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PB: Hello, my name is
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Dr. Carlton Byrd and I'm the
speaker director of Breath of
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Life television ministry.
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Right now I'm standing on
the beautiful island of Bermuda.
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That's right, Breath of Life
is in the country of Bermuda,
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this wonderful island nation
of 20 miles long, pink sand,
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beautiful beaches, palm trees,
it's just paradise on earth.
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But when I think about
how beautiful it is, I say to
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myself, God must have
something even that much
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better for us because the
Word of God says, eyes have not
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seen, neither have ears
heard the things that God hath
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prepared for them that love him.
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Heaven is going to be
that much better than this, and
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while I can come here and
vacation, I can come here and
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swim and jet ski, we've come,
Breath of Life has, to preach
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the Word of God.
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That's right, we're here
for their tent meeting and we're
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preaching that Jesus Christ
loves us and he is soon to
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return.
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May God bless you as you watch
as we minister to you to tell
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a dying world that Jesus saves.
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? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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(Music) PB: Hello, my name is
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Dr. Carlton Byrd and
I'm the speaker director for
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the Breath of Life television
ministry and I'm excited
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tonight because I am here with
my brothers and my sisters on
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the island of Bermuda
for their camp meeting.
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They are also celebrating
the 25th anniversary of their
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conference.
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I'm excited, they're
excited, we hope you're excited.
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To God be the glory.
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Great things he has done.
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And so tonight, Breath of
Life is happy to be here on the
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island of Bermuda and we'll
be here for a couple of days
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preaching the Word of God.
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We are very happy tonight that
we have been invited not only
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by the people of the Bermuda
Conference here on the island
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of Bermuda, but also
the conference president
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of this great
conference, Dr. Jeffrey Brown.
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Let's put our hands
together and praise God for
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Dr. Jeffrey Brown.
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Praise be to God.
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He and his lovely wife
are sitting here this evening.
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We're ready to go to work.
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We're ready to go
to the Word of God.
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Are you ready?
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Let me hear you say Amen.
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I said, are you ready?
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Let me hear you say Amen!
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Do me a favor, take your
Bibles and go please to the
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book of Luke.
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What book, everybody?
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Let's go to the
Gospel according to Luke.
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Matthew, Mark and then Luke.
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Luke, Chapter 7 and
we're going to verse 36.
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The Gospel according to St.
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Luke 7:36.
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We'll begin reading here.
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The Word of God says to
us tonight: "And one of the
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Pharisees desired him
that he would eat with him.
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And he went into
the Pharisee's house,
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and sat down to meat.
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And, behold, a woman in
the city, which was a sinner,
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when she knew that
Jesus sat at meat in the
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Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box
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of ointment.
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And stood at his feet behind
him weeping, and began to wash
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his feet with tears,
and did wipe them with
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the hairs of her
head, and kissed his feet,
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and anointed them with ointment.
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Now when the Pharisee
which had bidden him saw it,
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he spake within
himself, saying, 'This man,
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if he were a
prophet, would have known who
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and what manner of woman
this is that toucheth him:
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for she is a
sinner.' And Jesus answering
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said unto him,
'Simon, I have somewhat to say
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unto thee.' And he saith ,
'Master, say all.' "'There was
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a certain creditor which
had two debtors: the one owned
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five hundred pence,
and the other fifty.
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And when they had
nothing to pay, he frankly
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forgave them both.
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Tell me therefore, which
of them will love him most?'
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Simon answered and said,
'I suppose that he, to whom
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he forgave most.' And he
said unto him, 'Thou has rightly
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judged.' And he turned to
the woman, and said unto Simon,
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'Seest thou this woman?
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I entered into thine house,
thou gavest me no water for my
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feet: but she hath
washed my feet with tears,
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and wiped them with
the hairs of her head.
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Thou gavest me no kiss:
But this woman since the time
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I came in hath not
ceased to kiss my feet.
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My head with oil thou
didst not anoint: but this woman
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hath anointed my
feet with ointment.
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Wherefore I say unto thee,
Her sins, which are many, are
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forgiven; for she loves much:
but to whom little is forgiven,
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the same loveth
little.' And he said unto her,
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'Thy sins are forgiven.'
"And they that sat at meat
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with him began to say within
themselves, 'Who is this that
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foregiveth sins also?'
And he said to the woman,
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'Thy faith hath
saved thee; go in peace.'"
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Do me a favor.
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Turn to your neighbor and say,
"Neighbor, you don't know the
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cost of my praise."
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Father God, we thank you.
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We praise you.
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Now, God, we ask that
you would come in this place.
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May your Holy Ghost
breathe through these aisles
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this evening.
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And, God, we'll be careful to
give you all the praise beyond
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the glory, hide
me behind your cross.
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May your anointing make
the difference, we pray.
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Forgive us for our sins,
give me clarity of thought,
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articulation of word, and
thy people receptivity of heart.
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It is in Jesus' name we pray.
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Let everyone say Amen.
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And Amen.
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You don't know
the cost of my praise.
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I want to begin this message
by saying that this evening,
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in many ways, I'm a
conflicted Christian.
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What do you mean,
conflicted, Pastor Byrd?
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Well, there's a conflict in
my soul torn between religion
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and relationship.
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Religion is embodied in
the things that we are taught.
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The ideas and philosophies
that are conveyed to us
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that form religiosity.
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But somewhere in the midst of
embracing religion it is God's
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divine will that we ultimately
evolve into relationship.
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For religion without
relationship ends up with folk
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worrying about what you
have on, where you live, and who
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you know instead of
you getting to know Jesus.
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Religion without relationship
leads into cults, cynicism and
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self-righteousness.
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Religion without
relationship ends up with war
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in the Middle East.
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Religion without relationship
ends up with the KKK.
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Religion without relationship
ends up in terrorism and
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planes flying into
buildings like they did on 9/11.
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Religion without relationship
ends up with bigotry and pride,
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self-absorption and strife.
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Religion without relationship
has killed more people on this
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planet than anything else in
the world where people have a
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form of godliness but
they deny the power thereof.
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Tonight, I'm sick and tired of
religion without relationship.
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Like a heat-sensored missile,
I want to see it explode.
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I want to see it destroyed.
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I want to seek
it out and kill it,
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even if it's in me.
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There's a constant slipping
away of what I've been taught
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versus what has been revealed.
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And so I should tell you
as a pastor, as a preacher,
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I should tell you that I've
mastered it and I understand
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it and I've got it
all together and I'm sure,
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and I have
everything, but this evening
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I'm conflicted.
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There's a constant
peeling away of the veneer
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of the religion that I've
been taught, and a seeking,
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perpetual, ongoing effort to
find the truth, the kernel of
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truth behind the
hard walls of religion.
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Somewhere in the hybrid
seed with it's shiny exterior
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there's life in the
core, but there's no life
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in the seed itself.
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Life is in the
core inside the seed.
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That's why we bury the seed
in the ground, so that the seed
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will be conflicted enough that
the outer encasement might die
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and that the inner
life might be brought forth.
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And so, we are constantly
dying as believers, not just
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to sin, not just to our own
weaknesses, but we are dying
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out to the hard veneer
of what we've been taught,
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to find the life
beneath of what really matters.
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Out of all we've been
taught, where is the life in it?
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And so it is that Jesus, my
Lord, my Savior, my Prophet,
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my Priest, my King, has come
into the house of a Pharisee.
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Now, the Pharisee had religion.
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There's no question about that.
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He had resources.
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He could invite Jesus to dinner.
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He understood protocol.
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He understood appropriateness.
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This was the
house of a Pharisee.
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Pharisees spent their
lives being religious.
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And before you are too
critical of them, all of us,
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too, for varying
degrees, we, too, are religious.
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Let me tell you this, and
I've learned it in my Christian
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experience, I'm a pastor's
kid, a PK, and then I've been
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pastoring 17 years, and
I've learned in my experience,
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there is nothing as dangerous
as turning yourself over to a
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room full of church folk.
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We have rules for
which we have no scriptures.
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We have all kinds of
ideas and concepts of what is
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appropriate and inappropriate.
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We will kill people
over things that we later
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find out are not necessary.
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Church folk can be
dangerous and even when we have
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scriptures, we don't
search them for appropriateness.
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Many times we just hurl them
out after the fashion of our
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fathers without questioning
the possibility that our
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fathers could have been wrong.
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And so we kill our sons, our
future, trying to be loyal to
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our fathers, our past, and
our future is desecrated by our
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commitment to our history
because we love our history
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more than we seek our destiny.
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Tonight I'm conflicted.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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What good is it if you
can afford to bring Jesus into
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your house when your religion
stops you from appreciating
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the Jesus you have access to?
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Sure, Simon did bring Jesus
into his house, but he didn't
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know what to do with Jesus
once Jesus was in his house.
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Maybe he is too blessed
to be appreciating this.
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Maybe he feels that God should
appreciate the fact that he
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took out time for
him, because that's wrong.
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Most of us are so important
that if we give God a sabbath,
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God forbid that we should
come out on a Wednesday night,
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because we feel all of
heaven should stand at attention
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because you made time for God.
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Who, incidentally, put breath
in your body, woke you up this
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morning, started you on your
way, put food on your table,
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makes your kneecaps operate
and makes your heart beat even
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while you're still asleep.
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But yet you give God what
you want to, when you want, how
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you want to, if you want
to, because some of us are more
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important in our
minds than God himself.
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So it is, into this
regal, sanctimonious, righteous,
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pious, holy environment
comes a lady of the night.
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Now, a Pharisee--follow
me carefully in this story--a
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Pharisee has spent all of
his life steeped in the legality
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of the law's appropriateness,
Feast of Wheat, Feast of
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Tabernacles, Feast of
Unleavened Bread, they know
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all the ceremonies, all the
cleansings, all the washings.
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They approach God, but
they see God through the lens
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of legalism.
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Because all of us see
God through something,
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be it communion, be it baptism,
creeds, concepts, preachers,
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denominations.
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We all see God
through the lens of something.
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And they saw God through the
lens of legalism, because that
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is, in fact, what
they had been taught.
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And so, they approach
their relationship with God
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on the basis of their
commitment to religion,
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not for their love for him.
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They thought that the
more you kept the law,
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the closer you were to God.
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The Pharisees were
disciplined, they were trained,
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they were committed.
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They were taught to
discipline themselves.
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The Pharisees were moral people.
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They were clean people.
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They didn't
touch certain things.
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They didn't eat certain things.
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They didn't go
to certain places.
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They kept the sabbath holy.
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They kept the law.
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They were tedious,
and don't get it twisted,
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there's nothing wrong
with this when it's motivated
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by love.
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Because, after all, Jesus
said, if you love me, keep my
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commandments.
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If we love God like we say
we love God, we're supposed
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to keep God's laws.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But in a world where if it
feels good, do it, don't act
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like you can do any and
everything you want to, when
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you want to, where you
want to, how you want to and
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then say you love Jesus.
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Your keeping of God's laws
will testify to who you love.
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I'm going to kill
somebody, but I love God.
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I'm going to sleep with
somebody who's not my wife,
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who's not my
husband, but I love God.
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No, you don't love
God, you love yourself.
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Love law is the religion;
love is the relationship.
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You have to have
both and not either or.
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Love and law.
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Faith and works.
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Religion and relationship.
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Our motivation for keeping
God's laws should be a love
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relationship not
solely religion, and this, my
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friends, is where the
Pharisees had it all wrong.
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The Bible says, this man
was a Pharisee and it was
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appropriate that if
Jesus was a man of God, it is
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appropriate that Jesus
should be seen with a Pharisee
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in his house.
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But not with a
lady of the night.
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But what I want to know is
this, when I study the text,
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if the Pharisee if supposed
to be so holy and if she's a
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prostitute, how did this
woman get in the house anyway?
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Why is she even
knocking on the door?
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What's she doing in this house?
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She's not holy, she's not
righteous, she's not pure,
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she's been around the block,
she's messed up so bad that
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even church folk knew who
she was and what she was about.
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People knew her by what
she did and not by her name.
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Where and what did
she leave to come there
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in the first place?
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How dare she mess up our nice,
clean, holy church with her
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mess, her ankle bracelets, her
rings, her tattoos, her urban,
00:18:14.43\00:18:22.13
seductive disposition?
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Who is she to walk up in
our church looking like that?
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How dare she set
foot in our church?
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See, I have learned,
some people like the idea of
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evangelism, they like the
concept of evangelism, they
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like to give money to support
evangelism, send money to
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foreign missions to help
people who are in trouble, but
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don't mess up our
nice, pretty church
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with your peculiar ways.
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And that's just like some
church folk, they want to keep
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the people out who
need church the most.
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And then, she's a woman.
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Most of the time in the
Bible women aren't even listed
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in the genealogy.
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She wasn't significant.
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She's not important.
00:19:17.26\00:19:18.86
She couldn't vote.
00:19:18.86\00:19:20.46
She couldn't make decisions.
00:19:20.46\00:19:22.00
She couldn't lead.
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Why is this woman breaking in
among all these important men?
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And not only is she a
woman, considered a second-class
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citizen, property of a man,
she's not even a good woman.
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She's a prostitute.
00:19:38.46\00:19:40.90
But this woman comes into this
atmosphere against all odds.
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I've learned that sometimes
it's hard to get to God
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because of his people.
00:19:50.50\00:19:54.06
One day I told the Lord, Lord,
I love you but it's your kids
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that get on my nerves sometimes.
00:19:57.93\00:20:00.10
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:20:00.10\00:20:02.26
Have you ever loved
somebody but you couldn't
00:20:02.26\00:20:05.00
stand their children?
00:20:05.00\00:20:06.80
Their kids were wild, rude,
disrespectful, throwing stuff
00:20:06.80\00:20:10.26
in the air, drawing pictures
on the wall, screaming, and
00:20:10.26\00:20:13.76
you're trying to have a
conversation and you're saying
00:20:13.76\00:20:16.00
to yourself, if I could
just have them for one weekend.
00:20:16.00\00:20:21.20
When I get through
with you your momma wouldn't
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know who you are.
00:20:23.66\00:20:27.06
The woman comes up behind Jesus.
00:20:27.06\00:20:31.30
She knows according to the
customs of the time, she knows
00:20:31.30\00:20:34.93
that according to the
culture of the day she shouldn't
00:20:34.93\00:20:37.76
be in the room.
00:20:37.76\00:20:39.06
She knows that according
to the standards of absolute
00:20:39.06\00:20:41.66
scripture she
shouldn't be in the room.
00:20:41.66\00:20:43.90
A prostitute touching a priest.
00:20:43.90\00:20:46.60
When I was a little boy in
grade school they used to give
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us pictures in school and I
remember one being a picture
00:20:51.56\00:20:54.20
of a living room and in the
living room there was a couch,
00:20:54.20\00:20:58.40
a sofa, a chair, an end
table, and then a refrigerator.
00:20:58.40\00:21:02.73
And the teacher would
then say, what's wrong
00:21:02.73\00:21:05.60
with this picture?
00:21:05.60\00:21:08.06
And they wanted to see if
your cognitive skills were
00:21:08.06\00:21:11.23
bright enough to discern
appropriateness and if you
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had reasonable skills you
would circle the refrigerator
00:21:14.06\00:21:16.90
to say that this
does not go with that.
00:21:16.90\00:21:22.46
What's wrong with this picture?
00:21:22.46\00:21:25.46
It's not Simon, he's a Pharisee.
00:21:25.46\00:21:30.13
It's not Jesus, he's
preacher, prophet and priest.
00:21:30.13\00:21:36.93
But let's just
circle the prostitute.
00:21:36.93\00:21:41.46
She doesn't have
any business in here,
00:21:41.46\00:21:45.10
but she's here anyway.
00:21:45.10\00:21:48.90
She cries.
00:21:48.90\00:21:49.86
I--I--I--know that by the
standards of your religion
00:21:49.86\00:21:52.50
I shouldn't even be in here.
00:21:52.50\00:21:55.13
But she's in here anyway.
00:21:55.13\00:21:58.86
Tears are falling
down her cheeks on him.
00:21:58.86\00:22:03.90
She does not seek Jesus' face.
00:22:03.90\00:22:06.90
He doesn't even have to look
at her and she doesn't try to
00:22:06.90\00:22:09.70
get his favor, she doesn't
want to get his face, she
00:22:09.70\00:22:12.66
doesn't seek his
hand, she didn't come
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.36
for a blessing plan.
00:22:15.36\00:22:17.80
Five ways to get a car,
three ways to get out of debt,
00:22:17.80\00:22:22.76
10 ways to get a husband.
00:22:22.76\00:22:27.40
She doesn't want a
blessing, she's just glad to be
00:22:27.40\00:22:31.93
in the picture.
00:22:31.93\00:22:34.73
She has no right to be in the
picture and so she falls down
00:22:34.73\00:22:38.66
at his feet and Jesus feels
the warm, salty sensation as
00:22:38.66\00:22:43.03
her tear ducts give way to
her emotional compassion, and as
00:22:43.03\00:22:47.46
the water breaks in her soul,
the overflow happens in her
00:22:47.46\00:22:51.53
eyes and drop by drop, running
down her face, cascading on
00:22:51.53\00:22:56.93
his face, his feet, are
the tears of a sinner's praise.
00:22:56.93\00:23:03.26
And she begins to praise
him in a conflicted atmosphere.
00:23:03.26\00:23:08.26
See, I've learned it's
easy to praise God when
00:23:08.26\00:23:12.00
the whole room is praising God.
00:23:12.00\00:23:14.36
It's easy to praise God
when folk are smiling, happy
00:23:14.36\00:23:18.40
and excited about Jesus.
00:23:18.40\00:23:20.30
It's even easy to clap;
even folk who have no rhythm can
00:23:20.30\00:23:24.26
clap when
everybody else is clapping.
00:23:24.26\00:23:27.23
But, friends of mine, it's
hard to praise God in a room
00:23:27.23\00:23:30.53
where you're hated.
00:23:30.53\00:23:33.56
It's hard to praise
God in a room where you're
00:23:33.56\00:23:36.63
being talked about.
00:23:36.63\00:23:39.10
It's hard to praise God in
an environment where you're
00:23:39.10\00:23:42.26
being criticized.
00:23:42.26\00:23:43.23
You don't have to be a
spirit-filled believer to be
00:23:43.23\00:23:45.16
able to sense when
somebody hates you.
00:23:45.16\00:23:49.06
People can be in a group and
you walk up to them and all of
00:23:49.06\00:23:53.46
a sudden they stop talking.
00:23:53.46\00:23:55.80
Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
00:23:55.80\00:23:59.53
You don't have to be
born again to be able to sense
00:23:59.53\00:24:02.93
when somebody doesn't like you.
00:24:02.93\00:24:03.83
Have you ever walked in a
room and you can feel all the
00:24:03.83\00:24:06.43
malice, the strife,
the hatefulness toward you?
00:24:06.43\00:24:08.70
It's enough to make you
turn around, go out of the room
00:24:08.70\00:24:11.83
and shut the door.
00:24:11.83\00:24:14.00
But there was something
in this woman that pushed her
00:24:14.00\00:24:17.30
over the top of hatred and
she said, hate me all you want,
00:24:17.30\00:24:21.10
but I've got to get to Jesus.
00:24:21.10\00:24:24.36
Jesus! Jesus!
00:24:24.36\00:24:27.23
And down at his feet she falls.
00:24:27.23\00:24:31.00
As she does, what only a
prostitute in Jesus' day would
00:24:31.00\00:24:34.96
do, she lets her hair down.
00:24:34.96\00:24:40.96
Tell your neighbor, neighbor,
sometimes I've got to let
00:24:40.96\00:24:44.23
my hair down.
00:24:44.23\00:24:49.86
I can't be
pinned up all the time.
00:24:49.86\00:24:53.30
I can't be bound all the time.
00:24:53.30\00:24:55.56
I can't always try to live
up to your expectations and give
00:24:55.56\00:25:00.40
in to you all the time.
00:25:00.40\00:25:01.46
Sooner or later I've
got to let my hair down.
00:25:01.46\00:25:03.96
I can't worry about what you
think, can't worry about what
00:25:03.96\00:25:07.06
you feel, I've got
to let my hair down.
00:25:07.06\00:25:10.83
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