(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: If you will
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take your Bibles and
turn to Joshua, chapter 1.
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Got to move expeditiously.
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Joshua , chapter 1, verse 1.
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Joshua, chapter 1, verse 1.
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The Word of God
says in Joshua 1:1,
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"Now after the death of
Moses the servant of the Lord
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it came to pass, that the
Lord spake unto Joshua the son
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of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Moses my servant is dead;
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now therefore
arise, go over this Jordan,
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thou, and all this people,
unto the land which I do give
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to them, even to
the children of Israel.
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Every place that the sole
of your foot shall tread upon,
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that have I given unto
you, as I said unto Moses.
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From the
wilderness and this Lebanon
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even unto the great
river, the river Euphrates,
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all the land of the Hittites,
and unto the great sea toward
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the going down of the
sun, shall be your coast.
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There shall not any man be
able to stand before thee all
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the days of thy
life: as I was with Moses,
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so I will be with
thee: I will not fail thee,
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nor forsake thee.
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Be strong and of a good
courage: for unto this people
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shalt thou divide
for an inheritance
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the land, which I sware
unto their fathers to give
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them." In harmony with our
theme, we preach Descendants
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of the Movement.
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God bless us now for
the next couple of moments.
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May the Holy Ghost
tabernacle in this place.
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We give ye the
praise, the honor, the glory.
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God, we've celebrated what
individuals, Lord, you have
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blessed them to bless us
to do, but, God, right now
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we celebrate you.
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We celebrate your Word.
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Now, disappoint us not.
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Forgive me of my sins.
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And when the appeal is made,
may individuals come running
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saying, what must I do to
be saved in Jesus name, Amen.
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The children of Israel have
a leader by the name of Moses.
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You remember
Moses, son of Jocabade.
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Brother of Aaron and Miriam.
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Found in the Nile River.
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Grandson of Pharaoh and
he has a speech impediment.
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He's a murderer.
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But the Bible says that
God calls his on the back side
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of the desert.
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Tells him to take his
shoes off, because he's standing
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on holy ground.
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God tells him that, I
am that I am is with you.
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Go tell mean old
Pharaoh to let my people go.
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Moses in the Hebrew means
to draw out, to bring out.
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So by the very nature of his
name, Moses brings the children
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of Israel out of Egypt
by the hand of the Lord.
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Moses guides them through
the wilderness, manna falls
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from heaven, water
comes out of a rock.
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But God tells Moses,
you'll bring them out of Egypt,
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but you won't go in the
promised land with them.
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Moses has an understudy
by the name of Joshua.
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Joshua was mentored by
Moses and one of the greatest
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decisions that any of us can
ever make in our lives is who
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we allow to mentor us.
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Because whatever you stand
under is ultimately what you
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understand.
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Whatever you're
exposed to is what you'll seek
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to experiment with.
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If you allow nothing to
mentor you, then you will chase
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nothing.
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If you allow ignorance to
mentor you, then you will chase
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ignorance.
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If you allow
foolishness to mentor you,
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you will chase foolishness.
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But if you allow spiritual
focus to mentor you, then you
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will chase spiritual focus.
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Joshua was privileged
to work alongside Moses.
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He had seen the hand
of God on Moses' life.
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He had seen God use Moses
to speak to the people of God.
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He had seen God work through
Moses his miracles by Moses'
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hand, but as life
would go, Moses dies.
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What's now going
to happen to Israel?
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Who's going to
lead God's people?
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Who will hear from God
and deliver God's message
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to God's people?
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The Bible says that the
people mourned Moses' death
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for 30 days.
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But never fear.
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My God always has a plan.
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God always has a
ram in the thickets.
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There are some of you
right now who are mourning
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and crying over some things
in your life that are gone.
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But let me tell you something.
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There comes a time in your
life where you have to go on
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and have your own funeral
over that thing and move on.
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Some of you have to look
at some past relationships
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and say, you know what?
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It's over.
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Some old habits.
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It's over.
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Some old drama.
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It's over.
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You have to say, for as
much as God in his infinite love
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has allowed that thing to
go to sleep, earth to earth,
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ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
have the funeral, go home, eat
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dinner, and move on.
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You see, I've learned in
life, you've got to have some
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perspective on seasons.
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People come into your
life for a reason season
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and some for a lifetime.
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You've got to know
that everybody that comes
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in your life, it has nothing
to do with them, but everything
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to do with what God is
about to do in your life.
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You see, friends of
mine, I've learned in life,
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there are some people
that I was a student of,
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there are some people
that I pastor, there are some
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people that I was classmates
of, but I've learned that life
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is like a space shuttle.
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The laws of gravity say
that what goes up must come
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down. So, based on the
laws of gravity, space shuttles
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shouldn't be able
to go up into orbit.
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Gravity is a force
that pulls you down.
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And in order for a rocket
to escape the pull of gravity,
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it has to attain an escape
speed of 6.96 miles per second.
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The space shuttle takes off.
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It has two rocket
boosters on the side of it.
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These rocket boosters, my
friends, are designed to help
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that space shuttle get to a
certain altitude and achieve
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that escape speed.
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It's a sight to see
when that space shuttle
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is launching up into
orbit and there in Florida
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at Cape Canaveral it's
on its way over the Atlantic
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ocean and then when it reaches
a certain altitude the rocket
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boosters fall off.
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Now, when the rocket boosters
fall off, the reason why they
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fall off is because the
engineers, they determine
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that the rocket boosters
are designed to get the shuttle
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to a certain altitude,
but they're not built to fly
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in the shuttle's orbit.
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There are some
folk in your life.
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Thank God for the season
that they came in your life,
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that they're able to help you
get to a certain level, but what
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God is about to do in your life,
there are some folk that are
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just going to fall off
because they weren't designed
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to fly in your orbit.
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And some folk won't even fly
in your orbit, they won't even
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make it off the earth, because
they represent the gravity
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that's trying to hold you down.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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Look at what
God says in verse 2.
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"Moses my servant is dead."
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Now, everybody say now.
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Aud: Now.
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We've got to learn to live
in the present and get ready
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for the future.
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Now, we have to be
a people in the now.
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We have to be a
church in the now.
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We can talk about how
great things were in the past
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and thank God for it, but today
the question is, what are you
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going to do now?
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God is looking for some people
now who can say I recognize
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that I have an assignment now.
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And to us, the descendants
of the movement, to us,
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this Joshua generation,
we've got to do it now.
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Take these people
over the Jordan now.
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Take these people to the
land that I promised their
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forefathers now.
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Not next week, not next month,
not next year, but do it now.
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Everybody say now.
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Aud: Now.
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So, God had been
preparing Joshua.
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God had given
Joshua an appointment.
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And let me tell you this.
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When God gives you an
appointment, God also gives
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you an anointment.
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Moses was anointed.
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Listen to me good.
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To get the children of
Israel out of Egypt, but Joshua
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is anointed to take
them in the promised land.
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When God brought the children
of Israel out of Egypt, God
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brought them
out to take them in.
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God never brings you out of
a bad place unless he's about
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to take you to a better place.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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God didn't allow Joshua
to glean from Moses to be
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that close to good leadership
and not learn from it, because
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every good leader is somebody
who was first a great follower.
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You see, young people,
when I was a student here,
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yeah, I was USM president,
vice-president, all doing that.
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But I used to
vacuum these floors.
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Papa E.C.
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would come and say,
Brother Buddy, the lines
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are not straight in the floors.
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Before you can be a
great leader, you've got to be
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a great follower.
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Moses' life was significant
in the life of Israel.
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Moses made a great contribution.
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But you must understand,
that what God was doing
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in the life of his
people was bigger than one man.
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Listen to me good.
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Whenever God gives you a
vision, you hear me say it
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all the time, that
vision must outlive you.
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If the vision that God
gives you dies with you,
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then it wasn't of
God in the first place.
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Vision must go beyond you.
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Vision must go to
the next generation.
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For those of you who
think that the world can't make
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it without you, I guarantee
you that if you die today
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something or somebody
will replace you and move on.
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I'm not a fool.
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If I die today you all
will say, he was a good man.
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You better say it.
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Come on, say Amen.
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He worked hard.
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He loved the Lord.
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And you all
better cry at my funeral.
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Come on, say Amen.
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I want you all
stretched out in here.
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(laughter and applause)
But you'll have my funeral,
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the Aolians will sing, we
got to have a little gospel,
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so DP and BLT will sing, too.
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GAAA will sing.
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TA will sing.
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Come on, say Amen.
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My wife and my
children will cry.
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But the next week you'll have
another pastor in this church.
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I will not be a
legend in my own mind.
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The world is full of
graveyards of people who
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thought the world
couldn't go on without them.
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That's why if a vision is
of God, it will outlive you.
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Without vision, the
Bible says, people what?
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Perish.
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Seeing implies vision
and the reason why some folks
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don't do anything is because
they've never seen anything.
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Vision, first of
all, is hindsight.
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Everybody say hindsight.
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Vision has to know
where you've come from.
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You see, some folk, you've
forgotten where you come from.
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Oh, let me say it again.
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You forgot--I may preach
a little while right now--
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you've forgotten
where you're come from.
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Now, because you've got a
nice little car, a nice house,
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got a little money,
you've forgotten where the Lord
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has brought you from.
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But vision has to remember
how far the Lord brought you,
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through many
dangers, toils, and snares.
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Vision has to remember
where God has brought us
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as a people.
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You haven't always been
able to shop with everybody.
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You haven't always been able
to live in any neighborhood.
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You haven't always
been able to own property.
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And then, when you were
able to own land, all you had
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was forty acres and a mule.
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You haven't always been
able to apply for any job you
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wanted, go to any school.
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You haven't always been able
to vote, haven't always been
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able to own a nice car.
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You haven't always
had the clothes that you
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could pick up and pick
out and be able to say,
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I'm wearing blue
today and black tomorrow.
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Somebody remembers the day
when you knew what you were
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going to wear, black today,
black tomorrow, black the next
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day, and black on Sabbath.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You knew what you were going
to eat, rice and peas today,
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peas and rice tomorrow.
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Ackee & salt fish the
next day and then you can going
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in a cycle.
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But vision says, I
know from whence I've come.
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God's been good to somebody.
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Has God been good
to somebody up in here?
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(applause) But not only is
vision hindsight, but vision
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is also insight.
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Everybody say insight.
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Aud: Amen.
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Because has to know
what God is doing right now.
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There are some folk just
sitting in this place right
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now, some of you watching
the television right now,
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and you don't
realize what God is doing
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in our midst right now.
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Prophecy is coming to pass.
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In these last days.
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The Bible says that God's
going to pour out his spirits
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upon all flesh.
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There's a mighty
move of God taking place.
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There's a mighty
move of God taking place
00:15:06.93\00:15:09.40
in the Oakwood Church.
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So you have hindsight, you
have insight, but then, number
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three, you've got to have
foresight, because you've got
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to know where God is
getting ready to take you.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Is there anybody in this place
that knows that God is about
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to take them somewhere?
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But I don't know about you.
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You can sit there like a lump
on a log all you want, but God
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is about to do something for me.
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I'm believing God to
do something in my life.
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I'm believing God to do
something in my family's life.
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I'm believing God to do
something in this church's
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life.
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Something in the
life of Breath of Life.
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I'm not worried
about my naysayers.
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Oh, you don't like that.
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Let me give you your vernacular.
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I'm not worried by my haters
in my life, because my Bible
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says that God will make
my enemies my footstool.
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So, my haters are just pouring
the concrete that I'm going
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to walk on,
because my haters are my
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elevators, and God is about
to do something in my life.
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(applause) I've learned
dogs never bark at parked cars.
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Dogs bark at moving vehicles.
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God shows Joshua
and he's showing us
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in verses 2 through 6, vision.
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He says in verse 3 that whatever
the sole of your feet touch,
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I'm a give it to you.
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And that's not a
prosperity gospel either.
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That's just when I
walk in the will of God,
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when I put my will in
harmony with God's will,
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when I put my weight in harmony
with God's weight, God has never
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failed me yet.
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The steps of a good man
are ordered by the Lord.
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Just like I was with
Moses, so shall I be with you.
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You're, Carlton Byrd, you're,
Oakwood University Church,
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you're Oakwood University,
a descendant of the movement.
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An heir of the promise.
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Moses is dead, but the
vision God says that I have
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for my people is still alive.
00:17:16.00\00:17:20.06
Frederick Douglas is
dead, but the vision that I have
00:17:20.06\00:17:24.50
for my people is still alive.
00:17:24.50\00:17:27.73
Harriet Tubman is dead,
but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
00:17:32.16\00:17:35.23
Jackie Robinson is dead,
but the vision that I have
00:17:35.23\00:17:39.73
for my people is still alive.
00:17:39.73\00:17:42.93
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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is dead, but the vision
that I have for my people
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is still alive.
00:17:49.43\00:17:50.90
Martin Luther King,
Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers,
00:17:50.90\00:17:54.90
Nelson Mandela are dead,
but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
00:18:01.30\00:18:03.50
Rosa Parks is dead,
Mary McLeod Methune is dead,
00:18:03.50\00:18:10.86
but the vision that I
have for my people, God says,
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is still alive.
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I've traveled up this campus.
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Some of you all don't know
the history of this campus.
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Eva B. Dykes, the
lay building for which
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the library is named
was the first black woman
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to receive the Ph.D. degree.
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She is dead.
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But God says the vision he has
for his people is still alive.
00:18:30.03\00:18:36.50
C. E. Mosley is dead.
00:18:36.50\00:18:39.00
But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
00:18:39.00\00:18:41.66
Elder E. C. Ward is dead.
00:18:41.66\00:18:45.10
But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
00:18:45.10\00:18:47.40
Elder Cleveland is dead.
00:18:47.40\00:18:50.26
But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
00:18:50.26\00:18:53.93
And whenever God gives
a vision, when you keep
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that vision under supervision,
God always makes provision.
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You hear me say it all the time.
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I've never had a
vision for ministry
00:19:04.93\00:19:07.73
that I could afford.
00:19:07.73\00:19:09.53
How are we getting
those rooms out there.
00:19:09.53\00:19:11.53
I don't know.
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Somebody just sent a
check just in the nick of time.
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That's just like God.
00:19:15.36\00:19:17.86
Just when I need
him, Jesus is near.
00:19:17.86\00:19:21.16
I've never had a vision
for ministry I could afford.
00:19:21.16\00:19:24.03
I will never have a vision
for ministry that I can afford,
00:19:24.03\00:19:26.70
because if God shows you
something that you can afford,
00:19:26.70\00:19:29.76
then what do you need of God?
00:19:29.76\00:19:33.60
It's not of God.
00:19:34.23\00:19:35.66
But I believe if it's
God's will, it's God's bill.
00:19:35.66\00:19:40.33
If it's God's
choice, it's God's invoice.
00:19:40.33\00:19:44.46
Do I have a
witness in this place?
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All I'm saying to you today
is you need to learn how to take
00:19:45.90\00:19:49.66
a walk, because every place
the sole of your feet touch,
00:19:49.66\00:19:54.33
you've got the devil nervous,
because every time you start
00:19:54.33\00:19:56.40
walking, the devil
knows God's up to something.
00:19:56.40\00:19:59.86
Every time you start going
places, the devil knows God
00:19:59.86\00:20:02.03
is about to do
something in your life.
00:20:02.03\00:20:04.03
You see, friends of mine,
I say it all the time, if you
00:20:04.03\00:20:06.03
saw what I saw, you'd
be acting like I'm acting,
00:20:06.03\00:20:08.33
because I praise him not on
what you see, but I praise God
00:20:08.33\00:20:11.30
on what God has shown me.
00:20:11.30\00:20:12.46
But, not only that, verse 5,
God says, "There shall not any
00:20:12.46\00:20:18.56
man," "there shall not any man
be able to stand before ye all
00:20:18.56\00:20:23.53
the days of thy
life: as I was with Moses,
00:20:23.53\00:20:26.23
so I will be with
thee: I will not fail thee,
00:20:26.23\00:20:28.23
nor forsake thee." Which
means God's got your back.
00:20:28.23\00:20:32.23
No weapon formed
against you is going prosper.
00:20:32.23\00:20:34.80
If God be for us,
who can be against us?
00:20:34.80\00:20:38.46
God's got your back.
00:20:38.46\00:20:40.10
We have nothing to
fear, Ellen White says,
00:20:40.10\00:20:42.26
for the future, lest
we forget how God has led
00:20:42.26\00:20:44.86
us in the past,
God's got your back.
00:20:44.86\00:20:47.03
The movement is not over.
00:20:47.03\00:20:49.80
But in Jesus' name we press on.
00:20:49.80\00:20:53.63
God is saying to the
descendants of the movement,
00:20:53.63\00:20:56.63
God is saying to the
Joshua generation, Joshua,
00:20:56.63\00:20:59.93
you need to know that
because you have a covenant
00:20:59.93\00:21:02.56
with me, I have a covering
for you, for there can be no
00:21:02.56\00:21:05.56
covering without covenant.
00:21:05.56\00:21:07.00
That's why shacking and
cohabitation don't work,
00:21:07.00\00:21:09.53
because you want a covering,
but you don't have a covenant.
00:21:09.53\00:21:13.10
God says, Joshua, don't fear.
00:21:15.90\00:21:20.80
Don't fret.
00:21:20.80\00:21:22.63
The same way I took
care of Moses is the same way
00:21:22.63\00:21:26.73
I'm going to take care of you.
00:21:26.73\00:21:27.76
And some of you know,
that if you just testify
00:21:27.76\00:21:31.33
for a little
minute, when you look back
00:21:31.33\00:21:35.16
over your life, you
know that it wasn't you
00:21:35.16\00:21:41.90
that kept you.
00:21:41.90\00:21:44.13
But somebody knows that
it was nobody but Jesus.
00:21:44.13\00:21:51.66
Jesus, bill payer.
00:21:51.66\00:21:55.40
Jesus, financial aid provider.
00:21:55.40\00:22:01.30
Jesus, financial
clearance clearer.
00:22:01.30\00:22:05.26
Jesus, marriage savior.
00:22:05.26\00:22:08.60
Child finder.
00:22:08.60\00:22:10.26
Cancer killer.
00:22:10.26\00:22:11.40
Depression destroyer.
00:22:11.40\00:22:14.16
Slander slaughterer.
00:22:14.16\00:22:16.36
Envy executioner.
00:22:16.36\00:22:17.86
Faith fortifier.
00:22:17.86\00:22:19.63
Addiction assassin.
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.53
Sin forgiver.
00:22:21.53\00:22:22.86
Truth liberator.
00:22:22.86\00:22:24.26
Righteous redeemer.
00:22:24.26\00:22:25.56
Soul savior.
00:22:25.56\00:22:26.86
Coming conqueror.
00:22:26.86\00:22:28.26
Jesus.
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(Applause)
Somebody here has lost
00:22:29.26\00:22:32.93
their mind by now.
00:22:32.93\00:22:34.70
Concerning all you've
been through, you should be
00:22:34.70\00:22:36.70
institutionalized right now.
00:22:36.70\00:22:37.70
But how did you make it?
00:22:37.70\00:22:38.70
Jesus.
00:22:38.70\00:22:39.70
Is there anybody in here
that knows that there are some
00:22:39.70\00:22:43.53
things that should have
happened to you, could have
00:22:43.53\00:22:45.53
happened to you, but
didn't happen to you because God
00:22:45.53\00:22:47.53
kept you.
00:22:47.53\00:22:48.53
Jesus.
00:22:48.53\00:22:49.80
Verse 6 says, "Be strong."
00:22:49.80\00:22:52.86
"Good courage: for
unto this people shalt
00:22:52.86\00:22:56.23
thou divide for an inheritance
the land, which I sware
00:22:56.23\00:22:59.46
unto their fathers to
give them." I like the way
00:22:59.46\00:23:03.23
the Clear Word puts it.
00:23:03.23\00:23:05.06
Be strong.
00:23:05.06\00:23:06.66
Full of courage.
00:23:06.66\00:23:08.40
Because I'm
right here beside you.
00:23:08.40\00:23:11.10
Now is the time to lead
the children of Israel into
00:23:11.10\00:23:13.33
the land that I
promised to give thee.
00:23:13.33\00:23:15.33
So, God is calling the
descendants of the movement.
00:23:15.33\00:23:21.66
God is calling
the Joshua generation.
00:23:21.66\00:23:25.43
God is calling us to be
strong in these last days.
00:23:25.43\00:23:30.73
It's time for the people
of God to stand up against
00:23:30.73\00:23:36.00
the enemies of God.
00:23:36.00\00:23:37.76
But more than that,
let me get specific today.
00:23:37.76\00:23:40.80
It's time for the men
of God to stand up against
00:23:40.80\00:23:47.56
the enemies of God.
00:23:47.56\00:23:49.43
The enemies of God
are destroying the man.
00:23:49.43\00:23:54.63
Specifically the black man.
00:23:54.63\00:23:57.63
Oh, let me preach to this.
00:23:57.63\00:23:58.70
You don't want it?
00:23:58.70\00:23:59.70
I'm going to give it anyhow.
00:23:59.70\00:24:01.26
Fifty percent of us black
men are high school dropouts
00:24:01.26\00:24:05.40
compared to less than 25%
of our white counterparts.
00:24:05.40\00:24:07.83
Black male students in
grades K to 12 are nearly two
00:24:07.83\00:24:10.40
and a half times as likely
to be suspended from school
00:24:10.40\00:24:13.03
in comparison to white students.
00:24:13.03\00:24:15.03
One in every 15 black men
is incarcerated in comparison
00:24:15.03\00:24:19.80
to 1 in every 106 white
men, which means that blacks
00:24:19.80\00:24:23.26
are incarcerated at nearly
six times the rate of whites.
00:24:23.26\00:24:27.16
While we're only 13% of
the United States population
00:24:27.16\00:24:29.86
we make up 44% of
the prison population.
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.53
There are more black men
between the ages of 18 to 24
00:24:32.53\00:24:35.83
who are
incarcerated than in schools
00:24:35.83\00:24:38.00
of higher education.
00:24:38.00\00:24:39.53
If current trends continue,
one in three black males born
00:24:39.53\00:24:42.06
today can expect to go
to prison in their lifetime.
00:24:42.06\00:24:46.26
That's black men.
00:24:46.26\00:24:48.70
What about the black women?
00:24:48.70\00:24:50.80
As the number of black women
has increased by 800,000 over
00:24:50.80\00:24:55.00
the last--800% over the last
three decades, women of color
00:24:55.00\00:25:00.36
have become
disproportionately represented.
00:25:00.36\00:25:02.66
While the number of women
incarcerated is relatively
00:25:02.66\00:25:04.66
low, the racial and ethnic
disparities are startling.
00:25:04.66\00:25:06.83
For example, black women
are three times more likely than
00:25:06.83\00:25:10.76
white women to be incarcerated
while Hispanic women are 69%
00:25:10.76\00:25:14.30
more likely than white
women to be incarcerated.
00:25:14.30\00:25:16.70
Black teen girls between
the ages of 15 to 19 accounted
00:25:16.70\00:25:21.33
for 44% of the pregnancies
per 1,000 adolescent females,
00:25:21.33\00:25:25.66
while white teen
girls only accounted for 21%
00:25:25.66\00:25:28.53
of the pregnancies per
1,000 adolescent females.
00:25:28.53\00:25:31.80
In total, men and women, 27%
of all blacks live in poverty
00:25:31.80\00:25:37.66
compared to 10% of whites.
00:25:37.66\00:25:39.66
Thirteen percent of all blacks
are unemployed compared to 6.5%
00:25:39.66\00:25:42.86
for whites.
00:25:42.86\00:25:44.00
And while blacks
represent 13% of the U.S.
00:25:44.00\00:25:47.46
population, blacks accounted
for an estimated 44% of new
00:25:47.46\00:25:51.16
HIV infections in 2010.
00:25:51.16\00:25:53.36
Unless the course of
the academic changes,
00:25:56.23\00:25:59.10
at some point in their lifetime,
an estimated 1 in 16 black men
00:25:59.10\00:26:04.13
and 1 in an estimated 32
black women will be diagnosed
00:26:04.13\00:26:07.86
with HIV infection.
00:26:07.86\00:26:10.50
That's why we've got
to bring our kids here.
00:26:10.50\00:26:13.33
That's why we've got to
put these individuals in front
00:26:13.33\00:26:15.66
of our young people.
00:26:15.66\00:26:16.66
It's time for the people
of God to stand up against
00:26:16.66\00:26:20.76
the enemies of God.
00:26:20.76\00:26:22.20
Moses is dead.
00:26:22.20\00:26:25.83
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PB: We can talk about how
great things were in the past
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and thank God for it,
but today the question is
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what are you going to do now?
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God is looking for some people
now who can say, I recognize
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