(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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(Music) PB:
Praise be to God today.
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If you're happy in
Jesus, let me hear you say Amen.
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Now, I know time is
spent but we've got to preach
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the Word from the Lord, so
we're going to get right into
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the Word. Is that all right,
everybody? We want to welcome
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those who are watching
the Breath of Life telecast.
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I'm Dr. Carlton T. Byrd
here at the Berean Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church in Atlanta,
Georgia. We invite you to
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worship with us in the spoken
word as you take your Bibles
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and turn with us to the
book of Exodus. What book did I
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say, everybody? And we're
going to the book of Exodus
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Chapter 14. Exodus 14 and
we're going to read verse 19
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and we're going to
keep on reading for a while.
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Exodus 14:19.
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Exodus, Chapter 14 and
we're going to read verse 19.
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If you have it, let me hear
you say Amen. The Word of God
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says to us today: "And
the angel of God, which went
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before the camp of Israel,
removed and went behind them;
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and the pillar of the cloud
went from before their face,
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and stood behind them." Verse
20: "And it came between the
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camp of the Egyptians and
the camp of Israel; and it was a
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cloud and darkness to
them, but it gave light
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by night to these:
so that the one came
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not near the other all the
night. And Moses stretched out
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his hand over the sea; and the
Lord caused the sea to go back
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by a strong east wind all
that night, and made the sea dry
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land, and the waters were
divided. And the children of
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Israel went into the midst
of the sea upon the dry ground:
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and the waters were a wall
unto them on their right hand,
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and on their left." Verse
23: "And the Egyptians pursued,
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and went in after them to
the midst of the sea, even all
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Pharaoh's horses, his
chariots, and his horsemen.
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And it came to pass, that
in the morning watch the Lord
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looked unto the host of the
Egyptians through the pillar
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of fire and of the cloud,
and troubled the host of the
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Egyptians, and took off
their chariot wheels, that they
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drave them heavily: so
that the Egyptians said, Let us
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flee from the face of Israel;
for the Lord fighteth for them
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against the Egyptians.
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"And the Lord said unto Moses,
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Stretch out thine hand over
the sea, that the waters may
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come again upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots, and upon
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their horsemen. And Moses
stretched forth his hand over
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the sea, and the sea returned
to his strength when the
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morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it; and
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the Lord overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the
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sea. Verse 28: "And the
waters returned, and covered the
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chariots, and the horsemen,
and all the host of Pharaoh
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that came into the sea after
them; there remained not so
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much as one of them. But
the children of Israel walked,"
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Hallelujah, "upon dry land"
Walked upon dry land "in the
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midst of the sea; and the
waters were a wall unto them
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on their right hand, and
on their left. Thus the Lord
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saved Israel that day out of
the hand of the Egyptians; and
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Israel saw the Egyptians dead
upon the sea shore. And Israel
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saw" verse 31, "that great
work which the LORD did upon
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the Egyptians: and the people
feared the Lord, and believed
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the Lord, and his servant
Moses." Want to take a couple
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of minutes with you on this
subject. Free at last. Free at
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last. Father God, bless us now
as we go into your word today.
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We pray that, Lord, you breath
down in this place. Breath in
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the aisles of this church,
breath along the airways of
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television, the Internet,
and, God, may your anointing be
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seen, be felt and be heard.
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Hiding behind the cross, dear
Lord, when the appeal is made,
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we pray that individuals
will give their life to thee.
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Forgive us of our sins, in
the name of Jesus. Let everyone
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say Amen. And Amen. Free at,
what, everybody? Come on. Free
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at what, everybody? Free
at last. The Book of Exodus is
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scenes about deliverance, it
is about escape. Everybody say
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escape. It is about God's
mission to call the children
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of Israel to escape. It
is about freedom. It is about
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liberty. Now, you must
understand that freedom is a
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wonderful thing to enjoy.
You understand this is quite
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important for us. As
human beings, we are so
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interconnected that if you get
bound, not only does it affect
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you, but it also affects
everything around you. When
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you are in bondage, husband
affects a wife, a bound wife
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affects a husband, bound
children affect their parents.
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When anything is bound
it affects everything. When
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something is wrong with the
dog, it affects the house. Are
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you hearing what I'm saying?
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It throws off the elements
until everything around you is
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affected by something that
is in bondage. That's why God
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begins to focus. When
God begins to focus on your
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freedom it's not just
you that needs freedom. It is
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everything that is affected
by bondage that surrounds you.
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The apostle Paul teaches in
the Book of Romans that all of
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creation is affected when
anything is out of balance. It
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affects everything around
it so you must have freedom.
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Everybody say freedom. Freedom
is an important thing. More
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battles have been fought
over freedom than anything
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imaginable. Revolutionary
wars, civil wars, World War I,
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World War II, freedom is
important. People die every
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day on battlefields to protect
freedom, because freedom,
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again, is important. You
are here today in this church,
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comfortably listening to
me speak today, and you're
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comfortable not only because
of air conditioning, you're
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comfortable not only
because of padded pews, not only
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because of the plush
environment around you, but
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you're comfortable because in
the back of your mind you know
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you can leave whenever you
get ready to leave because you
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have freedom. But I can leave
you in the same environment,
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I can leave you in the same
environment we're in right now
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and I can padlock all the
doors, padlock all the windows
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and tell you you're locked
up and all of a sudden all
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comfort would disappear
because there's something
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about being free that is so
important that you cannot be
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comfortable being bound.
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Freedom is so
important that I'd rather have
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freedom than comfort.
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Let me say that one
more time. I'd rather have
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freedom than comfort. I'd give
up the comfort of padded pews
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and air conditioning and plush
environment just to know that
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I can leave whenever I want
to leave. No one likes to be
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bound. No one likes to be
incarcerated. No one likes to
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be chained up. If you don't
believe me, ask a prisoner.
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You can say whatever you
want to say, but to be free is
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vitally important. Our
ancestors understood it.
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Regardless of your ancestry,
regardless of your background,
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if you go back far enough all
of us have been threatened at
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some time or another in
reference to freedom. You have
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to realize that freedom is
so important, my friends, that
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sometimes you have to
compromise comfort for
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freedom. That's why, if we
call the role, the Israelites
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were willing to follow a
pillar of cloud by day and a
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pillar of cloud by night to
cross the Red Sea. That's why
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when Moses became of age he
refused to be called the son
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of Pharaoh's daughter.
He would rather suffer the
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affliction with the
people of God than to enjoy the
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pleasures of sin for a season.
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That's why there were freedom
rides in the fifties. That's
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why there were sit-ins and
demonstrations in the sixties.
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That's why Martin King
preached, "I have a dream."
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That's why Malcolm X talked
by any means necessary. That's
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why Nelson Mandela was willing
to spend 27 years in a South
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African prison on trumped-up
charges to get rid of a
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sinister social system that
erroneously prejudiced people
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just because of the color of
their skin. Sometimes you have
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to compromise comfort
for freedom. That's why some
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people in Berean would rather
be single and free and never
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get married, than to be
married to somebody that's
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abusive and mean and
overwhelming and obnoxious. Do
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I have a witness in this
place? Somebody knows I'm
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talking about people, why
you don't get married? There's a
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reason I don't get married,
are you hearing what I'm
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saying? I say it all the
time, it's better to be happily
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unmarried than to be unhappily
married. Are you hearing what
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I'm saying? Somebody are you
tired of being slapped up onto
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a refrigerator, kicked in
the head, told when you can do
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this and when you can do that,
and beat down. You've come to
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the point in your life where
you say, I'm going to lose 70%
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of my income, but I'd rather
live on 30% of my income to be
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free than to be in a hellish
situation where I'm controlled
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and bound. Freedom is an
important thing. Everybody say
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freedom. I'd rather be
free and live in a raggedy house
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with a leaky roof and shut
the door and know that it's mine
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than to stay in your big
house, your big mansion and be
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treated like a slave.
Somebody say freedom. Freedom is
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important, to know that you're
liberated, to know that you're
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free. And every now and then
while other folk are praising
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God for their nice houses,
their nice cars and their nice
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clothes, and maybe you don't
have all that they have, but
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you ought to just take a
moment and praise God for your
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freedom. Do I have a witness
in this place? Yes, the shoes
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came from Walmart. Yes, the
coat came from Target. Or when
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I get fancy I say Tar-jay.
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Yes, the pants came from
Dollar General, but you know
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what? They're mine.
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Freedom is a great thing.
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Everybody say freedom.
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For he who the Son has
set free is free indeed.
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Every now and then you ought
to thank God for freedom, even
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if it's not comfortable.
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The car doesn't have air
conditioning. You know, I grew
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up when a car in my days, we
have air, we have 240 air, two
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windows down and 40 miles
per hour. Do I have a witness in
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this place? The car doesn't
have air conditioning but it's
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paid for. The house is old
but it's paid for. I'm free from
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the mortgage company. It's
mine. Freedom. Freedom is a
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powerful thing and before I'd
be a slave, I'll be buried in
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my grave and go home to my
Lord and be free. It is the
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text that we are seeing the
fulfillment of an answer to a
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prayer and a covenant between
God and Abraham. Follow the
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parallel. God told
Abraham, I'm going to call your
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descendants to sojourn in
Egypt. For 400 years they're
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going to be enslaved. But
after 400 years, I'm going to
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bring them out with
great substance. And so Abraham
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closed his eyes and Abraham
died knowing that his children
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would go through something,
but he knew that they one day
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would come out and be free.
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They would be incarcerated,
but one day they would be
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liberated. You see, you don't
understand sometimes, people
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in this room who have
been incarcerated by difficult,
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different situations and
circumstances. I think about
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Dr. J today telling us his
story. None of us would have
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thought that this high-flying
athlete would go through all
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that he's gone through just
to make it to this day. Some of
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us have been bound by death,
some of us have been bound and
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incarcerated by debt, some
of us have been incarcerated by
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abuse, some of us have been
incarcerated by relationships.
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Some of us have literally been
incarcerated. You can't tell
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it now because they're
all dressed up, smelling good,
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nice suits, nice shoes,
hair done, nails done, but there
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was a day when they used to
be in cell block B, 777519, and
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every now and then you'll
see a person like that praising
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God in a way you don't
understand and you'll think
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that they're being too
emotional. You'll think that
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it doesn't take all of
that, but every now and then you
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need a flashback and remember
how one day you were bound.
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How one day you were tied up.
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How one day you were chained
up. How one day God liberated
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you. Is there anybody in this
place today that now you are
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free in your spirit and free
in your soul. Is there anybody
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who's free in Jesus? Do I have
a witness in this place? Other
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folk around you talking about,
how am I going to pay for this
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and pay for that, what am
I going to do about that, but
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you're not worried about
anything, you're just glad to
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be free. People in this church
today think they ain't got it
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all going on, but somebody's
glad to be free from crack,
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free from drugs, free from
problems, free from prison,
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free from people, free from
what people think. Free from
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abuse. Free from Johnny, free
from Jimmy, free from Willie.
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Free from Agnes. Free
from Bertha. Free from Tatiana.
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Free from Sequana. Free from
Liliana. Just free. And today,
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I don't know what your
testimony is, but I do know
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that when God sets you free,
you shall be free indeed. I
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can leave when I want to
leave. I can come when I want
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to come. I'll clean when I
want to clean up. It may be
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raggedy but it's my house.
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Those are my dirty dishes
in the sink, and hush up, I'll
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wash them when I get ready.
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Anybody enjoying the blessing
of being free? Come on, say
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Amen. And so, after 400 years
God says to Israel, I'm going
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to bring you out of captivity.
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Now, Moses, understand, had
the assignment of going down
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to Egypt and announcing to
Pharaoh that the time for the
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liberation of God's people was
at hand. He also has the task
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of liberating people who have
been not bound only physically
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but also mentally. And the
hardest thing, I'm a witness,
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the hardest thing to do and
the hardest people to lead in
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the world are oppressed
people. Oppressed people are
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sensitive. Oppressed people
are insecure. Oppressed people
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fall out and get mad over
any little thing. Pastor Byrd,
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they didn't call my name. They
didn't call today, they didn't
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reserve me a seat. Why
did they give them a seat?
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Oppressed people are sensitive
about everything. Because
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they've been abused before,
they see everything as abuse.
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Can't even look at people.
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What you looking at me funny
for? Oppressed people, because
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hurt people hurt people.
Moses is leading people who are
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coming out physically
faster than they are coming out
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mentally. Could it be possible
that you are better physically
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than you are mentally?
That's what can make marriage
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dangerous. I've got to
intertwine Black History and
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Valentine's Day. That's what
can make marriage dangerous.
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You've got to marry the right
person, because whomever you
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marry will likely impact where
you spend eternity. Every day
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I thank God for my wife.
Not only is she beautiful, not
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only is she fine, not only
does she not get in a mess,
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she's getting me ready for
the Kingdom. Do I have a witness
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in this place? Marriage
can be dangerous, because it's
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possible to meet and see
somebody, date somebody who
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looks better physically
but mentally can be a mess.
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Sometimes your life can be
progressing better externally
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than your mentality is
developing internally and you
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find yourself in a precarious
predicament because outwardly
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you look like you're better
off than what you really are
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and nobody knows that inside
of you, you're wrestling with
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some stuff from a long
time ago. That's why I thank God
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for patience. Because God
will work with you and work with
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you until you are renewed
in the spirit of your mind.
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Everybody doesn't have to get
delivered from sex, alcohol or
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drugs. Sometimes you
come in here to have your mind
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renewed. If I can just get
a new mind, if God would just
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give me a new mind, a new way
of looking at things, I can be
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free at last. Free at last,
thank God Almighty, I'll be
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free at last. The children
of Israel are finding themselves
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in this predicament where
God is bringing them out. And he
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has brought them down to
the Red Sea. We know the story.
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They are uncomfortable
because freedom is sometimes
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difficult, because it requires
that you give up normal.
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Israel has adapted to being
enslaved. And even though they
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have prayed for liberation,
sometimes we pray for things
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ideologically but we are
not prepared to accept them
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experientially. And so now
they pray for liberation, but
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now they resent the liberator.
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Because freedom requires
that you give up what you have
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adapted to, to set into the
unfamiliar area of the unknown.
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So, they're coming out
murmuring. They're coming
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out complaining. They're
coming out fussing because God
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has ordered change.
Change is not easy for anybody.
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Sometimes it takes a lifetime
to change. Sometimes it takes
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a lifetime to grow up.
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Sometimes it takes years to
change a small thing in your
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life. Change doesn't come
easy. And so they're coming
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into it with their murmuring.
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They're coming into it
with their complaining. They're
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coming into it. They're
frustrated and Moses himself
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is leading a people and still
feeling the pressure of the
00:20:21.76\00:20:24.93
people he's leading. And so
now he's come down to the Red
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Sea. And if it were not
enough for them doubting his
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leadership and speaking all
manner of evil against him, he
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also has the problem of
leading God's people through
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trouble. And I said it
Wednesday night, I'll say it
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again today, trouble doesn't
always have an expiration
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date. Moses is leading his
people and then he hears the
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footsteps of Pharaoh and
Pharaoh's 600 chosen chariots.
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Not just any old chariots. The
Bible says 600 chosen chariots
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pursuing them. Now, if you've
always been free, you're not
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going to get this, but
if you've ever been bound by
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anything and you're trying
to get delivered and all of a
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sudden your habit or your
bondage, slowly it has started
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to get you back, but you can
hear it. It hasn't gotten you
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back totally, but you hear it
coming. You can't tell anybody
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you hear it coming because
you're already starting free,
00:21:22.20\00:21:26.90
but just as soon as you start
bragging about how free you
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are, all of a sudden you hear
your trouble starting to come
00:21:28.83\00:21:32.20
back again. I know today
you're not going to hold up
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your hand because your
reputation is at stake, but
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somebody in here knows what
it's like to hear that thing
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coming after you again.
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Whenever you're bound
by something, you know the
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warning signs. The children
of Israel can hear it coming
00:21:49.93\00:21:56.20
again. God is standing there,
Moses is standing there and
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the children are standing
there and the enemy is moving.
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Have you ever had a moment
in your life where you were
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standing still, but something
was after you? Now, you have
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to be spiritual to discern
this. Sometimes you can't even
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see it. Sometimes you can't
even name it, but there is an
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apprehensive feeling of
danger. The footsteps of
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Pharaoh are coming after you.
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Haven't done anything to
you yet. Haven't attacked you,
00:22:31.93\00:22:35.33
haven't beaten you, haven't
enslaved you, haven't done
00:22:35.33\00:22:37.50
anything to you yet, but
the very sound of it strikes
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terror in your heart. You know
how many people die over the
00:22:41.03\00:22:45.40
sound of trouble? Not death,
but the shadow. Yeah, though I
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walk through the valley of
the shadow of death. It's not
00:22:50.40\00:22:53.70
death, but the shadow of
death. I haven't lost it, but
00:22:53.70\00:22:58.63
any day now I can lose it.
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Sometimes you feel that
something is chasing you and
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you don't even know what
it is. The children of Israel,
00:23:03.46\00:23:05.73
they come down to the Red
Sea, they're not in a good mood
00:23:05.73\00:23:09.46
because it's hard to be polite
when you're being pursued.
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They're murmuring,
complaining. Moses is on edge.
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He stands there looking at
God. God says to Moses, Moses,
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stretch forth thine hand.
As Moses stretches forth his
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hand, the Bible says that
God sends a wind. Not a bridge.
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Not a boat. Not an airplane.
00:23:36.60\00:23:41.20
Not an angel. Not a soldier
at the Red Sea. Not a guard. But
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the Bible says that God sends
a wind. That's why I get happy
00:23:46.40\00:23:54.30
when I think of the goodness
of Jesus. That's why I don't
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take the anointing of God
lightly. Because when I come
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into the house of God and I
feel the glory of God moving,
00:24:06.10\00:24:10.36
I say, look out, devil,
God is about to send a wind and
00:24:10.36\00:24:17.80
whenever God sends a wind,
great things begin to happen.
00:24:17.80\00:24:23.40
Something is about to happen.
00:24:23.40\00:24:26.83
Something in this ministry
is about to happen. Something in
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your life is about to happen.
00:24:32.36\00:24:34.16
I haven't seen it happen yet,
but I hear the wind. I haven't
00:24:34.16\00:24:38.10
seen it move yet, but I
hear the wind. I haven't gotten
00:24:38.10\00:24:45.23
healing yet, but I hear the
wind. Your check has not come
00:24:45.23\00:24:47.76
yet, but I hear the wind.
Your son isn't saved yet, your
00:24:47.76\00:24:51.16
daughter isn't saved yet, your
marriage isn't healed yet, but
00:24:51.16\00:24:55.30
I hear some wind. Something's
about to happen. I've got
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light in my spirit. I've got
up-beat in my soul. My soul is
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happy. Something is about to
happen. God blew back the Red
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Sea. Blew back the water.
Then he blew it so long that it
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became a hair dryer and dried
the ground so the children of
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Israel could walk across on
dry land without getting mud
00:25:23.30\00:25:26.00
on their shoes. What a mighty
God we serve. What a mighty
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God we serve. Your God is so
mighty, my God is so good that
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sometimes God will give
you things you didn't think
00:25:38.43\00:25:40.36
to ask him for.
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