(Island Music) PB: Hello.
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My name is Dr. Carlton Byrd
and I'm the speaker director
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of the Breath of
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 county 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
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hath 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
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is soon to return.
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May God bless you as you
watch as we minister to you
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to tell 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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? all the praise. ? ? (Music) ?
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PB: I'm so glad that
despite what you see, God saw
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destiny and promise within
me, and so rather than leave me,
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God says, I see your
destiny so I'm going to develop
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this in you.
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God, friends,
could have cut you off.
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God could have
written some of you off.
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God could have forgotten some
of you, but God developed you.
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Let me show you what God does.
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God allowed Israel to go
through some stuff in order
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that they might recognize
his presence and desire a
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relationship with him that
was beyond the surface, because
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too many of us have a surface
relationship with the Lord.
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God is allowing some of
you right now to go through
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experience after experience
after experience until you
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finally realize what a
real relationship with God
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is all about.
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Because you can't have a
testimony without a test.
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Because I have found with
church folk too many of us
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test a lie instead of testify.
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So, I'm not talking
about a surface relationship.
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Oh, I come to church
every now and then, if I don't
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feel like it, I don't.
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If I feel like singing, I will.
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If I do, I do.
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If I pray, I pray.
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If I don't, I don't.
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I'm not talking about that,
because you're not a church
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member if you talk like that.
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Or maybe I should say, you
are a church member, because you
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understand there's a
difference between church
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membership and discipleship.
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Church membership
means, my name is on the roll;
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discipleship means, I'll
take up my cross and follow him.
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Because, let me be clear, if
I've said this once, I'll say
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it again, 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, have all the
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seminars you want on worship
and praising God, but if you
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think you are so holy that God
ought to be thankful that your
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face is in the place and your
smile is in the aisle, you are
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nothing more than sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal.
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I'm talking about somebody who
really loves them some Jesus.
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The only way you're going to
get into a relationship, when
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you really love
him, you're going to have
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to go through some stuff.
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I'm not talking about what
anybody told me, I'm talking
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about what I know for myself.
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Somebody knows, in order
for you to really get to know
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Jesus, you've got to
go through some stuff.
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You've got to get to the
point where your money can't buy
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you out, your friends and
family can't bail you out, your
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degree can't think you
out, your charisma can't talk
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you out.
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So when you do come
out, you'll know it was
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nobody but Jesus.
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It's about this, sometimes
I've got to keep taking you
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through it, until
you learn how to love me.
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Now, the good thing about
God's love is that God will
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love us until we
learn how to love him.
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He could have cut us off
but he's more determined to
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develop us than to drop us.
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You see, God says, I'll
tolerate your inconsistencies
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and hope that one day
you'll love me to be consistent.
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I'll tolerate your
unfaithfulness in the hopes
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that you'll love me
one day to be faithful.
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God says, I cannot
force you to have a personal
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relationship with me, all
I can do is take you through
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enough stuff so that one
day you'll realize where your
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real help comes from.
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God says--let me bowl
down somebody's lane--God says,
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I cannot force you to return
tithe and offerings, I just
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hope that one day
you'll love me enough to give
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tithe and offerings.
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God says, I cannot force you
to come to church, but I just
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hope that you'll go
through enough stuff where every
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Sabbath you can't wait to
get into the house of God.
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God says, I cannot force you
to praise me, but I hope that
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you'll go through enough
stuff that you'll fall in love
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enough with me that
you'll praise me without
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a praise team.
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You'll praise me in your car.
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You'll praise me on your job.
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You'll praise me
in the marketplace.
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You'll praise me
in the classroom.
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I must admit I love the praise
team here, but let me tell
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you, I didn't wait until
I got here to have praise
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and worship.
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I praised him this
morning in the shower.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I praised him when I
was walking along the
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beach and the water.
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Come on say Amen.
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When I was in my
car, I was praising God.
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Bless the Lord, O my
soul, and all that is within me
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bless his holy name.
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O taste and see that
the Lord is good, his mercy
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endures forever.
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God says, I'm just
trying to see who loves me.
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I'm trying to get you
to a point where you will
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love me all by yourself.
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That if nobody else ever is in
love with me, that you'll say,
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Lord, I love you early in
the morning, before the dew
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falls on the roses.
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God, I just love you.
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God, you walk with me.
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God, you talk with me.
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I love you, Jesus.
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Does anybody here love Jesus?
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You love Jesus to the point
where by yourself you can have
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praise and worship, in your
shower, in your bathtub, when
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you're washing dishes, at
the dinner table, at breakfast.
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Lord, I begin to thank you
for all the wonderful things
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you've done in my life,
because the wonderful thing
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about the Lord is, you
thank him for one thing and no
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sooner than later,
you're already thanking him
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for another thing.
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I love me some Jesus.
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But God says, I cannot
force this thing on you.
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King, God cannot
make them love him.
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If God can make them
love him, then we can undo it.
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But they love him voluntarily.
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They're loyal voluntarily.
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So, King, it's going to be
hard for you to go in and mess
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with them, because
they love God too much.
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It's going to be hard, King,
for yo to pull them away from
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church, because
they love God too much.
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It's going to be hard for some
relationship to stop them from
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coming to church,
because they love God too much.
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It's going to be hard for
them not to tithe, because they
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love God too much.
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It's going to be hard for them
to sit up in church and mean
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mug folk and be
stuck up, because they
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love God too much.
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But, King, there's one
more thing that I found out
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God can't do.
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Now, King, this is
going to upset you.
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Your enemy church is not going
to be able to handle this one.
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Your enemy is going
to lose their mind when
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they find this out.
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Now remember,
number one, God cannot lie.
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God cannot what?
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Lie.
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God cannot take his word back,
so when you're blessed, walk
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in your blessing.
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Let folk talk about you and
curse you all they want, but
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they need to remember
something, God says he'll
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bless those that bless you.
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And he'll curse those
that curse you, that's why when
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you're blessed and folk
are cursed and you wonder why
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they're never
blessed, it's because they're
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cursing God's blessed.
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Number two, God
cannot force you to love him.
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Either you do or you don't.
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And the last thing
is simply this, going to
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make somebody shout.
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Let's do it this way.
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Turn to your neighbor and
say, neighbor, God can't fight
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and lose.
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It's about to get
good up in here. Hey.
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Let's look at one more text.
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Look at verse 22.
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It's about to get good.
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God brought them out of where?
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Egypt.
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Come on, God
brought them out of where?
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Egypt.
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He had, as it were,
the strength of a unicorn.
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You see, Israel was
always the underdog.
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But God always delivered them.
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There's nothing you're going
through today that God can't
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deliver you up out of.
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Now, this sounds so routine,
so cliche, so redundant when
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you hear this, God
brought them out of Egypt.
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God brought them out
of the land of bondage.
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And we hear that so much that
we take it for granted because
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we don't
understand their history.
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But if you knew the history,
you'd understand what was
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going on.
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So let me quickly break it down.
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Remember, Israel was
nothing more than a preacher
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and a choir.
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Preacher and choir.
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Word and worship.
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Now, when you hear that God
brought them out of Egypt, you
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have to understand the
totality in that statement.
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Egypt was the mecca of
intellectual society, the
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mecca of military might.
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Don't let your history books
fool you and make you think
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all this stuff
started in Greece.
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They stole it
from the Egyptians.
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Civilization as we know
it, the intellectuals, the
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architecture, the stuff
we read about in history and
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philosophy, all of
this began in Egypt.
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The pyramids, all of
this started in Egypt.
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And the greatest
military might itself was Egypt.
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The geographical location
of Egypt, by all of the rivers,
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all of the commerce, all the
money, it was a wealthy place
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which is why it
was so beautiful.
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The whole idea of
chariots began in Egypt.
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The Egyptians were
the first to use chariots
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drawn by horses.
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The Egyptians were the first,
they built walls call glace.
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These were walls that were
tall and they were slanted and
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they were around the city,
so when enemies tried to come
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against them, they could
not climb over these glace walls
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because they'd be shot
down and the pharaohs, who were
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Ramses I and Ramses II,
sat on the throne and they
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were men of great power.
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They would speak a
thing and it would be so.
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Who would dare
approach the Ramses?
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Who would dare approach Pharaoh.
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I mean, this was a culture
that literally taught the
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world about embalming
techniques and taught the
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world about
architecture and philosophy.
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This was who taught
the world about military
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prowess and might.
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And now, Pharaoh
sits on the throne.
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Now, can you imagine, with all
this military might, all this
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power, what an 80-year-old
preacher with nothing but a
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stick and a stutter must
have felt like when God said, go
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over there, tell mean old
pharaoh to let my people go.
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You all ain't feeling this.
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That's why Moses had all
of those excuses, but, uh, uh,
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Lord, uh, wait a minute.
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But God assured him, I
want you to know something.
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When they ask you, who do
you come in the name of, tell
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them--I got a witness in
this place--tell them that I am
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that I am sent you.
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Because I am what you
need when you get there.
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I am what you're going
to say when you get there.
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You all not hearing me.
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Listen.
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Notice what God says, God
says, tell pharaoh, tell all
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of that power and military
might, to let my people go.
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Everybody say God's blessed.
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Say God's chosen.
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Now, how do we know this
was God's blessed and God's
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chosen?
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We have to go back to Genesis.
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Abraham begat Isaac.
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Isaac begat Jacob.
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Jacob gives birth to
the 12 tribes of Israel.
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But out of this you get Joseph.
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Joseph was blessed.
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Joseph was chairman
of commerce for Israel.
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He saved them from famine.
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Joseph was so blessed
that when Ramses II, pharaoh of
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Egypt, came into power, the
reason why the Israelites were
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in bondage in the first place
was because there rose up a
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pharaoh who did
not know their history.
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He did not know Joseph.
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If he had known who he was
messing with, he wouldn't have
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put them in
bondage in the first place.
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Ah, do me a favor.
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Look at your neighbor.
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Look at them good.
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Tell them, my enemy
just doesn't know who they're
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messing with.
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Hahaha.
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Do you understand, child of
God, that I am God's blessed?
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So after a series of plagues,
a preacher and a praise team,
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not sticks and stones,
not bows and arrows, but a
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preacher and a praise team, a
word and some worshippers came
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up out of Egypt.
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God delivered them out of
Egypt without having to lift
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one finger.
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So Balaam says to Balak.
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King, let's put
this in perspective.
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You aren't even
as large as pharaoh.
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I know you want to attack
Israel, but you're not even as
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large as pharaoh was.
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God destroyed pharaoh
for messing with them and you
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ain't as large as pharaoh.
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God brought these folk
that you're messing with out of
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Egypt.
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So whatever you're trying
to do, just know I'm trying to
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warn you.
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How did God do it?
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God brought them out by
exercising his dominion.
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Look at verse 22 again.
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God brought them out of Egypt,
he had as it were the strength
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of a what, everybody?
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Now, quickly.
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You do know
unicorns don't exist.
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You don't see any unicorns.
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You don't see an animal
with a big horn out of his head.
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So this must be a metaphor.
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Well, if it's a metaphor,
where does it come from?
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You must read Psalm 92:10.
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It says, "But my horn shalt
thou exalt like the horn of
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a unicorn: I shall be anointed
with fresh oil." Now, the word
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for unicorn translated in the
Clear Word Bible is wild bull.
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Other translations say wild ox.
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Other
translations call it a ram.
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Today let's use ram.
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God, the text, paraphrasing
now, brought them out of Egypt
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and is ready to
fight for them like a ram.
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Now let me quickly tell
you something about rams.
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Rams hang out on mountaintops.
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Rams hang out on high places,
because rams don't have time
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to hang out in low places.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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Trying to talk about a ram.
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Now, a ram does not have a
vicious bite, nor does a ram
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have poison in his bite.
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A ram's defense and
strength is in its horns.
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Now a ram's horns
obtain strength by daily
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dipping in fresh oil.
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A daily dip in oil
gives rams their strength.
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That's why you and I, we
have to keep dipping in oil,
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dipping in the Holy
Ghost, and God will keep
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giving us strength.
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I wish you were
hearing what I'm saying.
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Somebody knows that every day
you wake up you've got to say,
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Lord, touch me again.
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Lord, anoint me again.
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God, lay your hand on me again.
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God brought Israel out,
as it were, the strength of a
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unicorn, the strength of a ram.
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How did that happen, Dr. Byrd?
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I'm so glad you asked.
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There are two kinds of rams.
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There are those rams that
dip in fresh oil and those rams
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that don't.
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So we have anointed rams
and then we just have rams.
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Now, a ram doesn't really
have any enemies in the natural
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realm other than other rams.
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And guess what it's all about?
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It's all about territory.
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And what another ram who may
not be anointed with oil will
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do is walk up in the territory
and challenge an anointed ram.
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What does that ram want?
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I want your stuff.
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I want your territory.
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But what the anointed ram will
do, the anointed ram will send
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out a warning.
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He will fall on his knees and
he will then butt his head and
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what he's really saying in ram
language is this, if I have to
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come up, I'm
coming up with some power.
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You've got to tell somebody.
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If I have to come up, you
better tell them I'm coming up
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with power.
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Holy Ghost power.
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Anointed power.
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That's what my
enemy doesn't know.
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When the enemy messes with
me, then I have to go down on my
00:20:02.10\00:20:07.83
knees, because that's
where my strength really is.
00:20:07.83\00:20:12.10
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:20:12.10\00:20:16.23
Because if you fall on your
knees, somebody knows that God
00:20:16.23\00:20:19.86
will fight your
battles and God is not a God
00:20:19.86\00:20:23.46
who will fight and lose.
00:20:23.46\00:20:24.90
Don't you know that's
how God brought Israel out.
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When they came to the Red
Sea, pharaoh was in hot pursuit,
00:20:27.90\00:20:32.13
Moses got down on his
knees and God fought the battle.
00:20:32.13\00:20:36.93
When Daniel was in the lion's
den, Daniel went down on his
00:20:36.93\00:20:41.26
knees and God fought the battle.
00:20:41.26\00:20:45.86
When Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego were in the fiery
00:20:45.86\00:20:48.73
furnace, they went down on
their knees, prayed to God and
00:20:48.73\00:20:52.23
God brought them out.
00:20:52.23\00:20:55.20
But let's go to
the New Testament.
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When Paul and Silas were in
jail, they went down on their
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knees and God brought them out.
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You better tell somebody.
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It may look rough right
now, but tell them, know this
00:21:06.30\00:21:12.83
thing, God has
never lost a fight.
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You better keep falling on
your knees, because I know God
00:21:16.26\00:21:21.13
is getting ready
to bring you out.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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That's why you don't have to
wait until the battle is over,
00:21:26.70\00:21:30.80
you can shout now.
00:21:30.80\00:21:32.50
I feel an anointing
getting loose in this place.
00:21:32.50\00:21:36.00
I feel God getting
ready to bring somebody out
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in this place.
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Anybody in this place,
you in the fight of your life?
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You're in the
fight for your family?
00:21:42.33\00:21:44.30
You're in the
fight for your finances?
00:21:44.30\00:21:46.23
You're in the
fight for your health?
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.73
You're in the
your fight for cancer?
00:21:48.73\00:21:50.66
You're in your
fight for your salvation?
00:21:50.66\00:21:52.33
God told me to tell you,
the battle is not yours, the
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battle is the Lord's.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I've got to close, but I want
somebody to understand, God is
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going to take care of you.
00:22:02.03\00:22:03.83
Sometimes you have to
tell yourself when you feel
00:22:03.83\00:22:07.63
unlovable, put your hands
around yourself and begin to
00:22:07.63\00:22:11.33
hug yourself and begin
to say, I know I'm blessed.
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.76
I know I'm God's chosen.
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.16
I know I'm blessed.
00:22:15.16\00:22:16.96
I have to walk like I'm blessed.
00:22:16.96\00:22:19.10
I have to talk like I'm
blessed, because I'm blessed
00:22:19.10\00:22:22.06
in the city, I'm blessed in
the fields, I'm blessed in my
00:22:22.06\00:22:26.23
going out, I'm
blessed in my coming in.
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Let me close it this way.
00:22:29.76\00:22:31.76
I was watching ESPN
Classic one day, because
00:22:31.76\00:22:35.16
I'm a sports buff.
00:22:35.16\00:22:36.36
And I was watching it one
day and they were showing an
00:22:36.36\00:22:39.03
interview between the
famed sportscaster Howard Cosell
00:22:39.03\00:22:44.46
and Muhammad Ali.
00:22:44.46\00:22:46.30
Got some
witnesses here in the place.
00:22:46.30\00:22:51.56
Howard Cosell looks at
Muhammad Ali just before his
00:22:51.56\00:22:58.00
famous fight with Joe Frazier.
00:22:58.00\00:23:01.10
He said, Ali, how are you
going to defeat Joe Frazier?
00:23:01.10\00:23:07.76
Ali said those famous
words, you know, I float like a
00:23:07.76\00:23:14.20
butterfly, I sting like a bee.
00:23:14.20\00:23:19.06
I've got a
witness in this place.
00:23:19.06\00:23:21.63
Cosell said, but
you know, Smokin' Joe
00:23:21.63\00:23:25.03
has a powerful punch.
00:23:25.03\00:23:27.00
Ali said, yeah, I know, but
Smokin' Joe is going to try to
00:23:27.00\00:23:33.86
get a head shot in, but
Ali said, the way I'm going to
00:23:33.86\00:23:40.10
beat Smokin' Joe is
I'm going to stay low.
00:23:40.10\00:23:45.70
You better tell your neighbor
you're going to win this
00:23:45.70\00:23:50.30
fight, but
you've got to stay low.
00:23:50.30\00:23:54.70
When they talk
about you, stay low.
00:23:54.70\00:23:58.63
When they
scandalize your name, stay low.
00:23:58.63\00:24:03.03
When they hate on you, stay low.
00:24:03.03\00:24:06.53
When the enemy comes
after your money, stay low.
00:24:06.53\00:24:10.80
When your enemy comes
after your daughter, stay low.
00:24:10.80\00:24:13.90
When the enemy comes
after your son, stay low.
00:24:13.90\00:24:18.23
When your enemy comes
after your marriage, stay low.
00:24:18.23\00:24:27.23
I believe somebody
knows you've got to stay low.
00:24:27.23\00:24:30.70
Let me tell you, my God
has never fought and lost.
00:24:30.70\00:24:34.46
So I've come to serve
notice today, I've come to serve
00:24:34.46\00:24:39.23
notice to every one of your
enemies, don't start no stuff,
00:24:39.23\00:24:42.46
won't be no stuff.
00:24:42.46\00:24:47.20
God can't lie.
00:24:47.20\00:24:49.73
If God said it, that settles it.
00:24:49.73\00:24:52.90
God loves us, but God
cannot make us love him.
00:24:52.90\00:24:58.33
And God cannot lose a fight.
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.13
We don't get in a fight that
we're going to lose because we
00:25:01.13\00:25:06.10
fight from victory not for
victory, because the fight is
00:25:06.10\00:25:12.96
already fixed for they
that wait upon the Lord.
00:25:12.96\00:25:21.46
God shall renew their strength.
00:25:21.46\00:25:23.96
They shall soar on wings of
eagles, they shall run and not
00:25:23.96\00:25:28.66
get weary, they
shall walk and not faint.
00:25:28.66\00:25:31.46
Fret not thyself
because of evildoers.
00:25:31.46\00:25:35.40
Neither be thou envious
of the workers of iniquity.
00:25:35.40\00:25:38.60
God shall cut them down like
the grass, because no weapon
00:25:38.60\00:25:41.96
formed against you is going
to prosper, because the Lord is
00:25:41.96\00:25:45.20
my life, my
salvation, whom shall I fear?
00:25:45.20\00:25:50.73
The Lord is the strength
of my life, of whom shall
00:25:50.73\00:25:54.16
I be afraid?
00:25:54.16\00:25:55.43
The Lord is my refuge and
strength, a very present help
00:25:55.43\00:25:59.36
in time of trouble.
00:25:59.36\00:26:01.60
The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want.
00:26:01.60\00:26:04.83
He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures: he leadeth
00:26:04.83\00:26:08.90
me beside still waters.
00:26:08.90\00:26:10.30
He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the path of
00:26:10.30\00:26:13.90
righteousness
for his name's sake.
00:26:13.90\00:26:16.66
Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
00:26:16.66\00:26:20.43
I will fear no evil: for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy
00:26:20.43\00:26:24.46
staff, they comfort me.
00:26:24.46\00:26:27.46
Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine
00:26:27.46\00:26:32.30
enemies: thou
anointeth my head with oil;
00:26:32.30\00:26:36.00
my cup runneth over.
00:26:36.00\00:26:38.13
Surely, surely, I said
surely goodness and mercy shall
00:26:38.13\00:26:49.13
follow me all the days of my
life: and I will dwell in the
00:26:49.13\00:26:53.96
house of the Lord
forever and ever and ever.
00:26:53.96\00:26:59.40
Christ returneth.
00:26:59.40\00:27:04.56
Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
00:27:07.00\00:27:10.26
PB: Hello, I'm Dr.
Carlton Byrd, speaker-director
00:27:10.26\00:27:14.13
for Breath of Life
Television Ministries.
00:27:14.13\00:27:15.86
For the past
year, it has been my joy
00:27:15.86\00:27:19.20
to preach the gospel of
Jesus Christ across the globe,
00:27:19.20\00:27:22.56
but principally from
the sanctuary of the Berean
00:27:22.56\00:27:26.86
Seventh-day Adventist
Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:27:26.86\00:27:28.66
Beginning in January
2012, I will continue to preach
00:27:28.66\00:27:32.10
the gospel of Jesus
Christ, and Breath of Life
00:27:32.10\00:27:34.70
will still be here.
00:27:34.70\00:27:36.20
But it will come from
the sanctuary of the Oakwood
00:27:36.20\00:27:38.80
University Church,
in Huntsville, Alabama,
00:27:38.80\00:27:41.26
on the campus of
Oakwood University.
00:27:41.26\00:27:44.10
It will be the
same Breath of Life,
00:27:44.10\00:27:46.23
the same
preacher, the same gospel
00:27:46.23\00:27:48.56
of Jesus Christ,
the same channel,
00:27:48.56\00:27:51.33
the same
station, at the same time.
00:27:51.33\00:27:53.60
Just a different location.
00:27:53.60\00:27:55.40
We solicit your
continued prayers and support
00:27:55.40\00:27:58.80
as we take this
wonderful gospel of Jesus Christ
00:27:58.80\00:28:02.13
to a dying world.
00:28:02.13\00:28:04.86
May God bless you.
00:28:04.86\00:28:05.96
(Music) PB: When
you know that you are
00:28:05.96\00:28:11.90
blessed, nobody can undo what
God has already done in your
00:28:11.90\00:28:17.60
life.
00:28:17.60\00:28:20.43
So the next time you ask
God for something, why don't you
00:28:20.43\00:28:23.73
super size it.
00:28:23.73\00:28:25.86
Super size it in
the name of Jesus.
00:28:25.86\00:28:29.60