(Theme Song) Jesus is worthy
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oh yes, he's
worthy worthy of all...
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all the praise.
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(Music) Pastor Byrd: God said
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in Jeremiah 1:5,
"Before I formed thee
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in the belly I knew thee;
and before thou camest forth
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out of the womb I sanctified
thee, and I ordained thee
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a prophet unto the nations."
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Which means, my friends,
before you were even thought
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of, before Big
Mama and Big Daddy
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got together, God had
already placed destiny
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on somebody's life.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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So I don't care if you're young.
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I don't care if you're old.
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I don't care if
you're thin or not so thin.
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I don't care if you're a
man or a woman, black or white,
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there's greatness in you.
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There's destiny in you.
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There's promise in you.
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The reality is the
person sitting next to you
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doesn't even understand
what they're sitting next to.
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Because if they knew what
they were sitting next to,
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they might act a little
differently, because they're
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sitting next to
somebody who has greatness
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inside of them, somebody
with God's hand on them,
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somebody that God's
about to use to do something
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for his glory.
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So, quickly today, I
call the biblical roll
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and I go to the biblical
story and reckon that Noah
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was such a man.
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Noah preached 120 years
about something that had
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never happened before.
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Noah preached 120 years
for nobody to listen to him,
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nobody to join him, but
his wife, their three sons
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and their wives.
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Noah preached 120 years.
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He was laughed at, he
was mocked, he was ridiculed.
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He was scorned.
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He was criticized.
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He preached 120
years only to get in a boat
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full of cows,
full of horses, full of
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donkeys, elephants,
kangaroos and camels.
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He preached, it's gonna rain.
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It's gonna rain.
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You better get ready.
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And bear this in
mind, God showed Noah
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the rainbow sign.
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He said, it won't be
water but fire next time.
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But why would
Noah preach about rain?
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Why would he preach
about something he had
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never seen before?
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Why would he preach
about the condensed moisture
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of the
atmosphere falling visibly
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in separate drops?
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Why would he preach
about liquid in the form
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of droplets, condensed
from atmospheric water vapor
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and precipitated?
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Why would he preach
about the major component
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of the water cycle
that was responsible
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for depositing
most of the fresh water
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of the earth?
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In short, why did
he preach about rain?
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Noah simple preached
about rain because the Lord
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told him to.
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Noah preached because Noah
knew destiny was on him and he
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knew that God's
promises were in him.
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Now, the Bible says in verse
5 of Genesis, Chapter 6 that the
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wickedness of man was great
in the earth and that every
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imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was on evil
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continually.
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Now, I was reading this week
the Message Bible, and I like
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how the Message Bible puts it.
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The Message Bible says
God saw that human evil was
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out of control.
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People thought
evil, imagined evil,
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evil from morning to night.
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God was so sorry that
he made the human race
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in the first place.
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It broke his heart.
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God said, I'll get
rid of my ruined creation,
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make a clean sweep.
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People, animals, snakes, bugs,
birds, the works, I'm sorry
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I made them.
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But then the text
goes on and says, "But Noah
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found grace in the
eyes of the Lord." But Noah,
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after the
foolishness of man, but Noah.
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But, after the
sinfulness of man, but; after
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the wickedness of man,
but; after the immorality
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of man, but; there's
something about the word "but."
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I was looking and studying
the word of but, and understand
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the word but is one of
few words that can represent
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four different parts of speech.
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It's a conjunction when
it's used to introduce something
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contrasting with what
has already been mentioned.
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The sun is shining right
now, but it's about to rain.
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It's a preposition when
it's used to say except,
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apart from or other than.
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I trust no one but him.
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It's an adverb when it
means no more than or only.
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He is but a shadow
of his former self.
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It's a noun when you're
arguing with somebody against
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something in objection.
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When you say that
are no buts about it.
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And as I read the Word of God,
I'm learning that God always
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has a but for Satan's attacks.
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Weeping may endure
for a night, but joy.
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A thousand shall
fall at thy side,
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10,000 at the right
hand, but it shall not come
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nigh thee.
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The wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is
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eternal life.
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But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord.
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God always has a
but for Satan's attacks.
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Understand, if we look at
this text, but Noah found grace.
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He found what, everybody?
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Grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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Quickly, this is the first
time in Scripture that the word
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grace appears.
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Grace, God's unmerited favorite.
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Grace, God's favorite exercise
towards undeserving sinners
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like you and me.
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But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord.
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The Message Bible
says it differently,
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it says, but Noah was different.
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God liked what he saw in Noah.
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I wish I would heard
God say, I like what I see
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in Carlton Byrd.
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Verse 9 then goes on and
let's us know three things
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about Noah.
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Number one, Noah was a just man.
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Number two, it lets us
know that Noah was perfect
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in righteousness,
in his generations.
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Noah, number
three, walked with God.
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Now, quickly, let me
do this and then I'm going
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to sit down.
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Let's start with number one.
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Noah was a just man.
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It was not some
divine whim or divine luck
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that made Noah the
recipient of God's favor,
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but it was a life that was
at harmony with the will of God.
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Let that be a reminder that
when your life and when you're
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living a life in harmony
with the will of God, God will
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bestow favor on your life.
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Somebody knows
something about God's favor.
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Anybody know
anything about God's favor?
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Let me help
somebody to understand.
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Favor is when you get
the job you didn't apply for.
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Favor is when
you're in the grocery line,
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you have $20 to your
name, the cashier rings up your
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groceries and
says, "That'll be $19.99.
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That's favor.
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Favor is when you've been
diagnosed with cancer and you
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go for your checkup and
the doctor says, I'm seeing
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something a little
different on the ultrasound.
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The doctor can't explain it.
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He says, the cancer
has gone in remission.
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I don't
understand what is happening.
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You sit there and you
say, I know that's favor.
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Noah was a just man.
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The word just,
understand, does not mean
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spotless innocence.
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After all, nobody is perfect.
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All that sin come
short of the glory of God.
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No one is without sin.
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Let he that is able
cast the first stone.
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The word just implies
upright, honesty, virtue.
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It is praiseworthy to
note that Noah was not merely
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called just, but notice
the text says, he was called
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a just man.
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To live a
Christian life in Noah's time
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meant a man could stand
fearlessly and steadfastly
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against evil enticement
and against subtle temptation
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and against vile mockery.
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The greatest want of the world
is the want of men, men who
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will not be bought or sold,
men who will stand true to duty
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as the needle to the pole,
men who will stand for right
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though the heavens fall.
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You read about Noah
studying Ellen White's writings,
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"The Patriarchs and Prophets,"
about it, you will discover
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that Noah was no weakling.
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Noah was not scared.
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Noah was not void of
judgment or void of willpower.
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Noah was a man.
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Noah was no pushover.
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Noah stood for something
and the world in which we life,
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we've got too many folk
who stand for nothing and will
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fall for anything.
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I've learned, folk will
sink you if you let them.
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I've learned, if you
don't speak up for yourself,
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folk will speak for
you, and I don't need anybody
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speaking for me.
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I'm a grown man, I
can speak for myself.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Noah was no pushover.
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Bible says Noah was a just man.
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But then the Revised Standard
version goes on to talk about
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point number two,
Noah was perfect in his
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generation, which
means Noah was blameless
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in his generation.
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This does not mean
that he lived in a state of
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sinlessness, but rather
he lived a life of moral
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integrity.
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The trajectory of his
life was determined by his
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moral fiber.
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How many people's lives end up
the way they do because of the
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moral fiber they have
selected for their lives?
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Thirdly, Noah walked with God.
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Noah walked with God.
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Does anybody
want to walk with God?
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Noah's life resembled that
of Enoch who had been translated
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to heaven, walking with
God, without seeing death.
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Enoch walked with God,
and Noah walked with God.
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That's why I'm trying to
walk and talk with my mind
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staying on Jesus.
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Enoch was translated 69
years before Noah was even born.
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So that means then, in order
for Noah to know about Enoch,
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during Noah's childhood
when Enoch's translation
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was still vivid in the
memory of the older folks,
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somebody had to tell
Noah of Enoch's godly life.
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But the fact that Noah walked
with God does not imply that
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by his own efforts he
had obtained righteousness.
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Like all of us,
Noah was saved by faith.
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Noah was imperfect,
but what I love about
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brother Noah, God used Noah
to give people the opportunity
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to mend their ways.
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God used this preacher
of righteousness to give
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the message of warning
that it's gonna to rain.
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God could have
destroyed man without giving man
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the opportunity to repent.
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But that's not like God.
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God's not willing that
any should perish but that all
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should come to repentance.
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So, Noah, though old, God
had a purpose for his life.
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Noah, though tired, God
had destiny on his life.
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Noah, though preaching
a strange message, God had
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promise on his life.
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And what I love about Noah
being a just man, being beyond
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perfect in his generation,
beyond walking with God,
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Noah preached a
message that was beyond him.
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Listen to me carefully.
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Noah preached a message
that was beyond his family,
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beyond his friends,
beyond his neighbors,
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beyond his money,
beyond his tradition.
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Noah, number one, preached
a message that was liberating.
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He preached a message that
was going to set people free,
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free from the bondage of
sin, free from the clutches of
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sinister behavior, free
from the shackles of sin,
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and that's what I
love about the gospel.
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It sets people free.
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People who come from one walk
of life, when they fall in love
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with Jesus, when they come
in contact with the Lord Jesus,
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it changes their whole
trajectory in their life.
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Folks you used to hang with,
you don't hang with anymore.
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Stuff you used to do
you don't do anymore.
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I don't know what it
is, but there's something
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about the Gospel
that sets people free.
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Something about the
Gospel that changes you.
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Changes your
walk, changes your talk.
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It liberates you.
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It frees you.
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And if the son sets you
free, you shall be free indeed.
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Number two, Noah
preached a divine message.
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He preached a message from God.
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From God's mouth he
stands in this pulpit.
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They're not to
preach their own opinion.
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They are not to
preach their own preference.
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They are not to
preach their own outlook.
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They are to preach
what doth sayest the Lord.
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They are not to use the
pulpit as a whipping board,
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but what does
the Word of God say?
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Preach the divine Word of God.
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Be in season and out of
season a divine Word that mixes
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loss and grace.
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A divine Word that mixes
religion and relationship.
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A divine Word that
lifts the name of Jesus,
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because Jesus said,
if I be lifted up from
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the earth, I'll
draw all men unto me.
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Number three, Noah
preached a courageous message.
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Noah knew he couldn't
be popular and prophetic
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at the same time.
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Sometimes you've got to
cry aloud and spare not.
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Sometimes you've got
to call it like it is.
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Sometimes you're going
to be broken, but you've got
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to be courageous.
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Sometimes it won't be
easy, but you've got to be
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courageous.
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Sometimes you will have to
stand alone, but you've got to
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be courageous.
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Sometimes it will be
unpopular, but you have
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to be courageous.
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Sometimes it will be painful,
but you have to be courageous.
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No pain, no gain.
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No battle, no blessing.
00:16:08.10\00:16:10.23
No valleys, no victory.
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And no pain, no power.
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I've never known anyone
in my life who was incredibly
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powerful who was
not equally painful.
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People always want your power.
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Oh, you the pastor of this,
you the Breath of Life this.
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People want your
power, but do they ever ask
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you for your pain,
and if you're not willing
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to carry my cross,
you can't wear my crown,
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for my crown is
created by the intensity
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of my cross.
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Understand, I've
learned in life, if you want
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a water hose to shoot
further all you have to
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do is squeeze the hose
and the more you squeeze
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the hose, the
further the water shoots.
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For it is the restriction
that creates the pressure
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for the
propelling of your destiny.
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You will never discover
your purpose until you discover
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the core of your pain.
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Number four, Noah
preached a visionary message.
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The great Helen
Keller was blind.
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She was asked a
question, what could be worse
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than being blind?
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She said, having
sight with no vision.
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Noah had a visionary message,
but not just a visionary
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message, a
visionary message from God.
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Because, understand it,
I'm learning in my life, if God
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gives you a vision, it can
only be from God if the vision
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outlives you.
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If the vision dies
with the visionary,
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then the vision was not
of God in the first place.
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Noah preached a
message that would outlive him,
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a message that would
be a blessing to people
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long after he was dead and gone.
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Let me tell you something.
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Whenever God gives a vision,
when you keep that vision
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under supervision, God
will always give provision.
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All I'm saying, take a walk.
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Every place the sole of your
feet touch you've got the devil
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nervous, because
every time you start walking
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in the authority of
God, the devil knows God
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is up to something.
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Every time you start
going places, he knows what God
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is about to do
in somebody's life.
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Let me tell you something.
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If you saw what I
saw, you'd be acting like
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I'm acting, because I
praise him not on what you see,
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but I praise God on what I see.
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See, I don't see my--
right now, I see my-- not yet.
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I give God glory in my
possibility, not my reality.
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Noah had never seen rain.
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But God told him,
it's going to rain.
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I've never seen heaven.
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But God told me, let not your
heart be troubled, ye believe
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in God, believe also in me.
00:19:36.66\00:19:39.03
In my house, oh, I feel
like preaching right now,
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are many mansions
and if it were not true,
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I would have told you.
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I go and prepare a
place for you and if I go
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and prepare a place for you,
I will receive you unto myself,
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that where I am,
there ye may be also.
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Number five, finally, Noah
preached an inclusive message.
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Noah's message
was for everybody.
00:20:04.70\00:20:07.96
God's salvation
is for everybody,
00:20:07.96\00:20:12.40
not just a select few.
00:20:12.40\00:20:15.36
God's message is for
Oakwood and God's message
00:20:15.36\00:20:19.23
is for St. Marcus.
00:20:19.23\00:20:21.20
God's message is for
Mason Courts and God's message
00:20:21.20\00:20:25.40
is for Madison.
00:20:25.40\00:20:26.86
God's message in Atlanta
is for Bankhead, but it's also
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for Buckhead.
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God's message in
New York is for Harlem
00:20:32.40\00:20:35.23
and it's for lower Manhattan.
00:20:35.23\00:20:37.46
God's message in Los
Angeles is for South Central
00:20:37.46\00:20:41.00
and his message
is for Beverly Hills.
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God's message is in Chicago
on the South Side as well as
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on the west side, because
God's message is for everybody.
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See, I'm learning, I'm growing,
I'm learning that some people
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like the idea of evangelism.
00:21:02.30\00:21:04.40
They like the
concept of evangelism.
00:21:06.43\00:21:10.20
They like to give
money to support evangelism.
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Send money to support
evangelism, helping people in
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trouble, but don't mess
up our nice, pretty church
00:21:16.46\00:21:20.86
with your peculiar ways.
00:21:20.86\00:21:22.93
That's just like some church
folk, they want to keep people
00:21:22.93\00:21:26.50
out who need
the church the most.
00:21:26.50\00:21:28.80
But what I love about
brother Noah, brother Noah's
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message was for everybody.
00:21:33.16\00:21:35.20
Red and yellow, black
and white, all are precious
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in his sight.
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Everybody's that young,
old, black, white, male, female,
00:21:39.86\00:21:43.80
rich, poor,
everybody get in the boat.
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Noah's message was liberating,
divine, courageous, visionary
00:21:49.93\00:21:56.30
and inclusive.
00:21:56.30\00:21:58.66
So it was in 1863 when
the Emancipation Proclamation
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was signed.
00:22:04.60\00:22:05.60
Get your history right.
00:22:05.60\00:22:07.73
The Emancipation Proclamation
did not free the slaves,
00:22:07.73\00:22:10.50
it preserved the union.
00:22:10.50\00:22:12.40
In 1863 the Emancipation
Proclamation was signed,
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and th Amendment
was ratified ending
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slavery in the United States,
a man by the name of Abraham
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Lincoln preached a liberating,
divine, courageous, visionary
00:22:26.53\00:22:34.36
and inclusive message.
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Liberating, it
will set you free.
00:22:36.86\00:22:39.13
Divine, it's of God.
00:22:39.13\00:22:41.40
Courageous, its
principle is not popular.
00:22:41.40\00:22:44.56
Visionary, it had never been
done before and it would last
00:22:44.56\00:22:47.90
beyond him.
00:22:47.90\00:22:49.20
Inclusive, it was not just
beneficial for black folks,
00:22:49.20\00:22:52.33
but it was a
message for all people.
00:22:52.33\00:22:55.10
On August 28, 1963, a man by
the name of Dr. Martin Luther
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King, Jr. stood on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial and he
00:23:01.73\00:23:07.60
preached, I have a
dream, to over 200,000 people
00:23:07.60\00:23:11.56
calling for the end
of racism in America.
00:23:11.56\00:23:15.03
He preached a liberating,
divine, courageous, visionary
00:23:15.03\00:23:19.86
and inclusive message.
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.20
Liberating, it
will set you free.
00:23:22.20\00:23:24.70
Divine, it's of God.
00:23:24.70\00:23:27.10
Courageous, its
principle is not popular.
00:23:27.10\00:23:30.50
Visionary, it's
going to last beyond him.
00:23:30.50\00:23:33.40
Inclusive, it was not just
beneficial for black folks,
00:23:33.40\00:23:36.66
but it was
beneficial for all folk.
00:23:36.66\00:23:39.46
And so it is, 2013, God is
calling this young preacher,
00:23:39.46\00:23:46.63
God is calling this church
to preach a liberating, divine,
00:23:46.63\00:23:53.20
courageous,
visionary and inclusive message
00:23:53.20\00:23:56.63
from the Word of God.
00:23:56.63\00:23:59.40
Liberating, if the Son
sets you free, you shall be free
00:23:59.40\00:24:04.70
indeed.
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Divine, I am God and there
is none like me, because I am
00:24:05.70\00:24:11.30
that I am.
00:24:11.30\00:24:12.63
Courageous, you've got
to cry aloud and spare not.
00:24:12.63\00:24:16.43
Visionary, because one day
the Lord himself shall descend
00:24:16.43\00:24:20.93
from heaven with a
shout, with the voice
00:24:20.93\00:24:23.70
of the archangel, the
trump of God, and the dead
00:24:23.70\00:24:25.70
in Christ shall rise first,
then we which are alive remain
00:24:25.70\00:24:29.56
shall be caught up
together with the clouds to meet
00:24:29.56\00:24:31.50
the Lord of the air
and so shall we ever be
00:24:31.50\00:24:33.56
with the Lord.
00:24:33.56\00:24:34.56
Inclusive, for God so
loved the world that he gave
00:24:34.56\00:24:39.76
his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
00:24:39.76\00:24:46.46
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
00:24:46.46\00:24:52.63
God is not just calling
me, God is calling you, Preach,
00:24:52.63\00:24:57.73
teach and live a liberating,
divine, courageous, visionary
00:24:57.73\00:25:04.46
and inclusive message,
because if you don't preach
00:25:04.46\00:25:08.30
this message the
church will be debilitated,
00:25:08.30\00:25:11.80
the community will be
devastated, our schools will be
00:25:11.80\00:25:15.06
dominated, the world will be
disintegrated, the race will be
00:25:15.06\00:25:19.63
apocopated, the
globe will be annihilated.
00:25:19.63\00:25:22.36
You've got to preach something
that's bigger than you.
00:25:22.36\00:25:25.73
God has destiny in your life.
00:25:25.73\00:25:28.40
But you've got to
preach, it's gonna to rain.
00:25:28.40\00:25:30.60
God has promise on your
life, but you've got to preach,
00:25:30.60\00:25:34.40
it's gonna to rain.
00:25:34.40\00:25:36.16
God has a purpose for your
life, but you've got to preach,
00:25:36.16\00:25:40.76
it's gonna to rain.
00:25:40.76\00:25:42.20
God has greatness on
your life, but you've got to
00:25:42.20\00:25:45.86
preach, it's gonna to rain.
00:25:45.86\00:25:48.13
God has a plan for your
life, but you've got to preach,
00:25:48.13\00:25:53.36
it's gonna rain.
00:25:53.36\00:25:54.93
And the greatest sermon
ever preached, is the sermon
00:25:54.93\00:26:01.76
that is lived.
00:26:01.76\00:26:04.63
To live is Christ.
00:26:04.63\00:26:10.33
But to die is to gain.
00:26:10.33\00:26:17.23
We have a social responsibility.
00:26:17.23\00:26:21.93
We have a civic responsibility.
00:26:21.93\00:26:25.60
But most importantly, we
have a spiritual responsibility.
00:26:25.60\00:26:33.13
Preach it, live
it, share it, tell it.
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It's gonna rain, but it won't
be water, but fire next time.
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