? (Theme Song) ? ?
Jesus is worthy... ?
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? oh yes, he's
worthy... ? ? worthy of all... ?
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? (Music) ? PB:
Have you ever thought God
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may be trying to bless
you and heal you to bring
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somebody else out?
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Interestingly enough,
when Jesus gets ready,
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listen to me good, when
Jesus gets ready to heal
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the man, his methods
are somewhat unorthodox.
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Now, Jesus could have used
a plethora or multiple methods
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to heal the man.
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Jesus could have
spoken and said, I command
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you to see.
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But Jesus didn't do that.
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Jesus could have laid hands
on the man, laid hands on him,
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touched him and said, I
command your eyes to open up.
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But he didn't do that.
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When Jesus got ready to heal
the man, he spat on the ground,
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made mud of spit, you all
done hearing me, now remember,
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follow me
carefully, I'm going to paint
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this picture.
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Remember, the man
can't see him, but imagine,
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if you will, you're
blind and you come into
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the presence of this
healer who everybody is talking
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about, to get healed.
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He has called
you out of the crowd.
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You can't see him, so you
move toward- him in the dark.
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He's getting ready to heal
you, you think, and then you
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hear "spit." Isn't it funny
how God's method of bringing
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you out may not have been the
method you would have chosen.
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I could preach a
whole sermon right there.
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Come back tonight.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I've seen God bring Carlton Byrd
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out of a bunch of stuff,
but he didn't always bring me
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out to the person I wanted him
to use in the way I wanted him
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to use, and he didn't bring
me out as comfortable or classy,
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as refined or as conservative
that I would liked for
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him to bring me out.
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I had some egg on my
face, but he brought me out.
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I had some mud running down
my face, but he brought me out.
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They were talking about
me, but he brought me out.
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They were hating on
me, but he brought me out.
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They were laughing at
me, but he brought me out.
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They were criticizing
me, but he brought me out!
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It was controversial,
but he brought me out.
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They despised me,
but he brought me out!
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Which leads me
now to the question.
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How bad do you want out?
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How bad?
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You see, there are a whole
lot of folk who want changes in
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their life as long as it
doesn't cost them anything.
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I want the Lord to bless me.
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I want to lose 50 pounds,
but I want to eat ice cream late
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at night while I do it.
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I want to get my degree,
but I don't want to go back to
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school to get it.
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I want increased
income, but I don't want to work
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another job.
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I want to get out of
debt, but I don't want to pay
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anybody off.
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I want a wife, but
I don't want to work.
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And in the spirit of equal
opportunity, I want a husband,
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but I don't want to submit.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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From the brother, "uhuhuhuh."
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[Laughter] I want
the church to grow.
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I want my church to
grow, but I don't want to
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knock on doors, I
don't want to give
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Bible studies, I
don't want to be nice.
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Smile. Be flexible or change.
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You'd be surprised at folk.
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I think I struck a nerve.
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Come on, say Amen.
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You'd be surprised at people
who want things but are not
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willing to go through what
it takes to get a breakthrough.
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Well, I don't
have a sermon for you.
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Maybe you need to listen to
somebody else preach to you.
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But I want to preach to some
real folk, some radical folk,
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some folk who will say,
whatever it takes, Lord,
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I'm past image.
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God, I'm past sane.
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I'm past what you think.
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I'm past about what I look like.
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I've come to the
point in my life right now
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that whatever it takes
for me to turn this situation
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around, I've got to
get my breakthrough.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I don't do well with
folk who don't have issues.
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My best anointing is on
radical, real, desperate
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people who don't care what
anybody says, who don't care
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what anybody thinks, but
are willing to climb out by any
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means necessary, spit on me,
Jesus, mud, whatever it takes,
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Jesus, save me,
whatever it takes,
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whatever I have to go through.
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It's past dignity.
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It's past my image.
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It's past whatever
you think about me.
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I've come to the
point of desperation.
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I'm the one who's been blind.
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Walking in the dark.
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Talking in the dark.
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Eating in the dark.
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Living in the dark.
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Now is the chance
for my deliverance.
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So, Jesus, excuse
me, put it right here.
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Jesus, my Lord.
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Jesus, my Savior.
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Jesus, my bulwark.
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Jesus spat on
the ground, made mud,
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put it on the man's eyes.
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Incidentally, when you're
trying to open somebody's eye,
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generally you
don't make it worse.
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Putting mud in my eyes
is not a normal progression
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so Carlton can see.
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Isn't it funny that
when you're closest to your
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greatest
miracle, things get worse.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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Is there anybody here today
who understands how things get
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worse before they get better?
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And understand that if you're
a person that's going to give
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up, this is not
for the faint of heart.
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This is for the
tough and the tenacious.
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Relentless people who can take
a lickin' and keep on tickin'
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and know that things
just might get worse before
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they get better.
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This is not the for
the holy folk in the room.
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This is for the
folk who are messed up.
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This is for the folk who've
lied, who've cheated, who've
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talked about somebody,
who know that if Jesus hadn't
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picked them up, turned them
around, placed their feet on
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solid ground, that
they wouldn't be here today.
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This is not for the holy people.
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Because people who perceive
themselves to be holy are
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never great worshippers.
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Teach all the worship seminars
you want, you'll never worship
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God when you feel
like God ought to be happy
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that you're here.
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But when you know you've been
to an earthly hell and back,
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when you know that
you've slept around and fooled
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around, you know that
you've messed around and played
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around, could have been
in jail, could have been dead
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somewhere, could have been
strung out somewhere, could
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have been out there but
it was nobody but Jesus.
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You recognize that I've come
too far to go back home to get
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what I need, you'll
take mud and all I'm in.
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I wish I had time to
do this text justice.
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You all will be invited
back, that will be part two.
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The Bible says that he takes
spit and earth and makes this
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mud, puts it in the man's
eyes and tells him, now go wash
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in the pool of Siloam.
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Now, listen to me good.
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In this statement you
have the whole controversy.
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Here's the controversy.
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Jesus sent this man somewhere
else to get his miracle.
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To the chagrin and frustration
of the religious, pious,
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holier-than-thou,
self-righteous institutions
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who want to claim ownership.
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You see, people generally
criticize God's favor in your
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life because they can't claim
rights to your accomplishment.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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This is too much, I'm saying.
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If Jesus had sent this man
to the Pharisees, the Pharisees
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could have said they did
it, and then it would have been
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all right for the
man to get healed.
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But because this man got
healed outside the system
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Help me, Holy Ghost.
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Now don't misinterpret
me, but many of you recognize
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that in order to get
what you need from God,
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sometimes you've
got to break some rules.
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Sometimes you've got
to get outside the box.
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Sometimes you've got to get
outside the norm, out of your
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comfort zone and do
something different.
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The Bible says that Jesus
sent him to the pool of Siloam.
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And the Bible says that
he went and he washed and
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he came forth seeing.
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Suppose God sends
you somewhere else.
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Suppose God uses something
outside of your tradition.
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Suppose God uses something
outside of your comfort zone.
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You see, anytime you get
blessed outside of the box,
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outside of the institutional
structure, it breeds contempt
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and resentment
because people feel like they
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didn't validate it.
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They didn't authenticate it,
and now they're going to fight
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it because they can't
accept that God did it.
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Somebody knows that if it
had not been for the Lord on my
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side, you wouldn't be
able to do the very thing
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that you did.
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Now, it could be a big thing,
it could be a little thing, it
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doesn't matter what it is.
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For some people,
other people's normal
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is your miracle.
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And it took a miracle for God
to open a door for you to get
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something that the
person sitting next to you
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takes for granted.
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They drove to camp
meeting and they didn't think
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anything of it.
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But you drove to camp meeting
knowing that if God hadn't
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pulled some strings
you wouldn't have a car
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in the first place.
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I've got a
witness in this place.
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So there you are shouting
over something that they're
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accustomed to and they think
that they're entitled to have
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it, but you waited all
of your life just to be able
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to see this blessing.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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Let me tell you something.
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Some of you been waiting
a long time and you're just
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coming into your
season and if God begins
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to bless you, you
better listen to me good.
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Yes, I am fifth
generation Seventh-Day Adventist
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Christian, but
listen to me good.
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Don't you let people
intimidate you with their
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negative carnal selves.
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You better learn how to
celebrate the goodness of God
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and know what God has
done for you in your life.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Don't you be
afraid to bless his name.
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Don't you be afraid to
thank the name of Jesus.
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Don't you be
afraid to praise God.
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Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so.
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Who cares how prim
and proper you are?
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Say something.
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Who cares what
island you're from?
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Say something.
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Who cares what side
of town you grew up on?
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Say something.
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Who cares if you raised
those children by yourself?
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You better say something.
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Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so.
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What I like about the man in
the story in the text is that
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the condition he had
started from his birth.
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He lived through it all
his life, but all the while
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he was growing up.
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How many of you
today are growing up?
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I know that's funny to
some because we think that we've
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got a little salt
and pepper in our hair.
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I know I have some now.
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And we don't feel
like we're growing up.
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But how many people know
we don't finish growing at 21.
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How many of you know you can
be 30 years and still growing?
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Forty years and still growing.
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Some of you 50, 60, 70
and you're still growing up.
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We're just getting to the
point now that we don't care
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what you think.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You see, you couldn't get
the blessing earlier because you
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would have been so conscious
of what "they" were saying
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that you wouldn't be
able to receive your blessing.
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But now you're finally
old enough, mature enough,
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ask him, he's of age,
that you can be blessed
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while people are
still murmuring, complaining
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and arguing, but all you
know is that God worked a
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miracle on your behalf.
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Give God some praise right now.
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The time is
right, I'm now ready,
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I can handle it now,
I can deal with it now,
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the time is right.
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If God would have done
it five years ago I wouldn't
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be able to handle it.
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But I've grown up now.
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You can release
what you have for me now.
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Now I know how to hold it.
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Now I know how to hold the job.
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Now I know how
not to blow the favor.
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Now I know how to
treat somebody in my life.
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Now I know how to do
business in high places.
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I'm ready now.
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I don't know who I'm talking to,
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but you're now getting ready.
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The favor of God, in our
country now they're forever
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listening for terrorists.
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They're listening for the
underground communication of
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terrorists to see what the
plots and plans are and then
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when there's a lot of
turbulence, a lot of e-mails,
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they call it chatter.
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Everybody say chatter.
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And chatter gives you an image
of a whole lot of noise going
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on in the room and when
the chatter increases, a lot of
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times the threat
level is raised because
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the chatter has raised.
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And I want to tell you
something today, people of
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God, when you're
being blessed by God, expect
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a lot of chatter.
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You can't be blessed, and
everybody sit back and fold
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their arms and say, go ahead.
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Child of God, bless you.
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I'm happy for you.
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It's going to be a whole lot
of, I don't think it's right.
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I don't think it's right.
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Who is he to be doing that?
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Who is she to be doing that?
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Who does she think she is?
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I don't think
he should get that.
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But in spite of the
chatter, God has blessed you.
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You ought to put one foot in
front of the other, hold your
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head up, stick your chest out,
tell your neighbor, don't let
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the noise stop you.
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Think about it.
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All the while they were
arguing, chattering and making
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noise, the man was
just looking, seeing,
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that's a sunset.
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Seeing, that's a mountain.
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I've never seen
a palm tree before.
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Look at the water
moving in the river.
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And all the
while they're talking,
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is this the man?
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Is this the same man?
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I don't believe he was
blind in the first place.
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What's he doing getting healed?
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Does Jesus have
the right to heal him?
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Heal him on the sabbath day.
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Isn't there a
scripture about that?
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But sometimes God has to
break a rule, break a tradition
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to bless you.
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Sometimes σσσ about the Lord.
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Sometimes God has to reach
over people who thought they
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were supposed to get the
blessing and say, not you,
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not you, but you.
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I want you.
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And God's favor
will snatch you up.
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And so they asked his parents.
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Is this your child?
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Yes, this is our child.
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He's legitimate.
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Was he born blind?
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They said, we can tell you
for sure he was born blind.
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We don't know how he
got healed, but he's of age.
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Ask him.
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Let him speak for himself.
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So they brought the man
forward and said, you mean,
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this controversial Jesus,
this water-walking Jesus, this
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mission-minded,
out-of-the-box Jesus.
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This Jesus who
doesn't obey rules and doesn't
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follow instruction.
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This Jesus who didn't
come from our university.
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This Jesus who was
not endorsed by our group.
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You mean he healed you?
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This man is a sinner.
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The former blind man said, I
don't know what school he went
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to, I don't know what the
conference committee said, I
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don't know what the church
board said, I don't know what
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the board of elders said,
I don't even know if he's a
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sinner or not, all I know is
that I was blind but now I see
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amazing grace, how
sweet the sound that saved
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a wretch like me.
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I once was lost but now
I'm found, was blind--was blind
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but now I see.
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When I think of the goodness
of Jesus and all he's done for
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me, my soul, my soul, my
soul cries out, hallelujah,
00:22:23.13\00:22:35.90
hallelujah, thank God, thank
God, thank God for saving me.
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Put your hands together
and give God some praise.
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The Lord is my light, my
salvation, whom shall I fear?
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The Lord is the
strength of my life, of whom
00:23:06.83\00:23:11.16
shall I be afraid?
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The Lord is my
refuge and strength,
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a very present
help in time of trouble.
00:23:15.36\00:23:17.53
"The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want.
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He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures; he leadeth me
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beside the still waters.
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He restoreth my soul; he
leadeth me in the path of
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righteousness
for his name's sake.
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Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
00:23:31.40\00:23:34.23
I will fear no evil: for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy
00:23:34.23\00:23:45.46
staff they comfort me.
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Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine
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enemies: thou anointest my
head with oil; my cup runneth
00:23:51.56\00:24:00.33
over." Surely
Surely Surely Popking.
00:24:00.33\00:24:03.80
Surely, Brother Irwin.
00:24:03.80\00:24:11.73
Surely, Brother Gunn.
00:24:11.73\00:24:13.53
"Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days
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of my life: and I will dwell
in the house of the Lord for
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ever." Many of you know
my story, you know my wife,
00:24:39.50\00:25:02.83
you know our story.
00:25:02.83\00:25:07.46
God never promised me a bed of
roses, but he did say he would
00:25:07.46\00:25:13.60
never leave nor forsake me.
00:25:13.60\00:25:24.03
I don't know what your
story is, but all of us
00:25:24.03\00:25:27.23
in here have a story.
00:25:27.23\00:25:31.86
And all thewhile, all the
while God's been trying to
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grow you, grow you in the dark.
00:25:43.30\00:25:49.50
There are things now in my
life that if they happened to
00:25:49.50\00:25:57.43
me 20 years ago, I would
not have been able to handle it,
00:25:57.43\00:26:01.46
but because God has allowed
certain things in my ministry
00:26:01.46\00:26:08.00
to grow me now, I can look,
I can smile and I can say that
00:26:08.00\00:26:11.80
I've been growing in the dark.
00:26:11.80\00:26:19.23
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