(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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(Music) PB: Jesus Himself comes
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back for one person.
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Now, somebody got that?
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That makes me want to shout
right there, because I want to
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think Jesus came
back just for me.
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He didn't have to do it, but
He came for me, in spite of my
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unbelief, He came for me.
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Let me call the roll
today of your unbelief.
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Jesus came for you.
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He didn't come to
Thomas because Thomas was holy.
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He didn't come to Thomas
because Thomas was praying.
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Thomas was faithless, the
Bible says, but Jesus still
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came to him.
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Ah.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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I wish there was somebody
in this church right now who is
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grateful that
Jesus came just for you.
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He came and He
showed up just for you.
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He came, showed up.
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He came through the
door, appeared unto Thomas.
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What does that tell me?
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Well, you didn't come to
Jesus, Jesus came to you.
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When you couldn't come
to Jesus, Jesus came to you.
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When you are messed up in your
mind, confused in your heart,
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Jesus still came to you.
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Now, let me be real
right now, loosen you up a bit.
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I know some of us get on
your nerves because we shout too
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much, holler too loud, church
is too long, we wave our hands
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too much, and we
say Amen all the time.
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But the reason why we are
so demonstrative in our praise
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and worship is because when I
look back over where I was and
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to think that Jesus
would come and get me.
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I don't mean to get on your
nerves, but I've got to thank
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Him.
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I don't mean to ruffle
your feathers, but I've got to
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worship Him.
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I know you may not be used
to it, but I've got to magnify
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Him because
Jesus came just for me.
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the bible says, he appears
again does the whole thing all
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over, for one person.
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If you were the only person
left on the planet, if you
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were the only person left on
this earth, Jesus still would
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have gone to
Calvary to die just for you.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Now remember, verse 24,
remember, the Bible says, and
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follow me carefully now,
the Bible says, "But Thomas, who
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is called Didymus." Who
was called what, everybody?
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Didymus.
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The Bible says Thomas, which
is called Didymus, was missing
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and was not present.
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Let me throw something on you.
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It is interesting that
Thomas is called Didymus.
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Thomas is a
Hebrew word meaning twin.
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Look it up.
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Didymus is a Greek
rendering for the word twin.
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So whether you spoke his name
in the Hebrew or in the Greek,
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when you called his
name you called him twin.
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One man is called twin.
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His name is twin.
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The Bible is not saying
that he has a twin, the Bible is
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saying that his name is twin.
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Thomas, Didymus, twin.
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You see, whether you know
it or not, I've got a twin, and
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I'm not talking about
him over there either.
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Come on, say Amen.
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I know I'm Carlton and he's
Carl but I'm talking about the
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fact that because my name
is twin I have another person
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inside me.
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He wears the same size shoe
that I wear, he wears the same
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shirts that I wear.
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He drives the
same car that I drive.
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He eats my food, lays in my bed.
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He looks like me,
but there's another me.
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What am I talking about?
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You see, there's a difference
between the person that you
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appear to be and
the person that you are.
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You're not going to get this
sermon today, you're not going
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to get this message until
you acknowledge that you've got
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two different voices
talking to you at the same time.
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One of them is telling you
to do right and the other one is
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telling you to do wrong.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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You won't get it today until
you understand that you can
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smile in front of people
but you can be dying on the
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inside, and nobody will ever
know that your name is twin.
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You read all the time in
the newspaper about people who
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have good jobs committing
suicide, who are at the top of
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their careers.
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You never realize that the
same person that sits in the
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chair, they are two people in
there, one of them is smiling,
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the other is crying.
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One of the problems with the
church today is that we spend
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too much time with one
twin and not enough time dealing
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with the other twin, and until
we get both of you out of the
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ditch you will never be free.
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Somebody today, you're married
to a man who has two sides.
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Somebody, you're married
to a woman who has two sides.
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The marriage won't be
good, the relationship won't be
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right until you
get to that twin.
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There's a person inside of a
person and he or she can be in
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conflict and nobody ever knows
it, because most of us know
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each other superficially.
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We never develop the
discipline to go deep enough
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to find out the
multiplicity of who you are.
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Why?
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Because even in the church
we are so image conscious, so
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fake, so phony, so
pretentious, so many of us
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have what I call "selective
righteousness." I'll be a
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vegetarian, but
I'll sleep with you.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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I thought that
would wake you up.
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Come on, say Amen.
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So we send our representative
out and we greet people.
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Praise the Lord.
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Bless the name of Jesus.
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Praise the Lord.
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Bless the
wonderful name of the Lord.
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Hallelujah.
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And nobody ever has a clue
that behind that smile there's
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another twin who's hurting,
who's broken, who's wounded
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and real ministry is not until
you deal with the first one,
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but real ministry is when
you get to the second one.
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Real ministry is when
you get to the second twin.
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That's what makes us
weep and worship God.
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That's what makes me raise
my hands and cry out to God.
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A word got beyond somebody's
superficiality and it got down
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to the meat and to the
bones of who you really are.
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That's why God says, I hate
a proud look because a proud
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look will stop you from
really getting ministry.
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It will block you
from getting glory.
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You have to humble
yourself to receive ministry.
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You have to lower yourself and
say, Lord, I need you to touch
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me.
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Not the superficial me but
the real me, the broken me, the
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worried me, the distressed me,
the in-pain me and here I am,
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I don't even care who's looking.
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I don't care what they say,
I don't care what they do, but
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the real me needs some help.
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One of us is happily married,
but the other one is trying to
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call it quits.
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One of us goes to church,
but the other one in us wants to
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stay home.
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One of us is skipping,
leaping, praising God, but the
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other one of us in us
is having a pity party.
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One of us just loves the
saints, but the other one is
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sick and tired of the saints.
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One of us is absolutely a
believer, but the other one of
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us is a doubter.
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One of us is faithful,
the other one is faithless.
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God help me,
deliver me from my twin.
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Let the real me stand up
and all through the years we are
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called Thomas, doubting
Thomas, but you know what?
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That's not in the text.
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And if it's not in the
Word, it doesn't deserve to be
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heard.
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Jesus never called
Thomas, doubting Thomas.
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Thomas, I apologize for
the wrong perception about you.
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Thomas, I apologize because
I judged your whole life over
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one moment of weakness.
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Thomas, I'm sorry today
because I summarized your
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whole discipleship in
one brief moment of frailty.
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Thomas wasn't a
doubter, not always.
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When Jesus was going to
be crucified, read the story.
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It was Thomas who said, "Let
us go that we might die with
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him." And if you're willing to
die for what you believe, that
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doesn't sound
like a doubter to me.
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Why have we given him
a permanent name over a
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temporary situation?
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Thomas, we apologize, we
called you doubting Thomas and
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I preached even here before
that Thomas, you were doubting
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Thomas, but Thomas wasn't
doubting Thomas, Thomas was
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discouraged Thomas.
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I respect Thomas.
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I know some of you all don't,
but he did better than Peter.
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When Peter thought they were
going to kill him, he denied
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Jesus three times.
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Judas betrayed the Lord, but
Thomas said, I'll die with the
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Lord.
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I admire Thomas because
what Thomas did, he took his
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doubting, discouraged self
and drug that doubt right onto
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church anyhow.
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He didn't have joy, he didn't
have any happiness, he didn't
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have any peace, but
he still came anyway.
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Sometimes you have to
drag your doubting, worried,
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fearful,
burdensome self here anyhow.
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You may say, I
don't feel like it today.
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It's not about how you feel.
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I'm so glad Jesus wasn't on
Calvary talking about how "I
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feel." Because, let me tell
you something, let's be real
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today, if you don't drag
your flesh to Jesus, your flesh
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will drag you to hell.
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So here we come.
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With all of our doubts, all of
our worries, all of our fears,
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but we're still here, Jesus.
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You're sitting in church.
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Jesus appears in the room
and He comes for the audience of
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one.
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I don't know who I'm
preaching to right now.
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Among all these hundreds
and thousands of people in this
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church and watching on
this broadcast, I don't know who
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I'm preaching to, but the Lord
sent me here today for a word
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just for you.
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Not the churchy you, not the
holier-than-thou you, not the
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glory-to-God, thank-you-Jesus
you, but for that twin in you.
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That part of you that is weary
and worn, tattered and torn.
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Thomas wasn't so much a
doubter as much as he was
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discouraged.
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Discouraged, that's
the absence of courage.
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He was losing courage because
sometimes believing hurts.
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Let me pause right there.
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Sometimes believing
will get you in trouble.
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You all know what I'm saying.
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Believing will make
friends walk away and leave you.
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Believing will get you fired
from jobs when you could have
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gotten the promotion.
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Sometimes, I'm learning in
my life, it hurts to believe.
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Believing will cause you to
give your all and get nothing
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in return.
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Thomas had given his all
and gotten nothing in return and
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had gotten himself in trouble.
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Let me tell you all something.
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There he was in a mess and
Jesus had not established His
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kingdom on earth.
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Jesus had not done what Thomas
thought He was going to do.
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And so Thomas says, and this
is us preaching and speaking
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now, Thomas says, I don't want
to go through that again, so,
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please, just leave me alone.
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Don't even encourage me.
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Don't preach any revival,
Pastor Byrd, to me because
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I've been through
that stuff before.
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I believed God and
I still lost my job.
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I believed God and I
still lost my marriage.
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I believed God but I
still didn't pass the test.
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I believed God but I
still contracted cancer.
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I believed God, I returned an
honest and faithful tithe, but
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I still lost my house and I
don't want you to preach any
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of that stuff to me anymore.
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Because I tried to believe
being real today, I tried to
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believe God like you said
and it didn't work for me and so
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now I'm hiding.
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Sometimes it looks
like believing doesn't work.
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Can we be real?
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Have you ever been discouraged?
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Have you ever
gotten tired of fighting?
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Have you ever gotten to a
state in your life where you
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didn't want
anybody to encourage you?
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Don't call me.
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Don't e-mail me.
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Don't visit me.
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Leave me alone.
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Thomas is at that
point and here comes Jesus.
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Right in the
midst of his troubles.
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You do know that Jesus is a
very present help in time of
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trouble.
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You see, you would think
that the Lord only comes to the
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saints who are shouting
and jumping about the victory.
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But let me tell you who Jesus
really comes to, the saints
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that have lost their joy,
lost their faith, lost their
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victory, and you're
sitting there will all types of
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trouble bombarding your mind.
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It is to you that Jesus comes.
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And Jesus says, I'm going
to fix this thing for you.
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You thought nobody understood.
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You thought
nobody heard your cry.
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You thought nobody knew you
were in the mess that you were
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in.
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Just because you're
smiling on the outside.
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Bt He didn't come for the
twin on the outside, He came for
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the twin on the inside.
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He says, I'm going to fix it.
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The Lord sent me to
tell somebody today.
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Sent me to tell somebody that
He's got two much invested in
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you for you to sit
back and let you down.
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God has been through too
much just for you to bring you
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where you are and let this
setback destroy you, because a
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setback is just a
set up for a comeback.
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He told me to tell somebody
that greater is He that is in
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me than he that's in the
world and if there is a greater
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than, there must be a
less than, and whoever I'm
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preaching to right now, you've
got to get happy on credit.
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You ought to
get glad in advance.
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You ought to rejoice over
what God is getting ready to do.
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You ought to learn how to have
what I call a "yet praise." It
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hasn't happened yet, but I
know that I know that I know
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that I know, it's about to
happen and since I know it's
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going to happen, I've got a
"yet praise." You maybe say,
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Pastor Byrd, I don't have
the faith that I used to have.
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I don't care about the faith
that you had, it's about the
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faith that God has for you.
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God's already done the work.
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All you have to do is stand
still and see the salvation of
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the Lord.
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All you have to do is
let the real you stand up.
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We spend a lot of time
preaching about saints having
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a sin crisis, but the
real trouble is having a faith
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crisis.
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The sin is the symptom,
but the unbelief is the root.
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Here comes, last point,
here comes Thomas to Jesus.
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Now, I wonder what it would
be like to stand in the presence
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of God, discouraged, but
look Him dead in the eye, tired,
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tattered, torn, worn, no
longer believing that God
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could save that husband
of yours, no longer believing
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that God could save that wife
of yours, no longer believing
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that God could save that child
of yours, no longer believing
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that you can
get out of that rut.
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And yet you come to church
and you stand in the presence of
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God.
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You've got the nerve to sit
in the presence of God and still
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be worried, but yet
He still comes to you.
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He says, tell my people
that I'm available to them, that
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I've made myself available
to the discouraged, the
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disenfranchised
and the doubting.
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I'm coming to you.
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I'm making
myself available to you.
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I'm coming to where you are
and I'm going to show you by
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the Holy Ghost, because I
know you're discouraged, I know
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you're doubting, I know
you're vulnerable, I know you're
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insecure, but don't
worry, I'm going to do the work.
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Jesus says to Thomas, Thomas,
reach hither, stretch, reach
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hither your hands.
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Now, wait a minute.
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Let's expand on
this theologically.
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How did Jesus know what
it would take specifically to
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make Thomas believe when Jesus
wasn't even in the room when
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Thomas said, "Unless I feel
the nail prints in his hands
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and see whether they pierced
him in the side." Jesus wasn't
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even in the room
when Thomas said that.
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You know what that means?
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That means that God can hear
us even when He is not there
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and He knows what it takes
for you to get your breakthrough
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in your life.
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He says, I
don't have to do this.
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I'll be God whether
you believe me or not.
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But God says, because I have
chosen you, I'm going to fix
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it that there's no doubt in
your mind that I am God, that
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I am Jehovah-jireh, I'm a
provider, that I'm God and to
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whomever I'm preaching to
today, God says, I'm going to
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show you where you can touch,
where you can reach hither
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your hand so you can get your
hands on the spot that's going
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to empower you to
serve me in this final hour.
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I'm going to show you exactly
where you have to lay your
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hands so when the enemy, the
devil, comes against you, you
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can say that I know for myself
that my redeemer liveth and He
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is able to deliver me.
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God wants the real you,
the real twin, the real person
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inside of you to
stand up for Him.
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Thomas, I want the
real you to stand up.
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I want the you that's been
searching for love to stand
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up.
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I want the you that's been
searching for truth to stand
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up.
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I want the you that's been
searching for peace to stand
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up.
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I want the you that's been
trying to break that bad habit
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to stand up.
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I want the you that's
been hurting to stand up.
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I want the real you to stand up.
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Will the real you stand up?
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Step up for your miracle.
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Well today, is there anybody
who wants to stand up for
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Jesus?
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Is there anybody here who's
willing to reach hither their
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hand and stretch for Jesus?
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Is there anybody in Berean
today, anybody watching by
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church on Breath of Life,
anybody who's got their hand
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on the spot that
will give God a praise??
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To the one today that's
not sure, this is my message to
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you.
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You're so close to the answer
that if you would just reach
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hither, if you would just
stretch forth, the power of
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God will meet you
right where you are.
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Stretch, reach
hither, you're almost there.
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If you would just
stretch a little bit.
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The enemies that you see
today you will see them no more.
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Stretch.
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God's going to show you where
the power and the glory are.
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Let me tell you something,
devil, you should have killed
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me when you had the chance.
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Devil, you should have
killed me before I touched this.
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But now it's too late.
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I've got a feeling everything
is going to be all right.
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Every big thing, every little
thing, every physical thing,
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every spiritual thing,
every financial thing, every
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emotional thing is
going to be all right.
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Stretch.
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I dare somebody in
this place to stretch.
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God says, I want the inner
you, the real you, the twin
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inside of you, to
give me the praise.
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I want the worried you to
give me the praise, the troubled
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you to give me the praise.
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Praise Him in the balconies.
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Praise Him on the main floor.
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Praise Him in the overflow.
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Praise Him in the choir.
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Praise Him on the pulpit.
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Let everything that has
breath praise Ye the Lord.
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God wants the real you, not
the superficial you, not the
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thank you, not the plaid-suit,
white-shirt, white-tie you.
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God wants you.
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And so, will the real you,
will the real you stand up.
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(Music) Jesus never
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God wants you.
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But the real me needs some help.
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