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • She, first of all, sat in front of her,
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  • "this is where we're going."
  • 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.214
  • Before she charted what we're going to do,
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  • "this is where we're going."
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  • Where are you aiming? people with no plan.
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  • My great-grandfather. i...
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  • My great-grandfather was alive
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  • Till i was about 20 years old.
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  • He lived to be 97. he was just under 100.
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  • And from six o'clock in the morning
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  • Till 10 o'clock at night when he went to bed,
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  • He smoked cigars as big as my thigh all day long.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • I never saw him one time in my life without a cigar, ever.
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  • I mean, when he ate meals, he put the cigar down
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  • Beside the plate and would take puffs between chew.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • He was a hilarious man.
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  • And i would spend all my time
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  • As a youth just listening to him.
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  • Let me tell you how old he was. okay?
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  • He fought in world war i.
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  • He didn't fight world war ii, he fought in world war i.
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  • And he would tell me all these crazy stories,
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  • And i was just fascinated.
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  • It was all lies.
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  • (congregation laughing and applauding)
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  • I was sitting down on the floor one night
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  • And he was sitting there puffing that big old cigar,
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  • Huge cigar.
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  • He called me sonny.
  • 00:17:47.416 --> 00:17:48.317
  • He said, "sonny," he said,
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  • "one night i had 10,000 germans on the run."
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  • (congregation applauding)
  • 00:17:52.788 --> 00:17:55.290
  • And my eyes are just big. and he said...
  • 00:17:55.290 --> 00:17:57.292
  • He took a big puff and he goes...
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  • He said, "yeah, they never did catch me."
  • 00:17:59.261 --> 00:18:01.997
  • (congregation laughing)
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  • He just...
  • 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:04.766
  • (congregation applauding and laughing)
  • 00:18:04.766 --> 00:18:07.369
  • But yet, see, i try to tell y'all where i come from.
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  • I'm a miracle, y'all. i'ma tell you.
  • 00:18:09.404 --> 00:18:12.374
  • Let me tell you about his house.
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  • His...
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  • No codes.
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  • No building permits.
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  • They don't check with anybody.
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  • They don't ask.
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  • It's just whatever window is cheapest that weekend.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • There was a different-sized window
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  • In every window in that house.
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  • (congregation applauding and laughing)
  • 00:18:35.931 --> 00:18:37.366
  • So whatever weekend a certain window was on sale,
  • 00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:39.501
  • That was the one you put in that house.
  • 00:18:39.501 --> 00:18:41.670
  • (congregation laughing)
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  • There would be doors.
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  • One door would fit, the next door, there'd be sun shining
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  • Through four inches on the top.
  • 00:18:47.709 --> 00:18:50.379
  • 'cause whatever door was on sale that week,
  • 00:18:50.379 --> 00:18:51.980
  • That's the ones we put in it.
  • 00:18:51.980 --> 00:18:53.549
  • And he would tell all his drunk friends,
  • 00:18:53.549 --> 00:18:54.917
  • "i'll buy y'all case of beer.
  • 00:18:54.917 --> 00:18:56.919
  • We going to add on a bedroom this weekend."
  • 00:18:56.919 --> 00:18:59.087
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:18:59.087 --> 00:19:00.622
  • And that's the way he'd get a bedroom.
  • 00:19:00.622 --> 00:19:02.291
  • There was one, he had a hallway,
  • 00:19:02.291 --> 00:19:03.859
  • And you would get to one point
  • 00:19:03.859 --> 00:19:04.793
  • And it'd just start going down.
  • 00:19:04.793 --> 00:19:07.029
  • It's like a house in a carnival.
  • 00:19:07.029 --> 00:19:08.497
  • This house needed to be in a carnival.
  • 00:19:08.497 --> 00:19:10.265
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:19:10.265 --> 00:19:12.167
  • Okay? absolutely no plan whatsoever.
  • 00:19:12.167 --> 00:19:15.537
  • Just throw something together and do it.
  • 00:19:15.537 --> 00:19:17.372
  • And i see so many people live like that.
  • 00:19:17.372 --> 00:19:20.742
  • Live like that, that you can just tell they got up
  • 00:19:21.777 --> 00:19:24.646
  • And everybody ought to be glad i got up.
  • 00:19:24.646 --> 00:19:27.149
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:19:27.149 --> 00:19:30.319
  • And she sat straight.
  • 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:33.422
  • "we're going after boaz."
  • 00:19:33.989 --> 00:19:35.490
  • Then look at the next thing. throw it back up there.
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  • Chapter 3. i mean chapter 3, verse 3.
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  • First thing, "wash yourself."
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  • "wash yourself."
  • 00:19:48.203 --> 00:19:50.372
  • Another translation i like better actually says,
  • 00:19:51.373 --> 00:19:53.208
  • "wash your face."
  • 00:19:53.208 --> 00:19:55.510
  • "wash yourself, wash your face."
  • 00:19:56.144 --> 00:19:57.646
  • I'll quit after this point.
  • 00:19:57.646 --> 00:20:05.621
  • "wash yourself," the imagery there
  • 00:20:06.388 --> 00:20:08.257
  • Is do not let your past affect your future.
  • 00:20:08.257 --> 00:20:12.094
  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
  • 00:20:12.094 --> 00:20:19.234
  • Now, can i come up on you a little bit?
  • 00:20:20.068 --> 00:20:22.037
  • - [congregants] yeah.
  • 00:20:22.037 --> 00:20:24.973
  • - whenever life has dealt you a blow,
  • 00:20:25.774 --> 00:20:30.178
  • There is a time where you need
  • 00:20:30.812 --> 00:20:32.314
  • To step back and wash yourself.
  • 00:20:32.314 --> 00:20:34.850
  • - [congregants] amen.
  • 00:20:34.850 --> 00:20:36.551
  • - because when you don't deal with life's pain
  • 00:20:36.551 --> 00:20:40.389
  • And life's traumas, you carry them into your next season.
  • 00:20:40.389 --> 00:20:45.427
  • And your new season is sabotaged
  • 00:20:45.427 --> 00:20:47.462
  • Because you never washed off your old one.
  • 00:20:47.462 --> 00:20:50.165
  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
  • 00:20:50.165 --> 00:20:52.701
  • Don't make fred pay for what tommy did.
  • 00:20:52.701 --> 00:20:56.538
  • Tommy was a jerk. fred's a good man.
  • 00:20:56.538 --> 00:20:59.875
  • But you're making fred pay for everything tommy did.
  • 00:20:59.875 --> 00:21:02.244
  • Well, i'm going to tell you, i done been through that
  • 00:21:02.244 --> 00:21:03.745
  • And if i see any of that, we're not going through nothing
  • 00:21:03.745 --> 00:21:06.782
  • And you're shooting your foot off.
  • 00:21:06.782 --> 00:21:09.618
  • Because now god has brought you something great,
  • 00:21:09.618 --> 00:21:11.553
  • But you've never cleansed yourself from your last season.
  • 00:21:11.553 --> 00:21:15.324
  • And you need to go somewhere
  • 00:21:15.324 --> 00:21:16.725
  • And you need to wash that bitterness out of you,
  • 00:21:16.725 --> 00:21:18.827
  • And you need to wash that hurt out of you,
  • 00:21:18.827 --> 00:21:20.962
  • And you need to wash that pain out of you,
  • 00:21:20.962 --> 00:21:22.731
  • And you need to find some grace
  • 00:21:22.731 --> 00:21:24.066
  • And some mercy and some forgiveness,
  • 00:21:24.066 --> 00:21:26.635
  • And you need to wash your face from that situation.
  • 00:21:26.635 --> 00:21:29.037
  • Come on, somebody.
  • 00:21:29.037 --> 00:21:30.072
  • (congregation applauding)
  • 00:21:30.072 --> 00:21:32.307
  • I was interviewing somebody for a job a while back,
  • 00:21:32.307 --> 00:21:34.743
  • And they said, yeah, they didn't like where i was,
  • 00:21:34.743 --> 00:21:36.778
  • They didn't appreciate my gift,
  • 00:21:36.778 --> 00:21:38.180
  • And that leadership didn't know how to treat me,
  • 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:40.782
  • And they didn't value me.
  • 00:21:40.782 --> 00:21:42.317
  • I don't think they understood what they had in the room.
  • 00:21:42.317 --> 00:21:44.252
  • And i said, "thank you. we'll be calling you never."
  • 00:21:44.252 --> 00:21:46.888
  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Why? you know all i heard, bitterness.
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  • All i heard was bitter.
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  • You're not bringing that mess in here.
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  • We're in a new season. god's doing something.
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  • We are moving. we are shaking.
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  • And then i'm trying to offer you something great
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  • In a new day,
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  • But you bring in all that stuff you've been through in here.
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  • Honey, i'm sure you are great,
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  • But you got to go wash your face.
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  • You can't look like a beggar when you see boaz.
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  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • Boaz doesn't marry beggars.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • The dust between your toes, the mud under your eye,
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  • And your hair matted from sweat.
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  • Wash your face. why?
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  • Because you've been a beggar here,
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  • But you're supposed to own it,
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  • But you can't own it looking
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  • Like you're still begging in it.
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  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • Come on. sometimes just washing yourself from the residue.
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  • I'm going to push a little bit further before i let you go.
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  • I'm going to push and turn you loose.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • See, some of you, you ain't in it anymore,
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  • But i can look at you and tell you you've been through it.
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  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • You need to wash your face.
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  • You're not an addict anymore.
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  • - [congregants] come on. come on.
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  • - but i can look at you and...
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • You're not in that lifestyle anymore,
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  • But i can tell by the way you carry yourself...
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  • Oh.
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  • You got to wash your face. god has got boaz out there.
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  • Your future is out there somewhere.
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  • But you can't drag all this stuff.
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  • You can't go into your next relationship
  • 00:23:37.532 --> 00:23:39.234
  • Dragging the last three that you had in there with it.
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  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • Y'all still love me? - [congregants] yes.
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  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • - even the residue.
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  • Ooh, i feel the holy ghost up in here.
  • 00:24:03.024 --> 00:24:04.993
  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • I have had...
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  • Some of the crappiest things happen to me.
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  • And if i weren't in church, i'd use another word.
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  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:24:20.575 --> 00:24:24.679
  • But when i come in here to preach, do you see somebody
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  • Who's dragging all of his disappointment
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  • And all of his bitterness, and everybody who did me wrong,
  • 00:24:33.054 --> 00:24:37.125
  • And everybody that left me,
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  • And everybody i'm invested in me and they lied on me,
  • 00:24:38.727 --> 00:24:41.963
  • And they destroyed my...
  • 00:24:41.963 --> 00:24:43.565
  • Nothing worse than a bitter preacher to pick up a microphone
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  • And spew his poison all over everybody.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Wash your face.
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  • You need to touch your neighbor,
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  • About three of them, and say,
  • 00:24:53.308 --> 00:24:54.809
  • "you need to wash your face. you need to wash your..."
  • 00:24:54.809 --> 00:24:56.411
  • I'm not talking about mascara. i'm not talking about makeup.
  • 00:24:56.411 --> 00:24:59.614
  • I'm talking about everything that hurt you,
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  • Everybody that disappointed you,
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  • Everybody that walked out on you,
  • 00:25:03.018 --> 00:25:04.586
  • Everybody that lied on you, everything that betrayed you,
  • 00:25:04.586 --> 00:25:07.956
  • Every bad choice you made, every failure you had,
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  • Every messed up lifestyle.
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  • Wash your face and step out of your yesterday
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  • Because boaz is out here,
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  • And i'm not going to show up in my tomorrow
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  • Looking like my yesterday.
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  • Oh, give god a praise in this place.
  • 00:25:22.737 --> 00:25:25.206
  • (congregation applauding and whooping)
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  • High-five three people again and say, "wash your face,
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  • Wash your face, watch your face."
  • 00:25:29.010 --> 00:25:30.745
  • (congregation applauding and speaking indistinctly)
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  • Before we go, i want to give a chance for you
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  • To accept christ as your lord and savior.
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  • Can i just tell you what i'm sensing right now?
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  • I'm sensing that there's those
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  • That may have known the lord at some time,
  • 00:25:40.722 --> 00:25:42.324
  • But you're just...
  • 00:25:42.324 --> 00:25:43.858
  • For whatever reason, you've come across this programming
  • 00:25:43.858 --> 00:25:46.027
  • And you just stayed, you just ...
  • 00:25:46.027 --> 00:25:47.562
  • "i don't even know why, but, pastor, i just watched it."
  • 00:25:47.562 --> 00:25:49.030
  • I don't know.
  • 00:25:49.030 --> 00:25:50.565
  • But maybe there's just a tug at your heart to come back.
  • 00:25:50.565 --> 00:25:54.002
  • I know what that's like to have been raised right
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  • And accepted christ at a young age,
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  • But, you know, just life happens.
  • 00:26:01.042 --> 00:26:02.310
  • And i had to circle around and come back
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  • And make that commitment afresh and anew
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  • When i got to college.
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  • And maybe that's where you are now.
  • 00:26:09.184 --> 00:26:10.619
  • It doesn't matter what you've done or how old you are
  • 00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:12.454
  • Or how far away you feel like you are.
  • 00:26:12.454 --> 00:26:15.223
  • It's not based on what you do anyway.
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  • It's based on what he has done for you.
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  • And all you got to do is receive it.
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  • And salvation and forgiveness is yours right now.
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  • Would you pray this prayer with me?
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  • Thank you, jesus,
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  • That you're full of love and grace and mercy.
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  • Thank you that you're a god of many chances.
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  • So, right now, i ask you into my heart
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  • Or i come back and i recommit my life to you.
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  • I ask you to wash me and cleanse me
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  • And forgive me of my sins.
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  • I ask you, lord, to come live in me, be my lord and savior.
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  • I believe you died and rose on the third day
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  • For my salvation.
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  • I accept your gift now. in jesus' name, thank you.
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  • Amen.
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  • If you don't have a home church,
  • 00:26:52.327 --> 00:26:53.695
  • Check us out at our website, myredemption.cc,
  • 00:26:53.695 --> 00:26:57.198
  • Or you can go to roncarpenter.com, either one,
  • 00:26:57.198 --> 00:26:59.334
  • And we have a virtual online community
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  • That is just some of the best people you could ever imagine.
  • 00:27:01.503 --> 00:27:04.639
  • And everything we do in the building, we do it online,
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  • And would love for you to be a part.
  • 00:27:07.709 --> 00:27:09.511
  • But if you just got saved, write in, call in,
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  • Do something, email us, let us know.
  • 00:27:11.513 --> 00:27:12.781
  • We want to know.
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  • Congratulations to you
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  • On the best decision you've ever made.
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  • Until next time, god bless.
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